*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: MsynABot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/MsynABot - Closed request for adminship: Fuzheado https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Fuzheado_2 (successful)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries https://www.twitch.tv/belett on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 13 at 18:00 CEST - Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise#Connect_with_other_organizers, October 14 at 12:00 GMT - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #34 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#34, October 18 - Search Platform Office Hours happens first Wednesday of each month https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours. Come with questions related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wikidata reaches Q100000000 https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/10/06/wikidata-reaches-q100000000/, by Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić - A new extension can add support for linking to local media files in Statements https://professional.wiki/en/news/wikibase-local-media (and not just files on Wikimedia Commons) to a Wikibase instance (Demo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK-zdazdH78, developed by Professional.Wiki https://professional.wiki/) - LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group presentation: How Entity Explosion fits into the Wikidata ecosystem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2AqQkw7nug, by Toby Hudson https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:99of9 - Video: Wikidata and COVID-19: Creating a collaborative knowledge graph from CORD-19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwudGFtT4A4, by Csisc https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Csisc
Tool of the week
- OD2WD https://od2wd.id/ automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SvvLt7pYic
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- noratelimit for bots to be removed on October 20th https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Project_chat&oldid=1288309977#Remove_noratelimit_for_bots - The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase/Consultants_and_Support_Providers directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services. - The 2020 Coolest Tool Award https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award#Coolest_Tool_Award_2020 is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5ZmXXamn9sRsagEiiZcUZDn1Ga0sF3XmdPf0OjZWtILZvdQ/viewform to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: number of negative votes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8682, number of support votes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8683, x-offset https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8684, y-offset https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8685, social media followers https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8687, fandom https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8693, has census https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8701, parallel street https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8702, entry in abbreviations table https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8703 - External identifiers: Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8679, FVLB work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8680, Passion Patrimoine ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8681, Biographical dictionary of Fourierism ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8686, CompositionToday composer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8688, ITHL author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8689, Quebec Dams Directory ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8690, SwissLipids identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8691, ACER code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8692, Science Museum Group ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8694, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8695, Directory of Belgian Photographers ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8696, RNACentral ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8697, Turkey's Culture Portal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8698, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8699, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8700 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: ship's captain https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ship%27s_captain, planetary coordinates https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/planetary_coordinates, Date of signature https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Date_of_signature, Unicode name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Unicode_name - External identifiers: CPV Supplementary https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CPV_Supplementary, PeoplePill person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PeoplePill_person_ID, O*NET OnLine code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/O*NET_OnLine_code, Emojipedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Emojipedia_ID, GADM ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GADM_ID, CTAN package ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CTAN_package_ID, MinDat taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MinDat_taxon_ID, AniList anime ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AniList_anime_ID, AniList manga and light novel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AniList_manga_and_light_novel_ID, Normattiva ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Normattiva_ID, ILO Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ILO_Thesaurus_ID - Query examples: - Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List https://sophox.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ftree%20%3Ftaxon%20%3FtaxonLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20trees%20and%20their%20taxa%0A%20%20%3Ftree%20osmt%3Anatural%20%22tree%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%28osmt%3Agenus%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Aspecies%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Ataxon%3Awikidata%29%20%3Ftaxon%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Taxa%20categorized%20as%20threatened%20on%20the%20IUCN%20Red%20List%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%28%3Fstatus%20%3Flayer%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ278113%20%22Vulnerable%20%28VU%29%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ11394%20%22Endangered%20%28EN%29%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ219127%20%22Critically%20endangered%20%28CR%29%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP141%20%3Fstatus.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20English%20common%20name%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP1843%20%3FtaxonLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtaxonLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D - OSM/Wikidata query - Women actress less than 70 years old who are descendants of the first king of Navarre, ordered by number of sitelinks https://w.wiki/g24 - Dead Social Democratic Party members who have been ministers in 1992 or later https://w.wiki/foF (Source https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/1314202747403608071) - Artworks with an image in Wikidata by year of creation https://w.wiki/fTf (Source https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1313595862476619779) - Map of mountains in Switzerland https://w.wiki/fST (Source https://twitter.com/betatim/status/1313566097887633408) - Map of markets in the city of Surabaya https://w.wiki/gR6 (Source https://twitter.com/wikimediaid/status/1313436872899620864) - National Anthems by tonality https://w.wiki/gMz (Source https://twitter.com/belett/status/1315281980066496513)
Development
- The RFC to semi-protect all property pages https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/General_semi_protection_for_all_property_pages has been implemented, all properties now require the “autoconfirmed” right to edit (T254280 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254280) - Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T220883 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220883) - Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs ( phab:T232620 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232620) - Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances - Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases - Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.
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