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Wikidata weekly summary #491
- Events
- Upcoming:
- WikidataCon is happening this week! Don’t forget to register if you want to attend!
- ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (register on meetup)
- WikidataCon Bioblitz (During WikidataCon)
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #13, Death
- Past:
- Wikidata+Wikibase office hour log (2021-10-20)
- Wikiarabia Algeria 2021: Wikibase Presentation - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Georgina Burnett
- Talk at Wikidata Workshop 2021 - Mathematics In Wikidata
- LibreOffice Conference 2021 - Enhancing a spellcheck dictionary by Wikidata Lexemes
- LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube, Facebook
- Wikipedia Weekly Network: Wikipedia podcast section #152 - Wikidata + Wikipedia: fact templates (in Swedish)
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- How to upload Australian Faunal Directory IDs to Wikidata using OpenRefine. Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
- PhysWikiQuiz - a Physics Formula Question Generation and Test Engine using Wikidata in Education - YouTube
- Timelapse of churches in the Americas (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
- UseAsRef 2.0 - adding references using external IDs and other statements on Wikidata - YouTube
- Addressing the gender gap - Wikidata and SPARQL queries (in French) - YouTube
- Understanding Wikidata: a free and open knowledge base (in French) - YouTube
- WikidataTutorial: Learn how to edit / create items on Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
- Linked Data and Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:Bargioni/UseAsRef has now a 2.0 version, allowing to use as references not only external IDs but also some other properties (P1343, P973, P8214 etc.)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- QID ("Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]") now has an entry in Wiktionary
- The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: stylized name, record number, excitation energy
- External identifiers: Bat Sheva Archive ID, Literature.com book ID, Literature.com ebook ID, CantoDict word ID, CantoDict character ID, MYmovies person ID, Chi era Costui plaque ID, Bowers acronym, Turkish Cinema Archive Database person ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Austrian Football Association player ID, Dewan Negara ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID, AllSides ID, Birdata ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, IRIS GSSI author ID, IRIS IUSS author ID, SISSA Digital Library author ID, NSW Parliament member ID, SNSF person ID, FFCAM ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Conway polyhedron notation, Nombre de voies routières, Museu da Pessoa Story, Official forum, Properties for legislation, Stack Exchange user ID
- External identifiers: Toolhub ID, Spotify user ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, ORIAS number, Meetup group id, UAE ID, Tennis Abstract player ID, Museu da Pessoa person ID, SoccerPunter player ID, allplayers.in.ua player ID, pfl.uz player ID, ua-football.com player ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Snob.ru author ID, TASS Encyclopedia ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, DFIH financier ID, DFIH business ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, IndexCat ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Penza Encyclopedia ID, SEKO-ID, Musées Nationaux Récupération ID, Women in the Legislature ID, Dissernet person ID, Dissernet institution ID, Dissernet journal ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Vokrug.tv show ID
- Query examples:
- Map of mosques (Source)
- Documents from the Boyer collection by decades, subjects most represented (Source)
- Pronouns of people in different languages (Source)
- Twitter accounts of libraries in Switzerland (Source)
- Images of cell types in Wikidata (Source)
- Map of the place of death of people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
- Graph of NFDI consortia with their fields of work, the map of (co-)applicants, (Source)
- Places where people in South-America work who published on Wikidata (Source)
- Rail link between Narvik and Singapore (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The new WDQS Streaming Updater now fully shipped to production. This will help the Query Service better deal with the amount of edits happening on Wikidata. (more information)
- Mismatch Finder: Continuing work on the results page where mismatches are shown for review. We are focusing on showing all necessary information for a mismatch to make a good determination if it is a mismatch in Wikidata, the external source or neither.
- Finishing the work on the new change dispatching system that improves how Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about edits happening on Wikidata that affect them. Currently tying up some lose ends.
- Preparing for WikidataCon.
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
- 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: 31 October 2021
- From the editor: Different stories, same place
- News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded
- Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process
- Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
- Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia
- Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game
- Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more
- Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp
- Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
- WikiProject report: Redirection
- Humour: A very Wiki crossword
Wikidata weekly summary #492
- Discussions
- New request for comments: handling of data objects for pages in the project namespace
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Sam Oyeyele will join us to discuss the AfroCine project. doc, Nov. 2nd.
- Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—November 3rd, 2021. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 09:00-10:00 PDT / 12:00-13:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #14, COP26
- Past:
- WikidataCon 2021 happened \o/
- Documentation of the sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (linked from each session's Etherpad).
