*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Past: Parliament of Ghana Wikidata contest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ghana/Parliament_of_Ghana/Members_of_the_5th_Parliament_of_the_4th_Republic_of_Ghana/Contest launch: from February 1 to February 28, 2020 - (YouTube replay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olCEerKhC5Q) - Upcoming: Next Wikibase live session https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/February_2021 is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 11 February 2021 https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1613059230 (Add to calendar) https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MXNkODJuM2ZxbjViOWpwNGgxa2tjM2ZkdDMgY183MXZ0MTdhNXFtbTFnYXFlNm1wdjNpYW9kc0Bn&tmsrc=c_71vt17a5qmm1gaqe6mpv3iaods%40group.calendar.google.com. You're welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase. - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls call: Mapping the Scottish Reformation, Tuesday, February 9th.[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mlgDczP_R3yNVYcvTTQSa8_woG_Kv6YTdJLgQ55QhfU/edit?usp=sharing - Upcoming: SPARQL queries https://www.twitch.tv/belett live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 9 at 18:00 CET - Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #49 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#49, February 14 - Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkAirxHj-Ps, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2887608388190986/, February 14 - Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour, February 16
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blog post by 62mkv about importing Estonian Lexemes on Wikidata https://62mkv.github.io/wikidata/linguistics/2021/02/01/long-road-to-lexeme.html - Video: Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBumtc9Adsc, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/3620310794683392/ - Video: Global Open Initiative Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Open_Initiative_Foundation Open Refine and Quikstatement Workshop. By Ursula Oberst - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yadCl4v_dw - Video: Wikidata and Minority Languages (Art+Feminism 2021 in Ghana). By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dagbani_Wikimedians_User_Group - ( YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPlHnFIaCNg) - Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZWJ6b5aAsU
Tool of the week
- Item documentation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Item_documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:TP_award. See Q1624297 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q1624297 for an example.
- Ranker https://ranker.toolforge.org/ lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Update on the state of WikidataCon 2021 for January https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikidataCon_2021#WikidataCon_update_-_January_2021 - New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2021 has been published https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2021-February/014475.html. In addition, you will find here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan/archive2020/status_updates the status updates on what was achieved for each of the 2020 goals. - Update on the development of the Easy Query Builder https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Improve_the_workflows_for_queries_and_lists/Simple_query_Builder#Query_Builder_update_-_February_2020, your feedback is welcome - Call for feedback on Wikimedia Foundation Community Board seats https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2021-February/014486.html has started on February 1. More information and ways to participate are available on this Meta-Wiki page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Community_Board_seats . - New updates to meta:Mix'n'match https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mix%27n%27match: - Import/update function for Mix’n’match catalogs (manual https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mix%27n%27match/Import) (source https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1356287316394962944) - Refreshed the Mix’n’match dataset for potential new human Wikidata items (source https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1357672520120479747)
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: number of vaccinations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9107, Commons media contributed by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9126 - External identifiers: CineFanRo person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9102, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9103, Encyclopedia of Brno object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9104, Dictionnaire des journalistes ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9105, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9106, Erudit article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9108, Holocaust.cz person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9109, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9110, SISSCO ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9111, IFLA value vocabularies ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9112, Patrinum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9113, Mathematica Italiana person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9114, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9115, Musica Brasilis score ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9116, BVFE author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9117, Family Video Game Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9118, LexML Brazil ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9119, Pepys Encylopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9120, National Museum Norway artwork ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9121, SportsLogos.net team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9122, Catalan Vikidia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9123, Russian Vikidia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9124, Microsoft MVP profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9125, Debian Package Tracker ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9128, Data Collection of the Hungarian Peerage ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9129 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: IPHAE ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IPHAE_ID, FLOSS policy URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FLOSS_policy_URL, Digest https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Digest, subsidy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/subsidy, fingerprint https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fingerprint - External identifiers: TlF Artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TlF_Artist_ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Seventh-day_Adventists_ID, GTDB taxon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GTDB_taxon, Joods Monument ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Joods_Monument_ID, HathiTrust Volume Identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HathiTrust_Volume_Identifier, Open Tree of Life ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Tree_of_Life_ID, AllMusic IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AllMusic_IDs, Evighetsrunor https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Evighetsrunor, Tree of Life contributor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tree_of_Life_contributor_ID, Astro Awani topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Astro_Awani_topic_ID, Rate Your Music genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rate_Your_Music_genre_ID, De Lakenhal-artwork-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/De_Lakenhal-artwork-ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclop%C3%A9die_berb%C3%A8re_article_ID, Can I use https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Can_I_use, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_Bourgogne-Franche-Comt%C3%A9, identifiant inventaire Centre-Val de Loire https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_Centre-Val_de_Loire, identifiant inventaire Hauts-de-France https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_Hauts-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_Normandie, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_%C3%8Ele-de-France, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_Pays_de_la_Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur - Query examples: - directors of episodes of *The Mentalist* https://w.wiki/yMQ ( source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q204228?uselang=en) - Articles from The Wētā entomology journal https://w.wiki/y8i ( Source https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1358221509110628353) - Town halls of the municipalities that surround Nantes https://w.wiki/yQa (Source https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1358162635469033477) - Caves containing prehistoric art https://w.wiki/yQb (Source https://twitter.com/volksvlijt/status/1357797450073964544) - Endemic birds in a place located in France https://w.wiki/xs3 ( Source https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/1357676400451461129) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Brazilian Laws https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Brazilian_Laws
Development
- Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (phab:T272694 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272694) - Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (phab:T272699 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272699) - Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (phab:T272032 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272032) - Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273830) - Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (phab:T265783 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265783) - Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272712) - Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138332)
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