Welcome to the 300th Weekly Summary!
The weekly newsletter was started by Lydia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_%28WMDE%29 at the very beginning of the Wikidata project, even before the first deployment, to keep the community informed about the developments, the new projects and tools. More than five years later, the newsletter is still there, its content powered by the community, and sent every week all along the years. I wanted to say a warm "thank you!" to each person who helped filling the Weekly Summary <3
Over the past years, as you know, Wikidata has grown a lot. More data, more tools, more editors and reusers, more exciting projects led by the community. The Weekly Summary has evolved with us, and the 300th edition seems a good moment to ask you all your suggestions about the newsletter, how it could continue evolving, and how you would like to improve it.
On that purpose, you can find *a feedback page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Feedback_300th_edition* to express all your ideas about the Weekly Summary. We're very interested to know more about your reading habits, the parts you're more or less interested in, the new topics you would like to share with the community. Thanks in advance for filling it.
I stay available anytime to discuss with you, feel free to contact me if you have any question or concern! Cheers, Léa https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lea_Lacroix_%28WMDE%29 A selection of cool tools on Wikidata
*Here are a few tools that are recommended by some Wikidata community members. External websites, gadgets or scripts, they are very useful for Wikidata editors or users!*
- The *Wikidata Query Service https://query.wikidata.org/* is an infinite source of amazing data and one of the best ways to explore and use Wikidata. (TweetsFactsAndQueries https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TweetsFactsAndQueries) - *QuickStatements https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:QuickStatements* is a powerful tool that can edit or add Wikidata item *en masse*, via a text editor or importing a spreadsheet. (Éder Porto via Facebook) - *Mix'n'match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/* (manual https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Mix%27n%27match/Manual), which helps us to interlink Wikidata with the rest of the web and the world :-) (Spinster https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Spinster, Siobhan via Twitter) - *WikiShootMe! https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme* allows you to see Wikidata items plotted out on a map and shows you whether they have images or not. (Ham II https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ham_II) - Yair Rand's *WikidataInfo https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/Setup#On_Wikipedia script* adds the QID of the equivalent Wikidata item to the page being viewed (on sister projects), along with its Wikidata label and description. (Andy Mabbett https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing) - *Recoin https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Recoin* measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. ( Rachmat04 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Rachmat04) - *Template:Wikidata list https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_list* ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 https://tools.wmflabs.org/listeria/botstatus.php now live. ( Jheald https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jheald) - *DuplicateReferences gadget* adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item. (PKM https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PKM) - *checkConstraints gadget* adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Property_constraints_portal and help people fixing them (Léa https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lea_Lacroix_%28WMDE%29) - *Resolve authors https://tools.wmflabs.org/sourcemd/new_resolve_authors.php?name=Jane+Smith&doit=Look+for+author* lists scientific articles with the property author name string (P2093) and groups them on the basis of co-authors and topic, which helps to distinguish people referred to by identical name strings. (Daniel Mietchen https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen) - The *Wiki Loves Monuments map https://maps.wikilovesmonuments.org/* is powered by Wikidata. You can look for a city and find the monuments around. (Stefano Sabatini via Facebook)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/ Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: *How to add a lot of data* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Edit-a-thon/Atividades_em_portugu%C3%AAs/Wikidata_Lab_IV, São Paulo, February 22th - Upcoming: #datatónCervantes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Madrid/2018-02-24, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th - Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Projet:Suisse/Carnotzet#Atelier_d%27initiation_Wikidata_%C3%A0_Lausanne_samedi_24.02.2018, February 24th - Upcoming: Wikidata seminar, Oxford e-Research Centre https://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/Wikidata_seminar, February 28th - Ongoing: Fourth Annual month wide d:Wikidata:Events/Nepal#Datathon_2018 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Nepal#Datathon_2018 - Past: Wikidata doathon https://github.com/goe-wikidata/doathon-20180214, 14-15 February 2018, Göttingen - *A Reconciliation Recipe for Wikidata http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2018/02/12/a-reconciliation-recipe-for-wikidata/* by Martin Poulter - *Some ways Wikidata can improve search and discovery http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2018/02/14/some-ways-wikidata-can-improve-search-and-discovery/* by Martin Poulter - *From Wikidata to Scholia: creating structured linked data to generate scholarly profiles http://2018.code4lib.org/talks/from-wikidata-to-scholia-creating-structured-linked-data-to-generate-scholarly-profiles* - *Querying Wikidata about Vienna tram lines https://noniq.at/0016/wikidata-sparql-introduction/*, by Stefan Daschek - *Using wikidata for linked data WordPress indexes https://blogs.pjjk.net/phil/wikidata-linked-data-wordpress-indexes/*, by Phil Barker - *Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos https://blog.ehri-project.eu/2018/02/12/using-wikidata*
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are now over 100,000 ORCID iDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ORCID in Wikidata. - The usage history graph that is being linked to on property talk pages now shows usage since the end of August 2016 https://twitter.com/sjoerddebruin/status/965364983541522432. This used to be 50 days. Thanks Lockal https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lockal! - Feedback needed: ontology for structured data on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feedback_requests/Ontology
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: has command line option https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4837, Wolfram Language entity code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4839, total fertility rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4841, development of anatomical structure https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4843, research intervention https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4844, permitted food additive https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4850, maximum food additive use level https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4851 - External identifiers: TheTVDB.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4835, Irish Women Rugby Football Union ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4836, CATO ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4838, Directory of Czech publishers ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4840, ASHRAE refrigerant number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4842, Bulbapedia article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4845, Lemon Amiga identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4846, CPC-Power identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4847, Libraries.org ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4848, International Numbering System number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4849, JECFA database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4852, JMPR database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4853, Uppslagsverket Finland ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4854, Phasmida Species File ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4855 - Query examples: - Women with an Erdős number https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FerdosNumber%20%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP2021%20%3FerdosNumber.