- Wikidatapink pony session (a meetup where participants shared wishes and feature requests about Wikidata to the development team)
- List of birthday presents
- WikidataComplete gadget by Dhairya3124
- Wikidata Subgraph Analysis by Aisha Khatun
- UseAsRef 2.0 by Epìdosis
- KGTK project by Pedro Szekely
- Wikidata Map (series of updates of the all-coordinates-on-wikidata, made available at commons:Wikidata map) by Addshore
- Special episode of Wikipediapodden with an interview with Denny about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions by Ainali
- Lua access for Lexemes on beta by LydiaPintscher
- Editathon documentation page by bunch of lovely glam professionals
- Learn wikidata course by Clifford Anderson and co
- Wikxhibit by Tarfah Alrashed
- Integraality updates by Jean-Frédéric
- iNaturalist BioBlitz by Pigsonthewing
- WikidataCon 2021 happened \o/
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blog post
- Challenge A to Z 2021 (in French)
- Papers
- Complex Portal 2022: new curation frontiers about the Complex Portal (Q47196990) <> Wikidata connection
- (fr) Les libellés francophones genrés dans Wikidata (notebook Observablehq)
- Videos
- Research projects
- Blog post
- Tool of the week
- Cemeteries.wiki by Yamen is a project to display Dataviz and statistics about cemeteries all over the world. (2021-11-01)
- ... and remember you can propose a new tool or gadget!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Graph Consultant to help migrate the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store. Apply here!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: term in higher taxon, official forum
- External identifiers: NatureScot Sitelink ID, Refuges.info ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, George Eastman Museum people ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, UAE University Libraries ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Museu da Pessoa person ID, Indigenous Corporation Number, Toolhub ID, Research Data Australia ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: date of recording, Candidate position, MTBdata
- External identifiers: Vokrug.tv person ID, Standing Waters Database ID, State Duma person ID, Federation Council person ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, FRACS profile ID, NER portfolio ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, SEEK company ID, Levels.fyi company ID, romaq.org ID, NWT Species ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Douyin User ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, ACE Repertory writer ID, Indonesian Hospital ID
- Query examples:
- Map of French bridges and tunnels carrying an high-speed railway line
- List of Wikidata item's labels which are same as male form and different from female form in French (ie using the generic as male form) (source)
- List of Wikidata item's labels which are same as male form and different from female form in English (ie using the generic as male form)(source)
- consorts of Selim III (source)
- Coordinates of the birthplaces of people with family name Autrique (Source)
- Coordinates of battles (Source)
- Geographical distribution of votive boats historic monuments in France (Source)
- Relationship among accepted NFDI consortia (Source)
- Newest database reports: top missing property by number of identifiers: spouse (P26)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- WikidataCon! \o/
- Continued the work on the first version of the Mismatch Finder. We are getting closer to the polishing phase now and will have something ready in the next weeks.
- Lua access for Lexemes is now ready to test on English Beta Wiktionary.
- Concluded work on the improved behind-the-scenes system for notifying Wikipedias and co about Wikidata edits that affect them. Nothing should have changed for you.
- Started working on a new implementation of the search box to be ready for the upcoming skin changes the WMF is working on.
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
- 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 #493
- Events
- Upcoming
- Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, November 9 at 18:00 CET
- LIVE Wikidata editing #61 - YouTube, Facebook, November 13 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #86, November 14 at 13.00 UTC
- Wikidata webinar at the Goethe Institute in Athens (Greek). Nov 8, 2021 17:00 UTC+1
- Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour! Monday 15 November 2021, 3PM - 4PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration: Zoom registration link
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #15, COP26 (2/2)
- Past
- Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (from each session's Etherpad)
- Wikidata SPARQL tutorial around the Saint-Brieuc museum (in French)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Media
- Blogs
- Videos
- Basic tutorial on how to improve Wikidata items (in Italian) - YouTube
- Metadata of cultural institutes: import strategies on Wikidata in the case of the Tuscany Region (in Italian) - YouTube
- Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Databases: a case study of PanglaoDB - YouTube
- Using Wikidata entities and properties in schema.org markup and linked data - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- are occupation labels gender neutral? a tool to explore gender neutrality of labels in different languages.
