From this week's @wikidata Status updates*:
Anubis anti-bot software was deployed on Wikibase Cloud and XTools to prevent site outages caused by bot traffic.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399851
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400229
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2025_09_15
Well, 200,000 edits on #wikidata is a milestone...
There is a #wikidata property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1889 which can be used to explicitly state that two things are different and should not be merged.
Week 37, 2025: What @wikidata@wikis.world album languages grew the most this week?
The Egyptians win out in one of the more diverse and interesting races we've seen in a while.
Week 37, 2025: Top album languages found on @wikidata right now.
For the complete list, see https://w.wiki/6TNS
In case you missed it, I've recently published a trilogy of posts about adding Canadian legal data to #Wikidata in order to take advantage of linked data to find insights not currently possible with simple search.
1. How I use Zotero + OpenRefine + QuickStatements to create Scholia profiles from Wikidata (https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/08/01/how-i-use-zotero-openrefine-quickstatements-to-create-scholia-profiles-from-wikidata/)
2. How to get through a Scholarly split (https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/08/how-to-get-through-a-scholarly-split/)
3. All your Wikibase are belong to us: https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/09/all-your-wikibase-are-belong-to-us/
The Aberdeenshire area has 215 category A listed buildings on #wikidata. Benholm Mill has a #wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benholm_Mill
First inception in 2006, COSCUP is an annual conference organized by Taiwan’s open-source communities. Its aim is to provide a platform, a space for members of the open-source community to connect with each other and expand our horizons beyond individuals. Since 2020, the conference has embraced the no-registration model and remains open to everyone free of charge; anyone can hop in and out of any conference track they wish to participate in, with no need to register in advance. In recent years, COSCUP has also expanded by incorporating auxiliary activities like childcare, massage, hacking corner, flash talks, etc.
This year, Wikidata Taiwan invited old and new friends, and most importantly, we also invited our friend from Wikimedia Deutschland to celebrate together at this special milestone, sharing our stories with everyone.
See also:https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/09/09/coscup-20th-anniversary/
#Wikidata #維基數據 #維基資料
#openstreetmap
#活動 #event #COSCUP #開源人年會 #COSCUP2025 #國立臺灣科技大學 #台科大 #研揚大樓 #臺北市 #大安區 #學府里
All your Wikibase are belong to us
https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/09/all-your-wikibase-are-belong-to-us/
Gotta love #Wikidata calling its sister project, the English #Wikipedia, "unreliable" … :D
I’ve finally managed to build an in-browser #JavaScript tool that pulls #Wikidata elements, explores their relationships through a chosen property (such as cites, inspired by, student of, etc.), and visualizes the resulting network on a timeline!
Here’s an example using some #TTRPG data.
https://pmartinolli.github.io/code/timelined_networks/ttrpg_timelined_network.html #vibecoded
Heute und morgen treffen wir uns mit vielen spannenden Projekten an der wunderschönen #adwmainz zum Hands-on Workshop "#Wikidata für die Jüdischen Studien ".
Organisiert haben wir ihn gemeinsam mit dem FID Jüdische Studien (@JuedStudien), wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!
@umblaetterer @NanetteRissler I am one of the people behind this #Wikidata-based #ToolRegistry, which we argue addresses some of the major shortcomings of other approaches, famously coined the "Directory paradox" by @quinnanya . An article in which we lay out our argument and the design decisions will be forthcoming with DHQ (The preprint is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15094816).
And, rest assured, many Wikidata entries link to Open SSH Marketplace, Tapor and others.