Weekly Summary #411 - Wikidata

14 Apr 2020

      *Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- CheckUser nominations: Sotiale
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/CheckUser/Sotiale,
   Jasper Deng
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/CheckUser/Jasper_Deng,
   Romaine
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/CheckUser/Romaine
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Ongoing: Wikidata Lab XXII on the Wikidata Wikiproject COVID-19, April
   14, 1pm UTC, remote, in English. Event page
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Edit-a-thon/Atividades_em_portugu%C3%AAs/Wikidata_Lab_XXII
   - Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron
   https://www.twitch.tv/belett, Tuesday April 14 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
   - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #9
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#8,
   April 19
   - Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7, on Telegram. Notes
   of the discussion
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2020-04-07
   - Past: Wikidata topic at the virtual biohackathon
   https://github.com/virtual-biohackathons/covid-19-bh20/wiki/Wikidata.
Mid-term
   updates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E44oFcThPTY&t=31%3A39m final
   presentations
   http://ipfs.genenetwork.org/ipfs/QmZkuJZyf8vgE2Db2jqhPmhUdgvGtpFBkcSwaX2hj4RqaK/webinar-covid_19_bh20-wrapup-20200411.mp4
   (Wikidata report starts at 1:17:40)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- *A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report
   https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.026336v1* (new
   preprint about virus info (strains, genes, proteins), ShEx, and SPARQL)
   - *Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies
   https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.03181.pdf* ("We look at the coverage of two
   biomedical ontologies focusing on diseases with respect to Wikidata for 9
   European languages")
   - *Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus
   https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2020/04/wikidata-and-bibliography-of-life-in.html*
   - Video: Editing Wikidata and creating a property proposal: YouTube
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAb_AvPRqj4, Facebook
   https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/2813297058718107/,
   Periscope https://www.pscp.tv/w/1MYxNkpQkowKw
Tool of the week
- COVID19 Dashboard https://sites.google.com/view/covid19-dashboard/
   is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for
   COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms,
   taxonomy, and publications.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A database breakage
   https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200407-Wikidata's_wb_items_per_site_table_dropped,
   also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6,
   11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However,
   issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur.
   - You're welcome to give feedback on ideas of improvements for the Query
   Service interface
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Improve_the_workflows_for_queries_and_lists
   - The development team is working on automated finding of references,
   feel free to give feedback on the first batch
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Automated_finding_references_input
   - ZFOURGE UDS 19909 (Q90000000) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90000000
   - our ninety-millionth item, about a galaxy - was created on 10 April.
   - For the first time, a Wikipedia list article
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Lista_de_mortos_e_desaparecidos_pol%C3%ADticos_na_ditadura_militar_brasileira
   populated entirely from Wikidata, and built using Listeria
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:ListeriaBot, has been granted
"featured"
   status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17506997, on the Portuguese
   Wikipedia (video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgUej8GHqU4
   ).
   - ListeriaBot blocked
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Special:PermaLink/950890941#ListeriaBot_blocked_an_urgent_resolution_is_needed.
pending
   review
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Re-examination_of_ListeriaBot
   on English Wikipedia.
   - A Telegram group has been created for discussions about Wikidata in
   German https://t.me/wikidata_de
   - Comment https://www.unicode.org/reporting.html on QID Emoji proposal
   https://www.unicode.org/review/pri408/ until April 20th
Did you know?
- Newest properties
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties:
      - General datatypes: donations
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8093, network bands
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8097, bus
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8107, recommended unit of
      measurement https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8111, CSS color
      keyword https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8112
      - External identifiers: BDSP ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8071, CAB ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8072, Cult of Saints in
      Late Antiquity ID
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8073, Geschichtsquellen
      des deutschen Mittelalters work ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8074, ScreenScraper group ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8075, The Cover Project
      game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8076, FHF
      establishment ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8077, FHF
      hospital group ID
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8078, elibrary.ru
      person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8079, Ökumenisches
      Heiligenlexikon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8080, WBIS
      ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8081, Spanish National
      Catalog of Hospitals ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8082,
      Visit Tuscany ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8083, URL
      on Nintendo eShop https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8084, Curran
      Index contributor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8085, ODMP
      person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8086, GameTDB
      game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8087, Elephind.com
      ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8088, EZB ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8089, GameReactor game ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8090, Archival Resource Key
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8091, EcuRed article
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8092, Geneastar person ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8094, Encyklopedia
      Solidarności ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8095, Pinakes
      copyist or possessor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8096,
      Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8098, I-Revues ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8099, JournalTOCs ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8100, MUSE article ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8101, NASA active astronaut
