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Wikidata weekly summary #388 & Wikidata Birthday
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Happy birthday, Wikidata!
- Today, on October 29th, it’s Wikidata’s 7th birthday. Time to reflect and celebrate and to look forward to see where we are going from here. Message from the Wikidata development team
- You can also write a birthday message or add a present to the list
- Events
- Past: Several sessions at Wikidata goes Library, Vienna, Vienna Public Libraries (Q1020347) (18 October):
- Wikidata is amazing, talk by Jean-Fréd
- Uses of Wikidata and Wikibase in France, talk by Nicolas Vigneron
- Using Wikidata for Video Game Research, talk by Tracy Hoffmann
- Wikidata based extended search queries, talk by Christian Erlinger (Q67173261)
- Past: WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin. You can see the videos of the sessions and the list of slides and notes, also from the program. Among them, here are few suggestions of sessions to watch:
- Glimpse over Wikidata & Wikidata and languages (Lydia Pintscher)
- Birthday presents demo (various people presenting new tools and features)
- WikidataCon awards ceremony (Birgit Müller & Liam Wyatt)
- New usages of Wikidata to support underserved language communities (Lucie-Aimée Kaffee)
- Overview of the data import process (Navino Evans)
- A lot of interesting tools and projects presented during the two lightning talks sessions
- Upcoming: plenty of events taking place for Wikidata's seventh birthday! In London on 29th, in Cape Town on 31st, a datathon organized in India, in Barcelona on November 13th, etc.
- Past: Several sessions at Wikidata goes Library, Vienna, Vienna Public Libraries (Q1020347) (18 October):
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Analysis of Urban Information of Colombia on Wikidata, 2nd CATAÏ Workshop, Bogota, Colombia, 23-24 October 2019 (Preprint)
- Wikidata as a FAIR knowledge graph for the life sciences (preprint in Biorxiv)
- Tool of the week
- MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open request for oversight permission: -revi
- OpenRefine 3.3 beta was released
- The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 from Wikimedia Foundation started. This year, it is focused on small projects and Wikidata-related wishes will not be included.
- You can help expanding the list of databases, encyclopedias, etc. which could be added to Mix'n'match. Can be used for property creation too.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: graph diameter, orientation, URN formatter, iFixit Repairability Score, key col, variety of form, source of file, grammatical aspect
- External identifiers: CanadaSoccer.com person ID, FlashScore.com match ID, Publons journals/conferences ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Genetics Home Reference Conditions ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munch's correspondance person ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, MOHW HospID, iNaturalist place ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Neliti Journal ID, Online Cenotaph ID, dp.ru person ID, ifixit ID, ICP license ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, CinemaRx person ID, Kinematoscope - Film director, Kinematoscope - Writer, Kinematoscope - Literary work, BDFutbol team ID, Stathletics ID, teams.by team ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: religion or world view, Comorbidity, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, XML namespace, Commons category for the interior of the item, statement is regarded as spoiler for, menu items
- External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 – 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, NZPCN ID, Women Film Pioneers ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Golden ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, startrek.com Database ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society game ID
- Query examples:
- Tree map of members of the 16th Lok Sabha, grouped by state represented (source)
- Pictures of animals with female grammatical gender in German but male grammatical gender in French (source)
- Map of bus stops in Biscay (source)
- Tree graph of doctoral advisors going backward from Abhijit Banerjee (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (phab:T235055)
- Save original revision data in store (phab:T235052)
- Add interface for tracking/logging (phab:T236233)
- Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (phab:T235056)
- More work on reducing the resource loader modules
- More work on tainted references
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 31 October 2019
- In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit
- Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse
- Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars
- Community view: Observations from the mainland
- Arbitration report: October actions
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast
- Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Wikidata weekly summary #389
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past: Wikidata Zurich Training 2019
- Upcoming: Next Wikidata office hour on Tuesday, November 5th at 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+1) on the the Wikidata Telegram channel
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts
- ZBW Labs: 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata
- The WikidataCon Card Game, Envel Le Hir
- The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork
- Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and more presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and schema.org at Semantics 2019 by Felix Sasaki and Christian Lieske
- Querying the Edit History of Wikidata - Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
- Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)
- Tool of the week
- SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Product Manager for Wikibase
- Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes videos showing his process while editing Wikidata. Magnus Sälgö also makes videos showing specific features and tools
- {{query page}} is a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement)
- New feature on Mix'n'match: job management
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: comorbidity, audio system, election called by, XML namespace
- External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 - 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, NZPCN ID, Wolfram Language entity type, Women Film Pioneers ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, Golden ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, doujinshi.org author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: food composition, landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, IP address or range, featured in, Room number, Jabber channel, lighting, Mentioned at
- External identifiers: Sega Retro ID, CA Prop 65 ID, Gaming-History company ID, dp.ru company ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, SK cinema film ID, SK cinema authority ID, ePSD ID, classicamiga ID, Czech cadastral area ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, Planète Aventure ID, AaRC person ID, fyyd podcast identifer, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, UEFA referee ID, Flowers of India ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, NBAIR pest ID, Reptiles of India ID, Odonata of India ID, Birds of India ID, Moths of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, ZSI author ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, askArt person ID
- Deleted properties: P2035 (LinkedIn personal profile URL), P1946 (N6I ID)
- Query examples:
- Map of UK MPs coloured by party (source) - may change in the next few weeks
- Maintenance query: items which have a value of "unknown" (Q24238356) rather than the "unknown" special value (source)
- 100 cities closest to the North pole with more than 200k inhabitants (source)
- Actors with whom Shah Rukh Khan collaborated, in a bubble chart showing how many times it happened (source)
- New Integraality dashboards: Journals by publisher, Theses by institution
- Schema examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Sum of all Podcasts
- Newest database reports:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
- Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (phab:T236677)
- Update Wikibase Lua documentation (phab:T225497)
- Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (phab:T234079)
- Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (phab:T230881, phab:T220284, phab:T234330)
- Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (phab:T232595)
- Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (phab:T236491)
- Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (phab:T231204)
- Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (phab:T235152)
- A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (phab:T235622)
- Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (phab:T230342)
- More work on tainted references
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #390
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject
- Events
- Past: Wikidata office hour (notes)
- Past: "Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project (Video), (Slides), (Notes)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop OpenRefine in Prague on 12 November
- Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 17 November
- Tool of the week
- Speedpatrolling is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikipedia Personality Infobox in Catalan and French display now the Heritage Institution in charge of their archives via P485 (archives at).
