• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Conclusion of 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Wikidata Editathon (grant report)
  • "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" OCLC Research. DOI: 10.25333/faq3-ax08

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The open source geocoder w:en:Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the development blog.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: musical bar, epigraph (literature), copyright exemption, significant place
    • External identifiers: München Wiki article ID, Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts.co album ID, NOTAM (FAA), CHESNO politician ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: legend for number, does not have effect, word stem type, Voting system, Class, Peer-review-process properties for journals, Wikisource-Kategorie, line(s), Election called by, image or photo-making technique
    • External identifiers: FGrHist ID, Acharts.co song ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Hacker News User ID, Swedish lighthouses, EPW author ID, Gaana.com album ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions job ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, PLIA ID, Planespotters.net ID, Awards & Winners artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, AccuRadio artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, CD Universe artist ID, Ex Libris author ID, Fishpond.co.nz author ID, YesAsia author ID, Supraphonline artist ID, Image-Line artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Register nehnuteľných NKP, deejay.de artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, GreatSong artist ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Getty Images topic ID, Tunefind artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, SongMeanings artist ID, Census of India ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bands whose name is part of Tolkien's legendarium (source)
    • Map of offshore windfarms (source)
    • Cities having more Wikipedia sitelinks than their country (source)

• Development
  • Fix a caching problem on termbox (phab:T228978)
  • Investigate options for termbox load testing (phab:T229790)
  • Use thumbnail preferences for thumbnail of Commons media file (phab:T224189)
  • Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
  • Move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox (phab:T66315)
  • Create Maintenance Script to Remove Terms in a Language from Current Revision (phab:T222606)
  • Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
  • Add editing widget/input on Bridge (phab:T226998)

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: Improved instructions for translation admin

• Events
  • Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.

• Tool of the week
  • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
  • NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata
  • ISA is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
  • You can help improve the vandalism detection by completing a set of labels for ORES
  • QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019
  • New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
    • Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
    • Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: manner of inhumane treatment, cases consolidated, typically sells, noun class, does not have effect, substitute director/manager, school class
    • External identifiers: Empik author ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, The Top Tens ID, merlin.pl author ID, Plus Music artist ID, Kinsky–Halm Catalogue, Raptekster.dk ID, Acharts.co song ID, FGrHist ID, register of real estate NKP, Hacker News User ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Gaana.com album ID, XING profile ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, job ID in Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions, Planespotters.net aircraft ID, PLIA ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, EPW author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: graph radius, Belgian Species List ID, amino acid (start, end) position, ordeal by, protected region scheme, image revision-id, region within image, access restriction status, georeferencing data, number of processor threads, part number, CPUID, based on tabular data, Siddham script name, Number of active electronic terminals
    • External identifiers: OpenWeatherMap city ID, Scribd Publication ID, moly.hu azonosító, Hungarian Movie Database film ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, jog.fm artist ID, Hype Machine artist ID, Liber Liber author ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Just Hear It artist ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Digitalt Museum ID, MTV UK artist ID, MTV Germany artist ID, MTV Polska artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, Eiga.com movie ID, GoodRx, BEACON ID
  • Query examples:
    • Books in Bengali Wikisource that are validated (source)
    • Flightless birds of New Zealand (source)
    • Islands in Germany (source)
    • Clandestine center of detention and torture in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina (source)
    • Same-sex married couples where neither partner has a sexual orientation (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • Danish numerals
    • Danish hyphenation

• Development
  • Fix an issue with the pop up of Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
  • Call WikibaseLexeme API with baserevid parameter from the UI (phab:T217245)
  • Fix a bug with CheckConstraintsJob (phab:T227450)
  • Fix a bug with wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
  • Add editing widget/input to client edit modal: (phab:T226998)
  • Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities: (phab:T229917)
  • More work on the the production Termbox service
  • tidying up our browser test suite (phab:T229910)
  • adding browser tests for basic editing (phab:T230187)

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: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikimania recap, 27 August. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • What we talk about when we talk about Wikidata quality: a literature survey, by Alessandro Piscopo and Elena Simperl
  • Introduction to OpenRefine in video by Emma (University of Edimburgh) (12min)
  • Old but gold: introduction to Wikidata by Asaf Bartov (7min)

