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St Mary's Ticehurst

Hi Nthep,

Thanks for helping with our page at St Mary's Ticehurst! I am the vicar of the church and I have been trying to edit our wikipedia page. Yesterday, my edit was flagged for a copyright violation (unsure if it was actually a violation as while indeed I took significant portions from our website, I think that may be permissible since I believe I hold the copyright? Regardless, I edited it this morning and put it into my own words and, more importantly, added significant portions from my own hand updating the history for the wikipedia page using (and citing) several sources. It appears that shortly after I posted all the new material this morning, you deleted it? May I ask why? I do not think there is any chance of any copyright violation with what I posted this morning, is there? And, if so, can you please advise how I can recover that material for my own use? Regrettably, I wrote it directly onto wikipedia and if it's not going to be on here, I would like to use it elsewhere, e.g. on our church website, without having to rewrite and recite it all.

Can you kindly advise as to both?

Thanks again for your interest in St Mary's Church and your help with our wikipedia page!

Blessings,

Fr Jason Radcliff Jasonradcliff (talk) 15:01, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jasonradcliff The4lines and I have to go on what we see which is a substantial amount of copying from the church website which is prominently noted as copyrighted material. That doesn't give us a lot of choice but to remove the material and hide it in the history.

That leaves a number of choices:

1. You can rewrite it in such a way that it is not infringing the copyright of the church website,
2. You can alter the church website to licence some or all of the content in such a way that it can be re-used by others (this is called copylefting, see WP:DONATETEXT on how to do this),
3. You can donate the text to Wikipedia, see WP:DONATE.

To assist with 1) or for you to reuse elsewhere I'll email you the text removed. Nthep (talk) 15:56, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Brilliant, thank you for sending the redacted text - and for outlining the several options, I will see which one seems best and go from there. Thanks much! Jasonradcliff (talk) 16:00, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again and thanks for your help. I believe I have correctly done the second option correctly on the home page of the church website - https://ticehurstandflimwell.church/.

Can you confirm? And, if so, is there a way to revert my edits from this morning back? Jasonradcliff (talk) 16:12, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jasonradcliff

1) Yes and no. The statement you've added is fine but clashes with the footer that says "© Copyright 2025 Ticehurst & Flimwell Churches. All rights reserved." and is going to cause confusion. Also, are you sure you want to make the entire website available under the Creative Commons licence which will allow anyone, anywhere the right to reuse the content for any purpose? You might want to apply it to just specific pages like https://ticehurstandflimwell.church/history/st-marys/ and https://ticehurstandflimwell.church/history/st-augustines/

2) Yes, I can when we've resolved 1). Nthep (talk) 16:23, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for the thorough and speedy reply!

Good thinking, yes I think you're right. I have modified to just state it on those two pages - and I have modified the verbiage to override the copyright. Will that work? Jasonradcliff (talk) 16:35, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jasonradcliff all looks hunky-dory to me. I'll sort the revisions on the article out. Nthep (talk) 16:47, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Brilliant, thanks very much! Jasonradcliff (talk) 16:51, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #702

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-10-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #701. Discussions Open request for adminship: Ternera - RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2025 16:10 (UTC) New requests for permissions/Bot: Rebot - Task: Make changes in w.wiki/Fed9, such as changing depicts (P180) = herbarium (Q181916) to herbarium specimen (Q61726742). Events Upcoming: WikidataCon 2025: Have you seen the Program yet? Available now on Pretalx, check now and plan your schedule. 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call. 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How can Wikidata be useful IRL if it has less data than Wikipedia? - an ongoing discussion touching on data scraping tools such as Harvest templates (github) and data consistency between Wikipedia and Wikidata in places such as Infoboxes. 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URL takes a slug.) award category or rank ((qualifier of P166) specific category or rank of an award received, for awards with more than one category or rank) public key (cryptographic public key (some ASCII encoding of it)) New External identifier property proposals to review: Schulnummer Sachsen, Team Austria ID, IFES Election Guide ID, BNB agent ID, Arte de la Argentina ID, Democratic Memory Bank ID, Kicker competition ID, Soccer365.net team ID, LUDAP, Genbu.net ID, ztgd.com, ISTAMPIE entity, MIT Press edition id You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know? Query examples: List of Airports/Airstrips in Florida, USA Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject IDEA (translation tasks) WikiProject Highlights: Govdirectory South Korea was created. 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Wikidata weekly summary #703

