Wikipedia:Café/Archivo/Técnica/Actual

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Horcrux - RfP scheduled to end after 28 October 2026 13:29 (UTC)
  • NDG - RfP scheduled to end after 30 October 2026 18:09 (UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Chemobot - Task/s: Add german substance name in existing wikidata entries.
  • KnutuxBot - Task/s: Add "described by source" (P1343) statements citing the 1925 gazetteer Lietuvos apgyventos vietos (Q141805965) to about 14,000 existing Lithuanian settlement and rural-district (valsčius) items, with page, name-as-printed and Wikisource-URL qualifiers.
  • AipAerobot - Task/s: Add described at URL (P973) (described at URL) to aerodrome items that carry ICAO airport code (P239) (ICAO code), pointing to that aerodrome's page on aip.aero, qualified with language of work or name (P407) (language of work or name).
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: all closed as successful - EZBIDsBot, Alex NB OT, Wahl.de Bot, FoxfindingBot and OKA bot 2

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • 🎂 Wikidata turns 14 on 29 October! Join an event, add a birthday gift, or hop on the birthday call at 17:00 UTC (see in your own time zone). Find everything here: Wikidata Fourteenth Birthday. Share with #Wikidata14 or #WikidataBirthday. See you Thursday 🥳
  • AI-BRIDGES project invites organisations to submit questions for Wikidata
  • Wikidata Day NYC 2026 - this meetup is at capacity, but anyone is welcome to join the livestream. See event for details.
  • (Deutsch) Share research – Basics for the participation in the Wikiverse using the example of the Gotha Research Library, a free webinar via Zoom taking place 25 November 14:00-14:30 CEST.
• Past Events: Query Service Days 2026 - catch up on all recorded sessions from the Event page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: The Art of Information "From Wikidata to Axiell Collections: Automating Geographic Data for Museum Collections"
• Papers:
  • [preprint] “A Dictionary Without Its Own Database: Building an Offline-First Dagbanli Dictionary on Wikidata Lexemes” (zenodo). Describes the Dagbanli Dictionary, reporting data-quality findings from linking recorded speech to Lexemes and noting that two-thirds of Lexemes have only one Form and some frequent words are missing from Wikidata entirely. By Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Mohammed Awal Alhassan
  • AC-IQuAD: Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata
• Videos:
  • Wikidata Workshop: Black Artists on Wikidata Project - by Wiki Activate Africa, aims to improve representation and visibility of Black artists, creatives, and cultural practitioners in global digital knowledge ecosystem.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #126 Wikidata Query Service Days 2026 - User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 will do some livestreaming (in English), and discuss how to adapt the queries of WikiProject Govdirectory and the thought process behind it.
  • Canvas vs SVG: drawing a Wikidata graph No. 10 from the "Building smollerGraph" series.
  • EMCO Wikidata Community of Practice autumn meeting (Part 2)
  • (zh-TW/Chinese) Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2026 - part of the Fourteenth Birthday events

Tool of the week

• A Wikidata Merge Assistance By connorshea web-based tool designed to help editors find, evaluate, and resolve duplicate items on Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata Castles QA is a tool to see which data properties are still missing in Wikidata in the domain of castles, palaces and fortresses. Feedback welcome!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • martial arts style (school or style of martial arts this person studied or practiced)
    • ‎has language or spelling variant (the (multilingual) label of the linked item is a a language, spelling or etymological variation of the label of this item)
    • ‎biome (biome in which a geographical area is wholly or partly located, according to a documented ecological classification)
    • juvenile form of (instances of the subject item are juveniles of one of these class(es) of organisms)
    • development code (code assigned by a company or research organisation to a drug substance or product during development, before or alongside its nonproprietary name)
  • External identifiers: RETE ID, Tabularius entity ID, On Think Tanks Directory ID, Mappola ID, ‎GBIF occurrence key, NicoNicoPedia article ID, ‎German War Memorial ID, ERef Bayreuth ID, EPub Bayreuth ID, ‎AbeBooks author ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum ID, Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon, AVN company ID, AVN person ID, SPL person ID, ‎Victorian Heritage Overlay Number, Centre Delavouët catalog author ID, ‎The Session composer ID, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021 ID, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (2007) ID, ‎Filmoteket ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • accumulated cyclone energy (sum of the squared maximum sustained winds at 6-hour intervals of a tropical cyclone, a tropical cyclone season, or a time period, where the winds at that particular point in time are at least gale-force (34 knots or higher), in units of 10 kilo-square-knots (unit implied))
    • full work formatter URL (formatter URL for the web page containing this work; URI template from which "$1" can be automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items. If the site goes offline, set it to deprecated rank. If the formatter URL changes, add a new statement with preferred rank.)
    • Key or index image (Secondary image which acts as an index or key to the contents of the subject image)
  • External identifiers: The Montessorians ID, FEI Horse ID, IT History Forum Data Archive ID, Allotrope Foundation Ontology equipment ID, Historical East German Biographies ID, TURKPATENT geographical indication ID, BGA ID, MEMO ID, Hong Kong Jockey Club horse ID, Der Spiegel sports data ID, GitHub Advisory Database ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Japanese Ethnic Group Claims
• Schema example: (E257) Politician - simple schema for validating a politician (occupation = Q82955)

Development

• hCaptcha support: We've added hCaptcha support to Special:Set* forms and started implementing support on Special:NewItem/Special:NewProperty forms
• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We are verifying that not bundling entity usages reduces the amount of unnecessary changes coming from Wikidata in the Recent changes and Watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T440856)
  • We are conducting interviews and prototype testing on wireframe versions of a new filter for language link changes under "Wikidata Edits" in the filters on Recent changes and Watchlist

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.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• 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!

