*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Closed request for comments:
- Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Cleaning_up_the_ontology_of_anonymous>.
Outcome: New model adopted, documentation updated
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Visual_arts/Item_structure#Use_of_creator_(P170)_in_uncertain_cases>
.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Past
-
- Wikibase Community User Group monthly meetings - May 2021
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group_monthly_meetings-_May_2021>
- How to add references on Wikidata (# 1Lib1Ref 2021)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juQO7M60RfI> - working hour (2)
- SPARQL #Wikidata divers
- Session du mardi 18 mai
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8w5YGW4hF4>
- Session du mardi 25 mai
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvmQNkua41Q>
- Upcoming
- SPARQL queries live on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> and in
French by Vigneron, June 1 at 18:00 CEST
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls>
call: Affinity Group Co-facilitators will recap the last year, introduce
plans for the coming year, and receive suggestions from the community for
future sessions.; [1]
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fNCvP7suZoYZHxpku55eqVNGc0MM3sDmCOk9BRnISLU/edit?usp=sharing>,
June 1st.
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #65
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#65>,
June 6
- Meta meeting
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/2021-06-09>
of the Wikibase Community User Group, to solve issues related to its
affilation to the Wikimedia Foundation, June 9
- Wikidata Bug Triage Hour
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour>
about quality constraints, June 17
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Papers
- Mapping of ImageNet and Wikidata for Knowledge Graphs Enabled
Computer Vision
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351607486_Mapping_of_ImageNet_and_Wikidata_for_Knowledge_Graphs_Enabled_Computer_Vision>
- Videos
- Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l77bc-rgrc>
- Use of VanderBot Wikidata API writing script
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyadhJmA_nM> (testing
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv9rMzOczv8>)
- LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5vVbuTI7PY>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2965557083729449/>
Tool of the week
- User:So9q/ordia-link.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:So9q/ordia-link.js> - is a script to
add a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call to participation in interview study to building a recommender
system that can help improve the editing experience in Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Kholoudsaa&oldid=1429524656>:
Researchers at King's College London develop a personalized recommendation
system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests
and preferences. The researchers are inviting volunteers to interview them
about their current ways to choose the items you work on in order to
understand the factors that might influence such a decision.
- dewiki
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Lokale_Seiten-Kurzbeschreibungen#Ergebnis>
considered, but rejected the introduction of local short descriptions to
replace those from Wikidata
- User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js> was
improved to now
- automatically suggests the existing senses/forms when using
demonstrates sense/form
- automatically suggests items (based on the lemma matching the label
or an alias) when using item for this sense
- and searches for lemmas exactly matching the input when using
synonym, antonym, hyperonym or pertainym
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: district heating grid
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9611>
- External identifiers: DiVA authority-person
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9604>, CDep.Ro NGO ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9605>, WUA author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9606>, hush.am person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9607>, Moths and Butterflies
of Europe and North Africa ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9608>, What Works
Clearinghouse study ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9609>,
PoetsGate poet ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9610>, Repositório
da Produção da USP person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9612>, ctext data entity ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9613>, Australian Music
Centre work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9614>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: Martian coordinates
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Martian_coordinates>,
gobbledygook
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/gobbledygook>
- External identifiers: Nevada Women's History Project ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nevada_Women%27s_History_Project_ID>,
AADFI member ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AADFI_member_ID>,
Bod-Inc Online author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bod-Inc_Online_author_ID>,
Erfgoedkaart ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Erfgoedkaart_ID>,
Price One Penny Periodical ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Price_One_Penny_Periodical_ID>,
Price One Penny Library ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Price_One_Penny_Library_ID>,
composers.am person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/composers.am_person_ID>,
armradioarchive.am person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/armradioarchive.am_person_ID>,
Armeniapedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Armeniapedia_ID>,
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographical_Encyclopedia_of_Astronomers_ID>,
AZGS Document Repository ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/_AZGS_Document_Repository_ID>,
electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/electronic_Essential_Medicines_List_medicine_ID>,
PAS member ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PAS_member_ID>,
ℒoviℱm Top Songs ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%E2%84%92ovi%E2%84%B1m_Top_Songs_ID>,
20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/20th_Century_Chinese_Biographical_Database_ID>,
Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800-2000) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_Biografico_dell%27Educazione_(1800-2000)_ID>,
BIU Santé image bank ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BIU_Sant%C3%A9_image_bank_ID>,
cadastral plot in France
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cadastral_plot_in_France>,
Internet Game Database developer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Internet_Game_Database_developer_ID>,
allabolag.se person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/allabolag.se_person_ID>,
Olschki author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Olschki_author_ID>
- Query examples:
- People with bird-like surnames in Czech <https://w.wiki/3Nqn> (
Source <https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1396922635011993600>)
- Properties used to link <https://w.wiki/3PZn> from preprints
(Q580922) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q580922> to scholarly
articles (Q13442814) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13442814> (Source
<https://twitter.com/larswillighagen/status/1397693652584087553>)
- Birthplace of Spanish poets <https://w.wiki/3N9E> (Source
<https://twitter.com/modernitas2021/status/1397167034358710274>)
- UK Parliaments since 1801 with number of members, number of
distinct member-terms, and count of missing seats/parties.
<https://w.wiki/3NrD> (Source
<https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1396941233445130244>)
- Newest database reports: Fresnel lenses of lighthouses
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Lighthouses/lists/Fresnel_lenses>
Development
- Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via
overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it
does. (phab:T283240 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283240>)
- Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different
namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281356>)
- Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200689>)
- Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
- Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between
Wikidata's data and other databases
- Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (
phab:T283576 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283576>)
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>
- 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>
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