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Wikidata weekly summary #423
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest launch (replay)
 * Upcoming: Biohackathon 2020 Barcelona 2020 November 9th - 13th The accepted wikidata related proposal: Knowledge graphs and wikidata subsetting
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #20, July 12
 * Upcoming: Celtic Knot conference, July 9-10, including several sessions about Wikidata, a Wikidata helpdesk


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Why Ariadne uses Getty AAT over Wikidata
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #10 - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Ptable displays the periodic table automatically extracted from information provided by Wikidata; it also provides a check that all the elements are there with some basic properties. Additional pages provide charts of the nuclides under different criteria such as half-life. Each element or nuclide is linked to its Wikidata item for more information or to edit if necessary.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Abstract Wikipedia was approved.
 * OpenRefine 3.4 beta 2 was released.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Open Data portal, theorised by, DOI formatter, set in environment, academic appointment
 * External identifiers: House Divided ID, thefreedictionary medical term ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, Grove Art Online ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, KBpedia ID, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency OBJECTID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Swiss Timber Bridges ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: taxon synonym string, PM20 subject code, PM20 geo code, number of downloads, Interactive element, course, Zoning symbol, vanDerWaalsConstant, has pattern
 * External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Pitchfork artist ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, Austrian encyclopedia of music online, Swiss Tunnel ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID, CPJF ID, TripAdvisor ID 2, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, public transport stop, Homebrew formula name, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, British Museum object ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, code EHESS d'une commune, IAPH code, ProtonDB video game ID


 * Query examples:
 * France has a new Prime Minister: see the list of all ministers in French history (very long scroll). If you want to know more, see this notebook
 * Open data portals in Wikidata (using the newly created property Open Data portal (P8402))
 * Objects that are named after people on Wikidata (Source)


 * Development
 * More work on the consistent design system (Phabricator board)
 * More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other
 * Proposal to stop registering WikibaseLib as a separate extension
 * Polishing the first step of Federation (using Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation) (incl. preventing users from selecting a federated property with a non-supported data type (T252012) and preventing users from accessing Special:NewProperty when federation is enabled (T255576) and viewing a list of all properties when federation is enabled (T246339))
 * Continuing research and interviews around the topic of making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
 * Doing first testing of mockups and prototypes of the first version of the Query Builder - coding can start soon
 * Convert a few properties from string to external identifier: Linguasphere code (P1396), KOATUU identifier (P1077) and ISIN (P946)

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:19, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #424
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: New co-facilitator introductions and tools for editathons, 14 July. Agenda
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #12, 18 July Facebook, YouTube
 * Past: Celtic Knot Wikimedia language conference, online, July 9-10. Videos, documentation and slides of sessions are accessible from the program page.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Using OpenRefine with Wikidata for the first time, by Addshore
 * Using Wikidata in Mathematica and Wolfram, by Toni Schindler
 * Fostering the presence of museums on Wikipedia and Wikidata, by Debora Lopomo
 * Extending the Met’s reach with Wikidata, by Jennie Choi
 * Wikidata-related videos from the Celtic Knot Conference:
 * Wikidata and how you can use it to support minority languages (Mohammed Sadat)
 * Wikidata-powered infoboxes (Pau Cabot)
 * Hands-on Wikidata and lexicographical data (Nicolas Vigneron and Léa Lacroix)
 * FAIR linguistic data thanks to norm data – Wikidata as part of the research project VerbaAlpina (Christina Mutter)
 * Sámi placenames on Wikidata (Jon Harald Søby)
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Introducing the Wikidata powered Dictionary of Welsh Biography timeline (Jason Evans), YouTube
 * Video: Diving into Wikidata workshop (Will Kent), YouTube
 * Video: Linked data for libraries with Wikibase, Infrastructure track (Jens Ohlig), YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * DragNDrop.js makes it possible to show a Wikipedia article and drag items to Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * GQIS can now render results from a Wikidata SPARQL query with a new plugin.
 * New feature in V for Wikipedia that uses Wikidata identifiers to direct users to their favorite streaming app.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Dowker-Thistlethwaite name
 * External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Maniadb artist ID, Group Properties wiki ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, GameBanana video game ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Image link, numeric ID, peak bagging classification, vanDerWaalsConstantA, vanDerWaalsConstantB, road name formatter, road number formatter, Medical Service, Ofsted inspection rating, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, traffic sign template image, Vietnamese middle name
 * External identifiers: Wiki Loves Earth Ukraine identifier, OHM Relation ID, Filmstarts title ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, SmallGroup ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, SAH Archipedia building ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Our Campaigns candidate ID, VPE railway line ID, Churches in Limburg, The Draft Review ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, ANZSOC ID, ASCRG ID, Encyclopédie berbère, 雑誌コード, OpenStreetMap user name, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, QLD Biota ID, Australian Weed ID


