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Wikidata weekly summary #408

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7th, 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+2) in the Wikidata Telegram group
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #6, March 29
  • Postponed: Wikimania Bangkok is postponed until 2021

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences, Andra Waagmeester et.al.
  • Tensor Decompositions for Temporal Knowledge Base Completion ("Additionally, we propose a new dataset for knowledge base completion constructed from Wikidata ... for evaluating temporal and non-temporal link prediction methods.")

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A task force is formed under WikiProject India to work on 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (Q84055514)
  • Important for tool maintainers: last steps of wb_terms table migration (wb_terms is not updated anymore and will be renamed next week)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: food energy, quantity symbol, depicted format, electron configuration, endorsed by, ordered by, research subject recruitment status, footedness, IM channel, number of recoveries, number of clinical tests
    • External identifiers: FandangoNow ID, CVR person ID, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, Filmfront film ID, stargate-wiki.de article, AncientFaces person ID, Decine21 ID, ACM Conference ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, ExoticA ID, Hrvatska enciklopedija ID, ACM Journal ID, Kanopy ID, Mirabile author ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Mirabile saint ID, Mirabile title ID, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, Treccani Dizionario di Filosofia ID, Colecovision Zone ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, Gry Online company ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Haz-Map ID, Social Security Death Index entry, ColecoVision.dk ID, US Bureau of Prisons Inmate Register Number, Google Scholar case ID, Adventure Games series ID, Trakt.tv ID, Compendium heroicum ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development English ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: tilt, Dog and cat breed registries, terminology, perpetrator, virtual tour, victims, décès, subpopulation 2, Institutionskennzeichen (IK), ODMP person ID, is metaclass for, correct spelling
    • External identifiers: Unified registration number, AGROVOC ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, PIV Online ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Curran Index Contributor ID, Curran Index Periodical ID, Artprice artist ID, Reta Vortaro, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, identifiant co-optimus.com, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, CIRIS author ID, motorsportstats.com series, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com team ID, CAB ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, curlingzone.com ID, Visit Tuscany ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most recent common ancestors of George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II
    • Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks
    • COVID-19 case statistics for India:
      • State-level map
      • State-level line graph
    • Lakes spanning at least 3 countries (source)
    • Michelin starred restaurants in Luxembourg (source)

• Development
  • Federated properties: set up a test system (phab:T247734)
  • ore work on search for remote properties (phab:T246349)
  • Bridge: more work on messages about the license (phab:T238728)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:24, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2020

• From the editors: The bad and the good

• News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked

• WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report

• Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters

• In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story

• Discussion report: Rethinking draft space

• Arbitration report: Unfinished business

• In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"

• Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19

• Recent research: Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia

• From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

• Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world

• Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia

• News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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Wikidata weekly summary #409

