• Discussions
  • Welcome to our new admin Yahya! (see the closed request)

• Events
  • The deadline for submitting your proposals for WikidataCon 2023 is July 31st (23:59) anywhere in the world. Submit your proposals at https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • An analysis of discussions in collaborative knowledge engineering through the lens of Wikidata, Elisavet Koutsiana et. al.

• Tool of the week
  • osm.js will add a link to the navigation for items that have a Wikidata mapping on the OSM side.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • median household income (median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country)
      • login URL (URL of a webpage used to log into a service)
      • registration page URL (URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service)
      • shortcode (string of text replaced by an emoji or other character on a platform (e.g. :heart_eyes:))
      • verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
    • External identifiers: Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, Spotlight PIN ID, myjewishitaly.it ID, Minerba One Data Indonesia ID, Wikibase World ID, Open Yearbook org id, ProQuest publication ID, Friedländer ID, FIGC player ID, hitparade.ch song ID, Theapolis theatre ID, IbsenStage ID, IMDb keyword
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Top scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: ((p|54)); ((p|1532)); ((p|1013)) (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
      • Project partner (property to list the partners of a project or an event, when different from the organizing body.)
    • External identifiers: TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID, BHL item ID, GamerProfiles Game ID, identifiant Pouët d'un groupe de démo, identifiant Pouët d'une démo, identifiant Pouët d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Kastelenlexicon ID, SEVIS school ID, Xiaohongshu User ID, Musée d'Arts de Nantes ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of people in the NZThesisProject with no assigned gender (source)
    • Cultural institutions having a Mastodon handle (source)
    • Maps of places in Rennes with an article on French Wikipedia, color-coded by number of pages on the Wikimedia Projects (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
      • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements (phab:T339356) (new route)
      • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id} (phab:T338383) (new route)
      • GET /statements/{statement_id} (now supports statements on Properties)
    • We started work on a new route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)
  • EntitySchemas:
    • We worked on improving the termbox (the table of labels, descriptions and aliases) on EntitySchema pages to bring it more in line with the one on Items and Properties
    • We made sure that EntitySchemas are shown by their label instead of ID when available in Recent Changes and similar lists (phab:T339924)
  • Mismatch Finder: We added a language selector so you can switch the interface language (phab:T328149)
  • mul language code: We are working on showing more labels from fallback languags in the termbox (phab:T340832, phab:T338330)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

• Events
  • Upcoming: Submit your proposal for GLAM Wiki Conference 2023. Deadline has been extended to August 20, 23:59 anywhere in the world.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog: Creating Interactive Map Visualizations of Settlements with Wikidata and Python
  • Videos: Wiki Workshop 2023 recording YouTube playlist

• Tool of the week
  • WikiShootMe expanded to make it possible to find the Items close to pictures you took so you can upload and add them to them (source)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template:Synia is a new template which makes it easy to create links to Synia from Wikidata. Template:Synia+ guesses the relevant configuration pages for each entity depending on the values of P31 and P106.
  • Wikifunctions, Wikidata's newest sibling project, had a soft launch. Welcome to the Wikimedia wikiverse, functioneers!
  • The ORES service will be decommissioned and replaced by Lift Wing. If you have a tool that relies on ORES scores to judge edits or the quality of an Item please read the migration announcement. We are collecting affected community tools in phab:T343419.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National Union of Composers of Ukraine person ID, Encyclopaedia Islamica ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Virksomme ord ID, ‎Swetrails route ID, European Bridge League ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, IMVDb artist numeric ID, Team France athlete ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • disinherited (someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of [[Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary]])
      • conference schedule (Conference schedule in Pentabarf XML format)
      • state of transmission
    • External identifiers: Works Diamond Catalogue ID, Editions Diamond Catalogue ID, NFSA ID, Identifiant Médiathèque Numérique CVS, DCB Number, wadoku id, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Mémoire déposé sur DUMAS, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, BG EGN, Google Scholar Organization ID, fiba.basketball player ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query example: Entry dates and discovery dates of the objects of the museum of Brittany (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas:
    • We continued the work on giving them the same termbox as Items and Properties (phab:T324235)
    • We finished the work on showing the labels for EntitySchemas in Recent changes, All Pages, Watchlist and edit summaries (phab:T339924, phab:T339921, phab:T339925, phab:T343231)
    • We added missing messages related to IP editing and license notes (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on the route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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:
    • MangadexBot (Task: add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID)
    • WingUCTBOT (Task: Batch Upload of Niger-Congo B Lexemes, including Senses and Forms)
  • New request for comments: Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks (Regarding the need to block IPv6 addresses and networks by a minimum /64 range )

