*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_iNaturalist/Event_20190416_Where_iNaturalist_meets_Wiki>, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium - Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Argentina>, April 25th - Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mezi_bajty/Workshop_2019>, Czech Republic Press, articles, blog posts <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations <https://www.arl.org/publications-resources/4751-arl-white-paper-on-wikidata-opportunities-and-recommendations> - Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs <https://ai.facebook.com/blog/open-sourcing-pytorch-biggraph-for-faster-embeddings-of-extremely-large-graphs> and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog - OpenTapioca <https://opentapioca.org/>: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09131.pdf>) - Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND <https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/1527> by Olaf Simons Other Noteworthy Stuff - Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIKIDATA_EN_BREVE.pdf>, Query Service in one page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Query_Service_en_Breve.pdf>, a new data model example based on Marie Curie <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Datamodel_in_Wikidata_Marie_Curie_es.svg>, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers" <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Flyer_for_Developers_Part_1of2_(INSIDE)-es.svg>. Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mlemusrojas> and the Wikidata group in Argentina <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Argentina>! - Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data#Depicts_statements_coming_this_week> - The Wikimedia URL Shortener <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener> is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012958.html>) - Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Topic:Uwnvvuwlnox50iw8>: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate! - Wikidata Sign Languages Browser <https://tools.wmflabs.org/sign-language-browser/#/> - You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_labels> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: number of sentences <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6695>, Football Money League rank <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6697> - External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6688>, MassBank Accession ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6689>, CNV-SP ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6690>, GruCultura ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6691>, CEMDP ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6692>, NGMDb Prod ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6693>, MESH Concept ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6694>, PRELIB organization ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6696> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: supported metadata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/supported_metadata>, expansion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/expansion>, CatholicSaints.info ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CatholicSaints.info_ID>, Musixmatch track ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Musixmatch_track_ID>, transfer speed <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/transfer_speed>, KeyWiki page ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KeyWiki_page_ID>, художник-мультипликатор <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80>, Number of polling stations <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Number_of_polling_stations>, music video <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/music_video> - External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Atlas_of_African_Frogs>, Ming Qing Archive authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ming_Qing_Archive_authority_ID>, Kinosozvezdie biography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinosozvezdie_biography_ID>, RGALI ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RGALI_ID>, Referee.ru person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Referee.ru_person_ID>, NSW Capital Conviction ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NSW_Capital_Conviction_ID>, Australian War Memorial ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_War_Memorial_ID>, Flora of Australia (new) ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flora_of_Australia_(new)_ID>, Drobné památky ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Drobn%C3%A9_pam%C3%A1tky_ID>, Identifiant IndieDB for video game <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_IndieDB_for_video_game>, Whitney Museum of American Art ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art_ID>, Archaeology Data Service person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archaeology_Data_Service_person_ID>, CanLII ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CanLII_ID>, Justia Patents assignee ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Justia_Patents_assignee_ID>, interwiki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/interwiki>, Identifiant Mod DB for video game <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Mod_DB_for_video_game>, OBIS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OBIS_ID>, Alvin <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alvin>, FemBio ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FemBio_ID> - Query examples: - All deaths in Game of Thrones <https://w.wiki/3Fy> (source <https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1118244055404691456>) - Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris <https://w.wiki/3D5> (query based on this discussion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Built_before_Notre_Dame> ) - Timeline for the History of Telecommunications <https://w.wiki/3FR> (source <https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/1118482236083511297>) - Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines <https://w.wiki/35s> (source <https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1118137336129302529>) - Map of churches in Sri Lanka <https://w.wiki/3FV> (source <https://twitter.com/xaviaranda/status/1120031399585767425>) Development - Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204440>) - Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come - Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194179>) - Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221107>) - Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209879>) - Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216987>) - Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218690>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority>. Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Suggested and open tasks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks> ! - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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