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

• Events
  • Today: Edit tools for Wikidata, on-line workshop in Polish, access link, March 30, 17:00 GMT (7pm Warsaw time)
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #7, April 5
  • Upcoming: Wikidata for beginners, April 1
  • Upcoming: Wiki Workshop, researchers forum (fully remote), on April 21. More information, registration
  • Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
  • Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: How can Wikimedia projects help fight the pandemic, by Susanna Ånäs
  • Investigating Software Usage in the Social Sciences: A Knowledge Graph Approach ("we linked the entities of the knowledge graph to other knowledge bases such as the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, the Software Ontology, and Wikidata")
  • Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (free eBook)
  • Video: Live SPARQL editing in French by Vigneron
  • Video: Live editing in English by Ainali and Abbe98: Youtube, Twitch, Periscope, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • About Wikidata dumps:
    • No second XML dump in March
    • RDF and JSON dumps generation is broken (no new dump since March 11th, fix in progress)
  • Wikidata knowledge imbalance dashboard - Alpha release
  • Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library and would like to work together with WikiCite
  • wb_terms migration: a temporary table has been created, the current wb_terms table will be emptied on April 6th (more details)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: generational suffix, LiverTox likelihood score, size designation, perpetrator, victim
    • External identifiers: IGCD game ID, Kickstarter project ID, Gram.pl game ID, Kooora/Goalzz player ID, RFI Musique artist ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Nobel Laureate API ID, VGMRips system ID, VGMRips company ID, GameRevolution game ID, PIV Online ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, VcBA ID, m3db.com film ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, donated to, number of hospitalized cases, number of home cases, ARK formatter, Filceolaire, viability on surface, entry receptor, birth rate
    • External identifiers: SAN archive producer ID, SAR ancestor ID, National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, identifiant Geneastar, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, Women of Scotland ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, World Biographical Information System ID, COTREX trail ID, Natural Atlas ID, Apache Project ID, Amazon Prime Video ID, Archival Resource Key, UM-BBD compound ID, BitterDB Compound ID, FooDB compound ID, ModelSEED compound ID, Hopital.fr ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, FHF hospital group ID, FHF establishment ID, Ameli ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, Elephind.com, What Do They Know organisation ID, Papers Past, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, I-Revues ID, BDSP ID
  • Query examples:
    • People born more than a year after one of their parents
    • UK MPs who were born after their father's death (source)
    • National flags representing mountains (source)
    • Map of Umgebindehäuser (Upper Lusatian houses) (source)
    • Map of megaliths in Morbihan (Bretagne) (source)

• Development
  • Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps (phab:T248612)
  • Migrate to and read from new store for item terms (phab:T219123)
  • Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
  • Bridge: improve the rendering of references (phab:T238661)
  • More work on editing references (phab:T240333)
  • Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
  • More research on suggesting references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Create a scraper for Mix'n'match from the catalogue list.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:22, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #410

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Should we create new properties for beaches?

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata office hour, April 7th at 18:00 UTC+2, on the Wikidata Telegram channel
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Google Sheets add-on, Author Disambiguator Tool, 07 April. Agenda
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, April 8 at 20:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #8, April 12
  • Upcoming: Wikidata for Beginners (German, Remoted via Zoom), May 3
  • Ongoing: WikiGap Challenge until April 8th
  • Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Signpost special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters — with mentions of COVID-related Wikidata activities
  • Denny Vrandecic published a proposal that suggests some extensions to Wikidata, and also a wholly new project, Wikilambda.
  • ScienceGuide's The COVID-19 pandemic stresses the societal importance of open science mentions WikiProject COVID-19
  • SPARC*Europe mentions the WikiProject COVID-19 in Overnight, COVID-19 heightens the need for Open Science post
  • Video: Live SPARQL queries in English by WikidataFacts
  • Video: Live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron

• Tool of the week
  • Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: ShExStatements to generate Shape Expressions from CSV (more details)
  • Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
  • New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
  • schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
  • Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
  • wb_terms table will be emptied today
  • Your feedback is welcome on two projects to improve the queries and lists workflows

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: organized response related to outbreak, Latvian transcription, country of registry, number of hospitalized cases, ARK formatter, symbol of
    • External identifiers: m3db.com person ID, Filmfront person ID, SIUSA archive conservator ID, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, RPGamer game ID, DR music artist ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, ELAR ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Women of Scotland memorial ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Latvian unified registration number, Amazon Prime Video ID, VGMRips composer ID, Apache Project ID, coinop.org game ID, Glassdoor company ID, AGROVOC ID, Ameli ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, CIRIS author ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, ToposText place ID, ToposText person ID, ToposText work ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: located in the statistical territorial entity, formatter for periodical, CSS Color name
    • External identifiers: JournalTOCs ID, EZB ID, MUSE article ID, Paperity journal ID, Paperity article ID, Flora del Cono Sur Darwinion, MxM xref, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, TED speaker numeric ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • Country-level citation graph for #COVID19 (source)
    • Movies from artfilm.ch in free access (source)
    • Topic co-occurrence graph in the SARS-CoV-2 & #COVID19 literature (source)
    • Fibulas in Musée Saint-Raymond with date, material, location of discovery

