Hi there! I've been happily reconciling data on Open Refine to Wikidata all morning. Since I had lunch, I've been getting the following error: Guess Types query failed error : java.io.IOException: HTTP error 403 : Forbidden for URL /en/api I've tried closing and restarting open refine, and discon…

My colleagues and me are experiencing the same problem in the last few days. Reconciling to Wikimedia Commons works fine, but not to Wikidata. There doesn’t seem to be a general status issue at this moment. Any suggestions?

Yes, I encountered the same thing. When checking https://wikidata.reconci.link/en/api it says: message='Too Many Requests' I could temporarily trick it by reconciliation with a different lang code, but making now cols. based on reconned values still does not work.

Hi @Bart_Magnus and @datasteward8 , The intermittent errors you are seeing are primarily caused by increased rate-limiting from Wikidata. Because the wikidata.reconci.link service is a shared, unauthenticated endpoint, all OpenRefine traffic appears as a single "user" to Wikidata, causing us to freq…

Error in reconciling to Wikidata

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Nicolas_VIGNERON July 2, 2025, 2:49pm 2

Not sure if it's related (probably tho) but there is a general problem with all wikis right now.
See https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ (page is still being updated while the problem is being found).

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