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Wikidata weekly summary #418
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Dan Koehl 2
- Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #15, June 7
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Discussion of our Wikidata priorities and needs as we plan for the group's future, 02 June. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- The WikiCite annual report 2019-20 has been published. Describing the "satellite event grants" program that was run (and details of the nine successful proposals); the changes that resulted from the COVID-19 shutdown of all in-person events; and a summary of WikiCite-related news from across the movement. For more details see Meta:WikiCite/Administration. For more information, contact LWyatt (WMF)
- Defying Wikidata: Validation of Terminological Relations in the Web of Data
- KORE 50DYWC: An Evaluation Data Set for Entity Linking Based on DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata, and Crunchbase
- SchemaTree: Maximum-Likelihood Property Recommendation for Wikidata
- Editorial: Special Issue on Quality Assessment of Knowledge Graphs Dedicated to the Memory of Amrapali Zaveri
- European Semantic Web Conference 2020
- Past video: Querying Wikidata with a glimpse of SPARQL - Thorsten Butz - PSCONFEU 2020. YouTube
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network Live Wikidata editing scheduled for 1st June at 7:00 PM UTC: YouTube, Facebook
- Upcoming video (in Spanish): Wikidata Online Workshop: "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" scheduled for 2nd June at 3:00 PM UTC: YouTube
- Tool of the week
- wdumps allows you to create a limited RDF dump from Wikidata, for those times when your SPARQL queries keep timing out. It is not particularly user-friendly, and it typically takes several hours to get a complete dump, but it is the best way to for example get a list of all English names of humans in Wikidata, or a list of every scientific article with its title and DOI.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The former WikiProject iNaturalist was renamed WikiProject Biodiversity to allow discussions beyond iNaturalist.
- Special:FewestRevisions to be disabled, if you are currently using it, please leave a comment
- Winners of the Wikidata competition during Museum Day 2020: VIGNERON, Alexmar983, Braveheart, Pasleim, Benoît Prieur, Uli.ch, Nono314, Sukkoria and Airon90. Congratulations!
- As part of a thesis project, the search engine "Lister" has been developed to make it easier for the general public to access data on the Semantic Web in general, and WikiData specifically. It's in a usability test-phase right now, and if you'd like to try it out and help improve it, you can do so at this link. The test should at most 15 minutes.
- Follow the discussion about restricting editing of properties to autoconfirmed users.
- New domain
toolforge.orgto be adopted by our Toolforge community. New domain/scheme for Toolforge-hosted webservices will change fromtools.wmflabs.org/toolnametotoolname.toolforge.orgwith the aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on 2020-06-15. - Wikidata development team is currently running a survey until June 9th to understand better how people access and reuse Wikidata’s data from the code of their applications and tools (for example through APIs), and how we can improve the tools to make your workflows easier. If you would like to participate, please use this link (Google Forms, estimated fill-in time 5min).
