• Events
  • Past:Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium
  • Upcoming:Wikidata meetup in Argentina, April 25th
  • Upcoming;Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
  • Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog
  • OpenTapioca: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch)
  • Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND by Olaf Simons

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish:Wikidata in one page,Query Service in one page,a new data model example based on Marie Curie, and the flyer"Wikidata for developers". Thanks a lot toMlemusrojas and theWikidata group in Argentina!
  • Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd
  • TheWikimedia URL Shortener is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement)
  • Reminder:the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate!
  • Wikidata Sign Languages Browser
  • You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad.We need another 7000 edits judged

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:
    • General datatypes:number of sentences,Football Money League rank
    • External identifiers:National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID,MassBank Accession ID,CNV-SP ID,GruCultura ID,CEMDP ID,NGMDb Prod ID,MESH Concept ID,PRELIB organization ID
  • Newproperty proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:supported metadata,expansion,CatholicSaints.info ID,Musixmatch track ID,transfer speed,KeyWiki page ID,художник-мультипликатор,Number of polling stations,music video
    • External identifiers:The Atlas of African Frogs,Ming Qing Archive authority ID,Kinosozvezdie biography ID,RGALI ID,Referee.ru person ID,NSW Capital Conviction ID,Australian War Memorial ID,Flora of Australia (new) ID,Drobné památky ID,Identifiant IndieDB for video game,Whitney Museum of American Art ID,Archaeology Data Service person ID,CanLII ID,Justia Patents assignee ID,interwiki,Identifiant Mod DB for video game,OBIS ID,Alvin,FemBio ID
  • Query examples:
    • All deaths in Game of Thrones (source)
    • Wikidata knows ofat least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris (query based onthis discussion)
    • Timeline for the History of Telecommunications (source)
    • Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines (source)
    • Map of churches in Sri Lanka (source)

• Development
  • Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440)
  • Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come
  • Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179)
  • Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107)
  • Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879)
  • Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987)
  • Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe 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 aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:BRPever

• Events
  • Past:WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
    • Wikidata I: Intro to Wikidata by Raisha Abdillah from WMID
    • Wikidata II: Advancements for Wikidata by Adila Krisnadhi, Ph.D. and Dr. Fariz Darari from Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia
  • Upcoming:Wikidata meetup in London on May 2nd
  • Upcoming:Ghent University Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop, 3 - 5 July 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata is mentioned in Mozilla'sInternet Health report

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change - Important for Wikidata tools maintainers:wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
  • The ability to add structureddepicts (P180) statements to file pages islive on Commons.
  • Suggestions based on the on-of constraints are now enabled for all users
  • New tool:Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:
    • General datatypes:approach angle,departure angle,Løøv classification,linear reference,data transfer speed
    • External identifiers:Japan Search name ID,Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID,Saxony protected area ID,Referee.ru person ID,Shanghai Library person ID,Shanghai Library place ID,FrogMAP ID,Ming Qing Archive ID,De Agostini ID
  • Newproperty proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:specifying descriptor,SciGraph IDs,era name,moved by,seconded by,debated by,Commons quality assessment,National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code,OBO Gazetteer ID
    • External identifiers:FemBio ID,BlackPast.org ID,CineChile filmmaker ID,grwar.ru person ID,Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID,Arabic Ontology ID
  • Query examples:
    • A map of the Rio de Janeiro light rail network
    • Nigerian women with Wikipedia article and pictures (source)
    • Map of places of residence for accused witches with a layer for occupations (source)
    • Map of Wikidata items that are dedicated to, named after or depict etc, St George. (source)
    • Partigiani color-coded by year of death (source)

• Development
  • Displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client requires preprocessing by the user (phab:T220122)
  • Fixing cursor jumping to next field and overlapping of menus (phab:T172937)
  • Wikidata a focus issue on grammatical features field (phab:T218229)
  • Add language codes rm-rumgr, rm-sursilv, rm-surmiran, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter for Lexemes (phab:T210293)
  • Align RTL languages in glosses to right (phab:T203081)
  • Add new monolingual codes:qya + sjn,el-cy,syc,abq,hbo) (phab:)
  • Fix a bug with NewLexeme suggester menu (phab:T199409)
  • Createda dedicated Phab board to help tool builders with the changes on wb_terms
  • More internal work to get the first version of mobile termbox ready for deployment

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe 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 aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:BRPever, welcome on board!

