*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>
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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