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Wikidata weekly summary #677
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week leading up to 2025-04-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #676.
Translations are available
Discussions
- Open request for bureaucrat: Wüstenspringmaus
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Wikidata and Research Conference June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence.
- The 5th Wikidata Workshop taking place November 2-3, 2025 during the 25th International Semantic Web Conference hosted in Nara, Japan. Call for Papers is open until 23:59 AoE, August 2. This year, the program tracks are 1. Novel Work and 2. Previously Published Work. Submission template and guidelines are available here and you can submit your topic here.
- The Wikidata and Sister Projects online conference approaches: May 29 - July 1, 2025. Have you registered yet?
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Web Conference 2025. By Guodong et. al., (2025)
- Passage: Ensuring Completeness and Responsiveness of Public SPARQL Endpoints with SPARQL Continuation Queries By Thi Hoang et. al., (2025)
Tool of the week
- quarry.wmcloud.org is a public querying interface for Wiki Replicas, a set of live replica SQL databases of public Wikimedia Wikis. Quarry is designed to make running queries against Wiki Replicas easy. Quarry can also be used to query public databases stored in ToolsDB.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Scholia is running a user survey until the end of May .
- Researchers from the University of Regina in Canada invite you to participate in the Open Data Community Survey 2025. Read more!
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- BEACON file URL (URL of an online service's BEACON file, a data interchange format for large numbers of uniform links.)
- research projects that contributed to this data set (research projects that have contributed to or otherwise created an item)
- terminal speaker (the last person able to speak the language fluently)
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
- interior designer (person responsible for the interior design of a notable building or structure)
- kigo of (season which denotes the sense in haiku in Japanese)
- Newest External identifiers: Homosaurus ID (V4), Helden van het Verzet person ID, Our Campaigns container ID, Catálogo Histórico de Tese e Dissertações da Área de História ID, Congress.gov committee ID, Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Israeli Governmental Data Repository ID, Deutsche Genbank Obst (DGO) ID, DVIDS photo ID, FirstCycling race ID, FirstCycling team season ID, Hmong Studies Citations ID, Cartofaf organization ID, Calindex author ID, Diocese of Lyon Museum person ID, BnF dictionary ID, Dezède person ID, Meta-Doctrinal ID, Ordre national du Québec ID, Internet Game Database genre ID, Shazoo tag ID, OGDB genre ID, Tax Identification Number (Colombia), National Gallery (London) PID, Kunstkamera ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID, WSGF taxonomy term ID, World Higher Education Database ID, VD 16 ID, United Nations Terminology Database ID, Trafikplatssignatur, Top50 system ID, IndExs exsiccata ID, Markstammdatenregister ID, Ech-Chaab tag ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, RaiPlay Sound program ID, RaiPlay Sound playlist ID, Modern China Biographical Database ID, Know Your Meme slug, LEMAV ID, PerformArt ID, Chilean NPO number, TermTerm UUID, Steam Deck HQ game ID, SeqCode Registry ID, School ID Schleswig-Holstein, Rodovid family ID, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Party), Captain Coaster park ID, Scilit scholar ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, PCPartPicker product ID, goal.com football match ID, The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism ID, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) special ID, Eurobasket.com club ID, europlayers.com club ID, badmintoncn.com star ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk work or dubbing ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- defined for (the subject takes the object as parameter (or parameter tuple))
- The Long Distance Walkers Association (External Identifier (URL slug) for a hiking route on The Long Distance Walkers Association website (United Kingdom only))
- New External identifier property proposals to review: IEC CDD for electronics, GOG Dreamlist ID, IEC CDD units, Urban Dictionary ID (2), RCI number, Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID, myCast person ID, Personality Database category ID, parliament.uk bill ID, Bierista beer ID, Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects : WikiProject Saint Mary's College (IN) aims to improve the coverage of Saint Mary's and the scholarly works being created at Saint Mary's.
- Showcase Lexemes: Córdoba (L642328) - Spanish noun (kór-do-ba) that can mean "a city in Spain", "a city in Argentina", or "a Mexican city"
Development
- Bug: We fixed an issue where newly created Properties became inaccessible after adding a statement with a Property linking to an Item or Lexeme. The fix will go live on Wednesday. (phab:T374230)
- Search: We continued implementing the new search that will make it easier to search for Properties and Lexemes in the UI (phab:T321543)
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!
WikiCup 2025 May newsletter
[edit]The second round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 April at 23:59 UTC. To reiterate what we said in the previous newsletter, we are no longer disqualifying contestants based on how many points (now known as round points) they received. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. These tournament points are carried over between rounds, and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers at the end of each round. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned.
Round 2 was quite competitive. Four contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and eight scored more than 500 points (including one who has withdrawn). The following competitors scored at least 800 points:
BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,233 round points from 24 good articles, 28 Did you know articles, and one In the news nomination, mainly about athletes and politicians
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with 1,127 round points, almost entirely from two high-multiplier featured articles on Black Widow (Natasha Romanova) and Grace Coolidge, in addition to two GAs and two reviews
History6042 (submissions) with 1,088 round points from four featured lists about Michelin-starred restaurants, nine good articles and a good topic mostly on Olympic-related subjects, seven ITN articles, and dozens of reviews
Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,085 round points from three FAs, one GA, and four DYKs on military history, as well as 18 reviews
Arconning (submissions) with 887 round points, mostly from four FLs, six GAs, and seven DYKs on Olympic topics, along with more than two dozen reviews
In addition, we would like to recognize 
Generalissima (submissions) for her efforts; she scored 801 round points but withdrew before the end of the round.
The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 13 featured articles, 20 featured lists, 4 featured-topic articles, 138 good articles, 7 good-topic articles, and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 19 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 300 reviews.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 May 2025
[edit]- In the media: Feds aiming for WMF's nonprofit status
- Recent research: How readers use Wikipedia health content; Scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia
- Arbitration report: Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom
- Discussion report: Latest news from Centralized discussions
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- Disinformation report: At WikiCredCon, Wikipedia editors and Internet Archive discuss threats to trust in media
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- Community view: A deep dive into Wikimedia
- Debriefing: Barkeep49's RfB debriefing
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