• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-Thon in Atla, Canada, 13 June 2019
  • Upcoming: the Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to minority languages in the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Penryn, Cornwall, on July 4-5. The program is published and will contain several Wikidata-related sessions. The registration is open

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Batches of Rust - Magnus' improvements to QuickStatements
  • Robustifying Scholia — Developing a Wikipedia interface for exploring the research ecosystem

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The W3C Entity Reconciliation Community Group has launched

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: sequenced genome URL, number of hospital beds, related image, taxa found at location, calendar feed URL, calligrapher, replacement property, feed-in tariff
    • External identifiers: GLIMS ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, racing-reference race ID, racing-reference track ID, SportSport.ba player ID, Xikao History ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, Prazdne Domy architect ID, AntWiki article ID, Mediapart tag ID, NWBib ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID, The Dragon Archive ID, SVT Open archive ID, Australian bank branch ID, Alvin ID, Tainacan MAI ID, GNU ELPA package ID, RFGS person ID, Igromania ID, Czech parliament ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, swMATH work ID, Pinakes author ID, IndicePA ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Married by, Access status, Musixmatch album ID, Antecedent anatomical structure, effective temperature, aperture, surface gravity, historic first
    • External identifiers: ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, DR.dk Tag ID, Réunionnais du monde ID, Planilla Códigos Únicos Territoriales (CUT), Doximity ID, dbSNP ID, Bloodhound ID, Xing profile ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi ID, MAHG ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, Ciência ID
  • Query examples:
    • Items in Japanese museums by British sculptors (federated query with Japan Search) (source)
    • Number of items about Australia created over time (source)
    • Federated query comparing Wikidata and UK Parliament database, to show differences of more than 10km in locations of UK parliamentary constituencies (source)

• Development
  • When typing an item ID on Special:Search, labels are now shown in the suggestion menu
  • More work on preparing the migration of wb_terms to the new design
  • Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing ( phab:T221835)
  • Add "You are not logged in" overlay popup on termbox editing ( phab:T221831)
  • Add the "Remember my choice" checkbox to the "You are not logged in" popup on mobile termbox editing ( phab:T221833)
  • Add EntitySchema in the license footer ( phab:T224536)
  • Several improvements to shex simple tools ( phab:T221604, phab:T221606)
  • Work on an issue with a deleted constraint still appearing on Lexemes ( phab:T223372)
  • Work on normalistation in the Lua API mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle ( phab:T224593)
  • Improved tests and fixed failing tests

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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!

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles

• Events
  • Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call on June 18th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, France, on June 21st
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington, New Zealand, on June 22nd

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
  • Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
  • Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al. (in ArXiv)
  • Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
  • On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
  • New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: title in HTML, title in LaTeX, student organization of, emergency services, average speed
    • External identifiers: Pro Football Reference coach ID, Keybase username, Elhuyar Dictionary ID, TV Tropes identifier, ITF tournament ID, Campendium ID, Malaysia company number, abART person ID, abART document ID, abART exhibition ID, abART group ID, abART institution ID, DR.dk topic ID, ABA League ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, CCDC Number, Coco Game List ID, Dimensions grant ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: text of verse, literary motif, scribe.amanuensis or copyist.illuminator, distribution format, phosphorylates, RogerEbert.com film ID, literacy rate, Retrosheets ID
    • External identifiers: 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Metacritic person ID, Nacionālā enciklopēdija, IMVDb artist ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Charts in France artist ID, VG-lista artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Djshop artist ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Juno Download artist ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Napster artist ID, Qobuz artist ID, YouTube Music channel ID, Bebo profile ID, Steam profile ID, Pandora artist ID, SNBP ID, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, EMIS codes for Pakistani provinces, RIAA artist ID, Gambay ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Cameo ID, Amburger database ID, BVLarramendi, Equipboard artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Table of counts of distinct MPs, legislative terms and per constituency P39s for UK parliamentary constituencies, with links to per constituency reports ( source)
    • Reverse taxon names of 100 mosquitoes ( source)
    • Five-letter words beginning with "f", from wikidata's lexeme collection ( source)
    • Péniches in Lyon
    • Lexemes ordered according to compound parts ( source)
    • Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender ( source)
    • Timeline of the Chief Mousers of 10 Downing Street, with photographs when available
  • Newest WikiProjects: European Colonialism

• Development
  • Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace ( phab:T218901) and the EntitySchemas on the entity by type board ( phab:T216835)
  • Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision ( phab:T224545)
  • Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label and description, if the edit is about making them different ( phab:T222621)
  • Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch ( phab:T207235)
  • Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing ( phab:T221835)
  • More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 ( phab:T217997)
  • Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side dependent

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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!

