*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Hasley https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2020-10-27 ) - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/16OJ5cTXZ47z3_M9bsIjmXO_kpjpQujtoFTEKe6Du3RY/edit - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#37, November 8 - Upcoming: live SPARQL queries https://www.twitch.tv/belett on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wikidata is eight years old - an interview with product manager Lydia Pintscher https://blog.wikimedia.de/2020/10/28/wikidata-wird-acht-jahre-alt-ein-interview-mit-produktmanagerin-lydia-pintscher/ (in German), by Elisabeth Giesemann - Wikidata 8th birthday, Message from the development team https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Presents#Message_from_the_development_team - Happy 8th birthday, Wikidata! (8 reasons why Wikidata is great) https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/10/29/happy-8th-birthday-wikidata/, by Will Kent - Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata! https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/10/happy-eighth-birthday-wikidata.html, by Stella Wisdom - Tree networks, national history and open mountains of data - knowledge through node formation with Wikidata for the 8th https://saxorum.hypotheses.org/5279, by Jens Bemme - Video: Why is Wikidata important? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O_Y0cXwZto (Wikidata birthday event - in Spanish) - SPARQL in the shadow of Structured Data on Commons https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/10/29/sparql-in-the-shadow-of-structured-data-on-commons/, by Zbyszko Papierski - Answers to curious questions and where to find them: here's how to query wikidata with SPARQL https://synapta.it/blog/risposte-a-domande-curiose-e-dove-trovarle-ecco-come-interrogare-wikidata-con-sparql/, by Lianna D'amato - CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia patch https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2020/11/cito-updates-2-annotation-migration-to.html, by Egon Willighagen - Video: Wikidata+OpenStreetMaps talk and discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbTCq7r8SQg - Video: Wikidata – what libraries need to know about wikidata - Kohacon20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czZA1T1t8wk, by David Nind - Video: Visualizing the neuroscience research ecosystem via Wikidata Scholia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPMoj7uMXRU, by Daniel Mietchen - Video: Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbowsw_XT-Q (in Indonesian) - All videos from the *WikiCite 2020 Virtual Conference https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/2020_Virtual_conference* are now on Commons, and embedded in the program page on Meta.
This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7 languages.1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince the conference began last Monday. Tool of the week
- reCH https://pltools.toolforge.org/rech/ is a Wikidata anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Eighth Birthday Presents - All recordings of Wikidata Labs are now available on Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_Labs_videos (Wiki Movimento Brasil) - Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial website https://wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org/ – a new user-friendly tutorial to querying Wikidata (Wikimedia Israel) - Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website https://wikibibliotecas.colmex.mx/items/browse?tags=Wikidata – a brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital collection of Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico) - Happy Birthday https://twitter.com/SemanticMW/status/1321482146305945600?s=20 from Semantic MediaWiki https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org - Wikidata Lexeme Forms ?language_code feature: announcement tweet https://twitter.com/LucasWerkmeistr/status/1321626949492613122 and documentation edit https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Diff/1299258986/1299263735 - Automated finding references: dump https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/datasets/periodic/wikidata-potential-references/ and dashboard https://wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/WD_GameReferenceHunt (Wikidata development team - announcement https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-October/014374.html ) - Better Item quality judgments from ORES https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-October/014375.html (Wikidata development team) - Announcement of the distributed WikidataCon 2021 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021 (Wikidata development team - announcement https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-October/014376.html ) - Results of Sum of all Indian paintings datathon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India/Datathon/Sum_of_all_Indian_paintings/birthday_present organized by WikiProject India https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:IND. - Happy birthday Wikidata! In the Abstract Wikipedia Updates (2020-10-29) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2020-10-29 by the project team, speaking about the future integration with Wikidata. - Knowledge Grapher filmmaker mode https://knowledgegrapher.toolforge.org/filmmaker can visually display all the films and cast members of an individual director or producer. - User:Teester/EntityShape.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript to show how an item conforms to an entityschema - The next WikidataCon will take place on 29-30-31 October 2021, in a distributed format https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-October/014376.html. Follow this page to keep up to date: WikidataCon 2021 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021. - The Election Tracker https://datastory.org/en/data-stories/election-tracker, uses Wikidata to keep track of upcoming national elections around the world. - Accepted published papers for the Wikidata Workshop on Monday, 02.11 are now available online wikidataworkshop.github.io - witches.is.ed.ac.uk shows the geographical residence location for accused witches in Scotland.