Upcoming and current events and conversations

Talking: 2024 continues

• Register now for Wikimania Katowice (7–10 August 2024).
• Editing team community conversation - CopyVio Check and Real-time Checks (03 July 2024, in English)
• Growth team community conversation - New tasks for newcomers and patrollers' burden (16 July 2024, in Spanish)

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: Good projects and good people!
• MediaWiki 1.42 general release.
• The Community Configuration extension is released to more Wikipedias.
• The Trust & Safety Product team published the Incident Reporting System MVP User Testing Summary and a project update on temporary accounts.
• Recent changes from the latest Tech News.
• Reference Check to be rolled out on all Wikipedias. Read the initial results from the Edit Check project.
• Concluded voting on Community Wishlist Survey renaming; new name now Community Wishlist.
• “Add an image” suggested edit was released to Wikipedia iOS app & Donation through native GPay is now available on the Wikipedia Android app.
• Talk pages permalinks are now available at all wikis.
• A new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graphs with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Charts.
• Wikimedia Enterprise Quarterly technical update focusing on machine readability, content integrity, and API usability.
• Proposal for a Product & Tech Advisory Council.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• Highlights and achievements & future plans from Wikisource Loves Manuscripts Project.
• Learn how to edit and upload to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine.
• Watch the recording of the 11th edition of Wiki Workshop where research sessions on topics like Disinformation, Reliability, Representation and Gender, Governance and Policy, were held.
• First edition of WikiLearn News released, highlighting opportunities and progress in the area of skills development.
• The WikiData tools everyone is talking about during the 2023 LD4 Conference on Linked Data.
• The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member of the Unicode Consortium.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Inclusion See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Evaluation of the U4C election results (ongoing)
• Building a public policy network from both sides of the Pacific: Lessons from the 1st Global Wiki Advocacy Meet-up.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness See also: quarterly Metrics Reports

• Thoughts on the Wikimedia Foundation's annual plan from the Japanese Wikipedia community.
• Where is Wikimedia in the Climate Crisis? – a recap of sustainability work across the movement and at the Foundation for 2023. Foundation Sustainability metrics for 2023 also available on Meta.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's revamped social media strategy is available on Meta.

Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Wikimedia Foundation Board liaisons published reflections on final Movement Charter draft.
• June 27 Conversation with Trustees Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/2024-06-27 Conversation with Trustees: notes & recording including outcomes of the 20 June Board meeting and a discussion of the movement charter.
• Ratification vote on Movement Charter until July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC
• 2024 Board Selection: Candidates have answered community questions selected by the Elections Committee.
• Affiliates strategy: Affiliate Health Criteria and changes to the User Group recognition process (feedback page)
• Feedback on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle finished on June 23. The revised version was published. Updates in July

Foundation statements

• Wikimedia Foundation statement on volunteer processes on reliable sources

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

Previous editions of this bulletin are on Meta. Let askcacwikimedia.org know if you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement!

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Registration for Wikimania 2024 is open! In-person participants: please register until 26 July, 11:59 p.m., UTC. Virtual participants can register anytime. If you received a scholarship from the Wikimedia Foundation, you will receive an email with a registration code and instructions.

Tool of the week

• User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", checks whether each statement and property conforms to the schema. It then displays a summary at the top of the Item for each property indicating whether they conform or not. It also adds a badge to each statement and each property on the page indicating whether they conform or not.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata teams' development goals for the third quarter of 2024 have been updated: Wikidata:Development plan

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
  • coin edge (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
  • EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
• Newest External identifiers: Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia article ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), ‎AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, ‎itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, ‎filmas.lv person ID, ‎filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, ‎Burgenwelt ID, Irish-English Dictionary ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, ‎Canadian Great War Project person ID, English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, Avibase person ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, ‎Cineuropa distributor ID, ‎Cineuropa production company ID, OpenCitations Meta ID, IGN franchise ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID, Devri ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, ‎Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, ‎Star Wars.com ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
  • KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
  • Tüik mahalle id (Identifier of neighborhoods <small>({{q|Q17051044}})</small> in Turkey in TÜİK <small>({{q|Q1375058}})</small> database)
  • myfixguide.com (Photos about how to disassemble hardware)
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or casted their ballot)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • Imperial University of Dorpat student ID (matriculation number of a student of the Imperial University of Dorpat)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly. Example: Hazel K. Bell (Q70226489))
  • WorldCyclingStats ID (identifier on the website WorldCyclingStats (www.worldcyclingstats.com))
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, FEI horse ID, Standard Ebooks ID, Alle Burgen, FC Krasnodar player id, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, GOArt databas, identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb), identifikátor osoby ve Filmové databázi (FDb), ScienceDirect journal ID, Iraqnla Book ID, islamway authority ID, Hermitage Museum artist ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, autoritateak.eus, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Thinkwiki article

