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Nomination of Ibado Mohammed Abdulle for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ibado Mohammed Abdulle is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article is being discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ibado Mohammed Abdulle until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may still edit the article, including to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the AfD notice from the article until the discussion is closed.

Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 23:23, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary 741

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #740.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • RupumpedBot - Task/s: When an Item on a Kenyan river has a Swahili label but no English version, this bot will derive an English label and description.
  • William Avery Bot 14 - Task/s: Change values of url properties in mainspace that link to http://web.archive.org/ to use the https protocol (requested at Bot requests#Make HTTPS for Wayback Machine recurrent)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimania is about to begin. Whether you're attending on-site or virtually, plan your sessions so you don't miss any.
    • Full program / Wikidata-only program
    • Get your virtual ticket
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #91 Aug 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Force11 webinar: Metadata for all with Wikidata will look at three novel applications, WikiCite, the Trans Music Achive and the Pratt Institute. Held online August 26, 13-14:00 UTC. Please register for the access link.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Calling Wikifunctions for der, die, das
  • How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata
  • Altilunium Panoply v26.7.19 : In this latest release, the external Wikidata connection logic has undergone a major architectural overhaul to improve internal trace mapping.
• Videos:
  • (Svenska) Strategic inclusion of library data on Wikidata - first recorded at Digikult 2019, with Alicia Fagerving.
  • (Français) I’ll explain how Wikidata works! (Livestream recording), User:Lyokoï will introduce Wikidata and its concepts and the fundamentals of editing.
  • (繁體中文/zh-TW) Wikivoyage Guidelines for editing Temple information
  • How to use Wikibase for Mixed Methods Research, with Francesco Bailo. Recorded at SICSS Melbourne 2026 (Summer Institute in Computational Social Science).
• Games: Webwoven - a new game has surfaced, powered by Wikidata. Race from start to finish in as few connections as possible. Already includes Leaderboards, daily challenges and multiplayer. Sure to be a hit at future Wikidata events.

Tool of the week

• wikivibes is a tool by Magnus Magnus that play public domain music from Commons, tracked by Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Jobs:
  • (Interim) Engineering Manager - Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects - Hybrid
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform - Remote
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform - Remote

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
    • ‎about page URL (URL to the official about page)
  • External identifiers: Western Orthodox Wiki ID, Steady publication ID, ‎Open Collective ID, ‎Guide du Rôliste Galactique ID, CNUC code, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, CNR-IRIS author ID, Anobii Book ID, Anobii author ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, TakaWiki numeric page ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal artist ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • autoptic examination (time of last direct examination of the inscribed object)
    • Tabular data series (A tabular data series in Commons that models the given concept)
    • data series (A data series about the given topic.)
    • incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
    • former operator (entity, company, military service, or organisation which is notable for previously operated the item, aircraft, vehicle, or other equipment)
    • número de la plaza (square number)
  • External identifiers: PISAI ID, Ko-fi page ID, Scent Base brand ID, Etsy shop name, Overcast podcast ID, Grillplatser.nu ID, Criticker Film ID, HAND ID, Open Language Archives Community language code, identifiant Ciel d'oc d'une publication, ODiD ID, Generic/Numero de Registre Tributari, UntitledDb People ID, MissEvan drama ID, MissEvan sound ID, MissEvan ID, MissEvan voice actor ID, Fmfenxiang FM ID, Fmfenxiang sound ID, Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

• Wikidata Query Service: We are working on adapting the Query Service UI to get it ready for the move to QLever
• Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing to fix small issues found in testing
• Lexemes: We are continuing the work on adding support for Lexemes to the REST API
• Sustainability:
  • We are preparing the migration of some database tables on the client wikis that track the usage of Wikidata's data in articles on Wikipedia and co
  • We are further investigating how many changes from Wikidata that currently get sent to Wikipedia and co don't actually lead to a change in the article to be able to reduce these cases further

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!

