*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>
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de