Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation 25 October .This event will showcase the Seediq communities’ translation of the OCLC white paper on Wikibase, followed by an overview of the full paper. It will conclude with an open discussion on the lessons learned during the translation project and broader reflections on linked data.
FREE virtual 1hr Wiki webinar focusing on plant biodiversity. Open to anyone wanting to improve their digital outreach skills by enriching Wikidata. Tuesday 14th of October at 3pm NZST. Register to get link.
Wikidata’s 13th Birthday is just around the corner! Are you planning to host a celebration but haven’t added it to the calendar yet? Join the party! Thirty-nine (39) events are already scheduled, and yours can be too: Birthday Calendar. It’s also the perfect time to contribute a birthday present or message to this list. Gifts can be anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community like a script you’ve written, a tool improvement, a visual, a poem... 🎉
Duplicity This tool can pick a random article on a wiki without associated Wikidata item, and offer some possible matches on Wikidata, so you can add it to an existing item, or create a new one.
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Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 31! If you have some ideas for coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, outreach, research) projects, share them by Sept. 26, 2025, at 4 pm UTC
Showcase Lexemes: Waage (L37547) – German noun (‘ˈvaːɡə’) meaning "scale (device for measuring mass)", "Libra constellation", or "equilibrium"
Development
Mobile statement editing: We are working more on the editing state of statements, especially qualifiers and progress indicators during saving (phab:T402620)
Dumps: We fixed an issue with some of the dumps (phab:T403882) and are improving the monitoring
GraphQL: We are working on making it easier to get labels of linked entities in an API response, starting with Items (phab:T404692)
Sustainability: We have now rolled out improvements to the tracking of Wikidata changes on the other Wikimedia projects on all projects in order to decrease the size of the database table that tracks these changes (phab:T401288)
Bug fixes: Tacsipacsi submitted fixes for two issues in error messages on Special:SetSiteLink. Thank you! (phab:T404499, phab:T404500)
New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our first session of our WikiProject Personal Pronouns event series, which will provide a high-level overview of WikiProject Personal Pronouns' goals, past work, and implementation plans. The session will also serve as a practical orientation to the implementation work for this project, ending with a demonstration of the workflow to be used in subsequent sessions. No previous Wikidata experience is needed to participate. This session will be recorded. Slides and recordings will be found on the project page after the session. Join us Tuesday, September 30th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
Wikidata are hosting a webinar on the Embedding Project: AI/ML Project Manager Philippe Saadé (WMDE) will introduce the project, including early experiences, wins and pitfalls, and open up the floor to your questions.
🎁 Countdown to 13!🎁 Wikidata's 13th Birthday is fast approaching and this week marks the start of the first Birthday Events! For a full rundown of all Birthday Events, please see the Birthday Calendar.
Starting the month of celebrations this week include: Wali Wikimedians Community, Latin America in Wikidata 2025, Hausa Wikipedians User Group and the language communities of Zambia, Twi and Kinyarwanda and regional celebrations from the Northern Nigerian, Dagbani and Ghanaians Wikimedian communities!
Wikidata Workflows: with ORCiD and OpenRefine - a Binghamton University Case Study By Sasha Frizzell - This lightning talk outlines Binghamton University Libraries’ pilot project to convert ORCID faculty data into Wikidata entries, showcasing linked data integration, data cleaning workflows, and strategies for enhancing institutional research visibility.
Showcase Lexemes:Knoten (L298686) - German noun (ˈknoːtn̩) meaning "tied fastening of ropes/strings", "speed unit in aviation/shipping", or "tangled clump of hair"
Development
Mobile statement editing: We continue to make good progress, which you can check out on beta Wikidata. Specifically it is now possible to
save changes to edits made to string Properties on statements (without losing qualifier / reference information) (phab:T401405)
GraphQL: We are continuing to make labels of linked entities accessible in the GraphQL endpoint (phab:T404692)
Wikidata in Wikipedia and co: We are continuing to work on improvements to how we technically track the use of Wikidata in the other Wikimedia projects in order to reduce the amount of changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
The October 2025 issue of the Project Newsletter is now available.
