*Hello there!Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around
Wikidata over the last week.*
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- *Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine
Relation Cardinalities
<http://paramitamirza.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/expanding-wikidatas-parenthood.pdf>*,
by Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt (Q27038095
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27038095>)
- *Extracting Scientists from Wikipedia
<http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/126/003/ecp16126003.pdf>*, by Gustaf Harari
Ekenstierna and Victor Shu-Ming Lam (Q27037451
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27037451>)
- *Comparison of Wikidata and DBpedia projects as spatial data sources
<https://zenodo.org/record/55381/files/macura_bp.pdf>* (cs), by Jan
Macura (Q27042632 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27042632>)
- Wikidata challenge to take on language obstacles in medical analysis
<http://warriorsplanet.com/wikidata-challenge-to-take-on-language-obstacles-in-medical-analysis/>
on Warriors Planet
- The Wikidata scholarly profile page
<https://finnaarupnielsen.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/the-wikidata-scholarly-profile-page/>
on Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
- Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase
<http://openpreservation.org/blog/2016/09/30/wikidata-as-a-digital-preservation-knowledgebase/>
on Open Preservation Foundation
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We need you for Wikidata's birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata.27s_4rth_birthday:_we_need_you.21>!
Organize an event or tell us your story about Wikidata
- Item Q27000000 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27000000> was created,
about Stakihnúkur, a hill in Iceland
- Log of our last office hour discussion
<https://bots.wmflabs.org/%7Ewm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20160927.txt>
- The first WikiCite newsletter
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/Newsletter> has been published
- You can help a research project
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-September/009664.html>
to understand the use of the SPARQL query service
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: OKPD2 code of
the good or service <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3250>, OKP
ID of the good or service <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3248>,
OKP Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3247>, OKVED 2 code of
the economic activity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3246>, OKPD
code of the good or service
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3245>, OKVED 1.1 code of the
economic activity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3243>, SIC
code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3242>, Catholic
Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3241>, NBN
System Key <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3240>, trunk prefix
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3238>, KU Leuven person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3237>, PhilPapers publication
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3236>, PhilPapers topic
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3235>, Library of Congress
Cultural Heritage Organizations
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3234>, PhilPapers profile
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3233>, PhilPapers author
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3232>, Mediaarts-DB ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3231>, SCAR Composite Gazetteer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3230>, South Dakota legislator
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3229>, Schläfli symbol
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3228>, Cultural Heritage Kosovo
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3227>, HAS member ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3226>, Corporate Number (Japan)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3225>, NAICS code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3224>, List of lights id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3223>, Nationalencyklopedin
Online ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3222>, NYT topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3221>, KvK company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3220>, Encyclopædia Universalis
Online ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3219>, Auñamendi ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3218>, Dictionary of Swedish
National Biography <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3217>, ClassInd
rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3216>, SIRET number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3215>, Onisep occupation ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3214>, Indian census area code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3213>, ISAN
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3212>
- Query examples:
- Most populous commune of France whose name begins by a certain
letter <https://huit.re/bw35Iwxu> (source
<https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/781437140106371072>)
- Works mentioning #Wikidata properties
<https://query.wikidata.org/#select%20%3Fwork%20%3FworkLabel%20%3Fproperty%20%3FpropertyLabel%20where%20%7B%0A%09%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP3176%20%3Fproperty%0A%20%20%20%20service%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22da%22%20.%20%7D%20%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/780704357335625728>)
- Places where people born in Brittany died
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FplaceOfBirth%20%3FplaceOfBirthLabel%20%3FplaceOfDeath%20%3FplaceOfDeathLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Fcoord%20%3Flayer%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP19%20%3FplaceOfBirth%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP20%20%3FplaceOfDeath%20.%0A%20%20%3FplaceOfDeath%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3FplaceOfBirth%20%28wdt%3AP131%7Cwdt%3AP706%7Cwdt%3AP276%29%2a%20wd%3AQ327%20.%0A%20%20%3FplaceOfBirth%20%28wdt%3AP131%7Cwdt%3AP706%7Cwdt%3AP276%29%2a%20%3Fdepartement%20.%0A%20%20%3Fdepartement%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ6465%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fdepartement%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flayer%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Flayer%29%20%3D%20%22fr%22%29%20.%20%20%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/781460925001916416>)
- trees grown from seeds that went around the Moon
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Moon%20Trees%3A%20trees%20grown%20from%20seeds%20that%20went%20around%20the%20moon%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ftree%20%3FtreeLabel%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcoords%29%20AS%20%3Fcoords%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flayer%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ftree%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ6907628.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Ftree%20wdt%3AP625%20%3FtreeCoords.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Ftree%20wdt%3AP276%2Fwdt%3AP625%20%3FlocationCoords.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FtreeCoords%2C%20%3FlocationCoords%29%20AS%20%3Fcoords%29.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftree%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Ftaxon.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ16521.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftaxon%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FtaxonLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtaxonLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP1843%20%3FtaxonCommonName.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtaxonCommonName%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FtaxonCommonName%2C%20%3FtaxonLabel%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftree%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FtreeLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtreeLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Ftree%20%3FtreeLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/781947815840845824>)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Virtual Twins
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Virtual_Twins>
- Newest external tools: Free Software Directory plugin
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/PBFB/browse/master/FLOSSbot/fsd.py>
with a bot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:FLOSSbot>
- Newest database reports: list of articles with "uses property" (P3176)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P3176/list>
Development
- Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties
to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
- Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on
Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144921>)
- More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (
phabricator:T145412 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145412>)
- Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main
page (phabricator:T144687 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144687>)
- Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (phabricator:T146318
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146318>)
- Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't
focus the value input. That has been fixed (phabricator:T144037
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144037>).
- Made it possible to use the bzr and cvs protocols in URL data types (
phabricator:T146692 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146692>)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>.
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>.
- Help develop the next summary here!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
- 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 pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help merge items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Josve05a/dupes>
of people with the same name and dates.
- 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>
- proposals
needing attention
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Attention_needed>
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Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.