• Tool of the week
  • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
  • Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Edit 1,000,000,000 - the one-billionth, or 10⁹ - was the creation of Template:Q by User:Stevenliuyi
  • New termbox interface on mobile is enabled - you can view and edit easily the labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile devices (full announcement)
  • Random finds from WikiProject Random
  • Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
  • Wiki Loves Monuments and other Wikimedia Commons campaign organizers can now specify structured data fields in the campaign UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.
  • The new termbox interface is now enabled on mobile, you can edit labels, descriptions and aliases from a mobile device

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ordeal by, newspaper archive url, periphrastic definition, lexeme for periphrastic definition, link for periphrastic definition
    • External identifiers: Awards & Winners artist ID, eska.pl topic ID, Image-Line artist ID, Jango artist ID, LiveXLive artist ID, mora artist ID, RMF FM artist ID, Supraphonline artist ID, TuneIn artist ID, YesAsia author ID, AZLyrics.com artist ID, Bandsintown artist ID, musica.com artist ID, OpenWeatherMap city ID, RauteMusik artist ID, Scribd publication ID, SongMeanings artist ID, SoundHound artist ID, Belgian Species List ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Mafab.hu film ID, jog.fm artist ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, moly.hu book ID, Liber Liber author ID, GreatSong artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, MTV Polska artist ID, MTV UK artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Eiga.com movie ID, Transfermarkt team ID, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, BEACON ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: associated with, present on map, translated title, Wikia Article URL 2, position in sequence, color produced, Itch.io ID, mobile formatter, subscribers, Attribution text, difficulty
    • External identifiers: RPGGeek, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, Estudanky ID, LongSwimsDB ID, L-number, Dove.org work ID, WTA ID, iTunes (gb) artist ID, Arnet Miner publication ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID, NLP ID, SCTrails ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, UN treaty reference, musicbrainz tag, Identification code for universities and colleges, Toons Mag, YouTube Music channel ID, The Independent topic ID, Pandora artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • https://w.wiki/7UY timeline of competitions of the 2019-2020 figure skating season]
    • Future figure skating competitions
    • Currently happening figure skating competitions
    • French ships whose name start with an A (source)
    • Map of birth places of delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • human chromosome, built on chromosome, built on sequence assembly
    • Lunar crater

• Development
  • Deploy mobile termbox, follow-up and bug fixing
  • Deploy then rollback the move of "Wikidata item" link on clients due to cache issues (phab:T66315)
  • Work on adjusting the save button of the Entity Schema editor (phab:T230398)
  • Work on the bridge emitting button (phab:T230326)
  • Introduce a header for the bridge modal (phab:T230328)
  • Produce initial statistics/indicators for the Wikidata Languages Landscape (phab:T223119)

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!

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister
  • Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, article in PeerJ Computer Science (Q27726596) by Lars Willighagen (Q45907528)
  • A systematic literature review on Wikidata (paywalled) - Marçal Mora-Cantallops et al.
  • GeneDB and Wikidata - Magnus Manske, et al.
  • Wikidata from a Research Perspective -- A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata - Mariam Farda-Sarbas, Claudia Mueller-Birn
  • Enriquecimiento de entidades de Wikidata mediante un modelo de descomposición y mapeado de categorías de Wikipedia ("Enrichment of Wikidata entities through a decomposition model and mapping of Wikipedia categories") - Tomás Saorín et al.; text in Spanish

