*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New request for comments: Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise
data structure on a subject
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Wikidata_to_use_data_schemas_to_standardise_data_structure_on_a_subject>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Past: Wikidata office hour (notes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2019-11-05>
)
- Past: "Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by
Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project (Video)
<https://stanford.zoom.us/recording/play/D1VuJKF4stRiEysoXj0Q8h40T_-bVcAOMonncNCI_Ouq0WpC-642R0aXLoJJEeNE?startTime=1572972276000>,
(Slides)
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zPayHge1v-v_1_7c9kxrWYb3FM_-EmBO/view>,
(Notes)
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e09HBXcLQxGJggEjGiaurZPLt9V4DKA5jLbb9bmbFuA/view>
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop OpenRefine
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mezi_bajty/OpenRefine_Workshop>
in Prague on 12 November
- Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon>
17 November
Tool of the week
- *Speedpatrolling <https://tools.wmflabs.org/speedpatrolling/>* is a
tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikipedia Personality Infobox in Catalan
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archival_Description/Use_cases#En_catalan>
and French
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archival_Description/Use_cases#En_français>
display now the Heritage Institution in charge of their archives via P485
(archives at) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P485>.
- The Discord server
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Discord> Wikimedia
Community <https://discord.gg/e8xxGMP> has now a Wikidata
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata> channel.
- @Wikipedia talks about @Wikidata
<https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2019/11/wikipedia-talks-about-wikidata.html?fbclid=IwAR3dKqt8-kVXcB4pFz1zFhaaliEbwjv3SXU5Qo3Sn-p46IosHWHR3u9Nzmk>
by GerardM
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: landscape architect
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7514>, charge conjugation
quantum number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7527>, statement
is regarded as spoiler for
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7528>, room number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7532>, scope and content
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7535>
- External identifiers:
startrek.com Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7512>, Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation Grant ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7513>, Chinese
Professional Baseball League player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7515>, Software Preservation
Society ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7516>, Sega Retro
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7517>, classicamiga ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7518>, Filmový přehled film
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7519>, Filmový přehled
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7520>, Gaming-History
company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7521>, SK cinema
authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7522>, SK
cinema film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7523>, CA
PROP 65 ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7524>, ePSD
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7525>, Czech
cadastral area ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7526>, dp.ru
company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7529>, Fortuna
liga player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7530>, MEA
Indian Mission ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7531>, AaRC
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7533>, MIC market
code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7534>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: general law
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/general_law>,
population rank
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/population_rank>,
area rank
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/area_rank>,
population
density rank
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/population_density_rank>,
references
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/references>,
territorial entity ranking context
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/territorial_entity_ranking_context>,
mentions named entity
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/mentions_named_entity>,
plot features event
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/plot_features_event>,
Jyutping (2)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Jyutping_(2)>
- External identifiers: National Health Portal hospital ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Health_Portal_hospital_ID>,
IPC ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IPC_ID>,
Plusliga
player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Plusliga_player_ID>,
Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Finnish_Biodiversity_Information_Facility%27s_Species_List_ID>,
Sinemalar person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sinemalar_person_ID>,
UVL game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UVL_game_ID>,
WikiTreeCategories
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiTreeCategories>,
Ahotsak Lexeme
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ahotsak_Lexeme>,
UVL platform ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UVL_platform_ID>,
Inguma database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inguma_database_ID>,
UVL company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UVL_company_ID>,
UVL group ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UVL_group_ID>,
Home of the Underdogs game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Home_of_the_Underdogs_game_ID>,
name-suggestion-index identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/name-suggestion-index_identifier>,
OGDB game title ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OGDB_game_title_ID>,
common exchange code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/common_exchange_code>,
Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Memorial_Book_Bundesarchiv_ID>,
CISCE school code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CISCE_school_code>,
CBSE Affiliation No.
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CBSE_Affiliation_No.>,
JNAF artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JNAF_artist_ID>,
OGDB compilation ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OGDB_compilation_ID>
- Query examples:
- Persons in the genealogy family tree WikiTree were WIkidata has a
source from the Swedish National Archives Birth/Death records
<https://w.wiki/BYM>
- Minimum temperature records on Earth
<https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20minimum%20temperatures%20on%20Earth%20%0A%23%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty_talk%3AP7422%0ASELECT%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3FlocationLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcoor%20%3Flayer%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20p%3AP7422%20%3Fst%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP7422%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ25267%20%5D%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28%20ROUND%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2a%201.8%20%2B%2032%20%29%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%09%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP7422%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ42289%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20ROUND%28%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20-%2032%20%29%20%2F%201.8%20%2a%2010%29%2F10%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP276%20%3Flocation%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor0%20%7D%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor1%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20COALESCE%28%3Fcoor0%2C%20%3Fcoor1%29%20as%20%3Fcoor%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20CONCAT%28str%28Floor%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2F%2010%29%29%2C%220s%20%C2%B0C%22%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%29%0ALIMIT%201000>
- Map of districts of India by ratio of illiterate to literate
population in 2011 <https://w.wiki/Bqt> (source
<https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1193415490485411840>)
- List of episodes of Detective Conan's Case Closed, with date and
place of publication and series and season number, sorted by date of
publication <https://w.wiki/Bqv> (source
<https://twitter.com/rachmatwhd/status/1193081706728738816>)
- Parent and child who both had a governor mandate in the USA
<https://w.wiki/Bqw> (source
<https://twitter.com/iamlemec/status/1192210436726374400>)
- Belgian artists whose work will be in public domain starting in 2020
<https://w.wiki/Bqy> (source
<https://twitter.com/JolanWuyts/status/1192092099468046340>)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Wolfram Language
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wolfram_Language>, most
frequent first names in Poland
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Poland/lists/first_name>,
Paintings and images of signatures of painters
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pinxit>
Development
- In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped
storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store
minimal identifier strings (phabricator:T236749
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236749>)
- Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (phabricator:T235261
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235261>)
- Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field (
phabricator:T234322 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234322> - thanks
to Envlh for the patch)
- Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase
installations that don't need them (phabricator:T232248
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232248>)
- Continued working on the migration of the wb_terms table to address
scalability issues
- Continued working on the shortened version of edit summaries for edits
made through the mobile termbox (phabricator:T224013
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224013>)
- For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can
not edit the article anymore (phabricator:T235152
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235152>)
- Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge (
phabricator:T233397 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233397>)
- Worked on showing an information popup when clicking the tainted
reference icon to tell you what went wrong and how to solve it.
- Worked on defining first version of Federation for wikis outside
Wikimedia
- Commons search have stopped indexing statements (structured data)
since 30 October 2019 (phabricator:T237849
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237849>)
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.