Events

• Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
• Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.
• Upcoming: Wikidata as a hub for the Linked Data cloud - tutorial (full day) at Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2019 conference, Seoul, on September 25.
• Past: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata - Awesome Together during State of the Map 2019 (slides of part one)

Press, articles, blog posts

• Wikidata ist für alle (Bibliotheken) offen. Presentation at 34. Austrian Librarian conference 2019 (Q67368932), September 11th. (in German)
• Opening up the linked data world of Wikidata to new editors, by Will Kent (WikiEdu)

Tool of the week

• Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Structured Data on Commons: Please help to build a basic data model for describing Wikimedia Commons file with structured data! Your help is welcome to solve different modeling challenges, including how to model dates, sources and authors. You can also look at current Wikimedia Commons infobox templates and discuss how the information in wikitext can be translated to structured data.
• Structured Data on Commons: the team is going to develop computer-aided tagging for depicts statements on Commons. You can read the project page and participate on the talk page.
• Your comments on the vision and strategy papers are still welcome on the associated talk page.
• WikidataCon Award 2019: you can nominate your favorite Wikidata or Wikibase project or tool! 🏆 Participation open until October 7th
• Wikidata passed 8B triples on the 19th September (grafana)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: IP Code, number of decimal digits, OFLC classification, amount cataloged, Hardware Version Identification Number
  • External identifiers: Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, Rate Your Music label ID, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, Behind The Voice Actors short ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, Labelcode, Trail Finder ID, Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier (MRGID), Archnet site ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, DANE code, MobyGames genre ID, ICD-11 ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Vudu video ID, Mixer game ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Peer review location, fineness, regnal ordinal, Wikinews coverage, educational stage, faculty, Kivid.info ID, Fossiilid.info ID, CITES Appendix, Content descriptor
  • External identifiers: Wi-Fi Certification ID, GCF Reference, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power ID, IGNrando ID, ISSN-L, Skiddle artist ID, Juno Download album ID, See Tickets artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID
• Query examples:
  • Library systems in California
  • Waterfalls without a drainage basin yet
  • Works of art depicting kisses (source)
  • Longest English word without a repeated letter (source)
  • Longest alphabetically sorted words in English (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Q68235346

Development

• Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
• Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
• More work on setting up the technical background to work on tainted references
• More work on reducing the resources needed to load pages
• Create a dependency graph of existing RessourceLoader modules (phab:T232728)

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
• 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!