• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Help:Modelling

• Events
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference, including a Wikidata track, 5-6 July, Aberystwyth (Wales)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: Structured narratives in Wikipedia, São Paulo, August 9th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ewan McAndrew publishes case study for teaching data science with Wikidata: see the case study on Commons
  • "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: a round-up" by Martin Poulter

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: There is a workshop on Commons to identify properties that files will need for statements. You are invited to participate.
  • Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners, a new video tutorial by Asaf Bartov
  • Items now contain an average of 10 statements.
  • For the first time Wikidata has less than 2 million empty items.
  • Input for m:Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS is being sought.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Romanization of Belarusian (2007 system), has decorative pattern, floor number, Han character in this lexeme, Japanese pitch accent type, position of accent nucleus, position of devoiced vowel, number of viewers/listeners, signum, research measurement, model year, reference value, lower limit, upper limit
    • External identifiers: mhk object ID, Fantastic Fiction author ID, Île en île author ID, Flanders Music Centre person ID, CeBeDem composer ID, Ricochet author ID, The Paris Review interviewee ID, Whonamedit? doctor ID, Common procurement vocabulary, Pasteur Institute person ID, NYRB contributor ID, GS1 Global Product Classification brick code, The Trading Card Database person ID, Lega Serie A team ID, IPTC Newscode, Poetry International Web poet ID, Setlist FM artist ID, Setlist FM venue ID, Gfycat user ID, pixiv ID, EuroVoc ID, Elysee.fr president ID, Herder Encyclopedia author ID, Biographical Articles of the Library of Congress of Chile, Collège de France professor ID, Language Council of Norways termwiki ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: confers, Narrative role, CJKV variant character, synonym, derived from form, station category, Number of twitter follower, mentioned in work, model year code, peninsula of location, position of nasal sonant, number of people depicted, artist-info artist ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info location ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database, The Reptile Database
    • External identifiers: Logicielsmoto identifier, House of Representatives Morocco ID, BIA PSY ID, My Heritage Surname ID, identifiant Inventaire des sanctuaires français, USNPL ID, Guide to Pharmacology Target ID, Historia de la Medicina ID, TasteAtlas ID, GlyphWiki ID, AE member ID, Conseil constitutionnel ID, French Academy in Rome ID, RHE doctor ID, Scottish Poetry Library ID, RHE professor ID, SBN books ID, Australian Poetry Library ID, A Church Near You church ID
  • Deleted properties: GHS hazard statement (P728) + GHS precautionary statements (P940), spectral line (P2224)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of places in the UK starting with "Llan" (source)
    • Number and percentage of articles about female scientists for all Wikipedias (compared to all articles about scientists) (source)
    • Statements disputed by their subject (source)
    • Emulators and what they emulate (source)
    • Map of items near me that have a label in English but not in Welsh (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Categories
  • Newest tools: TopicMatcher, by MagnusManske, looks for items related to topics

• Development
  • Making progress towards being able to query for constraint violations in the query service
  • Included the dispatch lag in the maxlag parameter to give better feedback to tools and bots if they can edit at the moment (phab:T194950)
  • Added support for linking to a particular statement (not just a statement group) (phab:T169224)
  • Set up L as an alias for the Lexeme namespace (phab:T195493)
  • Worked on making lexical category, language and grammatical feature show up on WhatLinksHere (phab:T195302)
  • Worked on Persistent IDs for Senses (phab:T198033)
  • Improve placeholder text for Lexeme language and lexical category field on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T195439)
  • Show description on the item selector on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T165597)
  • Add "mis" language code to the list of language code options on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194771)

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/Press/Blogs
  • Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • The EU NanoSafety Cluster as Linked Data visualized with Scholia in the EU NanoSafety Cluster Newsletter
  • Converting any SPARQL endpoint to an OpenAPI, blog post about using grlc to convert the WDQS to an OpenAPI service
  • Wikidata on Azure, blog post series about hosting Wikidata data in Azure cloud
  • Wikibase workshop in Berlin
  • Research showcase about the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Keine Schwalben: Schauspielernde Fussballspieler in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: Wikidata Cradle, by Magnus Manske, to create new items by filling a form. You can build your own forms.
  • Ordia (the tool to search for Lexemes and Forms) now displays a graph of grammatical features
  • The Wikidata Lexeme form tool got support for more languages and expanded support for the existing ones.
  • Global preferences are now available on all Wikimedia wikis
  • item Q 55 555 555 was created