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: curricula, attribution text, based on tabular data
- External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Origin video game ID, npm package, FEMA number, Mod DB mod ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, Norwegian prisoner register person ID, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, BaGLAMa GID, GMC membership number
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: parish church, ISCO-08 occupation code, official product site, tag, heraldic attitude, Non volatile storage capacity
- External identifiers: Australian Classification ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Semantic Scholar corpus ID, Olympedia ID, Emmys person ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID, New York Times contributor ID, Cinema Context, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, Xfinity Stream ID, Juno Download album ID 2, sobory.ru, HBO Max ID, Yle Topic ID, Den Store Danske ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, Geneanet genealogist ID, IGRS video game ID, Wiki-Brest ID, Wiki-Narbonne ID, Wiki-Niort ID, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID, Wiki-Rennes ID, Wikimanche ID, Wiki-Anjou ID, Picardia ID, Grandterrier.net ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, VIAF partner ID
- Query examples:
- Map of German states with links to iNaturalist observations
- Cities/towns named after people (Source)
- Network of researchers who are vBIB20 co-presenters and are linked with a Wikidata item (Source)
- Timeline of legalized same-sex marriages by country (Source)
- BubbleChart of the 7,397 different keywords in DieDatenlaube (Source)
- Weight of royal crowns (Source)
- Recorded COVID-19 cases in difference Indian states (Source)
- Twitter accounts of current UK MP's (Source)
- Number of female employees at different organizations that Wikidata knows about (Source)
- Location of libraries that have a GitHub repository (Source)
- Location of 19th century infectious diseases published in Die Gartenlaube (Source)
- People with an entry in the Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire and biographical articles in Die Datenlaube (Source)
- Fictional spaceship captains from the Star Trek multiverse (Source)
- Timeline of Selenographers, for the birthday of German astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler and his famous map of the Moon (Source)
- Points of interest 2 km within St. Jakobus church, Pesterwitz (Source)
- Images of religious art whose main theme is Pentecost (Source)
- World map of authors with both an ORCID and Twitter account ID's (Source)
- Ratio of (days country has been in the UN) with (sum of periods of office for Heads of Government during that time) (Source)
- Map of 2020 Art+Feminism editathons (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Public art
- Development
- More documentation for federated properties
- Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
- More improvements on the Wikidata Bridge
- Add Wikidata support for awawiki (phab:T252870)
- Fix various bugs on Wikibase
- Work on improving the unclear error messages (phab:T247690)
- Create reports for the reference hunt game
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
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #419
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Handling of stored IDs after they've been deleted or redirected in the external database
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, June 12-14: online Wikidata workshop and hackathon in German. Don't forget to register to get access to attendees information.
- Upcoming: Video: Live Wikidata editing #9: Youtube, Facebook
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #16, June 14
- Upcoming: Webinar on Wikidata and cultural heritage collections, by Science Museum Group UK, June 19th
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata based Location Entity Linking
- WikiBank: Using Wikidata to Improve Multilingual Frame-Semantic Parsing
- Wikimedia Public (Research) Resources
- RDF Reasoning on Large Ontologies: A Study on Cultural Heritage and Wikidata
- What is an Open Knowledge Base anyway? (lists Wikidata as key example).
- KGTK: A Toolkit for Large Knowledge Graph Manipulation and Analysis ("we present KGTK, a data science-centric toolkit... We illustrate KGTK with real-world scenarios... such as Wikidata")
- Video: Live Wikidata editing #8 - Wikidojo edition: YouTube, Facebook
- Wikidata Online Workshop (in Spanish): "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" - YouTube
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Andrew Lih
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Jane Darnell
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Dr. Martin Poulter
- Tool of the week
- QuickStatements lets you edit thousands of Wikidata items at a time. Add labels and descriptions, or statements with sources and qualifiers, add sitelinks, create or merge items, or remove statements that were created in error. Batches can be discussed and, if necessary, reverted in full through the EditGroups tool.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Simple Query Builder: wrap-up of the feedback loop and next steps
- New page Subsetting under WikiProject Schemas for documenting how to define, construct, manage and maintain subsets of Wikidata.
- MyCroft, the open digital personal assistant now has a Wikidata skill to answer questions about current and historic facts & information about a person.
- Do you know a Wikidata/Wikibase community member who has accomplished something new or has been inspiring in the last year? If so, please take a few minutes and nominate someone in the 2020 Community Spotlight survey.