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Hi. I was the original tagger of this page, but self-declined after it came to my attention that the author may hold the copyright here (see my talk). I don't know what's going on behind the scenes with VRT, but as far as I was aware they were in the process of donating the text of that sandbox, hence the {{permission pending}} on the talk. I'm a bit out of my depth here and the editor seems quite frustrated, so I was wondering if you could help me out? Thanks, UpTheOctave! • 8va?21:40, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
My name is D J Forsyth, I wrote the article you just out of hand deleted from my sandbox. What you didnt do evedently was ANY work to see if the copy-write was mine. Oh wait, IT IS!
Not only had I emailed in the required information to this, I was able to document all work done by me as it even STATES ON THE FREAKING DHR WEBSITE I AM THE AUTHOR! As well I am the photographer who took the photos. I gave them freedom to use MY writing for educational purposes and for submission to the historical depts needed to get historical status on MY FARM as I now own it.
You are not an editor you are the opposite of one.
I am an internationally published writer who has dealt with editors my last 30 years. An editor investigates any possible allegations by reaching out to the writer.
You are not an editor and should be ashamed of yourself. Dfblizz (talk) 21:45, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
WikidataCon 2025 - The first version of the conference schedule has been released! See the Event page for links to the schedule (and to register if you haven't already).
13th Birthday Events - check the calendar to see which Birthday events are happening this week!
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, 15th October 2025 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
Past events:
Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 - Learning Day (September 25, at the Goethe Institut in Thessaloniki): the main topic was Wikidata and libraries; the program and the materials of the hands-on session are available in the Meta page, the slides of the presentations are available in the Commons category
Convegno NILDE (October 2-3, University of Genoa; website): in the first session, regarding Il futuro dei cataloghi [The future of the catalogs], many presentations (in Italian) have mentioned the use of Wikidata in collective library catalogs; the proceedings of the conference (in Italian) will be published in open access in early 2026:
Lianna D'Amato and Emanuela Secinaro, Cobis LOD: integrare e aumentare i cataloghi eterogenei delle biblioteche specialistiche [Cobis LOD: Integrating and Enhancing the Heterogeneous Catalogs of Specialized Libraries] (slides)
Stefano Bargioni, La catalogazione per entità, esperienze pratiche della rete URBE con Parsifal [Entity cataloging: practical experiences of the URBE network with Parsifal] (slides; Wikidata project page)
Elena Ravelli e Camillo Pellizzari, Authority file di SBN e Wikidata: un esempio di interoperabilità e riutilizzo dei dati [SBN Authority File and Wikidata: An Example of Data Interoperability and Reuse] (slides; Wikidata project page)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs: Diff: Building Wikidatacapacity in East Africa - Wikimedia Deutschland’s 2025 outreach initiative expanded Wikidata capacity in East Africa by training nearly 100 local Wikimedians across 13 countries, and fostering a new network of regional Wikidata champions
Open Tool Registries: Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata - Livestream (today!) Oct 6, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST. (Maybe in German but description is English)
Tool of the week
Script newentity.js is a UserScript by GZWDer it helps to generates new items (including lexemes) from the given JSON object.
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The Wikidata Team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to talk to developers who use Wikidata’s data dumps, or have tried using them but ran into challenges. Your feedback will help us make data dumps easier and more reliable to use. If you’re open to chatting, we’ll schedule a 60-minute user interview. As a thank-you for your time, you’ll be eligible for compensation. Sign up here.
For anyone interested in open and interoperable data, the DCMI 2025 Conference might be interesting. More information and registration here.
Showcase Lexemes: delve (L22859) – English verb (/dɛlv/) meaning "to investigate thoroughly", "to dig physically", or "to discuss in detail
Development
The {{USERLANGUAGE}}magic word is now enabled on Wikidata and Test Wikidata. It can be used to display templates in the user interface language, replacing the previous {{int:lang}} hack. (phab:T405830)
GraphQL: We have continued working on the functionality that provides labels of linked entities
Wikidata vector embedding and MCP: We have released the vector embedding and MCP
Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
We are continuing the rollout of improvements to ow we track Wikidata changes in Wikipedia's watchlist and recent changes in order to reduce the size of the database table and reduce the noise on editors' watchlists. (phab:T401288, phab:T401290)
We are working on some improvements to the Databox module and template (phab:T400322)
Mobile statement editing:
We improved the display of qualifiers and made it possible to add qualifiers (editing will still come) as well as the value type (value/some value/no value) (phab:T404991, phab:T404956, phab:T402431, phab:T403246)
We are working on adding editing support for more datatypes (tabular data and geoshape) (phab:T403973)
We are working on making it possible to edit references (phab:T402433)
After a motion, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections at WP:AELOG/P. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g. [[WP:CT/BLP]]), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.
