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Wikidata weekly summary #459
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Minorax (RfP scheduled to end after 19 March 2021 11:23 UTC)
- Events
- Upcoming: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, from March 15th to April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
- March 15: Kickstart and open discussion about lexicographical data
- March 16: SPARQL queries about Lexemes (in French) with Vigneron
- March 17: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
- March 20: Live editing on Lexemes with Ainali and Abbe98
- March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #54, March 21
- Upcoming: Wikidata - The Linked Open Data Platform Everyone Can Contribute To (Public talk) - Registration link
- Upcoming: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, from March 15th to April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Internet Archive Scholar is launched - Wikidata is thanked in the acknowledgements
- 10 basic but essential SPARQL queries for lexicographical data on Wikidata
- Using Wikidata to model Aberdeen’s Industrial Heritage
- Carnegie Hall experienced a veritable rock explosion during its 1971-72 season, with 70 rock concerts between September 1971 and June 1972
- Writing your own data to Wikidata using spreadsheets: Part 1
- Videos
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/LexemeToggleSections.js script allows to expand/collapse the sections on lexeme pages.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Plant Humanities Lab is a website you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
- DX Lab Art Index is an interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over 10 years.
- The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a pre-production test server for feedback. Available at https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details here.
- Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than 2021-03-22.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: assessment outcome, music transcriber, subsidy, inverse agonist of, gender equality index, transitivity, script style
- External identifiers: Oklahoma's NRHP ID, ChemRxiv ID, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Inventory ID, FFF player ID (new scheme), Physics Magazine author ID, Ligue 1 player ID, ANPI person numeric ID, Science Magazine author ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID, ANSI/NISO standard ID, Kickstarter username, DeCS ID, RePEc EconPapers ID, Encyclopedia of Ostrava History person ID, LFChistory.net player ID, Pandektis ID, Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot ID, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia ID, Catalogue of the Capitular Library of Verona author ID, AaRC film ID, GB1900 ID, Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe ID, Encyclopaedia Herder concept ID, Cyprus Bibliography ID, EncyclopediaPR ID, Filmitalia person ID, TikTok music ID, Eesti entsüklopeedia ID, Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française ID, AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID, AIATSIS Subject Thesaurus ID, Astro Awani topic ID, TapTap application ID, Encyclopedia of Plzeň person ID, OsobnostiRegionu.cz ID, Terezín Memorial Database ID, National Gallery of Art Library Bibliographic ID, svoyak.info player ID, Encyclopedia of Melbourne ID, Max Movie person ID, EudraCT trial ID, Fancyclopedia 3 ID, operator licence number
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Cantonese romanisation, repairability, Gedong Kirtya classification, Valence, has graphical element, Antarctic Specially Protected Area ID, CBO Occupation Code (en) / Classificação Brasileira de Ocupações (CBO) (pt), Reason for unknown/no value, generalization of/generalized by, acronym, Sales of arms and military services, formé en même temps que, Suggested fields
- External identifiers: AWB lemma ID, MWB lemma ID, MHDBDB lemma ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for Middle High German, Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID, Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for modern German, Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID, SVKKL authority ID, Demozoo Group ID, GameSpot developer ID, Washington Place Names ID, PatER ID, Latin Place Names ID, Enslaved ID, Ávvir topic ID, Salaborsa building ID, storiaememoriadibologna ID, UniversalMusic France artist ID, Oxford African American Studies Center ID, La Fenice Theatre in Venice person ID, MeSH descriptor/qualifier ID, Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú researcher ID, Fortalezas.org ID, Keratsini-Drapetsona libraries' catalogue authority ID, France24 topic ID, CNA topic ID, Portrait Archive ID, athletics.lv athlete id, temples.ru ID
- Query examples:
- Latin American women who are activists and were born between 1900-1999 (ordered by the number of articles written on Wikipedia) (Source)
- Transportation routes in Zurich named after women (Source)
- Location of buildings designed by Zaha Hadid (Source)
- Proportion of Basque men / women in Donostialdea region (Source)
- Count of the industry companies on Wikidata belong to (Source)
- Danish verbs-derived-from-non-verbs (Source)
- Mountains of the Basque Country (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continued working on the Query Builder and focused on querying for quantity values (phab:T268942), handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (phab:T274634) adding tooltips (phab:T275542) and sharing a visual query (phab:T272887)
- Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make more pages accessible through interwiki links (phab:T165061)
- Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (phab:T275999)
- Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity API module (phab:T199896)
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 #460
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Signed Statements (T138708)
- Events
- Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
- March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
- March 23: SPARQL querying for Lexemes with Vigneron
- March 24: Open discussion in French about Lexemes
- March 25: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
- March 27: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata, with Poslovitch
- Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 25 March 2021 (Add to calendar). This month we will have a team member from Enslaved.org talk to us briefly about how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) with the help of Wikibase (due of technical challenges they couldn't join us last time). Everyone is welcome to attend the call.
