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Thank you today for the historic Battle of Blenheim! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:12, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
Precious
UK history
Thank you for quality articles about history of the UK such as Battle of Blenheim, 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers, St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford and Thomas Pilcher, for updates, page moves, admin services and help at the reference desk, - Andrew, repeating (23 October 2010): you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2642 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:39, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #481
- Events
- Ongoing:
- Wikimania Wikidata related events (On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.):
- Upcoming:
- A biodiversity-themed hackathon is being organized at the National Botanic Garden of Belgium for September 20-24. Three of the ten proposed topics are Wikidata-related — biodiversity-related Wikidata lexemes, taxonomic names, and women in biodiversity research. Remote participation is possible.
- Ongoing:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Wikidata:PAWS describes how to use PAWS to write SPARQL notebooks.
- Videos
- Books
- Papers
- Tool of the week
- Template:SPARQL Inline is a Wikidata template which allows to write SPARQL query in Wikidata with a label. It is an alternative to Template:SPARQL and Template:Wdquery.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:So9q/KORP-link.js is a userscript to add a link to the Swedish corpus KORP in the Tools section on items.
- WMF Search team is working on scaling up Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) to handle increasing graph size and queries. Please provide feedback by filling out this Google Forms survey!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: performed at, Smithsonian trinomial format regex, setlist, number of Classification of the Functions of Government
- External identifiers: Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, ASE person ID, Alsharek Archive author ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, ARPI author ID, IRIS SSSUP author ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: dissertation program, CDDA designationType, container, remix of, insurance number (building), numéro de parcelle
- External identifiers: SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Palynodata taxa ID, arheologi.ro ID, DDB-Person-Nummer, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID, Svenska Ord ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage object ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage institutions ID, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Mapping the Lives ID, MART catalog person ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Palynodata publications ID, opaquenamespace ID, HarperCollins product ID, Derrieux Agency person ID, Lambic.Info ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, GLN, Unconsenting Media ID, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Iași Central University Library ID, Volleybox ID, Team-Deutschland-Paralympics-ID, ISL ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, ASJC
- Query examples:
- List of properties which have instances or subclass of organisations as possible value (source)
- List of classes which are used as value constraints for the properties (source)
- Concepts, processes, practices, etc. linked to the philosophical concept of power (Source)
- Twelve Times table using Wikidata items (Source)
- Newly protected World Heritage sites in 2021 (Source)
- Total number of wins for each world snooker champion (Source)
- Who was the UK Prime Minister when each of the English Premier League/First Division title winners last won the title (Source)
- Map of the birthplace of sports team players by decade (lines link birthplace to home venue location) (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Neighborhood Public Art in Boston
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Cut save-time for edits in half (phab:T288639)
- Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
- Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (phab:T204031)
- Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
- Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
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 #482
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: MusikBot II (RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2021 03:07 UTC)
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Érica Azzellini and Éder Porto on MBABEL, a tool which creates seed Wikipedia articles based on Wikidata statements. Agenda with call link, August 24.
- BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekels plantentuinmeise.be
- Past:
- Wikimania 2021 Wikidata related events (summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase)
- Preparing languages for natural language generation using Wikidata lexicographical (Arctic Knot 2021)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Articles
- 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights -
- 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights -
- Blogs
- Organizing the Public Data about a Researcher - Charles Tapley Hoyt
- The Invisible Citation Commons - Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein
- The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries - Bob DuCharme
- Wikidata or scraping Wikipedia - Denny Vrandečić
- Videos
- Introduction to Wikidata SPARQL query service (in Arabic) - YouTube
- Articles
- Tools of the week
- Python script to Add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons from an Excel sheet (Github) - by OlafJanssen
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata:Query Builder has been deployed: Try it!
- The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources from Zotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
- Wikidata Query Service scaling updates for Aug 2021
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, mix or remix of
- External identifiers: Palynodata taxa ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, PsycNET ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: hunting areas, number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID
- External identifiers: TeamNL player ID, Finnish National Gallery ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, NDL earlier law ID, Cinemaitaliano IDs, KNHB ID, Deutsche-Sporthilfe-ID, Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Deployed the new shiny Query Builder to https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder
- Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775)
- ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191)
- Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
- Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178)
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: 29 August 2021
- News and notes: Enough time left to vote! IP ban
- In the media: Vive la différence!
