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Wikidata weekly summary #428

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516
  • Closed request for adminship: Wiki13 (successful)

• Events
  • Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020. This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda]
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25, August 16

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed Wikidata games Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube
  • Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with Wikidata tools. "To speed up the creation of metadata about faculty and their publications, Steven Baskauf, data science and data curation specialist for libraries, developed “VanderBot,” a set of scripts that can read and write to Wikidata, greatly improving the efficiency by which Vanderbilt’s faculty are discoverable through Wikidata".

• Tool of the week
  • OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher links Wikidata entries to places in OpenStreetMap.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wikidata2df, a Python package for easily turning a Wikidata SPARQL query into a pandas dataframe
  • With Wikidata Concept Tree Generator, you can enter any concept and instantly see a visualization of its extended relations. (Source)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: size comparison diagram, view
    • External identifiers: Legacy.com newspaper ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, Fototeka person ID, LibraryThing series ID, TOPCMB ID, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: image of entrance, extinction date, notation writer, raga, tala, SMARTS, Editio princeps, recording location
    • External identifiers: Sochy a města ID osoby, Sochy a města ID sochy, podvignaroda, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, European Investment Bank project ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset Id, cadastral municipality ID, NPR station ID, NYARC Discovery ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister-ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, Trismegistos Texts ID
  • Query examples:
    • Ancestors of the current King of Spain color coded by sex or gender
    • Political alignments of the parties of world leaders (Source)
    • Female Mathematicians whose birth/death anniversary is today (Source)
  • Commons queries:
    • Map of images found in the medieval Atlas De Wit (source)
    • Things depicted with cats (source)

• Development
  • finalized designs for the query builder to start coding at the beginning of September
  • wrapping up the initial work on the design system so that we can start using the first pieces of it in the query builder development
  • working on properly linking redirects in recent changes, watchlist and co (phabricator:T255387)
  • addressed remaining security review comments about the Wikidata Bridge so that we can deploy it finally on the first Wikipedia
  • fixed a bug where string values had the wrong length limit (phabricator:T259440)
  • finishing the work of untangling Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repository extensions to make development easier

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:07, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [1]

Problems

• The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [3][4]

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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue VII, July 2020 Headlines Albania report: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2020 in Albania and Kosova Australia report: New WikiClub and Australian GLAM Research Brazil report: Important records of Brazilian history: images, metadata and edit-a-thons Finland report: Rephotography walks during the pandemic France report: Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève Germany report: Hacking the Arts Netherlands report: October history month East-West, Pictures as a legacy to the world & Photos of Mali Serbia report: Wikimedia Serbia is working on new activities Sweden report: More Swedish music – of all sorts Uganda report: Sensitisation of GLAM institutions in Uganda UK report: The effect of a Commons Picture of the Day USA report: AfroCROWD, AAPB, Philadelphia, Smithsonian Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 05:40, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions on the Stonehaven derailment article

		The Current Events Barnstar
		I wanted to reach out and thank you for your hard work on keeping the Stonehaven derailment article up-to-date and factual. This is the first major article that I have made, and it has been good to see editors such as yourself work hard to help record the facts of such a tragic incident. Thank you. AimeeSunflower (talk) 10:28, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

What is it then?

Hi Pigsonthewing, as a matter of curiosity, I would be interested to know what you think the name of their website is then? -- DeFacto (talk). 07:06, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

It probably has no name; but most people would refer to it as "the BTP's website". HTH. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:12, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

The {{cite web}} 'website' parameter is documented to be for "Title of website". The BTP website cited has their logo and the title "British Transport Police" clearly emblazoned at the top of that page, and on all others that I looked at on that sub-domain, including their homepage. So it's not immediately clear to me why you would disagree that that is the website name. Can you elaborate please. -- DeFacto (talk). 09:50, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Ask any person in the street what the BTP is; they will tell you it is a police force. No-one will tell you it is a website. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:57, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

We're in the context of citing a website though, and that's the name on that one. The same test would fail for many 'eponymously' named websites - think BBC (a TV broadcaster?), Tesco (a supermarket?), The Guardian (a newspaper?). And what about names that are usually thought of as websites - think Google, eBay, Facebook - would your test mean that they cannot also be considered to be organisation or company names too? -- DeFacto (talk). 10:51, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

It is not the name of a website; there is no website whose name is "British Transport Police". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:55, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

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JarrahTree 13:16, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Hemi Pomara

Thank you for the article on Hemi Pomara! Very snazzy. ─ ReconditeRodent « talk · contribs » 15:13, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for August 16

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Charles Freegrove Winzer, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Corpus Christi College.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:51, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #429

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed requests for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516 (all successful)
  • New request for comments: How (un)important is preserving the historic character of an item?

