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

   - Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, FlyingAce
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:FlyingAce>! (see the closed request
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/FlyingAce>
   )
   - New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 4
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Framabot_4>
(Task:
   Import commune of France <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q484170> contact
   data from french official directory
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117479181>, french official directory
   <https://lannuaire.service-public.fr/>
   - Closed request for permissions/Bot: JoRobot 8
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/JoRobot_8>
(Task:
   Removing good list badge <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51759403> from
   articles in the Catalan Wikipedia)

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

   - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working
   Hour September 15, 2023. We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference
   management software, and its browser plugin
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Zotero> to automatically extract
   metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be
   batch uploaded using QuickStatements.More information on the event page
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-September-15_Wikidata_Working_Hour>

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

   -
      - Paper: Documenting Biodiversity in Underrepresented Languages using
      Crowdsourcing <https://biss.pensoft.net/article/112431/> - Mohammed
      Kamal-Deen Dnshitobu Fuseini, Agnes Ajuma Abah, Andra Waagmeester
   - Press: Statement by Alliance F5 on the German Government's data
   strategy <https://okfn.de/blog/2023/09/stn-datenstrategie/> (in German)
   - Videos
      - List of free software in *le socle interministériel de logiciels
      libres* (SILL/the interministerial base of free software) recommended
      by the French Government in Wikidata
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo_VpAyby1c> - Nicolas Vigneron
      - Georeferencing using OSM and Wikidata
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py1JkgkEHI8> - Oficina Wiki Apoia
      - Members of Riksdag (Sweden's parlement)
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxb49PvpaA> - Magnus Sälgö
      - Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments with Content Partnerships Hub
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiTjxAy_Z8> - Wikimedia Sweden
      - From self-documentation to federated querying using Wikibase: a new
      topology to Media Art Archiving?
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY3UeO6yNb8> - Raphael Tsz Kin Chau

Tool of the week

   - LowercaseDescription.js
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ricordisamoa/LowercaseDescription.js> is
   a script that adds a link to automatically lower the first letter of an
   item's description in the user's language.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - You can now browse all the Wikibase instances hosted on
   Wikibase.Cloud: https://www.wikibase.cloud/discovery
   - Wikibase resources
   <https://github.com/KBNLwikimedia/Wikibase-resources>, a collection of
   resources, overviews, links and knowlegde related to Wikibase, collected
   and curated by KB, national library of the Netherlands
   <https://www.kb.nl/>

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: none
      - External identifiers: RBC person ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12031>, Ordbok över Finlands
      svenska folkmål ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12032>, France
      3 Régions journalist ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12033>, Médiathèque
      Numérique CVS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12034>, MyShows
      show ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12035>, NHK News
      topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12036>, ‎Sitios ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12037>, Xiaohongshu user ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12038>, Fansly ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12039>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
   review:
      - General datatypes:
         - chronological designation
         
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/chronological_designation>
(as
         a typical instance, the stated scholarly journal year to
which reference is
         made by: the reference source being cited to support the
statement being
         made)
         - Flora of New Jersey Project atlas URL
         
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flora_of_New_Jersey_Project_atlas_URL>
(URL
         for a plant species in the Flora of New Jersey Project atlas)
      - External identifiers: British Pathé ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/British_Path%C3%A9_ID>
      , ProductReview ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ProductReview_ID>
      , BISAC Subject Heading
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BISAC_Subject_Heading>
      , EDItEUR Thema id
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EDItEUR_Thema_id>
      , ONIX Subject Scheme id
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ONIX_Subject_Scheme_id>
      , MiMoText ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MiMoText_ID>
      , ADVN ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ADVN_ID>,
National
      Register of Monumental Trees ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Register_of_Monumental_Trees_ID>
      , Diktyon
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diktyon>,
Codeberg
      username
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Codeberg_username>
      , RAWG tag ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RAWG_tag_ID>
      , National Library of Albania ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Library_of_Albania_ID>
      , DfE Group UID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DfE_Group_UID>
      , AARoads Wiki article ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AARoads_Wiki_article_ID>
      , Armasanicana person ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Armasanicana_person_ID>
      , FloraVeg.EU species ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FloraVeg.EU_species_ID>
      , Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/_Vascular_Plants_of_Iowa_species_ID>
   - Query examples:
      - Google Scholar Organization IDs to Wikidata <https://w.wiki/7Md7> (
      source <https://twitter.com/annreynolds988/status/1703244710641590321>
      )
      - Power stations of this world <https://w.wiki/7T6X> (source
      <https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1701996445040009566>)
      - Usage state of the nuclear power plant <https://w.wiki/7Tth> (source
      <https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1702766817993715936>)

Development

   - We are planning the migration of some of our existing components from
   the Wikit to the Codex design system in Query Builder, Mismatch Finder and
   the Special:NewLexeme page.
   - Warnings about not being logged-in will now have a returnto= parameter
   attached to their links, so that you can don’t use your flow from logging
   in (phab:T330550 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330550>)
   - We fixed an issue with the LanguageSwitcher in Query Builder where it
   would open out of the viewport on some tablet screen widths (phab:T344231
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344231>)
   - Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on making it possible to
   remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342976>) and getting the labels of a
   Property (phab:T342977 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342977>)


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>

-- 
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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