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- http://www.manchukuostamps.com/index.htm
- User:Donald Trung/Japanese E-sen Illustrated in Kecho Ruishu.
- https://coins.calkinsc.com/hansatsu.html
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Wikidata weekly summary #744
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week leading up to 2026-08-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #743.
Discussions
- The order of properties on Wikidata is governed by MediaWiki/Wikibase-SortedProperties. We propose moving (P2559) Wikidata usage instructions to the top, so important guidance is more visible and less likely to be overlooked. To comment on this change, please visit MediaWiki_talk#prominently displaying (P2559).
- Closed request for comments: 19 RfC's were closed recently, too many to list here. Please see the RfC page for more information.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- (Deutsch) nfdi4 / Workshop: Make Research Software Findable using the Software Marketplace Wikidata, 18.08.2026, 14:00–16:00 CEST (register for Zoom-link)
- Improving Wikidata References: The hands-on session will explore how to identify and improve broken references on Wikidata , 15.08.2026, 17:00–18:00 WAT (UTC+1).
- Looking ahead: (Deutsch) Freie Universitat / Tidy data version control - Wikidata in research: 22.10.2026, 09:00 - 16:00 CEST.
- Previous events: August 04 - Blazegraph Migration office hour - see the Etherpad notes for questions and answers.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- gdottv / The Weekly Edge article: demonstrating the Wikidata Query Logs (WDQL) Dataset talks about a paper released in February this year, (Wikidata Query Logs Dataset)
- LinkedIn - User:Orthodoc10 describes their experience mapping and modelling knee replacement surgical practices into Wikidata
- Wikisignals.org: Helping Editors Evaluate Reference Reliability
- Zero-budget programs you could start tommorrow - Lessons from Wikimania Paris]
- OpenSpeaks Tools Update: Subtitler, Tome, and Bento Go Stable — Meet Media Dashboard
- [[Diffblog:a-look-at-a-2026-wikimania-hackathon-project-wikidata-bias-detector|A look at a 2026 Wikimania Hackathon Project – Wikidata Bias Detector]
- nlnet Foundation / Inventaire Split - a short article on this standalone Wikidata-federated Bibliographic database.
- Maltese national Book Council and WM Malta renew partnerhship: Wikidata to support and feed Maltese Wikipedia.
- [Diffblog:wikisignals-org-helping-editors-evaluate-reference-reliability|Wikisignals.org: Helping Editors Evaluate Reference Reliability] - the project aims to add to news-related organisation entities to help feed Wikipedia infoboxes with structured data.
- Videos:
- India's Software Stories: A Hands-on Workshop with Software Heritage, Commons and Wikidata - a Wikimania Lightning talk with Mathilde Fichen and Pavan Santhosh. (Session page)
- The Art of Editing Wikidata (Africa Wiki Women) - Guest host David Palfrey will share valuable insights and help newcomers uncover the mysteries of editing Wikidata, this session is in collaboration with Art+Feminism.
- (no audio) Tutorial: Add Geoshape to Wikimedia Commons and connect it to its Wikidata Item - Anne Chen gives a visual demonstration of the steps provided in this google doc, found on the WikiProject IDEA page.
- LIVE Wikidata Editing #124 is streaming today, 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC)!
- (Bahasa Indonesian) Wikimedia Indonesia have released 4 short videos on editing practices, querying, basic structure and data quality of Wikidata.
- (Deutsch) ZB MED LAB | The Carpentries - aimed at researchers and professionals who work with data, a series of tutorials and workshops to teach you Wikidata, Python, R, OpenRefine and more.
Tool of the week
- Cradle-gadget is a tool by User:DanielyepezgarcesThis is an interactive, schema-based form editor that works directly within Wikidata item pages. It allows users to check, view, add, modify, or delete claims in a modern sidebar drawer or a dedicated special page, aligned with the Wikimedia design guidelines. This is the easiest way to exploit the benefits of Wikidata entity schemas, powered by ShEx.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The 2026 OpenRefine User Survey is now open. (Note that a link to a feature-prioritization survey is provided at the end of the Google Form so don't miss that if you want to influence what should get more focus.)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- particularly (qualifier for statements to refine a value that applies more generally, when the statement applies especially to a more specific value; a more specific qualifier than "including" (P1012))
- incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
- External identifiers: CINE21 TV program ID, GCD character ID, ODiD ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, NHK ONE program ID, CINE21 company ID, Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID, Fmfenxiang sound ID, Elite Prospects team ID, Elite Prospects stadium ID, r-hockey.ru team ID, Classicalive artist ID, Apple Maps place id, HAND ID, Brazilian Fauna Taxonomic Catalogue ID, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa ID, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, MissEvan voice actor ID, Music & Opera artist ID, Dubbinfo ID, GAS actress ID, EU Treaties and Agreements database ID, syukou-club(X-DIABLO) actress ID, sukumizu.tv model ID, Paradise TV Person ID, Regional heritage of Wallonia ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- filing unit code
- has Member (has member)
- introduced to (region outside the natural range of a taxon into which it was introduced through direct or indirect human activity)
- External identifiers: Lift-World lift ID, Schiffsdatenliste ID, marketswiki, National Palace Museum Digital Archive ID, Information Commissioner's Office registration reference, Registry of Type Design ID, Ariana Museum ID, Emulation General Wiki article ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal immovable object ID, Sofia monuments register ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal museum ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal movable object ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal stone carving ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal protection zone ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal wall painting ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal documentation record ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage Portal movable object ID, RIdIM ID, Weibo ID, Weibo username
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Ten longest State of the Union adress in the USA
- Schema examples: object with inscription - schema for objects with inscriptions (Q1640824)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Highlights: Project Ontology added a Metaclasses page
- Newest database reports: Sitelink statistics by User:Pasleim.
