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Wikidata weekly summary #431
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- Events
- Past: Editing contest - Members of the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. By Global Open Initiative - YouTube (1), (2)
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 1 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, September 2nd at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT). Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
- Upcoming: Wikidata birthday events organizers call, September 2nd at 19:00 CEST.
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #28, September 6
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18 Facebook, YouTube, September 5 at 19.00 UTC
- Upcoming: Onam label-a-thon (September 1st and 2nd): Online label-a-thon to improve Wikidata items related to Kerala and Malayalam on this Onam holidays.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Video: How to use the Wikidata Query Service, by Dr Chris Langley
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube
- Video: Creating a Wikidata item (in Spanish) - YouTube
- WikiCite and bibliographic data on Wikidata, how to contribute and how to view it with Scholia (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way - article by Lydia Pintscher in the Wikipedia Signpost
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.
- WMF will be performing data center maintenance operations by switching all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for up to an hour from 14:00 UTC
- The Wikidata community now has a channel on the newly-established Wikimedia Chat service.
- reconciler, a Python wrapper for Open Refine's API to reconcile pandas data frames with Wikidata items.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Butcher tableau, front and back matter, external auditor
- External identifiers: edukado.net Panteono ID, Chrome Webstore extension ID, PARADISEC Catalog, NPR station ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Emporis company ID, Art Bonus ID, British Museum object ID, monumenta.ch ID, The Living New Deal ID, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: parent superproperty, publisher of, performed at, Barcelona Public art identifier, opening hours (v.3), Fanbase name, aerial view, ground clearance, axle track, placeholder text element ID, displacement, Deutsche Bahn station abbreviation, entry in abbreviations table, Liturgical rank
- External identifiers: NHK Archives Portal person ID, EPA Ecoregion Level 1 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 4 Code, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945, Firefox add-on ID, London Stock Exchange company, Fatcat ID, NDL law ID, e-Gov law ID, OFAC sanction ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, YUAG ID, Grove Music Online ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe person ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID
- Query examples:
- Map of cities and towns in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area - OSM/Wikidata query
- Map of structures that have won architectural awards - OSM/Wikidata query
- Birth places of Buffalo Sabres players (Source)
- Timeline of all of Bird’s tunes (Source)
- Approximate proportion of people called "John" in any given UK Parliament since 1372 (Source)
- People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade of birth (Source)
- Location of decommissioned aircraft - OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
- Railway network in Czechia (Source)
- People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade (of birth) (Source)
- List of locations of Woolf's books (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well
- Polishing remaining pieces of the first version of Federated Properties to make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in other Wikibase instances
- Continuing to work on improving the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
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 #432
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- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Rob Fernandez (Wikimedia District of Columbia) on Listeria, a tool that uses SPARQL queries to define a list, and provides a bot that will update a wiki page containing that list if the results of that SPARQL query change, all based on Wikidata, 08 September. Agenda
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 8 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19 Facebook, YouTube, September 10
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #29, September 13
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Semantic Wikibase has been released by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18, workflows for SPARQL queries and QuickStatements Facebook, YouTube
- OpenRefine 3.4 was released
- How can I get data on all the dams in the world? Use Wikidata. By Addshore
- Wikidata Training Workshop 2, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
- Video: How to use QuickStatements - a tool to bulk upload data onto Wikidata. By Dr Sara Thomas
- Tool of the week
wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/WD_percentUsageDashboard
is a dashboard that measures Wikidata's usage and coverage on Wikimedia Foundation projects.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: LSG local body code, NYARC Discovery ID, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, ICP artist ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Firefox add-on ID, NHK Archives Portal person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, InciWeb ID, YUAG ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, FIPRESCI person ID, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: applies to form or aspect, blocked on the territory of, Liturgical category, Flickr image URL, turning radius, number of reboots, financials URL, SI base units, rank insignia2
- External identifiers: Syro-Malabar Church Parish ID, Database of Umgebinde houses in Bohemian Switzerland ID, Re-Member ID, DIL ID, Naver Vibe Artist ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust person ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, VA facility ID, Hikr Waypoint ID, tvmaze ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Danish educational institution number, Past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, photoLondon ID, uta-net.com song ID, Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
- Query examples:
- Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial
- A table of the 100 highest fees charged for using various kinds of facilities, normalized to United States dollars - OSM/Wikidata query
- Youngest age of UK MPs leaving office since 1900 (Source)
- Longest time UK MPs lived after leaving office since 1900 (Source)
- British cabinet members with past military service (Source)
- Earliest written record of 10 largest Czech cities (Source)
- Churches dedicated to Czech patron St. Wenceslas (blue) and Moravian patrons St. Cyril and Methodeus (orange) (Source)
- German municipality names ending with -in, -ing, -heim (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Added Wikidata support to Japanese Wikivoyage. phab:T261451
- Investigating the nature of our training outliers to improve the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item.
- Working on error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an item. phab:T260869
- Completed various investigations to make an informed decision on the output format of WikibaseManifest files (automated configuration detection for toolbuilders) phab:T261285
- Completed various bug fixes and wrap-up tasks to conclude the major engineering work on the Federated Properties project
- More work on Item Quality Scoring and Federated Properties
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 #433
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Alternate disclosure policy
- Events
- Past: The Workshop On Open Citations And Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 took place in Bologna and online on September 9 and included a talk State of WikiCite in 2020, available on Zenodo via doi:10.5281/zenodo.4019954.
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 15 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, September 16th at 13:00 UTC/GMT
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20: Facebook, YouTube, September 19
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #30, September 20
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Video: Youtuber Tom Scott tries to answer the question What Is The Best Thing?, using Wikidata to curate a collection of "things", and an online poll for people to vote on those things.
- "Our admiration for Wikidata and for the people who work with it knows no bounds. Having a single source of well modelled, massively interlinked, well managed data that anyone can query at the press of a button is a real thing of wonder." - says the UK Parliament data team
- Houcemeddine Turki, et al. (2020). Using logical constraints to validate information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of COVID-19 on Wikidata (Zenodo Preprint).
- Video: Wikidata basics short videos by Wikimedian in Residence at University of Edinburgh (YouTube)
- Video: Creating a Mix'n'Match set for Queensland Biota on Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19: Cradle and colours in queries. Facebook, YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Mbabel is a tool that simplifies article creation by providing pre-made sentences based on Wikidata statements.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The consultation phase for the Wikimedia movement Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is in progress until 6 October 2020. The UCoC drafting committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
- All the lists of languages used on Wikidata: feel free to improve this draft documentation page.
- The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
- WikiMap, a tool by User:DB111 that maps geocoded images from Commons and Wikipedia articles, now supports Wikidata items as well (Q99232292)
- Wikidata QID's are approaching 9 digits. Now is the time to fix any code or schemas that assume that Q numbers are smaller than 9 characters.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: aerial view, ride height, category for the exterior of the item, axle track
- External identifiers: Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, Grove Music Online ID, Hikr waypoint ID, DIL ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: expansion of, Oakeshott typology, Slack URL, TDD number, Hill size, K point, number of negative votes, number of support votes
- External identifiers: Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, KinoWiki ID, BD Gest' series ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, Discord username, China Treaty Database ID, Discord channel, Bollywood Hungama movie, NMC Heritage ID, identifiant d'un artiste département des arts graphiques du musée du Louvre, SPoT skater ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Lambiek Special pages, Lambiek comic magazines, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID
- Query examples:
- Shortest path of descent from Charlemagne to George Washington, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Elizabeth II
- List of most recent common ancestors (ordered by number of total degrees separated) between George Washington and George W. Bush (9th cousin 8 times removed), George Washington and Barack Obama (12th cousin 9 times removed), George Washington and Elizabeth II (2th consin 7 times removed), George W. Bush and Barack Obama (11th cousin), George W. Bush and Elizabeth II (14th cousin once removed), Barack Obama and Elizabeth II (19th cousin 3 times removed)
- Artists that have recorded songs in several languages, by number of different languages used (Source)
- Average age of companies listed on major indices (Source)
- Basque Country sister cities with world municipalities (Source)
- Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial (Source)
- Map of mountains in Austria showing their heights; from red for the lowest through green to black for the highest (Source)
- Top World Heritage sites by number of paintings depicting them (Source)
- Map of sports pitches for team sports that require between 10 and 20 players on the field - Wikidata/OSM query
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixing an error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an Item instead of just one. (phabricator:T260869)
- Development of version one of Federated Properties has concluded! Expect an announcement with timing of the release of this feature soon. Wikibase users who want an early look at the feature are invited to reach out to participate in the pre-release testing round.
- Development of the WikibaseManifest extension has continued into its second sprint; we focused on determining a product specification for the Manifest output.
- Finishing a draft documentation for a REST API to get it ready for a feedback round before implementation.
- Finished improvements to the automated scoring of the quality of Items with ORES. Still need to retrain ORES and deploy the changes before the scores are actually different though.
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 #434
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- Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata Introduction Workshop (German) (September 29)
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 21 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: A starting point for newer institutions to think through what is involved in coordinating a Wikidata project, including shared infrastructure, training, and documentation, 22 September. Agenda
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 WikiDojo: Facebook, YouTube, September 25
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- "Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of Wikidata"
- ProWD: Detecting Knowledge Imbalances on Wikidata on blog.wikimedia.de
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20 WLM: Facebook, YouTube
- Video: Wikidata Training Workshop 3, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association (YouTube)
- Tool of the week
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
- WDQS/WCQS Status update (September 2): "We are planning to spend more time doing some analytics on our data. (1) What are the most expensive queries, what are they trying to achieve and is that reasonable? (2) Do we have performant subgraphs that we could expose independently?"
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: category for the exterior of the item, axle track, Stairway To Hell ID, Oakeshott typology, construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography
- External identifiers: Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID, TV Maze series ID, Barcelona Public art ID, University of Ghana Digital Collections (UGSpace) ID, Istrapedia ID, OnlyFans person ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, The Cutting Room Floor ID, Fatcat ID, China Treaty Database ID, e-GOV law ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Slack organization ID, Kansas Historic Resources Inventory ID, Historic Montana ID, ITF player ID 2020, BD Gest' series ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, P8624
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: defining mutations, nombre d'essais marqués, Netflix maturity rating, held event, number of paying subscribers, has census
- External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID, identificativo Ministero dell'interno, Dallas Museum of Art ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Energy Identification Code, Wikimedia Chat channel, Symptom Ontology ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, monumentsauxmorts.fr ID, monumentsdememoire.fr ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Museen Dresden article ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NPS place ID, SSYK 2012
- Query examples:
- Map of anything that memorializes or is named after a Whig Party member - OSM/Wikidata query
- Map of every railway station presently connected directly or indirectly to St Pancras on Wikidata
- Age of the winners of the Tour de France (Source)
- Location and date of death of Danish rulers (Source)
- Map of the places & causes of death of Roman Emperors (Source)
- Images of members of the 16th Odisha Assembly (2019-24) (Source)
- Star signs of Japanese Prime Ministers (Source)
- Video game series with the longest time gap between a game and its direct sequel (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- WQS now supports mwapi service request for Wikibooks (phab:T261125)
- The language codes lij-mc, ja-Hira, ja-Kana, ja-Hrkt, ja-Hani, ojp, ojp-Hira and ojp-Hani" have been added for use in monolingual text property values (phab:T254968, phab:T195816)
- The language codes de-1901, eo-hsistemo and eo-xsistemo, ja-hira, ja-kana and ja-hrkt have been added for Lexemes (phab:T262330,phab:T257422, phab:T250559)
- P1438 has been converted from string to external ID datatype (phab:T262198)
- Worked on fixing an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
- Investigating what work would be needed to get the new termbox that's available on mobile to also work on desktop
- Fixing several issues with Special:Undelete (phab:T261747)
- Fixing an error message being shown twice (phab:T260869)
- Starting the coding work on the Query Builder
- Continuing to write a draft for a REST API specification
- Finishing the remaining work needed to get the improved quality scoring for Items deployed to ORES
- Continuing work on WikibaseManifest: Determined the essential metadata that will be included in the WikibaseManifest file, added some new features (mostly MediaWiki metadata) to the Manifest that were requested by the OpenRefine team (phab:T262805 and phab:T262804) and set up a test system that will soon be ready for tool builders to use for testing the integration of their tools with WikibaseManifest
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 #435
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- Events
- Linking the 20th century paper history to the sum of all knowledge (Best practice presentation at DCMI Virtual 2020)
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 29 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: WikiNeocomensia: Wikidata + OpenRefine, workshop in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and in French, October 3
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #32, October 4
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions [IFLA] have published a series of six videos "discussions with professionals in order to discuss projects, issues, progress of Wikidata, Wikibase and bibliographic data in the field of libraries." Currently available as a playlist on YouTube under CC-By (Wikimedia Commons upload soon), with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French (Arabic and Chinese coming soon). The production was made by the IFLA Wikidata Working Group and funded by a WikiCite grant.
- Sidestepping the limitations of collection catalogues with machine learning and Wikidata
- Navigating the maze of Wikidata query logs by Angela Bonifati, Wim Martens, Thomas Timm
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 - WikiDojo on the Global Climate Strike: Facebook, YouTube
- Video: Wikidata tutorial for lecturers (in Czech) - YouTube
- Video: Creating and enriching linked data with Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Mix'n'Match Tutorial - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata for librarians (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- omeka-s-wikidata is an Omeka-S module for auto-suggesting Wikidata URIs and labels.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
- Nominate your favorite tools for the Coolest Tool Award 2020 before October 14th.
- Wikidata Walkabout is a new site that lets you browse and drill down through different "classes" of data on Wikidata: wikidatawalkabout.org
- Como is a new Android app, that uses Wikidata lexemes and senses to create a word-guessing game. It let's players create new senses and tests them on other players to finally save them in Wikidata. The app is developed as part of a BA thesis, to determine if this concept is useful to create more lexicographical data, and testers would be very welcome.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography, opening time, closing time, engine displacement, expansion of, Netflix maturity rating, TDD number
- External identifiers: American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust ID (person), Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Book Marks ID, Re-Member ID, SPoT skater ID, NDL law ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Dallas Museum of Art ID, FBref.com squad ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID, Lambiek comic magazines ID, Energy Identification Code, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Ministry of the Interior of Italy ID, National Park Service place ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, Open Civic Data Division ID, Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Regional Council of Tuscany ID, level of professionalness, defined in terms of, form of property constraint, Attraction to, group identity, analog television standard, ritual object, number of rooms
- External identifiers: USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Indonesian prison database ID, LinkedIn group ID, Naver movie ID, CINE21 film ID, Movist film ID, KOBIS-ID, Max Movie film ID, The Boardr profile ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID, Google Play developer slug, Passion Patrimoine ID, FVLB work ID, BBC Sound Effects Asset ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the
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setting was probably likewise ineffective, but this was not tested specifically.) Affected tools include QuickStatements, Mix'n'Match, and Wikidata Lexeme Forms; users of these and other tools may see more pages being added to their watchlists now. (This only applies to new edits and page creations; previously created or edited pages will not be automatically added to the watchlist retroactively.) - Working on the basic building blocks of the Query Builder towards making it possible to create the first very simple query with it
- Talking to people about comparing Wikidata's data against other databases and flagging mismatches
- Fixing an issue with Item creations via the API by blocked users leading to skipped entity IDs (phab:T232620)
- Fixed an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
- Finishing the draft of the REST API spec to get it ready for feedback
- WikibaseManifest: created a separate key for local entities and decided what we do about non-local entity sources based on tool-builder feedback (phab:T263527) and specifying the API in OpenApi format (phab:T262919)
- A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the
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 #436
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Fuzheado
- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT)
- Upcoming: plenty of events for the Wikidata birthday, check the calendar and feel free to organise one!
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- What does/doesn’t follow Benford’s law: An analysis of hundreds of sets of numbers from Wikidata.