- Wikimedians of the year: Seven Wikimedians of the year
- Gallery: Our community in 20 graphs
- News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia
- Recent research: IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cyclones, and world heritage
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Days of the Year Interview
- Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan
- Community view: Making Olympic history on Wikipedia
Wikidata weekly summary #483
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Wikidata Labs XXXI in English on the topic of Reimagining Wikidata from the margins, August 31
- LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook, September 4 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #77, September 5
- Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
- Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about data quality, September 13
- Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—September 1st, 2021 Come with anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
- Past
- Wikibase Live session (August 26th, 2021) logs
- RubyConfTW 2021
- Wikidata basics (in Chinese)
- Wikidata and Open Streetmaps (in Chinese)
- Using the MediaWiki open data API to solve data description problems (in Chinese)
- Moving Wikipedia's Infobox to Wikidata's Property:Taiwanese place names (in Chinese)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- Notebooks
- What are the Wikipedia articles you've created about? a notebook which show how to compute statistics about the articles you've created in Wikipedia by "instance of" (P31) property
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata2ical provides an ical file for each wikidata entity that has start time (P580) and end time (P582).
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
- Wikibase Installation & Updating survey has been published!
- The Board of Trustees election has started. Votes will be accepted until 23:59 31 August 2021 (UTC). View candidate statements, verify your eligibility and vote now.
- Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
- WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, remix of, container, release of
- External identifiers: Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username, Team Deutschland Paralympics ID, BMC ID, Kartridge game ID, ISL ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Daum Cafe ID, Freeview show ID, Unconsenting Media ID, TeamNL athlete ID, Volleybox ID, COD ID, allabolag.se person ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius entry ID, GSSO ID, Fontaines de France ID, KNHB ID, DC Books book ID, Igromania developer/publisher ID, Deutsche Sporthilfe ID, Finnish National Gallery artwork ID, Igromania series ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, Svenska ord ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID, uses natural resource, created for, number of triples, reprinted in, Eneström Number, літературний редактор
- External identifiers: Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code, Government Publications Number, Food.com ID, Dewan Negara ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, BBC Food ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, IRIS Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II author ID, IndieMag game ID, Bleus Handisport-ID, Overnia, Edizioni Ares author ID, hmmlid, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Naver Post member ID, eAmbrosia ID, DC Character ID, Postimees topic ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata:Mismatch Finder development continues. We are now working on the frontend. First pieces are starting to be visible at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org (but nothing usable yet)
- Fixed an issue with unicode characters in constraints checks (phab:T289805)
- Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
- Continued work on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
- Continued work on new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
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!
Nomination of List of living former United Kingdom MPs for deletion
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of living former United Kingdom MPs until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
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Feedback request: History Good Article nomination
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WikiCup 2021 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.
Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:01, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
- Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
- A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
- A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
- A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.
- The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.
- A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.
- The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.
Wikidata weekly summary #484
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih. [1], Sep 7th.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #78, September 12
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook
- Wikidata Lab XXXI: Reimagining Wikidata from the margins
- Other
- Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language
- Ancient Hellenistic philosophers, visualized as a chain from master to student (Source)
- Generating text with Ninai and Udiron (prototyping using Wikidata items and lexemes in text generation)
- Over 3000 landscape paintings 'depict' something with coordinates. You can now browse them by country (Source)
- Tool of the week
- Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
- In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: National Diet Library persistent work ID, Svensk ordbok ID, ECO code, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Food.com ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, MART catalog person ID, IRIS UNINA author ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, Overnia ID, HandiSport Équipes de France ID, Cinemaitaliano person ID, Cinemaitaliano film ID, Mozilla extension ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, DC Character ID, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index ID, eAmbrosia ID, Edizioni Ares author ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number, Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: літературний редактор, Rotten Tomatoes score
- External identifiers: Eneström Number, Télé-Loisirs ID, PDDikti higher education institution ID, HMS, Barnivore ID, RAWG game ID, Materials Project material ID, INAPP IDs, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Slangopedia ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Urban Dictionary ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, Glitchwave genre ID, Endemia.nc animal ID, Yiddish Dictionary Online ID, Casefile ID, Every Noise at Once ID, museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID
- Query examples:
- Paintings by Waldmüller in the Belvedere, Vienna - Austria (Source)
- Coauthors of coauthors of Birgit Meldal (Q46168094) that have never directly coauthored a paper with her (Source)
- Country-level citation network in biometrics (Scholia) (Source)
- Council Information Systems with OParlOrg API endpoints (Q47450936) (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
- Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
- Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
- Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
- Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (phab:T280229)
- We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.
