Discussions

• New request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy

Events

• Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 15 at 18:00 CET
• Past: Meta:WikiConference North America/2020
• Past: Localization and structuring of open data-Zhu Tinghong-Wikidata Community of Local Studies - MOPCON 2020 (replay), YouTube
• Past: SMWCon 2020/Day 2 - "Wikidata Walkabout" by Yaron Koren (replay), YouTube
• Past: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia (replay), YouTube

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Building the SWIB20 participants map - combining Wikidata with custom data points via a federated query (ZBW Labs).
• Introducing the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Website - A new Wikidata-driven website to explore the Scottish Reformation.
• Introduction to Querying Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL by John Samuel
• Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change, YouTube
• Video: How to take data from OpenRefine to Wikidata through QuickStatements, YouTube
• Video: Editing Wikidata live - casual session by Jan Ainali, YouTube

Tool of the week

• datao.net is a visual tool for querying and exposing Wikidata easily.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Coolest Tool Award 2020 featured some Wikidata tools: Lingua Libre won in the category “Diversity”; Listeria, Lexeme Forms and Entity Explosion got honorable mentions. Congratulations!
• Complex constraint check for recency of value
• The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until December 21st. You can vote on as many wishes as you want. There's a separate category for Wikidata.
• Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
• The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: category for the view from the item, mailing list archive, word lookup, inappropriate property for this type, compatible with
  • External identifiers: Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, CollEx-Persée ID, theses.cz ID, Google Play developer slug, AppGallery app ID, The Galileo Project ID, Artfacts ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections artwork ID, Delft municipal monument ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Order of Canada recipient ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, vets.cz ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, GS1 GPC brick code
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: insufficiently precise value, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, applies when property is used, River Code, Wikimedian in Residence, Commons compatible image available at URL (non-artwork), number of at bats, runs batted in, stolen bases, subdivision monétaire
  • External identifiers: PBA ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries IDs, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Fungal gross anatomy entity ID, Plant Ontology entity ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology entity ID, DataTrek ID, DBLP publication ID, PeriodO period ID, KANTO, CITWF title ID, CITWF person ID, identifiant de la Cinémathèque québécoise pour une personne, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, DzygaMDB film, DzygaMDB person ID, XXXBios female performer ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, AVN movie ID, Lichess Username, Evil Angel movie ID, Evil Angel video ID
• Query examples:
  • All stumbling stones in the city of Hannover
  • (partial) list, timeline and gallery of successful ascents of Mount Everest (and few other summits)
  • Web & social media URLs for UK Civic Societies (Source)
  • Publication related to Research Institute of Text Analysis and Applications: no. of pages per author/year, authors network (Source)
  • Map of the ritual objects said to be used by accused witches in Scotland (colourcoded layer accessible on top right to see the list of objects) (Source)
  • Seats of the Parliament of England, and the first year we have a named person listed for them (Source)
  • Female race car drivers on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
  • Places of Geological Interest in Alamedilla (Source)
  • Number of Nature articles that were published on a Sunday in a given year
• Schema examples:
  • Schema for stumbling stones
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Agriculture

Development

• We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from it.

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!