- Video: How to create and edit items on Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata and wikiprojects of interest to librarians (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: TDD number, twin town sign, character designer, Deutsche Bahn station code
- External identifiers: Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID, Native Plants Database ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Maniadb album ID, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Présence Compositrices work ID, Regional Council of Tuscany ID, Indonesian prison database ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Twitter topics ID, Naver movie ID, Bollywood Hungama movie ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, London Stock Exchange company ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Infobox based on, CompositionToday composers showcase ID, parallel street, World Factbook country code, port calls, described at Wikipedia page, erected by, PIM award ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
- External identifiers: Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID, CompositionToday composer ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, ACER code, Dictionnaire biographique du fouriérisme ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, SwissLipids identifier, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Minecraft UUID, Minecraft username, Science Museum Group ID, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), RNACentral ID, NPS people ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers-ID, Dresden Street ID, Spotify playlist ID
- Query examples:
- Birthplace of people named Michael or any other variant of the name (Source)
- Map of outdoor warning sirens, color-coded by manufacturer. A layer selector lets you toggle individual manufacturers on and off. Clicking a siren shows its make and model if available. - OSM/Wikidata query
- Soviet cartoons in descending order of popularity in the world (Source)
- List of ISO countries showing each country's synonyms, labels, etc. (Source)
- Norwegian politicians who have been members of at least 3 parties (Source)
- Streets in Leiden named after people/things (Source)
- Maps of arts and humanities research grants funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK between 2013-2019. Sorted by year, Sorted by budget (Source)
- Newest database reports:
- EntitySchema directory - feedback welcome on the report talk page.
- Newest properties:
- Development
- First pieces of the Query Builder are coming together and we are working towards making it generate the first dumb query
- Talking to people about their thoughts on checking Wikidata's data against other databases. If you're interested reach out to Mohammed.
- Got some first internal feedback for the REST API specification draft. We'll publish it for feedback in the next days.
- Fixing an issue with certain language codes no longer being available (phab:T264294)
- Working on making sure blocked bots don't waste Item IDs when trying to create new Items (phab:T232620)
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 #437
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- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 13 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, October 14 at 12:00 GMT
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #34, October 18
- Search Platform Office Hours happens first Wednesday of each month. Come with questions related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata reaches Q100000000, by Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić
- A new extension can add support for linking to local media files in Statements (and not just files on Wikimedia Commons) to a Wikibase instance (Demo video, developed by Professional.Wiki)
- LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group presentation: How Entity Explosion fits into the Wikidata ecosystem, by Toby Hudson
- Video: Wikidata and COVID-19: Creating a collaborative knowledge graph from CORD-19, by Csisc
- Tool of the week
- OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- noratelimit for bots to be removed on October 20th
- The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services.
- The 2020 Coolest Tool Award is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of negative votes, number of support votes, x-offset, y-offset, social media followers, fandom, has census, parallel street, entry in abbreviations table
- External identifiers: Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), FVLB work ID, Passion Patrimoine ID, Biographical dictionary of Fourierism ID, CompositionToday composer ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, SwissLipids identifier, ACER code, Science Museum Group ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers ID, RNACentral ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: ship's captain, planetary coordinates, Date of signature, Unicode name
- External identifiers: CPV Supplementary, PeoplePill person ID, O*NET OnLine code, Emojipedia ID, GADM ID, CTAN package ID, MinDat taxon ID, AniList anime ID, AniList manga and light novel ID, Normattiva ID, ILO Thesaurus ID
- Query examples:
- Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List - OSM/Wikidata query
- Women actress less than 70 years old who are descendants of the first king of Navarre, ordered by number of sitelinks
- Dead Social Democratic Party members who have been ministers in 1992 or later (Source)
- Artworks with an image in Wikidata by year of creation (Source)
- Map of mountains in Switzerland (Source)
- Map of markets in the city of Surabaya (Source)
- National Anthems by tonality (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The RFC to semi-protect all property pages has been implemented, all properties now require the “autoconfirmed” right to edit (T254280)
- Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T220883)
- Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
- Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
- Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
- Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.
