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Meetings

• Online user group meeting July 4 (SDG all)
• Online user group meeting July 18 (SDG all)

Activities

• Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15)
• Ongoing: Join the "Wiki editatón por el conocimiento climático" organized by Alianza Clima y Desarrollo y la Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano
• Past: A Wealth of Wiki Women (SDG 5)
• Past: Czech WikiGap 2021 report (SDG 5)
• Past: 50Y Swiss Women's Suffrage: Edit-a-thon at Historical Museum Lucerne & WikiGap (SDG 5)
• Past: The Met, Smithsonian, and a busy Edit-a-thon season (SDG 3, 5, 13)
• Past: Wiki for Human Rights Campaign in the Philippines (SDG 10, 13)

News

• 100 Years of Environment and Climate Change Canada Weather Data in Commons (SDG 13)
• #WikiForHumanRights 2021: Insights from the Macedonian Knowledge (SDG 3, 10, 15)
• Malpractice Podcast Ep #2.9: Coffee Talks with Wikimedian Lane Rasberry (SDG 3)
• Brazil’s Laws: Modeling the Brazilian legislation in Wikidata (SDG 16)

Resources

• Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) has now translated and published its guide "How to contribute climate change information to Knowledge" in Spanish. Check out the resource: "¿Cómo contribuir información sobre cambio climático a la Knowledge?"

Research

• Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Knowledge (SDG 5)
• Wikidata Projects in Times of COVID-19: IUPUI Libraries’ Engagement in Open Knowledge (SDG 3)

Videos

• Global Open Initiative Foundation editing session - Adding statements about Ghanaian Members of Parliament using OpenRefine (SDG 16)

New Wikidata properties

• OpenCorporates register jurisdiction (SDG 8)
• electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID (SDG 3)
• Romanian diplomatic mission ID (SDG 17)
• Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID (SDG 17)
• Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID (SDG 15)
• Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID (SDG 15)
• consequence of text (SDG 16)
• Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number (SDG 8)

Links

• https://meta.wikimedia.org/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• http://wikilovesearth.org/
• https://www.wikimedia.ca/2021/05/31/100-years-of-environment-and-climate-change-canada-weather-data-in-commons/
• https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/06/05/wikiforhumanrights-2021-insights-from-the-macedonian-wikipedia/
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2021/Contents/Australia_report
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2021/Contents/Czech_Republic_report
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2021/Contents/Switzerland_report
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2021/Contents/USA_report
• https://outreach.wikimedia.org/Education/News/June_2021/Wiki_for_Human_Rights_Campaign_in_the_Philippines
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar6KyZqghKk
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448211023772
• https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?e=test_email&u=17ab3d1a27c55e8201f8fb44c&id=3374a0f6b9
• https://es.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Wiki_editat%C3%B3n_por_el_conocimiento_clim%C3%A1tico
• https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/06/04/brazilian-laws-modeling-the-brazilian-legislation-in-wikidata/
• https://www.infodocket.com/2021/06/06/article-wikidata-projects-in-times-of-covid-19-iupui-libraries-engagement-in-open-knowledge/
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9630
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9635
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9638
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9639
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9649
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9654
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50GBWVUCsO8
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9680
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9679

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• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Allenwang6212a (RfP scheduled to end after 6 July 2021 06:09 UTC)

• Events
  • Past:
    • Knowledge Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #49 - YouTube
  • Upcoming:
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French by Vigneron, July 6 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Schema explorers and how they can help guide adoption of common standards
    • Tackling Technical Debt, big and small, in Wikidata and Wikibase
  • Papers
    • A Study of the Quality of Wikidata
    • Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries
  • Videos
    • (workshop) Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians - YouTube
    • Adding descriptions and statements to Wikidata using Quickstatements - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata (in German) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: voted on by, Qualis rank, author given names, author last name, delta of
    • External identifiers: Gutenberg Biographics ID, Idaho Species ID, Montana Field Guide species ID, Classical Archives composer ID, Crosscut author ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, E-Flora BC species ID, LexM ID, BES-Net user ID, VK artist ID, Legie 100 legionary ID, Buzer.de law identification, Games@Mail.ru ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, FOIH themes ID, African Film Database ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: code name, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, Impact factor, dependency grammar relations, biological target, URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state
    • External identifiers: fotoCH photographer ID, Raakvlak inventory number, cultural broadcasting archive station ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, MANTO ID, e-Rad researcher ID, WMO code
  • Query examples:
    • List of pairs of senses on the same lexeme that have the same gloss in at least one language (Source)
    • Which British Monarch saw most US Presidents; which US President saw most British Monarchs? (graph view) (dimensions view) (Source)
    • All paintings (Q3305213) that depict (P180) a painting (Source)
    • Count of qualifiers used in performer (P175) statements (Source)
    • Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List (Source)
    • Latin American female mathematicians who are not on spanish Knowledge but have an article in another language (Source)
    • US Governors and their religion, if listed (Source)
    • Living soccer players whose birthday is on January 1st (Source)
    • Museums nearby Cēsis (Q107582) (Source)
    • Distribution of public toilets per administrative units in Wales (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
  • Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
  • Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
  • Language names in Scots (sco) were updated (phab:T285076)
  • A task to complete language names in Dutch (nl) is being filled (phab:T231748)
  • A language code for an undetermined Mixtec language is being determined (phab:T155419)

