*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New request for comments: Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Automatic_analysis_and_breakdown_of_links_(for_social_accounts_reference)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Past: - log of Wikibase Live session 2021-06-24 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/2021-06-24 - Upcoming: - SPARQL queries live on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/belett and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.; [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/14wazqg7XJM3Asqq4kFcNHCVgBOGODRp0U8yFc-22WM8/edit?usp=sharing, June 29th. - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #69 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#69, July 4
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - A Journey Into Wikidata with Five Indigenous Artists https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/2021/06/22/wikidata-with-five-indigenous-artists/ - Adding Data to Wikidata is Efficient with QuickStatements https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2021/06/adding-data-to-wikidata-is-efficient-with-quickstatements.html - Papers - Which methods are the most effective in enabling novice users to participate in ontology creation? A usability study https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107338764 (compares Wikidata to other knowledge modelling tools) - Videos - LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QywDX83OZrw, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2985815161703641/, for the #ArcticKnot. - SPARQL queries live on Twitch about lexicography and lexemes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dvzb4Svzck by Vigneron, for the #ArcticKnot. - Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for Tainacan - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6m0rRgadu4 - Creating a new faculty item in Wikidata - [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu68LM5NicM YouTube - Writing data to Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fC3oXvQfqI, Wikidata Sandbox items https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvWkaCcEEHA
Tool of the week
- Template:Item documentation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Item_documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for positions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Generic_queries_for_positions. It can be used for every position item in the talk page. See example with head of the United Nations Secretariat https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q81066.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Community_Survey_2021.pdf. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Usability_and_usefulness/2021-2-Survey . - Call for candidates for the 2021 election to the position of primary contact https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/2021_contact_election for the Wikibase Community User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group. Applicants should present themselves on this page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/2021_contact_election/Candidates before *2021-07-08 17:00 (UTC)*, after which voting will commence. - Bodh https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bodh is a new tool to edit Lexemes by hand on a larger scale. - Wikidata Vertical Analysis https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AKhatun/Wikidata_Vertical_Analysis by AKhatun (WMF) - Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Igbo nouns https://lexeme-forms.toolforge.org/template/igbo-noun/ - Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Malayalam proper nouns https://twitter.com/LucasWerkmeistr/status/1406334472891551745 - A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it! http://openartbrowser.org/en/classes
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: date of resignation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9667, curid https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9675, consequence of text https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9680 - External identifiers: RBF event ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9666, cirkev.cz Catholic services ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9668, Olympic Committee of Israel athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9669, ZKM person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9670, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9671, Fotodok ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9672, museumPASSmusées ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9673, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9674, Vindskyddskartan.se ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9676, Hokej.cz player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9677, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9678, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9679 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: delta of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/delta_of, Astrological sign https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Astrological_sign, announced at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/announced_at, contact point (2) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/contact_point_(2) - External identifiers: WTA-Trainer-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WTA-Trainer-ID, Villo! station ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Villo!_station_ID, LexM ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LexM_ID, Classical Archives composer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Classical_Archives_composer_ID, UFC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UFC_ID, Tapology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tapology_ID, Bellator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bellator_ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bauforschung_Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg_Objekt-ID, FightMatrix ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FightMatrix_ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_Curling_Federation_Championship_ID, Ethereum token address https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ethereum_token_address, Legie 100 legionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Legie_100_legionary_ID, PsycNET ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PsycNET_ID, Index Theologicus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Index_Theologicus_ID, MK ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MK_ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CCC_in_Idaho_Collection_ID, Gameblog.fr game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gameblog.fr_game_ID, African Film Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/African_Film_Database_ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Games_und_Erinnerungskultur_Datenbank_ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Great_Ukrainian_Encyclopedia_Online_ID, Native-Land.ca Territory ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Native-Land.ca_Territory_ID, Native-Land.ca Language ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Native-Land.ca_Language_ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Great_Encyclopedia_of_Cyril_and_Methodius_ID, HockeyLive player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HockeyLive_player_ID, eishockey.info player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eishockey.info_player_ID - Query examples: - Street names in Alsatian https://w.wiki/3Yev (source https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262922#7178793) - What kind of places in Wales host public toilets? https://w.wiki/3Z8o (Source https://twitter.com/WICI_LLGC/status/1409488011197300742) - UK Health Ministers and their occupations on Wikidata https://w.wiki/3Yoe (Source https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1409081946865610756) - Count of statements by property for theatrical plays https://w.wiki/3YJM (Source https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1408382965898436610) - Things dedicated to St. John the Baptist https://w.wiki/3XdN ( Source https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1407790562917367816)
Development
- Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/... - Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176312 ) - Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275958) - Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200689) - Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284219) - Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285131) - Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs ( phab:T284538 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284538) - Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits ( phab:T219215 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219215) - Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281669) - Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283040) - Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage ( phab:T262922 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262922, phab:T252198 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252198, phab:T283364 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283364, phab:T265297 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265297) - The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240350, phab:T281702 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281702) - Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. ( phab:T282512 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282512, phab:T279557 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279557) - It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia" - Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230786) - A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed ( phab:T245927 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245927) - "en-simple: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/" can be used instead of "simple: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283149). - There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212313)
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