Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Kadı - RfP scheduled to end after 14 June 2024 17:51 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - Closed as successful. Welcome back Squirrel!
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • MDanielsBot 2 Task(s) - Replace translations of descriptions and labels.
  • TapuriaBot Task(s) - interwiki
  • Skybristol bot Task(s) - Flesh out mapping of DOI provider orgs to WD orgs, syncing DOI prefix values.
  • EpidòseosBot Task(s) - improve incomplete references to GND for sex / gender; add new references containing GND ID for sex / gender when the property has no references containing stated in.

Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 11, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET ( Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on SMALL GLAM SLAM Pilot 1 with Ismael Olea. Link to agenda.
• Celtic Knot Wikimedia Conference, September 25-27, 2024 in Waterford City, Ireland. This conference usually hosts Wikidata-related sessions. You can now propose your contributions to the program until July 14th, and apply for a scholarship until June 30th ( full announcement and links)
• WikiIndaba conference 2024, 4 - 6 October 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This conference typically hosts Wikidata-related sessions. Program submissions 05 - 30 June 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • 100,000 video games on Wikidata - Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games has just passed a major milestone: 100,000 video game (Q7889) items on Wikidata.
• Videos
  • (es) How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata? - This is a Spanish-speaking Wikitools workshop exploring Paulina (see: Tool of the Week), a search interface powered by Wikidata for finding and exploring author's and whether their works are in the public domain.
• Notebooks
  • Radio France meets Wikidata 😘: Extracting IDs from radio France and matching them with Wikidata using P10780 property
  • Wikidata's analytics for Radio France's podcasts

Tool of the week

• Paulina: Data for the Public Domain - Explore the cultural heritage of humanity. Search Paulina by author and discover if they have freely accessible works in the Public Domain.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Propose to transform an existing CSS or Javascript script (i.e. scripts that you can enable in your common.css and common.js pages) into a gadget: Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
• Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish ID, Vikidia ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not))
  • ecosystem type (type of ecosystem that the item represents)
  • Burgenwelt (Burgenwelt; castles)
  • construction time ({{Construction time refers to the time which was needed to build a certain building, which sometimes took more than one year, especially in former times | de = <!-- Die Bauzeit bezieht sich auf die Zeit, die benötigt wurde, um ein Gebäude zu errichten, was manchmal länger, gerade früher, als ein Jahr brauchte --> <!-- | xx = Beschreibungen in anderen Sprachen --> }})
  • Nom dans la langue locale ()
  • YAMAP mountain ID (YAMAP mountain ID)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, MODI ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, AllGame style ID, MoFo ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, FC Metz player id, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English ID, itch.io numeric ID, produsent-ID hos Nasjonalmuseet, Phasmida Species File taxon ID, Psocodea Species File taxon ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID, Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID, filmas.lv film ID, filmas.lv studio ID, filmas.lv person ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Elonet company ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: Irish-English ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Average height of people named Joe
  • Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID
  • Timeline of inception of Ghanaian universities
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Honoris Causa France - aims to coordinate the actions carried out in terms of reporting the attributions of honorary doctorate ( Q11415564) by French universities.
  • HolyWells - aims to organize Items around Holy Wells.
  • OghamStones - aims to organise Items around Ogham Stones
  • Western Michigan University Libraries - used to gather Wikidata work being done at Western Michigan University Libraries.
  • Visibilizando el dominio público colombiano - to help the unique, permanent and visible identification, worldwide, of Colombian authors in the public domain, within the framework of Colombian legislation.
• Newest database reports: Connectivity between Wikimedia projects
• Showcase Items: Pomona College (Q7227384) - private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States
• Showcase Lexemes: bustadmarknad (L1122204) - "housing market" in Nynorsk

Development

• The UnpatrolledEdits gadget now shows a notice when there are older and multiple unpatrolled edits, previously it only showed the notice when the most recent edit was unpatrolled. Please help translate the messages here.
• Query Service: We are fixing a bug where no examples are shown in the example dialog ( phab:T366871)
• EntitySchemas: We have enabled the new datatype for testing on test.wikidata.org and are preparing the rollout to Wikidata ( phab:T365686)
• Item UI: We fixed an issue where labels were not shown for badges or after making an edit ( phab:T366236)
• Wikibase REST API: We have continued the work on the route for modifying the data of an Item ( phab:T342993)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Mdann52 bot - Task(s): Updating callsign, frequency and FCC ID of US Radio Station items from FCC database.
  • M2Ys4U-Bot - Task(s): Import data about candidates standing for election in the 2024 United Kingdom general election.

