*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Dan Koehl 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Dan_Koehl_2
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #15 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#15, June 7 - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Discussion of our Wikidata priorities and needs as we plan for the group's future, 02 June. Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tl-5XrWYhVbkmS7fztFzpXUDzf2LbP2DhuPpz1j4LIE/edit?usp=sharing
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- The WikiCite annual report 2019-20 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2019-2020.pdf has been published. Describing the "satellite event grants" program that was run (and details of the nine successful proposals); the changes that resulted from the COVID-19 shutdown of all in-person events; and a summary of WikiCite-related news from across the movement. For more details see Meta:WikiCite/Administration https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/administration. For more information, contact LWyatt (WMF) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:LWyatt_(WMF) - *Defying Wikidata: Validation of Terminological Relations in the Web of Data https://doi.org/10.13025/REV8-Z474* - *KORE 50DYWC: An Evaluation Data Set for Entity Linking Based on DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata, and Crunchbase https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/55f9/010f44424c4f5cd7a8b0e41527e7b1fab449.pdf* - *SchemaTree: Maximum-Likelihood Property Recommendation for Wikidata https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49461-2_11* - *Editorial: Special Issue on Quality Assessment of Knowledge Graphs Dedicated to the Memory of Amrapali Zaveri https://doi.org/10.1145/3388748* - European Semantic Web Conference 2020 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49461-2 - *Processing SPARQL Aggregate Queries with Web Preemption https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-49461-2_14* - *SAShA: Semantic-Aware Shilling Attacks on Recommender Systems Exploiting Knowledge Graphs https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-49461-2_18* - *QAnswer KG: Designing a Portable Question Answering System over RDF Data https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-49461-2_25* - Past video: Querying Wikidata with a glimpse of SPARQL - Thorsten Butz - PSCONFEU 2020. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7erBmbaVR4 - Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network Live Wikidata editing scheduled for 1st June at 7:00 PM UTC: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6zwLnMKYMI, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jan.ainali/videos/10217685530079008/ - Upcoming video (in Spanish): Wikidata Online Workshop: "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" scheduled for 2nd June at 3:00 PM UTC: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRBoBVq9bc0
Tool of the week
- wdumps https://tools.wmflabs.org/wdumps allows you to create a limited RDF dump from Wikidata, for those times when your SPARQL queries keep timing out. It is not particularly user-friendly, and it typically takes several hours to get a complete dump, but it is the best way to for example get a list of all English names of humans in Wikidata, or a list of every scientific article with its title and DOI.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The former *WikiProject iNaturalist* was renamed WikiProject Biodiversity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Biodiversity to allow discussions beyond iNaturalist https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Biodiversity#Renaming_to_WikiProject_Biodiversity . - Special:FewestRevisions to be disabled https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Special:FewestRevisions_to_be_disabled, if you are currently using it, please leave a comment - Winners of the Wikidata competition during Museum Day 2020 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia/Museum_Day_2020/Wikidata_Competition/Winners: VIGNERON, Alexmar983, Braveheart, Pasleim, Benoît Prieur, Uli.ch, Nono314, Sukkoria and Airon90. Congratulations! - As part of a thesis project, the search engine "Lister" has been developed to make it easier for the general public to access data on the Semantic Web in general, and WikiData specifically. It's in a usability test-phase right now, and if you'd like to try it out and help improve it, you can do so at this link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd80t3zxd0oNcW9fE-ulDXq4cgZXKlyHwvUSRSWqlxfiBdWUw/viewform?usp=sf_link. The test should at most 15 minutes. - Follow the discussion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Restrict_editing_of_properties_to_autoconfirmed_users? about restricting editing of properties to autoconfirmed users. - New domain toolforge.org to be adopted by our Toolforge community https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2020-April/000275.html. New domain/scheme for Toolforge-hosted webservices will change from tools.wmflabs.org/<toolname>/ to <toolname>.toolforge.org/ with the aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on 2020-06-15. - Wikidata development team is currently running a survey until June 9th to understand better how people access and reuse Wikidata’s data from the code of their applications and tools (for example through APIs), and how we can improve the tools to make your workflows easier. If you would like to participate, please use this link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJ-I_Ib2EOuRVG4XfeUazhXTvgKsjcKhAa2eauibSsNM_EwA/viewform?usp=sf_link (Google Forms, estimated fill-in time 5min).
