*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events

- Past: - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th. - Upcoming: - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #72 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#72, July 25 - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation. - The next Wikibase live session https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.07.29 is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucamauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.

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

- Blogs - *Wikipedia Citations in Wikidata* English https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/15/wikipedia-citations-in-wikidata/ & Italian https://diff.wikimedia.org/it/2021/07/15/wikipedia-citations-in-wikidata-2/ by OpenCitations, report on a WikiCite grant project. - *Opportunities to improve integration between Wikisource and Wikidata https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/15/opportunities-to-improve-integration-between-wikisource-and-wikidata/* (part 2 of a WikiCite blogpost series) by KCVelaga https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:KCVelaga & Satdeep Gill https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Satdeep_Gill - Finding gendered street names. A step-by-step walkthrough with R https://medium.com/european-data-journalism-network/finding-gendered-street-names-a-step-by-step-walkthrough-with-r-7608c2d36a77 - Introducing the MathFoldr Project https://topos.site/blog/2021/07/introducing-the-mathfoldr-project/ - Videos - Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project (by Mahir256 (A) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mahir256) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmoSdoUcslY - Bringing IIIF Manifests to Life in Wikidata with Mirador 3 (2021 IIIF Annual Conference) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Ka_RtJGBc - Moving Wikipedia's InfoBox to Wikidata (in Taiwanese) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1mpw_DRMM - Notebooks - Using xtools created pages and wikidata API to measure gender statistics about articles created by a user https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/Articles%20created%20by%20gender.ipynb (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:PAWS webservice) - Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/Gender%20diversity%20in%20academic%20disciplines%20in%20the%20French%20wikipedia.ipynb (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:PAWS webservice). - A first look at featured articles in Wikipedia in French using Wikidata https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/Articles%20de%20qualit%C3%A9.ipynb (SPARQL Jupyter notebook using PAWS https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:PAWS)

Tool of the week

- searchy.toolforge.org is a semantic search engine to find articles on a topic and filter results by metascientific info (gender and region).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- Scholia gets an upgrade and 1 click import of new scientific paper via citation-js and QS https://finnaarupnielsen.wordpress.com/2021/07/17/intelligent-search-in-scholia/ - For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021, there are 20 candidates https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates#Candidate_Table. Among them, active Wikidata contributors Mike Peel (A) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel, Laurentius https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Laurentius and Rosiestep https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Rosiestep. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021#Campaign_Activities here. - Sitelinks to the recently created https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/WMF_projects/new Tachelhit Wikipedia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107228569 and Dagbani Wikipedia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107379932 are being added.

