*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/
Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
- Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific
Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties
<http://www.simonrazniewski.com/2017_ADMA.pdf>, by Simon Razniewski et
al.
- ctj rdf: Part One
<https://larsgw.blogspot.nl/2017/09/ctj-rdf-part-one.html>, showing
linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
- Creating parliament charts with Wikidata
<https://blog.k-nut.eu/wikidata-parliament-svg> by Knut
- The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/08/30/wikipedia-bot-pocalypse/> by
Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
- When Westminster Was Wikified
<https://www.mysociety.org/2017/08/23/wikifying-westminister/>, by Luca
Martinelli
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New admin: congrats to علاء
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1>
- Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links
to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here
<https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL32772A/%C3%89mile_Zola>; see
"Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
- With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017> is now
complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the
waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
- The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call
for volunteers soon
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: THL Simplified
Phonetic Transcription
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4189>, Tibetan
pinyin <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4188>, Wylie
transliteration <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4187>, Australian
Women's Register ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4186>,
iconographic
symbol <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4185>, slope
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4184>, angle from vertical
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4183>
- Query examples:
- The most famous painting from each country
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20Carte%20des%20pays%20selon%20la%20ville%20de%20naissance%20du%20cr%C3%A9ateur%20de%20la%20peinture%20ayant%20le%20plus%20de%20liens%20Wikimedia%20%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%20%3Fnb%20%3Fpays%20%3FpaysLabel%20%3Floc%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%09%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%09SELECT%20%28MAX%28%3Fnb%29%20AS%20%3Fnb%29%20%3Fpays%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fvillenaissance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvillenaissance%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fpays.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fnb%0A%09%09%7D%0A%09%09GROUP%20BY%20%3Fpays%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20HAVING%20%28%3Fnb%3E1%29%0A%09%09ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fnb%29%0A%09%7D%0A%09%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fvillenaissance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fvillenaissance%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fpays.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fq%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fnb%20.%0A%09%3Fpays%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Floc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/shona_gon/status/904357380997165057>)
- Ranking universities according to PageRank
<https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20vrank%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fvoc%2Fvrank%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Funi%20%3FuniLabel%20%3Fpr%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Funi%20wdt%3AP31%2F%28wdt%3AP279%29%2a%20wd%3AQ3918.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funi%20vrank%3AhasRank%2Fvrank%3ArankValue%20%3Fpr%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fpr%29%20LIMIT%2010>
(source <https://twitter.com/thalhamm/status/902624787071164425>)
- Actors who were casted in two different films with the same name
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20actors%20who%20were%20cast%20in%20two%20different%20films%20with%20the%20same%20title%0ASELECT%20%3FactorLabel%20%3Ftitle%20%3Ffilm1Description%20%3Ffilm2Description%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Factor%20%3Ftitle%20%3Ffilm1%20%3Ffilm2%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%3Ffilm1%20is%20a%20film%2C%20starring%20%3Factor%2C%20with%20title%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm1%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factor%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1476%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20ditto%20for%20%3Ffilm2%20%E2%80%93%20since%20we%E2%80%99re%20using%20the%20same%20%3Factor%20and%20%3Ftitle%20variable%2C%20we%20require%20that%20both%20films%20have%20the%20same%20actor%20and%20title%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm2%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factor%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1476%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20check%20that%20they%E2%80%99re%20not%20the%20same%20film%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Ffilm1%20%21%3D%20%3Ffilm2%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20LIMIT%2010%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/902163625388978177>)
- Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017
<https://maps.wikilovesmonuments.org/> displays cultural heritage
monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
- Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/Filmography/Mireille_Darc>,
given names by soundex
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Names/lists/given_names_by_soundex>
Development
- Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store
forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
- Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to
enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173696>)
- Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and
references (phabricator:T168532
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168532>)
- Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less
cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and
descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174318>)
- Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when
it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96553>)
- Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (
phabricator:T170531 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170531>)
- Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (
phabricator:T151186 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151186>)
- Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages
on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172987>)
- The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also
for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174692>). Note that hashes (other
than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored
for a longer time.
- Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (
phabricator:T171725 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171725>)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>.
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>
- Suggested and open tasks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks>
!
- 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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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.