Discussions

• Other: Email Chain "Elephant in the room" - discussing the large number of Wikidata Items lacking Statements, Sitelinks or Labels/Descriptions.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • All the information you need to start working on your Wikimania 2025 program submissions is now available on the Wiki. Deadline: March 31 st, Anywhere on Earth.
  • New Wikidata Event! The upcoming "Wikidata and Sister Projects" event (May 29–June 1) is looking for speakers to share how Wikidata connects with other Wikimedia projects - if you are interested, request more info or submit your session idea here.
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series session on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET Time Zone Converter Eric Willey will be facilitating a series of four sessions focused on starting a Wikidata project from the foundation up at your institution. The third session will focus on making the most of your time and work. Event page.
  • Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities - Join for 4 free talks showcasing how linked open data can support teaching, research and collections. March 5, 1500 - 1700 GMT (UTC-0).
  • Wiki Workshop 2025 CfP - Call for Papers (Submission deadline: March 9)
  • Open Data Day Taiwan 2025 March 9 Time: 09:30-17:30 UTC+8 at Taipei Humanities Building (Q122750631)
  • Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon 2025 - Registration & Scholarship Now Open. Date: 28th - 30th March 2025. Who Can Participate? African developers, Wikimedia contributors, and anyone interested in Wikimedia projects.
• Ongoing:
  • Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 - annual global contest aimed at documenting and sharing the diverse customs and traditions observed during the month of Ramadan. Date: 25 February 2025 – 16 April 2025. Register here!
  • Items with P31 (instance of) = human settlement without a country has dropped from 7600 to below 4600 Items. You can help to get it even lower.
  • Wikidata & OpenStreetMap Datathon & Mapathon as part of International Open Data Day 2025 from 1st - 15th March 2025 by WikiProject India (Q11037573).
• Past events: Data Reuse Days 2025: you can watch the sessions that you missed at your own pace.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • UK universities educate the most national leaders globally, analysis (based on Wikidata) shows. By The Guardian
  • Two Wikimedians-in-Residence appointed to increase Maltese literature representation on Wikipedia and Wikidata Times of Malta
• Videos
  • (French) PasseGares: Bug fixes and data imports from Wikidata YouTube
  • Adding Wikidata label and descriptions, from the Wali Language Art+Feminism Editathon (Ghana 2025) YouTube
  • Workshop showcasing QuickStatements 3.0! Learn how this updated tool streamlines your workflow and discover new features. YouTube
  • Contributing to Wikidata 101, a series of demonstrations organised by WM Community UG Uganda Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
  • Optimize SPARQL queries to avoid timeouts: Efficiently count entities sharing values YouTube
  • Data Reuse Days playlist and live-editing session with User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 YouTube
  • LUDAP: Shared authority file for Luxembourg's Scientific and Cultural Heritage, with Wikibase YouTube

Tool of the week

• QuickStatements 3.0 - new version of the original QuickStatements with enhanced functionality, performance, and user experience.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• On March 17, Vector 2022 will become the default skin on Wikidata
• Jobs
  • Senior UX Designer for Wikidata - Apply online
  • Product Manager for Wikibase Suite - Apply online

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • thesis submitted for degree (the academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted)
• Newest External identifiers: Korean National Species list ID, NES Directory game ID, Miraheze wiki ID, Global Energy Monitor Wiki ID, FU-Lexikon ID, MACM artwork ID, Hiking Note chalet identifier, domain name, ‎TechRaptor game ID, ‎TechRaptor company ID, ‎TechRaptor genre ID, Sanzhi Dargwa dictionary ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • copy present in institution (copy present in institution)
  • single extrait de l'album (indicates the album from which the item is taken)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: HelloAsso organization ID, europlayers.com club ID, eLIBRARY Document Number, LIBRIS Library ID, parlament.fyi person ID, Embryo Project Encyclopedia ID, factordb id, Yukon Register of Historic Places ID, Our Campaigns container ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (glossary and index of terms) ID, badmintoncn.com star ID, Game Input Database ID, Historia Hispánica ID, Coasterpedia ID, Captain Coaster coaster ID, Captain Coaster park ID, Dark Ride Database IDs

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of Birthplace of Polish Nationals, born after 1900 who have an article on Polish Wikipedia
  • Items with no Statement or Sitelinks - You can help by expanding these Items!
  • Showcase lexemes and their language/lexical category (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Climate Change Policies - aims to model policies related to Climate change on Wikidata.
• Newest database reports: Most linked category Items
• Showcase Items: Basshunter (Q383541) - Swedish singer, record producer, and DJ
• Showcase Lexemes: baguette (L7347) - French noun that can mean "elongated type of bread loaf", "elongated type of bread loaf", "conductor's baton", "chopsticks", "drum sticks" or "magic wand".

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126)
• Dumps: We fixed an issue that prevented the dumps from being generated (phab:T386401)
• Search: We are continuing to work on the search UI that will let you search not just Items but also other entity types (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.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Australia
• 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!