*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Cleaning_up_the_ontology_of_anonymous>
- Other
- "und" or "und-latn" language code for addresses
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P969#"und"_or_"und-latn">
- Value label constraint
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Value_label_constraint>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> about
visualisation on maps 🗺️ on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 10
at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #38
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#38>,
November 15
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Wikidata Eighth Birthday Meetup - Database validation of Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikdata_Eighth_Birthday_Meetup_-_Database_validation_of_Wikidata.pdf>
by Houcemeddine Turki
- Turning Scholia into a platform for living scientometric studies (
French
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2020_-_Scientom%C3%A9trie_Ouverte.pdf>,
English
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2020_-_Living_Scientometric_Study.pdf>)
by Houcemeddine Turki
- Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community @ ISWC 2020
with papers <https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/#Accepted%20Papers>
about interesting aspects of Wikidata.
- Video: Visualizing the research ecosystem of neuroscience research via
Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bSZq22yiGU>. By Daniel
Mietchen at Neuromatch Conference
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #23 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NfpMLS3NlU>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2814050998880059/>
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ht8zB9bHA>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2815062592112233/>,
November 14, 19.00 UTC
Tool of the week
- Template:Cite Q <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_Q> on
Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The next Wikibase live session
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/November_2020>
is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar)
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NThtZjhranRmMjAxYzg2dTYwNGhxdmVxNzQgY183MXZ0MTdhNXFtbTFnYXFlNm1wdjNpYW9kc0Bn&tmsrc=c_71vt17a5qmm1gaqe6mpv3iaods%40group.calendar.google.com>.
Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your
Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well,
what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all!
- Remember to claim your Cloud VPS project and mark it as {{Used}}.
Unclaimed
projects risk being suspended or shutdown on 2020-12-01
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-November/094014.html>
.
- Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-November/014385.html>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: birth rate
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8763>, port calls
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8764>, rank insignia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8766>, online catalog
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8768>, format as language
specific regular expression
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8770>
- External identifiers:
Sports-Reference.com college football school
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8761>, NCAA Statistics
team season ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8762>, Royal
Horticultural Society plant ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8765>, EGAFD ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8767>, Ontology of units of
Measure 2.0 unit ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8769>, Vélib'
Métropole station ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8771>, Blogger
user profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8772>, Malmö
Museer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8773>, MTMT
journal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8774>, Soccerway
stadium ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8775>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: favicon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/favicon>,
Dedicated
heritage institution
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dedicated_heritage_institution>,
MetaSat ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MetaSat_ID>,
epithet
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/epithet>,
Poverty
incidence (Philippines)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Poverty_incidence_(Philippines)>,
covid info
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/covid_info>,
filestore
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/filestore>
- External identifiers: AniDB tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AniDB_tag_ID>,
ClassInd audiovisual work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ClassInd_audiovisual_work_ID>,
ClassInd game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ClassInd_game_ID>,
Qobuz label ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Qobuz_label_ID>,
IMMuB album ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IMMuB_album_ID>,
FIS grass skier ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FIS_grass_skier_ID>,
AlKindi ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AlKindi_ID>,
French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/French_Paralympic_and_Sports_Committee_athlete_ID>,
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute personal profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mathematical_Sciences_Research_Institute_personal_profile_ID>,
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute institution profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mathematical_Sciences_Research_Institute_institution_profile_ID>,
EIK <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EIK>,
edition
humboldt digital ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/edition_humboldt_digital_ID>,
European Film Awards ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Film_Awards_ID>,
Memorial Book for the victims of National Socialism at the University
of Vienna 1938
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Memorial_Book_for_the_victims_of_National_Socialism_at_the_University_of_Vienna_1938>,
IMMuB artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IMMuB_artist_ID>,
AIWARDS ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AIWARDS_ID>,
LIMIS person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LIMIS_person_ID>,
IAFD distributor ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IAFD_distributor_ID>
- Query examples:
- Terminus locations of A Roads in Britain <https://w.wiki/kJK> (
Source <https://twitter.com/philbgorman/status/1324463176453337088>)
- POTUS/UK PM age at inauguration/appointment and England mean age
<https://w.wiki/kjM> (Source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1324156826087206913>)
- Map of (public-sector) winners of H2020 projects in the Netherlands
sortable by year <https://w.wiki/jxY> (Source
<https://twitter.com/alastairdunning/status/1323663645348401154>)
- People who have held the positions of both Vice President and
President of the United States <https://w.wiki/ke7> (Source
<https://twitter.com/TobiasHellmund/status/1324072992880603146>)
- Crew of missions to the ISS and human spaceflights that have docked
with the ISS <https://w.wiki/jqY> (Source
<https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1323284604959207426>)
- Graph of reasons UK MPs have left Parliament, grouped by decade
since the 1890s <https://w.wiki/kfy> (Source
<https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1325557952024076290>)
- Number of successful UK election petitions by parliamentary term,
1859 onwards (includes by-elections as well as general elections)
<https://w.wiki/kes> (Source
<https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1325477802985058306>)
- List of longest Cars <https://w.wiki/kea> (Source
<https://twitter.com/quicoprol/status/1325454920288522242>)
Development
- Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize
WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
- Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to
create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently
hard-coded post code.
- Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we
will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
- Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (
phab:T264538 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264538>)
- Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues
creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266673>)
- Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (
phab:T263435 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263435>)
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