Wikidata August 2020

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Weekly Summary #428
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions - Open request for adminship: Hazard-SJ <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…>, Gnoeee <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…>, Wagino 20100516 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> - Closed request for adminship: Wiki13 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> (successful) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/Augu…>. This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibase_Live_Session_-_August_2020…> ) - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xftQTezmXVO0B1WMYoNnkEOrOVYF38nKaXzP7PO…> ] - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meet…>, August 16 Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed Wikidata games Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/272670446094804…>, YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVhtTfzrKA> - Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa71M5Yw8g> - Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with Wikidata tools <https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2020/08/10/librarians-work-to-broaden-vanderbil…>. "To speed up the creation of metadata about faculty and their publications, Steven Baskauf, data science and data curation specialist for libraries, developed “VanderBot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:VanderBot>,” a set of scripts that can read and write to Wikidata, greatly improving the efficiency by which Vanderbilt’s faculty are discoverable through Wikidata". Tool of the week - OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher <https://osm.wikidata.link/> links Wikidata entries to places in OpenStreetMap. Other Noteworthy Stuff - wikidata2df, a Python package for easily turning a Wikidata SPARQL query into a pandas dataframe <https://github.com/jvfe/wikidata2df> - With Wikidata Concept Tree Generator <https://observablehq.com/@repmax/wikidata-concept-tree-generator>, you can enter any concept and instantly see a visualization of its extended relations. (Source <https://twitter.com/maxmunnecke/status/1291688128848240641>) Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: size comparison diagram <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8512>, view <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8517> - External identifiers: Legacy.com newspaper ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8507>, ChemSynthesis ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8508>, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8509>, Maitron des fusillés ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8510>, Fototeka person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8511>, LibraryThing series ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8513>, TOPCMB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8514>, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8515>, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8516> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: image of entrance <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/image_of_entrance>, extinction date <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/extinction_date>, notation writer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/notation_writer>, raga <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/raga>, tala <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tala>, SMARTS <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SMARTS>, Editio princeps <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Editio_princeps>, recording location <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/recording_location> - External identifiers: Sochy a města ID osoby <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sochy_a_m%C4%9Bsta…>, Sochy a města ID sochy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sochy_a_m%C4%9Bsta…>, podvignaroda <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/podvignaroda>, Have I Been Pwned breach ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Have_I_Been_Pwned_…>, European Investment Bank project ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Investmen…>, WordNet 3.1 Synset Id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WordNet_3.1_Synset…>, cadastral municipality ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cadastral_municipa…>, NPR station ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NPR_station_ID>, NYARC Discovery ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NYARC_Discovery_ID>, Nasjonalt skoleregister-ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nasjonalt_skolereg…>, ERIC Thesaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ERIC_Thesaurus_ID>, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/American_Folklore_…>, Trismegistos Texts ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Trismegistos_Texts…> - Query examples: - Ancestors of the current King of Spain color coded by sex or gender <https://w.wiki/YhE> - Political alignments of the parties of world leaders <https://w.wiki/Ymh> (Source <https://twitter.com/tmtm/status/1290946706490695680>) - Female Mathematicians whose birth/death anniversary is today <https://w.wiki/YiN> (Source <https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1290621299132375043>) - Commons queries: - Map of images found in the medieval Atlas De Wit <https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ffile%20%3…> (source <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/queries/exa…> ) - Things depicted with cats <https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/#%23%20Things%20depicted%20with%20cats%0A%0A%…> (source <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/queries/exa…> ) Development - finalized designs for the query builder to start coding at the beginning of September - wrapping up the initial work on the design system so that we can start using the first pieces of it in the query builder development - working on properly linking redirects in recent changes, watchlist and co (phabricator:T255387 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255387>) - addressed remaining security review comments about the Wikidata Bridge so that we can deploy it finally on the first Wikipedia - fixed a bug where string values had the wrong length limit ( phabricator:T259440 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259440>) - finishing the work of untangling Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repository extensions to make development easier 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 *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de

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Blog post and report on Indic technical workshops published!
by Srishti Sethi 07 Aug '20

07 Aug '20

Hello everyone, We want to share with you a blog post and a report (longer version) on a technical workshop series conducted as part of the Small wiki toolkits (SWT) initiative in June for the Indic community. The blog post summarizes the planning that went into designing the workshop series, key outcomes, success stories, lessons learned, and some next steps! It targets potential organizers who might be interested in conducting similar training in their wiki community. You can read the blog post on [[WM:TECHBLOG]] < https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/08/07/designing-technical-workshops-for…> [1] and report on meta-wiki < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWT_Indic_Workshop_Series_2020/Report> [2]. Learn more about the Small wiki toolkits initiative here: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits> [3]. Please add your comments below the blog post on [[WM:TECHBLOG]]. For questions or discussions, create a topic on the report’s talk page < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:SWT_Indic_Workshop_Series_2020/Report> [4]. On behalf of the SWT Indic workshop series team (Krishna, Jayprakash, Satdeep), Srishti [1] https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/08/07/designing-technical-workshops-for… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWT_Indic_Workshop_Series_2020/Report [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:SWT_Indic_Workshop_Series_2020/Report *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Differences in label searching with SPARQL and MediaWiki API
by Thad Guidry 07 Aug '20