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Cumulative experience of UK MPs on election day (since 1922) (source)
  • Location of GLAMs with open access policies
  • Images of biologists by height
• Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/commonsmerge - Merge candidates based on same commons category
• Showcase Items: Ferdinand Magellan (Q1496) - Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
• Showcase Lexemes: bergkant (L1083157) - Nynorsk noun, translates to "the top edge of a mountain"

Development

• EntitySchemas: The new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements has been released.
• mul language code: We are preparing the release.

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Armenia
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: SpinachBot - Task/s: AI agent-enabled question answering through the creation and execution of complex SPARQL queries on Wikidata. Users tag the bog with wikidata-related questions, and it tries to come up with an answer by iteratively creating SPARQL queries.

Events

• Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-07-10

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • An Intelligent System: What I learned through taking an introductory Wikidata course - The author, Anne-Christine Hoff, dispels misconceptions about Wikidata. She highlights that it is a relational communication system, not solely bot-driven, and allows users worldwide to add localized data in multiple languages, creating a self-structuring repository of information
  • Merge and diff - blog post by Magnus about adding new properties (taxon data speficially, NCBI, GBIF, and iINaturalist) to the AC2WD tool. If you have the user script installed on Wikidata (see tool below), AC2WD will automatically show up on relevant taxon items.
  • Documenting Women Artists Through Wikidata - this project reveals how works by women artists can be given greater public visibility.
  • Dagbani Lexemes (how-to-workshop in Dagbanli) - increase the vocabulary and standardize existing entries.
• Papers: Automatic Generation of Hindi Wikipedia Pages" based on information from Wikidata
• Videos
  • Online workshop Upskilling in Wikidata for maximum impact IBC 2024 - Recording of the virtual Wikidata workshop given on the 9th of July 2024. An onboarding and introductory event in anticipation of a full in-person workshop to be held at the International Botanical Congress 2024 in Madrid on the 21st of July 2024
  • Connecting University Art Collections Wikidata Demo
• Notebooks
  • Collection of notebooks about the Tour de France
  • Computing Jaccard similarity index between Wikidata items based on properties used in statements.

Tool of the week

• Relationships between two Wikidata items a new tool hosted on Observable which looks at all statements involving a pair of Wikidata items.
• User:Magnus Manske/ac2wd.js - This script adds an "AC2WD" link in the tools sidebar. When you click on it, it uses the AC2WD tool to check the item for certain Authority Control IDs (eg VIAF). It then checks these AC datasets for statements (and more AC IDs). It will then add any new information it found as new statements, or add more references to existing statements where possible. A green checkmark will be appended to the link if data was added (reload the page to see), otherwise a "—" if no new data was available.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• OpenRefine 3.8.2 was released
• Awesome Wikidata: Shape Expressions (Entity Schemas) - Tools for creating, editing, and generating entity schemas

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
  • coin edge image (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
  • EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
  • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • myfixguide.com (photos about how to disassemble hardware)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
• Newest External identifiers: Irish-English Dictionary ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, ‎Canadian Great War Project person ID, English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, Avibase person ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, ‎Cineuropa distributor ID, ‎Cineuropa production company ID, OpenCitations Meta ID, IGN franchise ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID, Devri ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, ‎Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, ‎Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, All castles, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
  • KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or casted their ballot)
  • WorldCyclingStats ID (identifier on the website WorldCyclingStats (www.worldcyclingstats.com))
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, FEI horse ID, Standard Ebooks ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, Hermitage Museum artist ID, Thinkwiki article, Wiley Online Library journal ID, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, Nintendo Life company ID, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, Helveticat ID, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Museums in Russia ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, ARABTERM entry ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Frauen im Widerstand ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Arabic periodicals known to Wikidata (source)
  • X account of politicians
  • Characters whose actors died recently
• Newest WikiProjects: Human Cells - dedicated to improve our coverage of information about these fundamental entities that compose organisms. The project focuses mainly on two kinds of cell classes: species-agnostic classes, such as neutrophil (Q188417), and human-specific classes, such as human neutrophil (Q101405102).
• Newest database reports: Descriptions containing Q-Id
• Showcase Items: Lucy (Q13365715): female given name
• Showcase Lexemes: Nachbar (L230775): "someone nearby" in German

Development

• Wikibase REST API: Continuing to improve error handling and error messages.
• EntitySchemas: Fixed issues that popped up after release (phab:T369149, phab:T369155, phab:T368010)
• Query Service graph split: Adapting constraints that make use of the Query Service to be able to deal with 2 endpoints (phab:T369079)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Albania
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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!