• Events
  • Upcoming:Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, workshop bySandra Fauconnier aboutmodelling copyright statuses on Wikidata, 10 May, at theCreative Commons Global Summit in Lisbon
  • Upcoming:Wikidata workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands, on May 11th
  • Upcoming:Wikidata Lab XV about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Kennisverrijking via Wikidata (in Dutch), byNetwerk Oorlogsbronnen,Hanno Lans andJanneke Jorna
  • Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums. Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a few times
  • Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac.
  • Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata - C. Deha Doğan, et al.
  • Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation
  • An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editorwill prevent users from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
  • New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:
    • General datatypes:precedes word-initial,music video,specifying descriptor
    • External identifiers:Australian War Memorial ID,Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID,SIUSA ID,MyNeta.info political party ID,IndieDB video game ID,interwiki prefix at Wikimedia,K10plus editions,FemBio ID,BlackPast.org ID,Trainline ID,CatholicSaints.info ID,NSW Capital Conviction ID,Dimore Storiche Italiane ID,Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID
  • Newproperty proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:gene sequence,Has written for,Rigging,Guix Variable Name,review of,NSF FICE Code ID
    • External identifiers:Watercolour World artist ID,VTB United League player ID,GNU ELPA package ID,MELPA package ID,Paměť národa ID,FragDenStaat public body ID,MobyGames genre ID,Interactive Fiction Database ID,Recreation.gov campground ID,HAL institution ID,Swedish Royal Theater
  • Query examples:
    • Some people are named after the strangest sorts of things (source)
    • Commons categories for a set of books, that have categories for people other than those 'explained' by statements on Wikidata for author, contributor, etc. (source)
    • Timeline for members of the Illuminati Order (source)
    • Newspapers founded before 1900 with their Twitter hashtag (source)

• Development
  • Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (phab:T220772)
  • Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (phab:T222182,phab:T222133,phab:T222129)
  • Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (phab:T221942)
  • Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T210598)
  • Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (phab:T220977)
  • Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox (phab:T217000)
  • Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T218690)
  • Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T215951)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe 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 aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

• Events
  • Upcoming:Wikimedia hackathon in Prague, that will include many Wikidata-related sessions and projects, May 17-19
  • Upcoming:UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019, by Julie Birkholz, 3 - 5 July 2019 Ghent, Belgium
  • Upcoming: DC-2019Hack Day on Wikidata, Wikibase, Application Profiles and FAIR data at DC19 in Seoul, South Korea 23rd - 26th September 2019, Hackathon by Tom Baker and Andra Waagmeester
  • Upcoming:How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics, Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-25 October

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • How to use a Wikidata full json dump, requirements, steps and script, by Aliakbar Akbaritabar
  • New testing ground for Wikibase: A federal agency goes on an expedition in the Wiki universe, by Barbara Fischer and Jens ohlig

