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 Parliament of Ghana contest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ghana/Parliament_of_Ghana/Members_of_the_5th_Parliament_of_the_4th_Republic_of_Ghana/Contest launch (replay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN-3xtS-A7E) - Upcoming: Biohackathon 2020 https://www.biohackathon-europe.org/index.html Barcelona 2020 November 9th - 13th The accepted wikidata related proposal: Knowledge graphs and wikidata subsetting https://github.com/elixir-europe/BioHackathon-projects-2020/tree/master/projects/35 - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #20 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#20, July 12 - Upcoming: Celtic Knot conference https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2020, July 9-10, including several sessions about Wikidata, a Wikidata helpdesk
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Why Ariadne uses Getty AAT over Wikidata https://ariadne-infrastructure.eu/why-does-ariadne-use-the-getty-aat-and-not-wikidata-as-its-main-reference-vocabulary/ - Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #10 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2iTKemFrq4
Tool of the week
- Ptable https://tools.wmflabs.org/ptable displays the periodic table automatically extracted from information provided by Wikidata; it also provides a check that all the elements are there with some basic properties. Additional pages provide charts of the nuclides under different criteria such as half-life. Each element or nuclide is linked to its Wikidata item for more information or to edit if necessary.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Abstract Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia was approved. - OpenRefine 3.4 beta 2 https://openrefine.org/download.html was released.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: Open Data portal https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8402, theorised by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8403, DOI formatter https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8404, set in environment https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8411, academic appointment https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8413 - External identifiers: House Divided ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8400, thefreedictionary medical term ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8401, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8405, Grove Art Online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8406, Supreme Court of Sweden case number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8407, KBpedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8408, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency OBJECTID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8409, Oxford Bibliographies ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8410, Swiss Timber Bridges ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8412 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: taxon synonym string https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/taxon_synonym_string, PM20 subject code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PM20_subject_code, PM20 geo code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PM20_geo_code, number of downloads https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_downloads, Interactive element https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Interactive_element, course https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/course, Zoning symbol https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Zoning_symbol, vanDerWaalsConstant https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/vanDerWaalsConstant, has pattern https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/has_pattern - External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AlloCin%C3%A9_theater_ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cistercian_Biography_Online_ID, Pitchfork artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pitchfork_artist_ID, Archive Of Our Own tag https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archive_Of_Our_Own_tag, Austrian encyclopedia of music online https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Austrian_encyclopedia_of_music_online, Swiss Tunnel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swiss_Tunnel_ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ANZSRC_2020_FoR_ID, CPJF ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CPJF_ID, TripAdvisor ID 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TripAdvisor_ID_2, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wien_Kulturgut:_Kunstwerke_im_%C3%B6ffentlichen_Raum_ID, public transport stop https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/public_transport_stop, Homebrew formula name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Homebrew_formula_name, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Offizielle_Deutsche_Charts_song_ID, British Museum object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/British_Museum_object_ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ToS;DR_service_numerical_identifier, code EHESS d'une commune https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/code_EHESS_d%27une_commune, IAPH code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IAPH_code, ProtonDB video game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ProtonDB_video_game_ID - Query examples: - France https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q142 has a new Prime Minister https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1587677: see the list of all ministers https://w.wiki/WCX in French history (very long scroll). If you want to know more, see this notebook https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2/Ministres - Open data portals in Wikidata https://w.wiki/WAg (using the newly created property Open Data portal (P8402) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8402) - Objects that are named after people on Wikidata https://w.wiki/W7N (Source https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1279735963401494528)
Development
- More work on the consistent design system (Phabricator board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4857/) - More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other - Proposal to stop registering WikibaseLib as a separate extension https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/adr_0013.html - Polishing the first step of Federation (using Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation) (incl. preventing users from selecting a federated property with a non-supported data type (phab:T252012 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252012) and preventing users from accessing Special:NewProperty when federation is enabled (phab:T255576 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255576) and viewing a list of all properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246339 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246339)) - Continuing research and interviews around the topic of making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - Doing first testing of mockups and prototypes of the first version of the Query Builder - coding can start soon - Convert a few properties from string to external identifier: Linguasphere code (P1396), KOATUU identifier (P1077) and ISIN (P946)
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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Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de