Discussions

• Restrict merging rights to autoconfirmed users
• Change "Nearby" link to list items nearby the item?
• New request for comments: P31 or P279 for geo-objects

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Wikifying Westminster: Wikidata workshop around UK political data, August 19th, London
• Past: Wikimania, Wikimedia hackathon. A lot of things happened during these events, reports and news should be published in the next days.
• Exploring the world with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, by Mapbox
• Enriching catalogue pages in Evergreen with Wikidata by Dan Scott
• Why data partners should link their vocabulary to Wikidata: a new case study on Europeana blog

Wikimania

• You can try the demo system for lexicographical data
• Talk: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? by Sandra Fauconnier
• Talk: New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons by Jarekt
• List of wishes during the "Wikidata pink pony session"
• Talk: the (Wiki)data (R)evolution, by Lydia Pintscher
• Talk: Wikidata and performing arts by Beat Estermann during Wikimania
• Talk: How to use Wikidata in infoboxes (panel)
• New template: A fully automated template system was presented: Oh!WTFs
• Talk: WikiCite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
• Notes about the Wikispecies & Wikidata session
• Documents to organize a Wikidata translathon: level 1, level 2, level 3 (by Kvardek_du) and the translathon tool (by Envel)
• Talk: Sum of all paintings is just the start, by Multichill

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Share your feedback on the draft strategic direction, a basis on which strategic plans will be built.
• Wikidata reached Q36000000. The number of items has been increased by 20% in less than three months

Did you know?

• Newest properties: YCBA agent ID, IEDB Epitope ID, Dagens Næringsliv topic ID, Georgian National Register of Monuments ID, CODECS ID, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ID, magnification, AUR package, Michelin Voyages ID, Michelin Restaurants ID, WeRelate person ID, autores.ar id, MEG ID, Czech Registration ID, separator, National Forest Foundation ID
• Query examples:
  • Most-depicted musical instruments (source)
  • People who died in 2017 without a French label (source)
  • Moar goats (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Goats, WikiProject Torture
• Newest external tools: WD edits stats counting edits mades on a certain dataset between two dates

Development

Most of the team was at Wikimania, talking to people, getting meaningful input from the editors, giving talks, hacking around :)

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!