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Wikidata weekly summary #422

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Disallow merging into newer entity

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Wochenende 2020 (in German)
    • Introduction to Wikidata (video)
    • Introduction to SPARQL (video)
  • Past: Cultural heritage webinar, Science Museum group. (presentations and videos)
  • Past: Wikidata Query Service exercise (in Chinese) (video)
  • Past: Wikidata in Toronto webinar with Alex Jung (video)
  • Past: Writing Wikidata queries workshop, part of the Small Wikis Toolkit series (video recording)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, Query Service special, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Merrilee Proffitt, Chris Cyr, and Rob Fernandez on a project to surface library holdings to indicate possible notability for persons, June 30th. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #19, July 5
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest, July 1st

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Lexemes in Wikidata: 2020 status, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Upcoming video: Live Wikidata editing #10 - with guest: YouTube, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • The Sourcerer edit game suggests some sources that could fit to a claim and helps people adding references easily.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase Live sessions is coming back with the first call about Data Modeling in the context of Libraries happening on Thursday, July 2nd at 1600 UTC.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone, applies to name of value, entry receptor, estimated value, media franchise, Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions), Library of Congress Classification (works and editions), Universal Decimal Classification (works and editions), Regensburg Classification (works and editions), study type, number of branches, references work, tradition or theory, Dowker-Thistlethwaite notation, qualifier for this property, gloss quote, use with property value, use with qualifier, prompt when missing, offset from vertical
    • External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID, Cimetières de France ID, Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, SIUSA archival fonds ID, Odeon ID, WikiTrek ID, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, Spotify songwriter ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, vglist video game ID, Veldkruus ID, BitterDB compound ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, SIUSA archive producer family ID, SIUSA archive producer organization ID, Museum of Family History ID, Deku Deals ID, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften ID, GCatholic person ID, Legacy.com person ID, Econlib ID, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Web of Science ID, Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID, Criminological Thesaurus ID, Crossref journal ID, Duden ID, Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID, Directory of Afrocubanas ID, Emmys person ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Goodreads work ID, locality number in Austria, IDU person ID, Gramophone composer ID, Foreign war churchyards in Norway ID, Riksdagen person guid, GCatholic diocese ID, PMSA ID, BBK (library and bibliographic classification), Rate Your Music release ID, QUDT quantity kind ID, Unique Property Reference Number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area, twin town sign, floor material, intended background color, is exception to constraint, prohibits, permits, Kunya, jour équivalent dans le calendrier correspondant, context of death, inverse agonist of, seatwidth, external error, set in environment, property constraint for Commons, Dowker-Thistlethwaite name, Localised title, DOI formatter, Open Data portal, subscribed by, Knot Atlas identifier, theorised by, Knotilus identifier, KnotInfo identifier, sorting weight, character designer, image set, taxon synonym string
    • External identifiers: SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Legacy.com newspaper ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, Opera Online conductor ID, KKBox track ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, BBFC ID, FIPRESCI person ID, KBpedia ID, BWFpara.tournamentsoftware.com player ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, TheFreeDictionary medical term ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, Naturvårdsverket Amenity ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, Econlib person ID, NUKAT (non-VIAF) ID, Reposcope ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, PPN ID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Grove Art Online ID, Maniadb artist ID, Maniadb album ID, Swiss Timber Bridges, PO ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, InciWeb, HLTV ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Swedish Riksdag document, Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Church of Jesus Christ pioneer ID, Nauvoo community project ID, Dignity Memorial person ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Unique Street Reference Number, TlF ID, identifiant lobbywatch.ch d'un parlementaire, identifiant Manioc livre, Bibliothèque Digital des Caraïbes, identifiant Manioc périodique, AlloCiné theater ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of U.S. Presidents
    • List of MPs currently in the Sveriges riksdag (Source)
    • Map showing people buried in Père Lachaise by place of birth (Source)
    • Existing named trees in the world (Source)
    • Artworks depicting things related to a fairy tale (Source)
  • Newest database reports: no statements/enwiki

• Development
  • It is now possible to search for EntitySchema pages using a shortcut “E:”, similar to “P:” for Properties and “L:” for Lexemes. For example: E:E10 or E:kakapo. T245529
  • Continued working on the first version of Federation, which will allow other Wikibase installations to use Wikidata's Properties - getting closer to a first testable version
  • More work on consistency of user interface components
  • Finalizing the click-dummy for the first version of the Query Builder so we can start testing it with some editors soon and get feedback.
  • Continuing to investigate how to improve our APIs and other ways to improve access to the data in Wikidata for programmers
  • Discussed the future of the Wikidata Query Service and ideas for next steps we can take to make it scale better. Guillaume will join the next office hour to talk about it.
  • More work on clearer separation of Wikibase repository and Wikibase client code in order to improve maintainability

