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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>
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