*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary and give us your feedback :) - New request for comments: Merging male and female labels https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Merging_male_and_female_labels
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Upcoming: State of the map http://2016.stateofthemap.org/, September 23 - 25, Brussels - Next *Wikidata office hour*: Tuesday September 27th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), in #wikimedia-office - Video of a SPARQL workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaMdh4fXy18 (& materials https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Workshop) organized by Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams - Slides of Lydia's keynote https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_DBpedia_conference_2016_presentation.pdf about Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016 - Slides of Andreas Thalhammer about Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata http://www.slideshare.net/thalhamm/towards-a-unified-pagerank-for-dbpedia-and-wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016 - #SundayQuery: ask for help on queries every Sunday on Twitter! This week, a tutorial about surnames https://blog.ash.bzh/sunday-query-all-surnames-marked-as-disambiguation-pages-with-an-english-wikipedia-link-and-with-surname-in-their-english-label/ by Harmonia Amanda https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Harmonia_Amanda, and how to use SPARQL and Python to fix typographical errors https://blog.ash.bzh/sunday-query-use-sparql-and-python-to-fix-typographical-errors-on-wikidata/ by Ash Crow https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ash_Crow
Other Noteworthy Stuff https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quality_process_on_Wikidata.svg Quality process on Wikidata
- The Project Grants program https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. - The RevisionSlider https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs. - You can also activate ORES the review tool https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES_review_tool to watch damaging edits more easily! - There's an infographic https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quality_process_on_Wikidata.svg on the quality process in Wikidata you can use and edit. - You can also use and translate this new datamodel https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graphic_representing_the_datamodel_in_Wikidata_with_a_statement_group_and_opened_reference.svg representation. - How to fix taxon common names with Pywikibot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TweetsFactsAndQueries/Darwin%C3%ADs_Fox, tutorial by TweetsFactsAndQueries https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TweetsFactsAndQueries and Tobias1984 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Tobias1984.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Visual Novel Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3180, territory overlaps https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3179, Zaragoza monument ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3178, Patrimonio Web JCyL ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3177, uses property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3176, Statoids ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3175, art director https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3174, offers view on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3173, World Bridge Federation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3172, Olympic.org ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3171, Cultural Heritage Armenia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3170, Harasire ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3169, Sporthorse data ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3168, Allbreedpedigree ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3167, Webpedigrees ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3166, Horsetelex ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3165 - Query examples: - Embassies https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Embassies%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%0A%09%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcountry_label%29%20as%20%3Fcountry%29%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcity_label%29%20as%20%3Fcity%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Faddress%29%20as%20%3Faddress%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcoordinates%29%20as%20%3Fcoordinates%29%0A%09%28SAMPLE%28%3Foperator_label%29%20as%20%3Foperator%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fphone%29%20as%20%3Fphone%29%20%20%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Femail%29%20as%20%3Femail%29%20%20%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fwebsite%29%20as%20%3Fwebsite%29%0A%09%28SAMPLE%28%3Ffacebook%29%20as%20%3Ffacebook%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftwitter%29%20as%20%3Ftwitter%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20as%20%3Fimage%29%20%20%20%20%20%3Fwikidata%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%09%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3917681.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP131%2a%2Fwdt%3AP17%20%3FcountryId.%20%3FcountryId%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry_label.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcountry_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP131%20%3FcityId.%20%3FcityId%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcity_label.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcity_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP969%20%3Faddress.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates.%7D%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP137%20%3FoperatorId.%20%3FoperatorId%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Foperator_label.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Foperator_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP1329%20%3Fphone.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP968%20%3Femail.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Fwebsite.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP2013%20%3Ffacebook.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP2002%20%3Ftwitter.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%7D%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cru%2Cde%2Cfr%2Ces%22%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fwikidata%20%3FwikidataLabel%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3Fcountry%29%20ASC%28%3Fcity%29%20ASC%28%3Foperator%29 (source https://github.com/nicolas-raoul/database-of-embassies) - World map of water towers https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fimage%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fitem%20%3Fcoord%20WHERE%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ274153%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ30%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%0A%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/Coyau/status/777474208796381184) - "Battles of the Middle Ages" without place or date https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20%22Battles%20of%20the%20Middle%20Ages%22%20without%20place%20or%20date%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcoords%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15991159%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP276%20%3Fplace%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cfr%22%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FitemLabel (source https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/776685318879707136) - Asteroids named after characters from works by Lewis Caroll https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcharacterLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ3863%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Fcharacter%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcharacter%20wdt%3AP1441%20%3Fwork%20.%0A%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20wd%3AQ38082%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FcharacterLabel%20%3FitemLabel (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/776722528370843648) - Map of Austrian cultural heritage https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20All%20items%20that%20have%20P2951%20set.%20Plotted%20on%20a%20map.%20Symbols%20according%20to%20p31%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FheritageId%20%3FadminLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%20%3Flayer%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2951%20%3FheritageId%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Fadmin%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Fadmin%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Ftype%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ftype%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flayer%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/tobias47n9e/status/776480698140073985) - Statues in Paris depicting historical female figures https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3FartistLabel%20%28YEAR%28%3Fdate%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ557141%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Farrdt%20.%0A%20%20%3Farrdt%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ90%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fsubject%20.%0A%20%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fartist%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FitemLabel (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/776150994480721920) - Newest database reports: list of embassies https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikivoyage/Lists/Embassies
Development
- We're working on entity usage on Wikimedia projects, check our different features https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Entity_usage_exposure - The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2016, ViewSource https://viewsourceconf.org/berlin-2016/, DPpedia http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2016, SoCraTes http://socratesbe.org/, Write the doc http://www.writethedocs.org/conf/eu/2016/) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)
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. - 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