*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Wikidata:Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Wikidata_to_use_data_schemas_to_standardise_data_structure_on_a_subject
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
- Past: Wikidata workshop at the central library of Göttingen. Slides: connecting Wikidata and other databases (in German) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verkn%C3%BCpfung_von_Wikidata_mit_anderen_Datenbanken.pdf - Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Paris, March 20th, will take place online starting at 20:00 on IRC (freenode:wikidata-fr) - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #5 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#5, March 22 - Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende in Ulm https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Wikidata_Wochenende_Ulm_2020, June 12-14. Registration opens on April 1st. We're looking for mentors, workshop facilitators and project ideas - Postponed: - Wikidata Days 2020 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiData_Days_2020 (July, Portugal) will be postponed (more information https://wikidatadays.wikimedia.pt/wikidata-days-postponed/) - WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiCite_Satellite_Cologne_2020 (May, Germany) is postponed until "late 2020" - Cancelled: - Wikimedia Hackathon https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2020 (9-11 May, Tirana) is cancelled due to COVID-19.
Press, articles, blog posts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- People First: Wikimedia’s Response to COVID-19 https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikimedia-coronavirus-response-people-first-8bd99ea6214b - Update from Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation CEO - Wikimedia Foundation’s Knowledge Infrastructure with Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation https://mission.org/podcast/wikimedia-foundations-knowledge-infrastructure-with-grant-ingersoll-cto-of-wikimedia-foundation/ - *Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.03072.pdf* - "describes how to generate gazetteers from the Wikidata knowledge graph" - *Introduction to Wikidata* video by Jason Evans https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66689127 and Aaron Morris https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72575551, available both in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_9_23jXPoE and in Welsh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAfFF2VgAGw - Video of the live Wikidata Querying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnA9TdbfLAo, March 15th, by WikidataFacts
Tool of the week
- TabulistBot https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TabulistBot, a tool to generate and update tabular data on Commons, based on Wikidata SPARQL queries. Sample: earthquakes.tab https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_talk:USGS_Earthquakes.tab
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New help page: Suggesters and selectors https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Suggesters_and_selectors - All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Sort_identifiers#Proposal_1, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Sort_identifiers#Comments_on_new_sorting ! - Maximilian Klein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:User:Maximilianklein applied for a project grant https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Maximilianklein/WHO to merge and improve WHGI http://whgi.wmflabs.org/ and Denelezh https://www.denelezh.org/, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects. - QuickStatements change (4 March https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1235185453390794754). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team#Batch_QuickStatements_has_become_unsustainably_slow), when the WDQS updater can handle this. - News and discussions about Structured Data on Commons SPARQL endpoint https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data#On_SPARQL
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: historic county https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7959, corresponding HTML autocomplete attribute https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7964 - External identifiers: Joconde Discovery ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7960, Joconde Genèse ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7961, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7962, Cell Ontology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7963, Scilit work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7965, NetBSD package https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7966, OpenBSD port https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7967, VR GameCritic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7968, DAR ancestor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7969, FandangoNow ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7970 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: descriptive solubility https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/descriptive_solubility, Unicode character (item) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Unicode_character_(item), Donations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Donations, endorsed by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/endorsed_by, countermeasure https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/countermeasure, Venue of the final https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Venue_of_the_final, Tournament format https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tournament_format, tilt https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tilt - External identifiers: Social Blade YouTube channel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Social_Blade_YouTube_channel_ID, Dizionario di Filosofia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_di_Filosofia_ID, re:publica speaker ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/re:publica_speaker_ID, ACM Conference ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ACM_Conference_ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HuijiWiki_Wiki_ID, ACM Journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ACM_Journal_ID, m3db.com film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/m3db.com_film_ID, m3db.com person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/m3db.com_person_ID, TripAdvisor ID 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TripAdvisor_ID_2 - Query examples: - Timeline of films about pandemics https://w.wiki/KDJ - World map of hospitals https://w.wiki/JnC (source https://twitter.com/AlexHinojo/status/1238596806231146501) - English and Scottish health trusts & boards https://w.wiki/KY3 ( source https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1239552371493089283) - Videogames nominated at the Pégases award https://w.wiki/KY5 ( source https://twitter.com/JeanFred/status/1237099418018394112) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: WikiProject COVID-19 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19 - Newest database reports: COVID-19 deaths https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lists/corona_virus_deaths
Development
- Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! (phab:T165648 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165648) - Article Placeholder: make the entity field required (phab:T247478 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247478) - Remove legacy Wikibase service containers (phab:T245865 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245865) - Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages (phab:T243779 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243779) - Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected ( phab:T246873 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246873) - Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) (phab:T246349 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246349) - showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge (phab:T235208 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235208) - research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244987)
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