*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 Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. 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