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

   - Open request for adminship: Hasley
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Hasley>
   (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)

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

   - Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2020-10-27>
   )
   - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
   call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata
   and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
   
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/16OJ5cTXZ47z3_M9bsIjmXO_kpjpQujtoFTEKe6Du3RY/edit>
   - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#37>,
   November 8
   - Upcoming: live SPARQL queries <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> on Twitch
   and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET

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

   - Wikidata is eight years old - an interview with product manager Lydia
   Pintscher
   
<https://blog.wikimedia.de/2020/10/28/wikidata-wird-acht-jahre-alt-ein-interview-mit-produktmanagerin-lydia-pintscher/>
   (in German), by Elisabeth Giesemann
   - Wikidata 8th birthday, Message from the development team
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Presents#Message_from_the_development_team>
   - Happy 8th birthday, Wikidata! (8 reasons why Wikidata is great)
   <https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/10/29/happy-8th-birthday-wikidata/>, by
   Will Kent
   - Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!
   
<https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/10/happy-eighth-birthday-wikidata.html>,
   by Stella Wisdom
   - Tree networks, national history and open mountains of data - knowledge
   through node formation with Wikidata for the 8th
   <https://saxorum.hypotheses.org/5279>, by Jens Bemme
   - Video: Why is Wikidata important?
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O_Y0cXwZto> (Wikidata birthday event -
   in Spanish)
   - SPARQL in the shadow of Structured Data on Commons
   
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/10/29/sparql-in-the-shadow-of-structured-data-on-commons/>,
   by Zbyszko Papierski
   - Answers to curious questions and where to find them: here's how to
   query wikidata with SPARQL
   
<https://synapta.it/blog/risposte-a-domande-curiose-e-dove-trovarle-ecco-come-interrogare-wikidata-con-sparql/>,
   by Lianna D'amato
   - CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia
   patch
   
<https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2020/11/cito-updates-2-annotation-migration-to.html>,
   by Egon Willighagen
   - Video: Wikidata+OpenStreetMaps talk and discussion
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbTCq7r8SQg>
   - Video: Wikidata – what libraries need to know about wikidata -
   Kohacon20 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czZA1T1t8wk>, by David Nind
   - Video: Visualizing the neuroscience research ecosystem via Wikidata
   Scholia <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPMoj7uMXRU>, by Daniel Mietchen
   - Video: Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbowsw_XT-Q> (in Indonesian)
   - All videos from the *WikiCite 2020 Virtual Conference
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/2020_Virtual_conference>* are
   now on Commons, and embedded in the program page on Meta.

This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7
languages.1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince
the conference began last Monday. Tool of the week

   - reCH <https://pltools.toolforge.org/rech/> is a Wikidata
   anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Wikidata Eighth Birthday Presents
      - All recordings of Wikidata Labs are now available on Wikimedia
      Commons
      <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_Labs_videos>
      (Wiki Movimento Brasil)
      - Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial website
      <https://wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org/> – a new user-friendly tutorial
      to querying Wikidata (Wikimedia Israel)
      - Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website
      <https://wikibibliotecas.colmex.mx/items/browse?tags=Wikidata> – a
      brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital
collection of
      Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca
Daniel Cosío
      Villegas, Mexico)
      - Happy Birthday
      <https://twitter.com/SemanticMW/status/1321482146305945600?s=20>
from Semantic
      MediaWiki <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org>
      - Wikidata Lexeme Forms ?language_code feature: announcement tweet
      <https://twitter.com/LucasWerkmeistr/status/1321626949492613122>
and documentation
      edit
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Diff/1299258986/1299263735>
      - Automated finding references: dump
      
<https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/datasets/periodic/wikidata-potential-references/>
      and dashboard <https://wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/WD_GameReferenceHunt>
      (Wikidata development team - announcement
      <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-October/014374.html>
      )
      - Better Item quality judgments from ORES
      <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-October/014375.html>
      (Wikidata development team)
      - Announcement of the distributed WikidataCon 2021
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021> (Wikidata
      development team - announcement
      <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-October/014376.html>
      )
      - Results of Sum of all Indian paintings datathon
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India/Datathon/Sum_of_all_Indian_paintings/birthday_present>
      organized by WikiProject India
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:IND>.
      - Happy birthday Wikidata! In the Abstract Wikipedia Updates
      (2020-10-29)
      <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2020-10-29>
      by the project team, speaking about the future integration with Wikidata.
      - Knowledge Grapher filmmaker mode
      <https://knowledgegrapher.toolforge.org/filmmaker> can visually
      display all the films and cast members of an individual director or
      producer.
      - User:Teester/EntityShape.js
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Teester/EntityShape.js> - a
      userscript to show how an item conforms to an entityschema
   - The next WikidataCon will take place on 29-30-31 October 2021, in a
   distributed format
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-October/014376.html>.
   Follow this page to keep up to date: WikidataCon 2021
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021>.
   - The Election Tracker
   <https://datastory.org/en/data-stories/election-tracker>, uses Wikidata
   to keep track of upcoming national elections around the world.
   - Accepted published papers for the Wikidata Workshop on Monday, 02.11
   are now available online wikidataworkshop.github.io
   - witches.is.ed.ac.uk shows the geographical residence location for
   accused witches in Scotland.

