*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: BRPever https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/BRPever, welcome on board!
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata https://ccglobalsummit2019lisbonportugal.sched.com/event/MiW5/adding-structured-and-machine-readable-data-for-copyright-and-licensing-on-wikimedia-commons-and-wikidata, workshop by Sandra Fauconnier https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SandraF_(WMF) about modelling copyright statuses https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Copyrights on Wikidata, 10 May, at the Creative Commons Global Summit https://summit.creativecommons.org/ in Lisbon - Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Utrecht https://www.wikimedia.nl/activiteit/wikizaterdag-5ct7m5, Netherlands, on May 11th - Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Edit-a-thon/Atividades_em_portugu%C3%AAs/Wikidata_Lab_XV about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil
Press, articles, blog posts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Kennisverrijking via Wikidata https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/nieuws/kennisverrijking-wikidata (in Dutch), by Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Netwerk_Oorlogsbronnen, Hanno Lans https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Hannolans and Janneke Jorna https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jjorna - Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/4/29/solving-arts-data-problem-part-one-museums. Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a few times - Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f6d1/6eaf975af03a172c73843ff506592c952a04.pdf - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac. - Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.10503.pdf - C. Deha Doğan, et al. - Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/fg-engels/publications_pdfs/Konferenzbeitraege/heindorf2019_WWW.pdf (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/1123942462928691210 - An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users https://twitter.com/bhousel/status/1124869535440494592?s=19 from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs - New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-May/013026.html
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: precedes word-initial https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6712, music video https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6718, specifying descriptor https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6719 - External identifiers: Australian War Memorial ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6713, Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6714, SIUSA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6715, MyNeta.info political party ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6716, IndieDB video game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6717, interwiki prefix at Wikimedia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6720, K10plus editions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6721, FemBio ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6722, BlackPast.org ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6723, Trainline ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6724, CatholicSaints.info ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6725, NSW Capital Conviction ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6726, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6727, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6728 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: gene sequence https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/gene_sequence, Has written for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Has_written_for, Rigging https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rigging, Guix Variable Name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Guix_Variable_Name, review of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/review_of, NSF FICE Code ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NSF_FICE_Code_ID - External identifiers: Watercolour World artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Watercolour_World_artist_ID, VTB United League player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VTB_United_League_player_ID, GNU ELPA package ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GNU_ELPA_package_ID, MELPA package ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MELPA_package_ID, Paměť národa ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pam%C4%9B%C5%A5_n%C3%A1roda_ID, FragDenStaat public body ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FragDenStaat_public_body_ID, MobyGames genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MobyGames_genre_ID, Interactive Fiction Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Interactive_Fiction_Database_ID, Recreation.gov campground ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Recreation.gov_campground_ID, HAL institution ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HAL_institution_ID, Swedish Royal Theater https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swedish_Royal_Theater - Query examples: - Some people are named after the strangest sorts of things https://w.wiki/3gb (source https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1124430457876164608) - Commons categories for a set of books, that have categories for people other than those 'explained' by statements on Wikidata for author, contributor, etc. https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Commons%20categories%20for%20a%20set%20of%20books%2C%20that%20have%20categories%20for%20people%20other%20than%0A%23%20those%20%27explained%27%20by%20statements%20on%20Wikidata%20for%20author%2C%20contributor%2C%20etc.%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fbook%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbook%20%3Fauth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbook%20wdt%3AP195%20wd%3AQ53764729%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbook%20wdt%3AP50%7Cwdt%3AP767%20%3Fauth%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25pairs%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fauth%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3ASubQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%20%23%20we%20have%20to%20disable%20the%20optimizer%20for%20this%20subquery%20because%20it%20gets%20confused%20by%20the%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%20part%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairs.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fauth%20wdt%3AP373%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRLANG%28CONCAT%28%22Category%3A%22%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement%29%2C%20%22en%22%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%20schema%3Aname%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fauth%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28STR%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%2C%20%22https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3A%22%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28BOUND%28%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25authsWithCommonsCategories%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbook%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3ASubQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%20%23%20we%20have%20to%20disable%20the%20optimizer%20for%20this%20subquery%20because%20it%20gets%20confused%20by%20the%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%20part%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairs.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fbook%20wdt%3AP373%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRLANG%28CONCAT%28%22Category%3A%22%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatement%29%2C%20%22en%22%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%20schema%3Aname%20%3FcommonsCategoryStatementEn%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fbook%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28STR%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%2C%20%22https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3A%22%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FcommonsCategoryFromStatement%2C%20%3FcommonsCategoryFromSitelink%29%20AS%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28BOUND%28%3FcommonsCategoryBook%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25booksWithCommonsCategories%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbook%20%3Fauth%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairs%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25booksWithCommonsCategories.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25authsWithCommonsCategories.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25pairCats%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25booksWithCommonsCategories%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fcategories%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryBook%20mediawiki%3AisInCategory%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcommonsCategoryAuth%20mediawiki%3AisInCategory%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3APeople_by_name%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25pairCats%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20 (source https://www.facebook.com/groups/Wikidata.GLAM/permalink/1815907571845332/?comment_id=1817334928369263&reply_comment_id=1820398794729543 ) - Timeline for members of the Illuminati Order https://w.wiki/3gZ ( source https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/1123471884232925189) - Newspapers founded before 1900 with their Twitter hashtag https://w.wiki/3gc (source https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1122944009767456768)
Development
- Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (phab:T220772 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220772) - Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (phab:T222182 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222182, phab:T222133 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222133, phab:T222129 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222129) - Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (phab:T221942 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221942) - Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T210598 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210598) - Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (phab:T220977 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220977) - Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox ( phab:T217000 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217000) - Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox ( phab:T218690 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218690) - Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T215951 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215951)
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 link OpenStreetMap features with Wikidata items https://osm.wikidata.link/. - Help write the next summary! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next