*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in
theweek leading up to 2026-09-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #748
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.*
*Discussions*
- Open request for adminship:
- Chrisahn
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Chrisahn>
- Amitie 10g
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Amitie_10g>
Both RfPs are scheduled to end after 17 September 2026 21:56 (UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 15
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/William_Avery_Bot_15>
- *Task/s:* Automatically update Wikidata:Administrators by language
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Administrators_by_language>, as
requested at Wikidata:Bot requests#Request to automatically update
Wikidata:Administrators by language (2026-08-04)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#Request_to_automatically_update_Wikidata:Administrators_by_language_(2026-08-04)>
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: CrossrefIDsBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/CrossrefIDsBot>
-
Closed as Approved
- New request for comments: Should class *political territorial
entity (Q1048835)* as a valid *value-type constraint (Q21510865)* be
removed from *country of citizenship (P27)* ?
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Request_for_comments:_in_country_of_citizenship_(P27),_to_remove_class_political_territorial_entity_(Q1048835)_as_a_valid_value-type_constraint_(Q21510865)>
*Events*
- Upcoming events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>:
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #93 Oct. 5 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8
at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61752245>.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
session:
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time
zone converter <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1789488000>). Adélie
Ranville demonstrates useful tools around bibliographic data and
citations
in Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiversity, including Zotero, Cita, and
Tabernacle.::Event page: WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity
Group/Project Series/*Wikidata for literature review*
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/Wikidata_for_literature_review>
- *Wikidata's 14th Birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourteenth_Birthday> is
approaching!* Join us October 29 for a Birthday call.
- Register
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/3536> to
receive updates and news
- Run a local event
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourteenth_Birthday/Run_an_event>
or find events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourteenth_Birthday/Calendar> to
join near you.
- Join the Birthday Call
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_Fourteenth_Birthday/Presents_%26_messages_call>
and
see what Presents and Messages will be shared.
- WikiCon (Regensburg) 2026 - the conference dedicated to the
German-speaking Wikipedia and sister projects communities, is taking place
from 18 - 20 September. The sessions involving Wikidata: Wikidata - 9
Years later
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2026/Programm/Wikidata_%E2%80%93_9_Jahre_danach>
, Enter sources in Wikidata
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2026/Programm/Quellen_in_Wikidata_eingeben>
, Easily explore Wikidata (UsefulQueries)
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2026/Programm/Unkompliziert_Wikidata_erkunden_(usefulQueries)>,
and WikiProject Stolpersteine goes Wikidata
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2026/Programm/WikiProjekt_Stolpersteine_goes_Wikidata>
.
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs:
- Medium: How I inferred the family relationships of nearly 1 million
people, from Wikidata
<https://medium.com/@javierzomeo/how-i-inferred-the-family-relationships-of-nearly-one-million-people-from-wikidata-99724fd966fb>
- (Deutsch) Wikidata in Museen, Archiven und Bibliotheken (PDF)
<https://www.wikimedia.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Wikidata_in_Museen_Archiven_und_Bibliotheken.pdf>
- Videos:
- Live Wikidata Editing #126
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in3M5o_CMKM>
- (Español) Workshop: Digital Humanities Methodologies Applied to
Research <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4eS1tcQzYE>
- Sep 2026 Community Call: International Image Interoperability
Framework (IIIF) & Wikimedia
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9-MDvkO2Ow> - can IIIF be
integrated with Wikimedia platforms, or as a Wikibase instance?
- 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign Launch
2026 using Wikidata
<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5lxvetWlGqQ&pp=iggCQAE%3D&ra=m>
*Tool of the week*
- Lex-Olympia <https://lex-olympia.toolforge.org/> is a tool by User:
Luca.favorido <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Luca.favorido> it is
an open, gamified challenge platform for exploring Wikidata lexemes, born
as a successor to the now-unmaintained Lexeme Challenge tool. Players test
their language knowledge by matching audio, hyphenations, and concepts to
lexemes, competing via scores and a weekly leaderboard.
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- WM Turkic languages user group (instagram post
<https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc__Z8OxISH/>): official co-hosts of
WikidataCon 2027; Istanbul, Türkiye, in collaboration with Üsküdar
University.
*Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties> and property
proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
review*
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes:
- phonetic synthesis method
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14867> (phonetic
synthesis method used to process the recorded voice from a
human source to
build a voice bank)
- LPF rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14869> (film
and media rating in Malaysia by the Film Censorship Board)
- Collective bargaining coverage
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14875> (Percentage of
workers covered by collective agreement coverage. This is
distinct from
union membership rate, because non-union members can also be
covered, for
example France has 7% union density but 98% collective
bargaining coverage.)
