*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New request for comments
- Frequency of YouTube follower count data
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Frequency_of_YouTube_follower_count_data>
- Should previously linked Wikipedia articles be separated?
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Should_previously_linked_Wikipedia_articles_be_separated%3F>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming:
- We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Ninth_Birthday> on October 29
during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the
celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s
how you can get involved!
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/JOEJSBFTLRIWCY3WGSCYRBZKDAHBJPKB/>
- Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th October
2021 <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1634745653> (18:00 Berlin
time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel
<https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls>
call: Scottish Accused Witches Project with Ewan McAndrew and
Emma Carroll
(University of Edinburgh). [1]
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zAgFigQFhnB1GXiRjt0MvXxB9ry87tu7YNS_5bM4vqU/edit?usp=sharing>,
Oct 19th.
- WikiProject Govdirectory Collab Hour
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Events>,
October 22
- LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3tBIgP8XKo>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3080639182221238/>,
October 23 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#84>,
October 24
- IT Festival Without Borders from 21 to 23 October 2021 in Rovereto
<https://www.lavocedeltrentino.it/2021/10/12/festival-informatici-senza-frontiere-dal-21-al-23-ottobre-2021-a-rovereto/>
- *There will be a Wikidata for SPARQL queries workshop for high
school and university students.*
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #12, Health professions
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=12>
- #12MonthsofOSM, mapping historical features
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/12MonthsofOSM?src=hashtag_click>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- Introduction to
Observablehq.com for Wikidata users
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/introduction-a-observable-pour-les-utilisateurs-de-wikida>
in French (Introduction Ă Observable pour les utilisateurs de Wikidata)
- Learning to edit Wikidata is challenging; we aim to make it easier
with this interactive course
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/15/learn-wikidata-an-interactive-course/>
- Manuscripts on Wikidata: the state of the art? by Martin Poulter
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter>
- Digital scholarship in archives: A data case study
<https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/digital-scholarship-in-archives-a-data-case-study/>
- Papers
- Accepted papers for the Wikidata Workshop at ISWC have been
published:
https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2021/
- Detecting Cross-Language Plagiarism using Open Knowledge Graphs
<https://www.gipp.com/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/stegmueller2021.pdf>
- Videos
- Wikidata Scripts and gadgets (in French) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-NQc0U6XoI>
- Import RDF data from Wikidata (part 11) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joG3zZ4vLno>
- New introductory working hour on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLbP8AHfHas>
- Building Wikidata - Queries with Wikidata Query Service (in
Spanish) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9tMq-FRDd8>
- Building Wikidata - Databases and Open Refine (in Spanish) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frhn6CEf96w>
- How to retrieve the list of works by Canadian authors available on
Wikisource? (in French) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bBPL0ITL9w>
- Other:
- Research project: How can museums improve the usability of
collection APIs?
<https://prattdx.org/research/evaluating-the-usability-of-museum-apis/>
Tool of the week
- Snowman <https://github.com/glaciers-in-archives/snowman> is a static
site generator for SPARQL backend (source
<https://twitter.com/AlbinPCLarsson/status/1448247078250061825?t=TANj4qCkX3UgJdZVqlCEXQ&s=19>
)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3_-_Community_tracks>
are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until
October 20
- Sina Ahmadi has released a SPARQL query generator for lexicographical
data
<https://sinaahmadi.github.io/posts/sparql-query-generator-for-lexicographical-data.html>
- Wikidata reached the 10000th numbered property
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Introducing_P10000:_Research_Vocabularies_Australia_ID>,
with the creation of P10000 Research Vocabularies Australia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10000>. (There are currently 9285
pages in the Property namespace <https://w.wiki/4ESP>.)
- Wikidata now has over 600,000 Lexemes!
<https://twitter.com/WikidataMeter/status/1448131107661230083>
- Learn Wikidata <https://www.learnwikidata.net/> is an online
interactive course created by the Vanderbilt University thanks to a
WikiCite grant and available in English, Spanish and Chinese. More
information here
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/15/learn-wikidata-an-interactive-course/>
.
- The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award> is looking for
nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/DDNP7CZWF74CUCD7SC6S452KGMNMOAPN/>).
Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects
will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: catalogue raisonné
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9969>, predicate for
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9970>, has thematic relation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9971>, illustrative content
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9972>, ITU radio emission
designation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9974>, isotopically
modified form of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9977>, stylized
name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9989>, record number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9994>, excitation energy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9998>
- External identifiers: WDG lemma ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9947>, The World Factbook
country ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9948>, AFNIL
publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9949>, RICS
company code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9950>, Greek
Castles ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9951>, Gente di
Tuscia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9952>, Lexicon of
Medieval Nordic Law ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9953>,
Product and Service Code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9954>, SAM ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9955>, IRIS Sapienza author
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9956>, museum-digital
place ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9957>, Det Norske
Akademis Ordbok ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9958>, PDDikti
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9959>, VI.BE platform ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9960>, Owler company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9961>, Ordbog over det
danske sprog ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9962>, Svenska
Akademins Ordbok-section ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9963>, Kalliope-Verbund ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9964>, musik-sammler.de
artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9965>, United
Nations Treaty Collection object ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9966>, Washington Rare Plant
Field Guide ID (Web version)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9967>, RAWG game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9968>, TMOK ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9973>, Vokrug sveta article
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9975>, copyright registration
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9976>, Eneström Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9978>, NRK TV ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9979>, NLI Archive
(bibliographic) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9980>, L'Unificazione
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9981>, IGI Global
Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9982>,
Enciclopedia
dei ragazzi ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9983>, CANTIC
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9984>, EMBO member ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9985>, NDL earlier law ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9986>, AbandonSocios ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9987>, Bat Sheva Archive ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9988>,
Literature.com book ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9990>,
Literature.com ebook
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9991>, CantoDict word ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9992>, CantoDict character ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9993>, MYmovies person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9995>, Chi era Costui plaque
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9996>, Bowers acronym
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9997>, Turkish Cinema
Archive Database person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9999>, Research Vocabularies
Australia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10000>, Austrian
Football Association player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10001>, Dewan Negara ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10002>, Arachne.org.au ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10003>, Dewan Rakyat ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10004>,
Remontees-mecaniques.net
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10005>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: merger
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/merger>,
split-off
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/split-off>,
choreography
for
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/choreography_for>,
classification, compartmentalisation, or information category for
this document
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/classification,_compartmentalisation,_or_information_category_for_this_document>,
Hotel rating
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hotel_rating>,
NatureScot Sitelink ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NatureScot_Sitelink_ID>,
pole positions
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/pole_positions>,
podium finishes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/podium_finishes>,
StopGame ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/StopGame_ID>,
fastest laps
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fastest_laps>,
Amends
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Amends>,
heading
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/heading>,
Conway
polyhedron notation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Conway_polyhedron_notation>
- External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Reptile_Online_Database_ID>,
Research Data Australia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Research_Data_Australia_ID>,
Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub resource ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Institute_for_Disaster_Resilience_Knowledge_Hub_resource_ID>,
Parliament of Australia MP ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Parliament_of_Australia_MP_ID>,
Trove work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Trove_work_ID>,
Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Geographical_Names_Board_of_NSW_geoname_ID>,
Apple Music track ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Apple_Music_track_ID>,
BokmĂĄlsordboka-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bokm%C3%A5lsordboka-ID>,
Nynorskordboka-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nynorskordboka-ID>,
Birdata ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Birdata_ID>,
IRIS Superior Graduate Schools IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Superior_Graduate_Schools_IDs>,
Australian Trade Mark Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Trade_Mark_Number>,
Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Prints_%2B_Printmaking_artist_ID>,
Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Prints_%2B_Printmaking_work_ID>,
FFCAM ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FFCAM_ID>, TVSA
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TVSA_ID>,
Academy of Russian Television person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Academy_of_Russian_Television_person_ID>,
NSW Parliament Member ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NSW_Parliament_Member_ID>,
Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Statistical_Geography_2021_ID>,
KPU Calon 2019
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KPU_Calon_2019>,
Monaco Nature Encyclopedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Monaco_Nature_Encyclopedia_ID>,
Refuges.info ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Refuges.info_ID>,
Smotrim.ru film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Smotrim.ru_film_ID>,
Norgeshistorie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Norgeshistorie_ID>,
AHPRA registration number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AHPRA_registration_number>,
PubCRIS product number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PubCRIS_product_number>,
Toolhub ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Toolhub_ID>,
Spotify user ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Spotify_user_ID>,
Dizionario di Medicina ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_di_Medicina_ID>,
Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_delle_Scienze_Fisiche_ID>,
ORIAS number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ORIAS_number>,
SNSF person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SNSF_person_ID>
- Query examples:
- List of written works authored by recent Nobel laureate Joshua
Angrist
<https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23title%3A%20List%20of%20written%20works%20ordered%20by%20date%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Fyear%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20wd%3AQ921499.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28YEAR%28%3Fdate%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3Fyear%29>
(via d:Template:Item documentation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Item_documentation> on
d:Talk:Q921499 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q921499>)
- Books by Canadian authors with a Wikisource page
<https://w.wiki/4D$a> (Source
<https://twitter.com/Georgele2etexte/status/1449627724470013952>)
- Repetitive taxon names <https://w.wiki/4Eek> (Source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1449534448995901446>)
- Count of sitelinks of museums/tourist attractions in the US
<https://w.wiki/4DH$> (Source
<https://twitter.com/wikilovesbrasil/status/1449095230586826757>)
- Map of French communes that are >30 characters long
<https://w.wiki/4DT4> (Source
<https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/1448600030127009797>)
- Lexemes in Swedish that are missing in Svenska Akademiens Ordbok
(Q1935308) <https://w.wiki/4Ef9> (Source
<https://twitter.com/DennisPriskorn/status/1448396292439281682>)
- Attendance at the Bargoin, Roger-Quilliot and Henri-Lecoq museums
per year <https://w.wiki/4DDX> (Source
<https://twitter.com/belett/status/1448252751520092161>)
- Present and past members of Czech Chamber of Deputies who are
relatives <https://w.wiki/4Csp> (Source
<https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1447837736761806849>)
Development
- Mismatch Finder
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatch_Finder>: We are
continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are working on
letting reviewers submit their decision if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the
other database, both or neither.
- In the previous week we migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new
change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the
other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the
article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists.
This week we monitored the new system and investigated and fixed a few
issues that came up.
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>
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