*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Cleaning_up_the_ontology_of_anonymous - Other - "und" or "und-latn" language code for addresses https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P969#"und"_or_"und-latn" - Value label constraint https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Value_label_constraint
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries https://www.twitch.tv/belett about visualisation on maps 🗺️ on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 10 at 18:00 CET - Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #38 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#38, November 15
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wikidata Eighth Birthday Meetup - Database validation of Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikdata_Eighth_Birthday_Meetup_-_Database_validation_of_Wikidata.pdf by Houcemeddine Turki - Turning Scholia into a platform for living scientometric studies ( French https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2020_-_Scientom%C3%A9trie_Ouverte.pdf, English https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2020_-_Living_Scientometric_Study.pdf) by Houcemeddine Turki - Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community @ ISWC 2020 with papers https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/#Accepted%20Papers about interesting aspects of Wikidata. - Video: Visualizing the research ecosystem of neuroscience research via Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bSZq22yiGU. By Daniel Mietchen at Neuromatch Conference - Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #23 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NfpMLS3NlU, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2814050998880059/ - Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ht8zB9bHA, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2815062592112233/, November 14, 19.00 UTC
Tool of the week
- Template:Cite Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The next Wikibase live session https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/November_2020 is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar) https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NThtZjhranRmMjAxYzg2dTYwNGhxdmVxNzQgY183MXZ0MTdhNXFtbTFnYXFlNm1wdjNpYW9kc0Bn&tmsrc=c_71vt17a5qmm1gaqe6mpv3iaods%40group.calendar.google.com. Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all! - Remember to claim your Cloud VPS project and mark it as {{Used}}. Unclaimed projects risk being suspended or shutdown on 2020-12-01 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-November/094014.html . - Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-November/014385.html
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: birth rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8763, port calls https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8764, rank insignia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8766, online catalog https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8768, format as language specific regular expression https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8770 - External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8761, NCAA Statistics team season ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8762, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8765, EGAFD ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8767, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8769, Vélib' Métropole station ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8771, Blogger user profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8772, Malmö Museer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8773, MTMT journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8774, Soccerway stadium ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8775 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: favicon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/favicon, Dedicated heritage institution https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dedicated_heritage_institution, MetaSat ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MetaSat_ID, epithet https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/epithet, Poverty incidence (Philippines) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Poverty_incidence_(Philippines), covid info https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/covid_info, filestore https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/filestore - External identifiers: AniDB tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AniDB_tag_ID, ClassInd audiovisual work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ClassInd_audiovisual_work_ID, ClassInd game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ClassInd_game_ID, Qobuz label ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Qobuz_label_ID, IMMuB album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IMMuB_album_ID, FIS grass skier ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FIS_grass_skier_ID, AlKindi ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AlKindi_ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/French_Paralympic_and_Sports_Committee_athlete_ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute personal profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mathematical_Sciences_Research_Institute_personal_profile_ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute institution profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mathematical_Sciences_Research_Institute_institution_profile_ID, EIK https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EIK, edition humboldt digital ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/edition_humboldt_digital_ID, European Film Awards ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Film_Awards_ID, Memorial Book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Memorial_Book_for_the_victims_of_National_Socialism_at_the_University_of_Vienna_1938, IMMuB artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IMMuB_artist_ID, AIWARDS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AIWARDS_ID, LIMIS person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LIMIS_person_ID, IAFD distributor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IAFD_distributor_ID - Query examples: - Terminus locations of A Roads in Britain https://w.wiki/kJK ( Source https://twitter.com/philbgorman/status/1324463176453337088) - POTUS/UK PM age at inauguration/appointment and England mean age https://w.wiki/kjM (Source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1324156826087206913) - Map of (public-sector) winners of H2020 projects in the Netherlands sortable by year https://w.wiki/jxY (Source https://twitter.com/alastairdunning/status/1323663645348401154) - People who have held the positions of both Vice President and President of the United States https://w.wiki/ke7 (Source https://twitter.com/TobiasHellmund/status/1324072992880603146) - Crew of missions to the ISS and human spaceflights that have docked with the ISS https://w.wiki/jqY (Source https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1323284604959207426) - Graph of reasons UK MPs have left Parliament, grouped by decade since the 1890s https://w.wiki/kfy (Source https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1325557952024076290) - Number of successful UK election petitions by parliamentary term, 1859 onwards (includes by-elections as well as general elections) https://w.wiki/kes (Source https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1325477802985058306) - List of longest Cars https://w.wiki/kea (Source https://twitter.com/quicoprol/status/1325454920288522242)
Development
- Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served - Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code. - Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly. - Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image ( phab:T264538 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264538) - Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266673) - Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme ( phab:T263435 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263435)
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