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Wikidata weekly summary #412
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: How to model curricula and link them to educational resources?, Need comment on English item label and foreign language proper noun, Merging 2 items
- Ongoing CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine
- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Schemas, 21 April. Agenda
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #10, April 26
- Past Wikidata Lab XXII - Wikiproject COVID-19 (video in English)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic (Wikidata being also mentioned as a source for the research)
- Videos:
- Tool of the week
- Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- First step of blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model: introducing the new function
wikibase:isSomeValue() - The tool wikidata-filter was renamed wikibase-dump-filter, to better reflect that it can be used with dumps from any Wikibase instance
- LexData – a python library to edit Lexicographical data – has been released in a major new version.
- The ImageHeader gadget, which had been broken since February, was fixed.
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Hebrew nouns
- New tool: Anagram generator based on Wikidata names
- First step of blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model: introducing the new function
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: eligible award recipient
- External identifiers: Wikiparques ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, FooDB compound ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, HASC
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IDU general item ID, CONI honoured ID, parliament seats, electoral system, same transportation stop on the other side of the road, string instrument handedness, Canadiana Name Authorities in French ID, defines curriculum, clinitalregister.eu
- External identifiers: Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, DPVweb ID, IDU theatre ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, ROKPS ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, Diels-Kranz ID, IDU theatre name ID (2), Oregon Historic Sites Database ID, Infames Romani ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Heritage Gateway ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, identifiant monument MémorialGenWeb, Extratime.ie player ID, DGHS facility code, WikiTrek ID, Itch.io developper profile
- Deleted properties: P134 (has dialect), P1432 (B-side)
- Query examples:
- Women with cats in paintings (Source)
- Films by Peter Mettler available free on VOD (Source)
- Films broadcast on VOD by artfilm.ch sorted by Director and Date (Source)
- Swiss films listed by date and duration per minutes (Source)
- Counties in England (Source)
- Programming Languages, Year of creation and Image of inventor(Source)
- Map of Antonine Wall items on Wikidata (Source)
- Map of Hospitals in Buenos Aires on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
- Map of Michelin starred restaurants in Switzerland (Source)
- English civil parishes on Wikidata with OSM relation ID (Source)
- Collections in Louvre with an image on Wikimedia Commons (Source)
- Chief Mousers(Source)
- Books about Semantics (Source)
- Danish COVID-19 research projects(Source)
- Newest database reports: Lincoln (disambiguation page)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
- try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
- allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
- investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
- com up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
- identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
- create design system components to continue improving consistency
- Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 26 April 2020
- News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?
- In the media: Coronavirus, again and again
- Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit
- Featured content: Featured content returns
- Arbitration report: Two difficult cases
- Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night
- Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
- Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors
Wikidata weekly summary #413
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Udder balm
- CheckUser nomination: علاء
- Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #11, May 3
- Upcoming: Live editing of Wikidata, May 2 18:00 (UTC) YouTube, Facebook
- Tool of the week
- zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata now includes more than seven million people (it has doubled since July 2017), also: project chat discussion
- Nobelprize.org has now redesigned its website so that Wikipedia can link to it easier using the Wikidata Property Nobel Laureate API ID (P8024) (more information)
- The use of Listeria to generate basic charts (pie, area, line, bar) with d:Template:Graph:Chart, see d:Template:Wikidata list#Charts
- Mohammed Sadat joined the Wikidata team as community communications manager for Wikidata and Wikibase
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: tournament format, dialect of computer language, located in the statistical territorial entity
