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

   - Closed request for adminship: BRPever
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/BRPever>,
   welcome on board!

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

   - Upcoming: Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright
   and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata
   
<https://ccglobalsummit2019lisbonportugal.sched.com/event/MiW5/adding-structured-and-machine-readable-data-for-copyright-and-licensing-on-wikimedia-commons-and-wikidata>,
   workshop by Sandra Fauconnier
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SandraF_(WMF)> about modelling
   copyright statuses <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Copyrights> on
   Wikidata, 10 May, at the Creative Commons Global Summit
   <https://summit.creativecommons.org/> in Lisbon
   - Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Utrecht
   <https://www.wikimedia.nl/activiteit/wikizaterdag-5ct7m5>, Netherlands,
   on May 11th
   - Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XV
   
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Edit-a-thon/Atividades_em_portugu%C3%AAs/Wikidata_Lab_XV>
   about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil

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

   - Kennisverrijking via Wikidata
   <https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/nieuws/kennisverrijking-wikidata> (in
   Dutch), by Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Netwerk_Oorlogsbronnen>, Hanno
   Lans <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Hannolans> and Janneke Jorna
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jjorna>
   - Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums
   
<https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/4/29/solving-arts-data-problem-part-one-museums>.
   Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a
   few times
   - Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine
   interoperability and data interpretability
   
<https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f6d1/6eaf975af03a172c73843ff506592c952a04.pdf>
   - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac.
   - Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata
   <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.10503.pdf> - C. Deha Doğan, et al.
   - Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata
   
<https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/fg-engels/publications_pdfs/Konferenzbeitraege/heindorf2019_WWW.pdf>
   (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation
   <https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/1123942462928691210>
   - An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users
   <https://twitter.com/bhousel/status/1124869535440494592?s=19> from
   accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
   - New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-May/013026.html>

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: precedes word-initial
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6712>, music video
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6718>, specifying descriptor
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6719>
      - External identifiers: Australian War Memorial ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6713>, Whitney Museum of
      American Art artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6714>,
      SIUSA ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6715>, MyNeta.info
      political party ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6716>, IndieDB
      video game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6717>, interwiki
      prefix at Wikimedia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6720>, K10plus
      editions <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6721>, FemBio ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6722>, BlackPast.org ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6723>, Trainline ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6724>, CatholicSaints.info ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6725>, NSW Capital
      Conviction ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6726>, Dimore
      Storiche Italiane ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6727>, Dictionnaire
      des Vendéens ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6728>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: gene sequence
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/gene_sequence>,
      Has written for
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Has_written_for>,
      Rigging
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rigging>, Guix
      Variable Name
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Guix_Variable_Name>,
      review of
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/review_of>, NSF
      FICE Code ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NSF_FICE_Code_ID>
      - External identifiers: Watercolour World artist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Watercolour_World_artist_ID>,
      VTB United League player ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VTB_United_League_player_ID>,
      GNU ELPA package ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GNU_ELPA_package_ID>,
      MELPA package ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MELPA_package_ID>,
      Paměť národa ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pam%C4%9B%C5%A5_n%C3%A1roda_ID>,
      FragDenStaat public body ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FragDenStaat_public_body_ID>,
      MobyGames genre ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MobyGames_genre_ID>,
      Interactive Fiction Database ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Interactive_Fiction_Database_ID>,
      Recreation.gov campground ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Recreation.gov_campground_ID>,
      HAL institution ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HAL_institution_ID>,
      Swedish Royal Theater
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swedish_Royal_Theater>
   - Query examples:
      - Some people are named after the strangest sorts of things
      <https://w.wiki/3gb> (source
      <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1124430457876164608>)
      - Commons categories for a set of books, that have categories for
      people other than those 'explained' by statements on Wikidata for author,
      contributor, etc.
      
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Commons%20categories%20for%20a%20set%20of%20books%2C%20that%20have%20categories%20for%20people%20other%20than%0A%23%20those%20%27explained%27%20by%20statements%20on%20Wikidata%20for%20author%2C%20contributor%2C%20etc.%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fbook%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbook%20%3Fauth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbook%20wdt%3AP195%20wd%3AQ53764729%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbook%20wdt%3AP50%7Cwdt%3AP767%20%3Fauth%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25pairs%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fauth%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3ASubQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%20%23%20we%20have%20to%20disable%20the%20optimizer%20for%20this%20subquery%20because%20it%20gets%20confused%20by%20the%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%20part%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairs.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fauth%20wdt%3AP373%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRLANG%28CONCAT%28%22Category%3A%22%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement%29%2C%20%22en%22%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%20schema%3Aname%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%3B%0A%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%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fauth%3B%0A%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%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28STR%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%2C%20%22https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3A%22%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28BOUND%28%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25authsWithCommonsCategories%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbook%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3ASubQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%20%23%20we%20have%20to%20disable%20the%20optimizer%20for%20this%20subquery%20because%20it%20gets%20confused%20by%20the%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%20part%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairs.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fbook%20wdt%3AP373%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRLANG%28CONCAT%28%22Category%3A%22%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement%29%2C%20%22en%22%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%20schema%3Aname%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%3B%0A%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%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fbook%3B%0A%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%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28STR%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%2C%20%22https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3A%22%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28BOUND%28%3FcommonsCategoryBook%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25booksWithCommonsCategories%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbook%20%3Fauth%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairs%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25booksWithCommonsCategories.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25authsWithCommonsCategories.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25pairCats%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25booksWithCommonsCategories%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fcategories%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20mediawiki%3AisInCategory%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20mediawiki%3AisInCategory%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3APeople_by_name%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairCats%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20>
      (source
      
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/Wikidata.GLAM/permalink/1815907571845332/?comment_id=1817334928369263&reply_comment_id=1820398794729543>
      )
      - Timeline for members of the Illuminati Order <https://w.wiki/3gZ> (
      source <https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/1123471884232925189>)
      - Newspapers founded before 1900 with their Twitter hashtag
      <https://w.wiki/3gc> (source
      <https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1122944009767456768>)

Development

   - Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (phab:T220772
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220772>)
   - Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (phab:T222182
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222182>, phab:T222133
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222133>, phab:T222129
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222129>)
   - Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (phab:T221942
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221942>)
   - Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T210598
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210598>)
   - Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (phab:T220977
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220977>)
   - Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox (
   phab:T217000 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217000>)
   - Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox (
   phab:T218690 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218690>)
   - Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T215951
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215951>)

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 link OpenStreetMap features with Wikidata items
   <https://osm.wikidata.link/>.
   - Help write the next summary!
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>

-- 
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata

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

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.

Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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