• Tool of the week
  • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
  • Cocoda is a web application to manage mappings between authority files. It supports editing Wikidata-mappings including GND, Basisklassifikation, Regensburg Classification, Iconclass, and Nomisma. Cocoda can be used like mix'n'match but for more complex mappings.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase have been published - comments welcome on the talk page
  • Follow-up from Wikimania: you can now give input about the language barrier on Wikidata and federating Wikibase instances with Wikidata
  • New tool: a Python library to create bots, scripts and tools for lexicographical data by MichaelSchoenitzer
  • There is now a new API parameter to add tags on edits summaries
  • soweego version 1.1 is on its way, thanks to a WMF Rapid Grant
  • Several job offers related to Wikidata were published in the last few weeks:
    • Scribe, a Wikimedia Foundation funded software and research project, is looking for a full-stack software engineer
    • The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a software engineer for its Search Platform team, including work on Wikidata Query Service
    • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer and a full-stack developer for Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: access restriction status, in defining formula
    • External identifiers: RPGGeek ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, AccuRadio artist ID, eSTUDÁNKY ID, LongSwimsDB ID, WTA trail ID, Scribd Item ID, Dove.org work ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, SCTrails trail ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Mediawiki Wiki, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, scope and content, Number of nodes, Performance, use restriction status, Significant number, FCC Product Code, Hardware Version Identification Number, amount cataloged, number of decimal digits, Gregorian calendar, food energy, pronunciation
    • External identifiers: YouTube Music channel ID 2, Pandora artist ID 2, The Independent topic ID 2, NÖ Proposal ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Newspapers.com ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, WGA writer ID, WGA project ID, FCC Grantee Code, Spectrum Management System Company Number, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Prime Pages ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Peakbagger climber ID, Naver Music artist ID, Naver Music album ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, Slovo i Dilo person ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, FNL player ID, Peakbagger key col ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Public art in London by female artists
    • People used as examples in Wikidata properties (source)
    • Closest capitals of non bordering countries (<200 km) (source)
    • Hillforts mapped with their heritage designation/protection status
    • YouTubers without a YouTube channel
    • Racing automobile drivers who died in a car crash (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • Public library branch in The Netherlands
  • Newest database reports: papers about Wikipedia

• Development
  • Adjust label of save button of the Entity Schema and add accesskey for easier editing editor (phab:T230398)
  • Get Grafana Datamodel References dashboard back up and running (phab:T214894)
  • Fix an issue in EntitySchema tests that caused some CI failures (phab:T231065)
  • Localize Wikibase API help links (phab:T231269)
  • Support tags parameter on Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
  • Add in Wikidata support for sitelinks to https://nap.wikisource.org (phab:T212886)
  • Reading property terms from new store in production now (phab:T225053)
  • Adding WDQS lag to maxlag info, to avoid stress on WDQS machines (phab:T221774)
  • Implementing the fallback version of the new better edit summary messages on items through API (phab:T224010)
  • Fixing the issue of an invisible quality constrain violation indicator (phab:T227866)
  • Switching item terms to migration stage of writing to both wb_terms and the new store (phab:T225055)
  • Preparing to run migration of item terms (phab:T219123)
  • Allowing to access Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
  • Hiding non-supported languages in old termbox (phab:T227083)
  • Work on a new solution to move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox avoiding the cache issues (phab:T66315)
  • Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
  • Showing the current Wikidata value in the edit modal (phab:T226997)

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: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: References in Wikidata, 10 September. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Merging Open Data Sources to Plan Learning Activities for Online Students - Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo, et al., in: 2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
  • Open-Access Society Publishers in Wikidata by A. Britton

• Tool of the week
  • moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
  • The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
  • Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (phab:T230762)
  • Recent tool: @Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
  • New game: Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: mobile formatter URL, degree of difficulty, color produced, computer performance, use restriction status, FCC Product Code, Itch.io ID, Gregorian calendar start date
    • External identifiers: Identification code for Japanese universities and colleges, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Toons Mag ID, Newspapers.com ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, Prime Pages ID, FCC Grantee Code, FNL player ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Naver Music album ID, Naver Music artist ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Pandora artist ID, Peakbagger climber ID, Peakbagger key col ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, Slovo i Dilo person ID, Spectrum Management System Company Number, The Independent topic ID, WGA project ID, WGA writer ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, CPUID, L-number, Arnet Miner publication ID, NLP ID (record)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IP Code, dénivelé cumulé positif, Supports qualifier, climbing route, madhhab, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID
    • External identifiers: Auckland Museum ID, Al-Jazeera Topic ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, SNK ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, VAT identification number, TOP500 System ID, ACUF unique ID (UFI), Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier, Downdetector ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Behind the voice Actors short ID, Rate Your Music label ID, Labelcode, Maine Trail Finder ID, Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, WeChat ID
  • Query examples:
    • UK Cabinet Ministers and their links in the UK National Archives | (Histropedia timeline)
    • Most common properties on Senses (source)
    • Place of birth of actors in The Matrix (source)
    • Graph of all species in the Heron (Ardeidae) family with an IBP alpha code (source)

• Development
  • Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to Odder (phab:T230120)
  • New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
  • Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (phab:T227866)
  • Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (phab:T192462)
  • Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (phab:T178745)
  • Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
  • Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
  • Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (phab:T231833)

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
  • 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, Template:Q

• 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!