- External identifiers: ModelSEED compound ID, UM-BBD compound ID, DLL Catalog author ID, DLL Catalog work ID, CPAN author ID, Fandango performer ID, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, IDU theatre company ID, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID, Swedish Glaciers ID, Soccerdonna coach ID, Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, Moravian Lives ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com series ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, SAR ancestor ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, Psocodea Species File ID, SkiMo Stats ID, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, re:publica speaker ID, Provenio ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: nerve origin, 法令番号, interpretation, DoME exhibition ID
- External identifiers: dbchgk, COVIDWHO ID, History Colorado ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID, Epistemonikos ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, Dart thesis, DPE school code
- Query examples:
- Pairs of lakes named after a couple
- The longest river that feeds into another river (Source)
- Longest rivers that do not feed into a sea or ocean (Source)
- Map showing things in Wikidata that are located on or next to the River Thames (Source)
- Defining formulas of physical and other quantities (Source)
- TreeMap visualising the 12 times table (Source)
- Map of the "Leipzig University Villages" (Source)
- There are now more than 7 million people on Wikidata (Source)
- Recently published works on COVID-19 (Source)
- Welsh hospitals, health centres, doctors surgeries and temporary Covid19 hospitals (Source)
- Newest database reports: measures of gobbledygook
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on error screens for the Bridge
- Use updated data for the Bridge (phab:T240223)
- Display statements made with federated properties on item pages (phab:T246606)
- Automated references: normalizing data that the extractor gets out of HTML pages (phab:T249004)
- Create a distributed game so people can vet references easily (phab:T248997)
- Cleanup rows from wb_items_per_site (phab:T249613)
- Don't suggest initial uppercase in mobile termbox (phab:T241978)
- Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #414
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: A meta item namespace (Mxxx) for structured data about Wikidata
- Events
- Competition for the International Museum Day is about improving data about museums in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland on Wikidata, from 3 May 2020 to 18 May 2020, more information on Museum Day 2020/Wikidata Competition
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alex Jung on Wikidata and Wikipedia Infoboxes, 05 May. Agenda
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday May 5 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Tool of the week
- ProWD explores completeness for entities and classes.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- MachtSinn, a tool that allows you to easily add Senses to Lexemes, has lately been improved significantly
- 33,000 values of British Museum person or institution ID (d:Property:P1711) now have a useful target again. After their being mostly inoperative for several years, the new British Museum website now has information pages matching these values, with links to related objects. (Example). To work around bug T112081, a script by Andrew Gray is going through the items making null edits to update the relevant URLs.
- Outdated copy of wb_terms has been dropped on April 29th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: COVIDWHO ID, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Sicilian Regional Assembly numeric ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Republic of Korea Parliamentarian Society ID, NKAA ID, MémorialGenWeb monument ID, History Colorado ID, SciProfiles ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, CONI honoured ID, DGHS facility code, Diels-Kranz ID, DPVweb ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, WhatDoTheyKnow organisation ID, FactGrid item ID, Heritage Gateway ID, RPPS ID, Priset of Archidiecezja Gdańska ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID, Extratime.ie player ID, Slovak Registration ID, Infames Romani ID, Itch.io developer profile, Oregon Historic Sites Database ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Ex-libris, tabular case data, Geneanet URL(s), transitivity, Compatible with
- External identifiers: DPE school code, identifiant Prix de Lausanne, CDAPNC author ID, identificativo Giunta regionale della Sicilia, Goodreads work ID, Wikilengua, BeWeb cultural institution ID, Anagrafe Istituti Culturali Ecclesiastici ID, Group Properties wiki ID, House Divided ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item, Gitabitan.net ID, The Conversation author ID
- Query examples:
- French municipalities which have the property "archived by" (P485) for the departmental archives of Bouches-du-Rhône (Source)
- Municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants in the Basque Country (Source)
- People born in Wales who became head of government in Wales or overseas (Source)
- Average stardate of Star Trek episodes (Source)
- Municipalities in mainland France with more than 50,000 inhabitants (Source)
- Graph showing direct ancestral lines linking Boris Johnson and George I, and Jesus and Abraham (Source)
- Photos by Carlton Watkins with their collection (Source)
- Works from Louvre Museum whose inventory number begins with an S (Source)
- Works from the Islamic arts department of Louvre Museum (Source)
- Map of artists with place of their birth on Wikidata (Source)
- Location and image of the cathedrals of Paris (Source)