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikimania 2023 (16–19 August, Singapore and Online) program is out: wikimania:2023:Program
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 18, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
  • Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #104, Police

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe
    • Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux
    • The Power of Shared Value Partnership: CIS-A2K & ACPR- GLAM Project
    • Blog planets: blogging about Debian, GNOME, Wikimedia, FSFE, and many more
  • Papers
    • Semantification of CEUR-WS with Wikidata as a target Knowledge Graph
    • The World Literature Knowledge Graph
    • Building a French Revolution Narrative from Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Adding Wikidata To Openstreetmap
    • Recording mass paths on Wikimedia and Wikidata
    • FOSS4G 2023 - Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Edward Betts
    • SPARQLE session - Sport, rugby and units - Nicolas VIGNERON
    • Virtual Inauguration: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course for Cohort 2
    • Live Wikidata editing (in Italian)
    • KGC 2023 Masterclass: Wikibase and Question-Answering by The QA Company's CEO, Dennis Diefenbach
  • Notebooks
    • SEmantic Graphs (SEG) - Cautiously nudging RDF towards more expressivity (paper)
    • Movie settings and population (What is the relation between how big a city is and how many movies are set in that city?)
    • Wikidata study day
    • SPARQL Queries for Cross-referencing and Data Cleanup
  • Presentations: Chemistry in Wikidata visualized with Scholia, Egon Willighagen et al.

• Tool of the week
  • Everything is connected - is a knowledge-based puzzle game where players must fit square pieces representing entities in the world together based on their known connections.
  • WMF is moving from ORES to Lift Wing, an open-source machine learning infrastructure. Your input is vital to train the model for more accurate bad edits detection on Wikidata. Join us in enhancing edits detection by using the Annotation tool: https://annotool.toolforge.org/

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Danny Benjafield and Ifeatu Nnaobi are joining the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • wikifunctions.org is gradually rolling out (with caveats)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Tolkien Gateway ID, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, FSHF player ID, Mandarin-Cantonese Comparative Study ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara place ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, GSAFD ID, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Nantes Museum of Arts ID, Mythoskop ID, Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Steam Deck compatibility rating (official rating used to determine which games, as a result of the review process, are compatible with Steam Deck and which are not)
      • name version for other gender (use for when names that are not given name or surnames are gendered (since those two have their own properties), would also be helpful for many noble titles and honorifics as well as affixes)
      • Curator of (has curated a collection or (art) exhibition)
      • Philippine middle name ()
    • External identifiers: Rumble channel, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web), archINFORM Awards ID, RCS number, NFDI4Culture ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Steam curator ID, Футзал.рус player ID, alyga.lt player ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Höhlenkataster ID (Österreich), Sitios ID, FNAC ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of places located in Rennes with an article on the French Wikipedia (and colored according to the number of pages in all Wikimedia projects)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weapon types, and primary colors (source)
    • Number of albums in Wikidata by year of release (source)
    • Objects in Dresden with significant event (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Svenska Grillplatser (WikiProject Swedish Grill Places) - The idea is to see what Wikidata and OSM can contribute when it comes to barbecue sites and connections to municipalities, grillplatser.nu, naturkartan.
    • WikiProject Nollywood - This is a WikiProject for adding and enhancing items in Wikidata for Nollywood (Nigerian films) held as VHS at the Northwestern University Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. These films were primarily produced and collected from 1990-2000. Items will be added with information from the catalog record (MARC).

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding and replacing statements on Properties (phab:T339363, phab:T340006)
  • EntitySchemas:
    • We continued working on making the mobile termbox from Items and Properties work on EntitySchemas
    • We fixed a missing warning for non-logged-in editors and license note (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
  • IP Masking: We are investigating what implications the upcoming IP Masking changes in MediaWiki have for Wikibase (phab:T328454)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)

• Events
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #106, Sleep
  • Past:
    • Wikimania happened over the weekend. You can find a playlist of the events on YouTube here
    • Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #105, Wikimania Singapore

