*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New request for comments: Create massive changes in one property for
spesific categories/properties?
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Create_massive_changes_in_one_property_for_spesific_categories/properties%3F>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming
- Next Bug Triage Hour on *API issues*. Monday 15th November at 17:00
UTC (18:00 Berlin time, see other time zones
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikidata+bug+triage+hour&iso=20211115T17&p1=%3A&ah=1>)
(Etherpad <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikidataBugTriageHour>)
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls>
call: Éder Porto will be discussing adding journal articles to
Wikidata Wikipedia
and Academic Libraries: A Global Project/Chapter 17
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_Academic_Libraries:_A_Global_Project/Chapter_17>.
doc
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LjxZ01AUOIJItcwgXTWAIFblel9js_XjwG4aWArD-Zk/edit?usp=sharing>,
Nov. 16th.
- Open Source Publishing Tools in Wikidata
<https://openpublishingfest.org/calendar.html#event-107/>, 16
November 2021. Part of the Open Publishing Fest
<https://openpublishingfest.org>.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #62 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXzqg6KuVvc>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3104015093216980/>,
November 20 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #87
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#87>,
November 21 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #16, Books
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=15>
- Past
- Introduction to Wikidata: GWMAB con IAML Italia replay
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5fXKwKzGbA> (in Italian)
- WikiData4Education_Aligning the sum of all knowledge with school
curricula, WikiIndaba (replay
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yowI9YtZ-2M>)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- Wikidata and open infrastructure: a request for participation
<https://investinopen.org/blog/wikidata-and-open-infrastructure-a-request-for-participation/>
- Own metadata for own blog posts - science communication and
bibliographies with open data and Wikidata
<https://redaktionsblog.hypotheses.org/5219>
- How we're tracking elections in symbiosis with Wikidata
<https://www.datastory.org/blog/tracking-the-worlds-elections>
- Recent updates and improvements to Wikidata Query Service
- How we learned to stop worrying and loved the (event) flow
<https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/11/10/how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-loved-the-event-flow/>
- The trouble with triples
<https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/11/10/the-trouble-with-triples/>
- Getting the WDQS Updater to production: a tale of production
readiness for Flink on Kubernetes at WMF
<https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/11/10/getting-the-wdqs-updater-to-production-a-tale-of-production-readiness-for-flink-on-kubernetes-at-wmf/>
- Videos
- Fuzheado (A) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Fuzheado> and T
Cells <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:T_Cells> to demonstrate how
to discover, track and work with sets of Wikidata - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q27-k3Ms4hw>
- Wikidata Introduction course (in German) - 1
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmSGrlk0uSI>, 2
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zg6Gbiwzac>, 3
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XJSUyNIoIw>, 4
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRL6dUPBVBs>
- Wikidata in Educational Institutions / Academic research at
Wikimedia Polska / Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNX4rBWxK_U>
- Podcasts
- Siobhan Leachman - Wikimedia Editor and Citizen Scientist
<https://specimenspod.libsyn.com/>
Tool of the week
- Plantilla:Infotaula persona
<https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantilla:Infotaula_persona>, infobox for
people on Catalan Wikipedia with extensive use of Wikidata, used 175000
times, with Bridge editing. Sample use at ca:Frits Zernike
<https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_Zernike>.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item
pages for classifying properties
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295275>
- New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and
waiting for your feedback
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/3VJ5ZW3MO3CMCVWW4JDWSWDLXLX4XAEU/>.
Add your comments
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LinkedOpenData/Strategy2021>!
- What kind of articles have you created?
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/what-kind-of-articles-have-you-created>
an Observable notebook which use Wikidata API to get the value of P31 for
the list of articles created by a user.
- OpenRefine is hiring a part-time Project director
<https://openrefine.org/blog/2021/11/05/Project-director.html> (paid
position).
- Hewell public beta app
<https://brianschrader.com/archive/announcing-hewell-public-beta-/>: is
a virtual tour guide that automatically finds interesting things around you
whether you're in a new city or your hometown.
- Full Fact <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30325238> is using the
MediaWiki Action API in their workflow to help add some Wikidata
identifiers to their mark-up
<https://twitter.com/mr_dudders/status/1458063883697016838>.