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: die axis https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8751, annual average daily traffic https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8753, maximum current https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8757 - External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8748, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8749, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8750, Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8752, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8754, VA facility ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8755, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8756, Persée article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8758, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8759, Base constructions bibliothèques ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8760 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: Matrix room https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Matrix_room, regex (lang) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/regex_(lang), Ukrainian romanization https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ukrainian_romanization, Power consumption index, Heating energy consumption index https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Power_consumption_index,_Heating_energy_consumption_index, Business Number (Canada) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Business_Number_(Canada), notable tv series https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/notable_tv_series, number of points or goals attempted https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_points_or_goals_attempted - External identifiers: Royal Horticultural Society plant ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Royal_Horticultural_Society_plant_ID, EGAFD ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EGAFD_ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCAA_Statistics_coach_ID, NCAA school code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCAA_school_code, NCAA Statistics team season ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCAA_Statistics_team_season_ID, Twitch team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Twitch_team_ID, Twitch tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Twitch_tag_ID, FINA Wiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FINA_Wiki_ID, All the Tropes identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/All_the_Tropes_identifier, MTMT journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MTMT_journal_ID, UAF person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UAF_person_ID, Soccerway stadium ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Soccerway_stadium_ID, NCAA Statistics player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCAA_Statistics_player_ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Portuguese_Football_Federation_ID, Wolfram language WordData sense https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wolfram_language_WordData_sense, Namuwiki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Namuwiki - Query examples: - Movies by rate of actors who studied at RADA (When distribution has at last 5 actors) https://w.wiki/jGN - Central libraries in California linked to their branch library https://w.wiki/8WU - Writers in the SIEFAR dictionary with a portrait in Wikimedia Commons https://w.wiki/jZF (Source https://twitter.com/Georgele2etexte/status/1322471301664092161) - Place and date of birth of people buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (one color per century of birth) https://w.wiki/VLM (Source https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1322265164088049668) - Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) https://w.wiki/jPA (Source https://twitter.com/watty62/status/1321806989861769216) - Things Donald Trump and others own / have owned https://w.wiki/jbE (Source https://twitter.com/inforapid/status/1321799945612070913) - Graveplots by gender in Père Lachaise Cemetery https://w.wiki/L6k (Source https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1322264888463548417) - Co-authorship between researchers from National University of La Plata https://w.wiki/AMx (Source https://twitter.com/patriciolorente/status/1321789489828798467) - Number of Harvard Law graduates dead by year between 1850 and 1950 https://w.wiki/j6o (Source https://twitter.com/HanleyWill/status/1321285757697482753) - Visualization of the works of Charles Heaphy https://w.wiki/isL ( Source https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1320795910696124417) - Identifiers present on the item for Penelope Cruz (or other movie people), but not on the item for Sean Connery https://w.wiki/jpa - Map of places of birth of people with an identifier Inter-university Health Library in Wikidata colored by century of birth https://w.wiki/jpd (Source https://twitter.com/belett/status/1323238160759967744) - Map of the trees recorded in OSM with protection status. https://sophox.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ftree%20%3Ftaxon%20%3FtaxonLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20trees%20and%20their%20taxa%0A%20%20%3Ftree%20osmt%3Anatural%20%22tree%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%28osmt%3Agenus%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Aspecies%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Ataxon%3Awikidata%29%20%3Ftaxon%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Taxa%20categorized%20as%20threatened%20on%20the%20IUCN%20Red%20List%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%28%3Fstatus%20%3Flayer%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ278113%20%22Vulnerable%20%28VU%29%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ11394%20%22Endangered%20%28EN%29%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ219127%20%22Critically%20endangered%20%28CR%29%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP141%20%3Fstatus.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20English%20common%20name%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP1843%20%3FtaxonLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtaxonLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D OSM/Wikidata query Source https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1316455785854050306 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Wikiproject European Film Awards https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_European_Film_Awards - Newest database reports: Sean Connery filmography https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/Filmography/Sean_Connery
Development
- Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (phab:T263435 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263435) - Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (phab:T264883 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264883) - Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266673 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266673) - The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org/.
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