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Nomination of Template:Infobox sportsperson/Wikidata for discussion

Template:Infobox sportsperson/Wikidata has been listed for discussion, which may result in the template being merged or deleted by consensus. You are invited to comment on the proposed action at the nomination on the Templates for discussion page. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 04:35, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #748

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-09-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #747.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • HsfBot - Task/s: Mostly add missing Indonesian Wikipedia sitelinks to Wikidata items for taxonomy templates created by HsfBot on idwiki.
  • CrossrefIDsBot - Task/s: Adding Crossref ID, DOI, Print ISSN, and Online ISSN from Crossref dataset where they are missing in Wikidata.
  • CatmapperBot - Task/s: Add SocioMap ID statements for reviewed SocioMap category mappings, and provisionally add exact match URLs for reviewed ArchaMap category mappings until Wikidata approves an ArchaMap-specific identifier property.
  • BenchfolkBot - Task/s: Add or correct sourced statements on existing items after explicit human approval.
• New request for comments:
  • Class Q1048835 as a not valid value-type constraint - To remove an incorrect value for value-type constraint (Q21510865) for P27 (country of citizenship)
  • Project chat: What images are appropriate for P18? - a lengthy discussion about quality control and what is acceptable for a P18 (image) value.

Events

• Upcoming events: Open Workshop: Connecting Basque heritage authors (Persons and entities) in Wikipedia and Wikidata - 22 September - 09:00 - 11:30 CEST.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: What Does a Wikidata-Powered Abstract Wikipedia Article Look Like? (Links: Substack and Medium)
• Papers: Bemme, J., & Winkler, A. (2026). Mehr Edits wagen? Virtuelle Ausstellungen erschließen mit Wikidata und Commons. LIBREAS. Library Ideas, (48). https://doi.org/10.18452/37905 / https://libreas.eu/ausgabe48/bemme/

Tool of the week

• Tabernacle is a tool by User: Magnus Manske it generates a table of Wikidata items and statements. Allows for quick addition of some types via WiDaR.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The 10th issue of the Wikidata Platform Newsletter is out. Also remember to join the next Blazegraph Migration Office Hour, that will take place Tuesday, 8th September 2026 at 16:00 UTC
• The Castle Map - every Castle, Fortress and Palace recorded on Wikidata, on a map.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: CREDDO author ID, ‎World Athletics competition ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture record identifier, T&F NCAAdb athlete ID, COMDT author ID, Clergy Memorial (1914-1918) ID, ‎Texas Legislators: Past & Present ID, Stiftungsarchive ID, Redalyc author ID, Kudos author ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Pokémon Ability (Pokémon Ability assigned to this Pokémon species or form in games of the Pokémon series)
    • Collective bargaining coverage (Percentage of workers covered by collective agreement coverage. This is distinct from union membership rate, because non-union members can also be covered, for example France has 7% union density but 98% collective bargaining coverage.)
    • encompasses (specific entity this placeholder item may represent when the exact one is unknown)
    • marionetteist (Person who manipulates a marionette in real time to create the illusion of life.)
    • has expression of concern ((article) has an expression of concern (expression of concern notice))
  • External identifiers: Common Core Ontologies concept ID, AbeBooks author ID, DEHIO digital Deutschland Bauwerk ID, VocaDB tag ID, CCLI song ID, LIDO concept ID, The Telegraph topic ID, BLL-Ontology concept ID, GOLD linguistic concept ID, ISBNdb author ID, BookWyrm author ID, BookWyrm book ID, China Railway station telegraph code, Darija.io ID, Vietnamese Administrative Unit Codes, Officials of Nazi Reich Ministries ID, Fandom.com universe page, KennisWest ID, identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue du Centre Delavouët, Phenotype and Trait Ontology ID, National Governors’ Association ID, Numista engraver or designer ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID (new schema)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: UNESCO Heritage sites 100km or less from the centre of the Meditrranean Sea (source)
• Schema examples: spaceport (E213): schema for spaceport (Q194188) locations, used to launch and receive spacecraft.
• WikiProject Highlights: Project Medicine / Knee Arthroplasty - a comprehensive subpage to model the techniques and procedures for knee-related surgery.
• Newest database reports: Same Humans/List by Occupations - this report presents possible human duplicates by comparing name and birth/death dates. They can be reviewed and flagged for merging and/or deletion.