 * Query examples:
 * Illustrated Basque word of the day for children
 * Oldest UK MPs at the time of election (Source)
 * Map of archives in Wikidata (Source)


 * Development
 * Continued building out documentation for Federated Properties (phabricator:T255651) and making interface improvements to the first stage of the feature (incl. phabricator:T246886, changes to special pages that interact with both Items/Properties, and phabricator:T255581, changes to Special:ListDataTypes when federation is enabled)
 * More work on the consistent design system
 * More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier
 * Finalizing research and interviews to better understand what could be improved in the way developers access Wikidata's data (APIs, SPARQL)
 * Testing the first prototype of the Simple Query Builder with some editors to get final input before coding starts
 * Sorting of language links on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects was broken (presumably by a change in MediaWiki core). A fix is being worked on. (phabricator:T257625)

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
 * 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:27, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: General semi protection for all property pages


 * Events
 * Upcoming: The First Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: August 10, 2020 | Workshop date: October 29, 2020
 * Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
 * Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
 * Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube
 * Upcoming: Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
 * Upcoming video: Beyond Wikipedia - Knowledge that even a computer can understand. July 22, 2020 at 17:00 UTC. In this talk, Zbyszko Papierski will present Wikidata Query Service as one way that developers can interact with Wikidata.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities botany pilot using Wikidata QIDs
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Wikispore Day, including an interview of Denny Vrandečić about Abstract Wikipedia at 34'00
 * Video: Merging elements on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Video: Wikibase Ecosystem - taking Wikidata further (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Frettie/consistency_check_add.js check consistency and add missing relations of a Wikidata object like father/son...


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Breaking change: removing special pageterms behavior on repo wikis, use entityterms instead (relevant for people using pageterms submodule of the query API module on Wikibase repository wikis)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: version control system, interactive elements, course, peak bagging classification, public transport stop, descriptive solubility, applies if regular expression matches, energy consumption per transaction, content partnership category, Van Der Waals Constant a, Van Der Waals Constant b
 * External identifiers: Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, EHESS ID of a French commune, OpenHistoricalMap relation ID, IAPH code, Knot Atlas identifier, Knotinfo identifier, Swiss Tunnel ID, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online ID, Swedish Riksdag document ID, Artprice artist ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Digital Library of the Caribbean ID, Homebrew formula name, Our Campaigns candidate ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, Unique Street Reference Number, Benerail station ID, Churches in Limburg, Vmusic.bg artist ID, US Quaternary Fault ID, ASCRG 2016 ID, ANZSOC 2011 ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, SAH Archipedia building ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: BTI Status Index, BTI Governance Index, lyricsmule, number of majors offered, nationality (cultural identity), image of view, web interface software
 * External identifiers: Native Plants Database ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, OpenCritic critic ID, DATAtourisme ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, AHECC 2017 ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, Unsplash User ID, South Africa EMIS code, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, HLTV Player ID, HLTV Team ID, SÚKL code, Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers, Science Fiction Awards Database author id, Fototeka person ID, Henrik Ibsen skrifter ID


 * Query examples:
 * Painters in Wikidata with the surname Ruiz (Source)
 * Cities with female mayor (Source)
 * MPs in the current UK parliament with identified mythical ancestors (Source)
 * Indian subcontinent rail lines (Source)
 * List of countries by age of the head of government (Source)
 * Cities of the United States between 100,000 and 600,000 inhabitants with the counties and states they are located in (Source)
 * Newest database reports: list of 1000, 2000 (without statements) and 10000 (filtered) random items


