Discussions

• New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous
• Other
  • "und" or "und-latn" language code for addresses
  • Value label constraint

Events

• Upcoming: live SPARQL queries about visualisation on maps 🗺️ on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 10 at 18:00 CET
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #38, November 15

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Wikidata Eighth Birthday Meetup - Database validation of Wikidata by Houcemeddine Turki
• Turning Scholia into a platform for living scientometric studies (French, English) by Houcemeddine Turki
• Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community @ ISWC 2020 with papers about interesting aspects of Wikidata.
• Video: Visualizing the research ecosystem of neuroscience research via Wikidata. By Daniel Mietchen at Neuromatch Conference
• Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #23 - YouTube, Facebook
• Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube, Facebook, November 14, 19.00 UTC

Tool of the week

• Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar). 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.
• Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: birth rate, port calls, rank insignia, online catalog, format as language specific regular expression
  • External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Vélib' Métropole station ID, Blogger user profile ID, Malmö Museer ID, MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: favicon, Dedicated heritage institution, MetaSat ID, epithet, Poverty incidence (Philippines), covid info, filestore
  • External identifiers: AniDB tag ID, ClassInd audiovisual work ID, ClassInd game ID, Qobuz label ID, IMMuB album ID, FIS grass skier ID, AlKindi ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute personal profile ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute institution profile ID, EIK, edition humboldt digital ID, European Film Awards ID, Memorial Book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938, IMMuB artist ID, AIWARDS ID, LIMIS person ID, IAFD distributor ID
• Query examples:
  • Terminus locations of A Roads in Britain (Source)
  • POTUS/UK PM age at inauguration/appointment and England mean age (Source)
  • Map of (public-sector) winners of H2020 projects in the Netherlands sortable by year (Source)
  • People who have held the positions of both Vice President and President of the United States (Source)
  • Crew of missions to the ISS and human spaceflights that have docked with the ISS (Source)
  • Graph of reasons UK MPs have left Parliament, grouped by decade since the 1890s (Source)
  • Number of successful UK election petitions by parliamentary term, 1859 onwards (includes by-elections as well as general elections) (Source)
  • List of longest Cars (Source)

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)
• Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673)
• Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (phab:T263435)

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!