• Events
  • Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 17th
  • Upcoming: Talk about connections between Wikidata, Wikipedia and OSM, Bordeaux, France, October 17th
  • Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Paris, France, October 18th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata goes Library, Talks and Workshops, Vienna, Austria, October 18th
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 and side events: Wikibase workshop, iNaturalist workshop, October 24th to 27th, Berlin

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • My message to video game databases: We(kidata) come in peace, by Jean-Frédéric (the subject is broader than just video games)
  • Lei (Nico) Zheng, et al. (2019) The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW, Article 215 (November 2019), 20 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3359317 (also blog post).
  • Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, et al. (2019) Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. ACL Anthology ID: W19-5914 + arXiv:1909.11980

• Tool of the week
  • ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.

• Other noteworthy stuff
  • We now have d:Q70000000 (3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole, chemical compound) and Lexeme:L200000 (spiritualistically, English adverb)
  • Your feedback is welcome about Computer-aided tagging designs for Structured data for Commons
  • The next office hour will take place on November 5th on Telegram (see full announcement)

• Did you know? =
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: fineness, identified in image by, name in hiero markup, graph radius, style of karate, name (image), code (image), folio(s)
    • External identifiers: PubPeer article ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, geograph.org.uk image ID, Q-Codes ID, Great Encyclopedia of Navarre ID, Three Decks people ID, Knesset Law ID, DynamoMania.com player ID, Beachsafe Beach Key, 247Sports ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database work ID, FutbolMe.com player ID, LibraryThing author ID, SMHI drainage basin ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Publons publisher ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, EconBiz publication ID, ERIC publication ID, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System Identifier, Pubs Galore ID, ForaDeJogo.net team ID, Ancient Tree Inventory ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia museum ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: pathway annotation, number of games, contains functional group, contains chemical element, relative count, electron configuration, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature, Wikimedia revision-id, pdf page, capital social, Source of file, gained territory from
    • External identifiers: Soccerway referee ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com ID, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, FantLab work ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab awar ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, Renaud Camus person ID, WorldFootball.net competition ID, academia.edu publication ID, Rijksmuseum Library ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Soccerbase team ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinématoscope, CanadaSoccer.com person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of Scottish settlements linked to the average coordinates of Historic Scotland items within civil parishes - demonstrating the use of map lines to highlight possible data quality issues (source)
    • Bundesliga football results - exemplar of a report predicated mainly on statement qualifiers (source)
    • On which side of the road do cars drive? - demonstrating the use of geoshapes to fill a map (source)
    • Map of the embassies to Belgium (source)
    • Graph showing direct descendants of Prithwiraj Kapoor (source)
    • Nobel laureates by award type and gender (source)
  • Newest database reports: Mersenne numbers

• Development
  • Abuse filter has been improved so saving an edit should be a bit faster now. (phab:T156095)
  • A new Lua function is providing the site's global ID of the wiki where this function is used (phab:T194023)
  • Wikidata Bridge: test data for the demo system (phab:T224834)
  • Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
  • Investigate of the purging strategy (phab:T227758)
  • Restyling of mobile termbox (phab:T223452)
  • Adding "fewer languages" button at the end of the expanded list of "all entered languages" (phab:T232595)
  • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
  • More work on tainted 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!

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 on October 25-26. If you're not attending, you can follow most of the sessions remotely with live stream.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata's seventh birthday, on October 29th. You can organize an event in your area and add it to the list!
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign cont. with OpenRefine demo, 22 October. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and Archival Metadata : opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon in Study day on Linked Data, Template:Label, Friday November 22th, 2019.
  • Past: Several sessions at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019 (11–13 October):
    • Wikidata content oriented projects, talk by Mārtiņš Bruņenieks (video)
    • Using Wikidata as an Educational Platform, talk by Nebojša Ratković (video)
    • Beyond the basics: Intermediate Wikidata tools, workshop by Asaf Bartov (not recorded)
    • Your first Wikidata Lua infobox, workshop by Tobias Schönberg (not recorded)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Querying Wikidata RDF with SQL using RDF2X
  • Ozymandias in Canberra - how the Atlas of Living Australia could be enhanced using Wikidata
  • Knowledge Graph Consolidation by Unifying Synonymous Relationships - Jan-Christoph Kalo, et al.
  • PhD thesis: Candela Romero, Gustavo (2019). Publicación y enriquecimiento semántico de datos abiertos en bibliotecas digitales (in Spanish).
  • Wikidata Wordmap

