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Wikidata weekly summary #706
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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.
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:
- 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!
Is there a way that I could create a Wikipedia page for something --Nharp49 (talk) 19:08, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
- Hello @Nharp49! Thank you for your courage and bravery to ask questions! I think you mean an article. To create an article, I powerfully encourage you to read an essay I know of by clicking here. It has very detailed steps to fully understand an create an article! If you already know the rules for making an article, you can simply create an article by clicking here and making a draft to submit for review, or you can publish the article without using the reviewing process my moving the page to (Article) space if you are autoconfirmed (find more details about moving pages here). Thank you and Regards! ❤️❤️❤️ ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 03:31, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes – Issue 71
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The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 71, September–October 2025
Issue 71, September–October 2025
- Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref 2025 in Nigeria
- Frankfurt Book Fair
- Tech tip: Wikipedia Library access template
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Question from SunlessFlower (16:27, 18 November 2025)
[edit]Hello! I was just wondering, what exactly makes for a "good" citation or source? I've seen some articles with notices saying that it relies too much on a primary source. I just want to be clear on what constitutes as a reliable source. --SunlessFlower (talk) 16:27, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
- Hello! I think I can help you out here. A reliable source on Wikipedia is usually something secondary. A primary source is a source that comes directly from someone involved. This isn't always the most reliable because a person may exaggerate their own achievements. Secondary sources are typically things that report on those things from an outside perspective (stuff like news organizations). Tertiary sources are sources that take information and report on it from the secondary source(s). Wikipedia itself is a tertiary sources. The notices that say articles rely too much on primary sources pretty much just means that the article takes its subject's word for it. Try your best to find secondary sources, because they're unlikely to be biased and don't omit much information like a tertiary sources might. This is a rather lengthy explanation that might not make much sense, and if you want more information, you can check out Wikipedia:Reliable sources. If you want a list of sources that you outright can't use (most of the time), you can see Wikipedia:Deprecated sources. Good luck out there!
- ⚠︎ ArkadenBoden ⚠︎ (talk) 16:45, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
there is no editing option --Vicky904 (talk) 08:09, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
Question from Filipinoreader on Business Proposal (01:18, 21 November 2025)
[edit]Please put Secret Number sung a cover of Love, Maybe, It became a viral dance trend on Tiktok, On the Business Proposal page --Filipinoreader (talk) 01:18, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
Good Article Gazette, Issue 6
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Issue 6, 21 November 2025
- Ongoing discussions
- News
- Current statistics
- Number of GAs: 42,991 (+53)
- Number of nominations: 773 (–10)
- GAs for reassessment: 89 (+14)
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November thanks
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Thank you for support in November! - On St. Cecilia's Day - patron saint of music - I remember a composition by Benjamin Britten, and have a woman on the main page who illustrated songs, with a sense of humour. My places take you to Milan, my first visit to La Scala, and music features our latest choral Abendlob, with English music. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:32, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
WikiProject Medicine Newsletter - November 2025
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- Issue 25—November 2025
- WikiProject Medicine Newsletter
A lot has happened in the WikiProject over the last 11 months. Next year promises to continue that trend with Vital Signs 2026, a campaign to achieve our goal of having all our top-importance articles at B-class or above.
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WP:MED News
- Asthma, HIV/AIDS and Meningitis are all in need of some tender love and care, with a median source date between 2008 and 2011. Many clinical guidelines note changes from earlier versions, so updating diagnosis and management sections may be doable even if you have less time on your hand.
- Interested in which articles were most edited recently? That feature is back after a year hiatus. Recently, the Discussion overview stopped working. Can you help get it fixed or replace it?
- Excited about the Vital Signs campaign? Sign up as an organiser or participant!
Newsletter ideas, comments, and criticisms welcome.
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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2025)
[edit] Hello, Rafaelthegreat. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Kidnapping • Crop Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 24 November 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #707
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #706.
week leading up to 2025-11-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #706.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- News2DataBot - Task(s): Check for new, unlinked articles on Polish Wikinews and create relevant Items.
- WikidataLiteraryWorksMetaDataUpload - Task(s): Upload metadata for literary works from research project.
- New request for comments: The Exhibition Models RfC was split into 2 Schema proposals: Exhibition Concept and Exhibition Manifestation.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Upcoming LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session on 25 November 2025: Join the community-driven effort led by WikiProject Personal Pronouns to improve pronoun data modeling and ethics in Wikidata. This is part of a three-session series (Oct 14, Nov 25, Dec 9) focused on implementing new best practices. No prior Wikidata experience required. Join at 17:00 UTC. Event page.
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 - Hosted in Milan, Italy, scholarships are now open, apply on Pretix.
- Art+Feminism & Whose Knowledge? - A conversation on building a feminist data future, Dec 5, 2025, 13:00 UTC (Time zone converter).
