Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of what's been going on around Wikidata over the
past week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Next Wikidata workshop/meetup in Paris
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Paris>: February 15th
- Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin
<https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Wikidata/events/258598844/>: March 12th
- The conference grant proposal for WikidataCon was submitted and could
use endorsements.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Wikidata_Con_2019>
Press, articles, blog posts
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- „Eisberg voraus!“ – Sächsische Landeskunde mit SXRM, Wikisource und
Wikidata <https://saxorum.hypotheses.org/2081> by Jens Bemme (in German)
- Linking the OLAC Video Game Vocabulary with Wikidata
<https://ivdn.org/metadata/linking-the-olac-video-game-vocabulary-with-wikidata/>
by Tracy Hoffmann and Peter Chan
- Adam blogged about how to update an existing Wikibase docker instance
<https://addshore.com/2019/01/wikibase-docker-mediawiki-wikibase-update/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Got some time? SpeedPatrolling
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/speedpatrolling>, a tool to simplify
patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (documentation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister/SpeedPatrolling>),
has been announced
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_Tool:_SpeedPatrolling>
and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
- Got some time? Match some streets and the humans they are named after.
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/topicmatcher/#/random?instance=Q79007&topic=Q5&property=138>
- Got some time? Help link OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Items with the new
OSM <-> Wikidata matcher. <https://osm.wikidata.link/>
- Wikidata Query Service now has over 7 billion triples
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000489/wikidata-query-service?orgId=1&from=now%2FM&to=now%2FM&panelId=7&fullscreen>
.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: affiliation string
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6424>, RightsStatement
status according to source website
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6426>, trading name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6427>, Alexander–Briggs
notation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6432>
- External identifiers: DIZIE ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6414>, football.odessa.ua
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6415>, sport-strana.ru
article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6416>, Homosaurus
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6417>, funk channel ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6418>, GEOFON earthquake ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6419>, Georgian National
Filmography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6420>,
infosport.ru
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6421>, ManualsLib
brand ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6422>, MusicBrainz
event ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6423>, LGD local
body code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6425>, HAER ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6428>, Hymnary hymnal ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6429>, Hymnary instance ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6430>, Hymnary tune ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6431>, Global Species ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6433>, Amsterdam code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6434>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: does not have quality (2)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/does_not_have_quality_(2)>,
Den Digitale Byport-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Den_Digitale_Byport-ID>,
expression of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/expression_of>,
calendar feed url
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/calendar_feed_url>,
Total goals in career
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Total_goals_in_career>,
Strepsiptera database species ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Strepsiptera_database_species_ID>,
Brentidae of the world species ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Brentidae_of_the_world_species_ID>,
Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Illustrated_catalog_of_Tessaratomidae_species_ID>,
WBCHSE code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WBCHSE_code>
- External identifiers: Douban Book ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_Book_ID>,
Douban Musician ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_Musician_ID>,
Douban Author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_Author_ID>,
Douban Music ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_Music_ID>,
Douban Drama ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_Drama_ID>,
Douban Game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_Game_ID>,
Douban Read Author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_Read_Author_ID>,
Douban Read eBook ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_Read_eBook_ID>,
Douban Site Name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_Site_Name>,
Douban Username
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_Username>,
Zhihu username
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Zhihu_username>,
Bilibili user ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bilibili_user_ID>,
QQ number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/QQ_number>,
Bilibili
video ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bilibili_video_ID>,
Bilibili bangumi ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bilibili_bangumi_ID>,
Bilibili tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bilibili_tag_ID>,
Mtime movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mtime_movie_ID>,
Mtime people ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mtime_people_ID>,
Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionary_of_Anhui_Writers_ID>,
Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fuzhou_Architecture_Heritage_ID>,
Eventa Servo ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Eventa_Servo_ID>,
Rocks Backpages author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rocks_Backpages_author_ID>,
Rocks Backpages artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rocks_Backpages_artist_ID>,
Rocks Backpages publication ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rocks_Backpages_publication_ID>,
Hulu movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hulu_movie_ID>,
Hulu series ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hulu_series_ID>,
Democracy Club ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Democracy_Club_ID>,
ISA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISA_ID>,