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3FerdosNumber%29%20 - Classes that are subclass of both physical object and abstract object https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass1%20%3Fclass1Label%20%3FphysClass%20%3FphysClassLabel%20%3FabsClass%20%3FabsClassLabel%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ223557%20%20.%20%0A%23%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22reverse%22.%0A%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%2040000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25physicalClasses%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20%20wd%3AQ7184903%20.%20%0A%23%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22reverse%22.%0A%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%2040000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25abstractClasses%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25physicalClasses%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25abstractClasses%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25commonClasses%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25commonClasses.%0A%20%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%28%3Fclass%20AS%20%3FparentClass%29%20WHERE%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25commonClasses.%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FparentClass.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25reducedClasses%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25reducedClasses%20.%0A%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fclass1%20.%0A%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20%3Fclass1%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FabsClass%20.%0A%20%20%3FabsClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ7184903%20.%0A%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FabsClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ223557%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%281%20AS%20%3Fno_go%29%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%21bound%28%3Fno_go%29%29%20.%0A%20%20%3Fclass1%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FphysClass%20.%0A%20%20%3FphysClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ223557%20.%0A%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%23%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FphysClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ7184903%20.%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%281%20AS%20%3Fno_go2%29%20.%0A%23%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%23%20%20FILTER%20%28%21bound%28%3Fno_go2%29%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FabsClassLabel%0A (thread https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Ontology#A_nasty_anti-pattern_? ) - Countries sharing land borders only with larger countries https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3FitemLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ6256%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP2046%20%3Farea%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP47%20%3Fstatement%20.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP47%20%3Fy%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP805%20%3Fborder%20.%0A%20%20%3Fborder%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15104814%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP47%20%3Fs%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fs%20ps%3AP47%20%3Fx%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP805%20%3Fb%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fb%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15104814%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20wdt%3AP2046%20%3Farea2%20.%0A%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Farea2%20%3C%20%3Farea%20%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FitemLabel (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/964961360676343811) - Alive actors and actresses without an image, ordered by number of films they appear in https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20alive%20actors%20and%20actresses%20without%20an%20image%2C%20ordered%20by%20number%20of%20films%20they%20appear%20in%0ASELECT%20%3Factor%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FactorDescription%20%3Fcount%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Factor%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Ffilm%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factor.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Factor%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Factor%20wdt%3AP570%20%3FdateOfDeath.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Factor%0A%20%20HAVING%28%3Fcount%20%3E%3D%2050%29%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/965355084161998849) - Beast species in the Harry Potter universe https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20beast%20species%20in%20the%20Harry%20Potter%20universe%0ASELECT%20%3Fspecies%20%3FspeciesLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fspecies%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ2537344.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20LCASE%28%3FspeciesLabel%29 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/963070821920071680) - Places that have been indicated as the topic of scientific articles indexed in Wikidata https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ftopic%20%3Fgeoloc%20%3Fpaper%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fpaper%20wdt%3AP921%20%3Ftopic%3B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ13442814%20.%0A%20%20%3Ftopic%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fgeoloc.%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Ftopic%20%3Fgeoloc%20%3Fpaper (source https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/status/965351680329113605) - Scientists whose cause of death was "death by burning" https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP106%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ901%20.%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP509%20wd%3AQ468455%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20fr%2C%20de%2C%20es%2C%20it%2C%20cz%22%20%7D%0A%7D%20 (source https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/964928493720096768) - Women who have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences https://query.wikidata.org/#%0ASELECT%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FschoolLabel%20%20%3Fimage%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP463%20wd%3AQ270794.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP69%20%5Bps%3AP69%20%3Fschool%3B%20pq%3AP512%20wd%3AQ752297%5D.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D (source https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/963415133124005888) - Wikidata:WikiProject ShEx https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_ShEx - Newest database reports: winter sport disciplines, people and equipment https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sports/reports/equipment/winter_sports
Development
- Fixed incomplete "Label:", "Description:" and "Statement:" entity usage messages in various places (phab:T178090 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178090). Thanks, Matěj! - Improved violation messages for ranges involving the current date (e. g. “should not be in the future”). - Continued work on caching constraint check results. - Enabled Lua fine-grained usage tracking for better performance on several more wikis: hywiki, frwiki, svwiki, itwiki, zhwiki, bewiki, nlwiki, glwiki, and Wikimedia Commons (phab:T187265 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187265 phab:T186714 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186714) - Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (phab:T173743 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173743, phab:T160525 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160525)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R. 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