*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions

   - Closed request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on
   most used Items
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/semi-protection_to_prevent_vandalism_on_most_used_Items>

Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>

   - Upcoming: 1st Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web
   Conference <http://www.kgswc.org> keynote on Wikidata by José E. Labra
   <https://www.slideshare.net/jelabra/wikidata-151323898> Villa Clara,
   Cuba 24-28 June
   - Upcoming: Wikidata meeting for researchers
   <http://sparql-wikidata-2019.smr-team.org/> in Sfax University, Tunisia,
   25-27 June 2019
   - Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London
   
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-wikidata-meetup-3-wikidata-osmuk-tickets-61869712977>,
   June 29th
   - Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/UGent_Wikidata_and_Wikibase_Workshop_2019#Programme>

Press, articles, blog posts
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>

   - *Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System
   <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8731539/>*, Yuhan Sun, et al (in
   2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering)
   - *Comparing DBpedia, Wikidata, and YAGO for Web Information Retrieval
   <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-981-13-6031-2_40>*,
   Sini Govinda Pillai, et al.
   - *WikiDataSets: Standardized sub-graphs from WikiData
   <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.04536.pdf>*, Armand Boschin, in ArXiv
   - *Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes
   
<https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/136c/f1c109586777e71efab645250605fb3ff3bf.pdf?_ga=2.95586332.1809483212.1560861741-708203100.1559741642>*,
   Finn Årup Nielsen <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Fnielsen>
   - *Combining embedding methods for a word intrusion task
   
<https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/163d/bc94ff35e8c5641a616672aaab184379ec87.pdf?_ga=2.61590700.1809483212.1560861741-708203100.1559741642>*
   Finn Årup Nielsen, et al
   - *Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values
   <https://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.24-4-2019.2284070>* Sarah Dahir,
   Abderrahim et al., in ICCWCS'19
   - *Automatic Question Generation based on MOOC Video Subtitles and
   Knowledge Graph <https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3323820>* Lin Ma,
   Yuchun Ma, in ICIET 2019
   - *Wikidata as a linked-data hub for Biodiversity data
   <https://biss.pensoft.net/article/35206/>*, Andra Waagmeester
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Andrawaag>, et al.
   - *Using Crowd-curation to Improve Taxon Annotations on the Wikimedia
   Infrastructure <https://biss.pensoft.net/article/35216/>*, Andra
   Waagmeester <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Andrawaag>, et al.
   - *Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide
   Curation with Rigorous Validation
   <http://labra.weso.es/publication/2019_eswc_shex/>, et al. Best in-use
   paper award ESWC <https://twitter.com/eswc_conf/status/1137110223691440128>*
   - *From “an” Identifier to “the” Identifier
   <https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v38i2.10886>*, Theo van Veen
   - Developing workflows for local authority file conversion from MARC to
   Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa6jZTs1sY4>

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Structured Data on Commons
   <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>: qualifiers
   for depicts support have been enabled on June 20th
   - Result format change for Query Service JSON query output
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-June/013206.html>
   - Filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps will change
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-June/013200.html>
   - The development of Wikidata Bridge (editing Wikidata's data from
   Wikipedia) started
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-June/013216.html>
   - CheckShex userscript
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Teester/CheckShex.js> adds an
   in-page way of checking if an item fits an Entityschema