Events

• Looking ahead
  • Lexico Days 2024 is coming up. June 28 - 30, there will be a packed programme of presentations, discussions and workshops on Lexicographical data. This is an online event.
  • Wikidata Workshop for Botanists at the XX Intl. Botanical Congress, July 21 - 27, 2024, Madrid, Spain.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Diff Blog: Why Wikimedia (and Wikidata) is an antidote to disinformation - Wiki Movimento Brasil discuss how Wikidata has equipped researchers, activists and the public the ability to safeguard truths about human rights abuses during the civic-military Brazilian dictatorship between 1964 - 1985.
  • Making location based timelines with Wikipedia, Wikidata and mojeek - Tara Calishain of Calishat blog.
  • (de) 20 Years of WMDE - scroll down the timeline and see what Wikimedia Deutschland has done in its 20 years of existence!
• Papers
  • Linking Named Entities in Diderot's Encyclopédie to Wikidata - This paper describes the annotation of more than 10,300 of the Encyclopédie entries with Wikidata identifiers enabling them to be connect to the graph of structured data. By Piere Nugues.
  • Towards a linking between WordNet and Wikidata - The authors propose linking the 2 described reosurces through hapax legomenon and natural language processing techniques to create new connections and uses. By J. McCrae & D. Cillessen.
• Videos
  • WikiWednesday Webinar – Increasing Education & Outreach through Wikidata & the Wiki-Commons - Victoria Stasiuk and Navino Evans of the Digital Literacy for GLAM show how museums and galleries have opened up their collections through Wikidata and Commons and increase education, outreach and volunteer engagement strategies.
  • What is Wikidata? How to use Wikidata? - Asaf Bartov hosts this informative session on Wikidata at the Wikimania Singapore 2023. If you're attending Wikimania 2024, this session will prepare you for other Wikidata-related sessions.
  • Creating a Lexeme Database from Scratch - The runup to Wikimania Katowice has begun. Refresh yourself for upcoming sessions with this Wikidata basics workshop hosted by Leon Liesener.

Tool of the week

• Gestapo.Terror.Places (in Lower Saxony 1933-1945) - This app displays on a map of lower Saxony areas of interest or significance of the terror-related crimes of the Gestapo during WWII.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the final set of rules for the WDQS graph split.
• Programming Languages ranked by Sitelinks in Wikidata

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
  • External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), ‎AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, ‎itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, ‎filmas.lv person ID, ‎filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, ‎Burgenwelt ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: Irish-English ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not))
    • ecosystem type (type of ecosystem that the item represents)
    • construction time (Construction time refers to the time which was needed to build a certain building, which sometimes took more than one year, especially in former times)
    • Nom dans la langue locale ()
    • YAMAP mountain ID (YAMAP mountain ID)
    • coin edge (Coin edges may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a combination of both. They can also include lettering.)
    • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
  • External identifiers: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, MODI ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, Douban Personage ID, Canadian Great War Project person ID, stiga.trefik.cz, PMC journal ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives Canada) ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID
• Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Tool Registry for Digital Humanities
  • Operas ordered by First Performance
  • Performing Arts Productions with a Composer property
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Assoc. Football - Euro 2024 - for best practices on UEFA Euro 2024 items.
  • Bulgarian Elections - for describing data related to elections in Bulgaria.
  • ARS3D - statements and properties for an African Red Slip ware 3D artifact data model.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • (de) Theorie und Praxis in Wikidata - User:Matthiasb uses examples of Highway intersection classification on Wikidata of locations in and around Berlin to highlight inconsistencies between the data model and legal classification. By highlighting a considerable number of differences in a relatively small geographic area, these comments provide further context on an earlier discussion within the German Wikipedia community on integrating Wikidata further into Wikipedia articles.
• Newest database reports: Badge Stats - How are badges being applied in Wikidata, which items have the most Good or Featured Articles? Savvy editors can use this to enrich said articles in their own Wiki.
• Showcase Items: Mordor - A desolate volcanic plain of nauseous gases and shadows. J.R.R Tolkien's blighted land is this week's showcase.
• Showcase Lexemes: вода - A Russian word for a clear, vitality-giving liquid, of course it's Water.

Development

• EntitySchemas: We are preparing for the rollout of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We are continuing the work on the route for modifying an Item ( phab:T342993)
  • We are working on improving errors and error messages in the API
• Query Service UI: We fixed a bug. The example dialog was empty and not showing any examples ( phab:T366871)
• We changed the datatype of two Properties to external ID as requested ( phab:T367174)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Gambling
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)