*404 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208219 - newsletter not found* Discussions

- Open request for adminship: DannyS712 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/DannyS712, Fralambert https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Fralambert - Possible change of usage of "located in administrative territorial entity" (P131) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P131#Possible_change_of_usage

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events

- Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania (Bangkok) is now open until March 17th. More information https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2020:Scholarships, FAQ https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ, apply https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_81GOJ9AFVdPHZgp - Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2020, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th. - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RM8tqPBg6pW6PQKButBGQe6TKjgm-6kOHzUR-9HWHGA/edit?usp=sharing - Upcoming: Wikimedia Research office hour https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours, February 26th - Upcoming: Wikidata x OSM meetup https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/Wikidata_Taiwan/2020 in Taiwan, March 9th

Press, articles, blog posts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage

- Wikidata's Linked Data for Cultural Heritage Digital Resources: An Evaluation Based on the Europeana Data Model https://dcpapers.dublincore.org/pubs/article/view/4041 by Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac - When Humans and Machines Collaborate - Cross-lingual Label Editing in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee: video during Wikimedia Research Showcase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj0z20PuGIk (at 30:00), paper https://opensym.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/os19-paper-A16-kaffee.pdf - Do you speak data? Wikidata as the Open Internet’s universal language https://blog.wikimedia.de/2020/02/20/do-you-speak-data-wikidata-as-the-open-internets-universal-language/, by Elisabeth Giesemann - “Wikidata is just a matter of facts” https://medium.com/@andra_97224/wikidata-is-just-a-matter-of-facts-334ec1eae66f, by Andra Waagmeester - Does Biodiversity Informatics 💘 Wikidata? https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/wikidata/, by Quentin Groom & Deborah Paul

Tool of the week

- Wiki Art Depiction Explorer https://art.wikidata.link/ is a web interface for adding depiction information for artworks in Wikidata by surfacing frequently used terms and providing suggestions. Read the full project description and documentation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wiki_Art_Depiction_Explorer

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- QWiki https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wikidatagame.team, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website https://q-wiki.github.io/#/ where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute; - soweego https://soweego.readthedocs.io/ is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Hjfocs/soweego_2 is out for your consideration. review of version 1 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Soweego_1_review is open for discussion. - Wikimedia Developer Satisfaction Survey https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclq5vtaonRjwQykpfi2lbLIzJl-9wcOzmzXn4xnigd_DFlpw/viewform run by the WMF until March 6th (source https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-February/093085.html )

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: Wikimedia community discussion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7930 - External identifiers: Open Food Facts label https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7927, BioLexSOE ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7928, Roglo person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7929 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: applies to name of object https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/applies_to_name_of_object, Country of registry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Country_of_registry, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Poeti_d%27Italia_in_lingua_latina_author_ID, generational suffix https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/generational_suffix - External identifiers: RealGM basketball coach ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RealGM_basketball_coach_ID, Irish playography person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Irish_playography_person_ID, Irish playography play ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Irish_playography_play_ID, Mirabile title ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mirabile_title_ID, Mirabile manuscript ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mirabile_manuscript_ID, Filmfront person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Filmfront_person_ID, Filmfront film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Filmfront_film_ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dansk_kvindebiografisk_leksikon_ID, Global Music Rights work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Global_Music_Rights_work_ID, SESAC work number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SESAC_work_number, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_First_Amendment_Encyclopedia_ID, Indiegogo project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indiegogo_project_ID, Glassdoor company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Glassdoor_company_ID, block creators https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/block_creators, targeted block time https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/targeted_block_time, staking ratio https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/staking_ratio, SOCAN work number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SOCAN_work_number, NHLR ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NHLR_ID, The Washington Post ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Washington_Post_ID - Query examples: - Importing from ThePeerage (Nov. 2019) added 50% to the number of Johns on Wikidata https://w.wiki/HVe (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Names#100,000_"John" ) - SF movies and series with a significant character known to have been portrayed by an actor who was born in Liverpool https://w.wiki/HYH (source https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1230284822754594816) - countries in Europe whose ISO 2-letter abbreviation contains letters not in the native language name of their country https://w.wiki/HfG (source https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1230901736484823040) - places names in Wales with Welsh pronunciation audio https://w.wiki/J6L (source https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Welsh_pronunciation_of_names_of_cities_and_villages_in_Wales ) - Map of types of GLAMs in Wales https://w.wiki/J5A (source https://twitter.com/WIKI_NLW/status/1231884591935426560)

Development

- Provide better redirect for statement nodes (phab:T203397 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203397) - Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239421, phab:T243192 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243192) - making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238662) - research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244987) - showing the loading bar while saving (phab:T237433 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237433) - More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues - Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code - Fixing various issues causing errors in production - Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title ( phab:T196165 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196165) - Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter ( phab:T242769 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242769)

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 - 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