- The Discord server Wikimedia Community has now a Wikidata channel.
- @Wikipedia talks about @Wikidata by GerardM
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, statement is regarded as spoiler for, room number, scope and content
- External identifiers: startrek.com Database ID, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society ID, Sega Retro ID, classicamiga ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, Gaming-History company ID, SK cinema authority ID, SK cinema film ID, CA PROP 65 ID, ePSD identifier, Czech cadastral area ID, dp.ru company ID, Fortuna liga player ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, AaRC person ID, MIC market code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: general law, population rank, area rank, population density rank, references, territorial entity ranking context, mentions named entity, plot features event, Jyutping (2)
- External identifiers: National Health Portal hospital ID, IPC ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, UVL game ID, WikiTreeCategories, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, OGDB game title ID, common exchange code, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, CISCE school code, CBSE Affiliation No., JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID
- Query examples:
- Persons in the genealogy family tree WikiTree were WIkidata has a source from the Swedish National Archives Birth/Death records
- Minimum temperature records on Earth
- Map of districts of India by ratio of illiterate to literate population in 2011 (source)
- List of episodes of Detective Conan's Case Closed, with date and place of publication and series and season number, sorted by date of publication (source)
- Parent and child who both had a governor mandate in the USA (source)
- Belgian artists whose work will be in public domain starting in 2020 (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Wolfram Language, most frequent first names in Poland, Paintings and images of signatures of painters
- Newest properties:
- Development
- In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (phabricator:T236749)
- Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (phabricator:T235261)
- Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field (phabricator:T234322 - thanks to Envlh for the patch)
- Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase installations that don't need them (phabricator:T232248)
- Continued working on the migration of the wb_terms table to address scalability issues
- Continued working on the shortened version of edit summaries for edits made through the mobile termbox (phabricator:T224013)
- For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can not edit the article anymore (phabricator:T235152)
- Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge (phabricator:T233397)
- Worked on showing an information popup when clicking the tainted reference icon to tell you what went wrong and how to solve it.
- Worked on defining first version of Federation for wikis outside Wikimedia
- Commons search have stopped indexing statements (structured data) since 30 October 2019 (phabricator:T237849)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #391
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Recap of WikidataCon and WikiConference North America, 19 November. Agenda
- Tool of the week
- The Mix'n'Match gadget displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are now over 2.5 million Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories.
- OpenRefine is awarded a USD 200,000 grant by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to fund its development in 2020.
- Autojump from a field to another will be removed
- Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), won the top prize in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. Eugene, the app's developer, recently gave a lightning talk about the app at WikidataCon 2019.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Commons category for the interior of the item
- External identifiers: Birds of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Moths of India ID, NBAIR pest ID, Odonata of India ID, Planète Aventure ID, Reptiles of India ID, ZSI author ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, askArt person ID, Flowers of India ID, National Health Portal hospital ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete alphabetical ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, UVL game ID, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, OGDB game title ID, CISCE school code, JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IAST transliteration, Hunterian transliteration, IFCO rating, stellar age, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 schedule, nominalisated form, date of assent, effective date, valid for, supervisor, Xmodmap keysym, Properties for Indian ragas
- External identifiers: Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, OGDB company ID, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, AboutTheArtists artist ID, Czech city district ID, Prague administrative district ID, NinDB game ID, DUC ID, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, Cinepub person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Cinept film ID, CinePT person ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Lutris platform ID, Beaux-arts ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, India PlayStation Store ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Czech municipality ID, Lutris genre ID
- Query examples:
- Adaptations of The War of the Worlds (source)
- Graves at the Stockholm church Riddarholmskyrkan who use book Riddarholmskyrkan - inventories and graves (Q61765464) as a source, source
- Map of sisterly relationships with cities in India (source)
- Map of the languages without any Wikidata Lexemes yet (source)
- Newest database reports: translations for port/starboard and windward/leeward
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Tainted references: Show warning icon if statement value is changed but reference is not changed in the same edit (phab:T231728)
- Make WikibaseQualityConstraints link using SpecialMyLanguage (phab:T233003)
- Work on the issue of property labels not showing up on some pages (phab:T237984)
- Track Bridge openings by property datatype (phab:T231204)
- Viewing existing references in the Bridge (phab:T233397)
- Attaching the link listener sooner, so the user gets a bit less often wrongly forwarded to wikidata (phab:T235765)
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!
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