*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Past: Wikidata Workshop 2020 presentations YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM3N1A-gEXt0vShpqDCw6x9T95ok9aj_ - Upcoming: live SPARQL queries https://www.twitch.tv/belett on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 24 at 18:00 CET - Upcoming: rC3, the remote version of the Chaos Communication Congress https://events.ccc.de/2020/09/04/rc3-remote-chaos-experience/#english, on December 27-30. Like in previous years, the WikipakaWG will host sessions and workshops related to Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects. The call for participation https://cfp.verschwoerhaus.de/rc3-2020/cfp is open until November 30th. - Upcoming: Ghana Histo Cita-thon https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/african-wikimedians/2020-November/002037.html. Friday 27th November 2020. 9am to 2pm UTC. - Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #40 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#40, November 29
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wikidata, the collaborative database for machines and humans https://xn--fundaci-r0a.cat/wikidata-la-base-de-dades-collaborativa-per-a-maquines-i-humans/. Blogpost by Àlex Hinojo (in Catalan) - 24 hours of open data - The meetup for the eighth Wikidata birthday https://blog.wikimedia.de/2020/11/18/24-stunden-open-data-das-meetup-zum-achten-wikidata-geburtstag/, Blogpost by Lea Lacroix (in German) - The future of the Riksdag's data in Wikidata https://wikimedia.se/2020/11/17/framtiden-for-riksdagens-data-i-wikidata/?_thumbnail_id=10186. Blogpost by Jan Ainali (in Swedish) - WikiPathways: connecting communities https://doi.org/10.1093/NAR/GKAA1024: research article outlining, among other things, how Wikidata is used and integrated - Using SPARQL to combine Wikidata and OSM triples http://www.bobdc.com/blog/osmpluswikidata/ - ANN: A platform to annotate text with Wikidata IDs https://zenodo.org/record/4279611#.X7bTTSWPWEf (report) *"Report of the work done by the Ann team at the eLife Sprint 2020. It describes the effort pursued towards a system for universal annotation of biomedical articles using the collaborative knowledge graph of Wikidata".* - TU Dresden lecture on Knowledge Graphs (replay) - Wikidata introduction - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKr8Uz4PneQ - Content model of Wikidata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwhDkxDwsbA - How the content of Wikidata can be represented in RDF - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su0V8OmM0pU
Tool of the week
- EntityShape.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Teester/EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The proposals phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021 is open until November 30th. You can submit wishes in various categories, like Wikidata https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Wikidata . - SMWCon 2020 virtual conference is from 24 to 26 November 2020 https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2020. Do not forget to register at Hopin! - The note-taking app Kanopi got first pieces of Wikidata integration. https://kanopi.io/company/updates/2020_11_16_weekly_newsletter_9.md - The Listeria Evolution http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=650: Listeria has got an update - Wikimedia Deutschland has two open positions around the Wikidata development team; Full Stack Developer https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/4361894/Full-Stack-Developer-m-f-d-/?jobDbPVId=21890437&_ga=2.117843721.1666319849.1605900771-1686350039.1605900771&l=de and Partner Relationship Manager https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/8136694/Partner-Relationship-Manager-m-f-d-/?jobDbPVId=22272186&_ga=2.117843721.1666319849.1605900771-1686350039.1605900771&l=de
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: epithet https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8822, attraction to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8824, hairstyle https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8839, poverty incidence https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8843 - External identifiers: IMMuB artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8812, IMMuB album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8813, WordNet 3.1 Synset ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8814, IAFD film distributor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8815, Yandex Zen ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8816, NCAA school code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8817, Church of Jesus Christ pioneer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8818, Pitchfork artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8819, Monuments de mémoire ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8820, Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8821, Xfinity Stream ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8823, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8825, edition humboldt digital ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8826, GitLab username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8827, AAA attraction ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8828, Swiss-Gym Male ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8829, Swiss-Gym Female ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8830, Museum Day ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8831, PAN member https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8832, Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8833, MetaSat ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8834, Visages du diocèse d'Autun ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8835, SPOnG game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8836, Prêtres du diocèse de Quimper ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8837, LibraryThing venue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8838, Union des artistes ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8840, Restaurant Guru Restaurant ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8841, PromoDj ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8842 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: vénéré à https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/v%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9_%C3%A0, Number of blood donors https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Number_of_blood_donors, People reached https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/People_reached, number of awards https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_awards, has positive marker https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/has_positive_marker, ID pattern https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ID_pattern, lunar coordinates https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/lunar_coordinates, adjacent to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/adjacent_to, date posted https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/date_posted, ITRANS https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ITRANS, National Library at Kolkata romanization https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Library_at_Kolkata_romanization, complementary property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/complementary_property, MTRCB rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MTRCB_rating, DBLP conference ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DBLP_conference_ID, fait l'objet d'une vénération à https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fait_l%27objet_d%27une_v%C3%A9n%C3%A9ration_%C3%A0 - External identifiers: DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DriveThruComics_numeric_publisher_identifier, Hyperion Records person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hyperion_Records_person_ID, Arken https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Arken, AAA hotel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AAA_hotel_ID, AAA restaurant ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AAA_restaurant_ID, AAA campground ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AAA_campground_ID, AstroGen ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AstroGen_ID, Reliwiki page ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Reliwiki_page_ID, Sonneveld-index https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sonneveld-index, SIL ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SIL_ID, AniDB Episode ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AniDB_Episode_ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_the_History_of_Ukraine_ID, Lumni ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lumni_ID, Archives at Yale Names ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archives_at_Yale_Names_ID - Query examples: - Aberdeen recycling centers and recycling points https://w.wiki/nMw (Source https://twitter.com/watty62/status/1330154154858262528) - Map of Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 participant's institutions https://w.wiki/my4 (federated query) (Source https://twitter.com/nichtich/status/1329712307967037440) - Women who play chess and have a Wikipedia article in Spanish https://w.wiki/mYx (They are 132 while men have 899 entries) (Source https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx/status/1329540876633317381) - Timeline of Dietary Advocates https://w.wiki/nFz (Source https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/1329472653833482244) - Philosophers born between 0 and 500 grouped by the decade where they lived https://w.wiki/nag (Source https://twitter.com/inforapid/status/1330435382211727360) - Video games from *?country* https://w.wiki/naJ (template) (Source https://twitter.com/JeanFred/status/1329103807272407043)
Development
- Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is) - Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (phab:T261275 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261275) - Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (phab:T267502 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267502) - Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (phab:T267023 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267023) - Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (phab:T266936 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266936) - Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to dockerhub https://hub.docker.com/r/wikibase/wikibase (phab:T264538 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264538)
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