🧵 Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • JhsBot 6
    • Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.

🎊 Events

• Upcoming
  • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows

✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • 2022 September status on Danish lexemes in Wikidata
• Papers
  • The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research
• Videos
  • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #91 - YouTube
  • How donations to Wikidata work (in English with French subtitles) - YouTube
  • BridgeDB & Wikidata. A powerful combination that generates interoperable open research (in Spanish) - YouTube
• Presentations
  • Climate knowledge and the Wikimedia ecosystem

🧰 Tool of the week

• User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.

✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Fork of QuickPresets userscript. Simple/minor updates were made to the script
• The Elasticsearch 7.10.2 upgrade is now completed.

🤔 Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: ePSD2 identifier, USK ID, Match TV person ID, Chess.com player ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: membership number, increased by, badge image, historical information sign, is mentioned in, sponsor
  • External identifiers: Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, Twitter community ID, Linktree ID, Préfets 3, Observation.org place ID, expertes ID, OpenML dataset ID, identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, MEXT school code, USGS Thesaurus ID, NicoNico ID, Asian Tour player ID, AIBA ID, Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID
• Query examples:
  • Smallest cities with at least two metro lines (source)
  • Chart of occupation of people born in New Zealander (source)
  • Capoeira practitioners through time! (birthdates) (source)
  • Gallery of mid-seventeenth-century bishops (source)
  • Song titles that match female given names (source)
  • Songs about Elizabeth II (source)
  • Student-advisor graph (Stanford University) (source)
  • Official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean! (size proportional to the population of the countries) (source)
  • People in the 2022–2026 parliamentary term of the Swedish Riksdag (source)
  • Software license, by year (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Hiking trails

🧑🏿‍💻 Development

• Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
• Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (phab:T300770)
• Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (phab:T317863)
• REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)

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!