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*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2025-06-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #685 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous>.* * Events * - Upcoming events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>: - 8-11 September: OpenRefine Barcamp <https://openrefine.org/blog/2025/06/10/OpenRefine-2025-Barcamp> - fully virtual, registrations and call for sessions are open - WikidataCon 2025 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:WikidataCon_2025> returns this year on the theme of Connecting People through Linked Open Data...on the links below you can - Register to the event <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/1340> to get updates and news - Submit now, the Call for Proposals is open! <https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon-2025/cfp> - Wikidata for Jewish Studies <https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-155988>, a hands-on Wikidata workshop at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz from September 8-9, 2025. (Registration by July 18) - Drop in and Wikidata <https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Drop_in_and_Wikidata_-_June_2025> - This regular online meeting has moved to the last Thursday of every month. Join via Zoom <https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88415120219> * Press, articles, blog posts, videos * - Blogs - Visualizing Knowledge <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/06/28/visualizing-knowledge-how-indonesians-turn-wikidata-into-stories-that-matter/> - how Indonesians turn Wikidata into stories that matter. This article details the efforts and winners of a WM Indonesia organised 30-day competition to create cool visualizations powered through Wikidata. - OpenRefine: Data workflow via open source collaboration <https://www.lpi.org/blog/2025/06/25/openrefine-data-workflow-via-open-source-collaboration/> - the Linux Professional Institute interview the project manager of OR, Martin Magdinier, on the journey developing this data manipulation tool. * Tool of the week * - User:Jon Harald Søby/senseItemLabel.js <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by/senseItemLabel.js> What it does is that when you add a P5137 statement in a lexeme, it will let you add the lemma as a label to the item in one click, if the item doesn't have a label in that language yet, or if the label is different (very useful for case differences, for instance) * Other Noteworthy Stuff * - The Wikidata Ontology Course <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Ontology_Course> has finished its course sessions. The slides for all sessions of the course are available on the course page. Part of participating in the course was to set up a project related to the Wikidata Ontology. Current information on the projects, many of which are continuing after the end of the course is now available <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Ontology_Course#Projects>. If you are interested in one or more of the projects please follow the project, add something to its discussion page, or contribute to it. - PhD Position in Digital History <https://wissenschaftlichestellenangebote.com/phd-position-in-history,i18518.html> at the University of Luxembourg is seeking someone with experience in Wikibase and Linked Open Data. * Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties> and property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review * - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: none - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - defining Prolog formula <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/defining_Prolog_formula> (Prolog rule expressing the intended logical behavior of a property, for use in ontology formalization and rule-based reasoning.) - Codes for the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Codes_for_the_administrative_divisions_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China> (identifier for administrative divisions of People's Republic of China, published by Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China) - ENTSO-E resource type <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ENTSO-E_resource_type> (ENTSO-E code for type of Power System Resource. Alias: PSR type, electrical aset type) - External identifiers: Film Atlas ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Film_Atlas_ID>, FLBB player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FLBB_player_ID>, MarathonView person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MarathonView_person_ID> You can comment on all open property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>! * Did you know? * - Query examples: - UNESCO Memory of the World International Register (now complete up to 2023) <https://w.wiki/EYkW> (source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter/queries/memory_of_the_world> ) - Largest collections on the MoW International Register <https://w.wiki/EZ9o> - Featured and Good Articles in Korean or Chinese Wikipedia, with no English version <https://w.wiki/EcAw> - source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Articles_that_are_GA_or_FA_on_zh_or_ko_wiki_but_not_on_en> - Ugandan Female Footballers <https://w.wiki/EcAy> - source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Query_on_Ugandan_female_Footballers> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: WikiProject Personal Collections <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Personal_Collections> - The WikiProject Personal Collections aims to develop structured, multilingual standards and best practices for describing personal collections and archives on Wikidata. - Newest database reports <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>: - Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>: Arctic Monkeys (Q170599) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170599> - English rock band - Showcase Lexemes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: ਸਿਫ਼ਤ (L713097) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L713097> - Punjabi noun (si-fat) meaning "praise/glorification", "virtue", or "attribute" * Development * - Wikibase REST API: We continued working on Item prefix search ( phab:T388209 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388209>) and started working on stemming support (phab:T397605 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397605>) - Integration in Wikipedia and co: The improved edit summaries are now live on the first wikis (ca, uk, he). We are now showing the labels for linked entities instead of just their IDs (phab:T388685 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388685>) - Mobile statement editing: We are continuing working on the basics of showing statements in the new way - nothing useful to see yet ( phab:T394886 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394886>) 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>. * Weekly Tasks * - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review> . - Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?> . - Govdirectory weekly focus country: New Zealand <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/New_Zealand> - Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?> in one or two sentences. - 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> *· Previous issue <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous> · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE)> talk <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE)> ·* -- *Danny Benjafield* Community Communications Manager Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e. 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