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-10-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #702. Discussions Open request for adminship: Samoasambia - RfP scheduled to end after 27 October 2025 15:10 (UTC) Closed request for adminship: Ternera - Closed as successful by Ymblanter (talk) 19:24, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply] Events Upcoming events: 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call. WikidataCon 2025, October 31 - November 2, make sure to register at the event page. SPARQL workshop (in German): "From Zero to SPARQL. Eine Einführung in die Abfrage von Wissensgraphen (Schwerpunkt Wikidata)", 4 Nov 2025, 10-13, free and open to all, online via Zoom. more information and registration The scholarship deadline for Wikimania 2026 is approaching fast: 31st of October. Apply today if you want to attend on a scholarship. Press, articles, blog posts, videos Videos: (Spanish) Visualizaciones con el Servicio de Consultas de Wikidata (Spanish)¿Cómo identificar y completar vacíos de información en Wikidata? Tabernacle e integraality I Have 1000s of Items in Commons – What Do I Do Now?: Utilization Opportunities on Wikimedia Commons (Chinese [Trad]) 鏈結資料文獻翻譯賽德克語成果發表會 Exploring Seediq: A Journey through Translation and Linked Data Documentation Presentations: Will AI Erase Us Again? The Role of Wikimedia Communities. Talk by John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2025 (Slides) Tool of the week Nemo is a new Wikidata query tool by User:Markus Krötzsch the tool can answer queries, extracts subsets, and perform analyses in ways that SPARQL alone can't. It also lets you combine Wikidata with other data sources. 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Each item in the database has an identifier containing the year of registration and a number, e.g. ''L1970:5203''.) number of comments per day () Commonwealth Sport country code (Commonwealth Sport country code) operating humidity (humidity at which a device operates) New External identifier property proposals to review: NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature Periodical ID, HarmonyOS NEXT APP ID, Rechtsinformationen des Bundes-ID, UNESCO Virtual Museum inventory ID, South Korean Business Registration Number, SetesdalWiki ID, Biography.com ID, Mackolik football manager ID, S1 No.1 Style actress ID, biserici.org church ID, RFC, Hudobné centrum IDs, FAIR Epigraphic Vocabularies ID, NVLI ID, SerBenfiquista.com players ID You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know? 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Precision Engineering Complex

Reverted redirect. Can we block now, please? Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 15:42, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexandermcnabb removing a redirect isn't grounds for a block. I'm not offering an opinion on whether or not Precision Engineering Complex is a notable topic on it's own, that's a matter for discussion on the talk page or at AFD. Nthep (talk) 15:53, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would have thought persistent copyvio would indeed be grounds... Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 16:15, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The text I have added were individually written with no copyright violation. QINGSHAN XUE (talk) 16:16, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexandermcnabb The last version added by Qingshan Xue didn't appear to be a copyvio. Nthep (talk) 16:25, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, Nthep. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

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Editing from a temporary account

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Temporary account IP viewer user right

How to enable IP Reveal

• Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
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Impact for administrators

• It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
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• Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
• See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

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Videos

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• How to use IP Info
• How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

• For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

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Wikidata weekly summary #704

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #703.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Samoasambia
• New requests for permissions/Bot: langCodesBot - Task(s): Python script to automate the cleanup of deprecated language codes (e.g., kr) from Wikidata items. Delete or move labels, descriptions, and aliases based on comparisons with fallback and related languages. The script uses the Pywikibot framework to process each item and logs cases it skips due to data inconsistencies or ambiguity to a CSV file for manual review.
• New request for comments: Exhibition models by Hexatekin - This proposal focuses on standardizing models for art exhibitions. There is not a consistent data model used for art exhibitions that factors in parent-child relationships for traveling exhibitions, show series, or biennials, despite these being important and common types of events in international art history.