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
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Emu (RfP scheduled to end after 13 July 2021 11:49 UTC)
    • -akko (RfP scheduled to end after 16 July 2021 06:31 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Allenwang6212a (unsuccessful)

• Events
  • Past:
    • LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
    • SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
    • SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; , July 13th.
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—July 14th, 2021. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #71, July 18

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Improving Wikidata-Wikisource Integration, July 7, 2021 by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
    • A first look at Wikidata through Github Copilot by Addshore
  • Papers
    • A Study of the Quality of Wikidata (Q107425133), by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
  • Videos
    • Introduction to OpenRefine for batch Wikidata editing (YouTube, ca. 1 hr 40 min) by Spinster. Recording of a training for the Wiki World Heritage User Group.
    • Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (Global Open Initiative Foundation workshop) - YouTube
    • Editing Lexicographical data in Dagbani (ʒiɛɣu) (Dagbani Wikimedians User Group workshop) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata now has over 9,000 Properties! You can see the development over the past 5 years and which datatype is represented the most here.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland to receive a grant from Arcadia to work on minority languages
  • The Wikidata development has a new space to receive bug reports and feature requests: Wikidata:Report a technical problem. You may also continue to report issues to Wikidata:Contact the development team but until the end of July when the page will be permanently protected and archived.
  • OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
    1. Junior Developer - Wikimedia Development (6 months, from September 2021 till February 2022)
    2. Junior Developer - OpenRefine Development (8 months, from November 2021 till June 2022)
  • For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: taxon range, image of entrance, replacement value, announced at
    • External identifiers: Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, cIMeC.Ro museum ID, Research Resource Identifier, Swedish National Archive agent ID, Room of Names ID, Native Land territory ID, Native Land language ID, eishockey.info player ID, HockeyLive player ID, fotoCH photographer ID, UFC ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, FightMatrix ID, EBIDAT ID, Bellator ID, WTA-Trainer-ID, Tapology ID, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state, edition-version, Città e Cattedrali ID, release of, translation of, match event, Igromania series ID, alternative title, Classification of the Functions of Government
    • External identifiers: WMO code, Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, FINA Athlete ID 2021, IFPNI author ID, Steam Greenlight ID, Adventure Corner ID, Pladias ID, código centro docente CEICE, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, abART term ID, US-Ski-&-Snowboard-Athleten-ID, Freeview Australia show ID, Kartridge game ID
  • Query examples:
    • Subclasses of Q732577 'publication' found by the Gather, Apply & Scatter service (source)
    • Places more or less on Papa Stour (using P1332-P1335 to constrain a wikibase:around search)
    • Map of Sweden's outdoor gyms (Source)
  • Newest database reports: language names in Dutch (Wikidata, Knowledge and MediaWiki)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
  • Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
  • We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Knowledge and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Knowledge and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
  • We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Knowledge and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
  • Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
  • Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
  • Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
  • Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2): We investigated How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities. You can read the ADR here