Development
- Sustainability: We continued the work on migrating usage tracking on Wikipedia and co to the extension database cluster (phab:T424185)
- Watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co: We finished our review of a sample of Wikidata edits sent to Wikidata and co in order to better understand which remaining ones are not useful. It will soon be published on Commons.
- Query Service: We continued the work on preparing the Query Service UI for the migration from Blazegraph to QLever and will move to Query Builder and Quality Constraints next
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: Seychelles
- 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!
Tech News: 2026-33
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
A new ChartWizard is now available on Wikimedia Commons for users interested in creating charts from their own data. The wizard makes the Chart extension more beginner-friendly by allowing editors to create charts, such as bar and pie charts, without needing to use JSON. Users can still switch to the JSON editor if they prefer. Feedback on the new tool is welcome on the wish talk page.
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Wikipedia iOS app’s Picture of the Day widget displayed the same image every day instead of updating daily, has now been fixed. [1]
Updates for technical contributors
- Math formula SVG images will soon be generated in the browser instead of on the server. MathML continues to be generated on the server and renders in the browser without JavaScript. Wikibooks will see this change on 12 August, Wikisource on 19 August and Wikipedia from 20-27 August. You can try this by selecting "MathML with SVG image (client side MathJax rendering)" in your preferences. This change is part of deprecating RESTBase and deprecating Mathoid. [2]
- Category pages will soon support sorting entries by the time they are added to a category. This will make it easier to find recently or long-standing categorized pages. It will also improve workflows for maintenance categories such as deletion backlogs and other time-based review tasks. You can use
cldsort=timestampURL argument in category view to sort the entries. [3] - Gadgets and user scripts on Wikimedia wikis may now use ES2018 features and ES2019 features in JavaScript code. Previously, the platform only allowed up to ES2017. MediaWiki validates the source code to protect functionality from syntax errors and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. [4]
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikidata weekly summary #745
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week leading up to 2026-08-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #744.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- WikiLoves Pride / Australia, 15 August, drop-in online for a collaborative editing session on LGBT+ representation on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons.
- Drop-in and Wikidata, 27 August, WM Australia also hold a drop-in Wikidata ediitng sesison.
- Open Heritage - Wikidata Islamic Civilization Contest from September 1 - 30, 2026. Register for news.
- A Wikidata training webinar will be held August 25.
- Looking ahead: Hands-on workshop: Wikidata: An Open Knowledge Graph for Research and Beyond - Digital Humanities Lab, 12.11.2026, 14:15-15:45 CEST.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Papers: Cultural information bubbles: A new approach for automatic ethical evaluation of digital artwork collections based on Wikidata by M. Zhitomirsky-Geffet and S. Minster, (2026).
Tool of the week
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WM Australia is funding partner projects for 2026 - 2027, for Australian organisations or individuals who want to build projects for open and free knowledge, including Wikidata.
- Job Vacancies: (Interim) Engineering Manager / Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
- Survey: What content would you like to see on the Wikidata Social media channels? - only want to hear about Wikidata events or news, would like to see more use-cases of Wikidata, or perhaps you'd like more beginner or advanced Wikidata tutorials? Let us know in this short survey.
- We are setting up to apply for recognition of a new Wikimedia user group, Wikimedians for Data Organization and Quality. The group's goal will be to improve the organization and quality of data, particularly structured data, in Wikimedia projects. You can see more details in the group's home page and, if you wish, you can contribute to the discussion in its talk page. We invite you to be a part of this proposed user group by adding your Wikimedia signature to the Interested Parties section of the group's page.