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items

• Events
  • Upcoming: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference keynote on Wikidata by José E. Labra Villa Clara, Cuba 24-28 June
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meeting for researchers in Sfax University, Tunisia, 25-27 June 2019
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London, June 29th
  • Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System, Yuhan Sun, et al (in 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
  • Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval, Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
  • WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData, Armand Boschin, in ArXiv
  • Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
  • Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values Sarah Dahir, Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
  • Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and Knowledge Graph Lin Ma, Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
  • Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
  • Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia Infrastructure, Andra Waagmeester, et al.
  • Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation, et al. Best in-use paper award ESWC
  • From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier, Theo van Veen
  • Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: qualifiers for depicts support have been enabled on June 20th
  • Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
  • Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
  • The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from Wikipedia) started
  • CheckShex userscript adds an in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: has written for, motif represents, solar irradiance, effective temperature
    • External identifiers: JIS standard, Réunionnais du monde ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), dbSNP ID, digilibIT author ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic ID, eBiodiversity ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, euroleague.net coach ID, Gamepedia Wiki ID, Hoopla artist ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID, ECI Lok Sabha constituency code, IntraText author ID, Musixmatch artist ID, MAHG ID, Amburger database ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, Rugby League Project ID (general), RIAA artist ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: extracted from, Instagram hashtag, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, number of pins, number of pin positions, Representative in legislature, subscribers
    • External identifiers: nchdb asset id, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Goodreads series ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Retrosheet ID, The DJ List artist ID, BBC artist ID, The Independent topic ID, NME artist ID, Metro topic ID, MangaSeek person ID, Soccerway coach ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase ID, Find & Connect ID, SA Flora ID, ATRF ID, geograph, ArtBrokerage artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Scandipop topic ID, iTunes movie collection ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier, FPBR person ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Roskomnadzor media license number, 2014 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Music certifictions ID, El portal de Música artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most commonly used qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata, with top 10 classes or items that each one is used on ( source)
    • Most commonly used properties connecting military people to military organisations ( source)
    • Bubblechart of most frequent WMF import sources
    • French male first names ending with "ée" ( source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Australia
  • Newest database reports: Property completion by country leaderboard

• Development
  • Beginning of wb_terms migration ( phab:T221764)
  • Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase ( phab:T226083)
  • Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array ( phab:T223303)
  • Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages ( phab:T223270)
  • Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme ( phab:T223372)
  • Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled ( phab:T224495)
  • Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint ( phab:T224010)
  • Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
  • Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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!

• Events
  • Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata TW Meetup, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Facebook event
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVII in São Paulo, Brazil, July 11th
  • Upcoming: Inventaire & OpenData Week 2019 in Wurzen, Germany, July 18th-25th
  • State of the Map 2019: early bird tickets are available until July 7th. The program will include a Wikidata workshop

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
  • Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
  • Published in ArXiv:
    • DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
    • ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
  • Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: LilyPond notation, target muscle, historical region, writing language, match interval, microarchitecture, literacy rate, era name, seconded by, moved by
    • External identifiers: MELPA package ID, Nchdb asset ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Djshop artist ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, NicoNicoPedia, NooSFere edition ID, ArtBrokerage artist ID, ATRF ID, Bebo profile ID, National Library of Aruba ID, BVLarramendi ID, Cameo ID, Charts in France artist ID, CIN ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, Equipboard artist ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Gambay ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Juno Download artist ID, MangaSeek person ID, Metro topic ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Musicalics composer ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, NME artist ID, PCE Daisakusen ID, CUT code, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, Repology project name, Rogerebert.com film ID, SA Flora ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, The DJ List artist ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books ID, SNBP ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: double major, Poster, Throwing handedness, Batting handedness, Institut-ID in der Unternehmensdatenbank der BaFin, Wolfram Language unit code, National Transportation Safety Board report, enemy of, PHI Latin Texts author ID, default description for instances
    • External identifiers: ACNP journal ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, etrain.info station ID, Rupa Publications author ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, OYO Hotel ID, Anime Characters Database, IMFDB work ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Ident.Nr., Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Radio Courtoisie show ID, Biyografya ID
  • Query examples:
    • Nouns without grammatical gender in a chosen language ( source)
    • Current UK Members of Parliament ranked by number of Wikimedia sitelinks ( source)
  • Architectural drawings depicting cathedrals in France ( source)
    • Music bands named after Tolkien's universe, by genre ( source)
  • Newest database reports: education by country

• Development
  • More work on preparing the technical setup for Wikidata Bridge development
  • Implement Feature Flag for Wikidata Bridge ( phab:T225935)
  • Discuss the best way to connect template parameter to corresponding Wikidata property ( phab:T224832)
  • Improve the documentation for Wikibase sites setup ( phab:T218282)
  • Prepare the last steps for reading from new term store implementation ( phab:T225603) according to the migration plan ( phab:T221765)
  • Fixed a bug and reduced significantly the amount of addUsagesForPage jobs in our jobs queue ( phab:T205045)
  • Removed feature flag for the bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array ( phab:T223305)
  • Decreased EntityUsageTable addUsage batch size to 100 ( phab:T225500)
  • Configured query service lag for Wikidata maxlag ( phab:T222193)
  • Helped fixing an issue with moving files on Commons ( phab:T226672)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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!