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
  • Past:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th.
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #72, July 25
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
    • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Knowledge Citations in Wikidata English & Italian by OpenCitations, report on a WikiCite grant project.
    • Opportunities to improve integration between Wikisource and Wikidata (part 2 of a WikiCite blogpost series) by KCVelaga & Satdeep Gill
    • Finding gendered street names. A step-by-step walkthrough with R
    • Introducing the MathFoldr Project
  • Videos
    • Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project (by Mahir256) - YouTube
    • Bringing IIIF Manifests to Life in Wikidata with Mirador 3 (2021 IIIF Annual Conference) - YouTube
    • Moving Knowledge's InfoBox to Wikidata (in Taiwanese) - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Using xtools created pages and wikidata API to measure gender statistics about articles created by a user (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice)
    • Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice).
    • A first look at featured articles in Knowledge in French using Wikidata (SPARQL Jupyter notebook using PAWS)

• Tool of the week
  • searchy.toolforge.org is a semantic search engine to find articles on a topic and filter results by metascientific info (gender and region).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Scholia gets an upgrade and 1 click import of new scientific paper via citation-js and QS
  • For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Among them, active Wikidata contributors Mike Peel, Laurentius and Rosiestep. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.
  • Sitelinks to the recently created Tachelhit Knowledge and Dagbani Knowledge are being added.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, number of request signatories, translation of
    • External identifiers: Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, Città e Cattedrali ID, MANTO ID, WMO code, IFPNI author ID, Landshuth ID, Pladias ID, Central records of collections ID, Podchaser creator ID, Steam Greenlight game ID, CEICE school code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, URL for freedom of information requests, Legal History, bridge number, Notable role, inventory number, Weverse user ID, ITU radio emission designation
    • External identifiers: IRIS SNS author ID, eBru ID, Daum Cafe ID, Douyin Video ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, SDBM IDs, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts ID, The New Yorker ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, Marmiton ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, PubFacts author ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of all stages of all tour de France (source)
    • Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles (source)
    • Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in (Source)
    • Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online (Source)
    • Unemployment rate in Sweden by year (1970-2020) (Source)
    • Serious plane crashes with only one survivor (Source)
    • Mayors' genders of U.S. cities above 100k population (Source)
    • Global usage of pronouns (in English Language) (Source)
    • Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject_Medieval_Nobility
  • Newest database reports: language names in Italian (Wikidata, Knowledge and MediaWiki)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. It can import first mismatches now.
  • Fixing an issue where month and year are sometimes parsed as the first day of the month (phab:T233105)
  • Fixing an issue with adding sitelinks for some of the newer Wikipedias (phab:T285919)
  • Working on improving the Lua usage tracking for redirected Items (phab:T280910)
  • SPARQL was amended on the 4th July to use the report #title, if present, as the anchor for the 'Try it' link. (example)

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
  • Next Wikidata and Wikibase office hour on July 28th at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group
  • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
  • 2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries
    • Issues and Challenges in optimum utilization of Linked Data in Indian libraries
    • Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project
    • Tutorial: Wikidata: Intro to the Basics
    • Tutorial: Writing Data to Wikidata Using Spreadsheets
    • Wikibase: Free, Flexible and Collaborative Linked Data
    • Rune inscriptions in Wikidata / Wikibase; Sampo Model and Portal Series on the Semantic Web
    • Wikidata In Classroom • Creating Linked Data from Books and Magazines
    • LD4 meeting: Wikidata Affinity Group
  • Introduction to Wikidata (in Indonesian) part 1, part 2, part 3
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andra Waagmeester on work with Shape Expressions in Wikidata to describe the genomics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; , July 27th.
  • COSCUP 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 2020.07.31-08.01 Online website, Meta-wiki
  • Openstreetmap x Wikidata meetup 2021.08.09 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Typed Citations in the Journal of Cheminformatics
    • What happens in Wikibase when you make a new Item?
    • Discovering new comics with Wikidata’s powerful tools
    • Two metadata directions. Metadata practice is evolving. I discuss two important trends here: entification and pluralization
    • Still mapping! "Our team has been working continuously on improving the number of Welsh place names that appear online since our inception in 2017 as partt of the Welsh Government’s Welsh Government #Cymraeg2050 project"..."we will also use Wikidata to store and share Welsh language information".
    • Making the Camino de Santiago visible on Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on lexeme pages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Abstract Knowledge and Wikifunctions is hiring software engineers and an engineering manager.
  • Job opening: Digital Channels Outreach Manager ("mentions contributing to Wikidata and Wikimedia platforms")