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Presentations: Wikidata as a challenge for rule systems (Declarative AI 2025 Conf.) - Slides / Recording
- Papers: Snapshot of bibliographic metadata from Wikidata for all Arabic periodicals published worldwide before 1930 - Project Jarāʾid, by T. Grallert, (2025).
- Videos:
- An introduction to Wikidata and its use for librarians and researchers; slides available on Commons
- WikidataCon 2025 Session Playlists (YouTube):
Day 1 (31.10) / Day 2 (01.11) / Day 3 (02.11) - Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature - By Dr Thneed
- Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate
- Towards Linked Data Fluency: Takeaways from a Wikidata Workflow Pilot Program
- Enhancing authority files through SPARQL federated queries - Thomas Kerboul and the Bibliothèque de Genève improved person data by comparing Wikidata and IdRef, with manual checks preventing ID mix-ups.
- (Spanish) Inspiring Women: Layla Michán - Wikidata and research - Dr. Aguirre (UNAM) discusses Wikidata as a collaborative research tool and shared experiences in the “Women Who Inspire” series.
Tool of the week
- Timetrail is a website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations.
- The redesigned WikiProvenance is now live, featuring a new front end and backend for exploring and comparing Wikidata provenance information. Try examples like Johann Sebastian Bach or Human vs. City and Paris vs. London. Explore it here: https://wikiprovenance.toolforge.org/
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- LDF endpoint retirement considered: The unstable and low-traffic LDF endpoint may be retired to reduce maintenance effort and unnecessary load on WDQS. If your workflow depends on it and you would hate to see it go, please let the Wikidata development team know at Wikidata talk:Data access.
- WDQS Legacy endpoint deprecation: The legacy endpoint (
query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be fully decommissioned on 7 January 2026. Please migrate tools and workflows to the supported endpoints:query.wikidata.org(Main) orquery-scholarly.wikidata.org(Scholarly). Assistance is available on the Data Access and Request a Query pages. - Insights from Data Governance Research Process 2025: Results of the research to better understand how the communities currently think about which data and communities are best served by Wikidata, Wikibase Cloud or Wikibase Suite respectively.
- Abstract Wikipedia naming contest: Help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project which is provisionally known as Abstract Wikipedia. The second phase of voting is now open until December 1.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: CUIT, REGAFI id, Hong Kong company ID, California Entity Number, Mã số doanh nghiệp, InfoconDB series ID, InfoconDB conference ID, Biography.com ID, Hudobné centrum person ID, Hudobné centrum group ID, FAIR Epigraphic Vocabularies ID, NVLI ID, SerBenfiquista.com players ID, BG IISDA org ID, BG NACID person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland ID, Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID, National cultural monument of Czechia ID, Davis Cup player ID since 2025, Eiga.com drama ID, Last Address ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- parliamentary group leader (the identity of the leader of a parliamentary group)
- SignWriting transcription (representation in SignWriting)
- free height (vertical distance from the floor level to the lowest obstruction in the ceiling of an indoor or outdoor space)
- thumbtime (Time for video thumbnail in seconds)
- Credibly accused of (entity (person or organization) that has been credibly accused of a crime or serious misconduct, but is not (yet) convicted)
- New External identifier property proposals to review:: CHZZK streamer ID, FC Barcelona players ID, Qalamos person ID, KISTI conference ID, KaraokeTexty.cz artist ID, KaraokeTexty.cz song ID, DLSite dōjin circle ID, DLSite person ID, DLSite work ID, Showlabs ID, DEUMM Online ID, Kvinnehistorie.no persons ID, Foot Résultats player ID, Manga-DB person ID, Manga-DB publisher ID, Manga-DB magazine ID, Slekt og Data cemetery ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Bookbindings - share metadata and images from the currently offline Database of Bookbindings at the British Library
- Irish Traditional Music:Projects - aims to systematically create and enhance Wikidata items for people profiled in the 2024 edition of Fintan Vallely's The Companion to Irish Traditional Music.
- Basketball: Western Illinois Leathernecks Women's
- WikiProject Highlights: Lost Media/Subpages - aim to list all media lost to time in Wikidata
- Showcase Items: arXiv (Q118398) - online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
- Showcase Lexemes: Bogucin (L1405411) - Polish proper noun (bɔˈɡu.t͡ɕin) meaning "village in Greater Poland", "village in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship", or "village in Lublin Voivodeship"
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!
Concern regarding Draft:Abzena
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Hello, Rafaelthegreat. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Abzena, a page you created, has not been edited in at least five months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 03:07, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 22
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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on November 7. Please help translate.
Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues
- Board election: The 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees vote has elected two new trustees, Bobby Shabangu (Bobbyshabangu) and Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), who will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2025.