- RAWGraphs, a dataviz tool which allows SPARQL queries (source)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Museu da Pessoa History, Conway polyhedron notation
- External identifiers: Tennis Abstract player ID, Women in the Legislature ID, StopGame ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Biografija.ru ID, Derrieux agency person ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, Penza Encyclopedia ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, Musées Nationaux Recuperation ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Nynorskordboka-ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID, Indonesian parliament candidate ID 2019, Trove work ID, Vokrug.tv show ID, Apple maps ID, Federation Council person ID, Meetup group id, Glitchwave genre ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: original catalog description, Kanobu ID, Yandex.Question person ID, 発車メロディ
- External identifiers: Listen Notes podcast ID, WhatsApp number, CNKI Journal ID, Baidu Scholar Journal ID, AllHomes research location ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Coles Online product ID, Woolworths product ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, NVE Bre ID, Databáze-her.cz ID, FederalPress Encyclopedia ID, babesdirectory, DHAC ID, Naver TV ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, live.ijf competition ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, The-Sports.org competition ID, StarHit ID, Nasha Versia ID, LocalWiki ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Comparably company ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases Chemical ID
- Query examples:
- Number of virtual twins (pair with the same dates of birth and death) in Wikidata (source)
- People recently buried in a cemetery nearby without an image of the grave (P1442) on Wikidata (source)
- List of lexemes in French associated with occupation items (source)
- Towns with less than 1000 people that have a cathedral (Source)
- Musical works based on literary works (Source)
- Main surnames of people born in the Puy-de-Dôme, France (Source)
- Members of the Ukrainian national sports team (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: We finished adding “next steps” dialog and a “more info” dialog to tell users more about the import a mismatch was added in.
- We had discussions about how to best make the SearchBox WVUI component for the new Vector skin work well for Wikidata (phab:T275251)
- We have put a version of WBStack on wikibase.dev. We will start work to deploy to wikibase.cloud in the coming weeks.
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
- 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 Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
Greetings,
It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.
Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.
We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
- Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
- Diversity winner - $100
- Gender-gap filler - $100
- Language Winners - up to $100*
Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
You can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list
Wikidata weekly summary #494
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Create massive changes in one property for spesific categories/properties?
- Events
- Upcoming
- Next Bug Triage Hour on API issues. Monday 15th November at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time, see other time zones) (Etherpad)
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Éder Porto will be discussing adding journal articles to Wikidata Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project/Chapter 17. doc, Nov. 16th.
- Open Source Publishing Tools in Wikidata, 16 November 2021. Part of the Open Publishing Fest.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #62 - YouTube, Facebook, November 20 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #87, November 21 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #16, Books
- Past
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Wikidata and open infrastructure: a request for participation
- Own metadata for own blog posts - science communication and bibliographies with open data and Wikidata
- How we're tracking elections in symbiosis with Wikidata
- Recent updates and improvements to Wikidata Query Service
- Videos
- Podcasts
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Plantilla:Infotaula persona, infobox for people on Catalan Wikipedia with extensive use of Wikidata, used 175000 times, with Bridge editing. Sample use at ca:Frits Zernike.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
- New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
- What kind of articles have you created? an Observable notebook which use Wikidata API to get the value of P31 for the list of articles created by a user.
- OpenRefine is hiring a part-time Project director (paid position).
- Hewell public beta app: is a virtual tour guide that automatically finds interesting things around you whether you're in a new city or your hometown.
- Full Fact is using the MediaWiki Action API in their workflow to help add some Wikidata identifiers to their mark-up.