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Bengali nouns.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: curriculum topics, attribution text, based on tabular data, living people protection class, position in biological sequence, region within image, ISCO-08 occupation code, parish church, has grouping, has sorting, has column
- External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Origin video game ID, npm package, FEMA number, Mod DB mod ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, Norwegian prisoner register person ID, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, BaGLAMa GID, GMC registration number, AFL player ID, serial identifier on SerialZone, Absolute Games game ID, Modelhub ID, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID, Medusa NRHP ID, motorsportstats.com event ID, LGBT Danmark online dictionary ID, Olympedia athlete ID, Worlds Without End author ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID, AusStage organization ID, AusStage person ID, AusStage venue ID, AusStage work ID, AustLit ID, Cinema Context ID, New York Times contributor ID, HBO Max ID, Semantic Scholar corpus ID, Montreux Jazz Festival concert ID, Montreux Jazz Festival person ID, Montreux Jazz Festival song ID, ESRB video game ID, NexusMods video game ID, LongTake person ID, Yle Topic ID, digilibLT work ID, PHI Latin Texts work ID, Musisque Deoque work ID, Den Store Danske ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: official product site, tag, heraldic attitude, Non volatile storage capacity, introduced in version (2), height of center of mass, strike tone, number of migrations, depicted without, offset from vertical, for type elements, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, number of branches
- External identifiers: Australian Classification ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Emmys person ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, Xfinity Stream ID, Juno Download album ID 2, sobory.ru, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, Geneanet genealogist ID, IGRS video game ID, Wiki-Brest ID, Wiki-Narbonne ID, Wiki-Niort ID, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID, Wiki-Rennes ID, Wikimanche ID, Wiki-Anjou ID, Picardia ID, Grandterrier.net ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, VIAF partner ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, ICP artist ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, Legacy.com person ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, Uffizi artwork ID, Ancestry.com ID, Dlive game ID, Spotify songwriter ID, MuseScore artist ID, MNBAQ artist ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Cimetières de France ID, vglist video game ID, Gramophone composer ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, CAOI person ID
- Query examples:
- User:PAC2/Prenoms a notebook interface (Q28405706) to explore data about a given name (Q202444) : the idea is to ask simple questions and find answers
- Similarly the talk page of "Ada" with queries
- Postcards of exterior and interior views of theatres on CARTHALIA (Source)
- List of cities (or map) of Russia where no one famous was born and died (Source)
- Turkish scientists by citation count (Source)
- ESWC2020 papers with links to video lectures (Source)
- Women who have been Captain Regent of San Marino (Source)
- Species of birds (Source)
- List of open science fellows (Source)
- Spouses of the German Bundestag (Source)
- MWAPI searches in wikidata about people descibed as slave traders by citizenship (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata Bridge: Made a number of technical improvements to wrap up the work in the first version.
- Reference Hunt: Making final technical improvements and are now running the process to find references on the whole of Wikidata (as opposed to the initial small subset for testing). Once that's done we'll release them as a dump.
- Easier access to data for programmers: Researching and interviewing ways to improve the APIs in preparation for working on them.
- Query builder: Working on defining the first version and creating mockups based on the feedback we received.
- Use modern TypeScript syntax (3.2 -> 3.9) (phab:T253211)
- More technical documentation for Federated Properties (phab:T252991) & preparing for the next steps
- Convert some properties to external identifiers (phab:T253722)
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
- 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!
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Wikidata weekly summary #420
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
- Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #17, June 21
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday June 16 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Program for Cooperative Cataloging's upcoming Wikidata pilot, June 16. Agenda
- Past: remote Wikidata Wochenende (list of projects - in German)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- KulturNav – a hub for museum vocabularies connected to Wikidata
- Library data as linked open data
- Lord of the Wiki Ring: Importing Wikidata into Neo4j and analyzing family trees
- Video: Live Wikidata editing #9 - YouTube
- How authors and publications are linked in Wikidata Scholia (in Swedish) - YouTube
- ISE2020 - Excursus: How to query Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL - YouTube
- Wikidata Live editing (replay)
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Navino Evans
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Dr. Daniel Mietchen
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting João Alexandre Peschanski
- Part 1 - Meet João! - YouTube
- Part 2 - On choosing to work with Wikidata in Academia - YouTube
- Part 3 - Auto-generating knowledge via Wikidata - YouTube
- Part 4 - Metadata Curation and reconciliation on Wikidata - YouTube
- Part 5 - Visualization of new data artifacts via Wikidata - YouTube
- Part 6 - Data Archaeology via Wikidata - YouTube
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Ewan McAndrew
- Tool of the week
- Mix'n'match lets you match lists of external identifiers to Wikidata items, or create new items if necessary. Thousands of catalogs already exist, in dozens of different topic areas, and it's easy to import new ones.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New: Overview of GLAM metadata standards and (if relevant) how they are mapped and crosswalked on Wikimedia projects. Feel free to add more to the list!