 * Development
 * More work on the consistent design system
 * More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier:
 * load WikibaseClient through the JSON file (T257435),
 * decoupling Client from Lib/Repo in the JavaScript code (T256054),
 * reduce the uses of Repo classes (T255885, T255882)
 * Move all the special pages (T257444), API modules (T257443) and hooks (T257445) from the PHP entry point to the JSON file
 * Merge the registration of WikibaseLib into the Repo and Client extensions (phab:T257432) and merge WikibaseView into Repo (phab:T258043)
 * Prepare the first development phase for the Simple Query Builder
 * Reference game: run a scraper, work on a dashboard that will gives an overview of the potential references that have already been judged in the game
 * Fix a bug related to maximum limit of search results (phab:T256885)
 * Resolve some configuration issues regarding Entity Sources (phab:T254315)
 * Federated Properties:
 * Changes to special pages that interact with both items/properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246886)
 * Changes to Special:ListDatatypes when federation is enabled (phab:T255581)
 * Add new monolingual language codes: mic (Miꞌkmaq), gil (Kiribati)

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
 * 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (WMDE) 14:58, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #426
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * The Wikidata track of the LD4 conference on Linked Data in Libraries takes place on Thursday 30 and Friday 31 July. Free, upon registration.
 * Seeking feedback on a possible WikiCite@Wikidata's 8th Birthday online conference; and what content/format/timing preferences you have. Please respond to this short survey. [Privacy policy: https://w.wiki/XfN]
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Liam Wyatt on WikiCite and its future plans, ways to get involved, and discussions that are happening in the community, 28 July. Agenda
 * Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour with a focus on the Query Service, July 21st. Notes of the discussions
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14, August 1 Facebook YouTube
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #23, August 2


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Croiser des données avec OpenRefine by Ash_Crow (in French, how to match data from inside and outside Wikidata with Open Refine)
 * "OBA: An Ontology-Based Framework for Creating REST APIs for Knowledge Graphs"
 * Library’s linked-data project gets new grant. "Known as Linked Data for Production, the project is part of a long-term collaboration among Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Through linked data, information about books and other items in library records will be enhanced by related information from external online sources". By Jose Beduya
 * Wikidata Training Workshop 1, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association
 * Part 1 - Introduction to Wikidata - YouTube (En, Fr)
 * Part 2 - Usage of Wikidata - YouTube (En, Fr)
 * Part 3 - Components of a Wikidata item - YouTube (En, Fr)
 * Video: Wikidata Lab XXIV on relative digital positioning (in Portuguese). YouTube
 * Video: Women Writers in Review: Integrating special collections into Wikidata. YouTube
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * We would love suggestions for tools to include in this section of the weekly summary. Please add your suggestions directly under Status updates/Next#Backlog after checking that the tool isn't already listed.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS) launches in Beta. This SPARQL endpoint for Structured Data on Commons can federate with Wikidata's Query Service. (Announcement & discussion)
 * A new OpenRefine reconciliation service for Wikidata is available. Add it in OpenRefine with  or by replacing   by any other Wikimedia language code.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: pertainym, BTI Governance Index, BTI Status Index, Ofsted inspection rating, distribution map of taxon
 * External identifiers: Wiki-Rennes ID, Queensland Biota ID, Australian Weed ID, Encyclopedie berbere ID, Japanese magazine code, Lobbywatch.ch ID of a member of parliament, IVS ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, PM20 geo code, PM20 subject code, DATAtourisme ID, OpenCritic critic ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, SmallGroup ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, AHECC 2017 ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: booking URL, member of lexicon, screen (display) resolution, in pixels, Size comparison diagram, Butcher tableau, related laws and regulations, Water area
 * External identifiers: Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD ID, Jisho word id, UK Research and Innovation organisation ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, Opta football competition ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey), Árvore de Interesse Público ID, MinDat taxon ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Twitter topics numeric ID, People Australia ID