- Upcoming: The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is taking place remotely on June 24-25, and focusing on indigenous and underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects. The call for submissions is now open until April 15th, if you want to present something related to Wikidata and languages, feel free to apply.
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Members of the EthicsLD Group will be leading a discussion on ethics in linked data, Tuesday, March 23rd.[1]
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook, March 27
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #55, March 28
- Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Intercessory Rote Prayer, Life Longevity and the Mortality of Roman Catholic Bishops: An Exploratory Study (Using Wikidata to study whether prayers have an effect)
- Videos
- Papers
- Tool of the week
- Sparql_rc is a recent changes feed that only shows you changes in an area of Wikidata you care about. It now also supports Lexemes.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Portuguese nouns
- erinnerungshort.de/kap/ is a data and photo research project and map visualization tool with federated license query from Structured Commons, by Raymond and Elya.
- ~7500 person items have been enriched with the new property GEPRIS person ID (P4872), imported from a high quality dataset from the Q707283.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: pHash checksum, Jyutping transliteration, Yale romanization, Cantonese Pinyin, Cantonese Transliteration Scheme transliteration, Gedong Kirtya Classification, has graphical element
- External identifiers: TaDiRAH ID, AWB lemma ID, Latin Place Names ID, Enslaved person ID, MyMusic artist ID, Ávvir topic ID, Dark Horse creator ID, ComiXology publisher ID, Inforegister ID, SVKKL authority ID, BiographySampo person ID, PatER ID, Cartigli di Bologna ID, Universal Music France artist ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Washington Place Names ID, Storiaememoriadibologna ID, Oxford African American Studies Center ID, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Archives West finding aid ID, Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID, Keratsini-Drapetsona libraries' catalogue authority ID, NFL.com ID (new scheme), Bavarian Monument Map object ID (architectural monument), MeSH descriptor/qualifier ID, MeSH qualifier ID, Bavarian Monument Map Object-ID (ground monument), temples.ru ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: zugeschrieben, IMDb rating, death rate, trade union membership rate, identifier shared with lexeme, introduced on, instances are former instances of, presentation template, voted on by, has supplier, キロ程
- External identifiers: Slovník českých filosofů ID, Encyklopedie migrace ID, Encyclopedia of Migration ID, Tacoma Local History & Biography Index ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Obituary Index ID, Rombase ID, Stalker author ID, ODLIS ID, Enslaved place ID, CAOI person ID, IBSF-Wettbewerbs-ID, FranceArchives agent ID, Pango lineage code, Ministry of Education New Zealand school ID, Place Names NI ID, NMRShiftDB Structure ID, Modernist Commons ID, Megale Kypriake Enkyklopaideia ID, Encyclopédie de l’humanisme méditerranéen ID, Sociologické encyklopedie ID, Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus ID, Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ID, Routes & Places ID, Rekhta Author ID, Rekhta Book ID, National Database of Laws and Regulations ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija person ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija concept ID
- Query examples:
- Railway junctions in Scotland (Source)
- Maps of Y-shaped subway lines (Source)
- Map of the hometown of Real Sociedad / Athletic Club players (Source)
- Count of type of things with IIIF links known to Wikidata (Source)
- Successful candidates during 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly in each constituencies (Source)
- COVID-19 external Identifier URLs in Wikidata (Source)
- Public spaces whose names are of women (Source)
- Place of birth of females with biography articles on Basque Wikipedia (Source)
- Map of places in iNaturalist (Source)
- Number of elements of scientists by nationality (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Work on the first version of the Query Builder is nearing its end. Doing remaining work on querying for quantities, dates and ranges as well as polishing and bug fixing.