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms can now group forms înto sections, and (on wide screens) distribute sections across two columns!
- New Wikidata Lexeme Forms feature: the warning about duplicate lexemes now links to edit mode, where you can fix any forms that the existing lexeme might be missing.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone
- External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, SIUSA archival fonds ID, qualifier for this property, SIUSA archive producer IDs, Library and bibliographic classification, gloss quote, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area
- External identifiers: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, IDU person ID, SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Unique Property Reference Number, Legacy.com newspaper ID, GCatholic person ID, Econlib ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Opera Online conductor ID, PMSA ID, Deku Deals ID, duden id, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften, KKBox track ID, Rate Your Music album ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, locality number in Austria, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, Singapore Infopedia ID
- Query examples:
- Rose cultivars
- List of present-day countries and capital(s) (Source)
- Aliases of all sovereign states in Wikidata (Source)
- Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders (Source)
- Statues and monuments of slaveholders or traders (Source)
- Members of the Ku Klux Klan whose English description doesn’t mention that (Source)
- Bases named after Union soldiers (Source)
- Married couples who also sat in the Bundestag (Source)
- List of virtual conferences and their environment (Source)
- Network of the Erich Fried Prize winners (Source)
- Notable Russian people with possible (but unproved) descent from Genghis Khan (see the query for explanation)
- Researchers or academics with Native American ancestry
- Count of items by ethnic group (Source)
- Metro map of Stockholm Country showing line colors and layers (Source)
- Countries that have no world heritage sites (Source)
- Number of statues of women, per country (Source)
- 1st level subdivisions of Europe (and colonies) with less than 30 inhabitants per km² (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Collecting a lot of feedback and doing research around how to improve our APIs to start making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
- Finalized the initial feature list for the query builder and working on designs and prototypes for testing
- Doing user research on the Merge gadget to prepare for making it part of the proper code-base so that other Wikibase instances also benefit from easier merging
- Federated Properties: continued working on the first version of Federation that will make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation
- Start of a new project (Wikibase Decoupling & Extension Registration) in order to clean up our codebase a bit and make it easier to extend with new features in the future
- More work on the design system to have a set of unified components for Wikidata that will make it easier to develop new features in the future because we don't have to rewrite components that are used in a lot of places
- Some MediaWiki skin changes meant broken edit links on Wikipedia and co. Fixed now. (phabricator:T252800)
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
- 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!
Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.
- Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
@. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months. - New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
- New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
- Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #421
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
- Events
- Upcoming: Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language conference (remote, July 9-10): program & concept are published, registration is open
- Upcoming: live OpenRefine introduction et demonstration, by Vigneron, on Twitch and in French, Tuesday June 16 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Past: Wikidata queries workshop, June 21st, in the frame of the Small wiki toolkits–Indic workshop series
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- When Deno meets Wikidata (blog post)
- Writing Wikidata Queries (Workshop Notes)
- Wikidata course at TAU: Hosting Denny Vrandečić. The future of Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia WikiLambda - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- On Commons, c:Template:Wikidata Infobox now has over 3 million uses; see c:Category:Uses of Wikidata Infobox.
- New page about the Bibliography of Wikidata – needs help on expanding the list.