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!
- Deploy d:Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Feedback request: Natural sciences Good Article nomination
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Wikidata weekly summary #485
- Events
- Upcoming:
- WikidataCon update: you can now check in the program of the first day of the online conference
- Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
- 14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
- 21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
- 28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
- Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
- Ongoing:
- Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
- Past:
- Forex - 36C3 Wikipaka WG: Live querying: let’s explore Wikidata together! - YouTube
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Linking Data and Descriptions on Moths Using the Wikimedia Ecosystem Part of collection TDWG Proceedings 2021
- other
- Ainali talks about Wikidata on The World According to Wikipedia podcast.
- Papers
- Tool of the week
- Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
- Wikidata now has over 150,000 Senses on Lexemes!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: GRAC rating
- External identifiers: Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number (Taiwan), Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, Télé-Loisirs ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Douyin video ID, IndieMag game ID, INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Mexican Video Game content classification category, NZTCS conservation status, Unique Identifier, relevant date for copyright, Allaboutjazz musician ID, Google Fonts ID
- External identifiers: museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, thefreedictionary dictionary term ID, TermCymru ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, NZTCS ID, Australian Research Council Grant ID, PSC, SAM id, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID, Norsk Akademis Ordbok ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Kallías, Owler company ID
- Query examples:
- List of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo ordered by number of sitelinks (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
- List of actors with whom Jean-Paul Belmondo has played the most (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
- count of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo by decade
- List of characters in Tintin ordered by number of apparitions (source)
- People with no birth/death/floruit dates but which have a position from which dates can be inferred (source)
- Map of the origin of diamond open access journal (Q108440863) publications (source)
- Map of place names in Ghana ending with "li", "ti", "om" (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
- Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (phab:T280229)
- Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (phab:T251480)
- All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)
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 #486
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). [2], Sep 21st.
- Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
- Ongoing:
- The Creative Commons Global Summit and Hack4OpenGLAM hackathon take place from September 20 until 24 (fully online). Several sessions and projects are related to Wikidata and/or Wikibase (see schedule search).
- Past:
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Mapping the Scottish Reformation - using Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister project - YouTube
- OpenSym 2021: WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties - YouTube
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #53 (user scripts and gadgets that can help you edit) - YouTube
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- User:Inductiveload/scripts/ShowQsAndPs shows the Q and P IDs on Items.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenRefine has started development of features for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. Sign up here if you want to receive occasional updates on a Wikimedia talk page of your choice.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: created for, Candomblé nation, NZTCS conservation status, Mexican video game rating category
- External identifiers: INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry-Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Every Noise at Once ID, Spotify show episode ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Bing entity ID, TermCymru ID, NZTCS ID, Online Begraafplaatsen person ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Naver Post member ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: relevant date for copyright, issuing agency, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods ID, main subject for, type host taxon, has thematic relation, location of lexeme usage, ODOT county code, illustrative content
- External identifiers: e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Google Fonts ID, Kallías, Owler company ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Allrugby, SLSP editions ID, Issuu ID, XXI Secolo ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, HJP ID, NVE reservoir ID, Biografija.ru ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, IRIS Tuscany IDs, Joshua Project people group ID, Flipboard ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide (2021- Version) ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Poetsgate poem ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Zenodo Communities ID, National Union Catalog ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The new Streaming Updater for Wikidata Query Service will be in production 18 Oct 2021
- Working on changing the way sitelinks to Wikimedia Commons are created from Item data; now using topic's main category (P910) and category related to list (P1754) before Commons category (P373) (T232927)
- Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
- Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
- Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (phab:T235292)
- Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (phab:T290950)
- Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (phab:T290951)
- Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (phab:T280684)
- Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (phab:T280229)
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!