- Jewish art collectors and dealers who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps (Source)
- Newest database reports: Notable descedents of Mayflower passengers
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Add monolingual language codes rm-rumgr, rm-surmiran, rm-sursilv, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter (phab:T222426)
- More work on the test system for federated properties
- More work on displaying statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
- Bridge: more work on generic error screens (phab:T241126)
- Bridge: warn the user that they are about to edit anonymously (phab:T246676)
- Work on a Wikidata distributed game for automated finding of references
- Automated finding references: build a scraper, simple value matching, item analyzer
- Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)
- Add more properties to the PageImages list (phab:T249811)
- Use strict types everywhere in Wikibase (phab:T251382)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #415
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past: Remote Wikimedia Hackathon, May 9-10 (see the showcase replay and the description of projects). Several Wikidata-related sessions took place:
- Past: Wikidata local school gathering was organised by Wikidata Taiwan. Link to Event page and dashboard
- Upcoming: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred, May 13th at 19:30 CEST
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding
wikidata=*tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube - Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Lydia Pintscher from Wikimedia Deutschland
- How to create external identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian): YouTube
- Open Data and Wikidata training (in Mandarin Chinese): YouTube
- Bandaid: using Wikidata to generate band names
- Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding
- Tool of the week
- WikidataExtract extracts schemas (shape expressions) from Wikidata entities
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/VIAF linking to multiple items has been created: most of the items listed probably need merging - have a look!
- New tool: universal almanac based on Wikidata by Alexander Doria
- A proposal for a new Wikiproject Wikilambda that allows creating multilingual content in Wikidata that can be used in all Wikipedias. Signatures of support are needed and discussion and questions are welcomed!
- V1 of Wikidata Bridge is almost ready to be tested on Catalan Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: general property-based URL formatter, hardiness of plant, hardiness zone, ex-libris, voting system, supported metadata, tabular case data, Gazette of India notification
- External identifiers: motorsportstats.com team ID, Canadiana NCF ID, Indian Railways train number, SNCF Station Identifier, South African Company Registration Number, DART-Europe thesis ID, DoME exhibition ID, DPE school code, Epistemonikos ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, Joconde technique ID, PragerU presenter ID, regional government of Sicily ID, Anagrafe Istituti Culturali Ecclesiastici ID, BeWeb cultural institution ID, ACUM work ID, Reta Vortaro ID, Mozilla Developer Network article
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: social media followers, Gobbledygook, forearm length, number of stepchildren, number of adopted children, CV, axe, banned in
- External identifiers: NMMA built heritage ID, NMMA antiquities ID, Super Mario Wiki ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, Archaeology in Greece Online place ID, iDAI.gazetteer ID, iDAI.chronontology ID, identifiant SILL d'un logiciel, Lower Austrian Castle ID, Naturdenkmal-ID Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Bookogs credit ID, Bookogs work ID, Bookogs book ID, GMC membership number, Bibliography of the History of Slovakia ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali author ID, Augustins de l'Assomption ID, ASUT ID, Niden INE
- Query examples:
- Films claimed to pass the Bechdel test with less than 2 female cast members in Wikidata
- African-American librarians in Wikidata that don't have Wikipedia articles (Source)
- Magicians with known precise birth date (Source)
- Sheffield Shield cricket players and the number of states they have played in (Source)
- Number of Twitter followers of scientists at Dutch universities (Source)
- Former United Kingdom Parliament MP's still living (by first election) (Source)
- Number of paintings in National Gallery with artist and gender (Source)
- Nearby table tennis tables to public spaces for the Wiki Explorer Android application (Source)
- Map of Ramsar sites in France (Source)
- Highest software version numbers recorded on Wikidata (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Speed skating, Witches
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Display statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
- Federated properties: fix a bug that caused some properties to not appear in search results (phab:T252024)
- Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
- Prevent Wikibase schema updaters to modify database directly (phab:T249598)
- Write a technical RFC about site-wide edit rate limiting (phab:T247459)
- Fix an issue on Wikibase: property names are missing when rendering (phab:T247196)
- More work on automated references
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
| This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
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