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This Month in GLAM: July 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue VII, July 2025 Headlines Albania report: 10 years of Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group Aruba report: Wikipedia on Aruba – From Island to Archive: Aruba’s Journey on Wikimedia Belgium report: De Standaard Solidarity Prize and How to Upload Artwork New Zealand report: Women in Wartime Nigeria report: Expanding Access to Heritage Knowledge Portugal report: GLAM Wiki 2025: Program Highlights & Volunteer Call Serbia report: July in Wikimedia Serbia Switzerland report: Poster Exhibition, Screening Public Viewing, Women Memorials UK report: Japanese art in Arabic USA report: Wikinics & Edit-a-thons Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL blog by Tiago Lubiana, BHL Wikimedian in Residence, and news on the BHL transition AvoinGLAM report: Introducing Oulu Löyly – we want to hear your thoughts! Memory of the World report: Getting the message out WMF GLAM report: Culture & Heritage team transitioning to broader Content Enablement team Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2025-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature. [1]
• The Product and Technology Advisory Council published a set of proposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on this talk page.
• The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text. [2]
• Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for. [3]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The multiwiki datasets of Unicode data have been moved to Category:Unicode Module Datasets on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at the talkpage. [4]
• Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the mw.addWarning() function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected. [5]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:25, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #692

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-08-11. Missed the previous one? See issue #691.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Dolabbot - Mass import of module subpages from other wikis (mainly English wiktionary) to Korean wiktionary and addition of corresponding Wikidata sitelinks.

Events

• Past: Wikimania 2025 took place last week! Day-by-day playlists are available on the Wikimedia Foundation YouTube channel.

Tool of the week

• Midleading created a a UserScript called RemoveRedundantLabels.js. This user script adds a new tool Item, that can be used to remove all labels that are the same as mul label, in one click.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• New General datatypes:
  • taxon aspect image (an exemplary image of a particular aspect for this taxon. Relevant for taxonomic identification)
• New External identifiers: Mizuumi Wiki ID, My Abandonware company ID, Vintagepostcards-Archive-ID, Historical picture postcards University of Osnabrück ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • awarded for type of work (type of work for which an award or type of award is conferred)
  • display size (diagonal) (diagonal length of a rectangular electronic display)
  • non-free official cover art URL (URL of a copyrighted cover image for a creative work at an authorized distributor's website)
  • IUPAC name (Name of a chemical compound following the IUPAC nomenclature of (in)organic chemistry.)
  • Creed ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Artfacts artist ID, nextroom building ID, USB device ID, Caixin company ID, BIBFRAME Work ID, Primary Vessel Number, Songsofy artist ID, PCI vendor hexadecimal ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms entry ID, T10 vendor ID string, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military entry ID, SPoT skater ID (new scheme), Identifiant d'une pièce musicale dans le répertoire de la SACEM

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Mothers on Wikidata - explore the mother and child relationships of Wikidata items.
  • Human with article in simple and no english article (QLever) (source)
• Showcase Items: 2016 Taiwanese presidential election (Q20683626) - election in Taiwan
• Showcase Lexemes: illing (L1334366) - English adjective/noun (ˈɪlɪŋ) meaning "annoyed/unhappy", "acting aggressively", or "in a difficult situation"

Development

• We attended Wikimania 205 in Nairobi
• We continued efforts to get our new mobile statement UI for Items with the Kartographer extension, and merged a first version that mostly works (Phab:T394906)
• We began work on including accessibility testing for the new mobile statement editing UI for Items (Phab:T400678)
• The entity types for the new search dropdown has been updated to have Items at the top (Phab:T398817)

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!

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