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Horcrux - Closed as successful
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • CampaignCommsBot - Task/s: Add missing factual, sourced statements (identifiers, official website, party, candidacy, offices held, verified social accounts, freely licensed image) to existing items about US political candidates who use CampaignComms. Paid editing disclosed below.
  • Karlb42Bot - Task/s: Create a first sense with item for this sense (P5137) on lexemes that have no senses, when the item's label or alias in the lexeme's language equals the lemma.
  • PeneBot 1 - Task/s: Add ِPersian Wikipedia sitelinks to existing Wikidata items for French communes
  • AcervoFilmicoBot - Task/s: Create items for Mexican fiction television films (later also feature films), longer than 70 minutes, that have an IMDb ID but no Wikidata item.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Mezi bajty 1 - meetup of the Czech Wikidata community in Prague and online, 11th November 17:00 - 19:00 CET (in Czech, Slovak, English)
  • Hands-on workshop: Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond for students and researchers. 19 November 14:15 - 15:45 CET at the DH Lab, Philturm (C2003), University of Hamburg.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • The intersection of OpenStreetMap and Wikidata by rtnF
  • (Deutsch) Wikidata turns 14 and creates new ways for free knowledge
  • My Two Favorite Holidays Collided: Halloween + Wikidata Day - The Stark Report and organising birthday celebrations at Wikidata NYC Day.
• Videos:
  • Query Service Days 2026 (Playlist) - catch up on any missed sessions
  • Wikidata. Wiki, data, or neither? by Marcin Cieślak, drawing on five years worth of observations of the Ionian Wikithon and LOD research to invite attendees to build a shared stance on teaching open data's value.
  • Vandalism Detection Systems for Wikipedia and Wikidata by Mykola Trokhymovych. Presents two projects designed to aid patrolling and vandalism detection including Graph2Text designed for Wikidata.
  • Epistemic Practices Behind Wikidata’s Ontology Evolution with Marcin Roszkowski. Wikidata's Ontology can and does change, who shapes and makes those decisions? This talk explores that.
  • Data, Science, and Technology Talk Show 2026: Data Reuse: (AI) reusing Wikidata’s data - (this session is in English but has a Bahasa Indoesian introduction) Alan Ang (WMDE) discusses how Wikidata is being reused in the development of AI.
  • Repertory of Colonial Plunder from the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab. Explores issues that arise from encoding looted cultural heritage items on digital data platforms, with three exemplary cases.
  • RDA Wikibase Cloud Sandbox Demonstration 2: Creating "Stub" WEMI Entities with Access Points - create initial linked data entities for a work, expression, manifestation, and item associated with a single-part manifestation.
  • RDA Wikibase Cloud Sandbox Demonstration 3: Describing Manifestations Pt. I - describe a single-part manifestation.
• Presentations: Query Service Days 2026 - slides for all presentations are on Commons

Tool of the week

• wd-provenance : A tool that analyzes Wikidata item provenance, historical edits, deleted facts, and active contributor rankings by parsing its revision history.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • ‎part of the observance of (holiday or observance during which this tradition is observed, this item is used, or this story or story element is commemorated)
    • ‎accumulated cyclone energy (sum of the squared maximum sustained winds at 6-hour intervals of a tropical cyclone, a tropical cyclone season, or a time period, where the winds at that particular point in time are at least gale-force)
  • External identifiers: ‎IBA cocktail ID, IT History Forum Data Archive ID, BGA numeric ID, BGA ID, ‎Allotrope Foundation Ontology equipment ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Politicômetro (politician identifier on the Politicômetro website)
    • Derived from language (language from which a lexeme is directly derived, when the source lexeme is unknown or not yet available on Wikidata)
    • Yaayuwee ethnobotanical use (category of traditional use of a plant taxon by the Yaayuwee people of Garoua-Boulaï, Cameroon {{!}} fr=catégorie d'usage traditionnel d'une plante par le peuple Yaayuwee de Garoua-Boulaï)
    • reuses footage from (audiovisual work from which this work incorporates pre-existing moving-image footage)
    • name on ballot (name used on the ballot for an election)
  • External identifiers: VSCO username, Docker Hub namespace, il Palio.Siena.it Palio ID, il Palio.Siena.it jockey ID, il Palio.Siena.it person ID, ilpalio.org jockey ID, ilpalio.org Palio ID, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Belarus) ID, VLKK given name ID, Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames ID, Austriasoccer.at football players ID, HKeL ID, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Library authority ID, Sraidainm ID, RNAL registration number, KEIBA.GO.JP horse ID, 2Day Chrono-Wiki ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae
  • Project GovanStones
  • Project Irish Round Towers
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Epigraphy - new data model, workshop and taster session.

Development

• REST API:
  • We added the ability to add Forms and Senses to a Lexeme when creating a Lexeme
  • We are working on modifying an existing Lexeme
• hCaptcha: We are continuing to adapt the UI and APis for the upcoming rollout of hCaptcha
• Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are doing usability tests for a new filter option for Recent changes and Watchlist to filter out changes to sitelinks
• Mobile UI: We are addressing small issues that came up after the rollout for everyone

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.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• 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!