Wikidata October 2021

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by Léa Lacroix

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Closed request for adminship: BrokenSegue <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…>. Welcome onboard \o/ Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming - OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1867>) Meetup 2021-10-04, Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61752245>) - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Producti…> call: Stephanie Sapienza and Emily Frazier on Unlocking the airwaves <https://www.unlockingtheairwaves.org/about/>, a digital archive project that compiles early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB). Agenda with call link <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nWbej5udmkCWlNxALbs06PGjKMmnveGoyn9DinS…>, October 5. - SPARQL queries live on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> in French, by Vigneron, October 5 at 18:00 CEST - Ongoing: - New Wikidata Lexemes Challenge! Help to improve lexicographical data on Wikidata <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=9>. This week's theme: Seasons. - Past - Wikibase Live session logs <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.09.30> (September 2021) - LD4 - video presentation start 05:00 Keepin 'N Sync... with wikidata ... and ORCID...and GBIF <https://stanford.zoom.us/rec/play/zCW7Zel4sQVeSIgwYL1fAz2E9dytx0_VDdCdKHd2e…> - slides <https://www.slideshare.net/DavidShorthouse/ld4-wikidata-affinity-group-shor…> by David Shorthouse - The Magnus list <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Salgo60/ExternalIdentifiers> that was mentioned at 27:00 (please update list) - Ticket created related to problem mentioned with WD objects getting deleted - T291659 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291659> - 2021-09-30, Talk "COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard" at Seminar Pekanan IR-NLP — slides <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UpL72wcS3ivv1VHweJso-I1ygBCr9NXq/view> in English, video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoxtkFRsKnE> in Indonesian (source <https://twitter.com/mrlogix/status/1444113850165432322>) Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Blogs - What can querying Wikidata do for me? <https://wikiedu.org/blog/2021/09/27/what-can-querying-wikidata-do-for-me/> - https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/01/synchronising-wikidata-and-wikipedia-… - Papers: Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: The case of Wikidata <https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-210444> - Videos - Introduction to Wikidata for beginners Part. 1 (in Portuguese) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDD2_g56UiA> - How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGvP7ipCOE> Tool of the week - ItemSubjector <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/ItemSubjector> is Python console tool that helps add main subject (P921) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P921> to groups of items in a semi-automatic way. Other Noteworthy Stuff - You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Contribute/Communit…> (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon Community Awards - You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Ninth_Birthday> until October 16 - Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…> are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20 Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: App Store age rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9897>, music created for <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9899>, issuing agent of work <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9901>, FLOSS development policy URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9904>, relevant date for copyright <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9905>, inscription image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9906>, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9908>, number of evacuated <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9924>, template populates category <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9926>, number of tries marked <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9927>, madhhab <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9929> - External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9898>, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9900>, Materials Project material ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9902>, All.Rugby player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9903>, swisscovery edition ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9907>, e-Maapõu locality ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9909>, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9910>, PoetsGate poem ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9911>, NVE reservoir ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9912>, FLORE author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9913>, USiena air author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9914>, IRIS IMT author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9915>, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9916>, Peoples.ru person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9917>, Kallías ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9918>, Convict Records of Australia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9919>, Croatian Language Portal identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9920>, Issuu ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9921>, Flipboard ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9922>, Umění pro město ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9923>, BBC Food ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9925>, Baijiahao ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9928>, Inventory of Heritage Artefacts institution ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9930>, Inventory of Heritage Artefacts object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9931>, Vietherb species ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9932>, Vietherb metabolite ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9933>, Zenodo communities ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9934>, XXI Secolo ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9935>, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9936>, Postimees topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9937> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiProject_import…> , predicate for <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/predicate_for> , eHive ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eHive_ID>, original description <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/original_descripti…> , Bowers acronym <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bowers_acronym> , mul label property <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/mul_label_property> , stylized name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/stylized_name> - External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Database_of_Czech_…> , National Gallery Prague work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Gallery_P…> , George Eastman Museum artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/George_Eastman_Mus…> , All.Rugby club ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/All.Rugby_club_ID> , Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sachsens-Schl%C3%B…> , Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_di_Econ…> , Densho Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Densho_Encyclopedi…> , AsianWiki ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AsianWiki_ID> , Channel One Russia show ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Channel_One_Russia…> , DWDS lemma ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DWDS_lemma_ID> , WDG lemma ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WDG_lemma_ID> , company code (RICS) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/company_code_(RICS)> , IRIS Sapienza author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Sapienza_auth…> , AFNIL publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AFNIL_publisher_ID> , Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Institut_de_recher…> , TMOK ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TMOK_ID>, Kastra ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kastra_ID>, Indigenous Corporation Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indigenous_Corpora…> , United Nations Treaty Collection object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/United_Nations_Tre…> , Österreichischer Fußball-Bund ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%C3%96sterreichisc…> , MYmovies-Personenkennung <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MYmovies-Personenk…> , IGI Global Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IGI_Global_Diction…> , L'Unificazione ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/L%27Unificazione_ID> , EMBO member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EMBO_member_ID> - Query examples: - Women born in Nigeria with an article in Basque for Listeria <https://w.wiki/49eV> (Source <https://twitter.com/kepasarasola/status/1443865588951142421>) - Still life paintings by women <https://w.wiki/49dn>(Source <https://twitter.com/janedarnell/status/1443843762627751936>) - Map of cemeteries in New Zealand <https://w.wiki/496c> (Source <https://twitter.com/metacoretechs/status/1443162230200045571>) - Right Livelihood Award laureates <https://w.wiki/4A3X> (Source <https://twitter.com/DennisPriskorn/status/1443124794359222273>) - Chelsea FC players, with English Wikipedia article, Commons image, etc <https://w.wiki/48tL> (Source <https://twitter.com/NavinoEvans/status/1442871904403001346>) - Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks: P22 (father) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/top_missing_propert…> (works again) Development - Finished preventing a case where the same sitelink could be added to two different Items (phab:T291377 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291377>) - Continuing work on the Mismatch Finder <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatch_Finder>. Currently focusing on showing the details of the mismatches to the person reviewing mismatches. - Continued work on not allowing two Properties to have the same label after undo/revert (phab:T289473 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289473>) - Continuing work on improving how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other other Wikimedia projects. The new system is being rolled out to all wikis now. It should not change anything for editors and just be a technical improvement in the backend. 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> -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement Coordinator 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.

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20 years into ISWC: What's next beyond Knowledge Graphs?

by Anastasia Dimou

Dear all, If you would like to attend a free and virtual panel on* 20** years into ISWC: What's next beyond Knowledge Graphs?, *save the date and register at https://cost-dkg.eu/swsa-panel! The event takes place on *Thursday Oct 7th 2021 at 18:00* (CEST)! The panel is moderated by Catia Pesquita and the panelists are Jim Hendler, Natasha Noy and Rudi Studer. The panel is organized by the Distributed Knowledge Graphs (DKG) COST Action and it's meant to kick off the following talk series (https://cost-dkg.eu/talks). Stay tuned! Kind regards, Anastasia

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