• Events
  • Past: Wikidata et Wiktionnaire session at the French-speaking WikiConvention by Pamputt ( slides)
  • Upcoming: WikidataWednesday in Vienna, September 18th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, September 20th
  • Upcoming: #4 Wikidata tea party/第4回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 20 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
  • Upcoming: Wikibase Workshop/ウィキベースワークショップ, 28 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata gets wordier, by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual
  • Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata - Michael Luggen et al.

• Tool of the week
  • Hauki lets you browse existing Lexemes, add Senses to them, and easily create new Lexemes for common languages and lexical categories.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • мир (L99999) (peace), мир (100000) (world/earth) and L166666 were created

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: cumulative elevation gain, climbing route
    • External identifiers: Lower Austrian Museum ID, Auckland Museum ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID, Al-Jazeera topic ID, Digital Giza ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, Downdetector ID, TOP500 System ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Maine Trail Finder ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Masters Thesis, OFLC classification (New Zealand), worn by, station type, interchange, status, first, last and so on, front and backside
    • External identifiers: Archnet Site ID, Trail Finder ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, code DANE, ICD-11, SMHI drainage basin ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Mixer game ID, Vudu video ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of times a Wikidata item for Carl von Linnaeus was created
    • Picture of species were the author(s) of the first scientific description is in WD and connected to Uppsala University Alvin database
    • same query but where we miss a picture in Wikidata
    • Twins with different places of birth ( source)
    • Places in Scottish local government areas ( source)
    • Libraries in Austria ( source)
  • Schema examples:
    • space probe
    • Tsunami
  • Newest WikiProjects: Textile arts, Dark

• Development
  • Started working on two new projects: improving the resource loader module and tainted references
  • Wikidata Bridge: save the Wikidata edit when submitting ( phab:T226999)
  • Show the label for the Property instead of the id ( phab:T227759)
  • Warn user about blank edit summary on EntitySchema ( phab:T230399)

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: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata as a hub for the Linked Data cloud - tutorial (full day) at Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2019 conference, Seoul, on September 25.
  • Past: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata - Awesome Together during State of the Map 2019 ( slides of part one)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata ist für alle (Bibliotheken) offen. Presentation at 34. Austrian Librarian conference 2019 (Q67368932), September 11th. (in German)
  • Opening up the linked data world of Wikidata to new editors, by Will Kent (WikiEdu)

• Tool of the week
  • Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: Please help to build a basic data model for describing Wikimedia Commons file with structured data! Your help is welcome to solve different modeling challenges, including how to model dates, sources and authors. You can also look at current Wikimedia Commons infobox templates and discuss how the information in wikitext can be translated to structured data.
  • Structured Data on Commons: the team is going to develop computer-aided tagging for depicts statements on Commons. You can read the project page and participate on the talk page.
  • Your comments on the vision and strategy papers are still welcome on the associated talk page.
  • WikidataCon Award 2019: you can nominate your favorite Wikidata or Wikibase project or tool! 🏆 Participation open until October 7th
  • Wikidata passed 8B triples on the 19th September ( grafana)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: IP Code, number of decimal digits, OFLC classification, amount cataloged, Hardware Version Identification Number
    • External identifiers: Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, Rate Your Music label ID, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, Behind The Voice Actors short ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, Labelcode, Trail Finder ID, Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier (MRGID), Archnet site ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, DANE code, MobyGames genre ID, ICD-11 ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Vudu video ID, Mixer game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Peer review location, fineness, regnal ordinal, Wikinews coverage, educational stage, faculty, Kivid.info ID, Fossiilid.info ID, CITES Appendix, Content descriptor
    • External identifiers: Wi-Fi Certification ID, GCF Reference, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power ID, IGNrando ID, ISSN-L, Skiddle artist ID, Juno Download album ID, See Tickets artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Library systems in California
    • Waterfalls without a drainage basin yet
    • Works of art depicting kisses ( source)
    • Longest English word without a repeated letter ( source)
    • Longest alphabetically sorted words in English ( source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Q68235346

• Development
  • Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving ( phab:T227003)
  • Adapt buttons' texts to UI language ( phab:T228259)
  • More work on setting up the technical background to work on tainted references
  • More work on reducing the resources needed to load pages
  • Create a dependency graph of existing RessourceLoader modules ( phab:T232728)

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
  • Open request for adminship: Catherine Laurence

• Events
  • Past: Using Wikidata to Provide Visibility to Women in STEM during Dublin Core 2019
  • Upcoming: WikiCon, meeting of the German speaking Community from 4th to 6th of October 2019 in Wuppertal (Germany)
  • Upcoming: #5 Wikidata tea party/第5回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 18 Oct 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Scottish witches in the press and on TV
  • Some witchy history and a very smart woman in data science
  • Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge - Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, et al.
  • GeneDB and Wikidata, by Magnus Manske