Development

• Sustainability:
  • We are looking into improvements to caching for Property labels (phab:T434204)
  • We are continuing to prepare the move of the entity_usage table to the extension database cluster. Moving the tables is tentatively scheduled to begin after 24. September. (phab:T427472)
• Newcomer homepage: We are working on making the Newcomer Homepage show labels for Items instead of just the ID (phab:T429345)
• Wikidata changes in Watchlist and Recent changes of Wikipedia and co: We are deciding how filtering will look for hiding language link changes on wikis where the sitelink has not changed (phab:T435904)
• REST API: We are continuing to expand the support for Lexemes in the API, specifically creating a Lexeme, adding a statement to a Lexeme and adding a Form to a Lexeme

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: Tunisia
• 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!

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Tech News: 2026-37

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

• Add a Link has been upgraded for English Wikipedia users with improved detection of links that have different capitalization. This will help reduce ambiguous suggestions caused by differences in capitalization in article titles, including articles about cultural goods. A second phase of improvements is planned, which will also prepare the feature for release in other languages.
• The Article guidance feature will be enabled by default for junior editors on Simple English and Turkish Wikipedia starting 10 September 2026 following an experiment. Junior editors with 0 to 99 edits will automatically see the feature when they click a red link or use the "Madde oluşturto" option on Turkish Wikipedia to create a new article. The change is intended to help junior editors create higher-quality articles that meet each Wikipedia’s standards. Additional improvements will continue based on the experiment results and community feedback.
• The Pageviews Analysis tool which allows users to compare pageviews across multiple pages, turns 10 years old this year and several new features have been added. They include WikiNav which provides insights into how readers of Wikipedia explore the content, editing stats in Siteviews, the ability to lookup articles belonging to a WikiProject, and support for dark mode.
• A visually simplified Minerva navigation bar is being tested for logged-out readers using mobile web on the Bengali, Czech, English, Farsi, and Polish Wikipedias. The experiment aims to determine whether simplifying the navigation improves reader retention. The test will run from August 31 to September 28, and no action is required from users.
• WMDE Technical Wishes is working on improving auto-generated reference names in VisualEditor. Editors will only notice a slight change starting this week. When adding automatic reference names the numbering will start at :1 instead of :0. Read more on the project page.
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 23. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where Parsoid could mishandle nested nowiki tags, causing content to be lost and displaying unwanted text has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Interface administrators can configure gadgets from MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. The definition format has been updated and no longer requires the ResourceLoader option, as gadgets are always loaded through ResourceLoader. This simplifies gadget configuration by removing an option that is no longer necessary, making gadget definitions easier for administrators.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:42, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2026

This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue VIII, August 2026 Headlines From the team: Hot August/Cold August Brazil report: Wiki Love Monuments and new phase of Museu Paulista collaboration Catalan areas report: The Catalan public domain: An application to identify Catalan works in public domain Colombia report: Explore the Colombian public domain app: Browse works an authors in the public domain Czech Republic report: Wikimedia CR introduces new members of GLAM/partnership team Egypt report: Egypt’s GLAM Team Brings Egyptian Postal History and Public Libraries to Wikimedia Italy report: The Musical Heritage of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory New Zealand report: New Zealand Thesis Project Update and the upcoming TDWG 2026 conference North Macedonia report: Connecting Culture and Free Knowledge - Wikimedia MKD’s GLAM Partnerships Serbia report: August in Wikimedia Serbia Switzerland report: Summer, Follow-up in Aarau, CoCreation UK report: Wikimedia gets Gazetted + Islamic Calligraphy on English Wikipedia Ukraine report: OpenGLAM Summer 2026 in Ukraine USA report: GLAM USA Report (Past & Upcoming) Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHL-Wiki working Group members Memory of the World report: Ghana national register Wikimedia Commons report: Media loading change affects Commons Impact Metrics and GLAM analytics Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #264: Your code can now call back to the Wikidata fetch functions

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we introduce the possibility of calling Wikidata fetch functions, we present a new Type, we celebrate more than 200 new functions this week, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:13, 11 September 2026 (UTC)