*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/MisterSynergy, Queryzo https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Queryzo, ChristianKl https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/ChristianKl (all successful) - New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Allow_the_creation_of_links_to_redirects_in_Wikidata
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/ Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: WikiCite https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check on Twitter https://twitter.com/Wikicite and the video streams https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN4mEhpy3b8RsYfokuzsBGnw-_KVDSfX_ to see what happened - Six degrees on Wikidata http://6dfb.tumblr.com/post/161020960651/introducing-six-degrees-on-wikidata, by Andrew Gray - Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata https://finnaarupnielsen.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/some-statistics-on-scholarly-data-in-wikidata/, by Finn Årup Nielsen - Wikidata for librarians https://coffeecode.net/wikidata-workshop-for-librarians.html, by Dan Scott
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Eurowings app uses Wikidata https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/867270004017909760 - Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Alex-7/diary/37664 a web app http://www.ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/. - Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#BREAKING_CHANGE:_sitelink_encoding_changing_in_RDF_export.2FWDQS
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Filmweb.pl ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3995, racon signal https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3994, Vitaskrá ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3993, SSB urban settlement number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3992, Austrian Textbook ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3991, EKATTE place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3990, members have occupation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3989, National Library Board Singapore ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3988, SHARE Catalogue author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3987, Sequence Ontology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3986, supports programming language https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3985, subreddit https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3984, sports league level https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3983, TA98 Latin term https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3982, Misjonsarkiv person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3981, Unifrance person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3980, Unifrance company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3979, IECIC 2015 ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3978, Songkick venue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3977, BVMC work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3976, secretary general https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3975, nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3974, PIM authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3973, PASE Domesday place https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3972, PASE Domesday person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3971 - Query examples: - Map of subreddits associated to a place on Earth https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fsubreddit%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP3984%20%3Fsubreddit%20.%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/6d4lme/subreddits_associated_to_a_place_on_earth_in/ ) - Potential reviewers for papers in computer science https://query.wikidata.org/#%23TEMPLATE%3D%7B%20%22template%22%3A%20%22potential%20reviewers%20for%20papers%20in%20%3Ffield%22%2C%20%22variables%22%3A%20%7B%20%22%3Ffield%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fid%20wdt%3AP2578%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%22%20%7D%20%7D%20%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Freviewer%20%3FreviewerLabel%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fwebsite%29%20AS%20%3Fwebsite%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Forcid%29%20AS%20%3Forcid%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftwitter%29%20AS%20%3Ftwitter%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ21198%20AS%20%3Ffield%29.%0A%20%20%3FsubField%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Ffield.%0A%20%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP570%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Freviewer%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FworkDate.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FworkDate%20%3E%20%28NOW%28%29%20-%20%22P5Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%29%29.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP921%20%3FsubField.%20%7D%20UNION%20%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FsubField.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Fwebsite.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP496%20%3Forcid_.%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org%2F%22%2C%20%3Forcid_%29%29%20AS%20%3Forcid%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Freviewer%20wdt%3AP2002%20%3Ftwitter_.%20BIND%28IRI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%22%2C%20%3Ftwitter_%29%29%20AS%20%3Ftwitter%29.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Freviewer%20%3FreviewerLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20RAND%28%29 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/867662296671191040) - Paintings with 'portrait' in the name that lack P180 / depicts https://query.wikidata.org/#select%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20where%20%7B%20%0A%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3305213%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%20LANG%28%3Flabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%20%29%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%20CONTAINS%28LCASE%28%3Flabel%29%2C%20%22portrait%22%29%20%29%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdummy%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%21bound%28%3Fdummy%29%20%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%20.%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/fagerving/status/867367168429707270) - Publications and presentations about WikiCite https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fdoi%20%3Furl%20%3Fvideo%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP921%20wd%3AQ30035267%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP356%20%3Fdoi%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP10%20%3Fvideo%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP953%20%3Furl%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/nichtich/status/867322893847474176) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: WikiProject Zika Corpus https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Zika_Corpus - Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV https://tools.wmflabs.org/ash-django/wd2csv/ - Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/Filmography/Roger_Moore
Development
- Attending WikiCite - Showing badges on other projects (phab:T73887 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73887) - Improving label tracking (phab:T151717 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151717) - Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data
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 - proposals needing attention https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Attention_needed - 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