07 Aug '20

This query times out: SELECT ?item ?label WHERE { ?item wdt:P31 ?instance ; rdfs:label ?label ; rdfs:label ?enLabel . FILTER(CONTAINS(lcase(?label), "Soriano")). FILTER(?instance != wd:Q5). SERVICE wikibase:label {bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en".} } LIMIT 100 I have this feeling that it's not actually using an index or even asking the right question and so is slow and times out? However the MediaWiki wbsearchentities API does seem to use an index and is performant for label searching: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&search=soriano&l… How can I get my SPARQL query to be more performant or asking the right question? (BTW, once I have some answers, I intend to make this page a bit more useful with that information for other users ... https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access) Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/

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Weekly Summary #427
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 03 Aug '20

03 Aug '20

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions - Open request for adminship: Wiki13 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: Search Platform Office Hours—August 5th, 2020 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093651.html>. This event will be an occasion to talk about the Query Service. - Upcoming: Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #15, August 8 Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/272670446094804…>, YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVhtTfzrKA> - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #24 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meet…>, August 9 Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Wikidata track at the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries: - (30 July) Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics (by User:Gamaliel) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pFTxOoiuYI> - (30 July) Advanced Wikidata Tools and Concepts: More Than Just P's and Q's (by User:Mahir256) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=252mXCjFaCQ> - (30 July) Developing a Wikidata Project (by User:Will (Wiki Ed)) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIS8s2IKM0> - (31 July) VanderBot: Using a Python script to create and update researcher items in Wikidata (by User:Baskaufs) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQ8rJufeOU> - (31 July) No bricks without clay: outcomes from the Stanford Wikidata Working Group (by User:Arcadialib) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDsKvFkdqRU> - (31 July) LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour: Adding References to Wikidata (by User:Chicagohil) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZEwMrUjGg0> - Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14 Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/272133169815199…> YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RGlGntrkTw> - Video: Lexemes in Wikidata - structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFusgeGFWCU> - Video: Wikidata presentation (in Turkish), YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waS0GQK4AsQ> - Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English - Nice article giving some context about why it matters to have Lexemes in Wikidata in many different languages <https://ruder.io/nlp-beyond-english/> Tool of the week - SQID <https://sqid.toolforge.org/#/> allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: height of center of mass <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8497>, road number formatter <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8498>, Vietnamese middle name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8500>, heraldic attitude <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8503>, traffic sign template image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8505> - External identifiers: Tree of Public Interest ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8492>, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8493>, DSSTOX compound identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8494>, South Africa EMIS code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8495>, Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8496>, WISAARD resource ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8499>, Gateway to Research organisation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8501>, SÚKL code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8502>, Science Fiction Awards Database author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8504>, Power plant operating licence (Turkey) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8506> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: certified as <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/certified_as>, number of stages <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_stages>, convergence rate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/convergence_rate>, step count <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/step_count>, Alternative form <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alternative_form>, view <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/view>, version type for works <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/version_type_for_w…>, advertisement copy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/advertisement_copy> - External identifiers: LibraryThing series identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LibraryThing_serie…>, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swiss_Industrial_H…>, TOPCMB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TOPCMB_ID>, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Library_of_Congres…>, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sports-Reference.c…>, SAT-matrikulo <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SAT-matrikulo>, Signal number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Signal_number>, BHF author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BHF_author_ID>, BHF magazine ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BHF_magazine_ID>, SPLC Group ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SPLC_Group_ID>, SPLC Individual ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SPLC_Individual_ID>, Open Civic Data Division Identifiers <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Civic_Data_Di…>, RKD thesaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RKD_thesaurus_ID>, TCLF ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TCLF_ID>, Presence compositrices ID of composer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Presence_compositr…>, Presence compositrices ID of work <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Presence_compositr…> - Query examples: - Properties and the number of constraint definition statements on them <https://w.wiki/YLS> - there are quite a few with 0 constraint definitions - a graph of MPs and parties <https://w.wiki/YPL> in the Swedish Parliament and with whom they worked together with to create motions 2018 SPOILER <https://w.wiki/YPN>: >95% is just with people in the same party - Wealthiest queer people on Wikidata <https://w.wiki/YdB> (Source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1289909305517305856>) - Bubble chart showing the winners of the FA Cup <https://w.wiki/YRq> (Source) <https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1289639346400878593> - Map of parks in Oslo missing images on Wikidata <https://w.wiki/YNb> (Source <https://twitter.com/Hros/status/1289310813795229696>) - Commons queries: - Orienteerers: tinyurl.com/y25qa8ef (source <https://www.facebook.com/jan.ainali/videos/10218133344154080>, at 53:45) - Animal hugs: tinyurl.com/yykvj26y (source <https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1289857530152103936>) Development - The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them. - Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions). - REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now. - Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks. - Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team. 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 *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de

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AfroCine: Participate in the Months of African Cinema
by Eben Calist 01 Aug '20

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