Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions

- Open request for adminship: Hazard-SJ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Hazard-SJ_3, Gnoeee https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wagino_20100516_2 - Closed request for adminship: Wiki13 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wiki13_2 (successful)

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events

- Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/August_2020. This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibase_Live_Session_-_August_2020.webm ) - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xftQTezmXVO0B1WMYoNnkEOrOVYF38nKaXzP7POxRvo/edit#Agenda ] - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#25, August 16

Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage

- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed Wikidata games Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2726704460948047/, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVhtTfzrKA - Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa71M5Yw8g - Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with Wikidata tools https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2020/08/10/librarians-work-to-broaden-vanderbilts-research-reputation-with-wikidata-tools/. "To speed up the creation of metadata about faculty and their publications, Steven Baskauf, data science and data curation specialist for libraries, developed “VanderBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:VanderBot,” a set of scripts that can read and write to Wikidata, greatly improving the efficiency by which Vanderbilt’s faculty are discoverable through Wikidata".

Tool of the week

- OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher https://osm.wikidata.link/ links Wikidata entries to places in OpenStreetMap.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- wikidata2df, a Python package for easily turning a Wikidata SPARQL query into a pandas dataframe https://github.com/jvfe/wikidata2df - With Wikidata Concept Tree Generator https://observablehq.com/@repmax/wikidata-concept-tree-generator, you can enter any concept and instantly see a visualization of its extended relations. (Source https://twitter.com/maxmunnecke/status/1291688128848240641)

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: size comparison diagram https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8512, view https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8517 - External identifiers: Legacy.com newspaper ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8507, ChemSynthesis ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8508, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8509, Maitron des fusillés ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8510, Fototeka person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8511, LibraryThing series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8513, TOPCMB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8514, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8515, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8516 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: image of entrance https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/image_of_entrance, extinction date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/extinction_date, notation writer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/notation_writer, raga https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/raga, tala https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tala, SMARTS https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SMARTS, Editio princeps https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Editio_princeps, recording location https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/recording_location - External identifiers: Sochy a města ID osoby https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sochy_a_m%C4%9Bsta_ID_osoby, Sochy a města ID sochy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sochy_a_m%C4%9Bsta_ID_sochy, podvignaroda https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/podvignaroda, Have I Been Pwned breach ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Have_I_Been_Pwned_breach_ID, European Investment Bank project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Investment_Bank_project_ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset Id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WordNet_3.1_Synset_Id, cadastral municipality ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cadastral_municipality_ID, NPR station ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NPR_station_ID, NYARC Discovery ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NYARC_Discovery_ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nasjonalt_skoleregister-ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ERIC_Thesaurus_ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/American_Folklore_Society_Ethnographic_Thesaurus_ID, Trismegistos Texts ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Trismegistos_Texts_ID - Query examples: - Ancestors of the current King of Spain color coded by sex or gender https://w.wiki/YhE - Political alignments of the parties of world leaders https://w.wiki/Ymh (Source https://twitter.com/tmtm/status/1290946706490695680) - Female Mathematicians whose birth/death anniversary is today https://w.wiki/YiN (Source https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1290621299132375043)

- Commons queries: - Map of images found in the medieval Atlas De Wit https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ffile%20%3Fimage%20%3FdepictionLabel%20%3Fcoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP6243%20wd%3AQ2520345%20.%0A%20%20%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdepiction%20.%0A%20%20%3Ffile%20schema%3AcontentUrl%20%3Furl%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepiction%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdepiction%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdepictionLabel%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20bind%28iri%28concat%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%2C%20replace%28substr%28str%28%3Furl%29%2C53%29%2C%22_%22%2C%22%2520%22%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%0A%7D (source https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/queries/examples#Map_of_images_found_in_the_medieval_Atlas_De_Wit ) - Things depicted with cats https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/#%23%20Things%20depicted%20with%20cats%0A%0A%23%20Things%20depicted%20with%20cats%0A%0A%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fcount%20%3Fdepicted%20%3FdepictedLabel%20%3FsampleImg%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Ftarget%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Ftarget%20wdt%3AP31%3F%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ146%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20include%20specific%20sorts%20of%20cats%20and%20individual%20cats%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Ftarget%20wdt%3AP31%3F%20wd%3AQ43577%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20and%20also%20breeds%20of%20cat%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25targets%0A%20%20%20%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Ffile%29%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%3Fdepicted%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ffile%29%20AS%20%3Fsample%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25targets%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffile%20p%3AP180%20%3Fstmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstmt%20ps%3AP180%20%3Ftarget%20.%0A%20%23%20%20%20%3Fstmt%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20%20Make%20sure%20the%20cat%20is%20marked%20as%20prominent%20--%20%2a%2acommented%20out%20for%20now%2a%2a%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffile%20p%3AP180%20%3Fstmt2.%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fstmt2%20%21%3D%20%3Fstmt%29%20.%20%20%20%20%23%23%20%20now%20get%20another%20depicts%20statement%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstmt2%20ps%3AP180%20%3Fdepicted%20.%20%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicted%0A%7D%20AS%20%25things%20%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcount%20%3Fdepicted%20%3Fsample%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25things%20.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20exclude%20anything%20that%20was%20an%20original%20target%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Ftarget%20AS%20%3Fdepicted%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25targets%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25things1%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25things1%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicted%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdepictedLabel%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fsample%20schema%3AcontentUrl%20%3Furl%20%3B%0A%20%20bind%28iri%28concat%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%2C%20wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28substr%28str%28%3Furl%29%2C53%29%29%29%29%20AS%20%3FsampleImg%29%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29 (source https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/queries/examples#Things_depicted_with_cats )

Development

- finalized designs for the query builder to start coding at the beginning of September - wrapping up the initial work on the design system so that we can start using the first pieces of it in the query builder development - working on properly linking redirects in recent changes, watchlist and co (phabricator:T255387 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255387) - addressed remaining security review comments about the Wikidata Bridge so that we can deploy it finally on the first Wikipedia - fixed a bug where string values had the wrong length limit ( phabricator:T259440 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259440) - finishing the work of untangling Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repository extensions to make development easier

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.

Monthly Tasks

- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview - Contribute to a Showcase item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items . - 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