*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Hasley
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Hasley>
(RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2020-10-27>
)
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata
and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/16OJ5cTXZ47z3_M9bsIjmXO_kpjpQujtoFTEKe6Du3RY/edit>
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#37>,
November 8
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> on Twitch
and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Wikidata is eight years old - an interview with product manager Lydia
Pintscher
<https://blog.wikimedia.de/2020/10/28/wikidata-wird-acht-jahre-alt-ein-interview-mit-produktmanagerin-lydia-pintscher/>
(in German), by Elisabeth Giesemann
- Wikidata 8th birthday, Message from the development team
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Presents#Message_from_the_development_team>
- Happy 8th birthday, Wikidata! (8 reasons why Wikidata is great)
<https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/10/29/happy-8th-birthday-wikidata/>, by
Will Kent
- Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!
<https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/10/happy-eighth-birthday-wikidata.html>,
by Stella Wisdom
- Tree networks, national history and open mountains of data - knowledge
through node formation with Wikidata for the 8th
<https://saxorum.hypotheses.org/5279>, by Jens Bemme
- Video: Why is Wikidata important?
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O_Y0cXwZto> (Wikidata birthday event -
in Spanish)
- SPARQL in the shadow of Structured Data on Commons
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/10/29/sparql-in-the-shadow-of-structured-data-on-commons/>,
by Zbyszko Papierski
- Answers to curious questions and where to find them: here's how to
query wikidata with SPARQL
<https://synapta.it/blog/risposte-a-domande-curiose-e-dove-trovarle-ecco-come-interrogare-wikidata-con-sparql/>,
by Lianna D'amato
- CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia
patch
<https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2020/11/cito-updates-2-annotation-migration-to.html>,
by Egon Willighagen
- Video: Wikidata+OpenStreetMaps talk and discussion
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbTCq7r8SQg>
- Video: Wikidata – what libraries need to know about wikidata -
Kohacon20 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czZA1T1t8wk>, by David Nind
- Video: Visualizing the neuroscience research ecosystem via Wikidata
Scholia <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPMoj7uMXRU>, by Daniel Mietchen
- Video: Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbowsw_XT-Q> (in Indonesian)
- All videos from the *WikiCite 2020 Virtual Conference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/2020_Virtual_conference>* are
now on Commons, and embedded in the program page on Meta.
This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7
languages.1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince
the conference began last Monday. Tool of the week
- reCH <https://pltools.toolforge.org/rech/> is a Wikidata
anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Eighth Birthday Presents
- All recordings of Wikidata Labs are now available on Wikimedia
Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_Labs_videos>
(Wiki Movimento Brasil)
- Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial website
<https://wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org/> – a new user-friendly tutorial
to querying Wikidata (Wikimedia Israel)
- Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website
<https://wikibibliotecas.colmex.mx/items/browse?tags=Wikidata> – a
brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital
collection of
Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca
Daniel Cosío
Villegas, Mexico)
- Happy Birthday
<https://twitter.com/SemanticMW/status/1321482146305945600?s=20>
from Semantic
MediaWiki <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org>
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms ?language_code feature: announcement tweet
<https://twitter.com/LucasWerkmeistr/status/1321626949492613122>
and documentation
edit
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Diff/1299258986/1299263735>
- Automated finding references: dump
<https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/datasets/periodic/wikidata-potential-references/>
and dashboard <https://wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/WD_GameReferenceHunt>
(Wikidata development team - announcement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-October/014374.html>
)
- Better Item quality judgments from ORES
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-October/014375.html>
(Wikidata development team)
- Announcement of the distributed WikidataCon 2021
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021> (Wikidata
development team - announcement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-October/014376.html>
)
- Results of Sum of all Indian paintings datathon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India/Datathon/Sum_of_all_Indian_paintings/birthday_present>
organized by WikiProject India
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:IND>.
- Happy birthday Wikidata! In the Abstract Wikipedia Updates
(2020-10-29)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2020-10-29>
by the project team, speaking about the future integration with Wikidata.
- Knowledge Grapher filmmaker mode
<https://knowledgegrapher.toolforge.org/filmmaker> can visually
display all the films and cast members of an individual director or
producer.
- User:Teester/EntityShape.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Teester/EntityShape.js> - a
userscript to show how an item conforms to an entityschema
- The next WikidataCon will take place on 29-30-31 October 2021, in a
distributed format
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-October/014376.html>.
Follow this page to keep up to date: WikidataCon 2021
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021>.
- The Election Tracker
<https://datastory.org/en/data-stories/election-tracker>, uses Wikidata
to keep track of upcoming national elections around the world.