- Upcoming domain name migration on the Wikimedia Toolforge implies that OpenRefine users need to update their Wikidata reconciliation service to the new endpoint which will be available by default in the upcoming release of OpenRefine (3.4). phab:T254172
- Wikirecords - proposal for a Wikibase-based sister-project
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone, applies to name of value, entry receptor, estimated value, media franchise, Dewey Decimal Classification (works), Library of Congress Classification (edition), Universal Decimal Classification (works), Regensburg Classification (works), study type
- External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID, Cimetières de France ID, Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, SIUSA archival fonds ID, Odeon ID, WikiTrek ID, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, Spotify songwriter ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, vglist video game ID, Veldkruus ID, BitterDB compound ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, SIUSA archive producer family ID, SIUSA archive producer organization ID, Museum of Family History ID, Deku Deals ID, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, qualifier for this property, Library and bibliographic classification, gloss quote, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area, Dowker-Thistlethwaite notation, Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID, twin town sign, floor material, Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID, intended background color, is exception to constraint, prohibits, permits, Kunya, jour équivalent dans le calendrier correspondant, context of death, inverse agonist of, seatwidth, external error, set in environment
- External identifiers: IDU person ID, SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Unique Property Reference Number, Legacy.com newspaper ID, GCatholic person ID, Econlib ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Opera Online conductor ID, PMSA ID, duden id, KKBox track ID, Rate Your Music album ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, locality number in Austria, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, GCatholic diocese ID, BBFC ID, Criminological Thesaurus ID, FIPRESCI person ID, Web of Science ID, Crossref journal ID, KBpedia ID, QUDT quantity kind ID, Utenlandske krigsgraver i Norge ID, BWFpara.tournamentsoftware.com player ID, Directorio de Afrocubanas, Maitron des fusillés ID, TheFreeDictionary medical term ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, Naturvårdsverket Amenity ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number
- Query examples:
- Apologies for both of the problematic queries ("MWAPI searches in wikidata about people described as slave traders by citizenship" in Weekly Summary #419 and "Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders” in Weekly Summary #420). The "MWAPI searches in wikidata about people described as slave traders by citizenship” in #419 lists any people with the word "slave" in a label, description or alias, among them several people who are not slave traders. The "Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders” in #420 incorrectly linked this query for enslaved people instead of this query for slavetraders.
- Ages of US presidents/vice-presidents: today, when leaving office, at death
- The subway network of Stockholm
- Former footballers who have ever been an MP in the UK parliament (Source)
- Latin American Women Writers with a GND ID (Source)
- Roads that are named after film directors (Source)
- Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Sweden, WikiProject Ennegreciendo/Noircir Wikimedia
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continue working on the infrastructure review, in order to address the most pressing infrastructure issues
- Make the Wikibase.git code base PSR-4 compatible (phab:T172368)
- Work on an overview of existing types of coupling in Wikibase between Repo and Client (phab:T254902)
- More work on consistency of UX components
- Handle failed requests to the federation source wiki when saving statements (phab:T254889)
- Catch federated properties exceptions in getParserOutput and display error page (phab:T255010)
- Improve the permissions for Blazegraph in wdqs docker image (phab:T237248)
- Create entitySources config for WMF production wikis (phab:T254315)
- Participate in fixing several incidents (phab:T255855, phab:T255410)
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
- 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!