• Events
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #26, August 23

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in Spanish). YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Bridge v1 will be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia on August 18th
  • New description and screenshots for the Simple Query Builder project, feedback welcome
  • Help:Dataset sizing

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: alternative form
    • External identifiers: Henrik Ibsen writings ID, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures, Manioc book ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, Unsplash User ID, EIB project ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: latest start date, earliest end date, Number of votes after transferring, map URL, type of archaeological site, record number, front and back matter
    • External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, Panteono de edukado.net, LSG local body code, MobyGames attribute ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), Proballers player ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, Chrome Webstore extension ID, CTHS publication ID, LBS Physical ID, GBIF occurence ID
  • Query examples:
    • Largest collections of Picasso content (Source). The National Gallery of Art holds the most with 303 objects
    • Bubble chart of snooker world champions (Source)
    • Map of streets in Tillydrone named after WW2 military leaders (Source)

• Development
  • Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (phabricator:T259440)
  • Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (phabricator:T255387)
  • Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
  • Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not containing the datatype (phabricator:T249206)
  • Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of having to maintain their own
  • Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (phabricator:T128486)
  • Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content languages (phabricator:T259340, phabricator:T260118)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:04, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [5]
• The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [7][8]

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20:41, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Help Requested: Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Another Wikipedian came by and tagged the Pritzker Military Museum & Library for primary sources, etc. and Pritzker Military Presents as an AfD. Can you help address the respective issues? TeriEmbrey (talk) 21:23, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Women in Red

A tough one, but there's no article on Eileen Gibb who wrote the Sammy the Shunter and Billy the Bus books in the 1940s/50s. I wrote the article on Sammy the Shunter in 2008, but it has now been nominated for deletion. Several editors have suggested merging into an article on Eileen Gibb. Mjroots (talk) 18:05, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2020

This Month in Education Volume 9 • Issue 8 • August 2020 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Collaboration between Karvachar Armath laboratory and Karvachar’s Wikiclub as a new educational platform for the teenagers Education cycle “Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: an instructional strategy for the teaching practice” 3rd edition of Wikipedia Education Program in Hebron, Palestine. (COVID-19 edition) Introductory Wikipedia Workshop with Future Engineers: First Step of Education Program A picture is worth a thousand words: history students research pictures on Commons

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 13:33, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #430

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata distributed birthday in October. You can organize an (online) event with your local group or favorite WikiProject! See also: calendar in progress, information for organizers, 24-hours online meetup
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will talk about gadgets and user scripts. 25 August. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #27, August 30
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Commonsense Knowledge in Wikidata (via ArXiv)
  • Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online.
    • Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
    • Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266 (also on YouTube)
  • Video: How to add missing descriptions to Wikidata using QuickStatments tool (in Arabic) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #16 Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikidata editing basics (in Chinese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Sophox allows for SPARQL querying of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in a single query

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Two new grant programs from WikiCite, in support of open citations and linked bibliographic data.

Full documentation, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, program design principles, and contacts at the links. Apply by 1 October.

1. Project & events [$2-10k]
2. e-Scholarships [per-diem calculated on your city; 1-5 people (single, or as a 'remote group') for 2-4 days, for COVID-era "stay at home" projects. Paid in advance living allowance, no expense report required.]

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: SMARTS notation, tala, raga, recording location, law or regulation identifying number, earliest end date, latest start date, extinction date
    • External identifiers: Filmstarts title ID, Trismegistos text ID, SPLC Individual ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, BHF magazine ID, Macedonian cadastral municipality ID, Monumentbrowser ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938 ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister ID, BHF author ID, Proballers ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, Opera Online opera house ID, CTHS publication ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Namesakes, Engineer's Line Reference, bibliography, external auditor, ITF-identificatiecode voor speler 2020, rotated image, mirrored image, combined from, overlaid from, number of deaths in senior care homes, number of cases intensive care, negotiated by, is solution to, Commons category for the exterior of the item, Number of taxpayers, medium
    • External identifiers: Abbreviations related to ancient authors and works and to academic works regarding classical antiquity, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Emporis company ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, FBref.com squad ID, Operator licence number, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Istrapedia ID, monumenta.ch ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Art Bonus ID, The Living New Deal ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, UG Digital Collections, jewishencyclopedia.com ID, Fancyclopedia 3 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, Grandterrier.net ID
  • Query examples:
    • British MPs with sons- or daughters-in-law who were also MPs (source)
    • MPs with the largest number of children or childen-in-law who became MPs (source)
    • Descendants of Robert Emett (born 1729), with counts of sitelinks and external IDs for them and their spouses (source)
    • Programming languages written by women (Source)
    • Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc) annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (Source)
    • Female soccer players who have a (known) social media account (Source)
    • Largest cities in France by population (Source)
  • Commons queries:
    • Works in Helsinki, and their copyright status (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Gazetteer

• Development
  • Deployed the first version of the Wikidata Bridge to Catalan Wikipedia
  • Creating Grafana Dashboards for the new Wikidata Bridge so we have some data to help us determine which datatypes to support next for example (phabricator:T260532)
  • Finished working on ensuring Labels of Items in some unusual, often minority, languages are still available on Wikipedia and other clients (phabricator: T259340)
  • Fixed error messages for API modules that will not work with the first version of Federated Properties (phabricator:T258558)
  • Working on improving how ORES judges the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
  • Started coding on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:09, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

17:59, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

September Women in Red edithons

Women in Red | September 2020, Volume 6, Issue 9, Numbers 150, 151, 176, 177 Online events: New: Women writers | Women in conflict zones Interwiki collaborations: Women of WWII Continuing initiatives: #1day1woman | BLM/Anti-discrimination Help us plan future events: Virtual Ideas Cafe Join the conversation: Women in Red talkpage Stay in touch: Join WikiProject Women in Red | Opt-out of notifications Social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 30 August 2020

• News and notes: The high road and the low road

• In the media: Storytelling large and small

• Featured content: Going for the goal

• Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way

• Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax

• Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics

• News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online

• Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles

• Arbitration report: A slow couple of months

• From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?

• Obituaries: Marcus Sherman, Jerome West, and Pauline van Till

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:33, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

My user page

Uhm, hi, I'm still active. I was very active today and year round. LefcentrerightDiscuss 21:34, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

@Lefcentreright: Apologies; I was working my way down a list of users and must have clicked the wrong link. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:50, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

"Not Here" template

Before you place any headers on my talk page, either check my recent contributions, or ask me. Besides of the fact of being active, I've placed articles I'm working on nomination and the Guild of Copy-editors just to name a few. To say I'm not around basically also deters people from contacting me via my talk page. It is just unacceptable.--GDuwenTell me! 12:49, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

August

August

Sunflowers in Walsdorf

Thank you for improving articles in August! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:37, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

A first for me today: a featured list (= a featured topic in this case) on the Main page, see Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 August 21, an initiative by Aza24 in memory of Brian. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:35, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Rhythm Is It! - I expanded that stub on my dad's birthday because we saw the film together back then, and were impressed. As a ref said: every educator should see it. Don't miss the trailer, for a starter. - A welcome chance to present yet another article by Brian on the Main page, Le Sacre du printemps. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:51, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #431

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Editing contest - Members of the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. By Global Open Initiative - YouTube (1), (2)
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 1 at 18:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, September 2nd at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT). Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata birthday events organizers call, September 2nd at 19:00 CEST.
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #28, September 6
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18 Facebook, YouTube, September 5 at 19.00 UTC
  • Upcoming: Onam label-a-thon (September 1st and 2nd): Online label-a-thon to improve Wikidata items related to Kerala and Malayalam on this Onam holidays.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: How to use the Wikidata Query Service, by Dr Chris Langley
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Creating a Wikidata item (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • WikiCite and bibliographic data on Wikidata, how to contribute and how to view it with Scholia (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way - article by Lydia Pintscher in the Wikipedia Signpost

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.
  • WMF will be performing data center maintenance operations by switching all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for up to an hour from 14:00 UTC
  • The Wikidata community now has a channel on the newly-established Wikimedia Chat service.
  • reconciler, a Python wrapper for Open Refine's API to reconcile pandas data frames with Wikidata items.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Butcher tableau, front and back matter, external auditor
    • External identifiers: edukado.net Panteono ID, Chrome Webstore extension ID, PARADISEC Catalog, NPR station ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Emporis company ID, Art Bonus ID, British Museum object ID, monumenta.ch ID, The Living New Deal ID, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: parent superproperty, publisher of, performed at, Barcelona Public art identifier, opening hours (v.3), Fanbase name, aerial view, ground clearance, axle track, placeholder text element ID, displacement, Deutsche Bahn station abbreviation, entry in abbreviations table, Liturgical rank
    • External identifiers: NHK Archives Portal person ID, EPA Ecoregion Level 1 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 4 Code, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945, Firefox add-on ID, London Stock Exchange company, Fatcat ID, NDL law ID, e-Gov law ID, OFAC sanction ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, YUAG ID, Grove Music Online ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe person ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of cities and towns in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Map of structures that have won architectural awards - OSM/Wikidata query
    • Birth places of Buffalo Sabres players (Source)
    • Timeline of all of Bird’s tunes (Source)
    • Approximate proportion of people called "John" in any given UK Parliament since 1372 (Source)
    • People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade of birth (Source)
    • Location of decommissioned aircraft - OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
    • Railway network in Czechia (Source)
    • People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade (of birth) (Source)
    • List of locations of Woolf's books (Source)

• Development
  • Working on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well
  • Polishing remaining pieces of the first version of Federated Properties to make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in other Wikibase instances
  • Continuing to work on improving the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item to make it more accurate

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.
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