Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Wiki13 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wiki13_2> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: Search Platform Office Hours—August 5th, 2020 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093651.html>. This event will be an occasion to talk about the Query Service. - Upcoming: Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #15, August 8 Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2726704460948047/>, YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVhtTfzrKA> - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #24 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#23>, August 9 Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Wikidata track at the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries: - (30 July) Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics (by User:Gamaliel) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pFTxOoiuYI> - (30 July) Advanced Wikidata Tools and Concepts: More Than Just P's and Q's (by User:Mahir256) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=252mXCjFaCQ> - (30 July) Developing a Wikidata Project (by User:Will (Wiki Ed)) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIS8s2IKM0> - (31 July) VanderBot: Using a Python script to create and update researcher items in Wikidata (by User:Baskaufs) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQ8rJufeOU> - (31 July) No bricks without clay: outcomes from the Stanford Wikidata Working Group (by User:Arcadialib) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDsKvFkdqRU> - (31 July) LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour: Adding References to Wikidata (by User:Chicagohil) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZEwMrUjGg0> - Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14 Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2721331698151990/> YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RGlGntrkTw> - Video: Lexemes in Wikidata - structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFusgeGFWCU> - Video: Wikidata presentation (in Turkish), YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waS0GQK4AsQ> - Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English - Nice article giving some context about why it matters to have Lexemes in Wikidata in many different languages <https://ruder.io/nlp-beyond-english/> Tool of the week - SQID <https://sqid.toolforge.org/#/> allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: height of center of mass <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8497>, road number formatter <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8498>, Vietnamese middle name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8500>, heraldic attitude <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8503>, traffic sign template image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8505> - External identifiers: Tree of Public Interest ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8492>, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8493>, DSSTOX compound identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8494>, South Africa EMIS code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8495>, Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8496>, WISAARD resource ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8499>, Gateway to Research organisation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8501>, SÚKL code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8502>, Science Fiction Awards Database author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8504>, Power plant operating licence (Turkey) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8506> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: certified as <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/certified_as>, number of stages <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_stages>, convergence rate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/convergence_rate>, step count <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/step_count>, Alternative form <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alternative_form>, view <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/view>, version type for works <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/version_type_for_works>, advertisement copy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/advertisement_copy> - External identifiers: LibraryThing series identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LibraryThing_series_identifier>, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swiss_Industrial_Heritage_ID>, TOPCMB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TOPCMB_ID>, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Library_of_Congress_Medium_of_Performance_Thesaurus_ID>, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sports-Reference.com_college_basketball_school_ID>, SAT-matrikulo <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SAT-matrikulo>, Signal number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Signal_number>, BHF author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BHF_author_ID>, BHF magazine ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BHF_magazine_ID>, SPLC Group ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SPLC_Group_ID>, SPLC Individual ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SPLC_Individual_ID>, Open Civic Data Division Identifiers <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Civic_Data_Division_Identifiers>, RKD thesaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RKD_thesaurus_ID>, TCLF ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TCLF_ID>, Presence compositrices ID of composer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Presence_compositrices_ID_of_composer>, Presence compositrices ID of work <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Presence_compositrices_ID_of_work> - Query examples: - Properties and the number of constraint definition statements on them <https://w.wiki/YLS> - there are quite a few with 0 constraint definitions - a graph of MPs and parties <https://w.wiki/YPL> in the Swedish Parliament and with whom they worked together with to create motions 2018 SPOILER <https://w.wiki/YPN>: >95% is just with people in the same party - Wealthiest queer people on Wikidata <https://w.wiki/YdB> (Source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1289909305517305856>) - Bubble chart showing the winners of the FA Cup <https://w.wiki/YRq> (Source) <https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1289639346400878593> - Map of parks in Oslo missing images on Wikidata <https://w.wiki/YNb> (Source <https://twitter.com/Hros/status/1289310813795229696>) - Commons queries: - Orienteerers: tinyurl.com/y25qa8ef (source <https://www.facebook.com/jan.ainali/videos/10218133344154080>, at 53:45) - Animal hugs: tinyurl.com/yykvj26y (source <https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1289857530152103936>) Development - The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them. - Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions). - REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now. - Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks. - Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team. 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> -- Mohammed Sadat *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. 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