- Accepted published papers for the Wikidata Workshop on Monday, 02.11
are now available online wikidataworkshop.github.io
- witches.is.ed.ac.uk shows the geographical residence location for
accused witches in Scotland.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: die axis
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8751>, annual average daily
traffic <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8753>, maximum
current <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8757>
- External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8748>, Dicionário de
Historiadores Portugueses ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8749>, Unione Romana
Biblioteche Scientifiche ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8750>, Kramerius of Moravian
Library UUID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8752>,
OpenStreetMap
numeric user ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8754>, VA
facility ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8755>,
Sports-Reference.com
college basketball box score ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8756>, Persée article ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8758>, Polski Słownik
Judaistyczny ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8759>, Base
constructions bibliothèques ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8760>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: Matrix room
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Matrix_room>,
regex (lang)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/regex_(lang)>,
Ukrainian romanization
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ukrainian_romanization>,
Power consumption index, Heating energy consumption index
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Power_consumption_index,_Heating_energy_consumption_index>,
Business Number (Canada)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Business_Number_(Canada)>,
notable tv series
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/notable_tv_series>,
number of points or goals attempted
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_points_or_goals_attempted>
- External identifiers: Royal Horticultural Society plant ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Royal_Horticultural_Society_plant_ID>,
EGAFD ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EGAFD_ID>, NCAA
Statistics coach ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCAA_Statistics_coach_ID>,
NCAA school code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCAA_school_code>,
NCAA Statistics team season ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCAA_Statistics_team_season_ID>,
Twitch team ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Twitch_team_ID>,
Twitch tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Twitch_tag_ID>,
FINA Wiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FINA_Wiki_ID>,
All the Tropes identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/All_the_Tropes_identifier>,
MTMT journal ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MTMT_journal_ID>,
UAF person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UAF_person_ID>,
Soccerway stadium ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Soccerway_stadium_ID>,
NCAA Statistics player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCAA_Statistics_player_ID>,
Portuguese Football Federation ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Portuguese_Football_Federation_ID>,
Wolfram language WordData sense
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wolfram_language_WordData_sense>,
Namuwiki
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Namuwiki>
- Query examples:
- Movies by rate of actors who studied at RADA (When distribution has
at last 5 actors) <https://w.wiki/jGN>
- Central libraries in California linked to their branch library
<https://w.wiki/8WU>
- Writers in the SIEFAR dictionary with a portrait in Wikimedia
Commons <https://w.wiki/jZF> (Source
<https://twitter.com/Georgele2etexte/status/1322471301664092161>)
- Place and date of birth of people buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
(one color per century of birth) <https://w.wiki/VLM> (Source
<https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1322265164088049668>)
- Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician
ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined)
<https://w.wiki/jPA> (Source
<https://twitter.com/watty62/status/1321806989861769216>)
- Things Donald Trump and others own / have owned <https://w.wiki/jbE>
(Source <https://twitter.com/inforapid/status/1321799945612070913>)
- Graveplots by gender in Père Lachaise Cemetery <https://w.wiki/L6k>
(Source <https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1322264888463548417>)
- Co-authorship between researchers from National University of La
Plata <https://w.wiki/AMx> (Source
<https://twitter.com/patriciolorente/status/1321789489828798467>)
- Number of Harvard Law graduates dead by year between 1850 and 1950
<https://w.wiki/j6o> (Source
<https://twitter.com/HanleyWill/status/1321285757697482753>)
- Visualization of the works of Charles Heaphy <https://w.wiki/isL> (
Source
<https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1320795910696124417>)
- Identifiers present on the item for Penelope Cruz (or other movie
people), but not on the item for Sean Connery <https://w.wiki/jpa>
- Map of places of birth of people with an identifier
Inter-university Health Library in Wikidata colored by century of birth
<https://w.wiki/jpd> (Source
<https://twitter.com/belett/status/1323238160759967744>)
- Map of the trees recorded in OSM with protection status.
<https://sophox.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ftree%20%3Ftaxon%20%3FtaxonLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20trees%20and%20their%20taxa%0A%20%20%3Ftree%20osmt%3Anatural%20%22tree%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%28osmt%3Agenus%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Aspecies%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Ataxon%3Awikidata%29%20%3Ftaxon%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Taxa%20categorized%20as%20threatened%20on%20the%20IUCN%20Red%20List%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%28%3Fstatus%20%3Flayer%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ278113%20%22Vulnerable%20%28VU%29%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ11394%20%22Endangered%20%28EN%29%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ219127%20%22Critically%20endangered%20%28CR%29%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP141%20%3Fstatus.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20English%20common%20name%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP1843%20%3FtaxonLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtaxonLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D>
OSM/Wikidata query Source
<https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1316455785854050306>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Wikiproject European Film Awards
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_European_Film_Awards>
- Newest database reports: Sean Connery filmography
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/Filmography/Sean_Connery>
Development
- Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting
Lexemes (phab:T263435 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263435>)
- Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (phab:T264883
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264883>)
- Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype
mathematical formula (phab:T266673
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266673>)
- The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and
show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system
<https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org/>.
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>
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de