*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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