User talk:Andrew Gray

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • RupumpedBot - Task/s: When an Item on a Kenyan river has a Swahili label but no English version, this bot will derive an English label and description.
  • William Avery Bot 14 - Task/s: Change values of url properties in mainspace that link to http://web.archive.org/ to use the https protocol (requested at Bot requests#Make HTTPS for Wayback Machine recurrent)

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikimania is about to begin. Whether you're attending on-site or virtually, plan your sessions so you don't miss any.
    • Full program / Wikidata-only program
    • Get your virtual ticket
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #91 Aug 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Force11 webinar: Metadata for all with Wikidata will look at three novel applications, WikiCite, the Trans Music Achive and the Pratt Institute. Held online August 26, 13-14:00 UTC. Please register for the access link.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Calling Wikifunctions for der, die, das
  • How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata
  • Altilunium Panoply v26.7.19 : In this latest release, the external Wikidata connection logic has undergone a major architectural overhaul to improve internal trace mapping.
• Videos:
  • (Svenska) Strategic inclusion of library data on Wikidata - first recorded at Digikult 2019, with Alicia Fagerving.
  • (Français) I’ll explain how Wikidata works! (Livestream recording), User:Lyokoï will introduce Wikidata and its concepts and the fundamentals of editing.
  • (繁體中文/zh-TW) Wikivoyage Guidelines for editing Temple information
  • How to use Wikibase for Mixed Methods Research, with Francesco Bailo. Recorded at SICSS Melbourne 2026 (Summer Institute in Computational Social Science).
• Games: Webwoven - a new game has surfaced, powered by Wikidata. Race from start to finish in as few connections as possible. Already includes Leaderboards, daily challenges and multiplayer. Sure to be a hit at future Wikidata events.

Tool of the week

• wikivibes is a tool by Magnus Magnus that play public domain music from Commons, tracked by Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Jobs:
  • (Interim) Engineering Manager - Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects - Hybrid
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform - Remote
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform - Remote

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
    • ‎about page URL (URL to the official about page)
  • External identifiers: Western Orthodox Wiki ID, Steady publication ID, ‎Open Collective ID, ‎Guide du Rôliste Galactique ID, CNUC code, Centre for Computing History exhibit reference ID, Braunschweiger ProfKat ID, CNR-IRIS author ID, Anobii Book ID, Anobii author ID, TuneCore Japan artist ID, TakaWiki numeric page ID, Norton Simon Museum object ID, Guide Japan Person ID, CD Journal artist ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • autoptic examination (time of last direct examination of the inscribed object)
    • Tabular data series (A tabular data series in Commons that models the given concept)
    • data series (A data series about the given topic.)
    • incumbent before dissolution (entity incumbent in a position before its dissolution for an election)
    • former operator (entity, company, military service, or organisation which is notable for previously operated the item, aircraft, vehicle, or other equipment)
    • número de la plaza (square number)
  • External identifiers: PISAI ID, Ko-fi page ID, Scent Base brand ID, Etsy shop name, Overcast podcast ID, Grillplatser.nu ID, Criticker Film ID, HAND ID, Open Language Archives Community language code, identifiant Ciel d'oc d'une publication, ODiD ID, Generic/Numero de Registre Tributari, UntitledDb People ID, MissEvan drama ID, MissEvan sound ID, MissEvan ID, MissEvan voice actor ID, Fmfenxiang FM ID, Fmfenxiang sound ID, Fmfenxiang seiyuu ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

• Wikidata Query Service: We are working on adapting the Query Service UI to get it ready for the move to QLever
• Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing to fix small issues found in testing
• Lexemes: We are continuing the work on adding support for Lexemes to the REST API
• Sustainability:
  • We are preparing the migration of some database tables on the client wikis that track the usage of Wikidata's data in articles on Wikipedia and co
  • We are further investigating how many changes from Wikidata that currently get sent to Wikipedia and co don't actually lead to a change in the article to be able to reduce these cases further