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:01, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #423

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest launch (replay)
  • Upcoming: Biohackathon 2020 Barcelona 2020 November 9th - 13th The accepted wikidata related proposal: Knowledge graphs and wikidata subsetting
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #20, July 12
  • Upcoming: Celtic Knot conference, July 9-10, including several sessions about Wikidata, a Wikidata helpdesk

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Why Ariadne uses Getty AAT over Wikidata
  • Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #10 - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Ptable displays the periodic table automatically extracted from information provided by Wikidata; it also provides a check that all the elements are there with some basic properties. Additional pages provide charts of the nuclides under different criteria such as half-life. Each element or nuclide is linked to its Wikidata item for more information or to edit if necessary.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Abstract Wikipedia was approved.
  • OpenRefine 3.4 beta 2 was released.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Open Data portal, theorised by, DOI formatter, set in environment, academic appointment
    • External identifiers: House Divided ID, thefreedictionary medical term ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, Grove Art Online ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, KBpedia ID, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency OBJECTID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Swiss Timber Bridges ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: taxon synonym string, PM20 subject code, PM20 geo code, number of downloads, Interactive element, course, Zoning symbol, vanDerWaalsConstant, has pattern
    • External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Pitchfork artist ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, Austrian encyclopedia of music online, Swiss Tunnel ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID, CPJF ID, TripAdvisor ID 2, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, public transport stop, Homebrew formula name, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, British Museum object ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, code EHESS d'une commune, IAPH code, ProtonDB video game ID
  • Query examples:
    • France has a new Prime Minister: see the list of all ministers in French history (very long scroll). If you want to know more, see this notebook
    • Open data portals in Wikidata (using the newly created property Open Data portal (P8402))
    • Objects that are named after people on Wikidata (Source)

• Development
  • More work on the consistent design system (Phabricator board)
  • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other
    • Proposal to stop registering WikibaseLib as a separate extension
  • Polishing the first step of Federation (using Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation) (incl. preventing users from selecting a federated property with a non-supported data type (phab:T252012) and preventing users from accessing Special:NewProperty when federation is enabled (phab:T255576) and viewing a list of all properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246339))
  • Continuing research and interviews around the topic of making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
  • Doing first testing of mockups and prototypes of the first version of the Query Builder - coding can start soon
  • Convert a few properties from string to external identifier: Linguasphere code (P1396), KOATUU identifier (P1077) and ISIN (P946)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:19, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #424

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: New co-facilitator introductions and tools for editathons, 14 July. Agenda
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #12, 18 July Facebook, YouTube
  • Past: Celtic Knot Wikimedia language conference, online, July 9-10. Videos, documentation and slides of sessions are accessible from the program page.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Using OpenRefine with Wikidata for the first time, by Addshore
  • Using Wikidata in Mathematica and Wolfram, by Toni Schindler
  • Fostering the presence of museums on Wikipedia and Wikidata, by Debora Lopomo
  • Extending the Met’s reach with Wikidata, by Jennie Choi
  • Wikidata-related videos from the Celtic Knot Conference:
    • Wikidata and how you can use it to support minority languages (Mohammed Sadat)
    • Wikidata-powered infoboxes (Pau Cabot)
    • Hands-on Wikidata and lexicographical data (Nicolas Vigneron and Léa Lacroix)
    • FAIR linguistic data thanks to norm data – Wikidata as part of the research project VerbaAlpina (Christina Mutter)
    • Sámi placenames on Wikidata (Jon Harald Søby)
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Introducing the Wikidata powered Dictionary of Welsh Biography timeline (Jason Evans), YouTube
  • Video: Diving into Wikidata workshop (Will Kent), YouTube
  • Video: Linked data for libraries with Wikibase, Infrastructure track (Jens Ohlig), YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • DragNDrop.js makes it possible to show a Wikipedia article and drag items to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • GQIS can now render results from a Wikidata SPARQL query with a new plugin.
  • New feature in V for Wikipedia that uses Wikidata identifiers to direct users to their favorite streaming app.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Dowker-Thistlethwaite name
    • External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Maniadb artist ID, Group Properties wiki ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, GameBanana video game ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Image link, numeric ID, peak bagging classification, vanDerWaalsConstantA, vanDerWaalsConstantB, road name formatter, road number formatter, Medical Service, Ofsted inspection rating, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, traffic sign template image, Vietnamese middle name
    • External identifiers: Wiki Loves Earth Ukraine identifier, OHM Relation ID, Filmstarts title ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, SmallGroup ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, SAH Archipedia building ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Our Campaigns candidate ID, VPE railway line ID, Churches in Limburg, The Draft Review ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, ANZSOC ID, ASCRG ID, Encyclopédie berbère, 雑誌コード, OpenStreetMap user name, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, QLD Biota ID, Australian Weed ID
  • Query examples:
    • Illustrated Basque word of the day for children
    • Oldest UK MPs at the time of election (Source)
    • Map of archives in Wikidata (Source)

