Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions
- New request for comments: Handling of stored IDs after they've been deleted or redirected in the external database https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Handling_of_stored_IDs_after_they%27ve_been_deleted_or_redirected_in_the_external_database
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, June 12-14 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Wikidata_Wochenende_Ulm_2020: online Wikidata workshop and hackathon in German. Don't forget to register to get access to attendees information. - Upcoming: Video: Live Wikidata editing #9: Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNPtSNWWGkY, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jan.ainali/videos/10217752074222570/ - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #16 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#16, June 14 - Upcoming: Webinar on Wikidata and cultural heritage collections https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=wLxn6XDAyEGffoBgafYzC0OV1ihAQolGho623Yq8oIRUOEVZMERPRFFWOVdSWlFMWlU4Q1I4RExQUC4u, by Science Museum Group UK, June 19th
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- *Wikidata based Location Entity Linking https://doi.org/10.1145/3384544.3384592* - *WikiBank: Using Wikidata to Improve Multilingual Frame-Semantic Parsing https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.515/* - *Wikimedia Public (Research) Resources https://doi.org/10.1145/3366424.3383114* - *RDF Reasoning on Large Ontologies: A Study on Cultural Heritage and Wikidata https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49161-1_32* - *What is an Open Knowledge Base anyway? https://openworking.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/what-is-an-open-knowledge-base-anyway/* (lists Wikidata as key example). - *KGTK: A Toolkit for Large Knowledge Graph Manipulation and Analysis https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.00088.pdf* ("we present KGTK, a data science-centric toolkit... We illustrate KGTK with real-world scenarios... such as Wikidata") - Video: *Live Wikidata editing #8 - Wikidojo edition*: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIeS6tuS6X0, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/2951930608188084/ - Wikidata Online Workshop (in Spanish): "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRBoBVq9bc0 - Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Andrew Lih - Part 1 - Meet Andrew! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLq5I7_0OhA - Part 2 - Wikidata at the Met - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJSNAjk2zms - Part 3 - Wikidata Tools used at the Met project - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPbNmZmtJX4 - Part 4 - Spreadsheets & QuickStatements for mass-upload - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5dw28Cvwxs - Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Jane Darnell - Part 1 - Meet Jane! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMxrJ8b9Iuo - Part 2 - WWikidataProject Some of All Paintings - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pfzx4EUyMo - Part 3 - Listeria Lists - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJv995JuRPc - Part 4 - Modeling, provenance and new properties - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWzPVmpjsXw - Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Dr. Martin Poulter - Part 1 - Meet Martin! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psvbVPAyDTk - Part 2 - The residency at the Bodleian Libraries - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2el8-Su8SQo - Part 3 - The Astrolabe Explorer & other datasets - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h49CFqkNSI
Tool of the week
- QuickStatements https://tools.wmflabs.org/quickstatements lets you edit thousands of Wikidata items at a time. Add labels and descriptions, or statements with sources and qualifiers, add sitelinks, create or merge items, or remove statements that were created in error. Batches can be discussed and, if necessary, reverted in full through the EditGroups https://tools.wmflabs.org/editgroups tool.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Simple Query Builder: wrap-up of the feedback loop and next steps https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Improve_the_workflows_for_queries_and_lists/Simple_query_Builder#Simple_Query_Builder:_wrap-up_of_the_feedback_loop_and_next_steps - New page Subsetting https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Schemas/Subsetting under WikiProject Schemas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Schemas for documenting how to define, construct, manage and maintain subsets of Wikidata - MyCroft https://mycroft.ai, the open digital personal assistant now has a Wikidata skill https://store.kde.org/p/1389861 to answer questions about current and historic facts & information about a person. - Do you know a Wikidata/Wikibase community member who has accomplished something new or has been inspiring in the last year? If so, please take a few minutes and nominate someone https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0plqKWa1o1ztZ1b?target=ML-l in the 2020 Community Spotlight https://lists.gt.net/wiki/foundation/896831 survey. - Wikidata Lexeme Forms https://twitter.com/LucasWerkmeistr/status/1269625012241260547 now supports Bengali nouns.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: curriculum topics 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, living people protection class https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8274, position in biological sequence https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8275, region within image https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8276, ISCO-08 occupation code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8283, parish church https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8289, has grouping https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8306, has sorting https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8307, has column https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8308 - 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 registration number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8273, AFL player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8277, serial identifier on SerialZone https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8278, Absolute Games game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8279, Modelhub ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8280, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8281, Medusa NRHP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8282, motorsportstats.com event ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8284, LGBT Danmark online dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8285, Olympedia athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8286, Worlds Without End author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8287, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8290, AusStage organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8291, AusStage person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8292, AusStage