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Proposed deletion of Magda al-Nowaihi

The article Magda al-Nowaihi has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Memorial page for subject who does not pass WP:NPROF.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Mccapra (talk) 15:48, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #742

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-07-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #741.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • AuntuBot - Task/s: Per the approved bot request at commons:Commons:Bots/Requests/AuntuBot, I am in the process of uploading approximately 50,000 issues of the Bangladesh Gazette to Wikimedia Commons. We need to a parent Wikidata item for each specific issue/volume to import and organize these files on Bengali Wikisource. Note that AuntuBot has already been granted a bot flag on Wikimedia Commons for the file uploads.
  • Rebot 2 - Task/s: We recently created the new property perspective (P14345) (Wikidata:Property proposal/anatomical view). With Rebot, I plan to move:
• About 570 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a property
• About 1400 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a qualifier of image (P18)
  • Rebot 3 - Task/s: Import 1389 instances of taxon author citation (P6507) from this Catalan Wikipedia list, compiled by bot from the articles.
  • Rebot 4 - Task/s: The task consists in changing these 1072 items. It has to change creator (P170) to the new property photographer (P14574). Also there are 1000+ items in which the property should be used as a qualifier.
  • Openpep - Task/s: Maintenance of Politically Exposed Person (PEP) data on Wikidata for Thai government officials. Specifically:
• Creating new Wikidata items for Thai politicians not yet in the database
• Adding P39 (position held) claims with proper qualifiers (P580 start time, P582 end time, P2937 legislative term for legislators, P1365/P1366 replaces/replaced by, P1545 series ordinal)
• Adding P102 (member of political party) with date qualifiers
• Adding P569 (date of birth), P106 (occupation), P21 (sex or gender), P19 (place of birth), P1559 (name in native language)
• Setting and correcting labels, descriptions, and aliases
• Removing incorrect claims and deduplicating
• Adding social media profiles (P2003 Instagram, P2013 Facebook, P11705 Facebook numeric ID)
  • DutchFixer - Task/s: Reformat Dutch verb forms that are listed as past tense (Q1994301), participle (Q814722) to simply use past participle (Q12717679)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Vladimir Terentyev used the set of names for every dish from Wikidata -- labels and aliases in every language -- along with restaurant data from OpenStreetMap to develop a world map of dish names, attempting to answer the research question: "Where does plov end and biryani begin, and who really draws these borders?"
  • Giving Open Source Hardware a Place on Wikidata
  • Simplified entry of complex data into Wikibase
  • Grateful and Growing: Reflecting on My Wiki Afrodemics Fellowship, Pilot Cohort
• Papers: DivinWD: Exploring the Diversity of Scientific Publications in Wikidata - DivinWD is a large open-source dataset of over 23 million triples and 1.2 million scholarly articles (2010–2024), integrating Wikidata with five bibliographic sources and gender data to enable transparent diversity analyses in science while documenting biases and infrastructural limitations. By Saletti et. al., (2026)

Tool of the week

• OWL Places, the Wikidata-OpenStreetMap matching tool, can now add OpenStreetMap IDs to Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.1.0 and other upgrades

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • dielectric strength (electric field strength that causes electrical breakdown of an insulating material under specified test conditions)
    • still taken from the audiovisual work (image comes from the given audiovisual work)
  • External identifiers: Operabook artist ID, ‎MPA certificate number, ‎Deltarune Wiki article ID, A World Made by Travel person ID, UntitledDb person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Fediverse app (Fediverse platform of the instance or address)
    • Fediverse instance URL (Ferdiverse instance of/about the subject)
    • reference amount (Amount of the food that contains a particular quantity of a nutrient.)
    • Qidian Book ID ()
  • External identifiers: Garance item ID, Kinorating, IGN producer, Fediverse address, Music & Opera artist ID, LFL player ID, Soccer365.net tournament ID, kicker.de coach ID, BeSoccer team ID, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID, SofaScore tournament ID, Foot Mercato club ID, Lithuanian movie register ID, Foot Mercato referee ID, BeSoccer referee ID, Kicker.de referee ID, Soccer365.net referee ID, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID, Soccer365.net stadium ID, MFL player ID, Okko movie ID, RIA Novosti organization ID, OpenParliamentTV person ID, OpenParliamentTV organization ID, OpenParliamentTV term ID, Camping.se ID, classicalive artist ID, Chess Games tournament ID, Chess.com tournament ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, Flemish educational institution number, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, Lulu spotlight ID, RPGnet Index ID, EU Treaties and Agreements database ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

• The team were at Wikimania this past week so not much development happened.

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!