• Tool of the week
  • This Recent changes tool allows to get a list of unpatrolled Wikidata changes with enhanced filters that are more adapted to Wikidata than the standard Recent Changes page. Available actions include mass patroling and easier revert interface.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The state library of Berlin is using Wikidata to display a map of pictures from their architecture journals: Berlin um 1900 - eine fotografische Zeitreise
  • Edit summaries coming from the wbeditentity API (for example from the mobile termbox) will be improved from October 2nd ( announcement, ticket)
  • You can nominate your favourite Wikidata and Wikibase projects for the WikidataCon Award until October 7th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: regnal ordinal, peer review URL
    • External identifiers: GCF Reference, Wi-Fi Certification ID, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata film ID, sixpackfilmdata person ID, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power farm ID, IGNrando' ID, Fossiilid.info ID, Kivid.info ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: bus, mwnf, Maximum number of playable characters, FIDAL team ID, candidate name string, IP range start, code (image), name in hiero markup, disputed by, name (image), style of karate
    • External identifiers: NTS Radio artist ID, Gazetteer for Scotland ID, Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, DC Books author ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, UEFA team ID, UEFA coach ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, FAIMER school ID, China Martyrs ID, JournalBase ID, PCEngine Catalog Project ID, PubPeer article ID, memoriademadrid publication ID, doujinshi.org author ID, Beatport label ID, Knesset Law Id, caves.4at.info ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Amazon Music album ID 2, Qobuz album ID, Plus Music album ID, eska.pl release ID, iHeartRadio album ID, Three Decks people ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, Empik e-book or album ID, identificador GENavarra, Oricon News artist ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Fortuna liga player ID
  • Deleted properties: P5130 (island of location)
  • Query examples:
    • Civil parishes of Scotland, revealed through their listed buildings ( source)
    • Scottish civil parishes by county and present-day council area ( source)
    • Federated SPARQL query from the Swedish National Archive TORA project to Wikidata
    • Librairies in Africa ( source)
    • Most recently dissolved enterprises that were over 200 years old ( source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Red pandas

• Development
  • More work done on removing some resource loader modules in order to speed up the load of pages
  • Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving ( phab:T227003)
  • Adapt buttons' texts to UI language ( phab:T228259)
  • research regarding permissions/protection ( phab:T231209)
  • More preparation work for improving references

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 request for comments: Structured path for property definition changes, Import of item into wikidata private instance
  • Closed requests for comments: Notability wording

• Events
  • Wikidata (für Archive) beim Herbsttreffen des AK Archive der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (in German)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign 08 October. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Generating "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Questions Sets Automatically from Wikidata, Markus Wohlan, et al.
  • Wikidata: A large-scale collaborative ontological medical database, Houcemeddine Turki et al.
  • Wikidata & Wikibase for National Libraries: the inaugural meeting by Wendy Byrne and Liam Wyatt
  • Una lezione di biblioteconomia, o Del nome corto dell’autore, Giovanni Bergamin (Q61727262)

• Tool of the week
  • soweego links Wikidata to large third-party catalogs. Together with its friend Mix'n'match, it helps Wikidata to become the universal linking hub of open data.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The WikiProject India will send a quarterly newsletter, more info and subscribe here
  • Two Wikidata users were nominated for a “WikiEule”, the German Wikipedia community’s annual awards: MisterSynergy ( nomination) for an “EngagementEule” (special commitment to the wiki projects) and Tobias1984 ( nomination) for an “OrgaEule” (organizational work).
  • You can nominate projects for the WikidataCon award until October 7th at 23:59 UTC (today).
  • During the summer, WikidataJS became WikibaseJS! More specifically:
    • wikidata-sdk became wikibase-sdk ( changelogs)
    • wikidata-edit became wikibase-edit ( changelogs)
    • wikidata-cli became wikibase-cli ( changelogs)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: content descriptor, educational stage, MWNF ID, worn by, tussenvoegsel, item disputed by
    • External identifiers: Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, Gazetteer for Scotland place ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, NTS Radio artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID, See Tickets artist ID, DC Books author ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, UEFA coach ID, UEFA team ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, ISSN-L, FIDAL team ID, China Martyrs ID, FAIMER school ID, JournalBase ID, National Library of Chile ID, PCEngine Catalog Project identifier, Beatport label ID, memoriademadrid publication ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: serving temperature, Ordained by, Main deity, image with frame, urn formatter, folio(s), minimum temperature record, venue of the grand final, Steam bundle ID
    • External identifiers: Basis Wien, MIC, DynamoMania.com player ID, 247Sports ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database work ID, Beachsafe Beach Key, LibraryThing author ID, FutbolMe.com player ID, Pubs Galore ID, Publons publisher ID, EconBiz publication ID, ERIC publication ID, ForaDeJogo.net team ID, FreeBSD port, HCPCS Identifier, Ents24 artist ID, Eventim artist ID, Coast to Coast Tickets artist ID, ScoreBig artist ID, SeatGeek artist ID, MovieTickets person ID, Ticket Liquidator artist ID, TicketCity artist ID, Tickets.com artist ID, TickPick artist ID, Viagogo artist ID, Vivid Seats artist ID, StubHub artist ID, NAD topographic databas, Rotterdam City Archives name ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia museum ID, Professional Football League of Ukraine player ID, Ancient Tree Inventory ID, FantLab author ID, Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query examples:
    • Biographical entries in the Gazetteer for Scotland, with no article on English Wikipedia
  • Map of medical facilities in Murshidabad district, India, color-coded by type ( source)
  • Map of flight connections between airports in India ( source)
  • GLAMs institutions located north of Umeå ( source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Climate Change

• Development
  • Continue work on removing and optimizing resource loader modules
  • Wikidata Bridge: obey wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish ( phab:T228260)
  • Canceling the modal ( phab:T231282)
  • Research regarding permissions/protection ( phab:T231209)
  • Investigation to ensure editing with the same credentials ( phab:T231887)

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!