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia Incubator URL, symbol represents, bridge number
    • External identifiers: Adventure Corner video game ID, FRB person ID, Apple TV episode ID, Apple TV show ID, FRB event ID, Wikidata language code, Raakvlak inventory number, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Plant life-form, cabinet, title of a church
    • External identifiers: VI.BE Platform ID, Smartify artwork ID, Women Also Know History ID, IrishTheatre.ie Company ID, BMC Id, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of all stage winners in the Tour de France with links to the list of stages won (source)
    • Map of miniature parks (Source)
    • Map of open data portals (Source)
    • Video games published before 1980, and their authors (Source)
    • Protected bridges over the Zadorra river basin (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Govdirectory

• Development
  • Added a tags parameter to the wbmergeitems API so Item merges can now also get an edit tag (T286778)
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. This week we focused on uploading a file with potential mismatches and the UI for getting a list of all uploaded mismatch files.
  • Addressing comments from the security review of the Query Builder so we can hopefully soon move it from the test system to its proper place under query.wikidata.org

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!

Meetings

• Online user group meeting August 1 (SDG all)
• Online user group meeting August 15 (SDG all)
• Past: Online user group meeting July 4 (SDG all)

Wikimania

• During Wikimania there are a number of sessions related to our user group. We have started a page in the community village to list all the talks, please help add them if you are giving talks or spot sessions in the program. (SDG all)

Activities

• Organize Wiki Loves Monuments in 2021 (SDG 11)
• Past: Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon (SDG 3)

News

• Who Gets To Be Notable And Who Doesn't: Gender Bias On Wiki (SDG 5)

Resources

• Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (SDG 5)

Research

• Meta-Research: Citation needed? Knowledge and the COVID-19 pandemic (SDG 3)
• Covid-on-the-Web: Knowledge Graph and Services to Advance COVID-19 Research book (SDG 3)
• Unveiling the veiled: Knowledge collaborating with academic libraries in Africa in creating visibility for African women through Art+Feminism Knowledge edit-a-thon (SDG 5)

Videos

• Knowledge Weekly Network - Live editing Knowledge: Biodiversity edition #4 (SDG 15) ,
• Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (SDG 16)

New WikiProjects

• Wikidata:Gov Directory (SDG 16)

New Wikidata properties

• voted on by (SDG 16)
• delta of (SDG 14)
• Idaho Species ID (SDG 15)
• Montana Field Guide species ID (SDG 15)
• E-Fauna BC species ID (SDG 15)
• E-Flora BC species ID (SDG 15)
• Buzer.de law identification (SDG 16)
• taxon range (SDG 15)
• URL for citizen's initiatives (SDG 16)
• number of request signatories (SDG 16)
• CEICE school code (SDG 4)

New Wikidata query examples

• Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List (SDG 15)
• Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles (SDG 5)
• Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in (SDG 16)
• Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online (SDG 16)
• Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen (SDG 3)

Links

• https://meta.wikimedia.org/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPqjs4PwrJk
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/4037199796327821/
• https://www.wikidata.org/Wikidata:Gov_Directory
• https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Vaccine_Safety_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_June_12,_2021
• https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/2021:Community_Village/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210704
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eRbrmDlTr0
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9681
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9700
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9684
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9685
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9690
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9691
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9696
• https://w.wiki/3b4k
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9714
• https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/Gender%20diversity%20in%20academic%20disciplines%20in%20the%20French%20wikipedia.ipynb
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9732
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9740
• https://www.wikidata.org/Property:P9746
• https://www.wikidata.org/User:PAC2/Measuring_gender_diversity
• https://w.wiki/3eFe
• https://w.wiki/3dvP
• https://w.wiki/3dT6
• https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/04/organize-wiki-loves-monuments-in-2021/
• https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1015754856/who-gets-to-be-notable-and-who-doesnt-gender-bias-on-wiki
• https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.01.433379v1
• https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02939363
• https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-08-2020-0079

