*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New request for comments:
- Separating "citations" from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Separating_%22citations%22_from_all_Wikipedia_articles_by_using_Wikidata>
- IP Masking Engagement
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/IP_Masking_Engagement>
- Closed request for comments:
- Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single
Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Allow_for_Wikidata_items_to_be_created_that_only_link_to_a_single_Wikimedia_Commons_category_(Wikidata_notability_discussion)>.
Outcome --> no change to WD:N
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:N>
- Inverse constraint on cause-and-effect properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Inverse_constraint_on_cause-and-effect_properties>.
Outcome --> constraints were removed
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Ongoing:
- Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for
data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send
e-mail to info[image: at]berd-bw.de
- Upcoming
- SPARQL queries live on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> and in
French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls>
call: Mahir Morshed (A) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mahir256>
will be discussing Lexemes in Wikidata; Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tclUVevCfoJ56uVW_PaEaYlAPhM7dlannNWz7g17HzY/edit>,
May 18th.
- May 21-22, 2021 [1]
<https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/6082feae428df5450011f1a8>
Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston
Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided
exploration
of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and
Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public
event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in
advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman
Collection, and
audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music
performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources,
visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have
questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at
[email protected].
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #63
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#63>,
May 23
- OpenStreetMap Taiwan x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1867> Meetup 2021-06-07 Mozilla
Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61752245>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Papers
- Hiba Arnaout et al, Negative Knowledge for Open-world Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106630248> (full text link
<https://wikiworkshop.org/2021/papers/Wiki_Workshop_2021_paper_3.pdf>)
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #44
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyqK8iihGLw> - YouTube
- Link to all the Wikipedia Weekly Network/Live Wikidata Editing
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Weekly_Network/Live_Wikidata_Editing>
sessions by Ainali <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ainali> and
Abbe98 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Abbe98>
- Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons und Wikipedia bearbeiten 2021/001 (in
German) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wht1sc-fFyw>
- SPARQL #Wikidata retour aux bases #4 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Koop-m4RA>
- How to use Wikidata to list nearby tourist places on a web page (in
French) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CeXNGArs54>
- How to add lexemes to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JHqz2DL7Io>
- How to edit library data in Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WZfr8e1XhI>
- Editing the drawings in the Gambara Bovardi collection at the Levi
Foundation in Venice on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pycIxhbkGWU>
Tool of the week
- User:Lucas Werkmeister/hyphenation-point.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister/hyphenation-point.js>
is a user script that replaces any | characters with U+2027 HYPHENATION
POINT when editing hyphenation snaks.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 20k+ DOIs of Chinese language scientific journal articles have now
been added to WD
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/05/11/adding-dois-to-chinese-scientific-articles-on-wikidata/>,
thanks to scraping->validation->matching->quickstatements workflow built by
Stevenliuyi <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Stevenliuyi> (via a
WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> eScholarship)
- s:Template:Annotate QID
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:Annotate_QID> (currently on en.
& de.Wikisource) allows names and other terms in texts to be semantically
annotated with the equivalent QIDs. sv.Wikisource has a similar template
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/sv:Mall:Samma_som>.