• Tool of the week
  • The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata won an Open Publishing Award (description).
  • Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
  • Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (T235540).
  • You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to this file

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: image backside, frontside image, gender educated, image with frame, line(s), minimum temperature record, glacier status, number of processor threads, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature
    • External identifiers: Professional Football League of Ukraine player ID, Rotterdam City Archives actor ID, FreeBSD port, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, Steam bundle ID, FantLab author ID, NAD place ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com referee ID, FantLab award ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab work ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, WorldFootball.net competition ID, Rijksmuseum Research Library authority ID, Basis Wien person ID, Basis Wien institution ID, Basis Wien event ID, Basis Wien object ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Czech Fortuna liga player ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Soccerbase team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinematoscope film ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: MOHW HospID, graph diameter, ICP filing, aspect, key col, key col of
    • External identifiers: FlashScore.com match ID, GHR Conditions ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munchs correspondance person ID, Neliti Journal ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph Serviceperson ID, iNaturalist place ID, dp.ru persons ID, IISG ID, ifixit ID, Wolfram Language entity type, CinemaRx person ID, Kinématoscope - Literary work, Kinématoscope - Film director, Kinématoscope - Writer, Stathletics-ID, BDFutbol team ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of châteaux in the French world heritage site "the Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes" (source)
    • Graph of the personal relationships between Tekken characters and their fighting styles (source)
    • Timeline of the chief ministers of Haryana and Maharashtra (source)
    • Language representation of descriptions in Wikidata for objects connected to Ksamsök (source)
    • Cricketers who have ever played on an Indian Super League team (source)

• Development
  • Fixed the DuplicateReferences gadget that was broken due to refactoring work needed to make pages load faster and development easier (phab:T234094)
  • Wikidata Bridge: restricting the length of string value inputs (phab:T229241)
  • research delayed kicking in of Bridge (phab:T233305)
  • enable/disable save button depending on Bridge state (phab:T230342)
  • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
  • More work on tainted 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!

• Happy birthday, Wikidata!
  • Today, on October 29th, it’s Wikidata’s 7th birthday. Time to reflect and celebrate and to look forward to see where we are going from here. Message from the Wikidata development team
  • You can also write a birthday message or add a present to the list

• Events
  • Past: Several sessions at Wikidata goes Library, Vienna, Template:Q (18 October):
    • Wikidata is amazing, talk by Jean-Fréd
    • Uses of Wikidata and Wikibase in France, talk by Nicolas Vigneron
    • Using Wikidata for Video Game Research, talk by Tracy Hoffmann
    • Wikidata based extended search queries, talk by Template:Q
  • Past: WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin. You can see the videos of the sessions and the list of slides and notes, also from the program. Among them, here are few suggestions of sessions to watch:
    • Glimpse over Wikidata & Wikidata and languages (Lydia Pintscher)
    • Birthday presents demo (various people presenting new tools and features)
    • WikidataCon awards ceremony (Birgit Müller & Liam Wyatt)
    • New usages of Wikidata to support underserved language communities (Lucie-Aimée Kaffee)
    • Overview of the data import process (Navino Evans)
    • A lot of interesting tools and projects presented during the two lightning talks sessions
  • Upcoming: plenty of events taking place for Wikidata's seventh birthday! In London on 29th, in Cape Town on 31st, a datathon organized in India, in Barcelona on November 13th, etc.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Analysis of Urban Information of Colombia on Wikidata, 2nd CATAÏ Workshop, Bogota, Colombia, 23-24 October 2019 (Preprint)
  • Wikidata as a FAIR knowledge graph for the life sciences (preprint in Biorxiv)