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: curricula https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8263, attribution text https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8264, based on tabular data https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8265 - External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8259, Aberdeen Built Ships ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8260, Origin video game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8261, npm package https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8262, FEMA number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8266, Mod DB mod ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8267, Ubisoft Store game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8268, Norwegian prisoner register person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8269, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8270, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8271, BaGLAMa GID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8272, GMC membership number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8273 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: parish church https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/parish_church, ISCO-08 occupation code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCO-08_occupation_code, official product site https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/official_product_site, tag https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tag, heraldic attitude https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/heraldic_attitude, Non volatile storage capacity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Non_volatile_storage_capacity - External identifiers: Australian Classification ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Classification_ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EU-Football.info_stadium_ID, Semantic Scholar corpus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Semantic_Scholar_corpus_ID, Olympedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Olympedia_ID, Emmys person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Emmys_person_ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_person_ID, New York Times contributor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/New_York_Times_contributor_ID, Cinema Context https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cinema_Context, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Helsinki_persistent_building_ID_Ratu, Xfinity Stream ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Xfinity_Stream_ID, Juno Download album ID 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Juno_Download_album_ID_2, sobory.ru https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/sobory.ru, HBO Max ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HBO_Max_ID, Yle Topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Yle_Topic_ID, Den Store Danske ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Den_Store_Danske_ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dansk_litteraturs_historie_ID, Geneanet genealogist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Geneanet_genealogist_ID, IGRS video game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IGRS_video_game_ID, Wiki-Brest ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki-Brest_ID, Wiki-Narbonne ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki-Narbonne_ID, Wiki-Niort ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki-Niort_ID, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki_Pas-de-Calais_ID, Wiki-Rennes ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki-Rennes_ID, Wikimanche ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikimanche_ID, Wiki-Anjou ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki-Anjou_ID, Picardia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Picardia_ID, Grandterrier.net ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Grandterrier.net_ID, BoardGameGeek family ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BoardGameGeek_family_ID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Proleksis_enciklopedija_ID, VIAF partner ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VIAF_partner_ID - Query examples: - Map of German states with links to iNaturalist observations https://w.wiki/Rsp - Cities/towns named after people https://w.wiki/RkM (Source https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1264672499658297344) - Network of researchers who are vBIB20 co-presenters and are linked with a Wikidata item https://w.wiki/RmG (Source https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1264792330458013696) - Timeline of legalized same-sex marriages by country https://w.wiki/Rtr (Source https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1265348973826576387) - BubbleChart of the 7,397 different keywords in DieDatenlaube https://w.wiki/3Rj (Source https://twitter.com/jeb_140/status/1265529221608280065) - Weight of royal crowns https://w.wiki/RxP (Source https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1265597052408430592) - Recorded COVID-19 cases in difference Indian states