*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in
theweek leading up to 2026-09-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #750
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.*
*Discussions*
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- MamouriBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MamouriBot>
, *Task/s:* Add census demographics — population, male population,
female population, and no. of households — to existing Iranian settlement
items identified by *Iran statistics ID (P1010)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1010>*, from the Statistical
Center of Iran censuses of 1385 (2006) and 1395 (2016).
*Events*
- Upcoming events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>:
- The program for the Wikidata Query Service Days (October 17-23) is
now published, covering the migration from Blazegraph to QLever with
sessions for editors, reusers, and tool builders; see the event page for
details and schedule
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Query_Service_Days_2026#Sessions>
.
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs:
- From University Research to Free Knowledge: Academics Discover
Wikimedia
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/from-university-research-to-free-knowledge-academics-discover-wikimedia/>
by User:Osps7 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Osps7>
- WM Enterprise: Wikidata Bulk snapshots
<https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/wikidata-bulk-snapshots-batches/>
- Wiki OTO 2026: Wiki Loves Women and Africa Wiki Women join forces!
<https://www.wikiloveswomen.org/2026/08/31/wiki-oto-2026-wiki-loves-women-and-africa-wiki-women-join-forces>
- Making African Restitution Efforts More Visible
<https://freeknowledgeafrica.org/making-african-restitution-efforts-more-visible/>
- Papers: CodeGraph: Open-Taxonomy Knowledge Graph for Source Code with
Wikidata Grounding <https://arxiv.org/html/2609.29474v1> by Pennino et
al., (2026).
- Videos:
- When the Old Constraints Disappear: Work and Creativity in the Age
of AI (Wikipedia->Wikidata->Wikifunctions->Abstract Wikipedia), John
Samuel, Mindstone AI Meetup, September 22, 2026, Lyon, France (Video
<https://community.mindstone.com/annotate/article_BAlTTMiMLlNJjjRpAn>
, Slides
<https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/When_the_Old_Constraints_Disappear_Work_and_Creativity_in_the_Age_of_AI_Mindstone_AI_Meetup_Lyon_-_John_Samuel/33968791>
)
- AI BRIDGES Open Forum meeting - September 2026
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS0BZF5WhRg&pp=ygUIV2lraWRhdGE%3D>
*Tool of the week*
- HumansMap Gallery <https://humansmap.com/gallery/gallery.html#power> -
The site offers various type of visualizations, and offers the possibility
to navigate through connections between people and organizations, based on
your interests, powered by Wikidata.
- 📚 Wikidata Book Itemizer <https://bookitemizer.toolforge.org/> It is
a simple tool to catalog books on Wikidata! Creating work and edition items
manually on Wikidata with proper metadata and multilingual labels can often
be tedious and error-prone. Wikidata Book Itemizer automates this entire
process with a simple form!
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- Wikimedia Deutschland is researching how to improve interoperability
between Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud, and Wikibase Suite. If you've worked with
data imports or staging, or even if you haven't, your input would be
valuable. The survey
<https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/LOD-Interoperability-Migration> takes 5
to 10 minutes and is anonymous. More information on the background of the
questions: Wikidata:Requests for comment/Mass-editing policy#Context
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Mass-editing_policy#Context>
*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: none
- External identifiers: Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14909>, Siwar entry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14910>, Kunaicho Shoryobu
Shuzo Kanseki Shuran ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14911>, Emulation General
Wiki article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14912>, Digital
Momijiyama Bunko ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14913>, Raras
disease ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P14914>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
review:
- General datatypes:
- Writers at Risk database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Writers_at_Risk_database_ID>
(Identifier
in the PEN America Writers at Risk database, cataloging
writers threatened,
imprisoned, and jailed worldwide)
- External identifiers: Ohio Entity Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ohio_Entity_Number>
, NZPCN legacy ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NZPCN_legacy_ID>
, Žmonės.lt topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%C5%BDmon%C4%97s.lt_topic_ID>
, Jersey HER Reference
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Jersey_HER_Reference>
, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le Maitron
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_d%27un(e)_auteurice_dans_le_Maitron>
, Google Search profile handle
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Google_Search_profile_handle>
, Leipziger Biographie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Leipziger_Biographie_ID>
, LEO-BW person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LEO-BW_person_ID>
, Biopsa ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biopsa_ID>,
Isle
of Man Registered Building No.
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Isle_of_Man_Registered_Building_No.>
, Waymark code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Waymark_code>
, Identifiant dans OrthodoxWiki en français
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_dans_OrthodoxWiki_en_fran%C3%A7ais>
, WE League player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WE_League_player_ID>
, WE League manager ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WE_League_manager_ID>
, Delfi.lt topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Delfi.lt_topic_ID>
, Lrytas.lt topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lrytas.lt_topic_ID>
, Baidu Baike article
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Baidu_Baike_article>
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples: Latin American Cinema / Films with an English or
Portuguese Wikipedia page, but not Spanish
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#c-YoshiRulz-20260927103700-Paula_(WDU)-20260925145700>
- Schema examples: (E422) 'Golden age of illustration'
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E422> book from the
Maastricht University Library collection.
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
- Project Schlaraffia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Schlaraffia> -
for enriching items about the German-language fraternity Schlaraffia
*(Q1305789)* <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1305789> and its
international and local associations.
- Project Tamil Nadu
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Tamil_Nadu> dedicated
to creating and improving Wikidata content related to Tamil Nadu
*(Q1445)* <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1445> and Tamil *(Q5885)*
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5885>.
- WikiProject Highlights: Project PCC EMCO Wikidata CoP
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_EMCO_Wikidata_CoP/List_of_corporate_body_properties>
added
a subpage for listing Properties normally associated with Corporate bodies.
*Development*
- Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with UX fixes. This is
primarily visual polish and consistency as well as fixing bugs related to
RTL display.
- Wikibase REST API:
- We are finishing the support for creating Lexemes and the
statements on them.
- We are continuing working on support for adding Forms to a Lexeme.
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are going to stop sending language link changes to the first few
wikis. An initial deployment to group1 wikis is now planned for Monday,
05.10.2026. (Click group1 on this Toolforge page
<https://versions.toolforge.org/> to see which Wikis are included.)
This will help reduce noise in Watchlists and Recent changes and help
reduce the size of the database table holding recent changes on
these wikis.
- Connecting a newly created Wiki to Wikidata is a manual task, we
are automating that and optimising the SitesTable at the same
time, making
a 'single source of truth' that all wikis point to, rather than
a table per
Wiki that are all clones of each other.
- We are experimenting with raising the entity usage limit on wikis.
If this is feasible, we can reduce the amount of bundled changes. This
would reduce the quantity of Wikidata-triggered Recent Changes rows being
created.
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: The Gambia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/The_Gambia>
- 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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