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:
    • General datatypes:National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code,number of polling stations
    • External identifiers:VTB United League player ID,Archaeology Data Service person ID,Watercolour World artist ID,Drobné památky ID,grwar.ru person ID,Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID,Russia.tv actor profile ID,Justia Patents assignee ID,Kinosozvezdie biography ID,Musixmatch track ID,LNB Coach id,FragDenStaat public body ID,Orlando author ID,Paměť národa ID,Recreation.gov campground ID,tads.org Unique Identifier,CanLII ID,CineChile filmmaker ID,Heritage Gazetteer of Libya ID,RGALI ID,OBIS ID
  • Newproperty proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:Xikao School ID,Xikao Repertoire ID,langue d'écriture,nominalised item for this sense,copyright clarification,WMI Code,archevêque,langue liturgique,date d'élévation, province ecclésiastique,diocèse suffragant,f-number,paroisse,prêtre,religieux,religieuse,diacre
    • External identifiers:Victoria and Albert Museum name ID,Campendium ID,ROR ID,MEMORIA ID,Unified Social Credit Identifier,Prazdne Domy architect ID,Know Your Meme entry,Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID,Harper's author ID,The Atlantic author ID,Character entry on LGBT fans deserve better database,Igromania ID,Pro-Football-Reference coach ID,Keybase username,RFGS person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Street signs in Rennes (source)
    • Lines linking UK MPs' place of birth and their constituency with colour-coded layers for each political party (source)
    • Map of birthplaces for Members of Scottisch Parliament born outside Scotland (source)
    • Global map of dams and reservoirs (source)
    • Lexemes language overlap tree map (source)
  • NewestWikiProjects:WikiProject Limits of Wikidata

• Development
  • Finish renaming WikibaseSchema to EntitySchema
  • Investigate how to port Wikibase Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (phab:T221638)
  • Include a clear two step process in shex simple tool (phab:T221612)
  • Fix the "edit visually" on the Query Service interface (phab:T222181)
  • More work on wb_terms redesign (see documentation onphab:T221764)
  • More work on mobile termbox
  • Investigate on a bug found on wbeditentity not removing all aliases (phab:T203337)
  • Getting ready for the Wikimedia hackathon

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe 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 aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2

• Events
  • Past: Wikimedia hackathon 2019 in Prague, where plenty of people worked on Wikidata and Wikibase related projects (see list below)
  • Upcoming:Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting, 21 May 2019
  • Upcoming:Hacknowledge 2019 hackathon, where you can make a project that uses or improves Wikidata. Moscow, Russia, May 25-26
  • Upcoming:Let's start Wikidata!/ウィキデータを始めよう！, 25 May 2019@Tokyo

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Papers on Rust by Magnus Manske
  • Building Knowledge Base through Deep Learning Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Published in AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering, 2019)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [Breaking Change]wbeditentity including empty alias set will remove all aliases
  • Update: change of dates regarding wb_terms redesign.More information in this ticket
  • Support for shape expressions will be enabled on Wikidata on May 28th
  • Reminder: the program submission phase forWikimania runs until June 1st
  • QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects,now supports lexicographical data
  • Wikidata-related projects presented during theWikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)
    • Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made forSum of all Paintings,hospitals andvideo games
    • BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
    • Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of WikidataSource CodeScreenshot
    • Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
    • Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand newCreative Commons Search catalog.
    • GPS-friendly download of query result &Download of RDF Formats
    • Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
    • Improvements onNamescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
    • Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
    • Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
    • Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
    • AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
    • ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
    • Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
    • All of the copyright-negative pictures and metadata of the digital image repository of the National Archive of Curaçao were scraped. They will possibly be batch-uploaded later on.
    • Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:
    • General datatypes:exposure time,supported sports team
    • External identifiers:Flora of Australia ID (new),NARA record group number,Know Your Meme ID,NARA collection identifier,FilmFreeway ID,Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID,V&A artist ID,Guix Variable Name,Who's on First ID,FoodOn ID,SportSport.ba news ID,CNKI article ID,Swiss National Sound Archives ID,Arabic Ontology ID
  • Newproperty proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:Seating chart properties,Arachne Bauwerk ID,ISO speed,target muscle,Pinakes author ID,University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID
    • External identifiers:Buddhist Author Authority Database ID,ITF women's tournament ID,Digital Giza ID,National Library of Wales Catalogue ID,ATP tennis tournament edition ID,NooSFere edition ID,TV Tropes identifier,Find New Zealand Artists iD,Kobo author ID,Malaysia company number,GLIMS ID,Gamepedia Wiki id,ProofWiki ID,Mediapart tag ID,abART ID,Corporate Number (South Korea),Art Gallery of South Australia work ID,Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID,speedrun.com game ID,JIS standard,Hoopla artist ID,OSZMI ID,Hoopla publisher ID,Repology,Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID,Elhuyar Dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most common properties for maps, with their top 5 values (source)
    • Timeline of pioneers of photography, via Wikidata and DBpedia (source)
    • Maps of synagogues in Czech Republic (source)
    • Lexemes that lack Senses but have at least one usage example (source)