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Schutzgebiete-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern_Schutzgebiete-ID>,
DALFAN ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DALFAN_ID>,
GameFAQs
franchise ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GameFAQs_franchise_ID>,
CABB player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CABB_player_ID>,
castingvideos ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/castingvideos_ID>,
Bildarchiv, Herder-Institut
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bildarchiv,_Herder-Institut>,
IEEEXplore document ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IEEEXplore_document_ID>,
IEEEXplore author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IEEEXplore_author_ID>,
Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Antarctica_NZ_Digital_Asset_Manager>,
Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pacific_Coast_Architecture_Database_building_ID>,
Twitter user ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Twitter_user_ID>,
Australian Antarctic Data Center
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Antarctic_Data_Center>,
Enciclopedia delle donne ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Enciclopedia_delle_donne_ID>
- Deleted properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion>: P1112
(Pokédex number)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2019/Properties/1#P1112>
- Query examples:
- Common topics of publications by people affiliated with a given
organization
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:University_of_Virginia/Listeria/UVa_people/Common_topics_of_publications_co-authored_by_UVa_people>
- World __ days and other awareness days in calendar order
<https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fmonth_int%20%3FmonthLabel%20(%3Fday_int%20as%20%3Fd)%20%3Fworld_dayLabel%20(%3Fworld_day%20as%20%3Flink)%20(GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT%20%3FcountryLabel%3B%20separator%3D%22%2C%20%22)%20as%20%3Fcountries)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%7B%20SELECT%20%3Fmonth_int%20%3Fmonth%20%3Fday_int%20%3Fworld_day%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%3Fmonth%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ47018901%3B%20wdt%3AP1545%20%3Fmonth_ordinal.%0A%3Fday%20p%3AP361%20%5Bps%3AP361%20%3Fmonth%3B%20pq%3AP1545%20%3Fday_ordinal%20%5D.%0A%20BIND(xsd%3Ainteger(%3Fmonth_ordinal)%20AS%20%3Fmonth_int)%0A%20BIND(xsd%3Ainteger(%3Fday_ordinal)%20AS%20%3Fday_int)%0AVALUES%20%3Ftype%20%7Bwd%3AQ2558684%20wd%3AQ422695%7D%20%23%20World%20___%20day%3B%20Awareness%20day%20%0A%3Fworld_day%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Ftype%3B%20wdt%3AP837%20%3Fday%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fworld_day%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%7D%20%0A%7D%20%20%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmonth%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmonthLabel.%20%3Fworld_day%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fworld_dayLabel.%20%3Fcountry%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fmonth_int%20%3FmonthLabel%20%3Fday_int%20%3Fworld_dayLabel%20%3Fworld_day%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fmonth_int%20%3Fd>
(Source) <https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1092441042966769665>
- timeline of writing systems
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%3Fimage%20%20%3Fdate%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP279%2B%7Cwdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ8192%20.%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20it%2C%20de%2C%20es%2C%20fr%22%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/1085953893266264065>)
- family tree of Donald Duck
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnus-toolserver/ts2/geneawiki/?q=Q6550> (
source <https://twitter.com/MonsieurBraun/status/1085975701768019968>)
- Common long words in titles of scholarly articles
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fw%20%28COUNT%28%2a%29%20AS%20%3Fc%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Ftitle%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ13442814%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1476%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STRLEN%28%3Ftitle%29%20%3E%3D%2010%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20LIMIT%2010000%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28REPLACE%28%3Ftitle%2C%20%22%5E.%2a%3F%28%5C%5Cb%5C%5Cw%7B10%2C%7D%5C%5Cb%29.%2a%24%22%2C%20%22%241%22%29%20AS%20%3Fw1%29%0A%20%20BIND%28REPLACE%28STRAFTER%28%3Ftitle%2C%20%3Fw1%29%2C%20%22%5E.%2a%3F%28%5C%5Cb%5C%5Cw%7B10%2C%7D%5C%5Cb%29.%2a%24%22%2C%20%22%241%22%29%20AS%20%3Fw2%29%0A%20%20BIND%28REPLACE%28STRAFTER%28%3Ftitle%2C%20%3Fw2%29%2C%20%22%5E.%2a%3F%28%5C%5Cb%5C%5Cw%7B10%2C%7D%5C%5Cb%29.%2a%24%22%2C%20%22%241%22%29%20AS%20%3Fw3%29%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fw_%20%7B%201%202%203%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fw_%20%3D%201%2C%20%3Fw1%2C%20IF%28%3Fw_%20%3D%202%2C%20%3Fw2%2C%20%3Fw3%29%29%20AS%20%3Fw%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28REGEX%28%3Fw%2C%20%22%5E%5C%5Cw%2B%24%22%29%29%20%23%20no%20idea%20why%20this%20is%20necessary%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fw%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fc%29>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1086302403358543873>
)
- schools of magic by number of students
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%20(COUNT(%3Fperson)%20AS%20%3Fcount)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ52085914.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP69%20%3Fq.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC(%3Fcount)>
(source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/1084469697737822208>)
Development
- Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape
Expression support
- Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels,
desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages"
and "all entered languages" sections in it
- Added tracking for the number of Senses and Forms to our graph for
tracking the number of Items, Properties and Lexemes
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000167/wikidata-datamodel?refresh=30m&orgId=1>
- Worked more on making it easier to set up Quickstatements in other
Wikibase instances
- Preventing an entity to redirect to itself (phabricator:T214919
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214919>)
- Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties
to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the
next stage (support for depicts statements) unstuck
- Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Commons (phabricator:T213975
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213975>)
- Fixing Cognate support for yue Wiktionary (phabricator:T214400
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214400>)
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>
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.