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

   - Closed requests 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>
   (all successful)
   - New request for comments: How (un)important is preserving the historic
   character of an item? <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q5098204>

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

   - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #26
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#26>,
   August 23

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

   - Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in
   Spanish). YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-n_QrWPECo>

Tool of the week

   - Entity Explosion
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata: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
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Entity_Explosion_introduction.ogv>)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Wikidata Bridge v1 will be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia on August 18th
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-August/014199.html>
   - New description and screenshots for the Simple Query Builder project
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Improve_the_workflows_for_queries_and_lists/Simple_query_Builder>,
   feedback welcome
   - Help:Dataset sizing <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Dataset_sizing>

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: alternative form
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8530>
      - External identifiers: Henrik Ibsen writings ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8518>, RKD thesaurus ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8519>, TCLF ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8520>, Sculptures and cities
      database ID for sculptures
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8521>, Manioc book ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8522>, Presence
      compositrices ID of composer
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8523>, Offizielle Deutsche
      Charts song ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8524>, ToS;DR
      service numerical identifier
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8525>, Have I Been Pwned
      breach ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8526>, Unsplash
      User ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8527>, EIB project ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8528>, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8529>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: latest start date
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/latest_start_date>,
      earliest end date
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/earliest_end_date>,
      Number of votes after transferring
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Number_of_votes_after_transferring>,
      map URL
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/map_URL>, type
      of archaeological site
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/type_of_archaeological_site>,
      record number
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/record_number>,
      front and back matter
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/front_and_back_matter>
      - External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school
      ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sports-Reference.com_college_football_school_ID>,
      Panteono de edukado.net
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Panteono_de_edukado.net>,
      LSG local body code
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LSG_local_body_code>,
      MobyGames attribute ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MobyGames_attribute_ID>,
      Dictionary of Occupational Titles ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionary_of_Occupational_Titles_ID>,
      Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Frauen_in_Bewegung_1848%E2%80%931938>,
      Anais do Museu Paulista article ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Anais_do_Museu_Paulista_article_ID>,
      Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised)
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionary_of_Occupational_Titles_Code_(fourth_edition,_revised)>,
      Proballers player ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Proballers_player_ID>,
      Linked Open Data Cloud identifier
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Linked_Open_Data_Cloud_identifier>,
      Chrome Webstore extension ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chrome_Webstore_extension_ID>,
      CTHS publication ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CTHS_publication_ID>,
      LBS Physical ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LBS_Physical_ID>,
      GBIF occurence ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GBIF_occurence_ID>
   - Query examples:
      - Largest collections of Picasso content <https://w.wiki/ZEW> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/TrinkerMedia/status/1292864560169472001>).
The National
      Gallery of Art <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214867> holds the most
      with 303 objects
      - Bubble chart of snooker world champions <https://w.wiki/Zit> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1295311630604140544>)
      - Map of streets in Tillydrone named after WW2 military leaders
      <https://w.wiki/Zex> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/watty62/status/1294932396371042304>)

Development

   - Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted
   itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (phabricator:T259440
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259440>)
   - Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in
   situations when MediaWiki usually does (phabricator:T255387
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/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 (phabricator:T249206
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/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 (
   phabricator:T128486 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128486>)
   - Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and
   aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content
   languages (phabricator:T259340
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259340>, phabricator:T260118
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260118>)


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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