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On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 10:46 AM Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events

• Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on April 28th. See

notes here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2021-04-28 (English).

• Upcoming: International Museum Day

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Museum_Day_2021, May 3-18, including a Wikidata competition https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Museum_Day_2021/Wikidata_Competition

• Upcoming: Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch

https://www.twitch.tv/belett and in French by Vigneron, May 4 at 18:00 CEST

• Upcoming: Scholia - Open Bibliometrics for Researchers

https://www2.ciimar.up.pt/events.php?id=244 webinar on Zoom, May 5 at 10h30 UTC (free, but registration needed)

• Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdYcY6YmRDE, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2949456088672882/, May 8

• Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #61

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Tr%C3%A4ff_%2361, May 9

• Upcoming: the next Wikidata bug triage hour

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour will take place on May 17th on the topic of quality constraints

• Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon, May 22-23

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2021. The call for proposals for the program is now open until May 9th for the main track (May 19th for the open rooms) More information https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:W7xmmkqx8o1vxjg6

Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage

• Blogs
  • WBStack Infrastructure
  https://addshore.com/2021/04/wbstack-infrastructure-2021/ - current deployment and architecture of wbstack.com https://www.wbstack.com/
• Videos
  • Mix'n'match workshop in (Italian) - YouTube
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDl2q-7WC7g
  • SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French) - YouTube
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiFTY5zKZvI
  • Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Metadata applications (a technical training
  on the process of metadata applications development) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQPwBMb8Gg
  • Upload workshop (in Dutch) - datacleaning
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm5VDb0LxW0, reconciliation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MN3k_JXzeU, upload https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=870UI7O4mdc, embed metadata with exiftool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0v0Iwde86I & Upload images with Pattypan and link with Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkY41FVhmxk.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdvD6aIFmpc, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2944276429190848/
  • Overview of all LIVE Wikidata editing episodes
  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Weekly_Network/Live_Wikidata_Editing including topics and tools used to make search easier

Tool of the week

• Wikinegata https://d5demos.mpi-inf.mpg.de/negation/ is a platform

for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video https://d5demos.mpi-inf.mpg.de/negation/videos/demo.mp4)

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2021_05_03&veaction=edit§ion=4 | edit source https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2021_05_03&action=edit§ion=4 ]

• Template:Item classification

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Item_classification and Template:Item documentation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Item_documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.

• TP organization

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:TP_organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.

• Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225)

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Over_3,000,000_usages_of_taxon_name_(P225)

Did you know?

• Newest properties

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: field of usage https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9488, artist files at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9493, accessibility statement URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9494, degrees day https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9496, Beirut Arab University's Libraries title ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9499 - External identifiers: J! Archive player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9484, CofE archives name ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9485, HERO ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9486, GLEI RAL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9487, Archdiocese of Liverpool parish ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9489, Yukon Archives authority record ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9490, CofE archives place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9491, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9492, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9495, Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9497, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9498, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9500, Oregon Flora Image Project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9501, Digital DISCI ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9502

• New property proposals

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: Clubhouse account https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Clubhouse_account , Danmarks Tekniske Kulturarv book ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Danmarks_Tekniske_Kulturarv_book_ID , hat Gedenkort https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/hat_Gedenkort , Secondary Archive artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Secondary_Archive_artist_ID , date of probate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/date_of_probate - External identifiers: LMIC musician ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LMIC_musician_ID , DC Books store book ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DC_Books_store_book_ID , ctext data entity ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ctext_data_entity_ID , SAIA authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SAIA_authority_ID , AdServio school ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AdServio_school_ID , Apple Music label ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Apple_Music_label_ID , MacArthur Fellows Program ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MacArthur_Fellows_Program_ID , Encyclopedia of China Online Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_China_Online_Database_ID , DHLE https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DHLE, APA Dictionary of Psychology entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/APA_Dictionary_of_Psychology_entry , Scholarpedia article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Scholarpedia_article_ID , Biology Online Biology Dictionary entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biology_Online_Biology_Dictionary_entry , Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblioteca_di_Santa_Sabina_ID , Biblioteche della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblioteche_della_Custodia_di_Terra_Santa_a_Gerusalemme_ID , Universal equine life number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Universal_equine_life_number , Auschwitz Prisoners Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Auschwitz_Prisoners_Database_ID , Nevada SHPO marker ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nevada_SHPO_marker_ID , Sigla ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sigla_ID , Bing Entity ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bing_Entity_ID , light characteristic https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/light_characteristic , Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lexikon_der_%C3%B6sterreichischen_Provenienzforschung_ID , Identificativo Polo bibliografico della Ricerca https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identificativo_Polo_bibliografico_della_Ricerca , LTit person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LTit_person_ID

• Query examples:
  • List number of albums (Q482994) by language (P407) in descending
  order https://w.wiki/3GDK (Source https://twitter.com/exmusica/status/1388311217752662019)
  • Map of Scottish council areas https://w.wiki/3GcN (Source
  https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1387767074148294663)
  • Databases with a SPARQL endpoint, sorted by number of ids known
  by Wikidata https://w.wiki/3FNJ (Source https://twitter.com/maxlath/status/1387753147137990656)
  • List of actors and actresses who died during 2020
  https://w.wiki/3Enc (Source https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx/status/1386779968504532992)
• Newest database reports: new screenwriters

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/reports/screenwriters/new

Development

• Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238831, example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E10)

• Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on

d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280787)

• Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around

improvements for lexicographical data

• Worked on/fixed small remaining bugs in the Query Builder (

phab:T280505 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280505, phab:T279928 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279928, phab:T279945 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279945)

• Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of

the Query Service

• Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and

improved Property Suggester

• Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the

Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021

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

-- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement Coordinator

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