Discussions

• Closed request for comments:
  • Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous. Outcome: New model adopted, documentation updated.

Events

• Past

• • Wikibase Community User Group monthly meetings - May 2021
  • How to add references on Wikidata (# 1Lib1Ref 2021) - working hour (2)
  • SPARQL #Wikidata divers
    • Session du mardi 18 mai
    • Session du mardi 25 mai
• Upcoming
  • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 1 at 18:00 CEST
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Affinity Group Co-facilitators will recap the last year, introduce plans for the coming year, and receive suggestions from the community for future sessions.; [1], June 1st.
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #65, June 6
  • Meta meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group, to solve issues related to its affilation to the Wikimedia Foundation, June 9
  • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about quality constraints, June 17

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers
  • Mapping of ImageNet and Wikidata for Knowledge Graphs Enabled Computer Vision
• Videos
  • Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process
  • Use of VanderBot Wikidata API writing script (testing)
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook

Tool of the week

• User:So9q/ordia-link.js - is a script to add a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call to participation in interview study to building a recommender system that can help improve the editing experience in Wikidata: Researchers at King's College London develop a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. The researchers are inviting volunteers to interview them about their current ways to choose the items you work on in order to understand the factors that might influence such a decision.
• dewiki considered, but rejected the introduction of local short descriptions to replace those from Wikidata
• User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js was improved to now
  • automatically suggests the existing senses/forms when using demonstrates sense/form
  • automatically suggests items (based on the lemma matching the label or an alias) when using item for this sense
  • and searches for lemmas exactly matching the input when using synonym, antonym, hyperonym or pertainym

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: district heating grid
  • External identifiers: DiVA authority-person, CDep.Ro NGO ID, WUA author ID, hush.am person ID, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID, What Works Clearinghouse study ID, PoetsGate poet ID, Repositório da Produção da USP person ID, ctext data entity ID, Australian Music Centre work ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Martian coordinates, gobbledygook
  • External identifiers: Nevada Women's History Project ID, AADFI member ID, Bod-Inc Online author ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Price One Penny Periodical ID, Price One Penny Library ID, composers.am person ID, armradioarchive.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, AZGS Document Repository ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, PAS member ID, ℒoviℱm Top Songs ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800-2000) ID, BIU Santé image bank ID, cadastral plot in France, Internet Game Database developer ID, allabolag.se person ID, Olschki author ID
• Query examples:
  • People with bird-like surnames in Czech (Source)
  • Properties used to link from preprints (Q580922) to scholarly articles (Q13442814) (Source)
  • Birthplace of Spanish poets (Source)
  • UK Parliaments since 1801 with number of members, number of distinct member-terms, and count of missing seats/parties. (Source)
• Newest database reports: Fresnel lenses of lighthouses

Development

• Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240)
• Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356)
• Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689)
• Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
• Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
• Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (phab:T283576)

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!