Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/
Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mateusz%20Konieczny/diary/42385>, by
Mateusz Konieczny
- One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences
Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
<https://github.com/dringler/KnowledgeGraphAnalysis/blob/master/paper/knowledge_graphs.pdf>
- Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
<https://ipres2017.jp/wp-content/uploads/7.pdf>
- Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems?
Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS
mappings <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1937/paper2.pdf> (Paper and presentation
<https://at-web1.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2017/content/neubert.pdf>),
by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017
<https://at-web1.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2017/programme.html>
at TPDL <http://www.tpdl.eu/tpdl2017/>
- Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies
<https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/handle/11250/2456870>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example
<https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B7:AboutTopic/Q3375>
)
- There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in
Wikimedia projects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_in_Wikimedia_projects>.
You can help expand and improve it.
- New Wikidata Game
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/> to help you
evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge>.
- A reading tip from Spinster
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Spinster> (not mentioning Wikidata,
but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and
responsible data: an introductory reading list
<https://responsibledata.io/indigenous-peoples-responsible-data-readings/>
from responsibledata.io
- Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41035175>, of course!
- Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-datamodel-statements?refresh=30m&orgId=1>
- Statement 300.000.000 was created
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-datamodel-statements?refresh=30m&orgId=1>
- 20 million edits were done in September 2017
<http://wikidata.wikiscan.org/date/201709/stats>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: TSE number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4251>, defined daily dose
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4250>, Vincoli in Rete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4249>, The Black Book ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4248>, Tagesschau election ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4247>, LfD-HB object ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4246>, cultural heritage
monument in Serbia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4245>, Bavarian
monument authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4244>
- Query examples: What exists in the "... as a service" genre?
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Flabel%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ25036597.%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%0A%7D%0ALIMIT%20100>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/913105081247158272>)
Development
- Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more
easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (
phabricator:T70567 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70567>) Thanks
Matej!
- Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to
support lexicographical data (phabricator:T173742
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173742>,phabricator:T173744
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173744>)
- Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our
RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (
phabricator:T121274 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121274>)
- Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to
the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless
of their rank (phabricator:T176124
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176124>)
- Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being
sent (phabricator:T174794 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174794>)
- Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component
<https://packagist.org/packages/data-values/data-values>
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>.
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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