*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in
theweek leading up to 2026-10-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #752
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.*
*Discussions*
- Open request for adminship:
- DERDAKI ILIAS
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/DERDAKI_ILIAS>
- RfP scheduled to end after 13 October 2026 11:19 (UTC)
- Aue Nai
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Aue_Nai>
- RfP scheduled to end after 15 October 2026 02:58 (UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- OKA bot 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/OKA_bot_2>
- *Tasks:* Two additional datasets for the (already approved task of
OKA bot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/OKA_bot>).
For each entry, the bot finds the matching item, adds the
identifier if it
is missing, and adds the facts the entry states, each referenced to the
entry.
- MisovalkoProfileBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MisovalkoProfileBot>
- *Task:* A narrowly scoped source-verification and, only if
approved, existing-item update process for Q97454550
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97454550>.
- RegularBot 4
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RegularBot_4>
- *Task/s:* Create new items from Wikipedias.
- GZWDer (flood) 7
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/GZWDer_(flood)_7>
- *Task/s:* Import data from external sources in comply with the
recently approved Wikidata:Mass-editing policy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mass-editing_policy>.
- GZWDer (flood) 8
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/GZWDer_(flood)_8>
- *Task/s:* Adding mul labels and aliases; cleanup existing labels
in certain cases. No edits to other people's biographies, invented
conference items, undocumented private engagements, unsupported future
appearances, or promotional link dumps.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot, *all closed as successful*:
MamouriBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MamouriBot>
, OKA bot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/OKA_bot>
, Rebot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Rebot>
, Rebot 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Rebot_2>
, Rebot 3
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Rebot_3>
, Rebot 4
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Rebot_4>
- New request for comments: Requests for comment/has part (P527) for
european political alliances (Q127603408)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/has_part_(P527)_for_european_political_alliances_(Q127603408)>
- Q127603408 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127603408> (European
political alliance) was created as a subclass of Q60170135
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60170135> (political alliance) for
european parties. While Q60170135
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60170135> allows using has part(s) (
Property:P527 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P527>), they were
reverted, with "Members are not "parts".
- Closed request for comments:
- Mass-editing Policy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Mass-editing_policy>
-
Consensus reached, the policy will be implemented.
- External Identifier sorting
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/External_identifier_sorting>
-
No consensus
*Events*
- Upcoming events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>:
- Wikidata Query Service Days
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Query_Service_Days_2026> commences *17
October, until 23 October*, make sure to register for access
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/4448>.
- See the full program
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Query_Service_Days_2026#Sessions>,
sessions will repeat for different timezones
- Wikidata's 14th Birthday is coming, *29 October*. Join the Birthday
call
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_Fourteenth_Birthday/Presents_%26_messages_call>
and
see what presents have been prepared, and see what community events are
happening near you
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourteenth_Birthday#Events_calendar>
.
- Wikidata Days in Africa 2026
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:WikiData_Days_in_Africa/2026>
- Dates, location and scholarships are open for: Wikimania 2027
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2027:Scholarships>
- Dates and location for next Wikimedia Hackathon has been announced and
scholarship applications are open: Wikimedia Hackathon 2027
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2027> * Previous
event:
- If you missed the quarterly Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour, you
can find the transcript here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Telegram_office_hour_2026-10-07>
.
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs: *P101 - field of work
<https://rtnf.substack.com/p/p101-field-of-work>* by rtnF
- Videos:
- Access to Memory (AtoM)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S884qd1kcD0> with Wikidata links.
- Lightning Talk Wikilokal Exploring Wikimedia Around You
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X3k6jzzA7w> with Affandy Murad, it
combines information from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikivoyage,
Wiktionary, and
Nominatim within a 3-kilometer radius.
- RDA Wikibase Cloud Sandbox Demonstration: Creating an Account and
Logging In <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8w6Onlr26s> -
demonstrates account creation and login process for Crystal Yragui's
Wikibase cloud instance: A sandbox for students at University of
Washington
information school as they learn Official RDA cataloging.
*Tool of the week*
- Wikidata Reference Validator
<https://wikidata-reference-validator.toolforge.org/> - A tool which
helps validate external references of Wikidata items to check if their
links are still accessible or now offline. This matters because we want to
ensure that we have solid references for statements in Wikidata, so we can
demonstrate how we know what we know
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- Wikidata talk:Mass-editing policy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mass-editing_policy> has been
accepted and is now in effect.
- Wikifunctions Status Update 2026-09-25 (The Mayor of Paris)
<https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2026-09-25#The_mayor_of_Paris>
and
Wikidata's spread across Wikipedias.
- Editing Wikidata statements on mobile devices is officially launching
soon!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Usability_and_usefulness/Item_editing_experience/Mobile_editing_of_statements>
The beta is ending, from *October 14*, all editors will be able to edit
all datatypes from mobile devices.
*Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties> and property
proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
review*
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
review:
- General datatypes:
- disambiguated by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/disambiguated_by>
(Links
a Wikibase Lexeme to a general disambiguation page, such as a
[[Q4167410|Wikipedia disambiguation page]].)
- biome
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/biome>
(biome
in which a geographical area is wholly or partly located,
according to a
documented ecological classification)
- External identifiers: Bibliothèque nationale de Tunisie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_Tunisie_ID>
, Mappola ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mappola_ID>
, On Think Tanks ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/On_Think_Tanks_ID>
, Beeld & Geluid program ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Beeld_%26_Geluid_program_ID>
, Le Random subject ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Le_Random_subject_ID>
, RETE ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RETE_ID>,
identificativo
Corago di un evento
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identificativo_Corago_di_un_evento>
, AVN company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AVN_company_ID>
, AVN person ID 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AVN_person_ID_2>
, swissNAMES3D ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/swissNAMES3D_ID>
, THB Wiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/THB_Wiki_ID>
, Nederlands Fotomuseum-id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nederlands_Fotomuseum-id>
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples: Current collections of Astrolabes by the Lahore
astrolabists <https://w.wiki/YvAY> (relevant English Wikipedia article
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Lahore_family_of_astrolabists>)
*Development*
- Mobile statement editing: We fixed a few remaining issues before the
full roll-out to everyone later this week.
- hCaptcha support: We planned how to integrate support for hCaptcha in
the Wikibase-related pages.
- Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
- We are collecting feedback from the first wikis about removing the
language link change entries from Recent changes and watchlists.
- We are collecting data to determine how much we can increase the
entity usage limit.
- REST API: We are continuing to add support for Lexeme editing to the
REST API.
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:
- 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>
*· Previous issue
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>
· JosefAnthony
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:JosefAnthony> talk
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:JosefAnthony> ·*
Idoko Joseph (JosefAnthony)
Wikimedia Volunteer | Open Knowledge Advocate
*View my contributions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JosefAnthony/Contributions>*
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