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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.
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)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-08-18. Missed the previous one? See issue #692.
Events
Upcoming events: New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our third session of our event series, an Introduction to Wikidata/EMCO, which is meant to introduce EMCO participants and anyone interested to Wikidata and to develop frameworks and skills for entity management in the Wikidata environment. We will review searching in Wikidata and have a practical, hands-on exercise where everyone can create a new person item and add some statements. Join us Tuesday, August 19th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST Time zone converter. Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
Magnus Manske’s developed a Como Wikidata Game using Autodesc, this game suggests short descriptions for Wikidata items that don't have any. Review each suggestion, improve it if needed, and submit a concise, accurate description. Additioanlly the andriod application for the game is available for download at Google Play Store
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Are you a developer using Wikidata's data in your application with the action API or Query Service? The Wikidata development would love to talk to you to help improve how you can get to Wikidata's data. More details here (Great Question). User interview is 60-mins and you’ll receive compensation as a thank-you for your time.
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
Código INE (Bolivia) (Official hierarchical identifier of the National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia for administrative entities such as departments, provinces and municipalities.)
quality for (quality that is described by this sense of adjective/grammatical modifier)
type of quality (qualifier of "item for this modifier" that specifies the type of quality)
Showcase Lexemes: spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb (ˈspeɲ.ɲe.re) meaning "to extinguish (a fire)", "to turn off (a device)", or "to die (euphemistic)"
Development
Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work - so far on the read-only mobile version. We will start looking into editing soon. You can follow along with the development on beta Wikidata.
GraphQL: We are continuing some experiments with GraphQL to see if it is useful for specific types of access to Wikidata's data.
Dumps: We are starting to experiment with subset dumps to see if we can get meaningful smaller dumps for reusers.
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
We are working on scalability issues around the number of changes from Wikidata that get sent to Wikipedia and co. As part of this we are continuing to look into how to decrease the number of changes in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co that don't actually affect an article there.
We are investigating how the upcoming larger rollout of Parsoid affects the tracking of Wikidata usage in articles.
We are looking into improving the Databox Lua module that is used especially in smaller Wikipedias to get Wikidata-powered infoboxes.
Federation: We are looking at the previous prototype for Federated Properties that allowed to use Wikidata's Properties on another Wikibase instance. We are checking what if anything of it can be revived for our current work to allow other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items and Properties seamlessly.
Data governance: We are concluding research around the current undestanding of people about which data should go where in the Wikibase Ecosystem.
Constraint reports: We limited Special:ConstraintReport to logged-in users to avoid AI scrapers hitting the systems too hard ([[phab:T401789]))
Hello Nthep, I would be obliged if you could kindly advise me whether the following logo of Trinity College, Kandy, may be added and used as a non-free image in the infobox of the article. URLs: [1], [2]. The referenced logo is currently 1321 × 2434 pixels in dimension and 102 KB in size. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Best regards. QEnigma论14:48, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
@QEnigma Hi, I don't see a problem with using this as fair use. Regarding the sizing, you can either resize it yourself (233 x 429 is my suggestion) or once you've uploaded it add {{non-free reduce}} to the image and a bot will take care of it. Nthep (talk) 15:37, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
Nthep, Another question on which I wish to seek clarification is the depiction of sports trophies and shields as non-free images at low resolution. As an example, I am referring to the article Bradby Shield Encounter and whether it would be permissible to display a cropped image of this on the infobox. At present the cropped image is of 2311 x 2286 pixels in dimension and 2.695 MB in size. Thank you. QEnigma论12:37, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
@QEnigma When you start getting into other people's images of "other stuff" then you're going to consider two copyrights, the copyright of the image holder and the copyright of the "other stuff" . "Other stuff" here being the Bradby Shield itself. I see that the article on the shield doesn't say who the manufacturer was just that it was "crafted by Kandyan silversmiths". I'm guessing though that it's hallmarked and therefore the maker can be deduced. If so then it's likely that under Sri Lanka's Intellectual Property Act, No. 36 of 2003 it's still in copyright. The image as is clearly stated on the Flickr link is definitely in copyright. So yes, you could use a crop of that image as long as your rationale makes it clear that neither the image nor the shield are out of copyright (Incidentally you might want to use a lower-res version of this from here).
