*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Unifying_GO_activities_and_enzyme_articles>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-June/013167.html>
on June 18th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Paris>, France, on June
21st
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington_7>, New
Zealand, on June 22nd
Press, articles, blog posts
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- *EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical
Timeline Generation <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.08794.pdf>* - Simon
Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
- *Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.13322.pdf>* Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
- *Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the
Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International
Research Collaboration
<https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1905/1905.13226.pdf>* Xuan Nguyen,
et al. (in ArXiv)
- Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment
<https://blog.library.wales/treasured-manuscript-collection-gets-the-wikidata-treatment/>,
on the National Library of Wales' blog
- On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes?
<https://finnaarupnielsen.wordpress.com/2019/06/13/on-the-road-to-joint-embedding-with-wikidata-lexemes/>
by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_Peace/Europride_Vienna_2019/Results>
as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_Peace/Europride_Vienna_2019>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0
<https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/releases/tag/v0.10.0> was
released
- New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000170/wikidata-edits?refresh=1m&orgId=1&panelId=13&fullscreen>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: title in HTML
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6833>, title in LaTeX
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6835>, student organization
of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6840>, emergency services
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6855>, average speed
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6856>
- External identifiers: Pro Football Reference coach ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6836>, Keybase username
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6837>, Elhuyar Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6838>, TV Tropes identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6839>, ITF tournament ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6841>, Campendium ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6842>, Malaysia company
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6843>, abART person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6844>, abART document ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6845>, abART exhibition ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6846>, abART group ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6847>, abART institution ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6848>, DR.dk topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6849>, ABA League ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6850>, Biographical
Dictionary Of Iowa ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6851>, CCDC
Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6852>, Coco Game List
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6853>, Dimensions grant ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6854>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: text of verse
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/text_of_verse>,
literary motif
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/literary_motif>,
scribe.amanuensis or copyist.illuminator
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/scribe.amanuensis_or_copyist.illuminator>,
distribution format
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/distribution_format>,
phosphorylates
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/phosphorylates>,
RogerEbert.com film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RogerEbert.com_film_ID>,
literacy rate
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/literacy_rate>,
Retrosheets ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Property_proposal/Retrosheets_ID&action=edit&redlink=1>
- External identifiers: 7digital United Kingdom artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/7digital_United_Kingdom_artist_ID>,
Metacritic person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Metacritic_person_ID>,
Nacionālā enciklopēdija
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nacion%C4%81l%C4%81_enciklop%C4%93dija>,
IMVDb artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IMVDb_artist_ID>,
Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Offizielle_Deutsche_Charts_artist_ID>,
Charts in France artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Charts_in_France_artist_ID>,
VG-lista artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VG-lista_artist_ID>,
Beatport artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Beatport_artist_ID>,
Djshop artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Djshop_artist_ID>,
Gaana.com artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gaana.com_artist_ID>,
Juno Download artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Juno_Download_artist_ID>,
Moov artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moov_artist_ID>,
Murfie artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Murfie_artist_ID>,
Napster artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Napster_artist_ID>,
Qobuz artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Qobuz_artist_ID>,
YouTube Music channel ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/YouTube_Music_channel_ID>,
Bebo profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bebo_profile_ID>,
Steam profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Steam_profile_ID>,
Pandora artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pandora_artist_ID>,
SNBP ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SNBP_ID>,
Fundamental.org
Baptist Church ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fundamental.org_Baptist_Church_ID>,
EMIS codes for Pakistani provinces
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EMIS_codes_for_Pakistani_provinces>,
RIAA artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RIAA_artist_ID>,
Gambay ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gambay_ID>,
Facebook
Gaming game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Facebook_Gaming_game_ID>,
Cameo ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cameo_ID>,
Amburger
database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Amburger_database_ID>,
BVLarramendi
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BVLarramendi>,
Equipboard artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Equipboard_artist_ID>
- Query examples:
- Table of counts of distinct MPs, legislative terms and per
constituency P39s for UK parliamentary constituencies, with links to per
constituency reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_British_Politicians/MP_terms_by_constituency>
(source <https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1138975389152415745>)
- Reverse taxon names of 100 mosquitoes <https://w.wiki/4tr> (source
<https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1139098520982499329>)
- Five-letter words beginning with "f", from wikidata's lexeme
collection <https://w.wiki/4wm> (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Request_a_query&oldid=961363362#Five-letter_words_beginning_with_%22f%22>
)
- Péniches in Lyon <https://w.wiki/4yy>
- Lexemes ordered according to compound parts <https://w.wiki/4$y> (
source <https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/1140279480042360832>)
- Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender
<https://w.wiki/4$z> (source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/977329156257038336>)
- Timeline of the Chief Mousers of 10 Downing Street, with
photographs when available <https://w.wiki/52Q>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
European Colonialism
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_European_Colonialism>
Development
- Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000170/wikidata-edits?refresh=1m&orgId=1&panelId=13&fullscreen>
(phab:T218901 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218901>) and the
EntitySchemas on the entity by type board
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000167/wikidata-datamodel?refresh=30m&orgId=1&panelId=3&fullscreen>
(phab:T216835 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216835>)
- Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision (
phab:T224545 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224545>)
- Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label
and description, if the edit is about making them different (phab:T222621
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222621>)
- Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch (phab:T207235
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207235>)
- Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221835>)
- More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 (phab:T217997
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217997>)
- Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side
dependent
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>
- Suggested and open tasks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks>
!
- 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>
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.