Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/ Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mateusz%20Konieczny/diary/42385, by Mateusz Konieczny - One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co https://github.com/dringler/KnowledgeGraphAnalysis/blob/master/paper/knowledge_graphs.pdf - Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata https://ipres2017.jp/wp-content/uploads/7.pdf - Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1937/paper2.pdf (Paper and presentation https://at-web1.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2017/content/neubert.pdf), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 https://at-web1.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2017/programme.html at TPDL http://www.tpdl.eu/tpdl2017/ - Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/handle/11250/2456870
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B7:AboutTopic/Q3375 ) - There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in Wikimedia projects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_in_Wikimedia_projects. You can help expand and improve it. - New Wikidata Game https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/ to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge. - A reading tip from Spinster https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Spinster (not mentioning Wikidata, but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and responsible data: an introductory reading list https://responsibledata.io/indigenous-peoples-responsible-data-readings/ from responsibledata.io - Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41035175, of course! - Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-datamodel-statements?refresh=30m&orgId=1 - Statement 300.000.000 was created https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-datamodel-statements?refresh=30m&orgId=1 - 20 million edits were done in September 2017 http://wikidata.wikiscan.org/date/201709/stats
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: TSE number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4251, defined daily dose https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4250, Vincoli in Rete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4249, The Black Book ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4248, Tagesschau election ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4247, LfD-HB object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4246, cultural heritage monument in Serbia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4245, Bavarian monument authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4244 - Query examples: What exists in the "... as a service" genre? https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Flabel%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ25036597.%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%0A%7D%0ALIMIT%20100 (source https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/913105081247158272)
Development
- Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work ( phabricator:T70567 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70567) Thanks Matej! - Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (phabricator:T173742 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173742,phabricator:T173744 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173744) - Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web ( phabricator:T121274 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121274) - Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (phabricator:T176124 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176124) - Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (phabricator:T174794 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174794) - Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component https://packagist.org/packages/data-values/data-values
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
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia