*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Nomen ad hoc
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Nomen_ad_hoc>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in
education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit
<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2020/01/announcing-the-wikimedia-in-education-uk-summit/>
at Coventry University on 26 February
- Hackday Niederrhein <https://www.codeforniederrhein.de/hackday-2020/>,
Germany, on March 28-29, including a Wikidata workshop
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call:
further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets,
11 February. Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Hf1fPhAwjiGirAHxNvDuG7pksw_6USMUKNe328MOw0/edit?usp=sharing>
- WikiCite meetup in Melbourne, Australia
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/wikicite-anz-2020/3052>, on
February 14th
- Wikidata Wednesday in Vienna, Austria
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/wikidata-wednesday-vienna/3029>, on
February 19th
Press, articles, blog posts
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone
<http://www.swat4ls.org/proceedings/edinburgh2019/video/>, keynote video
from Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition
<https://commonists.wordpress.com/2020/02/04/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-2019-edition/>,
by Jean-Frédéric
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric>
- Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata
<https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-21462-3_21>, by
Tom Hanika, Maximilian Marx and Gerd Stumme.
Tool of the week
- Reasonator <https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/> offers a visual
formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing
Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by
presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset
<https://blog.kensho.com/announcing-the-kensho-derived-wikimedia-dataset-5d1197d72bcf>
is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M
pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing
(NLP) research
- Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items
using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random
list" on d:Property
talk:P279 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P279>
- "Status of Wikidata Query Service
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-February/013793.html>"
update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
- Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/wikidatistedeconflans/> of a
volunteer working on Wikidata about the French local elections in Conflans
- Swiss newspaper Le Temps <https://www.letemps.ch> built a new front-end
<https://labs.letemps.ch/interactive/2020/demander-ses-donnees/> to
interact with a Wikibase backend <http://wiki.personaldata.io> developed
by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation
<https://www.letemps.ch/economie/donnees-personnelles-devons-etendre-champ-transparence>
of personal data flows.
- There are now 100,000 people with the name "John"
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4925477> in Wikidata. "Elizabeth"
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q385468> is now the most frequent female
given name.
- Knowledge Grapher <https://tools.wmflabs.org/knowledgegrapher/> is a
new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge
of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Fuzheado>, it is currently in early
testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter> at his 2019 blog
post Making
Wikidata Visible
<http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2019/01/23/making-wikidata-visible/>.
Feedback is appreciated.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers:
Academia.edu publication ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7896>, TI-99/4A Videogame
House ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7897>, National
Aviation Hall of Fame ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7898>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: гражданский чин
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD>,
uses dataset
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/uses_dataset>,
CVR person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CVR_person_ID>,
description
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/description>,
Wikimedia community discussion
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikimedia_community_discussion>,
The Great Biography
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Great_Biography>
- External identifiers: Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Visual_AIDS_Artist%2B_Registry_ID>,
CYRI ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CYRI_ID>,
Mendeley
publication ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mendeley_publication_ID>,
CODEPAC-Bauru ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CODEPAC-Bauru_ID>,
Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution_ancestor_ID>,
PC Games Database.de game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PC_Games_Database.de_game_ID>,
Encyclopedia of Chicago
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Chicago>,
DANFS ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DANFS_ID>,
Deutsche
Biographie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Deutsche_Biographie_ID>,
Haz-Map ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Haz-Map_ID>,
RAL ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RAL_ID>, PC
Games Database.de company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PC_Games_Database.de_company_ID>,
Kickstarter project ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kickstarter_project_ID>,
Adventure Games company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Adventure_Games_company_ID>,
VcBA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VcBA_ID>,
Adventure
Games series ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Adventure_Games_series_ID>,
Hrvatska enciklopedije ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hrvatska_enciklopedije_ID>,
Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biografisch_Woordenboek_van_Nederland:_1880-2000_ID>,
Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_on_Early_Childhood_Development_ID>,
Trakt.tv uri
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Trakt.tv_uri>,
Open Food Facts label
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Food_Facts_label>,
Compendium heroicum ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Compendium_heroicum_ID>,
Gry Online game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gry_Online_game_ID>,
Gram.pl game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gram.pl_game_ID>,
startrekdb.se query
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/startrekdb.se_query>,
Legislative Assembly of Ontario MPP ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Legislative_Assembly_of_Ontario_MPP_ID>,
Gry Online company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gry_Online_company_ID>
- Deleted properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion>:
lithography
(P2157)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2019/Properties/1#P2157>
- Query examples:
- Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries
<https://w.wiki/GwV> (source
<https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1225553452509605893>)
- Chart of the number of infections and deaths casued since the
outbreak of novel coronavirus, as reported by the World Health
Organisation
<https://w.wiki/Gk4>
- Adjacent constituencies of the UK Parliament <https://w.wiki/GqE> -
query federated with Ordnance Survey's SPARQL endpoint. (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Request_a_query&oldid=1111692856#Adjacent_constituencies>
)
- List of this year’s Academy Awards winners <https://w.wiki/Gw8>
Development
- Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various
cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
- Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (
phab:T233295 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233295>)
- Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production,
adding the "remove warning" button
- Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are
being triggered and opened (phab:T231731
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231731>)
- Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
- Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client
wikis (phab:T244129 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244129>)
- Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (
phab:T243158 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243158>)
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>
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
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Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
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