• Development
  • Continued building out documentation for Federated Properties (phabricator:T255651) and making interface improvements to the first stage of the feature (incl. phabricator:T246886, changes to special pages that interact with both Items/Properties, and phabricator:T255581, changes to Special:ListDataTypes when federation is enabled)
  • More work on the consistent design system
  • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier
  • Finalizing research and interviews to better understand what could be improved in the way developers access Wikidata's data (APIs, SPARQL)
  • Testing the first prototype of the Simple Query Builder with some editors to get final input before coding starts
  • Sorting of language links on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects was broken (presumably by a change in MediaWiki core). A fix is being worked on. (phabricator:T257625)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:27, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: General semi protection for all property pages

• Events
  • Upcoming: The First Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: August 10, 2020 | Workshop date: October 29, 2020
  • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
  • Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
  • Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube
  • Upcoming: Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
  • Upcoming video: Beyond Wikipedia - Knowledge that even a computer can understand. July 22, 2020 at 17:00 UTC. In this talk, Zbyszko Papierski will present Wikidata Query Service as one way that developers can interact with Wikidata.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities botany pilot using Wikidata QIDs
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
  • Video: Wikispore Day, including an interview of Denny Vrandečić about Abstract Wikipedia at 34'00
  • Video: Merging elements on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Video: Wikibase Ecosystem - taking Wikidata further (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Frettie/consistency_check_add.js check consistency and add missing relations of a Wikidata object like father/son...

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change: removing special pageterms behavior on repo wikis, use entityterms instead (relevant for people using pageterms submodule of the query API module on Wikibase repository wikis)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: version control system, interactive elements, course, peak bagging classification, public transport stop, descriptive solubility, applies if regular expression matches, energy consumption per transaction, content partnership category, Van Der Waals Constant a, Van Der Waals Constant b
    • External identifiers: Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, EHESS ID of a French commune, OpenHistoricalMap relation ID, IAPH code, Knot Atlas identifier, Knotinfo identifier, Swiss Tunnel ID, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online ID, Swedish Riksdag document ID, Artprice artist ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Digital Library of the Caribbean ID, Homebrew formula name, Our Campaigns candidate ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, Unique Street Reference Number, Benerail station ID, Churches in Limburg, Vmusic.bg artist ID, US Quaternary Fault ID, ASCRG 2016 ID, ANZSOC 2011 ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, SAH Archipedia building ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: BTI Status Index, BTI Governance Index, lyricsmule, number of majors offered, nationality (cultural identity), image of view, web interface software
    • External identifiers: Native Plants Database ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, OpenCritic critic ID, DATAtourisme ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, AHECC 2017 ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, Unsplash User ID, South Africa EMIS code, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, HLTV Player ID, HLTV Team ID, SÚKL code, Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers, Science Fiction Awards Database author id, Fototeka person ID, Henrik Ibsen skrifter ID
  • Query examples:
    • Painters in Wikidata with the surname Ruiz (Source)
    • Cities with female mayor (Source)
    • MPs in the current UK parliament with identified mythical ancestors (Source)
    • Indian subcontinent rail lines (Source)
    • List of countries by age of the head of government (Source)
    • Cities of the United States between 100,000 and 600,000 inhabitants with the counties and states they are located in (Source)
  • Newest database reports: list of 1000, 2000 (without statements) and 10000 (filtered) random items

• Development
  • More work on the consistent design system
  • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier:
    • load WikibaseClient through the JSON file (phab:T257435),
    • decoupling Client from Lib/Repo in the JavaScript code (phab:T256054),
    • reduce the uses of Repo classes (phab:T255885, phab:T255882)
    • Move all the special pages (phab:T257444), API modules (phab:T257443) and hooks (phab:T257445) from the PHP entry point to the JSON file
    • Merge the registration of WikibaseLib into the Repo and Client extensions (phab:T257432) and merge WikibaseView into Repo (phab:T258043)
  • Prepare the first development phase for the Simple Query Builder
  • Reference game: run a scraper, work on a dashboard that will gives an overview of the potential references that have already been judged in the game
  • Fix a bug related to maximum limit of search results (phab:T256885)
  • Resolve some configuration issues regarding Entity Sources (phab:T254315)
  • Federated Properties:
    • Changes to special pages that interact with both items/properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246886)
    • Changes to Special:ListDatatypes when federation is enabled (phab:T255581)
  • Add new monolingual language codes: mic (Miꞌkmaq), gil (Kiribati)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (WMDE) 14:58, 20 July 2020 (UTC)