Events

• Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on April 28th. See notes here (English).
• Upcoming: International Museum Day, May 3-18, including a Wikidata competition
• Upcoming: Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 4 at 18:00 CEST
• Upcoming: Scholia - Open Bibliometrics for Researchers webinar on Zoom, May 5 at 10h30 UTC (free, but registration needed)
• Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 8
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #61, May 9
• Upcoming: the next Wikidata bug triage hour will take place on May 17th on the topic of quality constraints
• Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon, May 22-23. The call for proposals for the program is now open until May 9th for the main track (May 19th for the open rooms) More information

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • WBStack Infrastructure - current deployment and architecture of wbstack.com
• Videos
  • Mix'n'match workshop in (Italian) - YouTube
  • SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French) - YouTube
  • Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Metadata applications (a technical training on the process of metadata applications development) - YouTube
  • Upload workshop (in Dutch) - datacleaning, reconciliation, upload, embed metadata with exiftool & Upload images with Pattypan and link with Wikidata.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Overview of all LIVE Wikidata editing episodes including topics and tools used to make search easier

Tool of the week

• Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit | edit source]

• Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
• TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
• Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: field of usage, artist files at, accessibility statement URL, degrees day, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID
  • External identifiers: J! Archive player ID, CofE archives name ID, HERO ID, GLEI RAL, Archdiocese of Liverpool parish ID, Yukon Archives authority record ID, CofE archives place ID, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID, Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID, Oregon Flora Image Project ID, Digital DISCI ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Clubhouse account, Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID, hat Gedenkort, Secondary Archive artist ID, date of probate
  • External identifiers: LMIC musician ID, DC Books store book ID, ctext data entity ID, SAIA authority ID, AdServio school ID, Apple Music label ID, MacArthur Fellows Program ID, Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID, DHLE, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry, Scholarpedia article ID, Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry, Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID, Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID, Universal equine life number, Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID, Nevada SHPO marker ID, Sigla ID, Bing Entity ID, light characteristic, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Identificativo Polo bibliografico della Ricerca, LTit person ID
• Query examples:
  • List number of albums (Q482994) by language (P407) in descending order (Source)
  • Map of Scottish council areas (Source)
  • Databases with a SPARQL endpoint, sorted by number of ids known by Wikidata (Source)
  • List of actors and actresses who died during 2020 (Source)
• Newest database reports: new screenwriters

Development

• Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
• Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
• Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
• Worked on/fixed small remaining bugs in the Query Builder (phab:T280505, phab:T279928, phab:T279945)
• Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
• Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
• Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021

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!