Events

• Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
  • Wikidata: how to get involved (in Czech)
  • Lexemes on Wikidata (in Czech)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Video: HGAPS Speaker Series by Thomas Shafee
  • Wikidata Overview: how you can use it to improve the overall knowledge base of the Internet
  • Wikidata Walkthrough: hands-on editing experience
• Wikidata for Bat Collectors, YouTube

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Live is a real-time visual dashboard for Wikidata edits; paper, interface (visualizes recent changes to Wikidata in quasi real time).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Complex constraint about labels' language

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: National Library at Kolkata romanization, URL match pattern, URL match replacement value
  • External identifiers: ClassInd audiovisual work ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ID, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, PBA artwork ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: applicable "stated in" value, WMF hosted image that could be moved to Commons, Category for the view of the item, OSM object, property related to this topic, personality traits, graph girth, ALA-LC romanization
  • External identifiers: SAPA, Manus Online author ID, Mapy.cz ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, SVTplay identifier, identifiant Mediafilm, IFLA form of music ID, IFLA key of musical work ID, IFLA mode of musical work ID, RDA support type ID, SLAM artwork ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, NPG ID, jeuxvideo.com ID, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Royal Museums Greenwich ID, PIAC ID, Castbox show ID, Stitcher show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID
• Deleted properties: street address (P969)
• Query examples:
  • Tex-Mex singers (Source)
  • Map of images from Wicipics project (photography campaign in Wales) (Source)
  • Vito Russo Test in Wikidata
  • Distinct dialects of Wikidata lexemes (Source)
  • Patronage of rapid-transit transportation (Source)
  • People who played Julius Caesar, and what "version" of him they played
• Newest WikiProjects: Media Representation
• Newest database reports: Reports on Italian given names

Development

• Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the demo system.
• Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (phab:T267023)
• Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (phab:T266638)
• Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (phab:T267502)
• Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (phab:T250550)

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

• Help add human (Q5) to properties that currently don't have it.
• 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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
• Help write the next summary!