- Made Cognate work correctly for redirects on Wiktionary (phab:T165061)
- Fixed an issue where the termbox on Item pages used the wrong list of languages on the mobile version (phab:T275611)
- Cleaned up deleted Items from the term store database table (phab:T263730)
- Got feedback on the initial click-dummies for checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find mismatches
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!
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- Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise
- From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes
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Wikidata weekly summary #461
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Minorax, welcome onboard!
- Events
- Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
- March 30: Live SPARQL queries about Lexemes in French by Vigneron
- March 30: Abstract Wikipedia & Lexemes Q&A with Denny Vrandečić
- April 1: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
- April 5-11: Climate Lexeme Week
- April 5: Abstract Wikipedia & Lexemes Q&A with Denny Vrandečić
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #38 - YouTube, Facebook, April 3
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #56, April 4
- Upcoming: WikiCommons metadata analysis tool is intended to be developed at the online hackathon at hack.glam.opendata.ch, 16-17 April 2021
- Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Live Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook
- Live SPARQL queries on Lexemes by Vigneron (in English): on Youtube
- Tool of the week
- d:User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js userscript is a proper entity suggester that gives a fixed set of properties for various languages.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Sitelinks links for two new Wikipedias can be entered: Atayal Wikipedia (Q105723660) and Seediq Wikipedia (Q105975521)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: does not have cause, external georeferencing URL
- External identifiers: Discord server numeric ID, France24 topic ID (French), France24 topic ID (English), France24 topic ID (Spanish), France24 topic ID (Arabic), PeriodO period ID, MHDBDB lemma ID, Portrait Archive ID, Porcelana Brasil ID, Slovník českých filosofů ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology ID, Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID, MWB lemma ID, Encyclopedia of Migration ID, Ministry of Education New Zealand school ID, Encyklopedie migrace ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Obituary Index ID, Encyclopedia of Mediterranean Humanism ID, Modernist Commons ID, Rombase ID (English), Filmitalia film ID, CNA topic ID, Fortalezas.org ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Ottoman Association ID, url text, audio transcription 2, OFDb person ID, won sets, Number of stitches
- External identifiers: Biblio.com ID, Czech Encyclopedia of Theater identifiers (Czech and German), Identifiant des Collections du Louvre, Verified Handles VHID, Michigan State University Library Record Number, Washington Flora Checklist ID, Washington Flora Checklist species ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, KATOTTH identifier, Viasona ID, Musikasten ID, Discover the networks, GCD publisher ID, Image Comics creator ID, BLPL ID, MnM ID, Arca author ID, Editorial Freelancers Association member ID, IFCVPF ID, American University of Beirut's Libraries Title ID, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID, USCG MIC ID, Berlin Bezirkslexika identifiers, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID, Brapci author ID, ÖCV Biolex ID, OregonFlora taxon ID, Oregon Flora Image Project ID
- Deleted properties:
- Query examples:
- Donald P. Bellisario credits as screenwriter or director
- Interwiki table from P6720, with end date for prefixes that are no longer in use (source)
- Index map of Ordnance Survey Old Series preparatory drawings, with georeferencer links (source)
- Listed buildings in Wales that would be lost if the sea level rose by 70 metres (source)
- Music releases with incomplete track lists, showing diff count (Source)
- Date and place of birth of female musicians in Nigeria (Source)
- Scholarly articles on multilingualism and bilingualism (Source)
- Things in Czechia which changed coordinate location at some point (Source)
- Images about women programmers (Source)
- UK railway stations connected from Topsham railway station (Source)
- Most awarded person affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark (Source)
- Newest database reports: current TV seasons
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The dev team spent the last week prototyping a few things to learn if some things would be feasible/a good idea. Among other things we tried building a small tool to connect Senses to Items, looked into the different types of ontology issues that can be found on Wikidata and checked what using a document store for data storage would look like.