Ege Atacan Doğan and Peter Patel-Schneider
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- located at a height (a property intended to indicate the height of any objects from the ground)
- contributed to narrative universe (narrative universe that a person contributed to)
- name type (type of noun or name the sense is)
- introduced to (region outside the natural range of a taxon into which it was introduced through direct or indirect human activity)
- External identifiers: d anime store Work ID, d anime store Person ID, Crank-in! drama ID, Crank-in! animation ID, Crank-in! person ID, STAPI Book ID, STAPI Episode ID, STAPI Performer ID, Qidian Author ID, Crank-in! movie ID, DBNL chamber of rhetoric ID, Criticker Film ID, Lulu spotlight ID, German Maritime Museum Ship ID, Rakuten TV adult maker ID, izohli.uz word ID, Ciel d'oc publication ID, Lift-World lift ID, STAPI Comics ID, Qidian Book ID, National Palace Museum Digital Archive ID, DMM maker ID, Registry of Type Design ID, Fediverse address, Information Commissioner's Office registration reference, WorldFootball.net ID (new), Sofia monuments register ID, Georgian Cultural Heritage GIS Portal immovable object ID, Ariana Museum ID, RIdIM ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- school of martial arts (school or style of martial arts this person studied)
- has official Italian government website (tems that the item has an official website operated by or belonging to the Government of Italy)
- Infraestructuras de Portugal ID (station code Infraestruturas de Portugal)
- External identifiers: Silloria perfumer ID, Silloria notes ID, Beer Advocate beer style ID, BBFC release ID, Identifier for a person in norwegian polar history, Filmová databáze seriál ID, Serbo-Croatian Literary Language entry ID, dbv member slug, idw member ID, Sky programme ID, immaterieelerfgoed.be ID, Geoshape Repository ID, FIBA.basketball event ID, SEASLUG.WORLD species ID, Silloria brands ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du COMDT, Identifiant d'un(e) ou plusieurs musicien(ne)s sur Paraulas en òc, Identifiant d'un(e) ou plusieurs musicien(ne)s sur Trobasons, Kinolights Parson ID, Kinolights Work ID, Identifiant d'un ouvrage dans le catalogue du CREDD'O, parliament.uk constituency ID, Europeans In East Africa ID, Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke ID, Judoresults judoka ID, Silloria perfumes ID, Scent Base perfumes ID, IMCDB work ID, identificador de sardana de somarxiu.cat, Xcity maker ID, CrashPad Series performer ID, PinkLabel.TV performer ID, Seiyu Grand Prix Person ID, animehack Person ID, animehack Program ID, animehack movie ID, XBIZ.com topic ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Schema examples: (E528) Space Telescope, instrument in outer space for observing distant space objects
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest database reports: Recent deaths (this report can help for updating Wikipedia articles
Development
- Query Service: We started preparing the constraint checks for the migration from Blazegraph to QLever.
- Page load times: We looked into unnecessarily loaded modules related to the Wikidata Bridge to see if we can remove them and speed up page load times.
- Wikipedia and co:
- We worked with English Wikipedia to optimize the CiteQ module code to generate less usage tracking for "Anonymous".
- We checked a variety of Mediawiki areas where Parsoid deprecation may lead to breakages.*
- Sustainability: We are planning to migrate the usage tracking data to the X1 extension cluster. We are checking which queries involving entity usage will need re-writing or updating.
- REST API: We finished adding support for getting a full Lexeme and started work on creating Lexemes.
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: Seychelles
- 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!
Tech News: 2026-34
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Worklist feature for the Event Registration tool is now live on all Wikimedia wikis. With Worklist, event organizers can add the articles their event will focus on directly to the event page. The Worklist also powers Event Pathways which notifies other editors of the upcoming or ongoing event when they edit an article featured in the event's Worklist. This is the minimum viable version (MVP), and feedback is welcome. Organizers are encouraged to try the feature. A hands-on Worklist Setup Workshop will take place on 18 August at 16:00 UTC and 19 August at 11:00 UTC.
Updates for editors
- Special:ShortPages displays short pages by their size, but in many cases it gets filled with disambiguations and soft redirects, making it harder to find the short articles themselves. Starting this weekend, you will be able to choose not to include an article in the special page by adding the magic word
__EXPECTSHORTPAGE__. [5] - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Bole (
w:bol:) [6] - Starting the week of August 17, the page toolbar will wrap onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This is a fully merged patch from the Reader Experience team which aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, that may occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, uploading large files to Wikimedia Commons has become more stable and less prone to failure following some fixes related to the “Could not acquire lock” upload error. [7]
Updates for technical contributors
- Debian Bullseye will reach the end of its Long Term Support on 31 August 2026. Some Cloud VPS projects still have instances running Debian Bullseye. Maintainers of those projects are encouraged to migrate to Debian Bookworm or Debian Trixie. A migration guide is available to help with the process, and users may also want to consider whether their workload is better suited to Toolforge. If you need help or cannot complete the migration by 31 August, please contact the Cloud VPS admins as soon as possible. Read more.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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