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  • July 2021 Wikidata+Wikibase office hours logs
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  • Videos
    • What is Wikidata (in German) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Mahir256/syndepgraph.js is used to make interesting SVG-based syntactic dependency graphs generated with {{Syndepgraph}} to appear.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Portuguese version of the Wikidata Query Service tutorial tool is now available.
  • Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!
  • The moveClaim.js user script has been updated using code created by Melderick to support changing a property of a claim within an entity. Please switch to the updated version if you used the other one, and report any bugs.
  • New tool: Lexemes Party displays lexemes linked to a list of Wikidata items, so you can improve related lexicographical data in the languages you know. You can build your own lists and several examples are available. A weekly challenge is also proposed, theme of the week: Olympic Games.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: symbol represents, bridge number, syntactic dependency head relationship, syntactic dependency head position
    • External identifiers: Raakvlak inventory number, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID, Treccani's Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, IRIS SNS author ID, U.S. Ski & Snowboard athlete ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, FIBA 3x3 player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: cabinet, title of a church, Apple App Store classification, amount of medals, GRAC/GRB content descriptor, GRAC/GRB rating category, Igromania developer/publisher ID, commentator, FLOSS development policy URL
    • External identifiers: BMC Id, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, police zone ID, Tax identification number, Lessico del XXI Secolo ID, The Women’s Print History Project person ID, USA Climbing member ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, Ordbog over det danske sprog ID, Vokrug sveta Encyclopedia ID, Nationalencyklopedin ID, MPAA certificate number, Magyar írók élete és munkái ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of film directors who have worked with Jean-François Stevenin the most (source) Jean-François Stevenin is a French actor, dead the 27th of July
    • French municipalities containing the word "ville" (Source)
    • Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (Source)
    • Museums within 70 km of Dresden (Source)

• Development
  • Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. Focusing on wrapping up the store part of the tool and moving on to the UI for reviewing mismatches.
  • Made it so that Special:EntityData doesn't throw an exception when called with an invalid flavor parameter (phabricator:T286275)
  • Limit languages of entity stubs in RDF output (Breaking change)

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.

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  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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  • 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:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Edit-a-thons highlighting Boston Rock City Edit-a-thon, Wikidata Comics Edit-a-thon, and Wiki-Relays , Aug 10th.
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour - Next steps after installing a Wikibase instance -- creating users, items, and properties. Friday, August 27th, 2021 / 1PM (time zone converter). Registration: Please fill in ZOOM Registration Link to register
    • Wikimania 2021, August 13 to 17, online event. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Past:
    • JOSS2021 National Diet Library-sponsored session "Linked Data, Wikidata, GLAM" (in Japanese)

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Generic queries for musicians new wikidata template to explore the work of a musician.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:So9q/duplicate item.js is a userscript that can duplicate the current item, minus sitelinks and descriptions (not allowed by Wikidata).
  • Collection of Wikidata:Weekly summary query examples (2015-2021) by MKar

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: edition/version, open source software policy URL
    • External identifiers: Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, FIBA 3x3 player ID, Women Also Know History ID, Marmiton ID, Knesset member ID, The New Yorker contributor ID, Kielitoimiston sanakirja ID, BNM bibliographic record ID, Treccani's Lessico del XXI Secolo ID, e-Rad researcher number, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: FLOSS development policy URL, Umění pro město ID, broadcast of, dissertation program, DDB-Person-Nummer
    • External identifiers: GSSO ID, COD ID, ARTEINFORMADO Person ID, CDAEM Person ID, ASE person ID, Kalliope-Verbund ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, IRIS Pisa IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Shironet ID, Paleobotany ID, arheologi.ro ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of Welsh lakes and reservoirs (Source)
    • Gender statistics about featured articles in fr.wikipedia.org
    • Statistics about featured articles in fr.wikipedia.org by their value of instance of property
    • Place of birth of Swedish 1912 Summer Olympics participants (Source)
    • Interactive map with all Olympic Games medalists by place of birth (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Finishing work on importing mismatches and moved on to building the API for retrieving mismatches from the mismatch store.
  • Added tags for all edits done through the UI to more easily distinguish them from edits made through tools and other means (phab:T236893)
  • Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)

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 deploy Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
  • Help write the next summary!

• Events
  • Ongoing:
    • Wikimania Wikidata related events (On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.):
      • Add a pinch of Wikidata to your web browser: Entity Explosion
      • Documenting Women Artists in the University of Salford Art Collection Through Wikidata
      • Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q
      • Making feedback loops work for Wikidata
      • Wikidata: What happened? Where are we going?
  • Upcoming:
    • A biodiversity-themed hackathon is being organized at the National Botanic Garden of Belgium for September 20-24. Three of the ten proposed topics are Wikidata-related — biodiversity-related Wikidata lexemes, taxonomic names, and women in biodiversity research. Remote participation is possible.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Wikidata:PAWS describes how to use PAWS to write SPARQL notebooks.
  • Videos
    • Guide to fetch Knowledge data from Wikidata using Wikibase-SDK and node.js (in Hindi) - YouTube
    • How to create an item on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Books
    • SPARQL wikibook