• Development
  • Addedlastrevid of entities to JSON dumps – thanksPintoch!
  • Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (phab:T203366)
  • Imrpove logging in on mobile (phab:T215913)
  • More work on mobile termbox
  • Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe 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 aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
  • Past:Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
  • Published in WWW 2019
    • Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
    • QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
    • Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
    • Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
  • Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
  • Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers:Buddhist Author Authority Database ID,HAL structure ID,Mod DB video game ID,Finnish Trade Register ID,IMTL.org ID,Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID,OBO Gazetteer ID,(speedy delete me),LGBTFansDB character ID,ProofWiki ID,ROR ID
  • Newproperty proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:title qualifiers,goodwill ambassador of,UPA transcription,hospital beds,Courage ID,bibliography url
    • External identifiers:Messes.info Catholic parish ID,The DRAGON Archive id,racing-reference track ID,racing-reference race ID,Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID,MSX Games World ID,Coco Game List ID,Dictionary of Irish Biography ID,Ask.fm ID,National Film Board of Canada director identifier
  • Query examples:
    • European countries that have a street named after them in Rennes
    • Map of meteor impact craters (source)
    • Bubble chart of all instances of color which have an sRGB color hex triplet (source)
    • Number of riots per country (source)
    • European country having the most female politicians (source)

• Development
  • Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
  • Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (phab:T220609)
  • Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245)
  • Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995)
  • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
  • Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (phab:T214557)
  • More work to get termbox ready for deployment
  • Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe 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 aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) -Slideset link -Press release
  • Past:OSM x Wikidata workshop, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Upcoming:Wikidata Days 2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Upcoming:Wikidata Lab XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Upcoming:Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada

• Press, articles, blog posts

• • Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the propertyP6426.
  • Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
  • At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary)a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit ofWikidata andWikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
  • Hauki is a new tool byd:User:Vesihiisi tobrowse lexicographical data.
  • Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:
    • General datatypes:ISO speed,f-number,WMI Code,minimum wage,UPA transcription
    • External identifiers:speedrun.com game ID,Harper's author ID,Pakistan Railways station code,National Library of Wales Catalogue ID,Arachne building ID,Messes.info Catholic parish ID,The Atlantic author ID,Find NZ Artists ID,Unified Social Credit Identifier,OSZMI ID,MSX Games World ID
  • Newproperty proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:motif represents,Shape Expression for class,Album Academicum-identificatiecode,gender educated,ABA League ID,start grade,end grade,digilibLT author ID,IntraText author ID,in defining formula,PHI Latin Texts author ID,associated shape,comparison image,emergency services,Married by
    • External identifiers:Rugby League Project ID (general),Hungarian National Namespace,Pakistan EMIS code(s),CCDC Number,swMATH work ID,Czech parliament ID,Tainacan MAI ID,Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID,Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new),euroleague.net coach ID,eurobasket.com coach ID,Who's Who of American Comic Books,PCE Daisakusen ID,Musixmatch artist ID,eBiodiversity ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gay parades in Italy in 2019
    • Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share borders (source)
    • Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh landscape prints (source)
    • Dunes in Wikidata (source)
    • Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors (source)
    • Map of archives in the world (source)
  • Newest database reports:frequent first names in Spain

• Development
  • Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (phab:T216842)
  • Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223300)
  • Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (phab:T223311)
  • More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (phab:T223270)
  • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
  • Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (phab:T223995)
  • Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366)
  • Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994)
  • WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (phab:T217994,phab:T214586,phab:T217997)
  • Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (phab:T221965)
  • More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
  • Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831)
  • Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe 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 aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!