*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>/
Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop
<https://docarennes.wordpress.com/2017/06/21/26-juin-19h-21h-aux-champs-libres-atelier-de-decouverte-et-de-contribution-a-wikidata/>
in Rennes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q647>, June 26th
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Berlin>, June 28th,
18:00, in WMDE's office
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2),
on the channel wikimedia-office
- Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some
documentation in German <https://github.com/okfnat/offenewahlen-wikidata>
)
- Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata
<https://i9606.blogspot.de/2017/06/building-communities-of-knowledge-with.html>,
by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
- *ORCID Mania <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=464>* (in response
to this call for a tool
<https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forum/#%21topic/wikicite-discuss/orRFkcPdt6s>
to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
- *I use Wikidata for multilingual names
<https://medium.com/mysociety-for-coders/i-use-wikidata-for-multilingual-names-d35b331f1a59>*,
by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
- *Resource discovery and Wikidata
<http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2017/06/21/resource-discovery-and-wikidata/>*
- *Where the streets have known names
<http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/15720/1/2016-Ballatore-Streets_known_names.pdf>*
- Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
- *Extracting scientists from Wikipedia
<http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/article.asp?issue=126&article=003&volume=>* -
Academic paper
- ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es)
<http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/blog/2017/06/26/sabes-usar-la-base-datos-wikidata/>
by the Cervantes virtual library
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168057>
- Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary/Sitelinks>
- New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr <http://guessr.morr.cc> guess the
locations of random Wikidata items
- OpenRefine 2.7 has been released
<https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/2.7>, including
the Wikidata Reconcile service
- Nice graphics about Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Was_ist_Wikidata%3F.png> and the
Query Service <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Cheat_Sheet_SPARQL.png>
(in German) by Bleeptrack
- New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/487>
- Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Mapping_languages_on_Wikidata>
and the Glottolog catalogue
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Languages_on_Wikidata.2C_Glottolog_catalogue_matching>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Irish National
Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4088>, MyAnimeList manga ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4087>, MyAnimeList anime ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4086>, MyAnimeList character ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4085>, MyAnimeList people ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4084>, HFC NPS unit ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4083>, image captured with
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4082>, Biodiversity Heritage
Library creator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4081>, number
of houses <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4080>, Theatres Trust
Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4079>, SKIP code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4078>, Pizmonet ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4077>,
WorldSBK.com racer
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4076>, Czech
Monument Catalogue Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4075>,
FFN swimmer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4074>, Wikia
wiki ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4073>
- Query examples:
- BubbleChart of Metal band by country
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3FcountryLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ2088357%20%3B%20wdt%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ38848%20%3B%20wdt%3AP495%20%3Fcountry%20.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FcountryLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/878587099183800323>)
- Viennese composers and their compositions by tonality
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23TEMPLATE%3D%7B%20%22template%22%3A%20%22Composers%20of%20%3Fcity%20and%20their%20compositions%20by%20tonality%22%2C%20%22variables%22%3A%20%7B%20%22%3Fcity%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fcomposition%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcomposer%3B%20wdt%3AP826%20%3Ftonality.%20%3Fcomposer%20wdt%3AP19%7Cwdt%3AP20%7Cwdt%3AP551%20%3Fid.%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fid%20%3FidLabel%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fcomposer%29%29%22%20%7D%20%7D%20%7D%0A%23defaultView%3ATree%0ASELECT%20%3Fcomposer%20%3FcomposerLabel%20%3FcomposerImage%20%3Ftonality%20%3FtonalityLabel%20%3Fcomposition%20%3FcompositionLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ1741%20AS%20%3Fcity%29%0A%20%20%3Fcomposer%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP19%7Cwdt%3AP20%7Cwdt%3AP551%20%3Fcity.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fcomposer%20wdt%3AP18%20%3FcomposerImage.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fcomposition%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcomposer%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP826%20%3Ftonality.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cde-at%2Cde%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FcomposerLabel%20%3FtonalityLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/877601117504503809>)
- Most prolific authors of scientific articles on Wikidata, who are
still alive, without ORCID
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Most%20prolific%20authors%20of%20scientific%20articles%2C%20who%20are%20still%20alive%2C%20without%20ORCID%0ASELECT%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%28count%28%3Fpaper%29%20AS%20%3Fpapers%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fpaper%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ13442814%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fpaper%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP496%20%5B%5D%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP570%20%5B%5D%20%7D%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fpapers%29>
(source <https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/877538855989252096>)
- Average age of members of the Landtag of Thuringia
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20average%20age%20of%20members%20of%20the%20Landtag%20of%20Thuringia%0ASELECT%20%3Fperiod%20%3FperiodLabel%20%3FperiodNumber%20%28SUBSTR%28%28AVG%28%3FperiodStart%20-%20%3Fdob%29%29%2F365.2425%2C%200%2C%205%29%20AS%20%3FavgAge%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fabg%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fdob%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20wd%3AQ17344251%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2937%20%3Fperiod%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%3Fperiod%20p%3AP31%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20ps%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15238777%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1545%20%3FperiodNumber%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%3Fperiod%20wdt%3AP580%20%3FperiodStart.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cde%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fperiod%20%3FperiodLabel%20%3FperiodNumber%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FperiodNumber>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/879351634534576129>)
- Newest external tools: VizQuery
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/vizquery/>
Development
- Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P247#constraints>)
- Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (
phab:T167870 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167870>)
- More work on constraints checks (phab:T168629
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168629>)
- Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist
on clients (phab:T46874 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T46874>)
- Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (
phab:T167625 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167625>)
- Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine
readable page data (phab:T163923
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163923>)
- Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (phab:T165567
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165567>)
- Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (phab:T163119
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163119>)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>.
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>
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.