• Tool of the week
  • Template:SPARQL Inline is a Wikidata template which allows to write SPARQL query in Wikidata with a label. It is an alternative to Template:SPARQL and Template:Wdquery.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:So9q/KORP-link.js is a userscript to add a link to the Swedish corpus KORP in the Tools section on items.
  • WMF Search team is working on scaling up Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) to handle increasing graph size and queries. Please provide feedback by filling out this Google Forms survey!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: performed at, Smithsonian trinomial format regex, setlist, number of Classification of the Functions of Government
    • External identifiers: Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, ASE person ID, Alsharek Archive author ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, ARPI author ID, IRIS SSSUP author ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: dissertation program, CDDA designationType, container, remix of, insurance number (building), numéro de parcelle
    • External identifiers: SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Palynodata taxa ID, arheologi.ro ID, DDB-Person-Nummer, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID, Svenska Ord ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage object ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage institutions ID, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Mapping the Lives ID, MART catalog person ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Palynodata publications ID, opaquenamespace ID, HarperCollins product ID, Derrieux Agency person ID, Lambic.Info ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, GLN, Unconsenting Media ID, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Iași Central University Library ID, Volleybox ID, Team-Deutschland-Paralympics-ID, ISL ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, ASJC
  • Query examples:
    • List of properties which have instances or subclass of organisations as possible value (source)
    • List of classes which are used as value constraints for the properties (source)
    • Concepts, processes, practices, etc. linked to the philosophical concept of power (Source)
    • Twelve Times table using Wikidata items (Source)
    • Newly protected World Heritage sites in 2021 (Source)
    • Total number of wins for each world snooker champion (Source)
    • Who was the UK Prime Minister when each of the English Premier League/First Division title winners last won the title (Source)
    • Map of the birthplace of sports team players by decade (lines link birthplace to home venue location) (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Neighborhood Public Art in Boston

• Development
  • Cut save-time for edits in half (phab:T288639)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
  • Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (phab:T204031)
  • Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
  • Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)

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
  • Open request for adminship: MusikBot II (RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2021 03:07 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Érica Azzellini and Éder Porto on MBABEL, a tool which creates seed Knowledge articles based on Wikidata statements. Agenda with call link, August 24.
    • BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Knowledge/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
  • Past:
    • Wikimania 2021 Wikidata related events (summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase)
      • Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata
      • Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects
    • Preparing languages for natural language generation using Wikidata lexicographical (Arctic Knot 2021)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Articles
    • 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights -

      

      In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Knowledge, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
  • Blogs
    • Organizing the Public Data about a Researcher - Charles Tapley Hoyt
    • The Invisible Citation Commons - Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein
    • The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries - Bob DuCharme
    • Wikidata or scraping Knowledge - Denny Vrandečić
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Wikidata SPARQL query service (in Arabic) - YouTube

• Tools of the week
  • Python script to Add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons from an Excel sheet (Github) - by OlafJanssen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata:Query Builder has been deployed: Try it!
  • The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources from Zotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
  • Wikidata Query Service scaling updates for Aug 2021

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, mix or remix of
    • External identifiers: Palynodata taxa ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, PsycNET ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: hunting areas, number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID
    • External identifiers: TeamNL player ID, Finnish National Gallery ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, NDL earlier law ID, Cinemaitaliano IDs, KNHB ID, Deutsche-Sporthilfe-ID, Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code
  • Query examples:
    • Predicates implicated in non-scholarly-article item bloat (source)
    • Church of Scotland Synods as Geoshapes (Source)
    • Map of the origin of Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts, current location (Source)
    • Current principal local authorities in England

• Development
  • Deployed the new shiny Query Builder to https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder
  • Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775)
  • ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191)
  • Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
  • Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178)

