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*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: Dan Koehl 2 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #15 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meet…>, 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 <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tl-5XrWYhVbkmS7fztFzpXUDzf2LbP2DhuPpz1j…> Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - The WikiCite annual report 2019-20 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2019-2020.pdf> 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 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/administration>. For more information, contact LWyatt (WMF) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:LWyatt_(WMF)> - *Defying Wikidata: Validation of Terminological Relations in the Web of Data <https://doi.org/10.13025/REV8-Z474>* - *KORE 50DYWC: An Evaluation Data Set for Entity Linking Based on DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata, and Crunchbase <https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/55f9/010f44424c4f5cd7a8b0e41527e7b1fab449.…>* - *SchemaTree: Maximum-Likelihood Property Recommendation for Wikidata <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49461-2_11>* - *Editorial: Special Issue on Quality Assessment of Knowledge Graphs Dedicated to the Memory of Amrapali Zaveri <https://doi.org/10.1145/3388748>* - European Semantic Web Conference 2020 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49461-2> - *Processing SPARQL Aggregate Queries with Web Preemption <https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-49461-2_14>* - *SAShA: Semantic-Aware Shilling Attacks on Recommender Systems Exploiting Knowledge Graphs <https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-49461-2_18>* - *QAnswer KG: Designing a Portable Question Answering System over RDF Data <https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-49461-2_25>* - Past video: Querying Wikidata with a glimpse of SPARQL - Thorsten Butz - PSCONFEU 2020. YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7erBmbaVR4> - Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network Live Wikidata editing scheduled for 1st June at 7:00 PM UTC: YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6zwLnMKYMI>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/jan.ainali/videos/10217685530079008/> - Upcoming video (in Spanish): Wikidata Online Workshop: "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" scheduled for 2nd June at 3:00 PM UTC: YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRBoBVq9bc0> Tool of the week - wdumps <https://tools.wmflabs.org/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 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Biodiversity> to allow discussions beyond iNaturalist <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Biodiversity#Renami…> . - Special:FewestRevisions to be disabled <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Special:FewestRevisions…>, if you are currently using it, please leave a comment - Winners of the Wikidata competition during Museum Day 2020 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia/Museum_Day_2020/Wikidata_Competit…>: 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 <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd80t3zxd0oNcW9fE-ulDXq4cgZXKlyHwv…>. The test should at most 15 minutes. - Follow the discussion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Restrict_editing_of_pro…> about restricting editing of properties to autoconfirmed users. - New domain toolforge.org to be adopted by our Toolforge community <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2020-April/000275.html>. New domain/scheme for Toolforge-hosted webservices will change from tools.wmflabs.org/<toolname>/ to <toolname>.toolforge.org/ with 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 <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJ-I_Ib2EOuRVG4XfeUazhXTvgKsjcKhA…> (Google Forms, estimated fill-in time 5min). Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: curricula <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8263>, attribution text <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8264>, based on tabular data <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8265> - External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8259>, Aberdeen Built Ships ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8260>, Origin video game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8261>, npm package <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8262>, FEMA number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8266>, Mod DB mod ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8267>, Ubisoft Store game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8268>, Norwegian prisoner register person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8269>, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8270>, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8271>, BaGLAMa GID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8272>, GMC membership number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8273> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: parish church <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/parish_church>, ISCO-08 occupation code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCO-08_occupation…>, official product site <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/official_product_s…>, tag <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tag>, heraldic attitude <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/heraldic_attitude>, Non volatile storage capacity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Non_volatile_stora…> - External identifiers: Australian Classification ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Classif…>, EU-Football.info stadium ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EU-Football.info_s…>, Semantic Scholar corpus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Semantic_Scholar_c…>, Olympedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Olympedia_ID>, Emmys person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Emmys_person_ID>, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archivio_Storico_R…>, New York Times contributor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/New_York_Times_con…>, Cinema Context <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cinema_Context>, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Helsinki_persisten…>, Xfinity Stream ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Xfinity_Stream_ID>, Juno Download album ID 2 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Juno_Download_albu…>, sobory.ru <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/sobory.ru>, HBO Max ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HBO_Max_ID>, Yle Topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Yle_Topic_ID>, Den Store Danske ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Den_Store_Danske_ID>, Dansk litteraturs historie ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dansk_litteraturs_…>, Geneanet genealogist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Geneanet_genealogi…>, IGRS video game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IGRS_video_game_ID>, Wiki-Brest ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki-Brest_ID>, Wiki-Narbonne ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki-Narbonne_ID>, Wiki-Niort ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki-Niort_ID>, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki_Pas-de-Calais…>, Wiki-Rennes ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki-Rennes_ID>, Wikimanche ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikimanche_ID>, Wiki-Anjou ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki-Anjou_ID>, Picardia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Picardia_ID>, Grandterrier.net ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Grandterrier.net_ID>, BoardGameGeek family ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BoardGameGeek_fami…>, Proleksis enciklopedija ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Proleksis_enciklop…>, VIAF partner ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VIAF_partner_ID> - Query examples: - Map of German states with links to iNaturalist observations <https://w.wiki/Rsp> - Cities/towns named after people <https://w.wiki/RkM> (Source <https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1264672499658297344>) - Network of researchers who are vBIB20 co-presenters and are linked with a Wikidata item <https://w.wiki/RmG> (Source <https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1264792330458013696>) - Timeline of legalized same-sex marriages by country <https://w.wiki/Rtr> (Source <https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1265348973826576387>) - BubbleChart of the 7,397 different keywords in DieDatenlaube <https://w.wiki/3Rj> (Source <https://twitter.com/jeb_140/status/1265529221608280065>) - Weight of royal crowns <https://w.wiki/RxP> (Source <https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1265597052408430592>) - Recorded COVID-19 cases in difference Indian states <https://w.wiki/KzH> (Source <https://twitter.com/salgo60/status/1265600677839089666>) - Twitter accounts of current UK MP's <https://w.wiki/Rxe> (Source <https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1265611256993546241>) - Number of female employees at different organizations that Wikidata knows about <https://w.wiki/Rzp> (Source <https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1265703383589150720>) - Location of libraries that have a GitHub repository <https://w.wiki/Rz3> (Source <https://twitter.com/nichtich/status/1265665458939846661>) - Location of 19th century infectious diseases published in Die Gartenlaube <https://w.wiki/SVU> (Source <https://twitter.com/jeb_140/status/1265878537736728576>) - People with an entry in the Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire and biographical articles in Die Datenlaube <https://w.wiki/S3p> (Source <https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1265904262393061377>) - Fictional spaceship captains from the Star Trek multiverse <https://w.wiki/SAj> (Source <https://twitter.com/thorstenbutz/status/1266322559848665089>) - Timeline of Selenographers, for the birthday of German astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler and his famous map of the Moon <https://w.wiki/SLo> (Source <https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/1266747777402441730>) - Points of interest 2 km within St. Jakobus church, Pesterwitz <https://w.wiki/SPj> (Source <https://twitter.com/jeb_140/status/1267095787609210881>) - Images of religious art whose main theme is Pentecost <https://w.wiki/SQq> (Source <https://twitter.com/mdammers/status/1267102330106904584>) - World map of authors with both an ORCID and Twitter account ID's <https://w.wiki/SRW> (Source <https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/1267142222446804994>) - Ratio of (days country has been in the UN) with (sum of periods of office for Heads of Government during that time) <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FdaysInUN%20%28SUM%28%3FdaysInOffice%29%20AS%20%3FdaysKnown%29%20%28%28100%2a%20%3FdaysKnown%20%2F%20%3FdaysInUN%29%20AS%20%3FfilledPercent%29%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Current%20UN%20Member%20States%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3624078%20%3B%20p%3AP463%20%3Fms%20.%0A%20%20%3Fms%20ps%3AP463%20wd%3AQ1065%20%3B%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fjoined%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fms%20pq%3AP582%20%5B%5D%20%7D%20%0A%20%20BIND%28FLOOR%28NOW%28%29-%3Fjoined%29%20AS%20%3FdaysInUN%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20what%20office%28s%29%20%3D%20head%20of%20government%2C%20and%20when%3F%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20p%3AP1313%20%3Fos%20.%0A%20%20%3Fos%20ps%3AP1313%20%3Foffice%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fos%20pq%3AP580%20%3FofficeStart%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fos%20pq%3AP582%20%3FofficeEnd%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%21BOUND%28%3FofficeEnd%29%20%7C%7C%20%28%3FofficeEnd%20%3E%20%3Fjoined%29%20%29%0A%0A%20%20%23%20Who%20has%20held%20office%20in%20that%20period%3F%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FofficeStart%29%2C%20IF%28%3FofficeStart%20%3C%20%3Fjoined%2C%20%3Fjoined%2C%20%3FofficeStart%29%2C%20%3Fjoined%29%20AS%20%3FeffectiveStart%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FofficeEnd%29%2C%20%3FofficeEnd%2C%20NOW%28%29%29%20AS%20%3FeffectiveEnd%29%0A%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20%3B%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps%20.%0A%20%20%3Fps%20ps%3AP39%20%3Foffice%20%3B%20pq%3AP580%20%3FheldStart%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP582%20%3FheldEnd%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%21BOUND%28%3FheldEnd%29%20%7C%7C%20%28%3FheldEnd%20%3E%20%3FeffectiveStart%29%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FheldEnd%29%2C%20%3FheldEnd%2C%20NOW%28%29%29%20AS%20%3FheldPeriodEnd%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3FheldStart%20%3C%20%3FeffectiveStart%2C%20%3FeffectiveStart%2C%20%3FheldStart%29%20AS%20%3FheldPeriodStart%29%0A%20%20BIND%28FLOOR%28%3FheldPeriodEnd%20-%20%3FheldPeriodStart%29%20AS%20%3FdaysInOffice%29%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FdaysInUN%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FfilledPercent%29%20%3FcountryLabel> (Source <https://twitter.com/tmtm/status/1267425661129498624>) - Map of 2020 Art+Feminism editathons <https://w.wiki/RzK> (Source <https://twitter.com/masssly/status/1267439489443651584>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: WikiProject Public art <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Public_art> Development - More documentation for federated properties - Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249836>) - More improvements on the Wikidata Bridge - Add Wikidata support for awawiki (phab:T252870 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252870>) - Fix various bugs on Wikibase - Work on improving the unclear error messages (phab:T247690 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247690>) - Create reports for the reference hunt game 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/?filt…>. 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 Abdulai *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de

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