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Wikidata weekly summary #435
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist
setting enabled. (TheAdd pages and files I edit to my watchlist
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
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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!