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Women in Red – August 2026

Women in Red | August 2026, Vol 12, Issue 8, Nos 358, 359, 378, 379, 380 Events: New: Alphabet run: Countries starting with N and O | Indigenous women | Women born before 1900 Continuing (year-long initiatives): #1day1woman | Sports More ... Announcements: On 25 July, at Wikimania Paris, Women in Red was named the Coolest Project! Tip of the month: Read the essay Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities to understand the criteria for a woman's status as Native American or Indigenous Canadian. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram & Pinterest

--Chocmilk03 (talk 21:42, 30 July 2026 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wikidata weekly summary #743

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #742.

Discussions

• INAPerson 1 - Task/s: Create Wikidata pages entries for mostly French journalists, using INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) catalogue as reference.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimedia & Research conference in the CEE region: programme coming in August, registration open - follow link for registration instructions, (onsite) open until August 26, (online) open until at least October 5. Event takes place Katowice, Poland, October 9-10, 2026.
  • Workshop: Wikidata for Open Innovation - DCMI 226. Held on August 3 by Kalliopi Mathios, participants will get hands-on experience of Wikidata for use in Libraries, Industry and Communities.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers:
  • the proceedings of the conference Wikidata and Research (cf. Meta page), held in Florence (Italy) on June 5-6, 2025, have been published on July 2026 and are available in CC-BY 4.0 license: Wikidata e la ricerca. Condividere esperienze / Wikidata and Research. Sharing Experiences; 32 papers, 25 in English and 7 in Italian, deal with the usage of Wikidata and other Wikibase instances in different fields of academic research
  • Detecting Knowledge Inconsistencies Across Text, Tables, and Knowledge Graphs by Wei et al., (2026). This paper introduces Kontrast: a tool for comparing Wikidata's statements against Wikipedia tables (and text) to find conflicting information or inconsistencies and missing data.
• Videos: LIVE Wikidata Editing #123 with hosts User:Ainali and User:Abbe98

Tool of the week

• Leximap: Create a colour-coded map of Lexemes from a Wikisource page's text, roll-over individual words to discover more about the lemma
• Filmmap: a free interactive map of filming locations built from Wikidata. Search the title to see where it’s shot or a place to see what was made there
• Cradle-gadget – A new user script embeds the Cradle form editor into Wikidata item pages, enabling schema-based editing with ShEx.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Job vacancy: (Remote) Software Engineer for the Wikidata Platform team.
• Wikibase Cloud has a new hosting policy (pilot version)
• Subster - a timeline-based Wikidata-powered game that plays songs from your own music collection and asks you to rank it against other songs in your hand. Like a digital, cardless version of Hitster. Requires a subsonic-compatible music server to connect to.
• Uyen developed a tool in which you can visualize and inspect content gaps and shared content between different Wikipedia editions, as well as topic distributions: https://wiki-gap-finder.toolforge.org/ Check it out and give them feedback.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • tabular data series (A tabular data series in Commons that models the given concept)
    • infobox chronology (indicate the place of an item in an Infobox chronology, as seen on the Wikipedias.)
    • ‎OpenType script tag (identifier for a script in OpenType, without trailing spaces)
    • ‎Fediverse app (Fediverse platform of the instance or address)
    • ‎Fediverse instance URL (Ferdiverse instance of/about the subject)
  • External identifiers: Viberate artist ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage style ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage designer ID, radio.net station ID, radio.net podcast ID, Sokmil AV performer ID, Scent Base brand ID, Scent Base notes ID, Scent Base perfumers ID, PISAI ID, CIDIM Artist ID, Etsy shop name, ‎Open Language Archives Community language code, ‎OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID, Ko-fi page ID, KinoRating ID, ‎Korean Classification of Administrative Districts, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID, SofaScore tournament ID, RIA Novosti organization ID, MFL player ID, ‎MissEvan username, Soccer365.net referee ID, Soccer365.net stadium ID, Soccer365.net tournament ID, ‎IGN producer ID, kicker.de coach ID, Kicker.de referee ID, Lithuanian movie register ID, LFL player ID, BeSoccer referee ID, BeSoccer team ID, OpenParliamentTV organization ID, OpenParliamentTV person ID, OpenParliamentTV term ID, Foot Mercato referee ID, Foot Mercato club ID, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID, Chess Games tournament ID, Chess.com tournament ID, ‎Camping.se ID, Garance item ID, ‎OpenType language system tag, Okko movie ID, ‎Grillplatser.nu ID, Número de Registre Tributari, ‎MissEvan sound ID, ‎MissEvan drama ID, ‎Flemish educational institution number, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID, RPGnet Index ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • ENS name (Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain associated with a person or entity)
    • Inventaire régional du patrimoine en Wallonie ID ()
    • member of musical group (member of musical group)
    • name type (type of noun or name the sense is)
  • External identifiers: CINE21 Program ID, Rakuten TV adult maker ID, DMM maker ID, sukumizu.tv actress ID, GAS actress ID, Paradise TV Parson ID, syukou-club(X-DIABLO) actress ID, Brazilian Fauna Taxonomic Catalogue ID, CINE21 company ID, STAPI Book ID, STAPI Comics ID, STAPI Episode ID, STAPI Performer ID, Qidian Author ID, Medieval Unicode Font Initiative ID, Apple Maps place id, Filmycast person ID, EORI, GBIF Specimen (occurrence), d anime store Parson ID, d anime store work ID, Crank-in! Parson ID, Crank-in! drama ID, Crank-in! animation ID, Crank-in! movie ID, Elite Prospects team ID, r-hockey.ru team ID, Elite Prospects stadium ID, izohli.uz word ID, Dubbinfo ID, DBNL chamber of rhetoric ID, BLS Code, JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia article ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Retrieve all Belgian writers without an article on French Wikipedia (source)
• Schema examples: Swedish barbecue areas (E408)
• Newest WikiProjects: Project Occitan
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Project Broadcasting - after 10 years of inactivity, the project has been revived with a flurry of activity . Of particular interest is the change in broadcasting scope from primarily airwave to internet transmission.
  • Wiki x K-pop 2026 • Editing Party - Japan Week Datathon
• Newest database reports: Wikidata Terminator - find items that lack Label, description or sitelink.
• Showcase Items: Oman (Q842) - state in western Asia
• Showcase Lexemes: cheche (L648863)