      ID - DO NOT USE https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8102, Paperity
      article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8103, Paperity
      journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8104, SAN
      archive producer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8105, SOCAN
      work number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8106, Papers
      Past ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8108, Pascal et
      Francis ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8109, Retronews
      ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8110, COTREX trail ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8113
   - New property proposals
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal
   to review:
      - General datatypes: ACUM work ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ACUM_work_ID,
      appendix
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/appendix,
Wikisource
      index page
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikisource_index_page,
      Unicode character
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Unicode_character,
      Arlington Cemetery person ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Arlington_Cemetery_person_ID,
      Eigentümerhistorie
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Eigent%C3%BCmerhistorie,
      quantification instruction
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/quantification_instruction,
      language level
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/language_level,
      Included in curricula
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Included_in_curricula,
      Order number
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Order_number,
      ShEx available at URL
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ShEx_available_at_URL,
      dialect of (computer language)
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/dialect_of_(computer_language),
      file page offset
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/file_page_offset,
      station service succession
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/station_service_succession
      - External identifiers: Seoul Information Disclosure Plaza management
      number
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Seoul_Information_Disclosure_Plaza_management_number,
      Wikiparques ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikiparques_ID,
      NKAA ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NKAA_ID,
Described
      and Captioned Media Program producer ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Described_and_Captioned_Media_Program_producer_ID,
      Provenio ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Provenio_ID,
      Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Brno_Person_ID,
      RPPS ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RPPS_ID, South
      African Company Registration Number
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/South_African_Company_Registration_Number,
      Sicilian Regional Assembly ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sicilian_Regional_Assembly_ID,
      Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inventory_of_Archaic_and_Classical_Poleis_ID,
      SNCF station identifier
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SNCF_station_identifier,
      Benerail station identifier
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Benerail_station_identifier,
      Indian Railways train number
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indian_Railways_train_number,
      Soccerdonna coach ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Soccerdonna_coach_ID,
      DLL Catalog IDs
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DLL_Catalog_IDs,
      MDN https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MDN,
Psocodea
      Species File ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Psocodea_Species_File_ID,
      Slovak Registration ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Slovak_Registration_ID,
      Swedish Glaciers
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swedish_Glaciers,
      Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Club_Identifier_Netherlands_Handball_Association,
      Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopaedia_Metallum_label_ID,
      UK Modern House Index building ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK_Modern_House_Index_building_ID,
      UK Modern House Index architect ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK_Modern_House_Index_architect_ID,
      CPAN person
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CPAN_person,
      FactGrid item ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FactGrid_item_ID,
      FactGrid property ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FactGrid_property_ID,
      Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Texas_Historic_Sites_Atlas_ID
   - Query examples:
      - Names of countries without letter "a" https://w.wiki/Mnx (source
      https://twitter.com/PierreBoudes/status/1248923143965638657)
      - Infectious diseases and their number of cases https://w.wiki/Mo2 (
      source https://twitter.com/mrlogix/status/1248501929371521024)
      - Map of mountain huts in Bulgaria https://w.wiki/Mo4 (source
      https://twitter.com/valexiev1/status/1247790814811455488)
   - Schema examples: pandemic (E184)
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E184, preprint (E185)
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E185, Macromolecular
   complex (E186) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E186, hospital
   (E187) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E187, 2020
   coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188)
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E188, clinical trial (E189)
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E189, Lockdown (E190)
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E190, lockdown part of the
   2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191)
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E191, virus taxon (E192)
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E192, Preprint server (E193)
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E193, Complex Portal entity
   (E194) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E194, contact
   tracing app (E195) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E195
Development
- Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (
   phab:T248592 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248592)
   - Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was
   dropped (phab:T249596 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249596)
   - Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during
   the incident (phab:T249595 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249595)
   - More work on Automated finding references
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Automated_finding_references_input
   - More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with
   federated properties
   - Bridge: improve the generic error screen (phab:T241126
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241126) and on save (phab:T248087
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248087)
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
-- 
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.

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