Wikidata:Status updates/2025 12 22
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #710.
week leading up to 2025-12-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #710.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Vitaly Zdanevich
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Title markup bot - Task(s): There is a variety of HTML markup found in , violating various constraints on the property. The following task description is for a bot that can start the required cleanup process. I would like to request permission to implement the functionality outlined here as a first iteration, on the understanding that it will be extended and refined to cover more cases. It will operate within the limitation that it will only modify values, add qualifiers and update labels to keep them in-line with altered titles.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos:
Tool of the week
- Timetrail - is a website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland jobs:
- Director of Engineering (all genders)
- Senior Data Analyst (all genders)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- Japanese court rank (Japanese court rank of a person or a shrine)
- value of this mathematical characteristic (non-numeric value of this characteristic applied to this mathematical object)
- Newest External identifiers: Taking Stock ID, Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID, The Advocate tag ID, Game Font Library ID, IMI person ID, Metacritic video game genre ID, Banrep Cultural ID, FCC ID Database company slug, EDBO institution code, GamesIndustry.biz game ID, PC Guru game ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- common organism (organisms known by a common name of a biological taxon)
- part (exact number denoting the part of a creative work or edition)
- heir apparent (person designated to take on royal position after death of subject)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Parfumo perfume ID, Parfumo perfumer ID, Parfumo perfumes ID, Parfumo fragrance notes ID, BoomerShooterDB game ID, identifiant Rappels d'une production théâtrale, Parfinity notes ID, Vandal game ID, Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser ID, GBIF ID, MetroidvaniaDB game ID, Games.cz game ID, Basenotes perfume brand ID, Basenotes perfume people ID, Basenotes perfume ID, CICAP Encyclopedia ID, Zelda Wiki ID, Yaba Sanshiro ID, identificador Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Finnish railway station code, Fight-A-Base game ID, Sketchfab model ID, Sketchfab channel ID, Sketchfab user ID, DVIDS Video ID, DeVuego game ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights: Niryhpr's efforts in organising the page User:Niryhpr/WikiProject_Ports (part of WikiProject Indonesia/Geodatathon)
- Newest database reports: Language statistics for Items
- Showcase Items: Mansa Musa - 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire
- Showcase Lexemes: ਮਰਨ (L689064) - Punjabi verb (mərəɳ) meaning "to die (cease living)", "to wither or spoil", or "to give up (lose hope/energy)"
Development
- Mobile statement editing:
- We added an indicator showing which Properties are not yet supported when creating new statements in mobile editing (T412719)
- We continued working on showing constraint violations on mobile (T411602, T411608)
- We are working on musical notation statements on mobile (T407247)
- We are improving error handling for incorrectly filled and unfilled fields in mobile editing (T408928)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!