- Magnus <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske> replaced
some live SPARQL queries in Mix’n’match with a database cache. Main page
now loads faster
<https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1455871764760834053>.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10050>, Standing Waters
Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10051>, Vokrug.tv
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10052>, Atlas
Project of Roman Aqueducts ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10053>, IRIS UNIURB author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10054>, IRIS Verona author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10055>, IRIS UNISA author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10056>, IRIS UNIMI author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10057>, IRIS UNIBO author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10058>, Philosophica ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10059>, Castforward ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10060>, Baidu Scholar
journal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10061>, Academy
of Russian Television person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10062>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: Tabakalera ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tabakalera_ID>,
mathematical symbol
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/mathematical_symbol>,
included as part
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/included_as_part>,
specific impulse by weight
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/specific_impulse_by_weight>,
Newgrounds username
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Newgrounds_username>
- External identifiers: 7 Days person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/7_Days_person_ID>,
DBLP event ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DBLP_event_ID>,
Osmose Agency person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Osmose_Agency_person_ID>,
Author ID from the Modern Discussion website
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Author_ID_from_the_Modern_Discussion_website>,
IRIS Umbria IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Umbria_IDs>,
biografiA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/biografiA_ID>,
Global Geoparks Network ID (new)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Global_Geoparks_Network_ID_(new)>,
identifiant Numelyo
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Numelyo>
- Query examples:
- List of properties which have instances or subclass of humans as
possible value with male and female form in French
<https://w.wiki/4NqT> (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Topic:Wgl2sg728eg71a8s>)
- Different people with same label / birthday / occupation in a
specified year <https://w.wiki/4Ngr>
- Narrative locations of the book Itinerary from Paris to Mont-d'Or
<https://w.wiki/4Nnk> (Source
<https://twitter.com/belett/status/1459192473100632066>)
- Maps of tombs of unknown soldiers <https://w.wiki/4NVs> (Source
<https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1458890173937295361>)
- Most common first names (> 5) among people with a Wikidata item and
born in Auvergne <https://w.wiki/4N7h> (Source
<https://twitter.com/belett/status/1458445682549854209>)
- Student-Teacher relationship based on entries in 'Das Geistige
Berlin' (1897) <https://w.wiki/4MsG> (Source
<https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1458203007158558721>)
- Relative frequency of reasons MPs' terms end, since 1870
<https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#select%20%3Fdec%20%28%28%3Fcount%2F%3Ftotal%29%2a100%20as%20%3Fpercent%29%20%3FcauseLabel%20%20where%20%0A%7B%20%0A%20%20%7B%20select%20%28str%28%3Fdecade%29%20as%20%3Fdec%29%20%28count%28distinct%20%3Fps%29%20as%20%3Fcount%29%20%3Fcause%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps%20.%20%3Fps%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fterm%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fpend%20.%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps2%20.%20%3Fps2%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fps2%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fpend%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%23%20not%20new%20term%20starting%20same%20day%20-%20ie%20left%20Parliament%0A%20%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20%3Fcause%20.%20%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ741182%20%7D%20%23%20not%20dissolution%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ7649223%20%7D%20%23%20not%20suspension%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ35855188%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ36345696%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ30580660%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ52084147%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ35867887%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20bind%28year%28%3Fpend%29%20as%20%3Fyear%29%20.%20filter%28%3Fyear%20%3E%3D%201870%29%20.%20bind%28%28floor%28%3Fyear%2F10%29%2a10%29%20as%20%3Fdecade%29%20.%0A%7D%20group%20by%20%3Fcause%20%3Fdecade%20%7D%20%0A%0A%20%20%7B%20select%20%28str%28%3Fdecade%29%20as%20%3Fdec%29%20%28count%28distinct%20%3Fps%29%20as%20%3Ftotal%29%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps%20.%20%3Fps%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fterm%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fpend%20.%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps2%20.%20%3Fps2%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fps2%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fpend%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%23%20not%20new%20term%20starting%20same%20day%20-%20ie%20left%20Parliament%0A%20%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20%3Fcause%20.%20%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ741182%20%7D%20%23%20not%20dissolution%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ7649223%20%7D%20%23%20not%20suspension%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ35855188%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ36345696%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ30580660%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ52084147%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ35867887%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20bind%28year%28%3Fpend%29%20as%20%3Fyear%29%20.%20filter%28%3Fyear%20%3E%3D%201870%29%20.%20bind%28%28floor%28%3Fyear%2F10%29%2a10%29%20as%20%3Fdecade%29%20.%0A%7D%20group%20by%20%3Fdecade%20%7D%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%23defaultView%3ABarChart>
(Source <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1458177275535536129>)
- Newest database reports: recently ended TV series
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/reports/TV_series/recently_ended>
Development
- The language codes agq (Aghem <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34737>,
T288335 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288335>) and mcn (Massa
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56668>, T293884
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293884>) are now supported.
- Mismatch Finder: Added various dialogs and help texts to make it
easier to understand what reviewers need to do and what information they
are seeing in the tool
- Mismatch Finder: started polishing and bug fixing for release of the
first version
- Making the order of Lexeme's grammatical features consistent (
phab:T232557 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232557>)
- Investigating how to share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query
Service via short URL (phab:T295560
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295560>)
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>
--
Mohammed Sadat
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