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

   - Open request for adminship: Nomen ad hoc
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Nomen_ad_hoc>

Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>

   - Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in
   education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit
   
<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2020/01/announcing-the-wikimedia-in-education-uk-summit/>
   at Coventry University on 26 February
   - Hackday Niederrhein <https://www.codeforniederrhein.de/hackday-2020/>,
   Germany, on March 28-29, including a Wikidata workshop
   - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call:
   further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets,
   11 February. Agenda
   
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Hf1fPhAwjiGirAHxNvDuG7pksw_6USMUKNe328MOw0/edit?usp=sharing>
   - WikiCite meetup in Melbourne, Australia
   <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/wikicite-anz-2020/3052>, on
   February 14th
   - Wikidata Wednesday in Vienna, Austria
   <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/wikidata-wednesday-vienna/3029>, on
   February 19th

Press, articles, blog posts
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>

   - Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone
   <http://www.swat4ls.org/proceedings/edinburgh2019/video/>, keynote video
   from Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
   - Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition
   
<https://commonists.wordpress.com/2020/02/04/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-2019-edition/>,
   by Jean-Frédéric
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric>
   - Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata
   <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-21462-3_21>, by
   Tom Hanika, Maximilian Marx and Gerd Stumme.

Tool of the week

   - Reasonator <https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/> offers a visual
   formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing
   Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by
   presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset
   
<https://blog.kensho.com/announcing-the-kensho-derived-wikimedia-dataset-5d1197d72bcf>
   is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M
   pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing
   (NLP) research
   - Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items
   using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random
list" on d:Property
   talk:P279 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P279>
   - "Status of Wikidata Query Service
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-February/013793.html>"
   update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
   - Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/wikidatistedeconflans/> of a
   volunteer working on Wikidata about the French local elections in Conflans
   - Swiss newspaper Le Temps <https://www.letemps.ch> built a new front-end
   <https://labs.letemps.ch/interactive/2020/demander-ses-donnees/> to
   interact with a Wikibase backend <http://wiki.personaldata.io> developed
   by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation
   
<https://www.letemps.ch/economie/donnees-personnelles-devons-etendre-champ-transparence>
   of personal data flows.
   - There are now 100,000 people with the name "John"
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4925477> in Wikidata. "Elizabeth"
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q385468> is now the most frequent female
   given name.
   - Knowledge Grapher <https://tools.wmflabs.org/knowledgegrapher/> is a
   new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge
   of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Fuzheado>, it is currently in early
   testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter> at his 2019 blog
post Making
   Wikidata Visible
   <http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2019/01/23/making-wikidata-visible/>.
   Feedback is appreciated.

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: none
      - External identifiers: Academia.edu publication ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7896>, TI-99/4A Videogame
      House ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7897>, National
      Aviation Hall of Fame ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7898>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: гражданский чин
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD>,
      uses dataset
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/uses_dataset>,
      CVR person ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CVR_person_ID>,
      description
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/description>,
      Wikimedia community discussion
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikimedia_community_discussion>,
      The Great Biography
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Great_Biography>
      - External identifiers: Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Visual_AIDS_Artist%2B_Registry_ID>,
      CYRI ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CYRI_ID>,
Mendeley
      publication ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mendeley_publication_ID>,
      CODEPAC-Bauru ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CODEPAC-Bauru_ID>,
      Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution_ancestor_ID>,
      PC Games Database.de game ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PC_Games_Database.de_game_ID>,
      Encyclopedia of Chicago
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Chicago>,
      DANFS ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DANFS_ID>,
Deutsche
      Biographie ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Deutsche_Biographie_ID>,
      Haz-Map ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Haz-Map_ID>,
      RAL ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RAL_ID>, PC
      Games Database.de company ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PC_Games_Database.de_company_ID>,
      Kickstarter project ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kickstarter_project_ID>,
      Adventure Games company ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Adventure_Games_company_ID>,
      VcBA ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VcBA_ID>,
Adventure
      Games series ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Adventure_Games_series_ID>,
      Hrvatska enciklopedije ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hrvatska_enciklopedije_ID>,
      Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biografisch_Woordenboek_van_Nederland:_1880-2000_ID>,
      Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_on_Early_Childhood_Development_ID>,
      Trakt.tv uri
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Trakt.tv_uri>,
      Open Food Facts label
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Food_Facts_label>,
      Compendium heroicum ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Compendium_heroicum_ID>,
      Gry Online game ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gry_Online_game_ID>,
      Gram.pl game ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gram.pl_game_ID>,
      startrekdb.se query
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/startrekdb.se_query>,
      Legislative Assembly of Ontario MPP ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Legislative_Assembly_of_Ontario_MPP_ID>,
      Gry Online company ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gry_Online_company_ID>
   - Deleted properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion>:
lithography
   (P2157)
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2019/Properties/1#P2157>
   - Query examples:
      - Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries
      <https://w.wiki/GwV> (source
      <https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1225553452509605893>)
      - Chart of the number of infections and deaths casued since the
      outbreak of novel coronavirus, as reported by the World Health
Organisation
      <https://w.wiki/Gk4>
      - Adjacent constituencies of the UK Parliament <https://w.wiki/GqE> -
      query federated with Ordnance Survey's SPARQL endpoint. (source
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Request_a_query&oldid=1111692856#Adjacent_constituencies>
      )
      - List of this year’s Academy Awards winners <https://w.wiki/Gw8>

Development

   - Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various
   cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
   - Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (
   phab:T233295 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233295>)
   - Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production,
   adding the "remove warning" button
   - Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are
   being triggered and opened (phab:T231731
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231731>)
   - Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
   - Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client
   wikis (phab:T244129 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244129>)
   - Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (
   phab:T243158 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243158>)

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

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