• Tool of the week
  • MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Open request for oversight permission: -revi
  • OpenRefine 3.3 beta was released
  • The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 from Wikimedia Foundation started. This year, it is focused on small projects and Wikidata-related wishes will not be included.
  • You can help expanding the list of databases, encyclopedias, etc. which could be added to Mix'n'match. Can be used for property creation too.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: graph diameter, orientation, URN formatter, iFixit Repairability Score, key col, variety of form, source of file, grammatical aspect
    • External identifiers: CanadaSoccer.com person ID, FlashScore.com match ID, Publons journals/conferences ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Genetics Home Reference Conditions ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munch's correspondance person ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, MOHW HospID, iNaturalist place ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Neliti Journal ID, Online Cenotaph ID, dp.ru person ID, ifixit ID, ICP license ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, CinemaRx person ID, Kinematoscope - Film director, Kinematoscope - Writer, Kinematoscope - Literary work, BDFutbol team ID, Stathletics ID, teams.by team ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: religion or world view, Comorbidity, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, XML namespace, Commons category for the interior of the item, statement is regarded as spoiler for, menu items
    • External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 – 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, NZPCN ID, Women Film Pioneers ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Golden ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, startrek.com Database ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society game ID
  • Query examples:
    • Tree map of members of the 16th Lok Sabha, grouped by state represented (source)
    • Pictures of animals with female grammatical gender in German but male grammatical gender in French (source)
    • Map of bus stops in Biscay (source)
    • Tree graph of doctoral advisors going backward from Abhijit Banerjee (source)

• Development
  • Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (phab:T235055)
  • Save original revision data in store (phab:T235052)
  • Add interface for tracking/logging (phab:T236233)
  • Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (phab:T235056)
  • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
  • More work on tainted 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!

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Zurich Training 2019
  • Upcoming: Next Wikidata office hour on Tuesday, November 5th at 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+1) on the the Wikidata Telegram channel
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • ZBW Labs: 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata
  • The WikidataCon Card Game, Envel Le Hir
  • The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork
  • Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and more presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and schema.org at Semantics 2019 by Felix Sasaki and Christian Lieske
  • Querying the Edit History of Wikidata - Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
  • Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)

• Tool of the week
  • SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Product Manager for Wikibase
  • Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes videos showing his process while editing Wikidata. Magnus Sälgö also makes videos showing specific features and tools
  • {{query page}} is a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement)
  • New feature on Mix'n'match: job management

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: comorbidity, audio system, election called by, XML namespace
    • External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 - 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, NZPCN ID, Wolfram Language entity type, Women Film Pioneers ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, Golden ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, doujinshi.org author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: food composition, landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, IP address or range, featured in, Room number, Jabber channel, lighting, Mentioned at
    • External identifiers: Sega Retro ID, CA Prop 65 ID, Gaming-History company ID, dp.ru company ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, SK cinema film ID, SK cinema authority ID, ePSD ID, classicamiga ID, Czech cadastral area ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, Planète Aventure ID, AaRC person ID, fyyd podcast identifer, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, UEFA referee ID, Flowers of India ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, NBAIR pest ID, Reptiles of India ID, Odonata of India ID, Birds of India ID, Moths of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, ZSI author ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, askArt person ID
  • Deleted properties: P2035 (LinkedIn personal profile URL), P1946 (N6I ID)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of UK MPs coloured by party (source) - may change in the next few weeks
    • Maintenance query: items which have a value of "unknown" (Q24238356) rather than the "unknown" special value (source)
    • 100 cities closest to the North pole with more than 200k inhabitants (source)
    • Actors with whom Shah Rukh Khan collaborated, in a bubble chart showing how many times it happened (source)
  • New Integraality dashboards: Journals by publisher, Theses by institution
  • Schema examples:
    • Painting
    • Member of parliament from Sweden
    • Malayalam lexeme
  • Newest WikiProjects: Sum of all Podcasts
  • Newest database reports:
    • Uniform Resource Name (URN) in Wikidata
    • Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) constraint check

• Development
  • Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
  • Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (phab:T236677)
  • Update Wikibase Lua documentation (phab:T225497)
  • Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (phab:T234079)
  • Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (phab:T230881, phab:T220284, phab:T234330)
  • Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (phab:T232595)
  • Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (phab:T236491)
  • Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (phab:T231204)
  • Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (phab:T235152)
  • A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (phab:T235622)
  • Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (phab:T230342)
  • More work on tainted 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: Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata office hour (notes)
  • Past: "Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project (Video), (Slides), (Notes)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop OpenRefine in Prague on 12 November
  • Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 17 November

• Tool of the week
  • Speedpatrolling is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikipedia Personality Infobox in Catalan and French display now the Heritage Institution in charge of their archives via P485 (archives at).
  • The Discord server Wikimedia Community has now a Wikidata channel.
  • @Wikipedia talks about @Wikidata by GerardM

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: landscape architect