- Wikipedia 25: Wikipedia is turning 25 and it’s time to party! Register now for Wikipedia’s 25th virtual birthday bash on 15 January at 16:00 UTC.
- Wikimedia Hackathon: The 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon will be taking place in person May 1 - 3, 2026 in Milan, Italy. Scholarship applications are open until November 28.
- Language Community: The next language community meeting will be held on November 28 at 16:00 UTC.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Tech News: Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 46 and 47: Wikimedia Foundation is experimentating with reading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later; One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau.
- Wikifunctions: The second round of voting for naming the wiki with abstract content is kicking off with six name proposals to vote for.
- Reference check: The A/B test for reference check has begun on English Wikipedia and will run until December 17. This is a feature which prompts new editors to add citations before they publish an edit adding content to an article.
- Image browsing: Wikimedia Foundation is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, is taking place on on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting a small number of users.
- CampaignEvents extension: Campaign events extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. The extension offers tools for running and coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations. These features include Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List, plus a new feature, Collaborative contribution, which helps organizers and participants see the impact of their collaborative activities. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
- Dark Mode: Dark mode is now available on all Wikimedia projects for all anonymous users! This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. Learn how to activate this feature.
- Wikimedia Apps: The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
- Usability Improvements: Improvements for talk pages is being rolled out. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in “Show discussion activity.”
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events
- Wikipedia 25 Press toolkit: Wikimedia Foundation is providing press toolkit as guidance and resources to Wikimedia volunteers and affiliates to spread the word about Wikipedia’s 25th birthday to local and regional media.
- Language and Internationalization: Read some key highlights from the October 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
- Information integrity: Wikimedia Project from South America Selected by the UNESCO Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change Fund.
- The Wikipedia Library: The Wikipedia Library team attended the CEE Meeting 2025 celebrated a new partnership with Times of Malta.
- Understanding movement organizers: Wikimedia Foundation concluded a literature review on organizers in the Wikimedia movement focused on capturing their personas, motivations, and impact in order to highlight best practices and opportunities for further support.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Wikimedia Enterprise: Reef Media uses Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API to Fact Check and Verify Sources.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Affiliations Committee: Draft recommendations on three strategic areas that need continuous consideration to best support Wikimedia affiliates.
Foundation statements
- Lessons from Wikipedia: The latest edition from the series explores the art of disagreement and how Wikipedia navigates disputes.
- Artificial Intelligence: In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable. This explainer shows how human-created knowledge isn’t replaceable.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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A barnstar for you!
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20:39, 27 November 2025 (UTC) Cooldood5555 (let's talk) 20:41, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
Hello guys, unfortunately it has been discovered that I have been diagnosed with a cancer called leukemia. I won’t be active due to this. I hope I get better soon. Thanks, ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 01:25, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
- I'm so sorry to hear this, Rafael. Wishing you strength and all the best. Take care, GoldRomean (talk) 05:16, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
- I have noticed some of your edits here and there. I am very sorry and hope you recover. Please, recover and stay strong, 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) (contribs)🔥 04:09, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry to hear this, Rafael; wishing you a fast recovery. Take care. — DVRTed (Talk) 04:28, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue 235, November 2025
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Women in Red - December 2025
[edit] Recognized as the most active topic-based WikiProject by human changes.
Announcements:
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This Month in Education: November 2025
[edit]This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 11 • November 2025
In This Issue
- Auckland Museum's Wiki Summer Student Programme is back for 2025 & 2026
- Edu Wiki camp 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia
- Wikidata na Escola: estudantes da zona rural de Minas Gerais contribuem com dados sobre mulheres negras brasileiras
- 190 students from Oteitza Lizeoa create 48 articles on the history of the Basque Country for Txikipedia in one day
- 2nd International Congress Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures – WECUDI
- Africa and Proud Leads Wiki Classroom Project Across Three Nigerian States
- November 2025November 2025/Annual Czech Wiki Conference took place on Saturday, Nov 8th
- EduWiki Meetup at GLAM Wiki Conference 2025
- Highly productive autumn education activities in Macedonia
- Kannada Wikipedia Asian Month 2025: Edit-a-thon & Workshop Highlights from Loyola College, Karnataka
- Kosovo Wikivoyage Editathons in Gjakova and Krusha e Madhe
- Ukrainian educators create open lesson plans based on the «Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom» course
- United Architects of the Philippines Student Auxiliary – University of Nueva Caceres joins Wikisource Training
- Videos on Teaching Experiences with Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, and OSM
- Wiki as a tool for technological empowerment of indigenous knowledge
- Wiki Science Competition in Albania and Kosovo
- Wiki Workshop 2026 Call for Contributions
- Wikipedia Contribution with Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences Students in Kosovo
- Impact of Wikimedia Rwanda Wiki Clubs in Growth of Wikimedia User Group Rwanda Community
This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2025)
[edit] Hello, Rafaelthegreat. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Emergency management • Kidnapping Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 December 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 1 December 2025
[edit]- News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!
