*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 Zurich Training 2019
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Wikidata_Zurich_Training2019>
- Upcoming: Next Wikidata office hour on Tuesday, November 5th at 18:00
Berlin time (UTC+1)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikidata+Telegram+office+hour&iso=20191105T18&p1=37&ah=1>
on the the Wikidata Telegram channel
<https://t.me/joinchat/AZriqUj5Uag92TB4U9eBdQ>
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05,
November. Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e09HBXcLQxGJggEjGiaurZPLt9V4DKA5jLbb9bmbFuA/edit?usp=sharing>
Press, articles, blog posts
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- ZBW Labs: 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata
<http://zbw.eu/labs/en/blog/20th-century-press-archives-data-donation-to-wikidata>
- *The WikidataCon Card Game
<https://www.lehir.net/the-wikidatacon-card-game/>*, Envel Le Hir
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Envlh>
- *The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork
<https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/11/the-greater-bear-using-wikidata-to-generate-better-artwork/>*
- *Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence
and more
<https://2019.semantics.cc/language-related-linked-open-data-knowledge-solutions-artificial-intelligence-and-more/Language-related>
presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and
schema.org
<http://schema.org> at Semantics 2019 by Felix Sasaki and Christian Lieske*
- *Querying the Edit History of Wikidata
<https://hal.telecom-paristech.fr/hal-02096356/file/2019-ESWC-wikidatahistory.pdf>*
- Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
- *Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.12596.pdf>* - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)
Tool of the week
- *SPARQL RC <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/sparql_rc.php>* is
showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query.
It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for
example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Product Manager for Wikibase
<https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/5246357?jobDbPVId=14376022&l=de>
- Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes videos showing his
process while editing Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf76lM8FMQE&list=PLjMC1biQ0gMSb_mlBkf3bRFQURyhEqn_h&index=4>.
Magnus Sälgö also makes videos showing specific features and tools
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QskooXZvbVE&list=UUyWx9F1ym3pDsS-VFz4E58Q&index=2>
- {{query page}} <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Query_page> is
a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki
page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1044346391#New_template_for_SPARQL_query_pages>
)
- New feature on Mix'n'match: job management
<https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1189921082825940992>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: comorbidity
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7500>, audio system
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7501>, election called by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7508>, XML namespace
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7510>
- External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 - 1918 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7491>, Eu-football.info
match ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7492>,
playmarkerstats.com
match ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7493>, Soccerway
match ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7494>, Fussballdaten.de
team ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7495>, NZPCN ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7496>, Wolfram Language
entity type <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7497>, Women
Film Pioneers ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7498>, Van
Wijngaarden quarry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7499>, Golden
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7502>, Ovrtur Biography ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7503>, Jeugdliteratuur ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7504>, ACL Anthology article
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7505>, Naver Encyclopedia
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7506>, Ben Yehuda author
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7507>, Estonian
biographical database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7509>,
doujinshi.org author
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7511>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: food composition
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/food_composition>,
landscape architect
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/landscape_architect>,
charge conjugation quantum number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/charge_conjugation_quantum_number>,
IP address or range
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IP_address_or_range>,
featured in
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/featured_in>,
Room number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Room_number>,
Jabber channel
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Jabber_channel>,
lighting
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/lighting>,
Mentioned
at
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mentioned_at>
- External identifiers: Sega Retro ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sega_Retro_ID>,
CA Prop 65 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CA_Prop_65_ID>,
Gaming-History company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gaming-History_company_ID>,
dp.ru company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/dp.ru_company_ID>,
Filmový přehled film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Filmov%C3%BD_p%C5%99ehled_film_ID>,
Filmový přehled person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Filmov%C3%BD_p%C5%99ehled_person_ID>,
SK cinema film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SK_cinema_film_ID>,
SK cinema authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SK_cinema_authority_ID>,
ePSD ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ePSD_ID>,
classicamiga
ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/classicamiga_ID>,
Czech cadastral area ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Czech_cadastral_area_ID>,
MEA Indian Mission ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MEA_Indian_Mission_ID>,
Planète Aventure ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Plan%C3%A8te_Aventure_ID>,
AaRC person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AaRC_person_ID>,
fyyd podcast identifer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fyyd_podcast_identifer>,
Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Mathematics_wiki_ID>,
fyyd podcast episode ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fyyd_podcast_episode_ID>,
UEFA referee ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UEFA_referee_ID>,
Flowers of India ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flowers_of_India_ID>,
Panoptikum podcast episode ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Panoptikum_podcast_episode_ID>,
NBAIR pest ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NBAIR_pest_ID>,
Reptiles of India ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Reptiles_of_India_ID>,
Odonata of India ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Odonata_of_India_ID>,
Birds of India ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Birds_of_India_ID>,
Moths of India ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moths_of_India_ID>,
India Biodiversity Portal species ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/India_Biodiversity_Portal_species_ID>,
Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indian_Medicinal_Plants_Database_ID>,
ZSI author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ZSI_author_ID>,
Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biodiversity_of_West_Bengal_species_ID>,
UK Lakes Portal ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK_Lakes_Portal_ID>,
askArt person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/askArt_person_ID>
- Deleted properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion>: P2035
(LinkedIn personal profile URL)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2019/Properties/1#P2035>,
P1946 (N6I ID)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2019/Properties/1#P1946>
- Query examples:
- Map of UK MPs coloured by party
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20distinct%20%3FpartyLabel%20%3FseatLabel%20%3FmpLabel%20%20%20%3Fimage%20%20%3Fcoords%20%3Frgb%20%28%3FpartyLabel%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fcurrps%20.%20%3Fcurrps%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fcurrterm%20.%20%3Fcurrterm%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fcurrps%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fcurrend%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcurrps%20pq%3AP768%20%3Fseat%20.%20%3Fseat%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20.%20%3Fcurrps%20pq%3AP4100%20%3Fparty%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20optional%20%7B%20%3Fmp%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fparty%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoords%22%2C%20%22%3Flayer%22%2C%20%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1190391516289753089>) -
may change in the next few weeks
- Maintenance query: items which have a value of "unknown"
(Q24238356) rather than the "unknown" special value
<https://w.wiki/BGJ> (source
<https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1190604932761759746>)
- 100 cities closest to the North pole with more than 200k inhabitants
<https://w.wiki/BNS> (source
<https://twitter.com/liopic/status/1189252693166088194>)
- Actors with whom Shah Rukh Khan collaborated, in a bubble chart
showing how many times it happened <https://w.wiki/BNX> (source
<https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1190516387858571264>)
- New Integraality dashboards: Journals by publisher
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData/Journals_by_publisher>,
Theses by institution
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData/Theses_by_institution>
- Schema examples:
- Painting <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E130>
- Member of parliament from Sweden
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E134>
- Malayalam lexeme <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E136>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Sum of all Podcasts
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Podcasts>
- Newest database reports:
- Uniform Resource Name (URN) in Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P7470#URN_in_Wikidata>
- *Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID)* constraint check
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/uuid>
Development
- Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and
mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same
statement on a single page
- Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (phab:T236677
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236677>)
- Update Wikibase Lua documentation (phab:T225497
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225497>)
- Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (
phab:T234079 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234079>)
- Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno),
car
(Kalinago) and bdr (phab:T230881
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230881>, phab:T220284
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220284>, phab:T234330
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234330>)
- Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when
at the end of the section (phab:T232595
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232595>)
- Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (phab:T236491
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236491>)
- Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (phab:T231204
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231204>)
- Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (
phab:T235152 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235152>)
- A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (
phab:T235622 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235622>)
- Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (
phab:T230342 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230342>)
- More work on tainted references
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.