*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
- Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Wikidata_Zurich_Training2019 in Zurich https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72 on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata. - Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Wikidata_Zurich_Hackathon2019 in Zurich https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72 on the weekend of November 23-24. - Upcoming: Wikidata as a hub for the Linked Data cloud https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/abstracts/#29_a - tutorial (full day) at Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2019 conference, Seoul, on September 25. - Past: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata - Awesome Together during State of the Map 2019 (slides of part one https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OpenStreetMap_and_Wikidata_-_Awesome_Together_(part1)_(State_of_the_Map_2019).pdf )
Press, articles, blog posts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- *Wikidata ist für alle (Bibliotheken) offen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3406623*. Presentation at 34. Austrian Librarian conference 2019 (Q67368932) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67368932, September 11th. (in German) - Opening up the linked data world of Wikidata to new editors https://wikiedu.org/blog/2019/09/17/opening-up-the-linked-data-world-of-wikidata-to-new-editors/, by Will Kent (WikiEdu)
Tool of the week
- Namescript https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data: Please help to build a basic data model for describing Wikimedia Commons file with structured data! Your help is welcome to solve different modeling challenges https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Modeling, including how to model dates https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Modeling/Date, sources https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Modeling/Source and authors https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Modeling/Author. You can also look at current Wikimedia Commons infobox templates https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Templates and discuss how the information in wikitext can be translated to structured data. - Structured Data on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data: the team is going to develop computer-aided tagging for depicts statements on Commons. You can read the project page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Computer-aided_tagging and participate on the talk page. - Your comments on the vision and strategy papers https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vision_and_strategy_papers are still welcome on the associated talk page. - WikidataCon Award 2019 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Program/WikidataCon_Award: you can nominate your favorite Wikidata or Wikibase project or tool! 🏆 Participation open until October 7th - Wikidata passed 8B triples on the 19th September (grafana https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000489/wikidata-query-service?orgId=1&panelId=7&fullscreen&from=1568800306000&to=1569059506359 )
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: IP Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7315, number of decimal digits https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7316, OFLC classification https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7327, amount cataloged https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7328, Hardware Version Identification Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7330 - External identifiers: Aozora Bunko author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7311, Aozora Bunko work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7312, Rate Your Music label ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7313, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7314, iHeartRadio artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7317, Behind The Voice Actors short ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7318, ExplorePaTrails ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7319, Labelcode https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7320, Trail Finder ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7321, Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier (MRGID) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7322, Archnet site ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7323, iHeartRadio podcast ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7324, DANE code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7325, MobyGames genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7326, ICD-11 ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7329, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7331, NMM artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7332, Pathway Ontology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7333, Vudu video ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7334, Mixer game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7335 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: Peer review location https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Peer_review_location, fineness https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fineness, regnal ordinal https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/regnal_ordinal, Wikinews coverage https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikinews_coverage, educational stage https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/educational_stage, faculty https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/faculty, Kivid.info ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kivid.info_ID, Fossiilid.info ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fossiilid.info_ID, CITES Appendix https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CITES_Appendix, Content descriptor https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Content_descriptor - External identifiers: Wi-Fi Certification ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wi-Fi_Certification_ID, GCF Reference https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GCF_Reference, Rivals.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rivals.com_ID, sixpackfilmdata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/sixpackfilmdata, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Direcci%C3%B3n_General_de_Bibliotecas_ID, Elitefootball player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Elitefootball_player_ID, The Wind Power ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Wind_Power_ID, IGNrando ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IGNrando_ID, ISSN-L https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISSN-L, Skiddle artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Skiddle_artist_ID, Juno Download album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Juno_Download_album_ID, See Tickets artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/See_Tickets_artist_ID, Ticketmaster artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ticketmaster_artist_ID - Query examples: - Library systems in California https://w.wiki/8WU - Waterfalls without a drainage basin yet https://w.wiki/8dH - Works of art depicting kisses https://w.wiki/8m4 (source https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1174844824618446848) - Longest English word without a repeated letter https://w.wiki/8m6 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1174053415447666689 ) - Longest alphabetically sorted words in English https://w.wiki/8m7 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1174087986016935936 ) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Q68235346 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Q68235346
Development
- Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227003) - Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228259) - More work on setting up the technical background to work on tainted references - More work on reducing the resources needed to load pages - Create a dependency graph of existing RessourceLoader modules ( phab:T232728 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232728)
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