Previous editions of this bulletin are on Meta-Wiki. Let askcacwikimedia.org know if you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • DannyS712 bot - Task/s: I want to get approval for a bot with translation admin rights that will automatically mark pages for translations if and only if the latest version is identical to the version that is already in the translation system, i.e. only pages with no "net" changes in the pending edits.
  • DerIchBot - Task/s: Adding data about schools provided by the German and Austrian governments to wikidata.
  • DifoolBot 5 - Task/s: Change reference URLs into the related ID property and merge references with the same ID property.
  • AroundTheBot - Task/s: Automated import of Albanian nouns with IPA from Wiktionary, with the long-term goal of using this data to do pronunciation-based comparison/word evolution between languages.

Events

• Past: Wikimedia Indonesia hosted the 2024 Data Visualization Competition from June 5 to 18. The event featured data visualizations (posters and graphics) and short essays using data from Wikidata. Visit the competition page (in Indonesian) to view the winning entries.
• Upcoming: Wikidata's 12th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2024. Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area, get funding, and get in touch with other organizers.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers:
  • Representación de datos abiertos con Wikidata Query Service (Q126917814). This paper details the Wikidata Query Service, for the creation of data visualizations. All visualization options available in the WQS are explored, accompanied by example queries that introduce the implementation of these visualizations. By Ángel Obregón-Sierra and Silvia Cecilia Anselmi.
  • Beyond Aesthetics: Cultural Competence in Text-to-Image Models - with CUBE, a benchmark built out of Wikidata, to evaluate cultural awareness and cultural diversity of text-to-image models (Kannen et al, 2024)
• Videos: OpenRefine import into Wikidata of data from the BnF catalog: books by Marguerite Van de Wiele (in French)

Tool of the week

• Paulina, a new tool for exploring public domain works.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WMF Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) invites interested volunteers to apply. As part of the movement strategy recommendation for "Coordinating Across Stakeholders," the PTAC will bring technical contributors and the Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • coin edge image (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
  • EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
  • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
• Newest External identifiers: English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, Avibase person ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, ‎Cineuropa distributor ID, ‎Cineuropa production company ID, OpenCitations Meta ID, IGN franchise ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID, Devri ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, ‎Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, ‎Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
  • object of action & object class of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
  • Public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
  • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
  • Kunstnerforbundet kunstner ID (Identifier for an artist member of Kunstnerforbundet in norway)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, Thinkwiki article, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, The New Mithraeum ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (french edition) ID, French Bathing water ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, mandumah ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • UEFA teams and the number of players on the team (source)
  • Species of birds and their sounds (source)
  • Archaeological sites and remains in Malaysia with National Heritage status (source)
  • Map of Filming Locations, excludes countries (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Reference Verification - a research and development project aimed at helping Wikidata editors check the quality of external references based on various types of AI/ML models.
  • NZWomenPhotographers - aims to improve information about New Zealand women photographers, based on a dataset provided by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
• Newest database reports: Items with P569=P570 - Items with instance of (P31) --> human (Q5) and the same year in date of birth (P569) and date of death (P570) (2024-07-22)
• Showcase Items: Crawford (Q20731004) - family name
• Showcase Lexemes: water (L3302) - (S1) common liquid substance (S2) chemical compound of hydrogen and oxygen (H₂O) (S3) a body of water, usually a river, a lake, or an ocean