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: has written for
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6872>, motif represents
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6875>, solar irradiance
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6876>, effective temperature
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6879>
      - External identifiers: JIS standard
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6857>, Réunionnais du monde
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6858>, Corporate Number
      (South Korea) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6859>, dbSNP ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6861>, digilibIT author ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6862>, Digital Prosopography
      of the Roman Republic ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6863>, eBiodiversity ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6864>, eurobasket.com coach
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6865>, euroleague.net
      coach ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6866>, Gamepedia
      Wiki ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6867>, Hoopla artist
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6868>, Hoopla publisher ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6869>, Latvian National
      Encyclopedia Online ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6870>,
      ECI Lok Sabha constituency code
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6871>, IntraText author ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6873>, Musixmatch artist ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6874>, MAHG ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6877>, Amburger database ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6878>, ATP tennis tournament
      edition ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6880>, Rugby
      League Project ID (general)
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6881>, RIAA artist ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6882>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: extracted from
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/extracted_from>,
      Instagram hashtag
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Instagram_hashtag>,
      Historical Archives of the European Union ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Historical_Archives_of_the_European_Union_ID>,
      number of pins, number of pin positions
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_pins,_number_of_pin_positions>,
      Representative in legislature
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Representative_in_legislature>,
      subscribers
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/subscribers>
      - External identifiers: nchdb asset id
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/nchdb_asset_id>,
      Biblioteca Nacional Aruba ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblioteca_Nacional_Aruba_ID>,
      Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-)
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bangladesh_administrative_division_code_(2017-)>,
      Goodreads series ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Goodreads_series_ID>,
      Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Heritage_Gazetteer_of_Cyprus>,
      Retrosheet ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Retrosheet_ID>,
      The DJ List artist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_DJ_List_artist_ID>,
      BBC artist ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BBC_artist_ID>,
      The Independent topic ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Independent_topic_ID>,
      NME artist ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NME_artist_ID>,
      Metro topic ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Metro_topic_ID>,
      MangaSeek person ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MangaSeek_person_ID>,
      Soccerway coach ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Soccerway_coach_ID>,
      Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nederlandse_Top_40_artist_ID>,
      Dutch Charts artist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dutch_Charts_artist_ID>,
      hitparade.ch artist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/hitparade.ch_artist_ID>,
      Aviation Safety Network Wikibase ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aviation_Safety_Network_Wikibase_ID>,
      Find & Connect ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Find_%26_Connect_ID>,
      SA Flora ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SA_Flora_ID>,
      ATRF ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ATRF_ID>,
      geograph
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/geograph>,
ArtBrokerage
      artist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ArtBrokerage_artist_ID>,
      Indian gallantry awardee ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indian_gallantry_awardee_ID>,
      Scandipop topic ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Scandipop_topic_ID>,
      iTunes movie collection ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/iTunes_movie_collection_ID>,
      SLNSW unpublished item ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SLNSW_unpublished_item_ID>,
      LB.ua dossier
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LB.ua_dossier>,
      FPBR person ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FPBR_person_ID>,
      RBF amateur boxer ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RBF_amateur_boxer_ID>,
      RBF professional boxer ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RBF_professional_boxer_ID>,
      Roskomnadzor media license number
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Roskomnadzor_media_license_number>,
      2014 Commonwealth Games athlete ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/2014_Commonwealth_Games_athlete_ID>,
      Music certifictions ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Music_certifictions_ID>,
      El portal de Música artist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/El_portal_de_M%C3%BAsica_artist_ID>
   - Query examples:
      - Most commonly used qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on
      Wikidata, with top 10 classes or items that each one is used on
      
<https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%3Ftotal%20%3Fcount%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fdepicts_classLabel%20%3Fprop%20%3FpropLabel%20%3Fsamp%20%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%23%20LIMIT%20100000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25stmts%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fdepicts_stmt%29%29%20AS%20%3Ftotal%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25stmts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20%3Fqual%20%5B%5D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fqual%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%0A%7D%20AS%20%25totals%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fdepicts_stmt%29%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fsamp%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25stmts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20ps%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts_val%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_val%20wdt%3AP31%3F%20%3Fdepicts_class%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts_stmt%20%3Fqual%20%5B%5D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3Aqualifier%20%3Fqual%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%0A%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20%0A%20%20LIMIT%205000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25data%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fdepicts_class1%29%29%20AS%20%3Frank%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fdepicts_class%20AS%20%3Fdepicts_class1%29%20%3Fprop%20%28%3Fcount%20AS%20%3Fcount1%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fcount1%20%3E%3D%20%3Fcount%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicts_class%20%3Fprop%0A%7D%20AS%20%25ranks%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25data%20.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25ranks%20.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25totals%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Frank%20%3C%2011%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Ftotal%29%20%3Fprop%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A>
      (source
      
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=355894632#Qualifiers_for_depicts_are_now_available>
      )
      - Most commonly used properties connecting military people to
      military organisations
      
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fcount%20%3Fproperty%20%3FpropertyLabel%20%3Fsamp%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20(COUNT(%3Fitem)%20AS%20%3Fcount)%20%3Fproperty%20(SAMPLE(%3Fitem)%20AS%20%3Fsamp)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Forg_class%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ17149090.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Forg%20wdt%3AP31%3F%20%3Forg_class%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20%3Fprop%20%3Forg%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20%3Frole%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Frole%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ1250916%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fproperty%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fprop%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fproperty%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(%3Fcount)>
      (source
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Project_chat&oldid=968103425#Membership_in_a_military_unit>
      )
      - Bubblechart of most frequent WMF import sources
      
<https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20most%20frequent%20Wikimedia%20import%20sources%20(P143%20values)%0A%23%20query%20by%20Jura1%2C%202019-06-24%0A%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fct%20%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20(count(*)%20as%20%3Fct)%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstmt%20pr%3AP143%20%3Fitem%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0A%20%20%20%20HAVING(%3Fct%20%3E%20100)%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC(%3Fct)%0A%20%20%20%20LIMIT%20100%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC(%3Fct)%20ASC(%3FitemLabel)>
      - French male first names ending with "ée" <https://w.wiki/5Ew> (
      source <https://twitter.com/photos_floues/status/1142012922434084864>)
   - Newest WikiProjects
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
   WikiProject Australia
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Australia>
   - Newest database reports: Property completion by country leaderboard
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Properties/Reports/Country_dashboard>

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you
want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority>.

Monthly Tasks

   - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
   above.
   - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>
   - Suggested and open tasks
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks>
   !
   - Contribute to a Showcase item
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
   .
   - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
   or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
   - Help merge identical items
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
   Wikimedia projects.
   - Help write the next summary!
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>


-- 
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Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata

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