- has Pokémon Ability
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14881> (Pokémon Ability
assigned to this Pokémon species or form in games of the
Pokémon series)
- External identifiers: Allotrope Foundation Ontology function ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14850>, Allotrope
Foundation Ontology process ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14851>, Allotrope
Foundation Ontology quality ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14852>, Allotrope
Foundation Ontology result ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14853>, Allotrope
Foundation Ontology role ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14854>, Arcinsys Hessen ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14855>, Arcinsys
Niedersachsen/Bremen ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14856>, Archivportal
Thüringen ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14858>,
Baden-Württemberg
archives ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14860>, BookWyrm
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14861>, BookWyrm
book ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14862>, VocaDB tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14863>, Statistics Finland
Concept Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14864>, sgpbusiness.com
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14866>, LIDO concept ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14868>, Common Core
Ontologies concept ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14870>
, GenWiki article ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14871>, findbuch
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14872>, Darija.io ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14873>, China Railway
telegraph code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14874>, Sharjah
Dictionary word ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14876>, CCLI
song ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14877>, DEHIO
digital Deutschland Bauwerk ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14878>, Vietnamese
administrative unit code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14879>, UkrBIN ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14880>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
review:
- General datatypes:
- stylized representation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/stylized_representation>
(stylized
visual representation of the subject)
- Former country
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Former_country>
(Historical
country that was in force at the time of this event/object or
in the past)
- North Dakota Legislative Assembly biography ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/North_Dakota_Legislative_Assembly_biography_ID>
(identifier
for a biography at the North Dakota Legislative Assembly)
- Wyoming Legislator Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wyoming_Legislator_Database_ID>
(identifier
for a biography in the Wyoming Legislator Database)
- European Legislation Identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Legislation_Identifier>
(EU
legislation identifier for documents published by the EU, its
member states
and other (non-EU) countries)
- Visa requirement
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Visa_requirement>
(Requirement
for a non-citizen to enter a country)
- External identifiers: FilmBaze people ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FilmBaze_people_ID>
, EHRI Institution ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EHRI_Institution_ID>
, Climate Policy Radar Topics
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Climate_Policy_Radar_Topics>
, SEASLUG.WORLD taxon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SEASLUG.WORLD_taxon_ID>
, Verenigingsloket vCode
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Verenigingsloket_vCode>
, StoryGraph book ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/StoryGraph_book_ID>
, China Railway Pinyin code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/China_Railway_Pinyin_code>
, ZFIN person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ZFIN_person_ID>
, BallotReady person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BallotReady_person_ID>
, National Film Archive of Japan ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Film_Archive_of_Japan_ID>
, Baza osób polskich ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Baza_os%C3%B3b_polskich_ID>
, Mycelium entity ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mycelium_entity_ID>
, identifiant DDH
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_DDH>
, Alberta Legislative Assembly member ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alberta_Legislative_Assembly_member_ID>
, Homeostasis imbalance process ontology
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Homeostasis_imbalance_process_ontology>
, Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga (DBBL) Spieler ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga_(DBBL)_Spieler_ID>
, Digital Momijiyama Bunko ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Digital_Momijiyama_Bunko_ID>
, Kunaicho Shoryobu Shuzo Kanseki Shuran ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kunaicho_Shoryobu_Shuzo_Kanseki_Shuran_ID>
, Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Union_Catalogue_Database_of_Japanese_Texts_ID>
, Siwar entry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Siwar_entry_ID>
, ISDCF studio identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISDCF_studio_identifier>
, ISDCF facility identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISDCF_facility_identifier>
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples: Tram stops per network map <https://w.wiki/UGb4>
- Schema examples: adminstrative district in Turkey (E133)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E133>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>
: WikiProject Medicine/Knee Arthroplasty
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Medicine/Knee_Arthroplasty>
maintains
structured data for knee replacement on Wikidata, covering the procedure
tree and the taxonomy of surgical techniques, with a literature layer of
referenced scholarly articles.
- WikiProject Highlights:
- WikiProject LGBT / Duga
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LGBT/Duga>
- Project Victims of National Socialism / Data model
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Victims_of_National_Socialism/Data_Model>
*Development*
- Query Service migration: We are adapting more of the example queries
for QLever
- Mobile editing: We are making minor adjustments in preparation for the
rollout for everyone
- Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
- We are continuing to automate the connection of Wikidata to
newly-created wikis, and replace the sites table with a
Sitematrix lookup,
which is more efficient (phab:T431093
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T431093>)
- We are continuing the research into how best to handle changes for
language link updates in Recent changes and Watchlist, which are mostly
considered not relevant for editors
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you
want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority>
.
*Weekly Tasks*
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review>
.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?>
.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Tunisia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Tunisia>
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?>
in
one or two sentences.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or
proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
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<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:JosefAnthony> talk
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:JosefAnthony> ·*
Idoko Joseph (JosefAnthony)
Wikimedia Volunteer | Open Knowledge Advocate
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