Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Numberguy6Bot - Task: Add links to Wiktionary categories in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian.
  • UmisBot - Task: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.
  • ZLBot - Task: request SPARQLs for RAG..

Events

• Next Linked Data for LibrariesLD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call 6 August, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 6 August, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a Busy Summer Fun Wikidata Editing Hour, an hour of uninterrupted Wikidata editing time to work on your own Wikidata projects.Agenda.
• Wikimania is August 7-10. Here is a curated a list of Wikimania sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata:2024:Program/Wikidata. Please add to the list if something is missing.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:Olympics medalists, not by country, but by NUTS region, By Giorgio Comai
• Papers
  • Discovering life's directed metabolic (sub)paths to interpret human biochemical markers using the DSMN tool
  • SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions - The SPINACH dataset, derived from Wikidata's "Request a Query" forum, offers a more complex and challenging KBQA dataset with 320 question-SPARQL pairs, designed to test the capabilities of KBQA systems in navigating large and incomplete knowledge base schemas.
• Videos
  • Using Wikidata to navigate the web (Wikimania Katowice) - Tool demo: Entity Explosion
  • Use Wikidata and Lexeme to understand Minnan - COSCUP 2024 (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters)

Tool of the week

• Forage - a user script that provides an additional editing interface that makes editing easier, by showing the expected properties for a page (based on its "instance of" values), and providing simple inputs to let users add values for any such property. To install Forage, just add the following line to the common.js subpage under your user page on Wikidata, i.e. wikidata.org/wiki/User:Your username here/common.js:importScript('User:Techwizzie/forage.js');

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page:Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).
• Abdulai Yorli Iddrisu (WMDE) has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of September 2024. Welcome Yorli!
• Wikidata now has a shiny new landing page for developers:Wikidata:For developers

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
  • object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
  • object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
  • public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
• Newest External identifiers:Google Play author ID,‎Overcast episode ID,ArchWiki article,Valencian Library ID,‎Star Wars.com ID,ScienceDirect journal ID,Filmová databáze film ID,Filmová databáze person ID,FC Krasnodar player ID,Iraqnla book ID,Alle Burgen ID,Italian-English Dictionary ID,islamway authority ID,Metamath statement ID,Imperial University of Dorpat student ID,Coptic Dictionary Online ID,English-Italian Dictionary ID,autoritateak.eus ID,Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID,Nintendo Life company ID,Wiley Online Library journal ID,Museums in Russia ID,Helveticat ID,ARABTERM entry ID,Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID,Women in Resistance ID,French-English Dictionary ID,German-English Dictionary ID,Emerald Group Publishing journal ID,Taylor & Francis journal ID,JTA Sightseeing Database ID,WorldCyclingStats ID,The New Mithraeum ID,Finnish Ministers database ID (new),State Historical Museum of Russia person ID,mandumah ID,Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID,Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID,FDC ID,French bathing water ID,Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID,Political Dictionary ID,United Nations Digital Library ID,U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID,365scores player ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
  • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
  • Military Grid Reference System ID (geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth)
  • has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
  • growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
  • lifespan (duration of a person's known or recorded lifespan)
  • APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Thinkwiki article,SideReel series ID,SideReel series URL slug,africanmusiclibrary.org artist id,Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID,Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID,Tretyakov Gallery artist ID,Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID,identifiant FranceTerme,Yediot Books book ID,365scores player ID,xdaforums,GamingOnLinux Database ID,Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID,TIPLOC code,IDU play ID,FolkWiki ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Image gallery of the most notable sculptures (source)
  • Authors that cite your article(s),Authors that you cite (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:Sculptures by collection: an Integraality dashboard for WikiProject Sculpture
• Newestdatabase reports:Dagbani Lexemes that wrongly include the grammatical gender property P5185
• Showcase Items:Chinua Achebe (Q155845) - Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
• Showcase Lexemes:Stuorra Dorskavuotna (L636928) - fjord in Hammerfest, Norway (Northern Sami proper noun)

Development

• mul language code: The new language code has been rolled out in a limited way. We are looking through feedback now.
• mul release: The full release of the "mul" language code feature to Wikidata, originally scheduled for August 12, may be delayed as we have uncovered a few issues during testing that could potentially block the scheduled release.

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:Bermuda
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!