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: grants academic degree, model year code
    • External identifiers: Inventory of French sanctuaries ID, BIA PSY person ID, House of Representatives of Morocco ID, My Heritage Surname ID, Logicielsmoto identifier, USNPL ID, SGJP Online ID, TasteAtlas ID, Conseil constitutionnel ID, Guide to Pharmacology Target ID, RHE doctor ID, RHE professor ID, AE member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: horizontal depth, correct form, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works, Young's modulus, Billed height, Billed weight, Billed from, IPHAN ID, Ultimate tensile strength, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, derived from language(s), description of glyph, Unicode block, mode of derivation, word with diacritical signs, rhyme, artist-info exhibition ID, invasive to, number of platform faces, state of conservation, Yield strengh, Hardness
    • External identifiers: OSM node ID, NATO Stock Number, EDIT16 IDs, GameSpot ID, SMS Power identifier, RPO ID, Split the Rock ID, Base de datos de premiados ID, legabasket.it player ID, Les voix de la poésie ID, Poetry in Voice ID, BD Gest' ID, Médicos históricos ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Boijmans work ID, RISM ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry Society of America ID, LRB ID, WikiArt ID, MAPS ID, archINFORM ID (Personen und Körperschaften), DEFA-Filmdatenbank-ID, Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català
  • Query examples:
    • Map of birthplaces of football players at 2018 FIFA World Cup
    • People born furthest from their place of education (source)
    • Timeline of discontinued Google products (based on source)
    • Paintings depicting the Bastille Day (source)

• Development
  • Worked on persistent storage for Senses on Lexemes - started by giving them a stable ID (phabricator:T198033)
  • Adding "mis" language code to the list of language code options on Special:NewLexeme (phabricator:T194771)
  • Made the Items used for Language, Lexical Category and Grammatical Feature show up on Special:WhatLinksHere (phabricator:T195302)
  • When adding a new Form the spelling variant is now filled out automatically based on the Lemma's (phabricator:195708)

• 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: Lakokat

• Events
  • Call for proposals and scholarship applications are now open for WikiConference North America
  • Past: Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events. The slides are usually listed from the talk's page on Wikimania wiki.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can help teaching ORES how to better detect vandalism
  • HarvestTemplates is now compatible with EditGroups: you can easily revert any run that goes wrong (even if it is not your own).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Harmonized System Code, section number, CJKV variant character, ultimate tensile strength, Young's modulus, position of nasal sonant, LilyPond notation, hardness, accreditation
    • External identifiers: A Church Near You church ID, Australian Poetry Library poet ID, French Academy in Rome resident ID, GlyphWiki ID, Historia de la Medicina person ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Artist ID, Scottish Poetry Library poet ID, The Reptile Database ID, Legabasket.it player ID, Les Voix de la poésie poet ID, RPO poet ID, SBN books ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info artist ID, artist-info location ID, BD Gest' author ID, EDIT16 catalogue author ID, EDIT16 catalogue printer ID, GameSpot ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works ID, Médicos históricos doctor ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Base de datos de premiados person ID, Boijmans work ID, IPHAN ID, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, LRB contributor ID, Poetry Society of America poet ID, RISM work ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry In Voice poet ID, artist-info exhibition ID, archINFORM person or group ID, MAPS poet ID, DEFA film database ID, identifier for an item of Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català, Znicenekostely ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Moisture absorption, date of release, Ideographic description sequences, Cangjie input, four-corner method, Hangul, Eumhun, Jyutping, Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ, Bàng-uâ-cê, Kienning Colloquial Romanized, Guangdong Hakka Romanization, Sichuanese Pinyin, Peng'im, Unusually granulated item, Wine color, IANA service name, Toughness, upregulated by, Elongation at break, relative date properties, Prison History ID, CONDEPHAAT ID, copyright status, city that hosted Wikimania, Vietnamese pronunciation, Work hardening strain, Heat treating, EDb company ID, Water absorption, Schematic, passive voice, Normalized Unicode character, Enciclovida ID, Relative humidity, Poisson's ratio, Microstructure, key strength, Weakness
    • External identifiers: identifiant de l'Inventaire de la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 東京文化財研究所物故者識別拡張子, IDs from alternativa teatral, Virtual Laboratory ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Swedish Parish place names register, oric.org identifier, Kopaliński Online ID, Altmetric ID, Open Media Database person ID, Python Package Index project, CPAN project, RubyGems gem, CRAN project, L'île ID, National Road DataBase ID, Literature Ireland ID, Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, RedTube ID, CICLIC ID, Interbibly ID, Le Monde ID, Courrier international ID, Courrier international source ID, Tebeosfera ID, Baidu ScholarID, College de France professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1809-1909), Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1909-1939), KLEKs building ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Fictional characters married to their siblings (source)
    • Translations of disease names in South-African languages (source)
    • All Wikidata properties (which are not identifiers) without a label in Afrikaans (source)
    • List of people born or dead in Canton de Vaud (Switzerland), with archives where their documents are stored (source)
    • Timeline of serial killers (source)
    • Map of disasters, color-coded by disaster type (source)

• Development
  • More work on showing Lexemes and Forms in Special:WhatLinksHere (phab:T195302)
  • Fix wrong translations of Form related strings (phab:T191614)
  • Fix error message for non empty item (phab:T194371)
  • More work on storing Senses (phab:T198032)
  • More work on easy Wikibase Docker instance config generation (phab:T198841)

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!