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
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata Labs XXXI in English on the topic of Reimagining Wikidata from the margins, August 31
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook, September 4 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #77, September 5
    • Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
    • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about data quality, September 13
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—September 1st, 2021 Come with anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session (August 26th, 2021) logs
    • RubyConfTW 2021
      • Wikidata basics (in Chinese)
      • Wikidata and Open Streetmaps (in Chinese)
      • Using the MediaWiki open data API to solve data description problems (in Chinese)
      • Moving Knowledge's Infobox to Wikidata's Property:Taiwanese place names (in Chinese)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Why Are Citations Not Part of Discussions on Open Knowledge?
    • Mapping Diversity Puts The Gender Gap of Toponymy On Paper (in Italian)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata: Behind the Scenes of the Great Knowledge Data Repository (in Spanish)
    • Bring data from Wikidata and any other LOD Knowledge Graph to your Roam graph
  • Notebooks
    • What are the Knowledge articles you've created about? a notebook which show how to compute statistics about the articles you've created in Knowledge by "instance of" (P31) property

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata2ical provides an ical file for each wikidata entity that has start time (P580) and end time (P582).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
  • Wikibase Installation & Updating survey has been published!
  • The Board of Trustees election has started. Votes will be accepted until 23:59 31 August 2021 (UTC). View candidate statements, verify your eligibility and vote now.
  • Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
  • WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, remix of, container, release of
    • External identifiers: Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username, Team Deutschland Paralympics ID, BMC ID, Kartridge game ID, ISL ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Daum Cafe ID, Freeview show ID, Unconsenting Media ID, TeamNL athlete ID, Volleybox ID, COD ID, allabolag.se person ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius entry ID, GSSO ID, Fontaines de France ID, KNHB ID, DC Books book ID, Igromania developer/publisher ID, Deutsche Sporthilfe ID, Finnish National Gallery artwork ID, Igromania series ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, Svenska ord ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID, uses natural resource, created for, number of triples, reprinted in, Eneström Number, літературний редактор
    • External identifiers: Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code, Government Publications Number, Food.com ID, Dewan Negara ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, BBC Food ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, IRIS Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II author ID, IndieMag game ID, Bleus Handisport-ID, Overnia, Edizioni Ares author ID, hmmlid, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Naver Post member ID, eAmbrosia ID, DC Character ID, Postimees topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of Items in Sweden with coordinate location and elevation above sea-level statements (Source)
    • Map of UK's most extreme cities (Source)
    • All current principal Local Authorities in England (Source)

• Development
  • Wikidata:Mismatch Finder development continues. We are now working on the frontend. First pieces are starting to be visible at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org (but nothing usable yet)
  • Fixed an issue with unicode characters in constraints checks (phab:T289805)
  • Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
  • Continued work on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
  • Continued work on new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)

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!

• Discuss this newsletter
• Subscribe
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• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih. , Sep 7th.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #78, September 12

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • A new R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata: tidywikidatar
    • A global directory of official governmental online accounts and services, by Albin Larsson and Jan Ainali
  • Papers
    • Creating and Querying Personalized Versions of Wikidata on a Laptop
    • Type or Individual? Evidence of Large-Scale Conceptual Disarray in Wikidata
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Wikidata Lab XXXI: Reimagining Wikidata from the margins
  • Other
    • Knowledge Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language
    • Ancient Hellenistic philosophers, visualized as a chain from master to student (Source)
    • Generating text with Ninai and Udiron (prototyping using Wikidata items and lexemes in text generation)
    • Over 3000 landscape paintings 'depict' something with coordinates. You can now browse them by country (Source)

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
  • In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National Diet Library persistent work ID, Svensk ordbok ID, ECO code, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Food.com ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, MART catalog person ID, IRIS UNINA author ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, Overnia ID, HandiSport Équipes de France ID, Cinemaitaliano person ID, Cinemaitaliano film ID, Mozilla extension ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, DC Character ID, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index ID, eAmbrosia ID, Edizioni Ares author ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number, Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: літературний редактор, Rotten Tomatoes score
    • External identifiers: Eneström Number, Télé-Loisirs ID, PDDikti higher education institution ID, HMS, Barnivore ID, RAWG game ID, Materials Project material ID, INAPP IDs, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Slangopedia ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Urban Dictionary ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, Glitchwave genre ID, Endemia.nc animal ID, Yiddish Dictionary Online ID, Casefile ID, Every Noise at Once ID, museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID
  • Query examples:
    • Paintings by Waldmüller in the Belvedere, Vienna - Austria (Source)
    • Coauthors of coauthors of Birgit Meldal (Q46168094) that have never directly coauthored a paper with her (Source)
    • Country-level citation network in biometrics (Scholia) (Source)
    • Council Information Systems with OParlOrg API endpoints (Q47450936) (Source)

• Development
  • Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
  • Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
  • Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
  • Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
  • Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (phab:T280229)
  • We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Knowledge and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.

