*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 Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LexData_Wikidata_Labs_May_2019.pdf ) - Past: Workshop https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:De_kroeg#Widawiwo for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.
Press, articles, blog posts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3297509. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled) - Published in WWW 2019 - Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3314997. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997 - QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3314124. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124 - Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3317307. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307 - Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3316749. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749 - Citation.js: Wikidata Update https://larsgw.blogspot.com/2019/05/citationjs-wikidata-update.html, by Lars Willighagen - Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/19396, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2019/05/integrating-wikidata-at-the-library-of-congress/ )
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6772, HAL structure ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6773, Mod DB video game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6774, Finnish Trade Register ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6775, IMTL.org ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6776, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6777, OBO Gazetteer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6778, (speedy delete me) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6779, LGBTFansDB character ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6780, ProofWiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6781, ROR ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6782 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: title qualifiers https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/title_qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/goodwill_ambassador_of, UPA transcription https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UPA_transcription, hospital beds https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/hospital_beds, Courage ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Courage_ID, bibliography url https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/bibliography_url - External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Messes.info_Catholic_parish_ID, The DRAGON Archive id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_DRAGON_Archive_id, racing-reference track ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/racing-reference_track_ID, racing-reference race ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/racing-reference_race_ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Digital_Prosopography_of_the_Roman_Republic_(DPRR)_ID, MSX Games World ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MSX_Games_World_ID, Coco Game List ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Coco_Game_List_ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionary_of_Irish_Biography_ID, Ask.fm ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ask.fm_ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Film_Board_of_Canada_director_identifier - Query examples: - European countries that have a street named after them in Rennes https://w.wiki/4KF - Map of meteor impact craters https://w.wiki/4N5 (source https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/1132258424144769025) - Bubble chart of all instances of color which have an sRGB color hex triplet https://w.wiki/4N7 (source https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1131257731053182976) - Number of riots per country https://w.wiki/4N9 (source https://twitter.com/mrlogix/status/1131050728594632706) - European country having the most female politicians https://w.wiki/4NB (source https://twitter.com/abiatus/status/1130963180199579649)
Development
- Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org - Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions ( phab:T220609 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220609) - Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217245) - Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223995) - Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221774) - Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases ( phab:T214557 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214557) - More work to get termbox ready for deployment - Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221831)
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