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*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2025-06-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #685 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous.*

* Events *

- Upcoming events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events: - 8-11 September: OpenRefine Barcamp https://openrefine.org/blog/2025/06/10/OpenRefine-2025-Barcamp - fully virtual, registrations and call for sessions are open - WikidataCon 2025 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:WikidataCon_2025 returns this year on the theme of Connecting People through Linked Open Data...on the links below you can - Register to the event https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/1340 to get updates and news - Submit now, the Call for Proposals is open! https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/cfp - Wikidata for Jewish Studies https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-155988, a hands-on Wikidata workshop at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz from September 8-9, 2025. (Registration by July 18) - Drop in and Wikidata https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Drop_in_and_Wikidata_-_June_2025 - This regular online meeting has moved to the last Thursday of every month. Join via Zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88415120219

* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *

- Blogs - Visualizing Knowledge https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/06/28/visualizing-knowledge-how-indonesians-turn-wikidata-into-stories-that-matter/ - how Indonesians turn Wikidata into stories that matter. This article details the efforts and winners of a WM Indonesia organised 30-day competition to create cool visualizations powered through Wikidata. - OpenRefine: Data workflow via open source collaboration https://www.lpi.org/blog/2025/06/25/openrefine-data-workflow-via-open-source-collaboration/ - the Linux Professional Institute interview the project manager of OR, Martin Magdinier, on the journey developing this data manipulation tool.

* Tool of the week *

- User:Jon Harald Søby/senseItemLabel.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by/senseItemLabel.js What it does is that when you add a P5137 statement in a lexeme, it will let you add the lemma as a label to the item in one click, if the item doesn't have a label in that language yet, or if the label is different (very useful for case differences, for instance)

* Other Noteworthy Stuff *

- The Wikidata Ontology Course https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Ontology_Course has finished its course sessions. The slides for all sessions of the course are available on the course page. Part of participating in the course was to set up a project related to the Wikidata Ontology. Current information on the projects, many of which are continuing after the end of the course is now available https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Ontology_Course#Projects. If you are interested in one or more of the projects please follow the project, add something to its discussion page, or contribute to it. - PhD Position in Digital History https://wissenschaftlichestellenangebote.com/phd-position-in-history,i18518.html at the University of Luxembourg is seeking someone with experience in Wikibase and Linked Open Data.

* Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties and property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review *

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: none - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - defining Prolog formula https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/defining_Prolog_formula (Prolog rule expressing the intended logical behavior of a property, for use in ontology formalization and rule-based reasoning.) - Codes for the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Codes_for_the_administrative_divisions_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China (identifier for administrative divisions of People's Republic of China, published by Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China) - ENTSO-E resource type https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ENTSO-E_resource_type (ENTSO-E code for type of Power System Resource. Alias: PSR type, electrical aset type) - External identifiers: Film Atlas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Film_Atlas_ID, FLBB player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FLBB_player_ID, MarathonView person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MarathonView_person_ID

You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!

* Did you know? *

- Query examples: - UNESCO Memory of the World International Register (now complete up to 2023) https://w.wiki/EYkW (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter/queries/memory_of_the_world ) - Largest collections on the MoW International Register https://w.wiki/EZ9o - Featured and Good Articles in Korean or Chinese Wikipedia, with no English version https://w.wiki/EcAw - source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Articles_that_are_GA_or_FA_on_zh_or_ko_wiki_but_not_on_en - Ugandan Female Footballers https://w.wiki/EcAy - source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Query_on_Ugandan_female_Footballers - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: WikiProject Personal Collections https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Personal_Collections - The WikiProject Personal Collections aims to develop structured, multilingual standards and best practices for describing personal collections and archives on Wikidata. - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Arctic Monkeys (Q170599) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170599 - English rock band - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: ਸਿਫ਼ਤ (L713097) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L713097 - Punjabi noun (si-fat) meaning "praise/glorification", "virtue", or "attribute"

* Development *

- Wikibase REST API: We continued working on Item prefix search ( phab:T388209 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388209) and started working on stemming support (phab:T397605 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397605) - Integration in Wikipedia and co: The improved edit summaries are now live on the first wikis (ca, uk, he). We are now showing the labels for linked entities instead of just their IDs (phab:T388685 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388685) - Mobile statement editing: We are continuing working on the basics of showing statements in the new way - nothing useful to see yet ( phab:T394886 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394886)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority.

* Weekly Tasks *

- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review . - Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? . - Govdirectory weekly focus country: New Zealand https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/New_Zealand - Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? in one or two sentences. - Help translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next

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