https://w.wiki/KzH (Source https://twitter.com/salgo60/status/1265600677839089666) - Twitter accounts of current UK MP's https://w.wiki/Rxe (Source https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1265611256993546241) - Number of female employees at different organizations that Wikidata knows about https://w.wiki/Rzp (Source https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1265703383589150720) - Location of libraries that have a GitHub repository https://w.wiki/Rz3 (Source https://twitter.com/nichtich/status/1265665458939846661) - Location of 19th century infectious diseases published in Die Gartenlaube https://w.wiki/SVU (Source https://twitter.com/jeb_140/status/1265878537736728576) - People with an entry in the Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire and biographical articles in Die Datenlaube https://w.wiki/S3p (Source https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1265904262393061377) - Fictional spaceship captains from the Star Trek multiverse https://w.wiki/SAj (Source https://twitter.com/thorstenbutz/status/1266322559848665089) - Timeline of Selenographers, for the birthday of German astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler and his famous map of the Moon https://w.wiki/SLo (Source https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/1266747777402441730) - Points of interest 2 km within St. Jakobus church, Pesterwitz https://w.wiki/SPj (Source https://twitter.com/jeb_140/status/1267095787609210881) - Images of religious art whose main theme is Pentecost https://w.wiki/SQq (Source https://twitter.com/mdammers/status/1267102330106904584) - World map of authors with both an ORCID and Twitter account ID's https://w.wiki/SRW (Source https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/1267142222446804994) - Ratio of (days country has been in the UN) with (sum of periods of office for Heads of Government during that time) https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FdaysInUN%20%28SUM%28%3FdaysInOffice%29%20AS%20%3FdaysKnown%29%20%28%28100%2a%20%3FdaysKnown%20%2F%20%3FdaysInUN%29%20AS%20%3FfilledPercent%29%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Current%20UN%20Member%20States%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3624078%20%3B%20p%3AP463%20%3Fms%20.%0A%20%20%3Fms%20ps%3AP463%20wd%3AQ1065%20%3B%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fjoined%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fms%20pq%3AP582%20%5B%5D%20%7D%20%0A%20%20BIND%28FLOOR%28NOW%28%29-%3Fjoined%29%20AS%20%3FdaysInUN%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20what%20office%28s%29%20%3D%20head%20of%20government%2C%20and%20when%3F%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20p%3AP1313%20%3Fos%20.%0A%20%20%3Fos%20ps%3AP1313%20%3Foffice%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fos%20pq%3AP580%20%3FofficeStart%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fos%20pq%3AP582%20%3FofficeEnd%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%21BOUND%28%3FofficeEnd%29%20%7C%7C%20%28%3FofficeEnd%20%3E%20%3Fjoined%29%20%29%0A%0A%20%20%23%20Who%20has%20held%20office%20in%20that%20period%3F%20%20%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FofficeStart%29%2C%20IF%28%3FofficeStart%20%3C%20%3Fjoined%2C%20%3Fjoined%2C%20%3FofficeStart%29%2C%20%3Fjoined%29%20AS%20%3FeffectiveStart%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FofficeEnd%29%2C%20%3FofficeEnd%2C%20NOW%28%29%29%20AS%20%3FeffectiveEnd%29%0A%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20%3B%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps%20.%0A%20%20%3Fps%20ps%3AP39%20%3Foffice%20%3B%20pq%3AP580%20%3FheldStart%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP582%20%3FheldEnd%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%21BOUND%28%3FheldEnd%29%20%7C%7C%20%28%3FheldEnd%20%3E%20%3FeffectiveStart%29%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FheldEnd%29%2C%20%3FheldEnd%2C%20NOW%28%29%29%20AS%20%3FheldPeriodEnd%29%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3FheldStart%20%3C%20%3FeffectiveStart%2C%20%3FeffectiveStart%2C%20%3FheldStart%29%20AS%20%3FheldPeriodStart%29%0A%20%20BIND%28FLOOR%28%3FheldPeriodEnd%20-%20%3FheldPeriodStart%29%20AS%20%3FdaysInOffice%29%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FdaysInUN%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FfilledPercent%29%20%3FcountryLabel (Source https://twitter.com/tmtm/status/1267425661129498624) - Map of 2020 Art+Feminism editathons https://w.wiki/RzK (Source https://twitter.com/masssly/status/1267439489443651584)
- Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: WikiProject Public art https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Public_art
Development
- More documentation for federated properties - Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249836) - More improvements on the Wikidata Bridge - Add Wikidata support for awawiki (phab:T252870 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252870) - Fix various bugs on Wikibase - Work on improving the unclear error messages (phab:T247690 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247690) - Create reports for the reference hunt game
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