*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: Editing contest - Members of the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ghana/Parliament_of_Ghana/Members_of_the_3rd_Parliament_of_the_4th_Republic_of_Ghana/Contest>. By Global Open Initiative <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Open_Initiative> - YouTube (1) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg9XzHDbPPw>, (2) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYLuGs9X8r4> - Upcoming: live SPARQL queries <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 1 at 18:00 CEST - Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, September 2nd at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT). Etherpad <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours>, Google Meet <https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww>. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service. - Upcoming: Wikidata birthday events organizers call <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise#Connect_with_other_organizers>, September 2nd at 19:00 CEST. - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #28 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#28>, September 6 - Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18 Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2751141135171046/>, YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NgCzu2lX9w>, September 5 at 19.00 UTC - Upcoming: Onam label-a-thon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Kerala/Events/ONAM_2020> (September 1st and 2nd): Online label-a-thon to improve Wikidata items related to Kerala and Malayalam on this Onam holidays. Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Video: How to use the Wikidata Query Service <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXdjxnjCvng>, by Dr Chris Langley - Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2744955582456268/>, YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDxz652CgwY> - Video: Creating a Wikidata item (in Spanish) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdMKUFcx0N8> - WikiCite and bibliographic data on Wikidata, how to contribute and how to view it with Scholia (in Spanish) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLs80LjfriI> - Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-08-30/Special_report> - article by Lydia Pintscher in the *Wikipedia Signpost* Tool of the week - Wikidata for Firefox <https://github.com/fuddl/wd> is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Entity Explosion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Entity_Explosion>, the browser add-on for Chrome <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/entity-explosion/bbcffeclligkmfiocanodamdjclgejcn> is now also available for Firefox <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/entity-explosion/>. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page. - WMF will be performing data center maintenance operations by switching all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2020-August/002344.html>. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for up to an hour from 14:00 UTC <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200901T14> - The Wikidata community now has a channel on the newly-established Wikimedia Chat service <https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/wikidata>. - reconciler <https://github.com/jvfe/reconciler>, a Python wrapper for Open Refine <https://openrefine.org/>'s API to reconcile pandas data frames with Wikidata items. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: Butcher tableau <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8558>, front and back matter <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8570>, external auditor <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8571> - External identifiers: edukado.net Panteono ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8557>, Chrome Webstore extension ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8559>, PARADISEC Catalog <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8560>, NPR station ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8561>, JSTOR publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8562>, Emporis company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8563>, Art Bonus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8564>, British Museum object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8565>, monumenta.ch ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8566>, The Living New Deal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8567>, Jewish Virtual Library person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8568>, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8569>, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8572> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: parent superproperty <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/parent_superproperty>, publisher of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/publisher_of>, performed at <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/performed_at>, Barcelona Public art identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Barcelona_Public_art_identifier>, opening hours (v.3) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/opening_hours_(v.3)>, Fanbase name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fanbase_name>, aerial view <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/aerial_view>, ground clearance <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ground_clearance>, axle track <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/axle_track>, placeholder text element ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/placeholder_text_element_ID>, displacement <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/displacement>, Deutsche Bahn station abbreviation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Deutsche_Bahn_station_abbreviation>, entry in abbreviations table <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/entry_in_abbreviations_table>, Liturgical rank <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Liturgical_rank> - External identifiers: NHK Archives Portal person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NHK_Archives_Portal_person_ID>, EPA Ecoregion Level 1 Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_Ecoregion_Level_1_Code>, EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_Ecoregion_Level_2_Code>, EPA Ecoregion Level 3 Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_Ecoregion_Level_3_Code>, EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_Ecoregion_US_Level_3_Code>, EPA Ecoregion US Level 4 Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_Ecoregion_US_Level_4_Code>, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopaedia_of_Architects,_Vienna_1770%E2%80%931945>, Firefox add-on ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Firefox_add-on_ID>, London Stock Exchange company <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/London_Stock_Exchange_company>, Fatcat ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fatcat_ID>, NDL law ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NDL_law_ID>, e-Gov law ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/e-Gov_law_ID>, OFAC sanction ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OFAC_sanction_ID>, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/British_and_Irish_Furniture_Makers_Online_ID>, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Library_of_Congress_Children%27s_Subject_Headings_ID>, Occupational Outlook Handbook ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Occupational_Outlook_Handbook_ID>, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Regesta_Ecclesiastica_Salisburgensia_ID>, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wisconsin_Historical_Society_NRHP_ID>, YUAG ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/YUAG_ID>, Grove Music Online ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Grove_Music_Online_ID>, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe_person_ID>, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/McClintock_and_Strong_Biblical_Cyclopedia_ID>, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dostoyevsky_and_His_Entourage_ID> - Query examples: - Map of cities and towns in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area <https://sophox.