Development

• mul: We fixed the last blocker for the limited MUL rollout to Wikidata on July 29th (phab:T362917)
• EntitySchemas:
  • We fixed a misplaced background color in EntitySchema (phab:T369283)
  • haswbstatement searches now work for EntitySchema statements (phab:T369495)
  • We’re investigating how to make EntitySchemas searchable by label (phab:T362005)
• Query Service: preparation for the graph split is continuing by the Search Platform Team. We started looking into adapting the constraints checks for it (phab:T369079)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • GergesBot 2 - Task/s: Edit label when order is added in ar:ويكيبيديا:طلبات نقل عبر البوت (Transfer requests by Bot).
  • UmisBot - Task/s: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Wikidata Days Bologna 2024, Italian language conference dedicated to Wikidata for libraries and research, taking place in the frame of Wikidata’s 12th birthday, on November 8-9 in Bologna, Italy.
  • Wikimania starts on August 7. Here is a list of sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. If something is missing, feel free to add to it, including any Wikidata meetups you may be hosting.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • "Sharing the world’s paintings on Wikidata" By Martin Poulter for the Cultural Content Substack
  • WikiEdu: What I learned taking an introductory Wikidata Course - Anne-Christine Hoff, associate professor of English at Jarvis Christian University, describes her experiences and learnings from taking an intro to Wikidata course, provided by the WikiEdu.org, a project of the Wiki Education Foundation.
  • Talking Wikidata: Communication patterns and their impact on community engagement in collaborative knowledge graphs - This study investigates the behaviours, communication patterns and interactions of the core small Wikidata community that are responsible for 80% of its content, in order to future contribution and participation. By E. Koutsiana et al.
  • A Wikidata-Based Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources - This paper presents KIF, a Wikidata-based framework for virtually integrating heterogeneous knowledge sources and discuss how it was used to solve a real integration problem in the domain of chemistry (involving Wikidata, PubChem, and IBM CIRCA). By G. Lima et al.
• Press release: Arricchimento dei dati di authority di SBN attraverso il confronto e lo scambio con Wikidata (in Italian): ICCU, the institute coordinating the biggest Italian OPAC (the OPAC SBN, involving more than 7 thousands libraries), has just finished enriching about 16200 nearly empty authority records with data taken from the respective Wikidata items (Wikidata items link to SBN authority records through P396); this announcement describes in detail the enrichment work, which started in June 2023; for more information (and bibliography) about the collaboration between ICCU and Wikidata, see d:Wikidata:Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche/SBN (in Italian)
• Videos
  • Intro to Wikidata - This intro to Wikidata was provided for participants of the International Linguistics Olympiad 2024, held in Brasília. Presented by Artur Corrêa Souza and Éder Porto, organised by Wiki Movimento Brasil.
  • Mining and Modeling Text using Wikibase - the University of Trier is building a knowledge graph on French Enlightenment novels 1751 - 1800 with the use of Wikibase.

Tool of the week

• User:Nikki/ShowIDs.js - This user script adds entity IDs in brackets after links.
• Common values, yet another Observable notebook. This one looks at common values between two Wikidata item pages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• KDE Itinerary, KDE's travel assistant app, gets more Wikidata integration.
• The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback to evaluate "default values for all languages" (mul) in the Termbox. Please share your thoughts on this 5-10 minute anonymous survey: https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikidata-default-values-feedback
• The Wikidata (integrations) for Wikimedia projects team have released a progress report on their ongoing research project, investigating the "State of Wikidata usage on other wikis". Available on the Research page, alternatively on Commons.
• The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page: Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • coin edge image (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
  • EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
  • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
  • object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
  • object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
• Newest External identifiers: Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, ‎Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, ‎Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
  • Public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
  • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
  • Kunstnerforbundet kunstner ID (Identifier for an artist member of Kunstnerforbundet in norway)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Manhom Arabic Profile ID, Thinkwiki article, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (french edition) ID, French Bathing water ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, mandumah ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Political Dictionary entry, United Nations Digital Library ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, FDC ID, 365scores player ID, xdaforums, GamingOnLinux Database ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Where were people who went to space born?
  • Red Cross and Red Crescent societies
  • Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Military Equipment in Policing - Project to connect police equipment defined as military equipment to capabilities, uses, manufacturers, descriptions, etc.
  • Quran - to collaborate on Quran-related topics and organise Quran Wikidatans; help others and get help whenever needed to improve Quran-related items (and properties); create Quran-specific tools' libraries, queries, and resources;
  • Sufism - collaborate on Sufism-related topics
• Newest database reports: Hindustani nouns without gender in a language
• Showcase Items: Fugger (Q37018433) - family name
• Showcase Lexemes: ikkje-vald (L3483) - Nynorsk noun, translates to "non-violence"

Development

• IP masking: The feature was rolled out to test wikis and we fixed a few issues uncovered by this.
• EntitySchemas: We are working to make it possible to search for the EntitySchema by its label and aliases when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema (phab:T362005)
• Integration in other Wikimedia projects: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link from the tools section of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
• REST API:
  • We changed the data-type field to data_type in JSON responses (phab:T368130)
  • We are continuing the work on improving error handling and messages

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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!