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!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • AuntuBot - Task/s: Per the approved bot request at commons:Commons:Bots/Requests/AuntuBot, I am in the process of uploading approximately 50,000 issues of the Bangladesh Gazette to Wikimedia Commons. We need to a parent Wikidata item for each specific issue/volume to import and organize these files on Bengali Wikisource. Note that AuntuBot has already been granted a bot flag on Wikimedia Commons for the file uploads.
  • Rebot 2 - Task/s: We recently created the new property perspective (P14345) (Wikidata:Property proposal/anatomical view). With Rebot, I plan to move:
• About 570 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a property
• About 1400 statements from depicts (P180) to perspective (P14345) as a qualifier of image (P18)
  • Rebot 3 - Task/s: Import 1389 instances of taxon author citation (P6507) from this Catalan Wikipedia list, compiled by bot from the articles.
  • Rebot 4 - Task/s: The task consists in changing these 1072 items. It has to change creator (P170) to the new property photographer (P14574). Also there are 1000+ items in which the property should be used as a qualifier.
  • Openpep - Task/s: Maintenance of Politically Exposed Person (PEP) data on Wikidata for Thai government officials. Specifically:
• Creating new Wikidata items for Thai politicians not yet in the database
• Adding P39 (position held) claims with proper qualifiers (P580 start time, P582 end time, P2937 legislative term for legislators, P1365/P1366 replaces/replaced by, P1545 series ordinal)
• Adding P102 (member of political party) with date qualifiers
• Adding P569 (date of birth), P106 (occupation), P21 (sex or gender), P19 (place of birth), P1559 (name in native language)
• Setting and correcting labels, descriptions, and aliases
• Removing incorrect claims and deduplicating
• Adding social media profiles (P2003 Instagram, P2013 Facebook, P11705 Facebook numeric ID)
  • DutchFixer - Task/s: Reformat Dutch verb forms that are listed as past tense (Q1994301), participle (Q814722) to simply use past participle (Q12717679)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:
  • Vladimir Terentyev used the set of names for every dish from Wikidata -- labels and aliases in every language -- along with restaurant data from OpenStreetMap to develop a world map of dish names, attempting to answer the research question: "Where does plov end and biryani begin, and who really draws these borders?"
  • Giving Open Source Hardware a Place on Wikidata
  • Simplified entry of complex data into Wikibase
  • Grateful and Growing: Reflecting on My Wiki Afrodemics Fellowship, Pilot Cohort
• Papers: DivinWD: Exploring the Diversity of Scientific Publications in Wikidata - DivinWD is a large open-source dataset of over 23 million triples and 1.2 million scholarly articles (2010–2024), integrating Wikidata with five bibliographic sources and gender data to enable transparent diversity analyses in science while documenting biases and infrastructural limitations. By Saletti et. al., (2026)

Tool of the week

• OWL Places, the Wikidata-OpenStreetMap matching tool, can now add OpenStreetMap IDs to Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikibase Suite Deploy 7.1.0 and other upgrades

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • dielectric strength (electric field strength that causes electrical breakdown of an insulating material under specified test conditions)
    • still taken from the audiovisual work (image comes from the given audiovisual work)
  • External identifiers: Operabook artist ID, ‎MPA certificate number, ‎Deltarune Wiki article ID, A World Made by Travel person ID, UntitledDb person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Fediverse app (Fediverse platform of the instance or address)
    • Fediverse instance URL (Ferdiverse instance of/about the subject)
    • reference amount (Amount of the food that contains a particular quantity of a nutrient.)
    • Qidian Book ID ()
  • External identifiers: Garance item ID, Kinorating, IGN producer, Fediverse address, Music & Opera artist ID, LFL player ID, Soccer365.net tournament ID, kicker.de coach ID, BeSoccer team ID, FootballFakts.ru stadium ID, SofaScore tournament ID, Foot Mercato club ID, Lithuanian movie register ID, Foot Mercato referee ID, BeSoccer referee ID, Kicker.de referee ID, Soccer365.net referee ID, UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists ID, Soccer365.net stadium ID, MFL player ID, Okko movie ID, RIA Novosti organization ID, OpenParliamentTV person ID, OpenParliamentTV organization ID, OpenParliamentTV term ID, Camping.se ID, classicalive artist ID, Chess Games tournament ID, Chess.com tournament ID, MusiciansPage artist ID, Flemish educational institution number, Giovani Artisti italiani ID, 365chess.com tournament ID, Norwegian Athletics athlete ID, LinkedIn numeric company ID, Lulu spotlight ID, RPGnet Index ID, EU Treaties and Agreements database ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Development

• The team were at Wikimania this past week so not much development happened.

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!