- Magnus replaced some live SPARQL queries in Mix’n’match with a database cache. Main page now loads faster.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, Standing Waters Database ID, Vokrug.tv person ID, Atlas Project of Roman Aqueducts ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Philosophica ID, Castforward ID, Baidu Scholar journal ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Tabakalera ID, mathematical symbol, included as part, specific impulse by weight, Newgrounds username
- External identifiers: 7 Days person ID, DBLP event ID, Osmose Agency person ID, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, IRIS Umbria IDs, biografiA ID, Global Geoparks Network ID (new), identifiant Numelyo
- Query examples:
- List of properties which have instances or subclass of humans as possible value with male and female form in French (source)
- Different people with same label / birthday / occupation in a specified year
- Narrative locations of the book Itinerary from Paris to Mont-d'Or (Source)
- Maps of tombs of unknown soldiers (Source)
- Most common first names (> 5) among people with a Wikidata item and born in Auvergne (Source)
- Student-Teacher relationship based on entries in 'Das Geistige Berlin' (1897) (Source)
- Relative frequency of reasons MPs' terms end, since 1870 (Source)
- Newest database reports: recently ended TV series
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The language codes
agq
(Aghem, T288335) andmcn
(Massa, T293884) are now supported. - Mismatch Finder: Added various dialogs and help texts to make it easier to understand what reviewers need to do and what information they are seeing in the tool
- Mismatch Finder: started polishing and bug fixing for release of the first version
- Making the order of Lexeme's grammatical features consistent (phab:T232557)
- Investigating how to share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query Service via short URL (phab:T295560)
- The language codes
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
- 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 #495
- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 25th November 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
- Editing Scottish government agencies at CTC24 – Open In Practice, November 27-28
- LIVE Wikidata editing #63 - YouTube, Facebook, November 27 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #88, November 28 at 13.00 UTC
- ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (November 23rd 2021 13:00 Berlin time) (register on meetup)
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #17, Bread
- Past
- Bug Triage Hour on API issues (log)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- How to use the Wikidata query service without having experience with the SPARQL language (Wikidata Query Builder) (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Bringing Linked Data into Libraries via Wikidata - YouTube
- Presenting the project for integrating data from the Ricordi Archive into Wikimedia projects (in Italian) - YouTube
- Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Bio-Ontologies - YouTube
- ENDORSE Follow up event: Wikibase and the EU Knowledge Graph as a use case - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- WikiCite Search is a bibliographic search engine for Wikidata that finds articles either by searching for keywords, or by string matching.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer and Partner Relationships Manager to join the Wikidata/Wikibase team.
- Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
- This post about the question of the week is showing how questions can be answered over Wikidata. Also it gives some insights on how Google and Siri are using Wikidata.
- A new openly accessible book on knowledge graphs has been published by prominent researchers in the field.
- The latest version of WordNet released now links to Wikidata for many entries
- [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
- New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: train melody
- External identifiers: SEKO ID, NWT Species ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, SEEK company ID, Tabakalera ID, IRIS UNIPG author ID, EXQUIRITE author ID, State Duma person ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases chemical ID, CREPČ institution ID, CREPČ person ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, CJFD journal ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Osmose Agency person ID, biografiA ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Rehearses at, image with color chart, Wallet Address, dpi, project of, outcome, introduced by, IMA Symbol, Ghana Place Names URL, CSS code, Deity, number of teachers
- External identifiers: Newgrounds username, identifiant Numelyo, Genie artist ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie media ID, Naver VIBE track ID, Naver VIBE video ID, Bugs! track ID, Bugs! music video ID, Melon music video ID, Rutube channel ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Nintendo64EVER ID, N64-Database ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, Coub channel ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, identifiant OùVoir.Ça, kino-teatr.ru film ID 2, CH district ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, identifiant Initiale, AbeBooks ID, Sceneweb organization ID, SensCritique work ID, Library of Congress providers ID, Irkipedia ID, Delovaya Stolitsa ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, NT Place Names Register ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, IRIS polytechnic universities IDs
- Query examples:
- Numbers from 0 to 20 sorted alphabetically thanks to lexicographical data (source)
- Given names of French fictional characters, as chosen by French / non-French authors (Source)
- Map of members of the International Society of Biocuration (historical and current; affiliation and education institutions) (Source)
- UK MPs and their reason for *finally* leaving office (Source)
- Number of new UK MPs at each general election since 1870 (new = never served before) (Source)
- Crewe Alexandra players from Crewe (Source)
- Chronological timeline of people buried in Cimetière des Carmes (Source)
- Stops in the travel routes of Wilhelm Müller on his way from Leipzig to Bad Schandau in 1820/21 (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (phab:T232557)
- Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
- The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (phab:T275251)
- Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (phab:T294465)
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
- 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!
ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message
The Signpost: 29 November 2021
- In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
- Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
- From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
- Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
- Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
- Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
- WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
- Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
- Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword
Wikidata weekly summary #496
- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming
- Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase. December 2, 2021 4:00 pm CET
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Jan Ainali on WikiProject Govdirectory, a tool and associated Wikiproject for building a user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence. Agenda with call link, November 30.
- Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
- LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #89, December 5 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #18, Horse
- Past
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- Video tutorial for Wikidata Scraping, data processing and import (Open Refine) (in Czech) - YouTube
- (Wikidata intro) how it acts as one of the levers for the discoverability of cultural content in dance (in French) - YouTube
- Archive and register of sound art / sound artists with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Reconciliation server demonstration against Wikidata - YouTube
- Wikidata: A Magic Portal for Siegfried and Roy - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- New gadget available in the preferences: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer to join the Wikidata team.
- Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
- New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: death rate, image with color chart
- External identifiers: Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, Dissernet institution ID, DHAC ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, AHPRA registration number, FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, Oùvoir.ça film ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Corruption Perceptions Index, surrounds the enclave, Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista
- External identifiers: identifiant base Enluminures, The World of Shakespeare ID, oKino.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, oKino.ua actor ID, Natural History Museum (London) person ID, svpressa.ru ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID
- Query examples:
- Number of items without any statements (last week: more than 1,300,000)
- Number of items without any statements by sitelinks (sample: 1757 items link to nlwiki, but have no statements).
- Taxa named after women (by place of birth) (Source)
- List of articles on Blaise Pascal in all Wikipedias, sorted by decreasing article size (Source)
- Texts on French Wikisource by people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
- List of countries by the highest elevation point (Source)
- Number of distinct (UK parliament) seats returning someone who chose to sit elsewhere each year, 1830-1910 (Source)
- List of services that support the OpenRefine Reconciliation service (Source)
- Things depicted in art works in the Khalili Collections (Source)
- Images of Wikidata's items linked to UBERON ids (Source)
- Population density of administrative subdivisions exceeding 100,000 km² and 100 inhabitants / km² (Source)
- List of government agencies in Scotland (Source)
- Which day of the week people died on in the Mauthausen concentration camp (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
- Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
- Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
- More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
- Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)
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
- 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 #497
- Events
- Upcoming
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #90, December 12 at 13.00 UTC
- Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, December 7 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Gender diversity in Wikipedia articles: evidence from some selected academic disciplines in the English Wikipedia
- Bringing together journalists, the public, and Wikidata to understand our world
- Gender diversity in Wikipedia articles: evidence from some selected academic disciplines in Wikipedia in French
- Reflection on filling a new Wikidata item by Addshore
- Papers
- "Knowledge Based Multilingual Language Model" Using the Wikidata to build the language models that not only memorize the factual knowledge but also learn useful logical patterns. (Liu et al, 2021)
- Videos
- Summary of Transbordados, the pre-WikidataCon conference organized by Wiki Movimento Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese)
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Weaviate big graph (source) is a vectorised search engine which returns similar items in Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
- The new Wikimedia Research Fund is live now. It can fund research projects related to Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: specific impulse by weight
- External identifiers: FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, OùVoir.Ça ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub ID, SensCritique work ID, Snob.ru author ID, IRIS POLIBA author ID, Re.Public@Polimi author ID, PORTO@Iris author ID, IRIS UNIVPM author ID, Sceneweb organization ID, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, allplayers.in.ua player ID, Apple Music track ID, AbeBooks ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista, Numista coin ID, lieu de disparition
- External identifiers: Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Lingua Libre ID, Express Gazeta person ID, bards.ru person ID, PGM author ID, Deutsches Zeitungsportal ID, Index of Middle English Verse ID, ICCROM authority ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, ThENC@ thesis ID, Baidu Baike LemmaID, Indonesian College Code, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Museum of the Great Patriotic War encyclopedia ID, iTunes genre, CYT, Folketinget actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Ruskino actor ID, Pandora album ID, Pandora track ID, Swiss National Library ID, Original Esperanto Literature author ID, Athens Academy authority ID
- Query examples:
- List of laureates of the women's Ballon d'or (source)
- List of people born in Cook Islands (source)
- Wordcloud articles without statements of MyLang Wikipedia (switch to "Table" view to list, at left border of screen)
- Artworks picturing snow (source)
- Graph of football players who died per year (source)
- Things depicted in art works of the Khalili Collections (source)
- People represented on the painting "Le Sacre de Napoléon" from 1804 by Jacques-Louis David (source)
- German cities whose names are also verbs (using Lexemes) (source)
- Railway stations in the Baltics (source, see the full thread for more queries)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: Continued polishing for the first version. Improving the texts and adding loading state. Incorporating feedback from testing.
- Continued migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
- Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
- Finished work on small tool to show Items recently edited by several accounts to surface current events.
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!