- Note: from March 29th until April 12th, Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) is not available to answer messages. If you have any requests for the development team, please ask on Contact the development team. For any emergency, you can contact Lea Lacroix (WMDE). Because of Easter holidays in Germany, the upcoming newsletter will be issued one day later, on April 6th.
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 #462
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past NIH Virtual Workshop on InChI (Q106114408): "InChI and InChIKey in Wikidata and Scholia", https://zenodo.org/record/4633789
- Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
- April 5-11: Climate Lexeme Week
- April 7: Data import for Lexemes: how to add a lot of content in your language
- April 8: Documentation Q&A
- April 8: Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data
- April 10: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Cliff Landis (Digital Initiatives Librarian, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library) on “GaNCH: Using Wikidata for Georgia's Natural, Cultural, and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response.” April 6th.[2]
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook, April 10
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #57, April 11
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-04-12 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws (English), supported by WikiCite, April 13
- Upcoming: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas / shape expressions, April 19
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Aplicativos de metadados (Portuguese), on metadata apps, April 29
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Mining Wikidata for Name Resources for African Languages "fostering development of technology for the languages of Africa with a Wikidata-derived resource of lists of 1.9M names across 28 African languages".
- Videos
- SPARQL queries around lexemes, words, lexicography (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
- Editing lexemes on Wikidata (in Swedish) by Ainali - YouTube
- WikiActivate sessions introduction to Wikidata - YouTube 1, 2
- LIVE Wikidata editing #38 - YouTube, Facebook
- Launch of Climate Lexeme Week (Youtube, Facebook)
- Tool of the week
- QRank is a tool providing a rank for Wikidata entities based on page view statistics from several Wikimedia projects.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The final version of the Wikibase Yearly Summary 2020 has been published.
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports additional Breton templates (Source)
- User:Nikki/LexemeAddIPA.js userscript adds a link in the header for forms on lexeme pages which opens a dialog for adding IPA statements to forms that do not have any yet.
- LexSAOB adds Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) identifiers to Swedish lexemes in Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Ukrainian national romanization, law digest, Unicode character name, trade union membership rate, placeholder text element ID
- External identifiers: Place Names NI ID, FranceArchives agent ID, NHS Organisation Data Service ID, ODLIS ID, Sociologická encyklopedie ID, BMZ lemma ID, FindeB lemma ID, Lexer lemma ID, LexerN lemma ID, Enslaved place ID, The Mountaineers Routes & Places ID, Adelung lemma ID, DWB lemma ID, DWB2 lemma ID, GWB lemma ID, Meyers lemma ID, RDWB1 lemma ID, Wander lemma ID, Česká divadelní encyklopedie ID, Tschechische Theaterenzyklopädie ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index ID, Louvre Museum ARK ID, Verified Handles VHID, Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID, Armenian Book ID, athletics.lv athlete ID, Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus ID, Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ID, GameSpot developer ID, Musée national de la Marine ID, OFDb person ID, NMRShiftDB structure ID, Tacoma Local History & Biography Index ID, Megale Kypriake Enkyklopaideia ID, Washington Flora Checklist ID, American University of Beirut's Libraries title ID, USCG MIC, Arca author ID, BLPL author ID, Viasona ID, ÖCV Biolex ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: specific part, personal library at, departement, antipode, MovieMeter person ID, bicycle
- External identifiers: CNN contributor ID, Our Campaigns race ID, Proveana ID, Storybook ID, Wissens-Aggregator Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit (WIAG) ID, National Association of Teachers of Singing member ID, The World Factbook country ID, SonyLIV show ID, EGID, Letecká badatelna accident ID, Camptocamp ID, National Inventory of Dams ID, PeakVisor ID, PeakVisor range ID, PeakVisor area ID, PeakVisor park ID, Urban Archive ID, bridgesport.ru player ID, Catalogue of the General State Archives ID, Podchaser Creator Id, La Réunion des Livres ID, vindskyddskartan.se ID, naturkartan.se ID, ANPI place numeric ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Virginia House of Delegates ID, Generals of World War II ID, DCinemaToday Organization ID, Swedish Bioguiden Movie Theater ID, bio.se Movie Theater ID, Encyclopedia of Jewish Women ID, Terras Indígenas ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Europalexikon ID, Politiklexikon ID, Encyklopedie antropologie ID
