*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- CheckUser nominations: Sotiale <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/CheckUser/Sotiale>, Jasper Deng <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/CheckUser/Jasper_Deng>, Romaine <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/CheckUser/Romaine> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Ongoing: Wikidata Lab XXII on the Wikidata Wikiproject COVID-19, April 14, 1pm UTC, remote, in English. Event page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Edit-a-thon/Atividades_em_portugu%C3%AAs/Wikidata_Lab_XXII> - Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron <https://www.twitch.tv/belett>, Tuesday April 14 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2) - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #9 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#8>, April 19 - Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7, on Telegram. Notes of the discussion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2020-04-07> - Past: Wikidata topic at the virtual biohackathon <https://github.com/virtual-biohackathons/covid-19-bh20/wiki/Wikidata>. Mid-term updates <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E44oFcThPTY&t=31%3A39m> final presentations <http://ipfs.genenetwork.org/ipfs/QmZkuJZyf8vgE2Db2jqhPmhUdgvGtpFBkcSwaX2hj4RqaK/webinar-covid_19_bh20-wrapup-20200411.mp4> (Wikidata report starts at 1:17:40) Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - *A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report <https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.026336v1>* (new preprint about virus info (strains, genes, proteins), ShEx, and SPARQL) - *Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.03181.pdf>* ("We look at the coverage of two biomedical ontologies focusing on diseases with respect to Wikidata for 9 European languages") - *Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus <https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2020/04/wikidata-and-bibliography-of-life-in.html>* - Video: Editing Wikidata and creating a property proposal: YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAb_AvPRqj4>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/2813297058718107/>, Periscope <https://www.pscp.tv/w/1MYxNkpQkowKw> Tool of the week - COVID19 Dashboard <https://sites.google.com/view/covid19-dashboard/> is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications. Other Noteworthy Stuff - A database breakage <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200407-Wikidata's_wb_items_per_site_table_dropped>, also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6, 11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However, issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur. - You're welcome to give feedback on ideas of improvements for the Query Service interface <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Improve_the_workflows_for_queries_and_lists> - The development team is working on automated finding of references, feel free to give feedback on the first batch <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Automated_finding_references_input> - ZFOURGE UDS 19909 (Q90000000) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90000000> - our ninety-millionth item, about a galaxy - was created on 10 April. - For the first time, a Wikipedia list article <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Lista_de_mortos_e_desaparecidos_pol%C3%ADticos_na_ditadura_militar_brasileira> populated entirely from Wikidata, and built using Listeria <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:ListeriaBot>, has been granted "featured" status <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17506997>, on the Portuguese Wikipedia (video on YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgUej8GHqU4> ). - ListeriaBot blocked <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Special:PermaLink/950890941#ListeriaBot_blocked_an_urgent_resolution_is_needed.> pending review <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Re-examination_of_ListeriaBot> on English Wikipedia. - A Telegram group has been created for discussions about Wikidata in German <https://t.me/wikidata_de> - Comment <https://www.unicode.org/reporting.html> on QID Emoji proposal <https://www.unicode.org/review/pri408/> until April 20th Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: donations <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8093>, network bands <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8097>, bus <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8107>, recommended unit of measurement <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8111>, CSS color keyword <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8112> - External identifiers: BDSP ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8071>, CAB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8072>, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8073>, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8074>, ScreenScraper group ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8075>, The Cover Project game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8076>, FHF establishment ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8077>, FHF hospital group ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8078>, elibrary.ru person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8079>, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8080>, WBIS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8081>, Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8082>, Visit Tuscany ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8083>, URL on Nintendo eShop <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8084>, Curran Index contributor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8085>, ODMP person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8086>, GameTDB game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8087>, Elephind.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8088>, EZB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8089>, GameReactor game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8090>, Archival Resource Key <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8091>, EcuRed article <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8092>, Geneastar person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8094>, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8095>, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8096>, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8098>, I-Revues ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8099>, JournalTOCs ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8100>, MUSE article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8101>, NASA active astronaut ID - DO NOT USE <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8102>, Paperity article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8103>, Paperity journal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8104>, SAN archive producer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8105>, SOCAN work number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8106>, Papers Past ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8108>, Pascal et Francis ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8109>, Retronews ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8110>, COTREX trail ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8113> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: ACUM work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ACUM_work_ID>, appendix <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/appendix>, Wikisource index page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikisource_index_page>, Unicode character <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Unicode_character>, Arlington Cemetery person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Arlington_Cemetery_person_ID>, Eigentümerhistorie <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Eigent%C3%BCmerhistorie>, quantification instruction <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/quantification_instruction>, language level <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/language_level>, Included in curricula <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Included_in_curricula>, Order number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Order_number>, ShEx available at URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ShEx_available_at_URL>, dialect of (computer language) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/dialect_of_(computer_language)>, file page offset <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/file_page_offset>, station service succession <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/station_service_succession> - External identifiers: Seoul Information Disclosure Plaza management number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Seoul_Information_Disclosure_Plaza_management_number>, Wikiparques ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikiparques_ID>, NKAA ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NKAA_ID>, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Described_and_Captioned_Media_Program_producer_ID>, Provenio ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Provenio_ID>, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Brno_Person_ID>, RPPS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RPPS_ID>, South African Company Registration Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/South_African_Company_Registration_Number>, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sicilian_Regional_Assembly_ID>, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inventory_of_Archaic_and_Classical_Poleis_ID>, SNCF station identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SNCF_station_identifier>, Benerail station identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Benerail_station_identifier>, Indian Railways train number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indian_Railways_train_number>, Soccerdonna coach ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Soccerdonna_coach_ID>, DLL Catalog IDs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DLL_Catalog_IDs>, MDN <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MDN>, Psocodea Species File ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Psocodea_Species_File_ID>, Slovak Registration ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Slovak_Registration_ID>, Swedish Glaciers <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swedish_Glaciers>, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Club_Identifier_Netherlands_Handball_Association>, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopaedia_Metallum_label_ID>, UK Modern House Index building ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK_Modern_House_Index_building_ID>, UK Modern House Index architect ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK_Modern_House_Index_architect_ID>, CPAN person <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CPAN_person>, FactGrid item ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FactGrid_item_ID>, FactGrid property ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FactGrid_property_ID>, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Texas_Historic_Sites_Atlas_ID> - Query examples: - Names of countries without letter "a" <https://w.wiki/Mnx> (source <https://twitter.com/PierreBoudes/status/1248923143965638657>) - Infectious diseases and their number of cases <https://w.wiki/Mo2> ( source <https://twitter.com/mrlogix/status/1248501929371521024>) - Map of mountain huts in Bulgaria <https://w.wiki/Mo4> (source <https://twitter.com/valexiev1/status/1247790814811455488>) - Schema examples: pandemic (E184) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E184>, preprint (E185) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E185>, Macromolecular complex (E186) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E186>, hospital (E187) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E187>, 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E188>, clinical trial (E189) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E189>, Lockdown (E190) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E190>, lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E191>, virus taxon (E192) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E192>, Preprint server (E193) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E193>, Complex Portal entity (E194) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E194>, contact tracing app (E195) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E195> Development - Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated ( phab:T248592 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248592>) - Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (phab:T249596 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249596>) - Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (phab:T249595 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249595>) - More work on Automated finding references <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Automated_finding_references_input> - More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties - Bridge: improve the generic error screen (phab:T241126 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241126>) and on save (phab:T248087 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248087>) 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> - 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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