venue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8293, AusStage work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8294, AustLit ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8295, Cinema Context ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8296, New York Times contributor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8297, HBO Max ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8298, Semantic Scholar corpus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8299, Montreux Jazz Festival concert ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8300, Montreux Jazz Festival person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8301, Montreux Jazz Festival song ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8302, ESRB video game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8303, NexusMods video game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8304, LongTake person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8305, Yle Topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8309, digilibLT work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8310, PHI Latin Texts work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8311, Musisque Deoque work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8312, Den Store Danske ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8313 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: 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, introduced in version (2) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/introduced_in_version_(2), height of center of mass https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/height_of_center_of_mass, strike tone https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/strike_tone, number of migrations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_migrations, depicted without https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/depicted_without, offset from vertical https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/offset_from_vertical, for type elements https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/for_type_elements, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/_Nomor_Pokok_Wajib_Pajak, number of branches https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_branches - 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, Emmys person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Emmys_person_ID, 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, 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, NVE Elvenett elvID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NVE_Elvenett_elvID, Scholars Strategy Network ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Scholars_Strategy_Network_ID, Opera Online work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Opera_Online_work_ID, Opera Online composer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Opera_Online_composer_ID, ICP artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ICP_artist_ID, Singapore Infopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Singapore_Infopedia_ID, Legacy.com person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Legacy.com_person_ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AnyDecentMusic_album_ID, Uffizi artwork ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Uffizi_artwork_ID, Ancestry.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ancestry.com_ID, Dlive game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dlive_game_ID, Spotify songwriter ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Spotify_songwriter_ID, MuseScore artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MuseScore_artist_ID, MNBAQ artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MNBAQ_artist_ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/kino-teatr.ru_film_ID, Cimetières de France ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cimeti%C3%A8res_de_France_ID, vglist video game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/vglist_video_game_ID, Gramophone composer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gramophone_composer_ID, Political Graveyard politician ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Political_Graveyard_politician_ID, CAOI person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CAOI_person_ID - Deleted properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion: - Query examples: - User:PAC2/Prenoms https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2/Prenoms a notebook interface (Q28405706) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28405706 to explore data about a given name (Q202444) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202444 : the idea is to ask simple questions and find answers - Similarly the talk page of "Ada" with queries https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Q346047&uselang=en - Postcards of exterior and interior views of theatres on CARTHALIA https://w.wiki/SXp (Source https://twitter.com/AndreasP_RV/status/1267562570833149953) - List of cities (or map) of Russia where no one famous was born and died https://w.wiki/SYp (Source https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1267605925969477632) - Turkish scientists by citation count https://w.wiki/QZv (Source https://twitter.com/NevitDilmenTR/status/1267886667190452224) - ESWC2020 papers with links to video lectures https://w.wiki/Ss5 ( Source https://twitter.com/janmartinkeil/status/1268562409834373122) - Women who have been Captain Regent of San Marino https://w.wiki/S$M (Source https://twitter.com/tmtm/status/1268810923373985793) - Species of birds https://w.wiki/TAt (Source https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/1269145397596786689) - List of open science fellows https://w.wiki/8QP (Source https://twitter.com/nichtich/status/1269203260138717184) - Spouses of the German Bundestag https://w.wiki/TKg (Source https://twitter.com/KonradGoke/status/1269735169302429697) - MWAPI searches in wikidata about people descibed as slave traders by citizenship https://w.wiki/TMC (Source https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1269902191990575104)
Development
- Wikidata Bridge: Made a number of technical improvements to wrap up the work in the first version. - Reference Hunt: Making final technical improvements and are now running the process to find references on the whole of Wikidata (as opposed to the initial small subset for testing). Once that's done we'll release them as a dump. - Easier access to data for programmers: Researching and interviewing ways to improve the APIs in preparation for working on them. - Query builder: Working on defining the first version and creating mockups based on the feedback we received. - Use modern TypeScript syntax (3.2 -> 3.9) (phab:T253211 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253211) - More technical documentation for Federated Properties (phab:T252991 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252991) & preparing for the next steps - Convert some properties to external identifiers (phab:T253722 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253722)
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