Lea,

I think this is the first time I’ve read this newsletter and understood everything that it said. Thank you to you, Nicolas Vigneron, Hady Elsahar, Pau Cabot, Simon Cobb and Ewan McAndrew for your patience and insights into the world of Wikidata at last week’s Celtic Knot conference. It was a real example of community knowledge exchange and support.

Best wishes,

Delphine Dallison

Wikimedian in Residence

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From: Wikidata <wikidata-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org> On Behalf Of Léa Lacroix
Sent: 10 July 2018 09:36
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikidata] Weekly Summary #320

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Help:Modelling

Events

• Past: Celtic Knot Conference, including a Wikidata track, 5-6 July, Aberystwyth (Wales)
• Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: Structured narratives in Wikipedia, São Paulo, August 9th

Press, articles, blog posts

• Ewan McAndrew publishes case study for teaching data science with Wikidata: see the case study on Commons
• "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: a round-up" by Martin Poulter

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Structured Data on Commons: There is a workshop on Commons to identify properties that files will need for statements. You are invited to participate.
• Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners, a new video tutorial by Asaf Bartov
• Items now contain an average of 10 statements.
• For the first time Wikidata has less than 2 million empty items.
• Input for m:Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS is being sought.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:

• General datatypes: Romanization of Belarusian (2007 system), has decorative pattern, floor number, Han character in this lexeme, Japanese pitch accent type, position of accent nucleus, position of devoiced vowel, number of viewers/listeners, signum, research measurement, model year, reference value, lower limit, upper limit
• External identifiers: mhk object ID, Fantastic Fiction author ID, Île en île author ID, Flanders Music Centre person ID, CeBeDem composer ID, Ricochet author ID, The Paris Review interviewee ID, Whonamedit? doctor ID, Common procurement vocabulary, Pasteur Institute person ID, NYRB contributor ID, GS1 Global Product Classification brick code, The Trading Card Database person ID, Lega Serie A team ID, IPTC Newscode, Poetry International Web poet ID, Setlist FM artist ID, Setlist FM venue ID, Gfycat user ID, pixiv ID, EuroVoc ID, Elysee.fr president ID, Herder Encyclopedia author ID, Biographical Articles of the Library of Congress of Chile, Collège de France professor ID, Language Council of Norways termwiki ID

• New property proposals to review:

• General datatypes: confers, Narrative role, CJKV variant character, synonym, derived from form, station category, Number of twitter follower, mentioned in work, model year code, peninsula of location, position of nasal sonant, number of people depicted, artist-info artist ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info location ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database, The Reptile Database
• External identifiers: Logicielsmoto identifier, House of Representatives Morocco ID, BIA PSY ID, My Heritage Surname ID, identifiant Inventaire des sanctuaires français, USNPL ID, Guide to Pharmacology Target ID, Historia de la Medicina ID, TasteAtlas ID, GlyphWiki ID, AE member ID, Conseil constitutionnel ID, French Academy in Rome ID, RHE doctor ID, Scottish Poetry Library ID, RHE professor ID, SBN books ID, Australian Poetry Library ID, A Church Near You church ID

• Deleted properties: GHS hazard statement (P728) + GHS precautionary statements (P940), spectral line (P2224)
• Query examples:

• Map of places in the UK starting with "Llan" (source)
• Number and percentage of articles about female scientists for all Wikipedias (compared to all articles about scientists) (source)
• Statements disputed by their subject (source)
• Emulators and what they emulate (source)
• Map of items near me that have a label in English but not in Welsh (source)

• Newest WikiProjects: Categories
• Newest tools: TopicMatcher, by MagnusManske, looks for items related to topics

Development

• Making progress towards being able to query for constraint violations in the query service
• Included the dispatch lag in the maxlag parameter to give better feedback to tools and bots if they can edit at the moment (phab:T194950)
• Added support for linking to a particular statement (not just a statement group) (phab:T169224)
• Set up L as an alias for the Lexeme namespace (phab:T195493)
• Worked on making lexical category, language and grammatical feature show up on WhatLinksHere (phab:T195302)
• Worked on Persistent IDs for Senses (phab:T198033)
• Improve placeholder text for Lexeme language and lexical category field on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T195439)
• Show description on the item selector on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T165597)
• Add "mis" language code to the list of language code options on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194771)

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
• Suggested and open tasks!
• 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!

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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata

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