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Celebrating the 2023 Wikimedian of the Year Winners. Congratulations Tofeiku and Siobhan Leachman for your dedication to Wikidata \o/
  • Videos
    • Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap (relation (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Promoting GLAM Institution in Indonesia through OSM-Wikidata Mapping - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Psychiq, a Distributed Wikidata Game system, suggests statements to add to Items based on Wikipedia English articles content.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • appears before phonological feature (this lexeme form appears only when another lexeme form with this phonological feature comes after it)
      • appears after phonological feature (this lexeme form appears only when it comes after another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
      • appears before lexeme form (this lexeme form appears only when this other specific lexeme form comes after it)
      • appears after lexeme form (this lexeme form appears only when it comes after this other specific lexeme form)
      • Gottstein code (code representing a variant of the cuneiform sign according to the Gottstein system)
      • tournament type (significance or status of a sports competition for a league, tour, association, etc.)
    • External identifiers: Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, UMLS Semantic Network ID, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, Moroccan geographic code (2015), BHL item ID, TVING ID, Google Scholar organization ID, Rumble channel, GSA player ID, Roku Channel Store ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Antenna Structure Registration Number, Korean Tour player ID, Kastelenlexicon ID, NFDI4Culture ID, Pouët group ID, Pouët group member ID, Pouët demo ID, Steam curator ID, Podbay ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, Diamond Catalogue work ID, Diamond Catalogue edition ID, Frankfurt University Library Digital Collection ID, Nurnet ID, DUMAS thesis ID, Syok podcast ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • patron deity ()
      • WHO Aware Classification (The World Health Organization currently classifies 258 antibiotics into "Access", "Watch", and "Reserve" based partly on the risk of resistance developing as a result of such use and critical nature of the antibiotic in question.)
      • nombre de niveaux (number of levels in a video game or number of stages in a particular sport)
      • URL du plan du jeu vidéo (URL of the video game detailed map in subject provided by the site CPC-Power)
      • Positioning (A list of all the satellite navigation system (ex. GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS, NavIC etc. ) a mobile device, or a smartphone supports. [https://w.wiki/7HE9 List of all the Satellite Navigation System].)
      • place on the route (object, station, facility, city, natural formation or other place on a road, track, route, line, watercourse, utility line or other linear route)
      • simule (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
    • External identifiers: ANPI person ID (2), J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, ID ve Slovníku české literatury po roce 1945, Vazhaju Word ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, Visiongame.cz game ID, Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges Numeric ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Anikore anime ID, wiki.gg wiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • Count of items with an article on fr.wikivoyage.org by country (source)
    • Count of items with an article on fr.wikiquote.org by instance of (source)
    • Count of items that have X amount of statements. A simple showcase of Blazegraph optimizations.
    • Week 33, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We investigated ways to help you search for EntitySchemas by their Labels, Aliases and Descriptions (phab:T341969)
  • Mismatch Finder: We have added the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
  • Improved language fallback: We are testing to clearly show the fallback Label in the placeholders for empty Labels (phab:T338330, phab:T340832)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)

• Events
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #107, Teeth (Challenge started on 2023-08-28 12:01:31)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 28, 2023. We will cover adding the articles from our bibliography of diverse LIS resources that we created in our last session to Wikidata! We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements. To get a sneak preview of what we will be doing, you can learn more about the Wikidata & Zotero link here: Wikidata:Zotero. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Keynote about Wikidata for the Chinese Confernence on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing 2023, by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
    • How to fill an Infobox on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Wikipedia For Beginners - YouTube
    • The impact of Wikidata-powered inboxes on minority and low-resourced language Wikipedias in Africa (Wikimania 2023) - YouTube
    • How to create item in Wikidata about a village (in Malayalam) - YouTube
    • Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap relation (in Guarani) - YouTube
    • WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikitrivia is a web-based game that challenges your knowledge of historical events, people, and places. The game is a combination of Sudoku and Scrabble, and all the data used in the game is sourced from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The objective of the game is to place the cards on the timeline in the correct order.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Biyanto Rebin is joining the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland for 2.5 months as an intern. Welcome!
  • Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! Project submission deadline - September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC.
  • Postdoctoral researcher (position) in NLP, Digital Humanities, and Semantic Web (0.8 FTE), University of Groningen

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • has heir or beneficiary (people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title)
    • External identifiers: Austrian Cave Register ID, ‎research.com ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, wiki.gg article ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, ‎Visiongame.cz game ID, ‎Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, wiki.gg wiki ID, Audio+ show ID, Cent cols ID, Lift Up profile ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Dictionary of Czech literature after 1945 ID, ‎Biographical Directory of Federal Judges numeric ID, GamerProfiles game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • simule (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
      • sexe ou genre du protagoniste (regarding the work in question, For human: male, female, non-binary, intersex, transgender female, transgender male, agender. For animal: male organism, female organism. Groups of same gender use subclass of (P279))
      • unofficial name (name which is widely or rarely used, but not official (for nicknames use P1449, for pseudonymes P742))
    • External identifiers: VocalEyes Heritage Access 2022, WikiChip article ID, identifiant Demozoo d'une démo, identifiant Demozoo d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Czech geological location ID, Moviefone person ID, Moviefone movie ID, Les Petits M'O ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Minerals.net mineral ID, Minerals.net gemstone ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of birthplaces of German women writers (source)
    • Week 34, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Where were people who went to space born? (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Research expeditions - documents the activities of an international working group on Research expeditions.

