Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions

- Open request for adminship: Wiki13 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wiki13_2

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

- Upcoming: Search Platform Office Hours—August 5th, 2020 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093651.html. This event will be an occasion to talk about the Query Service. - Upcoming: Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #15, August 8 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2726704460948047/, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVhtTfzrKA - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #24 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#23, August 9

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

- Wikidata track at the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries: - (30 July) Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics (by User:Gamaliel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pFTxOoiuYI - (30 July) Advanced Wikidata Tools and Concepts: More Than Just P's and Q's (by User:Mahir256) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=252mXCjFaCQ - (30 July) Developing a Wikidata Project (by User:Will (Wiki Ed)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIS8s2IKM0 - (31 July) VanderBot: Using a Python script to create and update researcher items in Wikidata (by User:Baskaufs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQ8rJufeOU - (31 July) No bricks without clay: outcomes from the Stanford Wikidata Working Group (by User:Arcadialib) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDsKvFkdqRU - (31 July) LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour: Adding References to Wikidata (by User:Chicagohil) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZEwMrUjGg0 - Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2721331698151990/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RGlGntrkTw - Video: Lexemes in Wikidata - structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFusgeGFWCU - Video: Wikidata presentation (in Turkish), YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waS0GQK4AsQ

- Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English - Nice article giving some context about why it matters to have Lexemes in Wikidata in many different languages https://ruder.io/nlp-beyond-english/

Tool of the week

- SQID https://sqid.toolforge.org/#/ allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: height of center of mass https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8497, road number formatter https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8498, Vietnamese middle name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8500, heraldic attitude https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8503, traffic sign template image https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8505 - External identifiers: Tree of Public Interest ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8492, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8493, DSSTOX compound identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8494, South Africa EMIS code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8495, Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8496, WISAARD resource ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8499, Gateway to Research organisation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8501, SÚKL code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8502, Science Fiction Awards Database author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8504, Power plant operating licence (Turkey) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8506 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: certified as https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/certified_as, number of stages https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_stages, convergence rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/convergence_rate, step count https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/step_count, Alternative form https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alternative_form, view https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/view, version type for works https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/version_type_for_works, advertisement copy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/advertisement_copy - External identifiers: LibraryThing series identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LibraryThing_series_identifier, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swiss_Industrial_Heritage_ID, TOPCMB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TOPCMB_ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Library_of_Congress_Medium_of_Performance_Thesaurus_ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sports-Reference.com_college_basketball_school_ID, SAT-matrikulo https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SAT-matrikulo, Signal number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Signal_number, BHF author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BHF_author_ID, BHF magazine ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BHF_magazine_ID, SPLC Group ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SPLC_Group_ID, SPLC Individual ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SPLC_Individual_ID, Open Civic Data Division Identifiers https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Civic_Data_Division_Identifiers, RKD thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RKD_thesaurus_ID, TCLF ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TCLF_ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Presence_compositrices_ID_of_composer, Presence compositrices ID of work https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Presence_compositrices_ID_of_work - Query examples: - Properties and the number of constraint definition statements on them https://w.wiki/YLS - there are quite a few with 0 constraint definitions - a graph of MPs and parties https://w.wiki/YPL in the Swedish Parliament and with whom they worked together with to create motions 2018 SPOILER https://w.wiki/YPN: >95% is just with people in the same party - Wealthiest queer people on Wikidata https://w.wiki/YdB (Source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1289909305517305856) - Bubble chart showing the winners of the FA Cup https://w.wiki/YRq (Source) https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1289639346400878593 - Map of parks in Oslo missing images on Wikidata https://w.wiki/YNb (Source https://twitter.com/Hros/status/1289310813795229696)

- Commons queries: - Orienteerers: tinyurl.com/y25qa8ef (source https://www.facebook.com/jan.ainali/videos/10218133344154080, at 53:45) - Animal hugs: tinyurl.com/yykvj26y (source https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1289857530152103936)

Development

- The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them. - Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions). - REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now. - Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks. - Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.

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