• Development
  • Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board)
  • Bridge: improve rendering of references (phab:T238661)
  • Only send incremental changes through the API (phab:T230343)
  • Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata (phab:T240333)
  • Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (phab:T228857)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:30, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #411

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

• Discussions
  • CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine

• Events
  • Ongoing: Wikidata Lab XXII on the Wikidata Wikiproject COVID-19, April 14, 1pm UTC, remote, in English. Event page
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday April 14 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #9, April 19
  • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7, on Telegram. Notes of the discussion
  • Past: Wikidata topic at the virtual biohackathon. Mid-term updates final presentations (Wikidata report starts at 1:17:40)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (new preprint about virus info (strains, genes, proteins), ShEx, and SPARQL)
  • Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies ("We look at the coverage of two biomedical ontologies focusing on diseases with respect to Wikidata for 9 European languages")
  • Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus
  • Video: Editing Wikidata and creating a property proposal: YouTube, Facebook, Periscope

• Tool of the week
  • COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A database breakage, also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6, 11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However, issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur.
  • You're welcome to give feedback on ideas of improvements for the Query Service interface
  • The development team is working on automated finding of references, feel free to give feedback on the first batch
  • ZFOURGE UDS 19909 (Q90000000) - our ninety-millionth item, about a galaxy - was created on 10 April.
  • For the first time, a Wikipedia list article populated entirely from Wikidata, and built using Listeria, has been granted "featured" status, on the Portuguese Wikipedia (video on YouTube).
  • ListeriaBot blocked pending review on English Wikipedia.
  • A Telegram group has been created for discussions about Wikidata in German
  • Comment on QID Emoji proposal until April 20th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: donations, network bands, bus, recommended unit of measurement, CSS color keyword
    • External identifiers: BDSP ID, CAB ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, ScreenScraper group ID, The Cover Project game ID, FHF establishment ID, FHF hospital group ID, elibrary.ru person ID, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, WBIS ID, Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Visit Tuscany ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, Curran Index contributor ID, ODMP person ID, GameTDB game ID, Elephind.com ID, EZB ID, GameReactor game ID, Archival Resource Key, EcuRed article, Geneastar person ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, I-Revues ID, JournalTOCs ID, MUSE article ID, NASA active astronaut ID - DO NOT USE, Paperity article ID, Paperity journal ID, SAN archive producer ID, SOCAN work number, Papers Past ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, COTREX trail ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ACUM work ID, appendix, Wikisource index page, Unicode character, Arlington Cemetery person ID, Eigentümerhistorie, quantification instruction, language level, Included in curricula, Order number, ShEx available at URL, dialect of (computer language), file page offset, station service succession
  • External identifiers: Seoul Information Disclosure Plaza management number, Wikiparques ID, NKAA ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Provenio ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, RPPS ID, South African Company Registration Number, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, SNCF station identifier, Benerail station identifier, Indian Railways train number, Soccerdonna coach ID, DLL Catalog IDs, MDN, Psocodea Species File ID, Slovak Registration ID, Swedish Glaciers, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, CPAN person, FactGrid item ID, FactGrid property ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID
  • Query examples:
    • Names of countries without letter "a" (source)
    • Infectious diseases and their number of cases (source)
    • Map of mountain huts in Bulgaria (source)
  • Schema examples: pandemic (E184), preprint (E185), Macromolecular complex (E186), hospital (E187), 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188), clinical trial (E189), Lockdown (E190), lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191), virus taxon (E192), Preprint server (E193), Complex Portal entity (E194), contact tracing app (E195)

• Development
  • Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (phab:T248592)
  • Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (phab:T249596)
  • Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (phab:T249595)
  • More work on Automated finding references
  • More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties
  • Bridge: improve the generic error screen (phab:T241126) and on save (phab:T248087)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:23, 14 April 2020 (UTC)