- Template:Item documentation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Item_documentation>
displays Template:Generic
queries for occupations
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Generic_queries_for_occupations>
for items of class occupation (Q12737077) and Template:Generic queries
for filmmakers
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Generic_queries_for_filmmakers>
for items with occupation (P106) filmmaker (Q2526255)
- Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021>
has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Election_Volunteers#1_-_50>
if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a
bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the
movement.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: identifier shared with lexeme
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9531>, audio transcription
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9533>, counterpart position
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9547>, earned run average
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9548>, official podcast
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9549>, diel cycle
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9566>, intended background
color <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9567>, scope note
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9570>
- External identifiers: LMIC musician ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9525>, Scholarpedia article
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9526>, Historic Hawai‘i
Foundation place ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9527>, Digital
Library of Armenian Literature author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9528>, Den Danske Ordbog
article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9529>, Den Danske
Ordbog idiom ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9530>,
OpenCorporates
register ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9532>, Biblioteche
della Custodia di Terra Santa a Gerusalemme ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9534>, IBSF competition ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9535>, SAIA authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9536>, Football Association
of Norway club ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9537>, music
austria ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9538>, Secondary
Archive artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9539>, Editorial
Freelancers Association member ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9540>, MacArthur Fellows
Program ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9541>,
representatives1821.gr
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9542>, Memento Vienna
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9543>, universal
equine life number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9544>, Encyclopedia
of China Online Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9545>, Indiana State
Historical Marker Program ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9546>, Apple Music label ID
(US version) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9550>, bio.se
movie theater ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9551>, MyBIS
protected area ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9552>, Dialnet
thesis ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9553>, hPSCreg
cell line ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9554>, Michigan
State University Library Comic Art Collection Record Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9555>, LTit person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9556>, JECFA number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9557>, Badok ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9558>, Sigla ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9559>, DCinemaToday company
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9560>, CEV coach ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9561>, CEV team ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9562>, Encyclopedia of
Renaissance Philosophy ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9563>, Biographical
Dictionary of Chinese Christianity ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9564>, AdServio ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9565>, PeakVisor peak ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9568>, PeakVisor range ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9569>, PeakVisor area ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9571>, PeakVisor park ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9572>, Anime Filler List
show ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9573>, Anime Filler
List episode slug
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9574>, Australian
Music Centre composer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9575>, Danish 2010 redlist
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9576>, synonymer.se
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9577>, SOUNZ work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9578>, vedidk ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9579>, Microlepidoptera.nl ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9580>, UNITER Award person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9581>, sense on DHLE
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9583>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: infects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/infects>,
setlist
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/setlist>, oral
history at
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/oral_history_at>,
DIVA author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DIVA_author_ID>,
DIVA record ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DIVA_record_ID>,
type of lens
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/type_of_lens>
- External identifiers: ToateAnimalele ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ToateAnimalele_ID>,
Muziekencyclopedie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Muziekencyclopedie_ID>,
CDep.Ro NGO ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CDep.Ro_NGO_ID>,
causesanti.va ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/causesanti.va_ID>,
Adevărul topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Adev%C4%83rul_topic_ID>,
bathingWaterIdentifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/bathingWaterIdentifier>,
Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Scenic_Washington_scenic_drives_and_road_trips_ID>,
Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bodleian_Archives_%26_Manuscripts_ID>,
cIMeC.Ro Museum ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cIMeC.Ro_Museum_ID>,
Newspaper Genre List ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Newspaper_Genre_List_ID>,
Styria Museum ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Styria_Museum_ID>,
What Works Clearinghouse study ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/What_Works_Clearinghouse_study_ID>,
WUA author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WUA_author_ID>,
hush.am person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/hush.am_person_ID>,
Archive Alsharekh person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archive_Alsharekh_person_ID>,
Douban series ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_series_ID>,
RomArchive IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RomArchive_IDs>,
Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moths_and_Butterflies_of_Europe_and_North_Africa_ID>,
Scholasticon person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Scholasticon_person_ID>,
Japan PlayStation Software Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Japan_PlayStation_Software_Database_ID>,
WMF lang code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WMF_lang_code>
- Deleted properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion>: iFixit
repairability score (P7478)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2020/Properties/1#P7478>
- Query examples:
- Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation
categories <https://w.wiki/3Kuh> (Source
<https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1393263549745704960>)
- List of Wikimedia language codes <https://w.wiki/3LHM> (Source
<https://twitter.com/EntityExplosion/status/1393832426606981122>)
- Plant genera that honor women <https://w.wiki/3kue> (Source
<https://twitter.com/dpsSpiders/status/1393262036151308295>)
- Poets whose fathers are lawyers <https://w.wiki/3LgY> (Source
<https://twitter.com/WorldsAspire/status/1393485819386732545>)
- Phrase-book for types of food <https://w.wiki/3Jjy> (mapping
Catalan and English) (Source
<https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1391731710321115138>)
Development
- Fixed the entity usage dashboards
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000160/wikidata-entity-usage?orgId=1&refresh=5m>
that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data
from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (phab:T279762
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279762>)
- Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge
Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (phab:T280779
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280779>)
- Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the
client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (
phab:T280627 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280627>)
- Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding
several conditions with the same Property (phab:T279945
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279945>)
- Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (
phab:T281356 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281356>)
- Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons
but should not (phab:T281587 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281587>)
- Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values
that are defined in the property constraint (phab:T280650
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280650>)
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.
- Near 6,100 items have the Template:Item documentation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Item_documentation> in their
talk page. Help deploy this template.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
--
Mohammed Sadat
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