*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New request for comments - Frequency of YouTube follower count data https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Frequency_of_YouTube_follower_count_data - Should previously linked Wikipedia articles be separated? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Should_previously_linked_Wikipedia_articles_be_separated%3F
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Ninth_Birthday on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved! https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/JOEJSBFTLRIWCY3WGSCYRBZKDAHBJPKB/ - Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th October 2021 https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1634745653 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg. - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls call: Scottish Accused Witches Project with Ewan McAndrew and Emma Carroll (University of Edinburgh). [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zAgFigQFhnB1GXiRjt0MvXxB9ry87tu7YNS_5bM4vqU/edit?usp=sharing, Oct 19th. - WikiProject Govdirectory Collab Hour https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Events, October 22 - LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3tBIgP8XKo, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3080639182221238/, October 23 at 18:00 UTC - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#84, October 24 - IT Festival Without Borders from 21 to 23 October 2021 in Rovereto https://www.lavocedeltrentino.it/2021/10/12/festival-informatici-senza-frontiere-dal-21-al-23-ottobre-2021-a-rovereto/ - *There will be a Wikidata for SPARQL queries workshop for high school and university students.* - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #12, Health professions https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=12 - #12MonthsofOSM, mapping historical features https://twitter.com/hashtag/12MonthsofOSM?src=hashtag_click
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - Introduction to Observablehq.com for Wikidata users https://observablehq.com/@pac02/introduction-a-observable-pour-les-utilisateurs-de-wikida in French (Introduction Ă Observable pour les utilisateurs de Wikidata) - Learning to edit Wikidata is challenging; we aim to make it easier with this interactive course https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/15/learn-wikidata-an-interactive-course/ - Manuscripts on Wikidata: the state of the art? by Martin Poulter https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter - Digital scholarship in archives: A data case study https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/digital-scholarship-in-archives-a-data-case-study/ - Papers - Accepted papers for the Wikidata Workshop at ISWC have been published: https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2021/ - Detecting Cross-Language Plagiarism using Open Knowledge Graphs https://www.gipp.com/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/stegmueller2021.pdf - Videos - Wikidata Scripts and gadgets (in French) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-NQc0U6XoI - Import RDF data from Wikidata (part 11) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joG3zZ4vLno - New introductory working hour on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLbP8AHfHas - Building Wikidata - Queries with Wikidata Query Service (in Spanish) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9tMq-FRDd8 - Building Wikidata - Databases and Open Refine (in Spanish) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frhn6CEf96w - How to retrieve the list of works by Canadian authors available on Wikisource? (in French) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bBPL0ITL9w - Other: - Research project: How can museums improve the usability of collection APIs? https://prattdx.org/research/evaluating-the-usability-of-museum-apis/
Tool of the week
- Snowman https://github.com/glaciers-in-archives/snowman is a static site generator for SPARQL backend (source https://twitter.com/AlbinPCLarsson/status/1448247078250061825?t=TANj4qCkX3UgJdZVqlCEXQ&s=19 )
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3_-_Community_tracks are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20 - Sina Ahmadi has released a SPARQL query generator for lexicographical data https://sinaahmadi.github.io/posts/sparql-query-generator-for-lexicographical-data.html - Wikidata reached the 10000th numbered property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Introducing_P10000:_Research_Vocabularies_Australia_ID, with the creation of P10000 Research Vocabularies Australia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10000. (There are currently 9285 pages in the Property namespace https://w.wiki/4ESP.) - Wikidata now has over 600,000 Lexemes! https://twitter.com/WikidataMeter/status/1448131107661230083 - Learn Wikidata https://www.learnwikidata.net/ is an online interactive course created by the Vanderbilt University thanks to a WikiCite grant and available in English, Spanish and Chinese. More information here https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/15/learn-wikidata-an-interactive-course/ . - The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/DDNP7CZWF74CUCD7SC6S452KGMNMOAPN/). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: catalogue raisonné https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9969, predicate for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9970, has thematic relation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9971, illustrative content https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9972, ITU radio emission designation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9974, isotopically modified form of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9977, stylized name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9989, record number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9994, excitation energy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9998 - External identifiers: WDG lemma ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9947, The World Factbook country ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9948, AFNIL publisher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9949, RICS company code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9950, Greek Castles ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9951, Gente di Tuscia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9952, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9953, Product and Service Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9954, SAM ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9955, IRIS Sapienza author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9956, museum-digital place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9957, Det Norske Akademis Ordbok ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9958, PDDikti ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9959, VI.BE platform ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9960, Owler company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9961, Ordbog over det danske sprog ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9962, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9963, Kalliope-Verbund ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9964, musik-sammler.de artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9965, United Nations Treaty Collection object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9966, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID (Web version) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9967, RAWG game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9968, TMOK ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9973, Vokrug sveta article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9975, copyright registration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9976, Eneström Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9978, NRK TV ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9979, NLI Archive (bibliographic) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9980, L'Unificazione ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9981, IGI Global Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9982, Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9983, CANTIC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9984, EMBO member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9985, NDL earlier law ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9986, AbandonSocios ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9987, Bat Sheva Archive ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9988, Literature.com book ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9990, Literature.com ebook ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9991, CantoDict word ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9992, CantoDict character ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9993, MYmovies person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9995, Chi era Costui plaque ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9996, Bowers acronym https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9997, Turkish Cinema Archive Database person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9999, Research Vocabularies Australia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10000, Austrian Football Association player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10001, Dewan Negara ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10002, Arachne.org.au ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10003, Dewan Rakyat ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10004, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10005 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: merger https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/merger, split-off https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/split-off, choreography for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/choreography_for, classification, compartmentalisation, or information category for this document https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/classification,_compartmentalisation,_or_information_category_for_this_document, Hotel rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hotel_rating, NatureScot Sitelink ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NatureScot_Sitelink_ID, pole positions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/pole_positions, podium finishes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/podium_finishes, StopGame ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/StopGame_ID, fastest laps https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fastest_laps, Amends https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Amends, heading https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/heading, Conway polyhedron notation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Conway_polyhedron_notation - External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Reptile_Online_Database_ID, Research Data Australia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Research_Data_Australia_ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub resource ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Institute_for_Disaster_Resilience_Knowledge_Hub_resource_ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Parliament_of_Australia_MP_ID, Trove work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Trove_work_ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Geographical_Names_Board_of_NSW_geoname_ID, Apple Music track ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Apple_Music_track_ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bokm%C3%A5lsordboka-ID, Nynorskordboka-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nynorskordboka-ID, Birdata ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Birdata_ID, IRIS Superior Graduate Schools IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Superior_Graduate_Schools_IDs, Australian Trade Mark Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Trade_Mark_Number, Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Prints_%2B_Printmaking_artist_ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Prints_%2B_Printmaking_work_ID, FFCAM ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FFCAM_ID, TVSA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TVSA_ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Academy_of_Russian_Television_person_ID, NSW Parliament Member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NSW_Parliament_Member_ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Statistical_Geography_2021_ID, KPU Calon 2019 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KPU_Calon_2019, Monaco Nature Encyclopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Monaco_Nature_Encyclopedia_ID, Refuges.info ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Refuges.info_ID, Smotrim.ru film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Smotrim.ru_film_ID, Norgeshistorie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Norgeshistorie_ID, AHPRA registration number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AHPRA_registration_number, PubCRIS product number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PubCRIS_product_number, Toolhub ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Toolhub_ID, Spotify user ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Spotify_user_ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_di_Medicina_ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_delle_Scienze_Fisiche_ID, ORIAS number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ORIAS_number, SNSF person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SNSF_person_ID - Query examples: - List of written works authored by recent Nobel laureate Joshua Angrist https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23title%3A%20List%20of%20written%20works%20ordered%20by%20date%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Fyear%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20wd%3AQ921499.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28YEAR%28%3Fdate%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3Fyear%29 (via d:Template:Item documentation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Item_documentation on d:Talk:Q921499 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q921499) - Books by Canadian authors with a Wikisource page https://w.wiki/4D$a (Source https://twitter.com/Georgele2etexte/status/1449627724470013952) - Repetitive taxon names https://w.wiki/4Eek (Source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1449534448995901446) - Count of sitelinks of museums/tourist attractions in the US https://w.wiki/4DH$ (Source https://twitter.com/wikilovesbrasil/status/1449095230586826757) - Map of French communes that are >30 characters long https://w.wiki/4DT4 (Source https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/1448600030127009797) - Lexemes in Swedish that are missing in Svenska Akademiens Ordbok (Q1935308) https://w.wiki/4Ef9 (Source https://twitter.com/DennisPriskorn/status/1448396292439281682) - Attendance at the Bargoin, Roger-Quilliot and Henri-Lecoq museums per year https://w.wiki/4DDX (Source https://twitter.com/belett/status/1448252751520092161) - Present and past members of Czech Chamber of Deputies who are relatives https://w.wiki/4Csp (Source https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1447837736761806849)
Development
- Mismatch Finder https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatch_Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are working on letting reviewers submit their decision if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither. - In the previous week we migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists. This week we monitored the new system and investigated and fixed a few issues that came up.
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