Events

• Past:
  • Happy Birthday, Wikidata 🎉! We celebrated Wikidata’s 13th birthday with a community call to unveil presents and play games. Check out the replay of the event and the cool gifts people made: Wikidata:Thirteenth Birthday/Presents & messages
  • WikidataCon: You can catch up on the recordings and slides in the program
  • Wikidata Workshop at ISWC: You can catch up on the published papers on the website.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Building an Internet for Everyone: Wikidata Recognized as a Digital Public Good
  • Enriching Wikidata with AuthorityBox. An interview with Stefano Bargioni
    • examples of AuthorityBox can be seen in PUSC catalogue, URBE catalogue (code), Keratsini-Drapetsona catalogue; cf. also Stefano Bargioni, From Authority Enrichment to AuthorityBox. Applying RDA in a Koha environment (2020)
  • Exploring Nairobi and Building a Global Network: The Inspiring Wikimania@20 Experience
  • Supercharging Cultural Institution Collections with Wikidata
• Videos:
  • Por qué el conocimiento libre importa más que nunca | Gustavo Candela | Jornadas Anuales 2025
  • Wikidata Ontology Course | A NotebookLM Deep Dive
  • Odia Wikimedians User Group Celebration of the 13th Wikidata Birthday
  • Como utilizar o OpenRefine para cadastrar artigos científicos na Wikidata? - WikiTutoriais #05
  • Supercharging Cultural Institution Collections with Wikidata [October 2025]
  • ¿Cómo es la ontología de Wikidata?
  • Wikidata @13 celebration by the Tyap Wikimedians

Tool of the week The Wikidata Reference Validator by User:JosefAnthony helps check and replace broken or outdated references — keeping Wikidata’s knowledge verifiable and trustworthy. It checks whether external references are still accessible or offline, so we can ensure that every statement on Wikidata shows how we know what we know.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance
• Wikimedia chapters are providing scholarships for Wikimania 2026. Apply here if you're interested: Wikipedia:Förderung/Wikimania/English

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: ‎Newegg item ID, ‎Hardcore Gaming 101 game ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Luminous flux (Numerical value of the luminous flux emitted by a lighting device or light source, measured in lumens)
  • anatomical structure in view (the anatomical structure in view in the photo, e.g. head, wing, habitus (body))
  • anatomical view (view of an anatomical structure, e.g. ventral, dorsal, frontal)
  • collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field)
  • Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: BG IISDA org ID, BG NACID person ID, GCatholic former diocese ID, Grokipedia ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland ID, Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID, Davis Cup player ID 2025, Eiga.com drama ID, AntCat ID, Last Address ID, Disney+ browse ID, Japanese Film Database ID, Japan Location Database ID, Fight.ru fighters ID, IMI person id

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  • Map of ~12.000 western European tram stops among their respective networks
  • Count of Wikipedia articles about UNESCO Memory of the World inscriptions
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• Showcase Lexemes:baseline (L46097) - English noun (ˈbeɪslaɪn) meaning "a starting point for comparison", "a benchmark in budgeting", or "a reference line in typography or surveying"

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work on qualifiers and reference editing
• GraphQL: We are continuing the work on making labels of linked entities available in GraphQL (phab:T404692)
• Dumps: We are continuing to look into improvements for the dump process

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• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
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• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
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• Help write the next summary!

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2025).

Administrator changes

Toadspike

• Elahrairah
• Juliancolton
• Magnus Manske

CheckUser changes

asilvering

Guideline and policy news

• The speedy deletion criteria U5 has been repealed, with U6 and U7 replacing it. See the FAQ for more clarifications.
• Community-designated contentious topics may now be enforced and appealed at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) as a result of an RfC.