 * Query examples:
 * People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap (Source)
 * Number of MPs elected to the Swedish parliament for each election back to 1970 (Source)


 * Development
 * Changed the size of image previews to 1024 in the gallery view of the query service to avoid some images not loading sometimes (T258241)
 * Added an actual space between the entity title and the name of the fallback language (if any), so that the fallback language isn't selected anymore when double-clicking the entity title for copying (T256857)
 * Fixed the directionality of text pieces in placeholders that mix LTR and RTL (T253812)
 * Continued work on first pieces of design system to make coding new features easier in the future
 * Continued untangling the code of Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repo to make it easier to develop on them
 * Finished first piece of research on how to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - more work to be done
 * Preparing to start coding on the Query Builder to make it easier to create queries without having to know SPARQL
 * Finished running the scraper that gets potential new references for unreferenced statements and preparing it for publishing

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
 * 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #427
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Wiki13


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Search Platform Office Hours—August 5th, 2020. This event will be an occasion to talk about the Query Service.
 * Upcoming: Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #15, August 8 Facebook, YouTube
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #24, August 9


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata track at the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries:
 * (30 July) Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics (by User:Gamaliel)
 * (30 July) Advanced Wikidata Tools and Concepts: More Than Just P's and Q's (by User:Mahir256)
 * (30 July) Developing a Wikidata Project (by User:Will (Wiki Ed))
 * (31 July) VanderBot: Using a Python script to create and update researcher items in Wikidata (by User:Baskaufs)
 * (31 July) No bricks without clay: outcomes from the Stanford Wikidata Working Group (by User:Arcadialib)
 * (31 July) LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour: Adding References to Wikidata (by User:Chicagohil)
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14 Facebook YouTube
 * Video: Lexemes in Wikidata - structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata presentation (in Turkish), YouTube
 * Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English - Nice article giving some context about why it matters to have Lexemes in Wikidata in many different languages


 * Tool of the week
 * SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: height of center of mass, road number formatter, Vietnamese middle name, heraldic attitude, traffic sign template image
 * External identifiers: Tree of Public Interest ID, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, South Africa EMIS code, Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD resource ID, Gateway to Research organisation ID, SÚKL code, Science Fiction Awards Database author ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey)


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: certified as, number of stages, convergence rate, step count, Alternative form, view, version type for works, advertisement copy
 * External identifiers: LibraryThing series identifier, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, TOPCMB ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID, SAT-matrikulo, Signal number, BHF author ID, BHF magazine ID, SPLC Group ID, SPLC Individual ID, Open Civic Data Division Identifiers, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Presence compositrices ID of work


 * Query examples:
 * Properties and the number of constraint definition statements on them - there are quite a few with 0 constraint definitions
 * a graph of MPs and parties in the Swedish Parliament and with whom they worked together with to create motions 2018 SPOILER: >95% is just with people in the same party
 * Wealthiest queer people on Wikidata (Source)
 * Bubble chart showing the winners of the FA Cup (Source)
 * Map of parks in Oslo missing images on Wikidata (Source)
 * Commons queries:
 * Orienteerers:  (source, at 53:45)
 * Animal hugs:  (source)


 * Development
 * The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
 * Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions).
 * REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now.
 * Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks.
 * Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.

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
 * 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:37, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #428
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516
 * Closed request for adminship: Wiki13 (successful)


 * Events
 * Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020. This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay)
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda]
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25, August 16


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed Wikidata games Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube
 * Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with Wikidata tools. "To speed up the creation of metadata about faculty and their publications, Steven Baskauf, data science and data curation specialist for libraries, developed “VanderBot,” a set of scripts that can read and write to Wikidata, greatly improving the efficiency by which Vanderbilt’s faculty are discoverable through Wikidata".


