*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/MisterSynergy>,
Queryzo
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Queryzo>,
ChristianKl
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/ChristianKl>
(all successful)
- New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in
Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Allow_the_creation_of_links_to_redirects_in_Wikidata>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/
Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017>, May
23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime
you can check on Twitter <https://twitter.com/Wikicite> and the video
streams
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN4mEhpy3b8RsYfokuzsBGnw-_KVDSfX_>
to see what happened
- Six degrees on Wikidata
<http://6dfb.tumblr.com/post/161020960651/introducing-six-degrees-on-wikidata>,
by Andrew Gray
- Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata
<https://finnaarupnielsen.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/some-statistics-on-scholarly-data-in-wikidata/>,
by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Wikidata for librarians
<https://coffeecode.net/wikidata-workshop-for-librarians.html>, by Dan
Scott
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Eurowings app uses Wikidata
<https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/867270004017909760>
- Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM
map? Alex-7 created
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Alex-7/diary/37664> a web app
<http://www.ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/>.
- Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#BREAKING_CHANGE:_sitelink_encoding_changing_in_RDF_export.2FWDQS>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Filmweb.pl ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3995>, racon signal
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3994>, Vitaskrá ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3993>, SSB urban settlement
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3992>, Austrian Textbook
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3991>, EKATTE place ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3990>, members have occupation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3989>, National Library Board
Singapore ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3988>, SHARE
Catalogue author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3987>, Sequence
Ontology ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3986>, supports
programming language <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3985>,
subreddit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3984>, sports league
level <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3983>, TA98 Latin term
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3982>, Misjonsarkiv person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3981>, Unifrance person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3980>, Unifrance company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3979>, IECIC 2015 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3978>, Songkick venue ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3977>, BVMC work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3976>, secretary general
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3975>, nature preserve in North
Rhine-Westphalia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3974>, PIM
authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3973>, PASE
Domesday place <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3972>, PASE
Domesday person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3971>
- Query examples:
- Map of subreddits associated to a place on Earth
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fsubreddit%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP3984%20%3Fsubreddit%20.%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source
<https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/6d4lme/subreddits_associated_to_a_place_on_earth_in/>
)
- Potential reviewers for papers in computer science
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23TEMPLATE%3D%7B%20%22template%22%3A%20%22potential%20reviewers%20for%20papers%20in%20%3Ffield%22%2C%20%22variables%22%3A%20%7B%20%22%3Ffield%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fid%20wdt%3AP2578%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%22%20%7D%20%7D%20%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Freviewer%20%3FreviewerLabel%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fwebsite%29%20AS%20%3Fwebsite%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Forcid%29%20AS%20%3Forcid%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftwitter%29%20AS%20%3Ftwitter%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ21198%20AS%20%3Ffield%29.%0A%20%20%3FsubField%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Ffield.%0A%20%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP570%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Freviewer%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FworkDate.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FworkDate%20%3E%20%28NOW%28%29%20-%20%22P5Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%29%29.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP921%20%3FsubField.%20%7D%20UNION%20%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FsubField.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Fwebsite.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP496%20%3Forcid_.%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org%2F%22%2C%20%3Forcid_%29%29%20AS%20%3Forcid%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP2002%20%3Ftwitter_.%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%22%2C%20%3Ftwitter_%29%29%20AS%20%3Ftwitter%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Freviewer%20%3FreviewerLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20RAND%28%29>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/867662296671191040>)
- Paintings with 'portrait' in the name that lack P180 / depicts
<https://query.wikidata.org/#select%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20where%20%7B%20%0A%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3305213%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%20LANG%28%3Flabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%20%29%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%20CONTAINS%28LCASE%28%3Flabel%29%2C%20%22portrait%22%29%20%29%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdummy%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%21bound%28%3Fdummy%29%20%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%20.%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/fagerving/status/867367168429707270>)
- Publications and presentations about WikiCite
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fdoi%20%3Furl%20%3Fvideo%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP921%20wd%3AQ30035267%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP356%20%3Fdoi%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP10%20%3Fvideo%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP953%20%3Furl%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/nichtich/status/867322893847474176>)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
WikiProject Zika Corpus
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Zika_Corpus>
- Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/ash-django/wd2csv/>
- Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/Filmography/Roger_Moore>
Development
- Attending WikiCite
- Showing badges on other projects (phab:T73887
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73887>)
- Improving label tracking (phab:T151717
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151717>)
- Working more on statements on forms in order to support
lexicographical data
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>.
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>
- proposals
needing attention
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Attention_needed>
- Suggested and open tasks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks>
!
- 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
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
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.