Technical news

• You can enable a handy user info card next to usernames, which when clicked displays edit count, blocks, thanks, and other information. To enable this feature, visit Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been closed
  • Uninvolved administrators may impose an AE participation restriction on any thread at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

LTA

Did you mean to leave autoblock disabled? — Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:46, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. It can always be enabled later if needed. Nthep (talk) 21:08, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 November 2025

• News and notes: Temporary accounts go live and WMF board member self-suspends
  ArbCom elections draw close, and Wikimania '27 in Santiago.

• Community view: Six Wikipedians' thoughts on Grokipedia, and the humanity of it all
  It ain't a five course meal, according to one of our interviewees.

• Wikicup report: BeanieFan11, WikiCup victor of 2025, covers the results
  Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

• In the media: Jimbo's book, an argument about genocide, and a train of shame
  Wikipedia's new rival, political controversy in Italy and other Wiki-reports.

• Recent research: Taking stock of the 2024–2025 research grants
  $400,000 USD in total funding: what did we get?

• Opinion: With Grokipedia, top-down control of knowledge is new again
  Does it shed any light on particular topics that are better suited to LLM-generation than others?

• Obituary: Struway
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: The documentaried, the disowned, the deceased, Diwali and the Dodgers
  You know your man is working hard, he's worth a deuce.

• Comix: Head of steam
  'Sblood!

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Wikidata weekly summary #705

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-11-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #704. Discussions Other: Draft policy for temporary account IP viewers. What requirements should be set for this user right? Press, articles, blog posts, videos Blogs: Introducing the Unicode Inflection Library Technical Preview Release : The Unicode Inflection Library leverages comprehensive lexicons from Wikidata to support standardized, multilingual grammatical transformations for global software applications. Videos: Art+Feminism Celebrates Wikidata! Day 5_Using WikiData with Spyral Notebook and Project Presentation Wikidata and Wikipedia training for Art+Feminism 2025 in Uganda What are Wikidata WikiProjects, and why should you join one? Watch this great explainer from the #LevelingUpDays2024 to see how these communities work together! Then, find your project: Wikidata:WikiProjects Tool of the week User:Difool/WikidataCleanup.js: gadget allowing to do, in one click, a wide series of cleanups in an item: normalize labels, descriptions, and aliases (double spaces, certain Unicode characters), remove weak references, remove weakly referenced dates when they have lower precision than a strongly referenced date and downgrade unnecessary preferred ranks; about the general issue of redundancies in Wikidata, you can check WikiProject Redundancy Ghanasupremecases is a webapp that dynamically pulls and displays over 2,000 Supreme Court of Ghana cases from Wikidata, allowing users to access case details linked directly to Wikidata items. The goal is to make African legal data more open, structured, and discoverable, and to demonstrate how Wikidata can serve as a foundation for national-level legal archive Other Noteworthy Stuff Temporary accounts rollout: Starting November 12, the community will see logged‑out edits handled through temporary accounts instead of IPs, prompting tool and bot checks. Help shape the future WikidatCon! If you attended WikidataCon 2025, please take 10 minutes to share your feedback in this anonymous GDPR-compliant survey (sslsurvey) Newest properties and property proposals to review Newest General datatypes: operating humidity (humidity at which a device operates) collector (person or group who physically collected a specimen or object in the field) Serbo-Croatian preferred project code (For an interwiki article, the property points to the Serbo-Croatian project (sh, bs, hr, sr) that either has a special connection to the topic or the highest quality article.) Newest External identifiers: CACI company ID, AEK Football player ID, Sultanlar Ligi player ID, BeWeb historical or artistic asset ID, SofaScore sports team ID, FootballFakts.ru football match ID, Kicker sports match ID, BDFutbol match ID, Foot Mercato / Fichajes / Fussball Transfers player ID, ‎Disney+ browse ID, ‎Filmarks ID, Memorial Book of Social Democracy-ID, NLAI ID, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain ID, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts ID, Antique Chinese and Japanese Porcelain Dictionary and Glossary of Terms entry, Filmfriend movie ID, Hesse School ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Dance entry ID, Saxony School ID, NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature periodical identifier, NZ Charities Register Number, IFES Election Guide ID, Arte de la Argentina ID, Democratic Memory Bank ID, Kicker competition ID, Soccer365.net team ID New General datatypes property proposals to review: time of deposition (date or point in time when an archaeological object or assemblage was buried, hidden, lost, or otherwise deposited.) readiness (readiness) greenhouse gases emissions (amount of greenhouse effect emited by a given company or industry sector) neuter form of label (neuter form of name or title) current season ({{TranslateThis | an identifier for the team's current season <!-- | xx = descriptions in other languages --> }}) flag carrier of (country of which the airline is the flag carrier) New External identifier property proposals to review: BFXC authority ID, BWB-nummer, Schulnummer Brandenburg, Encyclopedia of Shinto ID, Power Thesaurus ID, WDSF person ID, Blu-Ray.com film ID, Japanese Law Translation ID, USGS Publication ID, Afrikaregisteret ID, National cultural monument of Czechia ID, Admirable Façades styles ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage buildings ID, Brussels Inventory of Architectural Heritage streets ID, Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal ID, TikTok User ID You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know? Query examples: Map of all places related to persons with layers by property of the place (source) WikiProject Highlights: Passionate about highlighting women's achievements? WikiProject Women is dedicated to creating and improving data about women worldwide. Help close the gender gap in knowledge! #WikidataWikiProjects Showcase Items: Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (Q1136251) - cultural landscape in South Africa Showcase Lexemes: fold (L4479) - English verb (foʊld) meaning "to bend over on itself", "to mix ingredients gently", or "to fail or give in" Development The development team were involved in roadmap planning meetings so not much happened in the past week. 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: Paraguay 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! · Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe . JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:44, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #706