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!
  • Deploy d:Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • WikidataCon update: you can now check in the program of the first day of the online conference
    • Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
      • 14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
      • 21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
      • 28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
    • Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
  • Ongoing:
    • Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
  • Past:
    • Forex - 36C3 Wikipaka WG: Live querying: let’s explore Wikidata together! - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Linking Data and Descriptions on Moths Using the Wikimedia Ecosystem Part of collection TDWG Proceedings 2021
  • other
    • Ainali talks about Wikidata on The World According to Knowledge podcast.

• Tool of the week
  • Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Knowledge (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
  • Wikidata now has over 150,000 Senses on Lexemes!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: GRAC rating
    • External identifiers: Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number (Taiwan), Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, Télé-Loisirs ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Douyin video ID, IndieMag game ID, INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Mexican Video Game content classification category, NZTCS conservation status, Unique Identifier, relevant date for copyright, Allaboutjazz musician ID, Google Fonts ID
    • External identifiers: museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, thefreedictionary dictionary term ID, TermCymru ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, NZTCS ID, Australian Research Council Grant ID, PSC, SAM id, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID, Norsk Akademis Ordbok ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Kallías, Owler company ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo ordered by number of sitelinks (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
    • List of actors with whom Jean-Paul Belmondo has played the most (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
    • count of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo by decade
    • List of characters in Tintin ordered by number of apparitions (source)
    • People with no birth/death/floruit dates but which have a position from which dates can be inferred (source)
    • Map of the origin of diamond open access journal (Q108440863) publications (source)
    • Map of place names in Ghana ending with "li", "ti", "om" (source)
• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
  • Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (phab:T280229)
  • Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (phab:T251480)
  • All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)

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
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). , Sep 21st.
    • Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
  • Ongoing:
    • The Creative Commons Global Summit and Hack4OpenGLAM hackathon take place from September 20 until 24 (fully online). Several sessions and projects are related to Wikidata and/or Wikibase (see schedule search).
  • Past:
    • Data Quality Days:
      • Periodic editathons as a way to improve data quality on Wikidata: an experiment in Italy - YouTube
      • Bringing Czech authority files into 21st century: Integration with Wikidata - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Mapping the Scottish Reformation - using Wikidata, Knowledge's sister project - YouTube
    • OpenSym 2021: WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties - YouTube
    • Knowledge Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #53 (user scripts and gadgets that can help you edit) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Inductiveload/scripts/ShowQsAndPs shows the Q and P IDs on Items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenRefine has started development of features for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. Sign up here if you want to receive occasional updates on a Wikimedia talk page of your choice.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: created for, Candomblé nation, NZTCS conservation status, Mexican video game rating category
    • External identifiers: INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry-Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Every Noise at Once ID, Spotify show episode ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Bing entity ID, TermCymru ID, NZTCS ID, Online Begraafplaatsen person ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Naver Post member ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: relevant date for copyright, issuing agency, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods ID, main subject for, type host taxon, has thematic relation, location of lexeme usage, ODOT county code, illustrative content
    • External identifiers: e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Google Fonts ID, Kallías, Owler company ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Allrugby, SLSP editions ID, Issuu ID, XXI Secolo ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, HJP ID, NVE reservoir ID, Biografija.ru ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, IRIS Tuscany IDs, Joshua Project people group ID, Flipboard ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide (2021- Version) ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Poetsgate poem ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Zenodo Communities ID, National Union Catalog ID
  • Query examples:
    • Biological taxa named after (metal (and other) music bands
    • Works by Dante Alighieri (1265 - September 13/14, 1321)
    • Cumulative page views for candidates in Czech parliamentary election 2021, split by party (Source)

• Development
  • The new Streaming Updater for Wikidata Query Service will be in production 18 Oct 2021
  • Working on changing the way sitelinks to Wikimedia Commons are created from Item data; now using topic's main category (P910) and category related to list (P1754) before Commons category (P373) (T232927)
  • Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
  • Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
  • Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (phab:T235292)
  • Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (phab:T290950)
  • Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (phab:T290951)
  • Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (phab:T280684)
  • Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (phab:T280229)

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!