 * Tool of the week
 * OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher links Wikidata entries to places in OpenStreetMap.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * wikidata2df, a Python package for easily turning a Wikidata SPARQL query into a pandas dataframe
 * With Wikidata Concept Tree Generator, you can enter any concept and instantly see a visualization of its extended relations. (Source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: size comparison diagram, view
 * External identifiers: Legacy.com newspaper ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, Fototeka person ID, LibraryThing series ID, TOPCMB ID, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: image of entrance, extinction date, notation writer, raga, tala, SMARTS, Editio princeps, recording location
 * External identifiers: Sochy a města ID osoby, Sochy a města ID sochy, podvignaroda, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, European Investment Bank project ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset Id, cadastral municipality ID, NPR station ID, NYARC Discovery ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister-ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, Trismegistos Texts ID


 * Query examples:
 * Ancestors of the current King of Spain color coded by sex or gender
 * Political alignments of the parties of world leaders (Source)
 * Female Mathematicians whose birth/death anniversary is today (Source)
 * Commons queries:
 * Map of images found in the medieval Atlas De Wit (source)
 * [https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/#%23%20Things%20depicted%20with%20cats%0A%0A%23%20Things%20depicted%20with%20cats%0A%0A%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fcount%20%3Fdepicted%20%3FdepictedLabel%20%3FsampleImg%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Ftarget%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Ftarget%20wdt%3AP31%3F%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ146%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20include%20specific%20sorts%20of%20cats%20and%20individual%20cats%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Ftarget%20wdt%3AP31%3F%20wd%3AQ43577%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20and%20also%20breeds%20of%20cat%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25targets%0A%20%20%20%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Ffile%29%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%3Fdepicted%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ffile%29%20AS%20%3Fsample%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25targets%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffile%20p%3AP180%20%3Fstmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstmt%20ps%3AP180%20%3Ftarget%20.%0A%20%23%20%20%20%3Fstmt%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20%20Make%20sure%20the%20cat%20is%20marked%20as%20prominent%20--%20%2a%2acommented%20out%20for%20now%2a%2a%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffile%20p%3AP180%20%3Fstmt2.%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fstmt2%20%21%3D%20%3Fstmt%29%20.%20%20%20%20%23%23%20%20now%20get%20another%20depicts%20statement%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstmt2%20ps%3AP180%20%3Fdepicted%20.%20%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicted%0A%7D%20AS%20%25things%20%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcount%20%3Fdepicted%20%3Fsample%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25things%20.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20exclude%20anything%20that%20was%20an%20original%20target%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Ftarget%20AS%20%3Fdepicted%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25targets%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25things1%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25things1%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicted%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdepictedLabel%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fsample%20schema%3AcontentUrl%20%3Furl%20%3B%0A%20%20bind%28iri%28concat%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%2C%20wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28substr%28str%28%3Furl%29%2C53%29%29%29%29%20AS%20%3FsampleImg%29%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29 Things depicted with cats] (source)


 * Development
 * finalized designs for the query builder to start coding at the beginning of September
 * wrapping up the initial work on the design system so that we can start using the first pieces of it in the query builder development
 * working on properly linking redirects in recent changes, watchlist and co (T255387)
 * addressed remaining security review comments about the Wikidata Bridge so that we can deploy it finally on the first Wikipedia
 * fixed a bug where string values had the wrong length limit (T259440)
 * finishing the work of untangling Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repository extensions to make development easier

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
 * 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #429
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 * Discussions
 * Closed requests for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516 (all successful)
 * New request for comments: How (un)important is preserving the historic character of an item?


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #26, August 23


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in Spanish). YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Bridge v1 will be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia on August 18th
 * New description and screenshots for the Simple Query Builder project, feedback welcome
 * Help:Dataset sizing


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: alternative form
 * External identifiers: Henrik Ibsen writings ID, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures, Manioc book ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, Unsplash User ID, EIB project ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: latest start date, earliest end date, Number of votes after transferring, map URL, type of archaeological site, record number, front and back matter
 * External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, Panteono de edukado.net, LSG local body code, MobyGames attribute ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), Proballers player ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, Chrome Webstore extension ID, CTHS publication ID, LBS Physical ID, GBIF occurence ID


