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

   - Open request for adminship: Hazard-SJ
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Hazard-SJ_3>,
   Gnoeee
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Gnoeee>,
   Wagino 20100516
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wagino_20100516_2>
   - Closed request for adminship: Wiki13
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wiki13_2>
   (successful)

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

   - Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/August_2020>.
   This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling
   GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay
   
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibase_Live_Session_-_August_2020.webm>
   )
   - 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
   
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xftQTezmXVO0B1WMYoNnkEOrOVYF38nKaXzP7POxRvo/edit#Agenda>
   ]
   - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#25>,
   August 16

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

   - Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed
   Wikidata games Facebook
   
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2726704460948047/>,
   YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVhtTfzrKA>
   - Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia
   by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa71M5Yw8g>
   - Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with
   Wikidata tools
   
<https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2020/08/10/librarians-work-to-broaden-vanderbilts-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 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User: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 <https://osm.wikidata.link/> 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 <https://github.com/jvfe/wikidata2df>
   - With Wikidata Concept Tree Generator
   <https://observablehq.com/@repmax/wikidata-concept-tree-generator>, you
   can enter any concept and instantly see a visualization of its extended
   relations. (Source
   <https://twitter.com/maxmunnecke/status/1291688128848240641>)

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: size comparison diagram
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8512>, view
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8517>
      - External identifiers: Legacy.com newspaper ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8507>, ChemSynthesis ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8508>, Dizionario Biografico
      dei Protestanti in Italia ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8509>, Maitron des fusillés
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8510>, Fototeka person ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8511>, LibraryThing series ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8513>, TOPCMB ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8514>, Swiss Industrial
      Heritage ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8515>, Library
      of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8516>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: image of entrance
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/image_of_entrance>,
      extinction date
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/extinction_date>,
      notation writer
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/notation_writer>,
      raga <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/raga>,
      tala <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tala>,
      SMARTS
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SMARTS>, Editio
      princeps
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Editio_princeps>,
      recording location
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/recording_location>
      - External identifiers: Sochy a města ID osoby
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sochy_a_m%C4%9Bsta_ID_osoby>,
      Sochy a města ID sochy
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sochy_a_m%C4%9Bsta_ID_sochy>,
      podvignaroda
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/podvignaroda>,
      Have I Been Pwned breach ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Have_I_Been_Pwned_breach_ID>,
      European Investment Bank project ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Investment_Bank_project_ID>,
      WordNet 3.1 Synset Id
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WordNet_3.1_Synset_Id>,
      cadastral municipality ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cadastral_municipality_ID>,
      NPR station ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NPR_station_ID>,
      NYARC Discovery ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NYARC_Discovery_ID>,
      Nasjonalt skoleregister-ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nasjonalt_skoleregister-ID>,
      ERIC Thesaurus ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ERIC_Thesaurus_ID>,
      American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/American_Folklore_Society_Ethnographic_Thesaurus_ID>,
      Trismegistos Texts ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Trismegistos_Texts_ID>
   - Query examples:
      - Ancestors of the current King of Spain color coded by sex or gender
      <https://w.wiki/YhE>
      - Political alignments of the parties of world leaders
      <https://w.wiki/Ymh> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/tmtm/status/1290946706490695680>)
      - Female Mathematicians whose birth/death anniversary is today
      <https://w.wiki/YiN> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1290621299132375043>)


   - Commons queries:
      - Map of images found in the medieval Atlas De Wit
      
<https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ffile%20%3Fimage%20%3FdepictionLabel%20%3Fcoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP6243%20wd%3AQ2520345%20.%0A%20%20%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdepiction%20.%0A%20%20%3Ffile%20schema%3AcontentUrl%20%3Furl%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepiction%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdepiction%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdepictionLabel%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20bind%28iri%28concat%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%2C%20replace%28substr%28str%28%3Furl%29%2C53%29%2C%22_%22%2C%22%2520%22%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%0A%7D>
      (source
      
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/queries/examples#Map_of_images_found_in_the_medieval_Atlas_De_Wit>
      )
      - Things depicted with cats
      
<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>
      (source
      
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/queries/examples#Things_depicted_with_cats>
      )

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 (phabricator:T255387 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/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 (
   phabricator:T259440 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/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
<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>
   - 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>

-- 

Mohammed Sadat

*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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