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: ZI Jony

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, June 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference 2019 - minority languages on Wikimedia projects. Slides to be added in the Commons category

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • A new Wikidata map and comparison with previous maps, by Addshore
  • The story of building the inteGraality tool at the Wikimedia Hackathon, by JeanFred
  • Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
  • Lydia Pintscher submitted a chapter for the collaborative book Wikipedia@20, called Wikidata - Wikipedia’s not so little sister is finding its own way. Feel free to have a look, review is open until July 19th
  • You can also check out Denny Vrandečić's submission about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Because of a server switch, Wikidata will be in read-only mode on July 30th from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC ( phab:T227063)
  • Change in the name pattern of new Wikidata RDF dumps: starting on July 15th, dumps will have a new name format ( phab:T226153)
  • Reminder for tool builders: Python tools should use a user-agent to access the Query Service. If you recently encountered issues with the Query Service, please check that your tool is compliant to m:User-Agent policy.
  • New user script for lexicographical data to add Forms on Lexemes that don't have any, by suggesting and filling out templates

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: animator, video system, announcement date, access status, literary motif, review of, middle family name
    • External identifiers: FPBR person ID, PHI Latin Texts author ID, VG-lista artist ID, Bloodhound ID, Steam profile ID, Find & Connect ID, Goodreads series ID, Scandipop topic id, 2014 Commonwealth Games ID, El portal de Música artist ID, Balochistan Education Management Information System code, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Management Information System code, Punjab Education Management Information System code, Sindh Education Management Information System code, IMVDb artist ID, Institute-id in the BaFin company database, Musiikkituottajat artist (certyfication) ID, IFPI Austria artist ID, IFPI Danmark artist ID, SNEP artist ID, hitparade.ch artist (certyfication) ID, BVMI artist ID, Music Canada artist ID, IFPI Norge artist ID, Napster artist ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, RBF professional boxer ID, Retrosheet ID, SLNSW unpublished item ID, LB.ua dossier ID, ACNP journal ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Rupa Publications author ID, OYO Hotel ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID, Hungarian National Namespace person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, Wikia Article URL 2, Wikispecies template for this work, imprimatur, periphrasis, terms of service, privacy policy, Musisque Deoque author ID, SAR Value, IAAF competition category, Academic rank, MPG ID, newspaper archive, unabbreviated text, identifiant Q-Codes, ft.dk politician identifier
    • External identifiers: Biyografya ID, Magazine in BitArkivo.org, PharmGKB ID, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, identifiant Missions étrangères de Paris, DigitalNZ ID, Handball123 player ID, ScOT ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, номер российской организации, AtlasFor ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Adventure Gamers ID, Bebo profile numeric ID, MovieLens ID, WikiApiary, Scribd Book ID, Penguin India author ID, Spanish Catalogued Heritage
  • Query examples:
    • 762 people made edits on lexicographical data, 571 created at least one Lexeme ( source)
    • Map with percentage of Welsh speakers in the regions of Wales ( source)
    • Publication dates of works used as usage example for Swedish Lexemes ( source)
    • Ratios of male/female organizers and speakers at conferences ( source)
    • World map of sign languages by country ( source)
    • Number of punk bands from Indonesia by region ( source)
    • Map of World Heritage places in Europe ( source)
    • Map of parishes of New South Wales, Australia, colour-coded by county ( source)
  • Newest database reports: Glasnevin Cemetery, Mount Jerome Cemetery

• Development
  • Enabled JSONLD support for entity data ( example)
  • Fixed JSON dump issue ( phabricator:T226601)
  • Readded qualifier hashes in JSON output that accidentally got lost ( phabricator:T227207)
  • Made sure changes on Entity Schema pages by autoconfirmed users are autopatrolled ( phabricator:T224495)
  • Looked into issues with partial blocking on Wikidata entities ( phabricator:T207893)
  • Adding MediaInfo as an entity type that can be used in the "allowed entity types"-constraint ( phabricator:T224362)
  • Investigating an issue with the tours on Wikidata ( phabricator:T223999)
  • Initial work for the edit dialog that is needed for editing of Wikidata's data from Wikipedia (Wikidata Bridge)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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!