This Month in Education: June 2020
About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 03:54, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #422
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Disallow merging into newer entity
- Events
- Past: Wikidata Wochenende 2020 (in German)
- Past: Cultural heritage webinar, Science Museum group. (presentations and videos)
- Past: Wikidata Query Service exercise (in Chinese) (video)
- Past: Wikidata in Toronto webinar with Alex Jung (video)
- Past: Writing Wikidata queries workshop, part of the Small Wikis Toolkit series (video recording)
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, Query Service special, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST)
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Merrilee Proffitt, Chris Cyr, and Rob Fernandez on a project to surface library holdings to indicate possible notability for persons, June 30th. Agenda
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #19, July 5
- Upcoming: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest, July 1st
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Lexemes in Wikidata: 2020 status, by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Upcoming video: Live Wikidata editing #10 - with guest: YouTube, Facebook
- Tool of the week
- The Sourcerer edit game suggests some sources that could fit to a claim and helps people adding references easily.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibase Live sessions is coming back with the first call about Data Modeling in the context of Libraries happening on Thursday, July 2nd at 1600 UTC.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone, applies to name of value, entry receptor, estimated value, media franchise, Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions), Library of Congress Classification (works and editions), Universal Decimal Classification (works and editions), Regensburg Classification (works and editions), study type, number of branches, references work, tradition or theory, Dowker-Thistlethwaite notation, qualifier for this property, gloss quote, use with property value, use with qualifier, prompt when missing, offset from vertical
- External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID, Cimetières de France ID, Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, SIUSA archival fonds ID, Odeon ID, WikiTrek ID, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, Spotify songwriter ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, vglist video game ID, Veldkruus ID, BitterDB compound ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, SIUSA archive producer family ID, SIUSA archive producer organization ID, Museum of Family History ID, Deku Deals ID, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften ID, GCatholic person ID, Legacy.com person ID, Econlib ID, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Web of Science ID, Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID, Criminological Thesaurus ID, Crossref journal ID, Duden ID, Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID, Directory of Afrocubanas ID, Emmys person ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Goodreads work ID, locality number in Austria, IDU person ID, Gramophone composer ID, Foreign war churchyards in Norway ID, Riksdagen person guid, GCatholic diocese ID, PMSA ID, BBK (library and bibliographic classification), Rate Your Music release ID, QUDT quantity kind ID, Unique Property Reference Number
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area, twin town sign, floor material, intended background color, is exception to constraint, prohibits, permits, Kunya, jour équivalent dans le calendrier correspondant, context of death, inverse agonist of, seatwidth, external error, set in environment, property constraint for Commons, Dowker-Thistlethwaite name, Localised title, DOI formatter, Open Data portal, subscribed by, Knot Atlas identifier, theorised by, Knotilus identifier, KnotInfo identifier, sorting weight, character designer, image set, taxon synonym string
- External identifiers: SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Legacy.com newspaper ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, Opera Online conductor ID, KKBox track ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, BBFC ID, FIPRESCI person ID, KBpedia ID, BWFpara.tournamentsoftware.com player ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, TheFreeDictionary medical term ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, Naturvårdsverket Amenity ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, Econlib person ID, NUKAT (non-VIAF) ID, Reposcope ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, PPN ID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Grove Art Online ID, Maniadb artist ID, Maniadb album ID, Swiss Timber Bridges, PO ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, InciWeb, HLTV ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Swedish Riksdag document, Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Church of Jesus Christ pioneer ID, Nauvoo community project ID, Dignity Memorial person ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Unique Street Reference Number, TlF ID, identifiant lobbywatch.ch d'un parlementaire, identifiant Manioc livre, Bibliothèque Digital des Caraïbes, identifiant Manioc périodique, AlloCiné theater ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: no statements/enwiki
- Newest properties:
- Development
- It is now possible to search for EntitySchema pages using a shortcut “E:”, similar to “P:” for Properties and “L:” for Lexemes. For example: E:E10 or E:kakapo. T245529
- Continued working on the first version of Federation, which will allow other Wikibase installations to use Wikidata's Properties - getting closer to a first testable version
- More work on consistency of user interface components
- Finalizing the click-dummy for the first version of the Query Builder so we can start testing it with some editors soon and get feedback.
- Continuing to investigate how to improve our APIs and other ways to improve access to the data in Wikidata for programmers
- Discussed the future of the Wikidata Query Service and ideas for next steps we can take to make it scale better. Guillaume will join the next office hour to talk about it.
- More work on clearer separation of Wikibase repository and Wikibase client code in order to improve maintainability
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
- 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!