Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)

Events

• Upcoming: October 09 - 11, 2023, Leipzig, Germany - workshop on handling and modelling mathematical research data — Wikidata, Wikibase and Scholia are all in scope
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #91, Family (2/n)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blog: VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available
• Papers
  • Wikidata: The Making Of (by Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher and Markus Krötzsch)
  • The SciQA Scientific Question Answering Benchmark for Scholarly Knowledge
• Videos: Back having more fun with Lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch

Tool of the week

Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, TOOI identifier, Chess Programming Wiki ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • character in this lexeme (character(s) this lexeme consists of)
  • External identifiers: none
• Query examples:
  • Mapping birthplace and place of death of female Dutch Resistance Fighters on a line (source)
  • Countries that have site links to French Wikipedia with a parenthesis in the title (source)
  • Map of libraries from Austria with ISIL-code or twitter-handle (source)

Development

• (Breaking Change Announcement) Changes to the wblistentityusage API module
• (Breaking Change Announcement) Entity Labels Added to Parsed Edit Summaries in API Requests
• (Breaking Change Announcement) Inconsistencies in the response of `list=wbsubscribers` API Query module
• Query Builder: The Query Builder now has a language selector so you can change the interface language.
• Date parsing: Input of dates in notations common in Asia, especially Japan, is now improved. (phab:T214002)
• EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
• Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on the endpoint for replacing a label of description of an Item. (phab:T323813)

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!