Thanks Lea! Interesting roundup of paintings in that top-500 paintings query, and of course many I recognize from the Europeana challenge. I am also assuming that the popularity of the Mona LIsa at its lonely spot at the top of the list has to do with its early entrance as a "featured item on Wikidata". The real question is how to query the top-500 paintings used most often on Wikipedia? I think this will be somewhat different than the paintings that are chosen by Wikipedians to be the subjects of articles, which are by definition "written about the painting for the painting's sake" as opposed to "illustrating a concept with an image of a painting". If i had to guess, my assumption would be that the most used painting would be a portrait of some long-dead person with an article in many many languages. On the other hand, it could also be a painting of a ship or a romanticized painting of a battle scene. Hopefully there will be a way to make those types of queries soon! Jane

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:

*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/ Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage

• Wikidata workshop in Paris

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools

• "Wikidata pour la science"

https://www.meetup.com/SemanticCampParis/events/238404211 training day in Paris, April 24th

• Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects

http://www.osm.be/2017/04/01/en-project-heritage-crowd-sourced.html

• featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
• The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1

http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.nl/2017/04/the-acs-spring-disclosures-of-2017-1.html

• about news drug compounds entering Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• *Attention:* Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and

May 3, to allow a server switch https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2017

• Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_description_editing_in_the_Wikipedia_Android_app to be deployed on several Wikipedias

• More federated endpoints have been added

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#SPARQL_federation_-_more_of_the_same (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)

• All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme

https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/#lat=11.328998809313038&lng=-14.4140625&zoom=3&layers=wikidata_image,wikidata_no_image&sparql_filter=%3Fq%20wdt%3AP757%20%5B%5D&worldwide=1

• You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game

http://stadt-land-wikidata.netlify.com/?#/the with a query https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23TEMPLATE%3D%7B%20%22template%22%3A%20%22%3Ftype%20in%20language%20%3Flang%20starting%20with%20%3Fletter%20%22%2C%20%22variables%22%3A%20%7B%20%22%3Ftype%22%3A%20%7B%7D%2C%20%22%3Flang%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fid%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ34770.%20%7D%22%7D%20%2C%20%22%3Fletter%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fid%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ9788.%20%7D%22%20%7D%20%20%7D%20%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ4022%20AS%20%3Ftype%29%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20%3Ftype.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ9968%20AS%20%3Fletter%29%0A%20%20%3Fletter%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FletterLabel.%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ188%20AS%20%3Flang%29%0A%20%20%3Flang%20wdt%3AP218%20%3FlangISO.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3FitemLabel%29%29%20%3D%20%3FlangISO%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3FletterLabel%29%29%20%3D%20%3FlangISO%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28%3FitemLabel%2C%20%3FletterLabel%29%29%0A%7D%0ALIMIT%20100 ;)

• To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2017/04#Significant_change:_new_data_type_for_geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Lea_Lacroix_%28WMDE%29/Cognate_announcement

Did you know?

• Newest properties

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: type of reference https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3865, suicide rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3864, Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3863, MyDramaList name ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3862, iTunes app ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3861, Wormbase Gene ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3860, Environment Ontology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3859, route diagram https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3858, cinenacional.com person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3857, Quebec municipalities geographical code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3856, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3855, Soundtrack Collector ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3854, Rat Genome Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3853, FlyBase Gene ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3852, cinenacional.com movie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3851, LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3850, LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3849, Irish Rugby Football Union ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3848, Open Library subject ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3847, DBC author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3846

• Query examples:
  • The 500 most important paintings, according to Wikidata sitelinks
  https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fq%20%28min%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimg%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%28%3FqLabel%29%3B%20separator%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fsitelink%29%20as%20%3Flinkcount%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fq%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%3Fsitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fq%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%09%09bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%09%09%3Fq%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FqLabel%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fq%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Flinkcount%29%0ALIMIT%20500 (source https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/852104782001184768 )
  • The most important works in German by Wiki* articles
  https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fsitelink%29%20as%20%3Flinkcount%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fq%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ7725634%20.%20%23%20Literary%20work%0A%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP364%20wd%3AQ188%20.%20%23%20Q188%3DGerman%20Language%0A%20%20%3Fsitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fq%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%22%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Flinkcount%29%0ALIMIT%20500 (source https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/851742760902283265 )
  • Cities in France starting with the letter W
  https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemL%20%3Fcoords%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ484170%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FitemL%29%20%3D%20%22fr%22%29%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28STRSTARTS%28%3FitemL%2C%20%22W%22%29%29%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/851748921420468224)
• Newest external tools: Wikinity

https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikinity/?utm_content=buffer619a0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer displays a map of items near any given place

• Newest database reports: list of anthology films

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/lists/anthology_films

Development

• More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (phab:T160052

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160052)

• Adding monolingual language code UMU (phab:T160531

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160531)

• Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (phab:T161826

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161826)

• Improving header image gadget (phab:T160530

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160530)

• Provide a special page to list all available badges (phab:T114473

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114473)

• Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162870)

• Track the number of identifier properties on an item (phab:T114617

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114617)

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

-- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata

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