Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)

Events

• Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
• 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
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37, November 8
• Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Wikidata is eight years old - an interview with product manager Lydia Pintscher (in German), by Elisabeth Giesemann
• Wikidata 8th birthday, Message from the development team
• Happy 8th birthday, Wikidata! (8 reasons why Wikidata is great), by Will Kent
• Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!, by Stella Wisdom
• Tree networks, national history and open mountains of data - knowledge through node formation with Wikidata for the 8th, by Jens Bemme
• Video: Why is Wikidata important? (Wikidata birthday event - in Spanish)
• 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, by Lianna D'amato
• CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia patch, by Egon Willighagen
• Video: Wikidata+OpenStreetMaps talk and discussion
• Video: Wikidata – what libraries need to know about wikidata - Kohacon20, by David Nind
• Video: Visualizing the neuroscience research ecosystem via Wikidata Scholia, by Daniel Mietchen
• Video: Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian)
• All videos from the 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 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 (Wiki Movimento Brasil)
  • Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial website – a new user-friendly tutorial to querying Wikidata (Wikimedia Israel)
  • Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website – 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 from Semantic MediaWiki
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms ?language_code feature: announcement tweet and documentation edit
  • Automated finding references: dump and dashboard (Wikidata development team - announcement)
  • Better Item quality judgments from ORES (Wikidata development team)
  • Announcement of the distributed WikidataCon 2021 (Wikidata development team - announcement)
  • Results of Sum of all Indian paintings datathon organized by WikiProject India.
  • Happy birthday Wikidata! In the Abstract Wikipedia Updates (2020-10-29) by the project team, speaking about the future integration with Wikidata.
  • Knowledge Grapher filmmaker mode can visually display all the films and cast members of an individual director or producer.
  • 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. Follow this page to keep up to date: WikidataCon 2021.
• The 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:
  • General datatypes: die axis, annual average daily traffic, maximum current
  • External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, VA facility ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, Persée article ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, Base constructions bibliothèques ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Matrix room, regex (lang), Ukrainian romanization, Power consumption index, Heating energy consumption index, Business Number (Canada), notable tv series, number of points or goals attempted
  • External identifiers: Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, NCAA school code, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Twitch team ID, Twitch tag ID, FINA Wiki ID, All the Tropes identifier, MTMT journal ID, UAF person ID, Soccerway stadium ID, NCAA Statistics player ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, Wolfram language WordData sense, Namuwiki
• Query examples:
  • Movies by rate of actors who studied at RADA (When distribution has at last 5 actors)
  • Central libraries in California linked to their branch library
  • Writers in the SIEFAR dictionary with a portrait in Wikimedia Commons (Source)
  • Place and date of birth of people buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (one color per century of birth) (Source)
  • Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) (Source)
  • Things Donald Trump and others own / have owned (Source)
  • Graveplots by gender in Père Lachaise Cemetery (Source)
  • Co-authorship between researchers from National University of La Plata (Source)
  • Number of Harvard Law graduates dead by year between 1850 and 1950 (Source)
  • Visualization of the works of Charles Heaphy (Source)
  • Identifiers present on the item for Penelope Cruz (or other movie people), but not on the item for Sean Connery
  • Map of places of birth of people with an identifier Inter-university Health Library in Wikidata colored by century of birth (Source)
  • Map of the trees recorded in OSM with protection status. OSM/Wikidata query Source
• Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject European Film Awards
• Newest database reports: Sean Connery filmography

Development

• Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (phab:T263435)
• Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (phab:T264883)
• Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (phab: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.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!