*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: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dBBFnUr1uuoMlhy_bLVSWXwXsocFN2RO/view - Press release http://library.uin-malang.ac.id/news/2019/05/28/perpustakaan-pusat-uin-malang-bersama-wikimedia-indonesia-dan-fasilkom-ui-selenggarakan-lokakarya-wikidata/ - Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop https://www.facebook.com/events/419053822210609, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Portugal/Wikidata_Days_2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal. - Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Edit-a-thon/Atividades_em_portugu%C3%AAs/Wikidata_Lab_XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil - Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Atla/2019-06-13, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada
Press, articles, blog posts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogpost by RightStatements.org https://rightsstatements.org/en/2019/05/rightsstatements-in-wikidata.html - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property RightsStatement status according to source website (P6426) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6426. - Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2019/05/30/welcome-japan-search-to-the-web-of-linked-open-data/ by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-May/013072.html - At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nl:WikiWoordenboek:Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of *Wi*ki*da*ta and *Wi*ki*Wo*ordenboek can be achieved. - Hauki https://tools.wmflabs.org/hauki/ is a new tool by User:Vesihiisi https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Vesihiisi/Hauki . - Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu https://wikiedu.org/wikidata/
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: ISO speed https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6789, f-number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6790, WMI Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6793, minimum wage https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6794, UPA transcription https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6798 - External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6783, Harper's author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6784, Pakistan Railways station code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6785, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6786, Arachne building ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6787, Messes.info Catholic parish ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6788, The Atlantic author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6791, Find NZ Artists ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6792, Unified Social Credit Identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6795, OSZMI ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6796, MSX Games World ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6797 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: motif represents https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/motif_represents, Shape Expression for class https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shape_Expression_for_class, Album Academicum-identificatiecode https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Album_Academicum-identificatiecode, gender educated https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/gender_educated, ABA League ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ABA_League_ID, start grade https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/start_grade, end grade https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/end_grade, digilibLT author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/digilibLT_author_ID, IntraText author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IntraText_author_ID, in defining formula https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/in_defining_formula, PHI Latin Texts author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PHI_Latin_Texts_author_ID, associated shape https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/associated_shape, comparison image https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/comparison_image, emergency services https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/emergency_services, Married by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Married_by - External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rugby_League_Project_ID_(general), Hungarian National Namespace https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hungarian_National_Namespace, Pakistan EMIS code(s) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pakistan_EMIS_code(s), CCDC Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CCDC_Number, swMATH work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/swMATH_work_ID, Czech parliament ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Czech_parliament_ID, Tainacan MAI ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tainacan_MAI_ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographical_Dictionary_Of_Iowa_ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame_ID_(new), euroleague.net coach ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/euroleague.net_coach_ID, eurobasket.com coach ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eurobasket.com_coach_ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Who%27s_Who_of_American_Comic_Books, PCE Daisakusen ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PCE_Daisakusen_ID, Musixmatch artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Musixmatch_artist_ID, eBiodiversity ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eBiodiversity_ID - Query examples: - Gay parades in Italy in 2019 https://w.wiki/4ZN - Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share borders https://w.wiki/4Zq (source https://twitter.com/belett/status/1134931092782419968) - Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh landscape prints https://w.wiki/4Zs (source https://twitter.com/WIKI_NLW/status/1134583072308023297) - Dunes in Wikidata https://w.wiki/4Zu (source https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1133450861450092546) - Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors https://w.wiki/4Zv (source https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/1134021060079345664) - Map of archives in the world https://w.wiki/4Zx (source https://twitter.com/daieuxdailleurs/status/1134104178823979008) - Newest database reports: frequent first names in Spain https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Spain/lists/first_name
Development
- Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology ( phab:T216842 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216842) - Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array ( phab:T223300 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223300) - Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (phab:T223311 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223311) - More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character ( phab:T223270 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223270) - Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221774) - Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (phab:T223995 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223995) - Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203366) - Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217994) - WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards ( phab:T217994 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217994, phab:T214586 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214586, phab:T217997 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217997) - Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project ( phab:T221965 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221965) - More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed - Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221831) - Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221833)
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 - 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