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 #438
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- Discussions
- Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates
- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 20 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: hands-on work with Wikidata on creating items for authors of COVID 19 papers and brainstorming for future hands-on work, 20 October. Agenda
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperabilidade e acesso aos dados, in Portuguese by Ederporto (Wiki Movimento Brasil) - October 22 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT)
- WikiCite 2020: Virtual Conference happening 26-28 October 2020. Many live-stream sessions across several languages and timezones. LWyatt (WMF) (discuter)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tisane Labs announce new feature in Tisane API, allowing tagging and extraction of Wikidata entities: blog post
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing at HACK4OPENGLAM - YouTube
- Video: Wikidata Lexeme BY Mahir256 - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to SPARQL (in Swedish) - YouTube
- Video: Bibliographic data on Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Prepbio tool uses Wikidata to create the beginnings of a Wikipedia stub biography article. (2020-10-19)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ritual object
- External identifiers: Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Spotify playlist ID, Artist ID of the department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre, NBIC taxon ID, Danish educational institution number, CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Unicode name, branch or affiliate, economy of topic, checkin and checkout times (v.2), maximum current, Skipsrevyen ID, route operated, power plant unit, annual average daily traffic, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par
- External identifiers: Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, CCFr library ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica, BHL name ID, AWMDB person ID, AVN person ID, American Heritage ID, xHamster ID, Great Places ID, Famepedia ID, Nachlässe in Austria, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, PAN member, DC Historic Sites ID, Literary Encyclopedia (1929-1939), Concise Literary Encyclopedia, aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole
- Query examples:
- Gallery of 3D models of structures mapped in OpenStreetMap that are available under Creative Commons licenses at Wikimedia Commons - OSM/Wikidata query (sophox.org)
- Item named after item named after item named after item named after item named after item
- UK parliament members' opposition posts, start dates and end dates where Wikidata has a Parliament ID for that member (Source)
- Count of Irish Statutory Instruments, 1948-2020 (Source)
- Movie genre trends (Source)
- Scientific papers explaining backward contact tracing (Source)
- List of sovereign states in en, fr, de, ru (Source)
- Locations depicted in paintings (Source)
- The most commonly depicted locations (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
- So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (phab:T264883)
- Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
- Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.
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 #439
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- Events
- Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
- Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
- Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
- Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
- WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
- Wikidata Education Week, online, on October 26-30
- 24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
- Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
- Birthday celebration in Rennes, France, on October 29th
- Birthday Celebration in Accra, Ghana, and online, on October 29th
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CET (16:00 GMT)
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 27 at 18:00 CET
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Excerpts from Wikidata Birthday events
- Analyze Swedish politics with Wikidata (Blog post)
- WikiCite awards 23 grants & eScholarships to improve open citations (including plenty of Wikidata-related projects)
- Video: Eyoungstrom and Evolution and evolvability explore and explain different Wikidata tools in 15-part series on YouTube - Playlist
- Video: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperability and data access (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Video: Wikidata for cultural institutions and GLAM-WIKI partnerships (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Wikidata Training Workshop 4, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Server switch: all wikis will be in read-only on Tuesday, October 27th at 14:00 UTC for up to an hour (more information). All services hosted by WMF (e.g. tools hosted on wmcloud.org) are also impacted. Non-essential code deployments will not happen this week.
- Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) develops instructional material for the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS): wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of rooms, permits, prohibits, economy of topic, check-in time, check-out time
- External identifiers: CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article, GADM ID, Lambiek Special pages ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, ILO Thesaurus ID, AVN performer ID, CCFr library ID, xHamster performer ID, AWMDB performer ID, Normattiva ID, American Heritage place ID, BHL name ID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Minecraft UUID, Nachlässe in Austria ID, AniList anime ID, National Park Service people ID, AniList manga ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, O*NET OnLine code, Opta football competition ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, The Boardr profile ID, Great Places ID, PIM award ID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, DC Historic Sites place ID, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: annual average daily traffic, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par, Online catalog, funeral, Inaugural address, Hong Kong film rating, word lookup, hair or facial hair style, Cup size, for color scheme
- External identifiers: aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole, Base constructions bibliothèques ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Malmö Museer, IMVDb music video ID, NSSDCA ID, Docker Hub repository, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Persée article ID, Geneanet Family Name ID, Blogger user profile ID, USL League One ID, Stolperstein identifiers, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID
- Query examples:
- Commemorative plaques and their subjects in Aberdeen, Scotland; with photos of plaque and subject and Wikipedia links. (Source)
- Cities with female mayor (Source)
- Most common variants of the name "Susanne" in each country (Source)
- Birthplaces of art historians (Source)
- Invasive species in EU and whether they have articles in different languages (Source)
- Birthplace of Olympique de Marseille players (Source)
- COVID-19 deaths by month (Source)
- Wikimedia Commons Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
- Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T264883)
- Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
- Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T265897)
- Created Extension:WikibaseManifest documentation on MediaWiki.
- Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
- Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
- Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (phab:T265118)
- Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (phab:T258354)
- Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report
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!
Question technique pour le développement d'un module
modifierSalut,
j'ai un problème très simple : je suis en train de développer un module sur Wikisource pour tenter de lister automatiquement les œuvres d'un auteur donné à partir de la page de l'auteur. Le truc, c'est que sur wikidata, l'auteur n'est pas lié à ses œuvres. Seules les œuvres sont toutes liées à leur auteur. Ma question est donc : en Lua, est-il possible de récupérer toutes les pages possédant une propriété dont le point de chute est l'élément connu ?
À +, Lepticed7 (Viens tcharer ! :D) 26 octobre 2020 à 18:12 (CET)
Tu peux récupérer les œuvres notables d'un auteur en Lua (P800 (« œuvre notable »).
Sinon effectivement il fait faire une requête SPARQL du type Query. Et je ne crois pas que ça se fasse. PAC2 (discuter) 26 octobre 2020 à 22:44 (CET)
Y a quand même un exemple sur les pages de documentation des propriétés https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Module:Property_documentation mais il est incompréhensible. En bas de la doc, tu as un compteur de l'utilisation de la propriété https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P3206, donc ça doit bien faire une requête quelque part. PAC2 (discuter) 26 octobre 2020 à 22:57 (CET)
Lepticed7 et PAC2 : Non, c’est impossible avec l’API lua actuellement, et ça ne l’a jamais été. Il faut faire appel à des services comme [1] pour faire ce genre de chose, comme Scholia (voir {{scholia}} qui est intégrable sur les articles en créant un lien externe). C’était possible pendant un moment d’utiliser des requêtes Sparql Wikidata dans la balise
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mais ça ne fonctionne plus aux dernières nouvelles. — TomT0m [bla] 27 octobre 2020 à 11:59 (CET)
Wikidata weekly summary #440
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)
- Events
- Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37, November 8
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata is eight years old - an interview with product manager Lydia Pintscher (in German), by Elisabeth Giesemann
- Wikidata 8th birthday, Message from the development team
- Happy 8th birthday, Wikidata! (8 reasons why Wikidata is great), by Will Kent
- Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!, by Stella Wisdom
- Tree networks, national history and open mountains of data - knowledge through node formation with Wikidata for the 8th, by Jens Bemme
- Video: Why is Wikidata important? (Wikidata birthday event - in Spanish)
- SPARQL in the shadow of Structured Data on Commons, by Zbyszko Papierski
- Answers to curious questions and where to find them: here's how to query wikidata with SPARQL, by Lianna D'amato
- CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia patch, by Egon Willighagen
- Video: Wikidata+OpenStreetMaps talk and discussion
- Video: Wikidata – what libraries need to know about wikidata - Kohacon20, by David Nind
- Video: Visualizing the neuroscience research ecosystem via Wikidata Scholia, by Daniel Mietchen
- Video: Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian)
- All videos from the WikiCite 2020 Virtual Conference are now on Commons, and embedded in the program page on Meta.
- This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7 languages.
- 1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince the conference began last Monday.
- Tool of the week
- reCH is a Wikidata anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Eighth Birthday Presents
- All recordings of Wikidata Labs are now available on Wikimedia Commons (Wiki Movimento Brasil)
- Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial website – a new user-friendly tutorial to querying Wikidata (Wikimedia Israel)
- Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website – a brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital collection of Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico)
- Happy Birthday from Semantic MediaWiki
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms
?language_code
feature: announcement tweet and documentation edit - Automated finding references: dump and dashboard (Wikidata development team - announcement)
- Better Item quality judgments from ORES (Wikidata development team)
- Announcement of the distributed WikidataCon 2021 (Wikidata development team - announcement)
- Results of Sum of all Indian paintings datathon organized by WikiProject India.
- Happy birthday Wikidata! In the Abstract Wikipedia Updates (2020-10-29) by the project team, speaking about the future integration with Wikidata.
- Knowledge Grapher filmmaker mode can visually display all the films and cast members of an individual director or producer.
- User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript to show how an item conforms to an entityschema
- The next WikidataCon will take place on 29-30-31 October 2021, in a distributed format. Follow this page to keep up to date: WikidataCon 2021.