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #705.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Che-W-bot - Task(s): Possible duplicate of the bot below.
  • CheWikibot - Task(s): Import new articles created on Chechen Wikipedia (ce.wiki) to Wikidata.
  • DDResearchBot - Task(s): This bot will facilitate adding structured, cited data from trusted integrity sources to Wikidata for Dewey Digital.
• Closed request for comments:
  • Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks - While there is a general agreement for admins to block /64, no consensus to add to the blocking Policy was reached.
  • Proposal to better document featured SPARQL queries - Consensus was reached and a vote is planned.
  • Gender neutral Labels for occupations/positions in French - Majority support for using male and female forms in French labels and aliases, gender-neutral descriptions, and completing male/female label properties.
  • Items for videos of online platforms that represent notable Items - No consensus could be reached.
  • Should Labels of interlanguage links from other Wikipedia Projects? - There is general support to import labels, however there are concerns about the import as an Alias.
  • Signed Statements - No consensus could be reached.
  • Use of dates in descriptions of items regarding humans - Dates on Wikidata are community-specific; add only to disambiguate, don’t remove, and format per language conventions.
• Project chat: Proposal:Prohibiting LLM-generated content
• Other:
  • Wikidata:Temporary account IP viewer - users who may view IP addresses associated with temporary accounts.
  • Wikidata:Self-promotion - an essay on creating an Item about yourself, your organisation, or your work is a form of self-promotion and is strongly discouraged. Feel free to update this page.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikidata Days: IWUG and WAFTAI - A 4 day edit-a-thon beginning November 26, 2025, for Cameroonian and Nigerian educational institutions.
  • WikiLatih Wikidata - November 21, 08:50am (WIB), learning around Wikidata: how to reuse data and edit Items. Organised by the Faculty of Science and Technology Universitas Airlangga.
• Just missed it: First steps in Wikidata for the Wikimedia LGBT Community - two introductory workshops for English, French and Spanish Wikipedians with an interest in learning Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: GLAM Netherlands report The joint Radboud–Maastricht project Open Topstukken concluded at the Dutch National Library, showcasing 30 digitized collection highlights enriched with Linked Open Data via Wikidata and supported by new tools, documentation, and visualizations to enhance digital accessibility and interoperability.
• Videos:
  • (Spanish) Mujeres que Inspiran: Layla Michán - Wikidata e investigación (Women who inspire. Wikidata & research)
  • Wikidata Workshop: Improving African Authors and Books Items
  • (Spanish) Enriquecer, reutilizar y modelar datos y metadatos usando Wikidata. Tomás Saorín Pérez (Enrich, reuse, and model data and metadata using Wikidata.)
  • Guide to the Wikidata Notability Policy
  • Wikidata: Wikimedia's knowledge graph in a world of generative AI
  • (Portuguese) O que saber antes de editar no Wikidata (What to know before editing on Wikidata)
  • (Portuguese) Para além da Wikipédia: como os dados estruturados conectam saberes (Beyond Wikipedia: how structured data connect knowledge)

