Hi,
Are not the 'Schema examples' a new category of reporting in this summary? Is there a wiki reference that describes this category more?
Thanks!
Best, Mike
On 4/14/2020 8:23 AM, Léa Lacroix wrote:
/Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week./
Discussions
- CheckUser nominations: Sotiale https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/CheckUser/Sotiale, Jasper Deng https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/CheckUser/Jasper_Deng, Romaine https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/CheckUser/Romaine
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Ongoing: Wikidata Lab XXII on the Wikidata Wikiproject COVID-19, April 14, 1pm UTC, remote, in English. Event page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Edit-a-thon/Atividades_em_portugu%C3%AAs/Wikidata_Lab_XXII
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron https://www.twitch.tv/belett, Tuesday April 14 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #9 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#8, April 19
- Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7, on Telegram. Notes of the discussion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2020-04-07
- Past: Wikidata topic at the virtual biohackathon https://github.com/virtual-biohackathons/covid-19-bh20/wiki/Wikidata. Mid-term updates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E44oFcThPTY&t=31%3A39m final presentations http://ipfs.genenetwork.org/ipfs/QmZkuJZyf8vgE2Db2jqhPmhUdgvGtpFBkcSwaX2hj4RqaK/webinar-covid_19_bh20-wrapup-20200411.mp4 (Wikidata report starts at 1:17:40)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- /A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.026336v1/ (new preprint about virus info (strains, genes, proteins), ShEx, and SPARQL)
- /Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.03181.pdf/ ("We look at the coverage of two biomedical ontologies focusing on diseases with respect to Wikidata for 9 European languages")
- /Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2020/04/wikidata-and-bibliography-of-life-in.html/
- Video: Editing Wikidata and creating a property proposal: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAb_AvPRqj4, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/2813297058718107/, Periscope https://www.pscp.tv/w/1MYxNkpQkowKw
Tool of the week
- COVID19 Dashboard https://sites.google.com/view/covid19-dashboard/ is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A database breakage https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200407-Wikidata's_wb_items_per_site_table_dropped, also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6, 11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However, issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur.
- You're welcome to give feedback on ideas of improvements for the Query Service interface https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Improve_the_workflows_for_queries_and_lists
- The development team is working on automated finding of references, feel free to give feedback on the first batch https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Automated_finding_references_input
- ZFOURGE UDS 19909 (Q90000000) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90000000 - our ninety-millionth item, about a galaxy - was created on 10 April.
- For the first time, a Wikipedia list article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Lista_de_mortos_e_desaparecidos_pol%C3%ADticos_na_ditadura_militar_brasileira populated entirely from Wikidata, and built using Listeria https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:ListeriaBot, has been granted "featured" status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17506997, on the Portuguese Wikipedia (video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgUej8GHqU4).
- ListeriaBot blocked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Special:PermaLink/950890941#ListeriaBot_blocked_an_urgent_resolution_is_needed. pending review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Re-examination_of_ListeriaBot on English Wikipedia.
- A Telegram group has been created for discussions about Wikidata in German https://t.me/wikidata_de
- Comment https://www.unicode.org/reporting.html on QID Emoji proposal https://www.unicode.org/review/pri408/ until April 20th
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: o General datatypes: donations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8093, network bands https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8097, bus https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8107, recommended unit of measurement https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8111, CSS color keyword https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8112 o External identifiers: BDSP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8071, CAB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8072, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8073, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8074, ScreenScraper group ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8075, The Cover Project game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8076, FHF establishment ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8077, FHF hospital group ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8078, elibrary.ru person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8079, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8080, WBIS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8081, Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8082, Visit Tuscany ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8083, URL on Nintendo eShop https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8084, Curran Index contributor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8085, ODMP person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8086, GameTDB game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8087, Elephind.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8088, EZB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8089, GameReactor game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8090, Archival Resource Key https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8091, EcuRed article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8092, Geneastar person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8094, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8095, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8096, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8098, I-Revues ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8099, JournalTOCs ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8100, MUSE article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8101, NASA active astronaut ID - DO NOT USE https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8102, Paperity article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8103, Paperity journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8104, SAN archive producer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8105, SOCAN work number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8106, Papers Past ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8108, Pascal et Francis ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8109, Retronews ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8110, COTREX trail ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8113
- New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: o General datatypes: ACUM work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ACUM_work_ID, appendix https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/appendix, Wikisource index page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikisource_index_page, Unicode character https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Unicode_character, Arlington Cemetery person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Arlington_Cemetery_person_ID, Eigentümerhistorie https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Eigent%C3%BCmerhistorie, quantification instruction https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/quantification_instruction, language level https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/language_level, Included in curricula https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Included_in_curricula, Order number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Order_number, ShEx available at URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ShEx_available_at_URL, dialect of (computer language) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/dialect_of_(computer_language), file page offset https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/file_page_offset, station service succession https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/station_service_succession o External identifiers: Seoul Information Disclosure Plaza management number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Seoul_Information_Disclosure_Plaza_management_number, Wikiparques ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikiparques_ID, NKAA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NKAA_ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Described_and_Captioned_Media_Program_producer_ID, Provenio ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Provenio_ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Brno_Person_ID, RPPS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RPPS_ID, South African Company Registration Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/South_African_Company_Registration_Number, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sicilian_Regional_Assembly_ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inventory_of_Archaic_and_Classical_Poleis_ID, SNCF station identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SNCF_station_identifier, Benerail station identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Benerail_station_identifier, Indian Railways train number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indian_Railways_train_number, Soccerdonna coach ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Soccerdonna_coach_ID, DLL Catalog IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DLL_Catalog_IDs, MDN https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MDN, Psocodea Species File ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Psocodea_Species_File_ID, Slovak Registration ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Slovak_Registration_ID, Swedish Glaciers https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swedish_Glaciers, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Club_Identifier_Netherlands_Handball_Association, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopaedia_Metallum_label_ID, UK Modern House Index building ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK_Modern_House_Index_building_ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK_Modern_House_Index_architect_ID, CPAN person https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CPAN_person, FactGrid item ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FactGrid_item_ID, FactGrid property ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FactGrid_property_ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Texas_Historic_Sites_Atlas_ID
- Query examples: o Names of countries without letter "a" https://w.wiki/Mnx (source https://twitter.com/PierreBoudes/status/1248923143965638657) o Infectious diseases and their number of cases https://w.wiki/Mo2 (source https://twitter.com/mrlogix/status/1248501929371521024) o Map of mountain huts in Bulgaria https://w.wiki/Mo4 (source https://twitter.com/valexiev1/status/1247790814811455488)
- Schema examples: pandemic (E184) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E184, preprint (E185) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E185, Macromolecular complex (E186) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E186, hospital (E187) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E187, 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E188, clinical trial (E189) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E189, Lockdown (E190) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E190, lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E191, virus taxon (E192) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E192, Preprint server (E193) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E193, Complex Portal entity (E194) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E194, contact tracing app (E195) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E195
Development
- Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (phab:T248592 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248592)
- Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (phab:T249596 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249596)
- Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (phab:T249595 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249595)
- More work on Automated finding references https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Automated_finding_references_input
- More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties
- Bridge: improve the generic error screen (phab:T241126 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241126) and on save (phab:T248087 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248087)
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
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