Regarding size, the rule of thumb and certainly what the bot does when rescaling images is to make the dimensions such that the height x width in pixels is <100,000. There is a tool [3] that will do the calculation for you - it's in Chinese but it's simple to understand, put width in one box, height in the other (not the red ones) and hit the button below that column to give you suggested new dimensions. As before if you don't have software allowing you to rescale images then you can get the bot to do it for you. Nthep (talk) 13:40, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dolabbot - task(s): Import module subpages from other wikis (mainly English wiktionary) to Korean wiktionary and addition of corresponding Wikidata sitelinks.
The call for proposals deadline for WikidataCon 2025 is very close (end of the August). Submit your session proposals at this Call for Proposals page.
Wikidata's 13th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2025. Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area and get in touch with other organizers. If you need funding support, make sure to apply for the micro-grants before the deadline of September 1st. Please help translate the documentation pages into your language.
WikiCite 2025: a 3-day (25 - 31 August 2025) conference, summit and hackathon for creating an ecosystem of bibliographical data. To attend online, please sign-up on the Participants page.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs: How Wikidata is coding for humanity - In this interview, Lydia Pintscher of Wikimedia Deutschland speaks with Stephen Harrison on how Wikidata connects human and machine-readable knowledge and why contributing to it is having a global impact.
A new tool SPARQL Recent Changes 2 has been released and enables mass-validation of entities in Wikidata based on their recent changes. This tool enables users to ensure that whole subgraphs are valid according to any given EntitySchema!
WikiCrowd A tool for crowdsourced micro-edits on Wikimedia projects, letting users make quick contributions—like labeling images or answering simple questions—to improve data on Commons and Wikidata.
Mobile editing of statements: After focusing on the initial read-only version, we are now starting the work on the actual editing mode. You can follow along with the development on beta Wikidata.
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
We are continuing to work on scalability issues around the number of changes from Wikidata that get sent to Wikipedia and co. As part of this we are continuing to look into how to decrease the number of changes in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co that don't actually affect an article there.
GraphQL: We now have a prototype for GraphQL for Wikidata. We'd love to have your feedback about it, especially if you are a developer building applications with Wikidata's data. More details at GraphQL prototype
Last chance to submit a session for WikidataCon 2025, the proposals deadline is imminent: head to this Call for Proposals page to submit an idea (drafts are welcome, they can be edited for a week after the deadline).
New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series: fourth session, Introduction to Wikidata/EMCO, with a hands-on exercise creating a corporate body item and adding statements. Tuesday, September 2 – 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). More info and Zoom links.
Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (all genders) for the Wikibase Suite, starting October 1, 2025. The role is full-time or part-time, hybrid, and based in Berlin, focused on building open-source tools for linked open data.
The Rapid Fund/Tech program, launched on July 24, 2025, provides up to $5,000 per project for coding tools that improve contributions to Wikimedia projects. Applications are reviewed every two months, with priority for impactful projects with clear, critical, and well-planned milestones.
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
game stat (metric to what extent a character in a role-playing game (or game with role-playing elements) possesses a specific natural, in-born characteristic common to all characters in the game)
open meeting page URL (Information page describing open meetings, public meetings or town hall meetings)
Islamic calligraphy (property that shows the Islamic calligraphy for a person)
Showcase Lexemes: øye (L303896) - Norwegian noun (ˈœʏə) meaning "organ of sight", "gaze or look", or "point of view"
Development
Mobile editing of statements: We developed the first pieces of the edit mode as well as the ability to add statements. You can always follow along on beta Wikidata and find more information on the project page.
Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to look into reducing the number of changes that show up on Wikipedia and co's Recent changes and Watchlist (phab:T401284)
Federation: We looked at previous requests to add new endpoints to the list of SPARQL endpoints you can federate with and are cleaning up the process for getting new ones added. If you have one you'd like to write federated SPARQL queries to now is a good time to request them.
Lexicographical data: You can now limit searches to Lexemes with a Lemma in a specific spelling variant with the haslemma keywords and to Lexemes with a specific language with the in language keyword. Examples: 12 (phab:T271776)
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