- Query examples:
- interwiki prefixes without corresponding Wikidata property by 2019 linkcount (some filtered) (source)
- Women whose article on English Wikipedia has the featured article badge (source)
- Map of males and females after which streets are named (Leiden, NL) (source)
- Map of birthplaces of trans women and men with articles in the Basque Wikipedia (source)
- Map of institutions where UNR faculty got their academic degrees (source)
- Map of location of sense usage (P6084) by language
- Botanists with image of signature and optional IPNI author ID (source)
- Subclasses of musical instrument with the most individual instances (source, result starts with: bell, organ)
- list of U.S. state songs, anthems, marches, hymns, cantatas, or missing (source)
- Adjacency map of Ordnance Survey Old Series preparatory drawings (source)
- Ordinals in all languages/notations: 0th to 100th (source)
- locked-room mysteries (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- We continued to make improvements to the Query builder. We worked on adding a footer to the Query Builder (phab:T268643) and showing all relevant columns in the query result (phab:T277646) as well as querying for dates (phab:T272697)
- Fixed a bug where Item pages scrolls back to "In more languages" block after every change of DOM (phab:T277999, being deployed to Wikidata later this week)
- Continued working on a new grafana graph to track editor numbers split by namespace (phab:T275999)
- Finished a small tool to get the ORES quality score for a list of Items. Waiting for deployment to toolforge for broader use now.
- Defined remaining work for redirect sitelink exceptions (phab:T278962)
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 #463
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Is it worth to import labels from interlanguage links of other wikipedia projects to wikidata
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVII - Gathering and modelling of metadata pertaining to all Brazilian laws. April 13, 14-18 (UTC-3). register
- Upcoming: closing of d:Wikidata:Events/30 lexic-o-days 2021, April 14. If you participated in the contribution month, please drop a line about your work on the outcomes page.
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #40 - YouTube, Facebook, April 17
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #58, April 18
- Upcoming: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas / shape expressions, April 19
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook
- Data imports for Wikidata Lexemes (panel discussion 30 Lexicodays) (Youtube, Commons)
- Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data (30 Lexicodays) (Youtube, Commons)
- Wiki2Prop: A Multi-Modal Approach for Predicting Wikidata Properties from Wikipedia - YouTube
- Wiki World Heritage User Group: Capacity Building Wikidata Training - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- EditSum, a user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A simple portal of women that study metabolomics powered by Wikidata
- Do you have any cool Wikidata tips and tricks that you use? Share them with everyone on Twitter under the hashtag #WikidataTips
- Entitree is a graph generator that can display family trees, but also other graphs like taxa or company subsidiaries.
- Royal Trees, powered by Wikidata is an interactive website that shows royal family trees, for all royal families worldwide. See an example of Philip Duke of Edinburgh.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: personal library at
- External identifiers: ScoreStorybook company ID, Camptocamp ID, Biblio.com ID, CNN contributor ID, IFVPF ID, Musikasten ID, OregonFlora taxon ID, Demozoo group ID, Image Comics creator ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Commons-Kategorie für Portraits, pH, taxonomic treatment, Degrees day, NBM identifier, size of unit under command, Archdiocese of Liverpool identifier
- External identifiers: HistoryLink essay number, National Provider Identifier, Singers.com ID, Oregon State Parks ID, Washington State Parks ID, Wikiroute ID, ID v Databázi periodického tisku pro veřejnost, GLEI RAL, OpenCorporates register id, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, hPSCreg ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID, Trap Danmark ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Started research and collecting material for the work on improvements to the Lexeme UI and prepared the first interviews
- Finishing up the work on the first version of the Query Builder. We still need to get the security review before we can deploy it properly. Current state can be tested on the test system.
- Finalized the dashboard to see the number of (active/very active) editors split by namespace. See the graphs at the bottom of this dashboard.
- Continued working on the remaining pieces needed to fully support editing statements on Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199896)
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!