 * Query examples:
 * Largest collections of Picasso content (Source). The National Gallery of Art holds the most with 303 objects
 * Bubble chart of snooker world champions (Source)
 * Map of streets in Tillydrone named after WW2 military leaders (Source)


 * Development
 * Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (T259440)
 * Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (T255387)
 * Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
 * Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not containing the datatype (T249206)
 * Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of having to maintain their own
 * Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (T128486)
 * Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content languages (T259340, T260118)

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
 * 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #430
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata distributed birthday in October. You can organize an (online) event with your local group or favorite WikiProject! See also: calendar in progress, information for organizers, 24-hours online meetup
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will talk about gadgets and user scripts. 25 August. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #27, August 30
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Commonsense Knowledge in Wikidata (via ArXiv)
 * Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online.
 * Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
 * Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266 (also on YouTube)
 * Video: How to add missing descriptions to Wikidata using QuickStatments tool (in Arabic) - YouTube
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #16 Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam) - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata editing basics (in Chinese) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Sophox allows for SPARQL querying of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in a single query


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Two new grant programs from WikiCite, in support of open citations and linked bibliographic data.
 * Full documentation, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, program design principles, and contacts at the links. Apply by 1 October.


 * Project & events [$2-10k]
 * e-Scholarships [per-diem calculated on your city; 1-5 people (single, or as a 'remote group') for 2-4 days, for COVID-era "stay at home" projects. Paid in advance living allowance, no expense report required.]


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: SMARTS notation, tala, raga, recording location, law or regulation identifying number, earliest end date, latest start date, extinction date
 * External identifiers: Filmstarts title ID, Trismegistos text ID, SPLC Individual ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, BHF magazine ID, Macedonian cadastral municipality ID, Monumentbrowser ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938 ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister ID, BHF author ID, Proballers ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, Opera Online opera house ID, CTHS publication ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Namesakes, Engineer's Line Reference, bibliography, external auditor, ITF-identificatiecode voor speler 2020, rotated image, mirrored image, combined from, overlaid from, number of deaths in senior care homes, number of cases intensive care, negotiated by, is solution to, Commons category for the exterior of the item, Number of taxpayers, medium
 * External identifiers: Abbreviations related to ancient authors and works and to academic works regarding classical antiquity, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Emporis company ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, FBref.com squad ID, Operator licence number, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Istrapedia ID, monumenta.ch ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Art Bonus ID, The Living New Deal ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, UG Digital Collections, jewishencyclopedia.com ID, Fancyclopedia 3 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, Grandterrier.net ID


 * Query examples:
 * British MPs with sons- or daughters-in-law who were also MPs (source)
 * MPs with the largest number of children or childen-in-law who became MPs (source)
 * Descendants of Robert Emett (born 1729), with counts of sitelinks and external IDs for them and their spouses (source)
 * Programming languages written by women (Source)
 * Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc) annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (Source)
 * Female soccer players who have a (known) social media account (Source)
 * Largest cities in France by population (Source)
 * Commons queries:
 * [https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0Aselect%20%3Fimage%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Fthumb%20%28%3Fp170Label%20as%20%3Fauthor%29%20%28YEAR%28%3Fp570%29%20as%20%3Fdeath%29%20%3Fcopyright_statusLabel%20with%20%7B%0A%20%20select%20%2a%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20service%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%2a%20wd%3AQ1757%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fp170%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FitemLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FitemDescription%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FitemDescription%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fp170%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fp170Label%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fp170Label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fp170%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fp570%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fp170%20wdt%3AP7763%20%3Fcopyright_status.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcopyright_status%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcopyright_statusLabel%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcopyright_statusLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20as%20%25works%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20include%20%25works.%0A%20%20%3Fimage%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fitem.%0A%20%20%3Fimage%20schema%3AcontentUrl%20%3Furl.%20%0A%20%20bind%28iri%28concat%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%2C%20wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28substr%28str%28%3Furl%29%2C53%29%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fthumb%29%0A%7D Works in Helsinki, and their copyright status] (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Gazetteer


