*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