*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Abián https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Abi%C3%A1n - New request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Adding_short_code_for_cryptocurrencies
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- September 8, Zurich: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Wikidata_Zurich_Hackathon a hacking event to code with and for Wikidata. - Wikidata IRC office hour: September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the channel #wikimedia-office - October 23, Berlin: Workshop on how to use Wikidata in research contexts https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/open_access/weiteres/Veranstaltungen/oa-week-2018_wikidata_workshop/index.html - October 26/27, The Hague: Wiki Techstorm https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Techstorm
Press, articles, blog posts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Underwater Basket Weaving: Russian Writers and Their Professions According to Wikidata http://weltliteratur.net/russian-writers-and-their-professions/, by Galina Ryazanskaya, Alena Shchevyeva and Maria Suvorova - Strategic inclusion of library data from Sweden into Wikidata https://wikimediasverige.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/mer-biblioteksdata-pa-wikidata/ (in Swedish), by Axel Pettersson - Old but gold, three articles by Denny about design decisions that were made for Wikidata: Restricting the world https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/22/restricting-the-world/, On truth and lies https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/06/04/on-truths-and-lies/, A categorical imperative? https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/09/12/a-categorical-imperative/
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: A draft specification for using Depicts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P180 statements on Commons is up for community feedback https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feedback_requests/Depicts . - It's possible to add somevalue and novalue using QuickStatements https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:QuickStatements, and to use the tool on test.wikidata.org as well. - More properties can be searched using haswbstatement. This includes all properties with "external identifier", "string", "item", "property", "lexeme", "form" and "sense" datatypes, except published in (P1433) and cites (P2860). In addition you may make queries without a specified value. - The page creation and edit rate limit imposed in April will be removed in the next days. However, users who are not bots or administrators are throttled to 90 edits per minute (which was set up on all Wikimedia wikis in May https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56515). - These new languages are now supported for monolingual text strings: mid, mnw, gmy, rar, haz, uga. The language doesn't show up in the suggester, but you can save the statement and it will be stored properly. - Reminder: Wikidata's sixth birthday https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday happens in two months. It's time to think about organizing a meetup with your local community, or preparing a gift (see the list of presents last year https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fifth_Birthday/Presents). - Lexicographical data: you can now try Senses on beta https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Lexicographical_data#Senses_are_coming_soon,_please_try_them_on_beta! - 25% of the labeling campaign https://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/wikidatawiki/ to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata has been done. Please help by reviewing a few edits!
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: dummy value https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5692, airline accounting code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5703, shear strength https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5706, sample https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5707, force https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5708, abrasion resistance https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5709, requires grammatical feature https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5713, Academia.edu profile URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5715 - External identifiers: BND ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5691, Fandango movie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5693, IDPCM ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5694, Bibliopoche author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5695, Indian Railways station code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5696, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5698, Transport Canada LID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5699, La Lorraine des écrivains writer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5700, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5704, LARB author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5705, Recours au poème ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5710, Revues Littéraires ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5711, IMEC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5712, Tor.com author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5714, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5716, TPA person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5717, PAM ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5718, National Medal of Arts winner ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5719 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: ISO 15919 transliteration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISO_15919_transliteration, U.P.C. Company Prefix https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/U.P.C._Company_Prefix, value is more specific than https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/value_is_more_specific_than, peak position on chart https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/peak_position_on_chart, number of weeks on chart https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_weeks_on_chart, Pietre della Memoria ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pietre_della_Memoria_ID, editor-in-chief https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/editor-in-chief, image of interior https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/image_of_interior, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Osservatorio_culturale_del_Cantone_Ticino_ID, periphrasis https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/periphrasis, OSI Model layer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OSI_Model_layer - External identifiers: Cineuropa movie id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cineuropa_movie_id, Partis d'Arcadie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Partis_d%27Arcadie_ID, WSJP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WSJP_ID, Voetbalstats ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Voetbalstats_ID, Angelicum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Angelicum_ID, PUSC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PUSC_ID, BasketballBundesliga ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BasketballBundesliga_ID, GreekBasketLeague ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GreekBasketLeague_ID, BSL ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BSL_ID, BSN ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BSN_ID, PLK ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PLK_ID, Historic Hotels of America ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Historic_Hotels_of_America_ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Historic_Hotels_Worldwide_ID, Morse code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Morse_code, MPC body ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MPC_body_ID, Open Exoplanet Catalogue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Exoplanet_Catalogue_ID, KERIS School info https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KERIS_School_info, FBref ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FBref_ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pacific_Coast_Architecture_Database_person_ID, Syndikat ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Syndikat_ID, CWA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CWA_ID, NDB identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NDB_identifier, Petit Futé ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Petit_Fut%C3%A9_ID, DAV ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DAV_ID, ÖAV ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%C3%96AV_ID, SAC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SAC_ID, PZS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PZS_ID, ABMC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ABMC_ID, The Park Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Park_Database_ID, IMA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IMA_ID, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Directorio_de_Museos_y_Colecciones_de_Espa%C3%B1a_ID, Pakistan Railways station code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pakistan_Railways_station_code, RBU athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RBU_athlete_ID, RBU coach ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RBU_coach_ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Historic_Hotels_of_Europe_ID, Animator.ru person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Animator.ru_person_ID, Moviepilot.de film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moviepilot.de_film_ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CoinMarketCap_cryptocurrency_ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Television_Academy_Foundation_interviewee_ID, Academia topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Academia_topic_ID - Deleted properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion: Heritage Building in Finland ID (P4237) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2018/Properties/1#P4237, patron (P1962) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2018/Properties/1#P1962 - Query examples: - Map of libraries in Austria https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3FBibliothek%20%3FBibliothekLabel%20%3FBibliothekDescription%20%3Fgeographische_Koordinaten%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cde%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FBibliothek%20(wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*)%20wd%3AQ7075.%0A%20%20%3FBibliothek%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ40.%0A%20%20%3FBibliothek%20wdt%3AP131*%20%3FOrt.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FBibliothek%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fgeographische_Koordinaten.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1031899959124099074) - Countries ranked by number of Wikidata-known people born there whose English version of the given name starts with Q or X https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Which%20country%20has%20most%20people%20whose%20names%20start%20from%20X%20or%20Q%3F%20https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FRahulBharadwajR%2Fstatus%2F1032994688498905089%0A%23%20clarifications%3A%20name%20%3D%20given%20name%3B%20country%20%3D%20country%20of%20birth%0ASELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Fcount%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3FgivenName%20%3FgivenNameLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FgivenName%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ202444%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1705%20%3FgivenNameLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28%3FgivenNameLabel%2C%20%22X%22%29%20%7C%7C%20STRSTARTS%28%3FgivenNameLabel%2C%20%22Q%22%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25givenNames%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fhuman%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25givenNames.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fhuman%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP735%20%3FgivenName%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP19%2Fwdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%0A%7D%20AS%20%25countries%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25countries.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1033808386138271746 ) - List of Windows games released this year https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATable%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FpublicationDate%20%28group_concat%28%3FgenreLabel%3B%20separator%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20as%20%3Fgenres%29%20%3Fsteamurl%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ7889.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FpublicationDate.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20%3Fgenre.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP400%20wd%3AQ1406.%0A%20%20wd%3AP1733%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1733%20%3FsteamId.%20%7D.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgenre%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FgenreLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel.%0A%20%20%7D.%0A%20%20BIND%28YEAR%28%3FpublicationDate%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29.%0A%20%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3FsteamId%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Fsteamurl%29.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fyear%20%3D%20%28YEAR%28NOW%28%29%29%29%29.%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FpublicationDate%20%3Fsteamurl%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FpublicationDate%20%3FitemLabel%0ALIMIT%20500 (source https://twitter.com/ZeroOne3010/status/1033857685890977792) - Countries with most citizens on Wikidata whose given name starts with X or Q https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Which%20country%20has%20most%20people%20whose%20names%20start%20from%20X%20or%20Q%3F%20https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FRahulBharadwajR%2Fstatus%2F1032994688498905089%0A%23%20clarifications%3A%20name%20%3D%20given%20name%3B%20country%20%3D%20country%20of%20citizenship%0ASELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Fcount%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3FgivenName%20%3FgivenNameLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FgivenName%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ202444%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1705%20%3FgivenNameLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28%3FgivenNameLabel%2C%20%22X%22%29%20%7C%7C%20STRSTARTS%28%3FgivenNameLabel%2C%20%22Q%22%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25givenNames%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fhuman%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25givenNames.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fhuman%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP735%20%3FgivenName%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%0A%7D%20AS%20%25countries%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25countries.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1033808094009208832 ) - People entered in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography by gender and birth location https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22layer%22%3A%22%3FtypeLabel%22%7D%0A%0ASELECT%20%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fpic%20%3FgenderLabel%20%3Ftype%20%3FtypeLabel%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1648%20%3Fbiog%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Flocation%20.%0A%3Flocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fgender%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20%3Ftype%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20%7D%0A%0A%20%0A%20%20%0A%20%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%0A%7D%20%0A%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fpic%20%3FgenderLabel%20%3Ftype%20%3FtypeLabel%0A (source https://twitter.com/WIKI_NLW/status/1033370628370432000) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: WikiProject Invasive Species https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Invasive_Species
Development
- More work on merging Lexemes - More work on data types and edit summary for Senses - Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201288) - Improve constraint property item suggestions for property constraint values (phab:T199672 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199672) - Remove ratelimit from Wikidata for some groups again (phab:T198396 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198396)
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 - 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