 * Development
 * Deployed the first version of the Wikidata Bridge to Catalan Wikipedia
 * Creating Grafana Dashboards for the new Wikidata Bridge so we have some data to help us determine which datatypes to support next for example (T260532)
 * Finished working on ensuring Labels of Items in some unusual, often minority, languages are still available on Wikipedia and other clients ( T259340)
 * Fixed error messages for API modules that will not work with the first version of Federated Properties (T258558)
 * Working on improving how ORES judges the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
 * Started coding on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well

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
 * 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #431
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Events
 * Past: Editing contest - Members of the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. By Global Open Initiative - YouTube (1), (2)
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 1 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, September 2nd at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT). Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata birthday events organizers call, September 2nd at 19:00 CEST.
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #28, September 6
 * Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18 Facebook, YouTube, September 5 at 19.00 UTC
 * Upcoming: Onam label-a-thon (September 1st and 2nd): Online label-a-thon to improve Wikidata items related to Kerala and Malayalam on this Onam holidays.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: How to use the Wikidata Query Service, by Dr Chris Langley
 * Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube
 * Video: Creating a Wikidata item (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * WikiCite and bibliographic data on Wikidata, how to contribute and how to view it with Scholia (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way - article by Lydia Pintscher in the Wikipedia Signpost


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.
 * WMF will be performing data center maintenance operations by switching all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for up to an hour from 14:00 UTC
 * The Wikidata community now has a channel on the newly-established Wikimedia Chat service.
 * reconciler, a Python wrapper for Open Refine's API to reconcile pandas data frames with Wikidata items.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Butcher tableau, front and back matter, external auditor
 * External identifiers: edukado.net Panteono ID, Chrome Webstore extension ID, PARADISEC Catalog, NPR station ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Emporis company ID, Art Bonus ID, British Museum object ID, monumenta.ch ID, The Living New Deal ID, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: parent superproperty, publisher of, performed at, Barcelona Public art identifier, opening hours (v.3), Fanbase name, aerial view, ground clearance, axle track, placeholder text element ID, displacement, Deutsche Bahn station abbreviation, entry in abbreviations table, Liturgical rank
 * External identifiers: NHK Archives Portal person ID, EPA Ecoregion Level 1 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 4 Code, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945, Firefox add-on ID, London Stock Exchange company, Fatcat ID, NDL law ID, e-Gov law ID, OFAC sanction ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, YUAG ID, Grove Music Online ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe person ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of cities and towns in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Map of structures that have won architectural awards - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Birth places of Buffalo Sabres players (Source)
 * Timeline of all of Bird’s tunes (Source)
 * Approximate proportion of people called "John" in any given UK Parliament since 1372 (Source)
 * People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade of birth (Source)
 * [https://sophox.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3FmakeLabel%20%3FmodelLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2a%20before%20querying%20the%20service.%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20decommissioned%20aircraft%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Ahistoric%20%22aircraft%22.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20make%20and%2For%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fosm%20%28osmt%3Amanufacturer%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Aaircraft%3Amodel%3Awikidata%29%20%3FmakeModel.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%20the%20make%2Fmodel%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20If%20it%E2%80%99s%20a%20model%2C%20get%20the%20make%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ76920834%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP176%20%3Fmake.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmodel%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20model%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmodel%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmodelLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmodelLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20A%20make%20must%20be%20a%20business%20to%20distinguish%20it%20from%20a%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmake%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Or%20it%20must%20be%20part%20of%20an%20industry%20%28e.g.%2C%20Wright%20Brothers%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20%28wdt%3AP106%7Cwdt%3AP452%29%20%5B%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmake%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20manufacturer%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmake%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmakeLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmakeLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FmakeLabel%2C%20%22Unknown%22%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20coordinates%20to%20display%20on%20a%20map%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3FmakeLabel%29 Location of decommissioned aircraft] - OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
 * Railway network in Czechia (Source)
 * People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade (of birth) (Source)
 * List of locations of Woolf's books (Source)


 * Development
 * Working on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well
 * Polishing remaining pieces of the first version of Federated Properties to make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in other Wikibase instances
 * Continuing to work on improving the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item to make it more accurate

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 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
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<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:49, 31 August 2020 (UTC)