Development

• Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
  • We reviewed samples of Wikidata-related entries in Recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co in order to see which additional changes we can remove because they don't change the article.
  • We are preparing for the migration of the entity usage table to the extension database cluster to address database scalability issues (phab:T424133)
• Wikidata Query Service: We are continuing to adapt the Query Service UI and the Quality Constraints extension for the upcoming move from Blazegraph to QLever.
• REST API: We are continuing to add support for Lexemes, specifically retrieving a full Lexeme (GET) (phab:T429332)

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: Seychelles
• 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #744

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-08-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #743.

Discussions

• The order of properties on Wikidata is governed by MediaWiki/Wikibase-SortedProperties. We propose moving (P2559) Wikidata usage instructions to the top, so important guidance is more visible and less likely to be overlooked. To comment on this change, please visit MediaWiki_talk#prominently displaying (P2559).
• Closed request for comments: 19 RfC's were closed recently, too many to list here. Please see the RfC page for more information.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • (Deutsch) nfdi4 / Workshop: Make Research Software Findable using the Software Marketplace Wikidata, 18.08.2026, 14:00–16:00 CEST (register for Zoom-link)
  • Improving Wikidata References: The hands-on session will explore how to identify and improve broken references on Wikidata , 15.08.2026, 17:00–18:00 WAT (UTC+1).
• Looking ahead: (Deutsch) Freie Universitat / Tidy data version control - Wikidata in research: 22.10.2026, 09:00 - 16:00 CEST.
• Previous events: August 04 - Blazegraph Migration office hour - see the Etherpad notes for questions and answers.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • gdottv / The Weekly Edge article: demonstrating the Wikidata Query Logs (WDQL) Dataset talks about a paper released in February this year, (Wikidata Query Logs Dataset)
  • LinkedIn - User:Orthodoc10 describes their experience mapping and modelling knee replacement surgical practices into Wikidata
  • Wikisignals.org: Helping Editors Evaluate Reference Reliability
  • Zero-budget programs you could start tommorrow - Lessons from Wikimania Paris]
  • OpenSpeaks Tools Update: Subtitler, Tome, and Bento Go Stable — Meet Media Dashboard
  • [[Diffblog:a-look-at-a-2026-wikimania-hackathon-project-wikidata-bias-detector|A look at a 2026 Wikimania Hackathon Project – Wikidata Bias Detector]
  • nlnet Foundation / Inventaire Split - a short article on this standalone Wikidata-federated Bibliographic database.
  • Maltese national Book Council and WM Malta renew partnerhship: Wikidata to support and feed Maltese Wikipedia.
  • [Diffblog:wikisignals-org-helping-editors-evaluate-reference-reliability|Wikisignals.org: Helping Editors Evaluate Reference Reliability] - the project aims to add to news-related organisation entities to help feed Wikipedia infoboxes with structured data.
• Videos:
  • India's Software Stories: A Hands-on Workshop with Software Heritage, Commons and Wikidata - a Wikimania Lightning talk with Mathilde Fichen and Pavan Santhosh. (Session page)
  • The Art of Editing Wikidata (Africa Wiki Women) - Guest host David Palfrey will share valuable insights and help newcomers uncover the mysteries of editing Wikidata, this session is in collaboration with Art+Feminism.
  • (no audio) Tutorial: Add Geoshape to Wikimedia Commons and connect it to its Wikidata Item - Anne Chen gives a visual demonstration of the steps provided in this google doc, found on the WikiProject IDEA page.
  • LIVE Wikidata Editing #124 is streaming today, 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC)!
  • (Bahasa Indonesian) Wikimedia Indonesia have released 4 short videos on editing practices, querying, basic structure and data quality of Wikidata.
  • (Deutsch) ZB MED LAB | The Carpentries - aimed at researchers and professionals who work with data, a series of tutorials and workshops to teach you Wikidata, Python, R, OpenRefine and more.

