*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_iNaturalist/Event_20190416_Where_iNaturalist_meets_Wiki, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium - Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Argentina, April 25th - Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mezi_bajty/Workshop_2019, Czech Republic
Press, articles, blog posts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations https://www.arl.org/publications-resources/4751-arl-white-paper-on-wikidata-opportunities-and-recommendations - Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs https://ai.facebook.com/blog/open-sourcing-pytorch-biggraph-for-faster-embeddings-of-extremely-large-graphs and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog - OpenTapioca https://opentapioca.org/: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09131.pdf) - Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/1527 by Olaf Simons
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIKIDATA_EN_BREVE.pdf, Query Service in one page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Query_Service_en_Breve.pdf, a new data model example based on Marie Curie https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Datamodel_in_Wikidata_Marie_Curie_es.svg, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers" https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Flyer_for_Developers_Part_1of2_(INSIDE)-es.svg. Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mlemusrojas and the Wikidata group in Argentina https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Argentina! - Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data#Depicts_statements_coming_this_week - The Wikimedia URL Shortener https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012958.html) - Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Topic:Uwnvvuwlnox50iw8: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate! - Wikidata Sign Languages Browser https://tools.wmflabs.org/sign-language-browser/#/ - You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_labels
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: number of sentences https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6695, Football Money League rank https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6697 - External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6688, MassBank Accession ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6689, CNV-SP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6690, GruCultura ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6691, CEMDP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6692, NGMDb Prod ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6693, MESH Concept ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6694, PRELIB organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6696 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: supported metadata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/supported_metadata, expansion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/expansion, CatholicSaints.info ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CatholicSaints.info_ID, Musixmatch track ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Musixmatch_track_ID, transfer speed https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/transfer_speed, KeyWiki page ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KeyWiki_page_ID, художник-мультипликатор https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80, Number of polling stations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Number_of_polling_stations, music video https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/music_video - External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Atlas_of_African_Frogs, Ming Qing Archive authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ming_Qing_Archive_authority_ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinosozvezdie_biography_ID, RGALI ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RGALI_ID, Referee.ru person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Referee.ru_person_ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NSW_Capital_Conviction_ID, Australian War Memorial ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_War_Memorial_ID, Flora of Australia (new) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flora_of_Australia_(new)_ID, Drobné památky ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Drobn%C3%A9_pam%C3%A1tky_ID, Identifiant IndieDB for video game https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_IndieDB_for_video_game, Whitney Museum of American Art ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art_ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archaeology_Data_Service_person_ID, CanLII ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CanLII_ID, Justia Patents assignee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Justia_Patents_assignee_ID, interwiki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/interwiki, Identifiant Mod DB for video game https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Mod_DB_for_video_game, OBIS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OBIS_ID, Alvin https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alvin, FemBio ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FemBio_ID - Query examples: - All deaths in Game of Thrones https://w.wiki/3Fy (source https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1118244055404691456) - Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris https://w.wiki/3D5 (query based on this discussion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Built_before_Notre_Dame ) - Timeline for the History of Telecommunications https://w.wiki/3FR (source https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/1118482236083511297) - Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines https://w.wiki/35s (source https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1118137336129302529) - Map of churches in Sri Lanka https://w.wiki/3FV (source https://twitter.com/xaviaranda/status/1120031399585767425)
Development
- Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204440) - Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come - Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194179) - Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221107) - Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209879) - Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216987) - Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218690)
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 - 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