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: die axis
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8751>, annual average daily
      traffic <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8753>, maximum
      current <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8757>
      - External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8748>, Dicionário de
      Historiadores Portugueses ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8749>, Unione Romana
      Biblioteche Scientifiche ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8750>, Kramerius of Moravian
      Library UUID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8752>,
OpenStreetMap
      numeric user ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8754>, VA
      facility ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8755>,
Sports-Reference.com
      college basketball box score ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8756>, Persée article ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8758>, Polski Słownik
      Judaistyczny ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8759>, Base
      constructions bibliothèques ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8760>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: Matrix room
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Matrix_room>,
      regex (lang)
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/regex_(lang)>,
      Ukrainian romanization
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ukrainian_romanization>,
      Power consumption index, Heating energy consumption index
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Power_consumption_index,_Heating_energy_consumption_index>,
      Business Number (Canada)
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Business_Number_(Canada)>,
      notable tv series
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/notable_tv_series>,
      number of points or goals attempted
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_points_or_goals_attempted>
      - External identifiers: Royal Horticultural Society plant ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Royal_Horticultural_Society_plant_ID>,
      EGAFD ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EGAFD_ID>, NCAA
      Statistics coach ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCAA_Statistics_coach_ID>,
      NCAA school code
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCAA_school_code>,
      NCAA Statistics team season ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCAA_Statistics_team_season_ID>,
      Twitch team ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Twitch_team_ID>,
      Twitch tag ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Twitch_tag_ID>,
      FINA Wiki ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FINA_Wiki_ID>,
      All the Tropes identifier
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/All_the_Tropes_identifier>,
      MTMT journal ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MTMT_journal_ID>,
      UAF person ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UAF_person_ID>,
      Soccerway stadium ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Soccerway_stadium_ID>,
      NCAA Statistics player ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCAA_Statistics_player_ID>,
      Portuguese Football Federation ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Portuguese_Football_Federation_ID>,
      Wolfram language WordData sense
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wolfram_language_WordData_sense>,
      Namuwiki
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Namuwiki>
   - Query examples:
      - Movies by rate of actors who studied at RADA (When distribution has
      at last 5 actors) <https://w.wiki/jGN>
      - Central libraries in California linked to their branch library
      <https://w.wiki/8WU>
      - Writers in the SIEFAR dictionary with a portrait in Wikimedia
      Commons <https://w.wiki/jZF> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/Georgele2etexte/status/1322471301664092161>)
      - Place and date of birth of people buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
      (one color per century of birth) <https://w.wiki/VLM> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1322265164088049668>)
      - Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician
      ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined)
      <https://w.wiki/jPA> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/watty62/status/1321806989861769216>)
      - Things Donald Trump and others own / have owned <https://w.wiki/jbE>
      (Source <https://twitter.com/inforapid/status/1321799945612070913>)
      - Graveplots by gender in Père Lachaise Cemetery <https://w.wiki/L6k>
      (Source <https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1322264888463548417>)
      - Co-authorship between researchers from National University of La
      Plata <https://w.wiki/AMx> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/patriciolorente/status/1321789489828798467>)
      - Number of Harvard Law graduates dead by year between 1850 and 1950
      <https://w.wiki/j6o> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/HanleyWill/status/1321285757697482753>)
      - Visualization of the works of Charles Heaphy <https://w.wiki/isL> (
      Source
      <https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1320795910696124417>)
      - Identifiers present on the item for Penelope Cruz (or other movie
      people), but not on the item for Sean Connery <https://w.wiki/jpa>
      - Map of places of birth of people with an identifier
      Inter-university Health Library in Wikidata colored by century of birth
      <https://w.wiki/jpd> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/belett/status/1323238160759967744>)
      - Map of the trees recorded in OSM with protection status.
      
<https://sophox.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ftree%20%3Ftaxon%20%3FtaxonLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20trees%20and%20their%20taxa%0A%20%20%3Ftree%20osmt%3Anatural%20%22tree%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%28osmt%3Agenus%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Aspecies%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Ataxon%3Awikidata%29%20%3Ftaxon%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%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%20Taxa%20categorized%20as%20threatened%20on%20the%20IUCN%20Red%20List%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%28%3Fstatus%20%3Flayer%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ278113%20%22Vulnerable%20%28VU%29%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ11394%20%22Endangered%20%28EN%29%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%28wd%3AQ219127%20%22Critically%20endangered%20%28CR%29%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP141%20%3Fstatus.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20English%20common%20name%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP1843%20%3FtaxonLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FtaxonLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D>
      OSM/Wikidata query Source
      <https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1316455785854050306>
   - Newest WikiProjects
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
   Wikiproject European Film Awards
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_European_Film_Awards>
   - Newest database reports: Sean Connery filmography
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/Filmography/Sean_Connery>

Development

   - Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting
   Lexemes (phab:T263435 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263435>)
   - Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (phab:T264883
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264883>)
   - Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype
   mathematical formula (phab:T266673
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266673>)
   - The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and
   show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system
   <https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org/>.

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.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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