Admin and ArbCom elections upcoming, BoT elects two new members, task force advises to close Wikinews and keep Wikispore, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- In the media: Wales walk-off, antisemitism, supernatural powers, feminism turmoil, saints, and sex
Plus mammoth mummy sex-change operation completed!
- Recent research: At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?
And other recent publications about contradictions and retractions.
- Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
At work on Wikipedia whitewashing. How much should they be paid?
- Traffic report: It's a family affair
Even in these times there is something to be thankful for!
- Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust
Jimmy Wales and Dan Gardner write a book inspired by Wikipedia. What's in it?
- From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."
The twists and turns of Epstein’s portrayal on Wikipedia.
- Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan
A conversation about being the mascot of Wikipedia.
- Opinion: AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
Using ChatGPT to fact-check a month's worth of Today's featured articles.
- Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025
A recap of the latest convention of the Italian Wiki-community, held in Catania from 7–9 November.
- Comix: Madness
It could happen to anyone.
Wikidata weekly summary #708
[edit] Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #707.
week leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #707.
Discussions
- A Project Chat discussion (here) on mul / fallback language for Labels, Descriptions and Aliases has continued on Help Talk: Default values for labels and aliases
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Mark your calendars
- Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map
February 2 & April 20 (German) / June 2 (French), 2026. Workshops are on-site and online, registration mandatory (closes January 20). - Citizen Technology Community Gathering and Taiwan Translation Launch of Linked Open Data Documents December 7 Time: 13:30-16:50 UTC+8 at West District (Q707524) Xi Project
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #83 December 8 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
- Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map
- Mark your calendars
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Papers: Benchmarking SPARQL Engines on Wikidata Queries - Four open-source SPARQL engines were benchmarked on Wikidata, with QLever fastest, Blazegraph slower, and all showing SPARQL standard deviations. By Peter F. Patel-Schneider (2025).
- Videos:
- Records in Contexts (RiC) Wikibase Working Session - Regine Heberlein of the (SAA) Description Section Steering Committee hosts a workshop on Wikibase implementation of the Records in Context Conceptual Model (RiC-CM).
- Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate - Follow along as WMDE's Lukas Werkmeister expands Items of Berlin Stoelpersteine.
- Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature - by Dr Thneed
Tool of the week
- Prix Littéraires lists French-speaking literary prizes and their recipients, also computing statistics (see also WikiProject)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Nov 27: The Wikibase Community User Group met for a Wikibase Live Session and to discuss the Federated Values demonstration.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: Federal Taxpayer Registry ID, WDSF athlete ID, TikTok numeric user ID, USGS Publication ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- concurring opinion by (judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court agreeing with the majority's final decision but providing different or additional reasons)
- audio version of text (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).)
- Hong Kong fire alarm level (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
- overnight stays (number of tourists that stay overnight at a place)
- specimen determiner (person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
- collection date (the date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
- position holder name string (name of person holding a position)
- Crowdfunding target (target goal of this Crowdfunding campaign)
- image sensor format (shape and size of a digital camera's image sensor)
- random page URL (link to random page on website)
- translates from (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Twitter broadcast ID, Petal Maps Place ID, MJ character glyph name, Mastercaller player ID, dartn.de player ID, darts1.de player ID, pdpa.co.uk player ID, Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID, Theaterencyclopedie-identificatiecode, Buy Me a Coffee username, GoFundMe ID, Identifiant Maitron d'une biographie (nouvelle version), Michaelis Portuguese-English properties, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name slug, FCC ID Database company ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Objects bearing the handwriting of Moses Maimonides (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Uzbekistan, Natural History Specimen Data Model
- Newest database reports: Popular Items without Claims - these are the most-connected or linked Items that do not have any Statements.
- Showcase Items: The Walt Disney Company (Q7414) - American multinational mass media company
- Showcase Lexemes: Showcase Lexemes: девочка (L103836) - Russian noun (dʲɪˈvot͡ɕkə) meaning "female child", "affectionate address to a woman", or "female organism"
Development
- Mobile editing of statements:
- We have added editing support for more data types (entity IDs, geographical shapes and tabular data).
- It is now available as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org. You can enable it here.
- Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are rolling out improvements to the Databox Lua module to a number of Wikipedias to make it easier to have out-of-the-box Wikidata-powered infoboxes
- Ontology federation: We are making progress with making it possible to use Wikidata Item's as statement values in other Wikibase instances
- GraphQL: We are continuing the work on the prototype, focusing on getting data from a batch of Items
- Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is working on benchmarking of different replacement options for Blazegraph, the software powering the Wikidata Query Service
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: Togo
- 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!