@Matrix I'm aware of the precautionary principle. However here I read not only the arguments on the page but the copyright compendium and decisions of the copyright office in refusing registration and I'm persuaded that it is below the threshold of originality for US copyright. Perhaps it's borderline by NOCONSENSUS does not require deletion, it leaves it to the closing admin's discretion. I exercised the discretion to retain it. Fair enough, that you don't agree with my closure, you can either renominate it or take it to WP:DRV. Nthep (talk) 19:06, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session: Tuesday 14 Oct, 2025 from 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (click for your Time zone) WikiProject Personal Pronouns members will lead three implementation sessions to improve the data modeling and ethics of personal pronoun representation in Wikidata based on newly-established best practices and Wikidata policy by remediating legacy statements with participants. No prior Wikidata experience required. More info on the Personal Pronouns event page.
Upcoming LD4 Affinity Group sessions: Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9, at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 4pm UTC / 6pm CEST.
Wikidata + Wikibase Office Hour, join us in the Wikidata Telegram channel for our Quarterly roundup of what's been happening with Wikidata and Wikibase. If you can't make it, read the transcript later. Oct 15, 18:00 - 19:00 CEST (UTC 16:00 - 17:00).
Developing an enhanced dataset for the history of Photography - National Archives researchers used Wikidata during a hackathon to link people and places from 19th-century photographic copyright records, enriching the archive’s metadata through linked open data.
Wikidata Useful is a UserScript by Magnus Manske that adds a box of quick "add statement" links to the right side of the page. Entity and phylogeny types, countries (location and citizenship). Also, tries to load and display a blurb from en or de Wikipedia.
Wikimedia Deutschland is seeking feedback on the Mobile Editing Experience prototype, especially from contributors who edit right-to-left (RTL) languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, etc. We’ve already received helpful input from various editors, but feedback from RTL language communities is still missing. Your perspective is important to ensure the design works well for everyone. Please go to Beta Wikidata (in mobile view) to test the prototype with the instructions below and share your feedback on this talk page.
Add "businessperson" as an occupation
Add a start date to the relationship with A$AP Rocky and provide a reference
Find the place of birth (Saint Michael) and open that page
We finished work on adding an icon to changes coming from Wikidata in recent changes and watchlist (phab:T397258)
We are finishing work on a new usage aspect for qualifiers and references so their use can be tracked separately. This will lead to less Wikidata changes showing up in recent changes and watchlist that don't actually affect the article (phab:T397258)
We are continuing the work on improving Databox (phab:T400322)
GraphQL: We are continuing to work on making labels of linked entities in the values of statements accessible (phab:T404692)
Mobile statement editing: We have been working on showing the different value types (phab:T404684) and making references editable (phab:T405236)
Hi. I hope you don't mind a copyright-related question. I came across Joseph de Bouloc and noted that the Biography section is pretty much a direct translation of the source it is referenced to [2]. There's no copyright notice on that page, but going to the base URL, it redirects to the Archives nationales d'outre-mer site, which has this at the bottom Sauf mention contraire, tous les contenus de ce site sont sous licence etalab-2.0 - that licence is I think this one, which by my reading allows use that is compatible with enwiki's licensing requirements. However, I couldn't find any previous discussion of that licence in project space. I suppose my two questions are:
Is it OK to leave the translation as is?
If it is OK, what kind of public domain template should I stick at the bottom. Is it the {{Source-attribution}} one, or is there a more specific one? I found this Commons one but I don't think I can use that on enwiki.
@SunloungerFrog the licence appears to be compatible - certainly there's a lot of stuff on Commons using it. I don't see a suitable attribution template, here on en:wp but it's quite a quick job to create one, if you're minded to. Nthep (talk) 14:43, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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