*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Other: Tool ideas/ImproveWikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:So9q/Tool_ideas/ImproveWikidata>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Past: Linked Open Storytelling - Winter School 2021 - Fellow-Programm
Freies Wissen (in German) (reply on YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JuqzW_zOBc&feature=youtu.be>)
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> live on Twitch
and in French by Vigneron, February 16 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour>,
February 16
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlxsQQPfrqU>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2892173044401187/>,
February 20
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #50
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#50>,
February 21
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blog post: The promise of Wikidata: How journalists can use the
crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source
<https://datajournalism.com/read/longreads/the-promise-of-wikidata>,
by Monika
Sengul-Jones <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shameran81>
- Blog post: Data donation to Wikidata, part 2: country/subject dossiers
of the 20th Century Press Archives
<https://zbw.eu/labs/en/blog/data-donation-to-wikidata-part-2-country-subject-dossiers-of-the-20th-century-press-archives>
(by Joachim Neubert <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jneubert>, ZBW
Labs)
- Blog post: Bibliography and Citations of Hausa Folklore
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/02/09/bibliography-and-citations-of-hausa-folklore/>
by Anasskoko <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Anasskoko>
- Video: Querying Linked (Wiki)data with SPARQL ✨
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50voG57yac> (presentation by Lucas
Werkmeister <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister> at
rC3, 90 minutes)
- Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkAirxHj-Ps>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2887608388190986/>
- Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTz0zSNSKEY>
Tool of the week
- UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one
external ID as source (see User:Bargioni/UseAsRef
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bargioni/UseAsRef> and this YouTube
video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3nkeqKnfTg> for more information)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Abstract Wikipedia presents prototypes of two tools that could help
people to visualize, exemplify, and better guide our understanding of the
coverage of lexicographic data in Wikidata
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2021-02-10>.
- Public Domain Tool
<https://pro.europeana.eu/post/public-domain-tool-automating-the-calculation-of-works-in-the-public-domain>,
developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of
determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
- Sizes of country items (like "Portugal" (Q45)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45>) were recently reduced by 30% to 50%
by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample:
"economy
of Portugal" (Q1649355) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1649355>). The
item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal".
This can
simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can
still access the properties with the link through "economy of topic"
(P8744) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8744>.
- Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for
assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should
notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on
all edits. However, bots that often *fail* to create items may start to
see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the
problem of skipped item IDs.
- Guidelines and compensation for UX research lead by Wikimedia Germany
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_Engineering/Participate_in_UX_Activities>
(announcement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2021-February/014516.html>
)
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: service status information URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9138>, first family name in
Portuguese name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9139>, time
played <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9140>, coordinates of
depicted place <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9149>
- External identifiers: CompositionToday composers showcase ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9130>, Royal Museums
Greenwich artwork ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9131>, Saint
Louis Art Museum artwork ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9132>,
AZLyrics.com song ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9133>, Studio di Fonologia
Musicale RAI person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9134>,
WreckSite ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9135>, SOUNZ
contributor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9136>, Doktori.hu
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9137>, Portal da
Literatura ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9141>, IPHAE ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9142>, Play:Right ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9143>, National Portrait
Gallery (London) artwork ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9144>, Xinjiang Data Project
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9145>, CITWF
title ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9146>, Union
Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9147>, Saxony-Anhalt
cultural heritage object ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9148>, FloGrappling ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9150>, Can I use feature ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9151>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: National Gallery of Art Library Bibliographic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Gallery_of_Art_Library_Bibliographic_ID>,
letterer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/letterer>, set
during recurring event
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/set_during_recurring_event>,
number of references
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_references>,
sensors
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/sensors>,
Applying
institution
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Applying_institution>
- External identifiers: Lexikon Literatur in Tirol
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lexikon_Literatur_in_Tirol>,
Danmarks Adresseregister named street ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Danmarks_Adresseregister_named_street_ID>,
Baidu Baike ID (2)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Baidu_Baike_ID_(2)>,
Kickstarter username
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kickstarter_username>,
Protagonisti della storia delle scienze della mente ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Protagonisti_della_storia_delle_scienze_della_mente_ID>,
Curling.fi player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Curling.fi_player_ID>,
RILM ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RILM_ID>, Swiss
vote ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swiss_vote_ID>,
svoyak.info player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/svoyak.info_player_ID>,
Germanistenverzeichnis
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Germanistenverzeichnis>,
Svenska Institutet i Rom ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Svenska_Institutet_i_Rom_ID>,
CinemaRx title ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CinemaRx_title_ID>,
Sinemalar title ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sinemalar_title_ID>,
English Placenames MADS ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/English_Placenames_MADS_ID>,
Armenian Book ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Armenian_Book_ID>,
identifiant inventaire Occitanie
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_Occitanie>,
AaRC title ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AaRC_title_ID>,
Biblioteca Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblioteca_Iglesia_Nacional_Espa%C3%B1ola_en_Roma_ID>,
BFS ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BFS_ID>,
Dizionario
biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_biografico_online_degli_anarchici_italiani_ID>,
JedeSchule.de ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JedeSchule.de_ID>,
bashenc.online ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/bashenc.online_ID>,
Svoya Igra television player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Svoya_Igra_television_player_ID>,
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wisconsin_Architecture_and_History_Inventory_ID>
- Query examples:
- Spanish Wikipedia articles about women astronauts
<https://w.wiki/yQR> (Source
<https://twitter.com/editatona/status/1359980994636488705>)
- Websites related to works in the Women's & Gender History DH list
<https://w.wiki/Com> (Source
<https://twitter.com/dta_cthomas/status/1360198435715100672>)
- List of states with more than one official language
<https://w.wiki/ykR> (Source
<https://twitter.com/belett/status/1359533946959245317>)
- Location of the organizations in the Name Assigning Authority
Number (NAAN) registry <https://w.wiki/yVm> (Source
<https://twitter.com/BertrandCaron/status/1359094070409322496>)
- List of locations named after the planned language Esperanto or its
founder, L. L. Zamenhof <https://w.wiki/y$C>
- Use the MediaWiki API to get the content of a Wikipedia category
into a query <https://w.wiki/yAR>
- Number of scholarly articles sharing their datasets
<https://w.wiki/zAD> (Source
<https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1360556323448971271>)
- Most specific taxon that includes two given species
<https://w.wiki/zPN> (Source
<https://twitter.com/danbri/status/1361065883280506888>)
Development
- Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting
query conditions via OR (phab:T272694
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272694>). Next we will work on
adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (phab:T272887
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272887>)
- Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it
easier to deploy
- Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for
Lexemes (phab:T272242 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272242>)
- Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from
language variant to major language for Property labels (phab:T272712
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272712>)
- Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many
due to misbehaving bots (phab:T272032
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272032>)
- Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma
with an invalid language code (phab:T265783
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265783>)
- Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has
links to its own Senses (phab:T273830
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273830>)
- Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint
checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations
that you can query in the Query Service. (phab:T204031
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204031>)
- Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual
Wikisource (phab:T138332 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138332>)
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
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de