Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Hazard-SJ
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Hazard-SJ_3>,
Gnoeee
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Gnoeee>,
Wagino 20100516
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wagino_20100516_2>
- Closed request for adminship: Wiki13
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wiki13_2>
(successful)
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/August_2020>.
This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling
GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibase_Live_Session_-_August_2020.webm>
)
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present
bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and
institutions, 11 August. [Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xftQTezmXVO0B1WMYoNnkEOrOVYF38nKaXzP7POxRvo/edit#Agenda>
]
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#25>,
August 16
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed
Wikidata games Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2726704460948047/>,
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVhtTfzrKA>
- Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia
by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa71M5Yw8g>
- Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with
Wikidata tools
<https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2020/08/10/librarians-work-to-broaden-vanderbilts-research-reputation-with-wikidata-tools/>.
"To speed up the creation of metadata about faculty and their publications,
Steven Baskauf, data science and data curation specialist for libraries,
developed “VanderBot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:VanderBot>,” a
set of scripts that can read and write to Wikidata, greatly improving the
efficiency by which Vanderbilt’s faculty are discoverable through Wikidata".
Tool of the week
- OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher <https://osm.wikidata.link/> links Wikidata
entries to places in OpenStreetMap.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- wikidata2df, a Python package for easily turning a Wikidata SPARQL
query into a pandas dataframe <https://github.com/jvfe/wikidata2df>
- With Wikidata Concept Tree Generator
<https://observablehq.com/@repmax/wikidata-concept-tree-generator>, you
can enter any concept and instantly see a visualization of its extended
relations. (Source
<https://twitter.com/maxmunnecke/status/1291688128848240641>)
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: size comparison diagram
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8512>, view
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8517>
- External identifiers:
Legacy.com newspaper ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8507>, ChemSynthesis ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8508>, Dizionario Biografico
dei Protestanti in Italia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8509>, Maitron des fusillés
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8510>, Fototeka person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8511>, LibraryThing series ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8513>, TOPCMB ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8514>, Swiss Industrial
Heritage ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8515>, Library
of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8516>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: image of entrance
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/image_of_entrance>,
extinction date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/extinction_date>,
notation writer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/notation_writer>,
raga <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/raga>,
tala <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tala>,
SMARTS
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SMARTS>, Editio
princeps
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Editio_princeps>,
recording location
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/recording_location>
- External identifiers: Sochy a města ID osoby
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sochy_a_m%C4%9Bsta_ID_osoby>,
Sochy a města ID sochy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sochy_a_m%C4%9Bsta_ID_sochy>,
podvignaroda
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/podvignaroda>,
Have I Been Pwned breach ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Have_I_Been_Pwned_breach_ID>,
European Investment Bank project ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Investment_Bank_project_ID>,
WordNet 3.1 Synset Id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WordNet_3.1_Synset_Id>,
cadastral municipality ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cadastral_municipality_ID>,
NPR station ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NPR_station_ID>,
NYARC Discovery ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NYARC_Discovery_ID>,
Nasjonalt skoleregister-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nasjonalt_skoleregister-ID>,
ERIC Thesaurus ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ERIC_Thesaurus_ID>,
American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/American_Folklore_Society_Ethnographic_Thesaurus_ID>,
Trismegistos Texts ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Trismegistos_Texts_ID>
- Query examples:
- Ancestors of the current King of Spain color coded by sex or gender
<https://w.wiki/YhE>
- Political alignments of the parties of world leaders
<https://w.wiki/Ymh> (Source
<https://twitter.com/tmtm/status/1290946706490695680>)
- Female Mathematicians whose birth/death anniversary is today
<https://w.wiki/YiN> (Source
<https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1290621299132375043>)
- Commons queries:
- Map of images found in the medieval Atlas De Wit
<https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ffile%20%3Fimage%20%3FdepictionLabel%20%3Fcoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP6243%20wd%3AQ2520345%20.%0A%20%20%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdepiction%20.%0A%20%20%3Ffile%20schema%3AcontentUrl%20%3Furl%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepiction%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdepiction%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdepictionLabel%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20bind%28iri%28concat%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%2C%20replace%28substr%28str%28%3Furl%29%2C53%29%2C%22_%22%2C%22%2520%22%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%0A%7D>
(source
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/queries/examples#Map_of_images_found_in_the_medieval_Atlas_De_Wit>
)
- Things depicted with cats
<https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/#%23%20Things%20depicted%20with%20cats%0A%0A%23%20Things%20depicted%20with%20cats%0A%0A%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fcount%20%3Fdepicted%20%3FdepictedLabel%20%3FsampleImg%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Ftarget%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Ftarget%20wdt%3AP31%3F%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ146%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20include%20specific%20sorts%20of%20cats%20and%20individual%20cats%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Ftarget%20wdt%3AP31%3F%20wd%3AQ43577%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20and%20also%20breeds%20of%20cat%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25targets%0A%20%20%20%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Ffile%29%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%3Fdepicted%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ffile%29%20AS%20%3Fsample%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25targets%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffile%20p%3AP180%20%3Fstmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstmt%20ps%3AP180%20%3Ftarget%20.%0A%20%23%20%20%20%3Fstmt%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20%20Make%20sure%20the%20cat%20is%20marked%20as%20prominent%20--%20%2a%2acommented%20out%20for%20now%2a%2a%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffile%20p%3AP180%20%3Fstmt2.%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fstmt2%20%21%3D%20%3Fstmt%29%20.%20%20%20%20%23%23%20%20now%20get%20another%20depicts%20statement%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstmt2%20ps%3AP180%20%3Fdepicted%20.%20%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicted%0A%7D%20AS%20%25things%20%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcount%20%3Fdepicted%20%3Fsample%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25things%20.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%23%20exclude%20anything%20that%20was%20an%20original%20target%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Ftarget%20AS%20%3Fdepicted%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25targets%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25things1%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25things1%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicted%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdepictedLabel%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fsample%20schema%3AcontentUrl%20%3Furl%20%3B%0A%20%20bind%28iri%28concat%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%2C%20wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28substr%28str%28%3Furl%29%2C53%29%29%29%29%20AS%20%3FsampleImg%29%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29>
(source
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/queries/examples#Things_depicted_with_cats>
)
Development
- finalized designs for the query builder to start coding at the
beginning of September
- wrapping up the initial work on the design system so that we can start
using the first pieces of it in the query builder development
- working on properly linking redirects in recent changes, watchlist and
co (phabricator:T255387 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255387>)
- addressed remaining security review comments about the Wikidata Bridge
so that we can deploy it finally on the first Wikipedia
- fixed a bug where string values had the wrong length limit (
phabricator:T259440 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259440>)
- finishing the work of untangling Wikibase Client and Wikibase
Repository extensions to make development easier
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>
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de