*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Closed request for comments: - Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Cleaning_up_the_ontology_of_anonymous. Outcome: New model adopted, documentation updated https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Visual_arts/Item_structure#Use_of_creator_(P170)_in_uncertain_cases .
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Past
- - Wikibase Community User Group monthly meetings - May 2021 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group_monthly_meetings-_May_2021 - How to add references on Wikidata (# 1Lib1Ref 2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juQO7M60RfI - working hour (2) - SPARQL #Wikidata divers - Session du mardi 18 mai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8w5YGW4hF4 - Session du mardi 25 mai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvmQNkua41Q - Upcoming - SPARQL queries live on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/belett and in French by Vigneron, June 1 at 18:00 CEST - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls call: Affinity Group Co-facilitators will recap the last year, introduce plans for the coming year, and receive suggestions from the community for future sessions.; [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fNCvP7suZoYZHxpku55eqVNGc0MM3sDmCOk9BRnISLU/edit?usp=sharing, June 1st. - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #65 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#65, June 6 - Meta meeting https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/2021-06-09 of the Wikibase Community User Group, to solve issues related to its affilation to the Wikimedia Foundation, June 9 - Wikidata Bug Triage Hour https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour about quality constraints, June 17
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Papers - Mapping of ImageNet and Wikidata for Knowledge Graphs Enabled Computer Vision https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351607486_Mapping_of_ImageNet_and_Wikidata_for_Knowledge_Graphs_Enabled_Computer_Vision - Videos - Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l77bc-rgrc - Use of VanderBot Wikidata API writing script https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyadhJmA_nM (testing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv9rMzOczv8) - LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5vVbuTI7PY, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2965557083729449/
Tool of the week
- User:So9q/ordia-link.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:So9q/ordia-link.js - is a script to add a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call to participation in interview study to building a recommender system that can help improve the editing experience in Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Kholoudsaa&oldid=1429524656: Researchers at King's College London develop a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. The researchers are inviting volunteers to interview them about their current ways to choose the items you work on in order to understand the factors that might influence such a decision. - dewiki https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Lokale_Seiten-Kurzbeschreibungen#Ergebnis considered, but rejected the introduction of local short descriptions to replace those from Wikidata - User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js was improved to now - automatically suggests the existing senses/forms when using demonstrates sense/form - automatically suggests items (based on the lemma matching the label or an alias) when using item for this sense - and searches for lemmas exactly matching the input when using synonym, antonym, hyperonym or pertainym
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: district heating grid https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9611 - External identifiers: DiVA authority-person https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9604, CDep.Ro NGO ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9605, WUA author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9606, hush.am person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9607, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9608, What Works Clearinghouse study ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9609, PoetsGate poet ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9610, Repositório da Produção da USP person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9612, ctext data entity ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9613, Australian Music Centre work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9614 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: Martian coordinates https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Martian_coordinates, gobbledygook https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/gobbledygook - External identifiers: Nevada Women's History Project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nevada_Women%27s_History_Project_ID, AADFI member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AADFI_member_ID, Bod-Inc Online author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bod-Inc_Online_author_ID, Erfgoedkaart ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Erfgoedkaart_ID, Price One Penny Periodical ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Price_One_Penny_Periodical_ID, Price One Penny Library ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Price_One_Penny_Library_ID, composers.am person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/composers.am_person_ID, armradioarchive.am person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/armradioarchive.am_person_ID, Armeniapedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Armeniapedia_ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographical_Encyclopedia_of_Astronomers_ID, AZGS Document Repository ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/_AZGS_Document_Repository_ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/electronic_Essential_Medicines_List_medicine_ID, PAS member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PAS_member_ID, ℒoviℱm Top Songs ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%E2%84%92ovi%E2%84%B1m_Top_Songs_ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/20th_Century_Chinese_Biographical_Database_ID, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800-2000) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_Biografico_dell%27Educazione_(1800-2000)_ID, BIU Santé image bank ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BIU_Sant%C3%A9_image_bank_ID, cadastral plot in France https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cadastral_plot_in_France, Internet Game Database developer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Internet_Game_Database_developer_ID, allabolag.se person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/allabolag.se_person_ID, Olschki author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Olschki_author_ID - Query examples: - People with bird-like surnames in Czech https://w.wiki/3Nqn ( Source https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1396922635011993600) - Properties used to link https://w.wiki/3PZn from preprints (Q580922) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q580922 to scholarly articles (Q13442814) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13442814 (Source https://twitter.com/larswillighagen/status/1397693652584087553) - Birthplace of Spanish poets https://w.wiki/3N9E (Source https://twitter.com/modernitas2021/status/1397167034358710274) - UK Parliaments since 1801 with number of members, number of distinct member-terms, and count of missing seats/parties. https://w.wiki/3NrD (Source https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1396941233445130244) - Newest database reports: Fresnel lenses of lighthouses https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Lighthouses/lists/Fresnel_lenses
Development
- Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283240) - Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281356) - Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200689) - Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme - Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases - Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database ( phab:T283576 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283576)
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