*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
- Past: Editing contest - Members of the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ghana/Parliament_of_Ghana/Members_of_the_3rd_Parliament_of_the_4th_Republic_of_Ghana/Contest. By Global Open Initiative https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Open_Initiative - YouTube (1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg9XzHDbPPw, (2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYLuGs9X8r4 - Upcoming: live SPARQL queries https://www.twitch.tv/belett on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 1 at 18:00 CEST - Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, September 2nd at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT). Etherpad https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours, Google Meet https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service. - Upcoming: Wikidata birthday events organizers call https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise#Connect_with_other_organizers, September 2nd at 19:00 CEST. - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #28 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#28, September 6 - Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2751141135171046/, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NgCzu2lX9w, September 5 at 19.00 UTC - Upcoming: Onam label-a-thon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Kerala/Events/ONAM_2020 (September 1st and 2nd): Online label-a-thon to improve Wikidata items related to Kerala and Malayalam on this Onam holidays.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Video: How to use the Wikidata Query Service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXdjxnjCvng, by Dr Chris Langley - Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2744955582456268/, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDxz652CgwY - Video: Creating a Wikidata item (in Spanish) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdMKUFcx0N8 - WikiCite and bibliographic data on Wikidata, how to contribute and how to view it with Scholia (in Spanish) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLs80LjfriI - Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-08-30/Special_report - article by Lydia Pintscher in the *Wikipedia Signpost*
Tool of the week
- Wikidata for Firefox https://github.com/fuddl/wd is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Entity Explosion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Entity_Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/entity-explosion/bbcffeclligkmfiocanodamdjclgejcn is now also available for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/entity-explosion/. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page. - WMF will be performing data center maintenance operations by switching all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2020-August/002344.html. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for up to an hour from 14:00 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200901T14 - The Wikidata community now has a channel on the newly-established Wikimedia Chat service https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/wikidata. - reconciler https://github.com/jvfe/reconciler, a Python wrapper for Open Refine https://openrefine.org/'s API to reconcile pandas data frames with Wikidata items.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: Butcher tableau https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8558, front and back matter https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8570, external auditor https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8571 - External identifiers: edukado.net Panteono ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8557, Chrome Webstore extension ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8559, PARADISEC Catalog https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8560, NPR station ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8561, JSTOR publisher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8562, Emporis company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8563, Art Bonus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8564, British Museum object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8565, monumenta.ch ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8566, The Living New Deal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8567, Jewish Virtual Library person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8568, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8569, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8572 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: parent superproperty https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/parent_superproperty, publisher of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/publisher_of, performed at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/performed_at, Barcelona Public art identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Barcelona_Public_art_identifier, opening hours (v.3) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/opening_hours_(v.3), Fanbase name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fanbase_name, aerial view https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/aerial_view, ground clearance https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ground_clearance, axle track https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/axle_track, placeholder text element ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/placeholder_text_element_ID, displacement https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/displacement, Deutsche Bahn station abbreviation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Deutsche_Bahn_station_abbreviation, entry in abbreviations table https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/entry_in_abbreviations_table, Liturgical rank https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Liturgical_rank - External identifiers: NHK Archives Portal person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NHK_Archives_Portal_person_ID, EPA Ecoregion Level 1 Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_Ecoregion_Level_1_Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_Ecoregion_Level_2_Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 3 Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_Ecoregion_Level_3_Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_Ecoregion_US_Level_3_Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 4 Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_Ecoregion_US_Level_4_Code, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopaedia_of_Architects,_Vienna_1770%E2%80%931945, Firefox add-on ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Firefox_add-on_ID, London Stock Exchange company https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/London_Stock_Exchange_company, Fatcat ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fatcat_ID, NDL law ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NDL_law_ID, e-Gov law ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/e-Gov_law_ID, OFAC sanction ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OFAC_sanction_ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/British_and_Irish_Furniture_Makers_Online_ID, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Library_of_Congress_Children%27s_Subject_Headings_ID, Occupational Outlook Handbook ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Occupational_Outlook_Handbook_ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Regesta_Ecclesiastica_Salisburgensia_ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wisconsin_Historical_Society_NRHP_ID, YUAG ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/YUAG_ID, Grove Music Online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Grove_Music_Online_ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe_person_ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/McClintock_and_Strong_Biblical_Cyclopedia_ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dostoyevsky_and_His_Entourage_ID - Query examples: - Map of cities and towns in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area https://sophox.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3FosmLabel%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2a%20before%20querying%20the%20service.%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Cities%20and%20towns%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fcities%20%7B%20wd%3AQ515%20wd%3AQ3957%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwd%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fcities%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20That%20lie%20within%20parts%20of%20the%20San%20Jose%E2%80%93San%20Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland%20combined%20statistical%20area%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP131%2a%2Fwdt%3AP361%2B%20wd%3AQ7413927.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20these%20places%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Awikidata%20%3Fwd%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20And%20their%20coordinates%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20place%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Aname%20%3FosmLabel%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D - OSM/Wikidata query - Map of structures that have won architectural awards https://sophox.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3Fname%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2A%20before%20querying%20the%20service.%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Architectural%20structures%20that%20won%20awards%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwd%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2A%20wd%3AQ811979%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP166%20%3Faward.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Where%20the%20awards%20are%20architectural%20awards%0A%20%20%20%20%3Faward%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1829324.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20award%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Faward%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flayer.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Flayer%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20those%20structures%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Awikidata%20%3Fwd.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20coordinates%20to%20display%20on%20a%20map%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20structure%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Aname%20%3Fname%20%7D%0A%7D - OSM/Wikidata query - Birth places of Buffalo Sabres players https://w.wiki/QZh (Source https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1299236687789338626) - Timeline of all of Bird’s tunes https://w.wiki/aZR (Source https://twitter.com/watty62/status/1299275485306933248) - Approximate proportion of people called "John" in any given UK Parliament since 1372 https://w.wiki/aa5 (Source https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1299289778194714625) - People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade of birth https://w.wiki/ao9 (Source https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1300028281333444610) - Location of decommissioned aircraft https://sophox.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3FmakeLabel%20%3FmodelLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2a%20before%20querying%20the%20service.%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20decommissioned%20aircraft%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Ahistoric%20%22aircraft%22.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20make%20and%2For%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fosm%20%28osmt%3Amanufacturer%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Aaircraft%3Amodel%3Awikidata%29%20%3FmakeModel.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%20the%20make%2Fmodel%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20If%20it%E2%80%99s%20a%20model%2C%20get%20the%20make%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ76920834%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP176%20%3Fmake.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmodel%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20model%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmodel%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmodelLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmodelLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20A%20make%20must%20be%20a%20business%20to%20distinguish%20it%20from%20a%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmake%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Or%20it%20must%20be%20part%20of%20an%20industry%20%28e.g.%2C%20Wright%20Brothers%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20%28wdt%3AP106%7Cwdt%3AP452%29%20%5B%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmake%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20manufacturer%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmake%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmakeLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmakeLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FmakeLabel%2C%20%22Unknown%22%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20coordinates%20to%20display%20on%20a%20map%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3FmakeLabel%29 - OSM/Wikidata query (Source https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/1298521023604809729) - Railway network in Czechia https://w.wiki/at6 (Source https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1300428160715063296) - People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade (of birth) https://w.wiki/ao9 (Source) https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1300028281333444610 - List of locations of Woolf's books https://w.wiki/acV (Source) https://twitter.com/brimwats/status/1299385979069816833
Development
- Working on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well - Polishing remaining pieces of the first version of Federated Properties to make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in other Wikibase instances - Continuing to work on improving the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
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