Discussions

• Open request for adminship: ZI Jony

Events

• Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, June 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
• Past: Celtic Knot Conference 2019 - minority languages on Wikimedia projects. Slides to be added in the Commons category

Press, articles, blog posts

• A new Wikidata map and comparison with previous maps, by Addshore
• The story of building the inteGraality tool at the Wikimedia Hackathon, by JeanFred
• Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
• Lydia Pintscher submitted a chapter for the collaborative book Wikipedia@20, called Wikidata - Wikipedia’s not so little sister is finding its own way. Feel free to have a look, review is open until July 19th
• You can also check out Denny Vrandečić's submission about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Because of a server switch, Wikidata will be in read-only mode on July 30th from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (phab:T227063)
• Change in the name pattern of new Wikidata RDF dumps: starting on July 15th, dumps will have a new name format (phab:T226153)
• Reminder for tool builders: Python tools should use a user-agent to access the Query Service. If you recently encountered issues with the Query Service, please check that your tool is compliant to m:User-Agent policy.
• New user script for lexicographical data to add Forms on Lexemes that don't have any, by suggesting and filling out templates

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: animator, video system, announcement date, access status, literary motif, review of, middle family name
  • External identifiers: FPBR person ID, PHI Latin Texts author ID, VG-lista artist ID, Bloodhound ID, Steam profile ID, Find & Connect ID, Goodreads series ID, Scandipop topic id, 2014 Commonwealth Games ID, El portal de Música artist ID, Balochistan Education Management Information System code, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Management Information System code, Punjab Education Management Information System code, Sindh Education Management Information System code, IMVDb artist ID, Institute-id in the BaFin company database, Musiikkituottajat artist (certyfication) ID, IFPI Austria artist ID, IFPI Danmark artist ID, SNEP artist ID, hitparade.ch artist (certyfication) ID, BVMI artist ID, Music Canada artist ID, IFPI Norge artist ID, Napster artist ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Retrosheet ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier ID, ACNP journal ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Rupa Publications author ID, OYO Hotel ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID, Hungarian National Namespace person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, Wikia Article URL 2, Wikispecies template for this work, imprimatur, periphrasis, terms of service, privacy policy, Musisque Deoque author ID, SAR Value, IAAF competition category, Academic rank, MPG ID, newspaper archive, unabbreviated text, identifiant Q-Codes, ft.dk politician identifier
  • External identifiers: Biyografya ID, Magazine in BitArkivo.org, PharmGKB ID, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, identifiant Missions étrangères de Paris, DigitalNZ ID, Handball123 player ID, ScOT ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, номер российской организации, AtlasFor ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Adventure Gamers ID, Bebo profile numeric ID, MovieLens ID, WikiApiary, Scribd Book ID, Penguin India author ID, Spanish Catalogued Heritage
• Query examples:
  • 762 people made edits on lexicographical data, 571 created at least one Lexeme (source)
  • Map with percentage of Welsh speakers in the regions of Wales (source)
  • Publication dates of works used as usage example for Swedish Lexemes (source)
  • Ratios of male/female organizers and speakers at conferences (source)
  • World map of sign languages by country (source)
  • Number of punk bands from Indonesia by region (source)
  • Map of World Heritage places in Europe (source)
  • Map of parishes of New South Wales, Australia, colour-coded by county (source)
• Newest database reports: Glasnevin Cemetery, Mount Jerome Cemetery

Development

• Enabled JSONLD support for entity data (example)
• Fixed JSON dump issue (phabricator:T226601)
• Readded qualifier hashes in JSON output that accidentally got lost (phabricator:T227207)
• Made sure changes on Entity Schema pages by autoconfirmed users are autopatrolled (phabricator:T224495)
• Looked into issues with partial blocking on Wikidata entities (phabricator:T207893)
• Adding MediaInfo as an entity type that can be used in the "allowed entity types"-constraint (phabricator:T224362)
• Investigating an issue with the tours on Wikidata (phabricator:T223999)
• Initial work for the edit dialog that is needed for editing of Wikidata's data from Wikipedia (Wikidata Bridge)

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!