• Development
  • We started looking at ways to make the Mismatch Finder more powerful and capture more mismatches.
  • We updated bootstrap-table library on Wikidata Query Service (phab:T328281)
  • We fixed Lexeme header overlaps page toolbar in Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
  • We fixed lookup component scrollbar problem (phab:T325822)
  • We added telnet as a valid protocol for URL data types (phab:T344417)
  • We added language fallback support for EntitySchemas on Special pages (phab:T338798)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

• Events
  • First Wikibase Lexical Data Workshop (wikibase-lex). September 13, 14:00 to 18:00, at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna.
  • German-speaking Wikipedia community meets in Linz (in German). September 29 - October 1, 2023.
  • OpenRefine for beginners (in German). October 25-26, 2023.
  • The second Mini Hackathon at Wikimedia Nederland, for experienced Wikimedians, will take place on Saturday, November 4. There is room for 30 participants; you can apply here.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Starting fresh: the Wikibase REST API
  • Press
    • Pamitouch Foundation pilots TTAG Goes Digital initiative at Accra College of Education. The Open Foundation West Africa provided an introduction to Wikipedia and its sister tools. The teacher trainees were guided on topics such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wikiversity.
  • Papers
    • Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years - Daria Tisch and Emma Ischinsky
    • Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data Labor, and Truth in a More-Than-Technical Project - Heather Ford and Andrew Iliadis
    • KGConv, a Conversational Corpus grounded in Wikidata - Quentin Brabant, Gwenole Lecorve, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, and Claire Gardent
  • Videos
    • Interoperability among the digital repository Tainacan and the information networks Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: A case study of FILE ARCHIVE - Paula Perissinotto & Dalton Martins
    • Link data from local index to Wikidata - Josef Moravec, Moravian Library in Brno
    • Improving knowledge dissemination with Wikidata: potentialities of structured data in hearing health - Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos

• Tool of the week
  • Peppercat is a website listing government ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking data from Wikidata. More information

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Open call: train-the-trainer course for candidate OpenRefine-Wikimedia trainers, with a focus on (structured data on) Wikimedia Commons. More info and application form here. Application deadline is September 15.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • state of transmission (state of transmission of a work (as a concept, not as a physical item; for that, use P5816))
      • describes actor of (predicate sense whose actor (an agent or a cause—basically the instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense)
      • describes undergoer of (predicate sense whose undergoer (a patient, a theme, or a recipient—basically a non-instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense)
    • External identifiers: Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID, ‎animecons.com event ID, Museo Italia ID, Dans nos cœurs ID, WWGR player ID, futzal.rus player ID, iNaturalist user ID, alyga.lt player ID, UETK ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, SEVIS school ID, WikiChip article ID, Mageia package ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Red List of South African Plants conservation status (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the [[w:South African National Biodiversity Institute]])
      • Educational level (school level in which the subject of the item is taught)
      • FragDenStaat tag (tag in FragDenStaat.de)
      • Plate (the plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
    • External identifiers: Fansly ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, BookBrainz series ID, BookBrainz edition ID, ManyVids ID, LoverFans ID, IGI Global affiliate ID, Aparat channel ID, Pandit Project work ID, RKDexcerpts
  • Query examples:
    • Territories claimed by irredentism
    • Map of tram stop all over the world (source)
    • Map of public archives in Germany (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Patagonian Archaeology - The project works on the creation and improvement of items on Patagonian Archaeology in Wikidata (archeology of the argentine patagonian coast).
    • WikiProject Archive of National Debt Redemption Movement - The purpose of this project is to promote the use of records related to the National Debt Repayment Movement (국채보상운동) by integrating data from the National Debt Repayment Movement digital archive into Wikidata.

• Development
  • Machine learning: We are migrating some tools that currently use ORES to the new Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work around the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements
  • Query Builder: We fixed some issues in the Query Builder language selector (phab:T344231)
  • We’re making the warning for anonymous editors more useful by letting them return to the page they came from after logging in (phab:T330550); we’re also working on showing those warnings in the first place in WikibaseLexeme (phab:T343979)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on the ability to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and get the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!