Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, FlyingAce! (see the closed request)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 4 (Task: Import commune of France contact data from french official directory, french official directory
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: JoRobot 8 (Task: Removing good list badge from articles in the Catalan Wikipedia)

Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 15, 2023. We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements.More information on the event page

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• • Paper: Documenting Biodiversity in Underrepresented Languages using Crowdsourcing - Mohammed Kamal-Deen Dnshitobu Fuseini, Agnes Ajuma Abah, Andra Waagmeester
• Press: Statement by Alliance F5 on the German Government's data strategy (in German)
• Videos
  • List of free software in le socle interministériel de logiciels libres (SILL/the interministerial base of free software) recommended by the French Government in Wikidata - Nicolas Vigneron
  • Georeferencing using OSM and Wikidata - Oficina Wiki Apoia
  • Members of Riksdag (Sweden's parlement) - Magnus Sälgö
  • Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments with Content Partnerships Hub - Wikimedia Sweden
  • From self-documentation to federated querying using Wikibase: a new topology to Media Art Archiving? - Raphael Tsz Kin Chau

Tool of the week

• LowercaseDescription.js is a script that adds a link to automatically lower the first letter of an item's description in the user's language.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• You can now browse all the Wikibase instances hosted on Wikibase.Cloud: https://www.wikibase.cloud/discovery
• Wikibase resources, a collection of resources, overviews, links and knowlegde related to Wikibase, collected and curated by KB, national library of the Netherlands

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: RBC person ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Médiathèque Numérique CVS ID, MyShows show ID, NHK News topic ID, ‎Sitios ID, Xiaohongshu user ID, Fansly ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • chronological designation (as a typical instance, the stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
    • Flora of New Jersey Project atlas URL (URL for a plant species in the Flora of New Jersey Project atlas)
  • External identifiers: British Pathé ID, ProductReview ID, BISAC Subject Heading, EDItEUR Thema id, ONIX Subject Scheme id, MiMoText ID, ADVN ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, Diktyon, Codeberg username, RAWG tag ID, National Library of Albania ID, DfE Group UID, AARoads Wiki article ID, Armasanicana person ID, FloraVeg.EU species ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID
• Query examples:
  • Google Scholar Organization IDs to Wikidata (source)
  • Power stations of this world (source)
  • Usage state of the nuclear power plant (source)

Development

• We are planning the migration of some of our existing components from the Wikit to the Codex design system in Query Builder, Mismatch Finder and the Special:NewLexeme page.
• Warnings about not being logged-in will now have a returnto= parameter attached to their links, so that you can don’t use your flow from logging in (phab:T330550)
• We fixed an issue with the LanguageSwitcher in Query Builder where it would open out of the viewport on some tablet screen widths (phab:T344231)
• Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on making it possible to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and getting the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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!