Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda
• Wikidata Workshop 2023 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Modeling and Querying Awards in Wikidata
• Creating Bengali Freebase Using Wikidata
• Probability of having notable parents by country of citizenship

Tool of the week

• narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • quality is the result of process (quality that this process/activity directly correlates to and produces)
  • External identifiers: theCrag ID, ‎SEC Kerala code, Modern History Database person ID, Netflix person ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, PM20 film section ID, The Homicide Report person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • ISCED field (mapping of a particular course's local fields according to the International Standard Classification of Education)
    • Romanian river code (River codes from ApeleRomâne)
  • External identifiers: Artmajeur artist ID, UETK ID, Trésors de Nice ID, German University Collections PersonID
• Query examples:
  • Terminus stations of the Transilien railroad network (source)
  • List of children of Johann Sebastian Bach (source)

Development

• Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished work on accessing data for Properties (phab:T337720)
  • We started work on supporting conditional HTTP headers for accessing Property data (phab:T338138)
• You can now add sitelinks to outreach wiki (phab:T171140)
• Query Builder: Fixed an issue with missing icons in the language selector (phab:T335754)
• EntitySchemas: Final polishing on the new datatype before wider testing.

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!