*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New request for comments: Should we create new properties for beaches? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Should_we_create_new_properties_for_beaches%3F
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata office hour, April 7th at 18:00 UTC+2, on the Wikidata Telegram channel https://t.me/joinchat/AZriqUj5UagVMHXYzfZFvA - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Google Sheets add-on, Author Disambiguator Tool, 07 April. Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z5ZUDrHs9qvhvAAAHXWIg9Od5z_p2YdzWlwp4VPkcqw/edit?usp=sharing - Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron https://twitter.com/belett/status/1247158243983413250, April 8 at 20:00 CEST - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #8 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#8, April 12 - Upcoming: Wikidata for Beginners https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dienstag/Sprints/Sprint46 (German, Remoted via Zoom), May 3 - Ongoing: WikiGap Challenge https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge until April 8th - Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon https://github.com/virtual-biohackathons/covid-19-bh20/wiki/Wikidata until April 11th. Information on how to participate https://github.com/virtual-biohackathons/covid-19-bh20/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki https://github.com/virtual-biohackathons/covid-19-bh20/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Signpost special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-03-29/Special_report — with mentions of COVID-related Wikidata activities - Denny Vrandecic published a proposal that suggests some extensions to Wikidata http://simia.net/download/multilingualwikipedia.pdf, and also a wholly new project, Wikilambda. - ScienceGuide's The COVID-19 pandemic stresses the societal importance of open science https://www.scienceguide.nl/2020/04/dire-times-of-covid-19-stress-the-societal-importance-of-open-science/ mentions WikiProject COVID-19 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19 - SPARC*Europe mentions the WikiProject COVID-19 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19 in Overnight, COVID-19 heightens the need for Open Science https://sparceurope.org/overnight-covid-19-heightens-the-need-for-open-science/ post - Video: Live SPARQL queries in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWsEm7hldxQ by WikidataFacts - Video: Live SPARQL queries in French https://www.twitch.tv/videos/582313432 by Vigneron
Tool of the week
- Scholia https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool: ShExStatements https://github.com/johnsamuelwrites/ShExStatements to generate Shape Expressions from CSV (more details https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-March/013920.html) - Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer https://ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID%3D8610145IXB&WVID=7271880URt, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April). - New tool: Wikidata Complete https://wikidatacomplete.org/ uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post https://www.qanswer.eu/blog/2020/04/06) - schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/special-announcements - Interactive map https://tools.wmflabs.org/map/ showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata. - wb_terms table will be emptied today https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#wb_terms_table_will_be_empty_today - Your feedback is welcome on two projects to improve the queries and lists workflows https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Improve_the_workflows_for_queries_and_lists
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: organized response related to outbreak https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8045, Latvian transcription https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8046, country of registry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8047, number of hospitalized cases https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8049, ARK formatter https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8054, symbol of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8058 - External identifiers: m3db.com person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8036, Filmfront person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8037, SIUSA archive conservator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8038, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8039, RPGamer game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8040, DR music artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8041, PC Games Database.de game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8042, ELAR ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8043, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8044, Women of Scotland memorial ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8048, Women of Scotland subject ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8050, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8051, MusicBrainz genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8052, Latvian unified registration number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8053, Amazon Prime Video ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8055, VGMRips composer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8056, Apache Project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8057, coinop.org game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8059, Glassdoor company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8060, AGROVOC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8061, Ameli ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8062, BookBrainz publisher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8063, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8064, CIRIS author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8065, Colecovision Addict ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8066, Macdonald Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8067, ToposText place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8068, ToposText person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8069, ToposText work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8070 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: located in the statistical territorial entity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/located_in_the_statistical_territorial_entity, formatter for periodical https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/formatter_for_periodical, CSS Color name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CSS_Color_name - External identifiers: JournalTOCs ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JournalTOCs_ID, EZB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EZB_ID, MUSE article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MUSE_article_ID, Paperity journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Paperity_journal_ID, Paperity article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Paperity_article_ID, Flora del Cono Sur Darwinion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flora_del_Cono_Sur_Darwinion, MxM xref https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MxM_xref, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographical_Dictionary_of_Architects_in_Canada_ID, TED speaker numeric ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TED_speaker_numeric_ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sejm-Wielki.pl_profile_ID - Query examples: - Country-level citation graph for #COVID19 https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20target%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2FQ84263196%3E%20%23%20Replace%20Q84263196%20%28COVID-19%29with%20Wikidata%20ID%20of%20your%20concept%20of%20interest%2C%20e.g.%20Q202864%20%28Zika%20virus%29%20%0A%0A%23%20%23defaultView%3AGraph%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcited_country%20%3Fcited_countryLabel%20%3Fcited_flag%20%3Fciting_country%20%3Fciting_countryLabel%20%3Fciting_flag%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcited_country%20%3Fciting_country%20%28COUNT%28%3Fciting_country%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%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%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fciting_author%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP921%20target%3A%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_work%20wdt%3AP921%20target%3A%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fcited_work%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_work%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcited_author%20.%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fciting_work%20%21%3D%20%3Fcited_work%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_work%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fcited_work%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_work%20%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauthor%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_author%20%28wdt%3AP108%7Cwdt%3AP1416%29%20%3Fciting_organization%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_author%20%28wdt%3AP108%7Cwdt%3AP1416%29%20%3Fcited_organization%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcited_organization%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcited_country.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fciting_organization%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fciting_country.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fciting_country%20%21%3D%20%3Fcited_country%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcited_country%20%3Fciting_country%0A%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20LIMIT%2030%20%23%20Adjust%20number%20of%20connections%20to%20display%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results%0A%20%20%3Fcited_country%20wdt%3AP163%20%2F%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fcited_flag%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fciting_country%20wdt%3AP163%20%2F%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fciting_flag%20.%20%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%7D%0A (source https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/status/1247135448042004480) - Movies from artfilm.ch in free access https://w.wiki/M8X (source https://twitter.com/b3d2c/status/1246907777278246918) - Topic co-occurrence graph in the SARS-CoV-2 & #COVID19 literature https://w.wiki/MBY (source https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/1246864522423365634) - Fibulas in Musée Saint-Raymond with date, material, location of discovery https://w.wiki/MBH
Development
- Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikidata_-_reference_treasure_hunt ) - Bridge: improve rendering of references (phab:T238661 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238661) - Only send incremental changes through the API (phab:T230343 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230343) - Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata ( phab:T240333 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240333) - Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (phab:T228857 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228857)
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