*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New request for comments: Udder balm https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Udder_balm - CheckUser nomination: علاء https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/CheckUser/%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #11 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#11, May 3 - Upcoming: Live editing of Wikidata, May 2 18:00 (UTC) YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Zkr93BnHI, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/2852156294832183/
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wiki Workshop 2020: Report https://medium.com/@jsamwrites/wiki-workshop-2020-bb6c1a05ce44 - Editing food items and querying glaciers: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3w3uWHEd-4 and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/2846150992099380/ - Interactions between VIAF and Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_rDSHpFYb4
Tool of the week
- zotkat's exporter for Zotero https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Zotero#How_to_export_to_QuickStatements (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as an intermediary.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata now includes more than seven million people https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=haswbstatement%3AP31%3DQ5&ns0=1 (it has doubled since July 2017 https://www.denelezh.org/evolution/), also: project chat discussion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#7,000,000_people> - Nobelprize.org has now redesigned its website so that Wikipedia can link to it easier using the Wikidata Property Nobel Laureate API ID (P8024) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8024 (more information https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P8024#Version_1_is_now_implemented_for_creating_links_in_Wikipedia_using_Nobel_Laureate_API_ID_(P8024) ) - The use of Listeria to generate basic charts (pie, area, line, bar) with d:Template:Graph:Chart https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Chart, see d:Template:Wikidata list#Charts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_list#Charts - Mohammed Sadat joined the Wikidata team as community communications manager for Wikidata and Wikibase https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-April/014003.html
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: tournament format https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8127, dialect of computer language https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8131, located in the statistical territorial entity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8138 - External identifiers: ModelSEED compound ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8120, UM-BBD compound ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8121, DLL Catalog author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8122, DLL Catalog work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8123, CPAN author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8124, Fandango performer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8125, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8126, Forest Stewardship Council License Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8128, IDU theatre company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8129, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8130, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8132, Swedish Glaciers ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8133, Soccerdonna coach ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8134, Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8135, Il Sole 24 Ore ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8136, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8137, Moravian Lives ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8139, motorsportstats.com driver ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8140, motorsportstats.com series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8141, motorsportstats.com venue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8142, SAR ancestor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8143, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8144, Psocodea Species File ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8145, SkiMo Stats ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8146, National-Football-Teams.com club ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8147, re:publica speaker ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8148, Provenio ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8149 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: nerve origin https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/nerve_origin, 法令番号 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%E6%B3%95%E4%BB%A4%E7%95%AA%E5%8F%B7, interpretation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/interpretation, DoME exhibition ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DoME_exhibition_ID - External identifiers: dbchgk https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/dbchgk, COVIDWHO ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COVIDWHO_ID, History Colorado ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/History_Colorado_ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Maryland%27s_National_Register_Properties_ID, Epistemonikos ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Epistemonikos_ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Library_of_Israel_J9U_ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lexikon_der_Filmbegriffe_ID, Dart thesis https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dart_thesis, DPE school code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DPE_school_code - Query examples: - Pairs of lakes named after a couple https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%2a%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Flac1%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Fperson1%20%3B%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Floc%20%3B%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ23397%20.%0A%20%20%3Flac2%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Fperson2%20%3B%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Floc%20%3B%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ23397%20.%0A%20%20%3Fperson1%20wdt%3AP26%20%3Fperson2%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20str%28%3Flac1%29%20%3E%20str%28%3Flac2%29%20%29%0A%7D%0ALIMIT%2010 - The longest river that feeds into another river https://w.wiki/P9n (Source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1254417957427576833 ) - Longest rivers that do not feed into a sea or ocean https://w.wiki/P9p (Source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1254417961135362048) - Map showing things in Wikidata that are located on or next to the River Thames https://w.wiki/NvB (Source https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1253619935735144449) - Defining formulas of physical and other quantities https://w.wiki/Nzb (Source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Toni_001#Defining_Formulas) - TreeMap visualising the 12 times table https://w.wiki/Nnv (Source https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1253258000346820610) - Map of the "Leipzig University Villages" https://w.wiki/Nb8 ( Source https://twitter.com/saxorum/status/1252489338803425280) - There are now more than 7 million people on Wikidata https://w.wiki/NbW (Source https://twitter.com/denelezh/status/1252499590269612033) - Recently published works on COVID-19 https://w.wiki/Ng8 (Source https://twitter.com/salgo60/status/1252865051087663104) - Welsh hospitals, health centres, doctors surgeries and temporary Covid19 hospitals https://w.wiki/Ncf (Source https://twitter.com/WIKI_NLW/status/1252586503974379520) - Newest database reports: measures of gobbledygook https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q2114712#list_of_measures_of_gobbledygook
Development
- More work on error screens for the Bridge - Use updated data for the Bridge (phab:T240223 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240223) - Display statements made with federated properties on item pages ( phab:T246606 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246606) - Automated references: normalizing data that the extractor gets out of HTML pages (phab:T249004 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249004) - Create a distributed game so people can vet references easily ( phab:T248997 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248997) - Cleanup rows from wb_items_per_site (phab:T249613 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249613) - Don't suggest initial uppercase in mobile termbox (phab:T241978 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241978) - Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203461)
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