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3FosmLabel%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2a%20before%20querying%20the%20service.%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Cities%20and%20towns%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fcities%20%7B%20wd%3AQ515%20wd%3AQ3957%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwd%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fcities%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20That%20lie%20within%20parts%20of%20the%20San%20Jose%E2%80%93San%20Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland%20combined%20statistical%20area%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP131%2a%2Fwdt%3AP361%2B%20wd%3AQ7413927.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20these%20places%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Awikidata%20%3Fwd%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20And%20their%20coordinates%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20place%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Aname%20%3FosmLabel%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D> - OSM/Wikidata query - Map of structures that have won architectural awards <https://sophox.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3Fname%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2A%20before%20querying%20the%20service.%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Architectural%20structures%20that%20won%20awards%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwd%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2A%20wd%3AQ811979%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP166%20%3Faward.%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Where%20the%20awards%20are%20architectural%20awards%0A%20%20%20%20%3Faward%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1829324.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20award%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Faward%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flayer.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Flayer%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20those%20structures%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Awikidata%20%3Fwd.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20coordinates%20to%20display%20on%20a%20map%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20structure%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Aname%20%3Fname%20%7D%0A%7D> - OSM/Wikidata query - Birth places of Buffalo Sabres players <https://w.wiki/QZh> (Source <https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1299236687789338626>) - Timeline of all of Bird’s tunes <https://w.wiki/aZR> (Source <https://twitter.com/watty62/status/1299275485306933248>) - Approximate proportion of people called "John" in any given UK Parliament since 1372 <https://w.wiki/aa5> (Source <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1299289778194714625>) - People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade of birth <https://w.wiki/ao9> (Source <https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1300028281333444610>) - Location of decommissioned aircraft <https://sophox.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3FmakeLabel%20%3FmodelLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2a%20before%20querying%20the%20service.%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20decommissioned%20aircraft%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Ahistoric%20%22aircraft%22.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20make%20and%2For%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fosm%20%28osmt%3Amanufacturer%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Aaircraft%3Amodel%3Awikidata%29%20%3FmakeModel.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%20the%20make%2Fmodel%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20If%20it%E2%80%99s%20a%20model%2C%20get%20the%20make%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ76920834%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP176%20%3Fmake.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmodel%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20model%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmodel%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmodelLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmodelLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20A%20make%20must%20be%20a%20business%20to%20distinguish%20it%20from%20a%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmake%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Or%20it%20must%20be%20part%20of%20an%20industry%20%28e.g.%2C%20Wright%20Brothers%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20%28wdt%3AP106%7Cwdt%3AP452%29%20%5B%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmake%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20manufacturer%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmake%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmakeLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmakeLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FmakeLabel%2C%20%22Unknown%22%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20coordinates%20to%20display%20on%20a%20map%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3FmakeLabel%29> - OSM/Wikidata query (Source <https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/1298521023604809729>) - Railway network in Czechia <https://w.wiki/at6> (Source <https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1300428160715063296>) - People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade (of birth) <https://w.wiki/ao9> (Source) <https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1300028281333444610> - List of locations of Woolf's books <https://w.wiki/acV> (Source) <https://twitter.com/brimwats/status/1299385979069816833> Development - Working on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well - Polishing remaining pieces of the first version of Federated Properties to make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in other Wikibase instances - Continuing to work on improving the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item to make it more accurate 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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