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!