Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Wikidata SPARQL workshop, July 25th in Rennes (France)
• Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS, July 26th in Berlin
• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Montreal, August 14th (in French). We're looking for trainers!
• Using Wikidata as an open, community-maintained database of biomedical knowledge, by Andrew Su

WikidataCon

• You can submit projects for the program until July 31st. See the list of ideas, existing submissions, and submit!
• Special tickets for scholarship recipients will be released on July 25th. The last 50 tickets will be released on September 1st.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• wbEntity config variable will be deprecated
• Scores in ORES will be more accurate
• A new version of the Query Helper will be deployed
• Sitelinks for the new Dinka Wikipedia (dinwiki) have been added
• On Wikidata:Usability and usefulness you can see an overview of the work done by the UX people in the Wikidata team on usability
• There's a brand new newsletter about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can subscribe to receive next updates.
• Ma Commune Wikipédia is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Patrimonioculturale-ER ID, linguistic typology, annual energy output, USHMM person ID, Cinema Treasures ID
• Query examples:
  • Properties with most “statement disputed by” qualifiers (source)
  • Last meals of people (source)
  • Colors on national flags (source)
  • images of all winners of Free Software Foundation's Free Software Awards (source)
• lib.reviews now allows searching Wikidata directly to choose subjects to review. (more info)

Development

• The wbEntity JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (gerrit:365604). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook as a possible replacement.
• Fire-fighting dispatch backlog: phab:T171263.
• Slowly making progress on wb_terms migration to full entity IDs: phab:T114903.
• Constraint statements have been enabled (announcement).
• Distinguish between non-mandatory and mandatory constraints: phab:T164254.
• Work on supporting unit conversion for more units: phab:T168582

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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!