*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>

   - Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in
   collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link
   <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dBBFnUr1uuoMlhy_bLVSWXwXsocFN2RO/view>
   - Press release
   
<http://library.uin-malang.ac.id/news/2019/05/28/perpustakaan-pusat-uin-malang-bersama-wikimedia-indonesia-dan-fasilkom-ui-selenggarakan-lokakarya-wikidata/>
   - Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop
   <https://www.facebook.com/events/419053822210609>, June 3rd, Taipei,
   Taiwan
   - Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Portugal/Wikidata_Days_2019>,
   June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
   - Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI
   
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Edit-a-thon/Atividades_em_portugu%C3%AAs/Wikidata_Lab_XVI>,
   June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
   - Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Atla/2019-06-13>, June
   13th, Vancouver, Canada

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

   - Blogpost by RightStatements.org
   <https://rightsstatements.org/en/2019/05/rightsstatements-in-wikidata.html>
   - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for
   GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property RightsStatement
   status according to source website (P6426)
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6426>.
   - Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data
   
<http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2019/05/30/welcome-japan-search-to-the-web-of-linked-open-data/>
   by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-May/013072.html>
   - At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo
   <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nl:WikiWoordenboek:Widawiwo> has begun
   to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of *Wi*ki*da*ta and
*Wi*ki*Wo*ordenboek
   can be achieved.
   - Hauki <https://tools.wmflabs.org/hauki/> is a new tool by
   User:Vesihiisi <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Vesihiisi> to browse
   lexicographical data <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Vesihiisi/Hauki>
   .
   - Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu
   <https://wikiedu.org/wikidata/>

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: ISO speed
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6789>, f-number
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6790>, WMI Code
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6793>, minimum wage
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6794>, UPA transcription
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6798>
      - External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6783>, Harper's author ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6784>, Pakistan Railways
      station code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6785>, National
      Library of Wales Catalogue ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6786>, Arachne building ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6787>, Messes.info Catholic
      parish ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6788>, The
      Atlantic author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6791>, Find
      NZ Artists ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6792>, Unified
      Social Credit Identifier
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6795>, OSZMI ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6796>, MSX Games World ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6797>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: motif represents
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/motif_represents>,
      Shape Expression for class
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shape_Expression_for_class>,
      Album Academicum-identificatiecode
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Album_Academicum-identificatiecode>,
      gender educated
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/gender_educated>,
      ABA League ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ABA_League_ID>,
      start grade
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/start_grade>,
      end grade
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/end_grade>,
digilibLT
      author ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/digilibLT_author_ID>,
      IntraText author ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IntraText_author_ID>,
      in defining formula
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/in_defining_formula>,
      PHI Latin Texts author ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PHI_Latin_Texts_author_ID>,
      associated shape
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/associated_shape>,
      comparison image
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/comparison_image>,
      emergency services
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/emergency_services>,
      Married by
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Married_by>
      - External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general)
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rugby_League_Project_ID_(general)>,
      Hungarian National Namespace
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hungarian_National_Namespace>,
      Pakistan EMIS code(s)
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pakistan_EMIS_code(s)>,
      CCDC Number
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CCDC_Number>,
      swMATH work ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/swMATH_work_ID>,
      Czech parliament ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Czech_parliament_ID>,
      Tainacan MAI ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tainacan_MAI_ID>,
      Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographical_Dictionary_Of_Iowa_ID>,
      Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new)
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame_ID_(new)>,
      euroleague.net coach ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/euroleague.net_coach_ID>,
      eurobasket.com coach ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eurobasket.com_coach_ID>,
      Who's Who of American Comic Books
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Who%27s_Who_of_American_Comic_Books>,
      PCE Daisakusen ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PCE_Daisakusen_ID>,
      Musixmatch artist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Musixmatch_artist_ID>,
      eBiodiversity ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eBiodiversity_ID>
   - Query examples:
      - Gay parades in Italy in 2019 <https://w.wiki/4ZN>
      - Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share
      borders <https://w.wiki/4Zq> (source
      <https://twitter.com/belett/status/1134931092782419968>)
      - Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh
      landscape prints <https://w.wiki/4Zs> (source
      <https://twitter.com/WIKI_NLW/status/1134583072308023297>)
      - Dunes in Wikidata <https://w.wiki/4Zu> (source
      <https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1133450861450092546>)
      - Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors
      <https://w.wiki/4Zv> (source
      <https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/1134021060079345664>)
      - Map of archives in the world <https://w.wiki/4Zx> (source
      <https://twitter.com/daieuxdailleurs/status/1134104178823979008>)
   - Newest database reports: frequent first names in Spain
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Spain/lists/first_name>

Development

   - Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (
   phab:T216842 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216842>)
   - Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (
   phab:T223300 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223300>)
   - Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if
   alias is too short (phab:T223311
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223311>)
   - More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and
   Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (
   phab:T223270 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223270>)
   - Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221774>)
   - Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme
   subentities (forms, senses) (phab:T223995
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223995>)
   - Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec}
   WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203366>)
   - Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217994>)
   - WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the
   wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update
   engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (
   phab:T217994 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217994>, phab:T214586
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214586>, phab:T217997
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217997>)
   - Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (
   phab:T221965 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221965>)
   - More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
   - Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221831>)
   - Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221833>)

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 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

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