Tool of the week

• Cradle-gadget is a tool by User:DanielyepezgarcesThis is an interactive, schema-based form editor that works directly within Wikidata item pages. It allows users to check, view, add, modify, or delete claims in a modern sidebar drawer or a dedicated special page, aligned with the Wikimedia design guidelines. This is the easiest way to exploit the benefits of Wikidata entity schemas, powered by ShEx.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The 2026 OpenRefine User Survey is now open. (Note that a link to a feature-prioritization survey is provided at the end of the Google Form so don't miss that if you want to influence what should get more focus.)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • particularly (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, when the statement applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
    • ‎incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
  • External identifiers: CINE21 TV program ID, GCD character ID, ODiD ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, NHK ONE program ID, CINE21 company ID, ‎Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID, ‎Fmfenxiang sound ID, Elite Prospects team ID, Elite Prospects stadium ID, r-hockey.ru team ID, Classicalive artist ID, Apple Maps place id, ‎HAND ID, Brazilian Fauna Taxonomic Catalogue ID, ‎Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, ‎MissEvan voice actor ID, Music & Opera artist ID, Dubbinfo ID, GAS actress ID, ‎EU Treaties and Agreements database ID, syukou-club(X-DIABLO) actress ID, sukumizu.tv model ID, Paradise TV Person ID, Regional heritage of Wallonia ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • filing unit code
    • has Member (has member)
    • introduced to (region outside the natural range of a taxon into which it was introduced through direct or indirect human activity)
  • External identifiers: Lift-World lift ID, Schiffsdatenliste ID, marketswiki, National Palace Museum Digital Archive ID, Information Commissioner's Office registration reference, Registry of Type Design ID, Ariana Museum ID, Emulation General Wiki article ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal immovable object ID, Sofia monuments register ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal museum ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal movable object ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal stone carving ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal protection zone ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal wall painting ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal documentation record ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage Portal movable object ID, RIdIM ID, Weibo ID, Weibo username

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Ten longest State of the Union adress in the USA
• Schema examples: object with inscription - schema for objects with inscriptions (Q1640824)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Project Brigham Young University Library
  • Project Perth Women on Wikipedia
  • Project UC Riverside Library Jay Kay Klein Photographs
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Ontology added a Metaclasses page
• Newest database reports: Sitelink statistics by User:Pasleim.

Development

• Sustainability: We continued the work on migrating usage tracking on Wikipedia and co to the extension database cluster (phab:T424185)
• Watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co: We finished our review of a sample of Wikidata edits sent to Wikidata and co in order to better understand which remaining ones are not useful. It will soon be published on Commons.
• Query Service: We continued the work on preparing the Query Service UI for the migration from Blazegraph to QLever and will move to Query Builder and Quality Constraints next

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: Seychelles
• 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!

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