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9732, International Tables for Crystallography space group number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9733, number of request signatories https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9740, translation of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9745 - External identifiers: Enciclopedia Dantesca ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9734, Città e Cattedrali ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9735, MANTO ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9736, WMO code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9737, IFPNI author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9738, Landshuth ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9739, Pladias ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9741, Central records of collections ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9742, Podchaser creator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9743, Steam Greenlight game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9744, CEICE school code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9746 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: UEFA stadium category https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UEFA_stadium_category, URL for freedom of information requests https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/URL_for_freedom_of_information_requests, Legal History https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Legal_History, bridge number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/bridge_number, Notable role https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Notable_role, inventory number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/inventory_number, Weverse user ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Weverse_user_ID, ITU radio emission designation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ITU_radio_emission_designation - External identifiers: IRIS SNS author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_SNS_author_ID, eBru ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eBru_ID, Daum Cafe ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Daum_Cafe_ID, Douyin Video ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douyin_Video_ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Royal_Ontario_Museum_ID, maPZS trails/locations ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/maPZS_trails/locations_ID, SDBM IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SDBM_IDs, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Schoenberg_Database_of_Manuscripts_ID, The New Yorker ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_New_Yorker_ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Looted_Cultural_Assets_Database_ID, Marmiton ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Marmiton_ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Enciclopedia_del_Cinema_ID, PubFacts author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PubFacts_author_ID - Query examples: - List of all stages of all tour de France https://query.wikidata.org/#%23title%3A%20List%20of%20all%20stages%0ASELECT%20%2a%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ftour%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ33881%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FtourLabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtourLabel%29%20%3D%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22%20%29%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP361%20%3Ftour%3B%0A%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3FitemLabel%29%29%20%3D%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22%29%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1427%20%3Fdepart.%0A%20%20%3Fdepart%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdepartLabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3FdepartLabel%29%29%20%3D%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22%29%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1444%20%3Farrivee.%20%0A%20%20%3Farrivee%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FarriveeLabel.%20%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3FarriveeLabel%29%29%20%3D%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22%20%29%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP585%20%3Fdate.%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2/Tour_de_France) - Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20This%20query%20takes%20a%20list%20of%20article%20in%20Wikipedia%2C%20analyse%20the%20gender%20of%20all%20entities%20cited%20in%20the%20article%20and%20count%20the%20share%20of%20males%2C%20females%20and%20non%20binary.%0A%23%20The%20goal%20is%20to%20measure%20gender%20diversity%20inside%20wikipedia%20articles%0A%23%20Feedback%20and%20comments%20are%20welcome%20on%20my%20talk%20page%20User%3APAC2%0ASELECT%20%0A%3Farticle%0A%28SUM%28%3Fmale%29%20AS%20%3Fcount_males%29%0A%28SUM%28%3Ffemale%29%20AS%20%3Fcount_females%29%20%0A%28SUM%28%3Fnonbinary%29%20AS%20%3Fcount_nonbinary%29%20%0A%28COUNT%28%2A%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%0A%28ROUND%28100%20%2A%20%3Fcount_females%20%2F%20%28%3Fcount_females%20%2B%20%3Fcount_males%20%2B%20%3Fcount_nonbinary%29%29%20AS%20%20%3Fshare_females%29%20%0A%28ROUND%28100%20%2A%20%3Fcount_nonbinary%20%2F%20%28%3Fcount_females%20%2B%20%3Fcount_males%20%2B%20%3Fcount_nonbinary%29%29%20AS%20%20%3Fshare_nonbinary%29%20%0A%28ROUND%28100%20%2A%20%3Fcount_males%20%2F%20%28%3Fcount_females%20%2B%20%3Fcount_males%20%2B%20%3Fcount_nonbinary%29%29%20AS%20%20%3Fshare_males%29%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Farticle%20%7B%0A%20%20%22Anthropology%22%0A%20%20%22Philosophy%22%0A%20%20%22Economics%22%0A%20%20%22Sociology%22%0A%20%20%22Demography%22%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22en.wikipedia.org%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Generator%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Agenerator%20%22links%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Atitles%20%3Farticle%3B.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wikibase%3AapiOutputItem%20mwapi%3Aitem.%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20BOUND%20%28%3Fitem%29%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgender%20.%20%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fgender%20IN%28wd%3AQ6581097%2C%20wd%3AQ2449503%29%2C%201%2C%200%29%20AS%20%3Fmale%20%29%20%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fgender%20IN%28wd%3AQ6581072%2C%20wd%3AQ1052281%29%2C%201%2C%200%20%29%20AS%20%3Ffemale%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fgender%20%3D%20wd%3AQ48270%2C%201%2C%200%29%20AS%20%3Fnonbinary%29%20%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Farticle (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2/Measuring_gender_diversity) - Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in https://w.wiki/3eFe (Source https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1416082427433390088) - Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online https://w.wiki/3dvP (Source) https://twitter.com/govdirectory/status/1415631226719903747 - Unemployment rate in Sweden by year https://w.wiki/3eoR (1970-2020) (Source https://twitter.com/fagerving/status/1417058590960013317) - Serious plane crashes with only one survivor https://w.wiki/3d5F ( Source https://twitter.com/grafst/status/1416336963985154050) - Mayors' genders of U.S. cities above 100k population https://w.wiki/3eqj (Source https://twitter.com/HaydenSchiff/status/1415859831752232963) - Global usage of pronouns https://w.wiki/HuG (in English Language https://w.wiki/HuH) (Source https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1415284520950157315) - Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen https://w.wiki/3dT6 (Source https://twitter.com/wikidataid/status/1415144165231394817) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject_Medieval_Nobility https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Medieval_Nobility - Newest database reports: language names in Italian (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Wikimedia_language_codes/lists/all/in_it

Development

- Mismatch Finder https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatch_Finder: Continued working on the store part. It can import first mismatches now. - Fixing an issue where month and year are sometimes parsed as the first day of the month (phab:T233105 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233105) - Fixing an issue with adding sitelinks for some of the newer Wikipedias (phab:T285919 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285919) - Working on improving the Lua usage tracking for redirected Items ( phab:T280910 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280910) - {{SPARQL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:SPARQL}} was amended on the 4th July to use the report #title, if present, as the anchor for the 'Try it' link. (example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries/examples#Horses_(showing_some_info_about_them) )

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