Tool of the week

• ArchiveExternaLinks is a UserScript by Poro26. The UserScript automates the archiving of all external links present in an item, whether they appear in statements, references or identifiers. For each external link, the script automatically adds an archive link [archive], similar to what is done on Wikipedia for web sources cited in references

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • data collection method (scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject)
  • time of deposition (point in time when an archaeological object or assemblage was buried, hidden, lost, or otherwise deposited)
  • Commonwealth Sport country code (code for countries participating in Commonwealth Sport events)
• Newest External identifiers: Japanese Film Database ID, GCatholic former diocese ID, Myanmar Company Registration Number, Team Austria athlete ID, ‎ECHL.com player ID, ‎Genbu.net ID, ISTAMPIE ID, HarmonyOS NEXT APP ID, Federal Legal Information ID, UNESCO Virtual Museum inventory ID, South Korean Business Registration Number, ‎Lämningsnummer, ‎Mackolik football manager ID, Biserici.org church ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review: role in naming (the role the namesake played in relation to this item, i.e. why the item is named after the namesake)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Korea Heritage Service Heritage Portal ID, Lubimyczytać version/edition ID, UEA catalogue ID, CRA program account number, PL-AED, Yandex Object Answer ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Towns named after Alexander the great
  • Heritage added to the Memory of the World International Register in 2025 (newly added data)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject LGBTQ History - aims to improve and organize data related to the history, people, places, events, and organizations that have contributed to LGBTQ+ experiences across time and geography.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • 👩🔬Passionate about highlighting women's achievements? WikiProject Women is dedicated to creating and improving data about women worldwide. Help close the gender gap in knowledge! WikiProject Women
  • 🗳️ Interested in democracy and political data? Join WikiProject Elections to model data about elections, candidates, and results from around the globe. Make electoral data open and accessible! WikiProject Elections
  • 🏛️ How do you find info on government institutions? WikiProject Govdirectory has a structured data model for that! Help improve data about public agencies on Wikidata. WikiProject Govdirectory
  • 🎵 Into music? From classical to K-pop, WikiProject Music needs your expertise to harmonize data on songs, artists, and releases. Join the band! WikiProject Music
  • 🧬 Your skills can help model lifesaving data. WikiProject Medicine works on structured data for diseases, drugs, clinical trials, and anatomy. Join a project that matters. WikiProject Medicine
  • 🔍 Interested in how knowledge itself is structured? WikiProject Ontology delves into the fundamental classes and properties of Wikidata. Shape the backbone of the knowledge graph! WikiProject Ontology
• Showcase Items: Aboriginal Australians (Q12060728) - First Nations people of Australia
• Showcase Lexemes: ਦਿਮਾਗ਼ (L1078947) - Punjabi noun (dɪ.mäːɣ) meaning "brain (organ)", "intellect/mind", or "understanding/consciousness"

Development

• Mobile statement editing:
  • We are working on editing statements that link to other entities in their value (phab:T403974, phab:T409149)
  • We enabled mobile statement editing as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org (phab:T407737)
• GraphQL prototype: We finished the work on making labels of linked entities available (phab:T404692)
• Dumps: We are continuing to work on making the dump process more robust

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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