- The Election Tracker, uses Wikidata to keep track of upcoming national elections around the world.
- Accepted published papers for the Wikidata Workshop on Monday, 02.11 are now available online wikidataworkshop.github.io
- witches.is.ed.ac.uk shows the geographical residence location for accused witches in Scotland.
- Wikidata Eighth Birthday Presents
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: die axis, annual average daily traffic, maximum current
- External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, VA facility ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, Persée article ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, Base constructions bibliothèques ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Matrix room, regex (lang), Ukrainian romanization, Power consumption index, Heating energy consumption index, Business Number (Canada), notable tv series, number of points or goals attempted
- External identifiers: Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, NCAA school code, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Twitch team ID, Twitch tag ID, FINA Wiki ID, All the Tropes identifier, MTMT journal ID, UAF person ID, Soccerway stadium ID, NCAA Statistics player ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, Wolfram language WordData sense, Namuwiki
- Query examples:
- Movies by rate of actors who studied at RADA (When distribution has at last 5 actors)
- Central libraries in California linked to their branch library
- Writers in the SIEFAR dictionary with a portrait in Wikimedia Commons (Source)
- Place and date of birth of people buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (one color per century of birth) (Source)
- Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) (Source)
- Things Donald Trump and others own / have owned (Source)
- Graveplots by gender in Père Lachaise Cemetery (Source)
- Co-authorship between researchers from National University of La Plata (Source)
- Number of Harvard Law graduates dead by year between 1850 and 1950 (Source)
- Visualization of the works of Charles Heaphy (Source)
- Identifiers present on the item for Penelope Cruz (or other movie people), but not on the item for Sean Connery
- Map of places of birth of people with an identifier Inter-university Health Library in Wikidata colored by century of birth (Source)
- Map of the trees recorded in OSM with protection status. OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject European Film Awards
- Newest database reports: Sean Connery filmography
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (phab:T263435)
- Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (phab:T264883)
- Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266673)
- The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system.
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 #441
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous
- Other
- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries about visualisation on maps 🗺️ on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 10 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #38, November 15
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata Eighth Birthday Meetup - Database validation of Wikidata by Houcemeddine Turki
- Turning Scholia into a platform for living scientometric studies (French, English) by Houcemeddine Turki
- Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community @ ISWC 2020 with papers about interesting aspects of Wikidata.
- Video: Visualizing the research ecosystem of neuroscience research via Wikidata. by Daniel Mietchen at Neuromatch Conference
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #23 - YouTube, Facebook
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube, Facebook, November 14, 19.00 UTC
- Tool of the week
- Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar). Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all!
- Remember to claim your Cloud VPS project and mark it as
{{Used}}
. Unclaimed projects risk being suspended or shutdown on 2020-12-01. - Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: birth rate, port calls, rank insignia, online catalog, format as language specific regular expression
- External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Vélib' Métropole station ID, Blogger user profile ID, Malmö Museer ID, MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: favicon, Dedicated heritage institution, MetaSat ID, epithet, Poverty incidence (Philippines), covid info, filestore
- External identifiers: AniDB tag ID, ClassInd audiovisual work ID, ClassInd game ID, Qobuz label ID, IMMuB album ID, FIS grass skier ID, AlKindi ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute personal profile ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute institution profile ID, EIK, edition humboldt digital ID, European Film Awards ID, Memorial Book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938, IMMuB artist ID, AIWARDS ID, LIMIS person ID, IAFD distributor ID
- Query examples:
- Terminus locations of A Roads in Britain (Source)
- POTUS/UK PM age at inauguration/appointment and England mean age (Source)
- Map of (public-sector) winners of H2020 projects in the Netherlands sortable by year (Source)
- People who have held the positions of both Vice President and President of the United States (Source)
- Crew of missions to the ISS and human spaceflights that have docked with the ISS (Source)
- Graph of reasons UK MPs have left Parliament, grouped by decade since the 1890s (Source)
- Number of successful UK election petitions by parliamentary term, 1859 onwards (includes by-elections as well as general elections) (Source)
- List of longest Cars (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
- Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
- Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
- Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (phab:T264538)
- Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673)
- Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (phab:T263435)
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!