*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
- HackaLOD Online: Estimating the interest of art relationships with
Wikidata - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6egtKzrN6E0>
- Ongoing
- #1Lib1Ref Campaign by IFLA Wikidata Working Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:IFLA_Wikidata_Working_Group/1Lib1Ref>
(May 15 - June 5)
- #1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Gruppo_Wikidata_per_Musei,_Archivi_e_Biblioteche/1Lib1Ref>,
as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 -
June 5); more
than 10k references have already been added (see the dashboard
<https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/GWMAB/1Lib1Ref_2021>
for more details)
- Upcoming
- The next Wikibase live session
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_,May_2021> is 16:00 UTC on
Thursday 27th May 2021 <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1622131236>
(18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your
project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
- *27/05 (17h UTC):* Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Edit-a-thon/Atividades_em_portugu%C3%AAs/Wikidata_Lab_XXIX>
with Ederporto <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ederporto>, Pharos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pharos> e Susannaanas
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Susannaanas> (*in English*), on
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l77bc-rgrc>
- SPARQL queries live on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> and in
French by Vigneron, May 25 at 18:00 CEST
- LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5vVbuTI7PY>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2965557083729449/>,
May 29 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #64
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#64>,
May 30
- LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: The history, present and future of
WBStack & WBaas (Wikibase as a service)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikibase_and_WBStack_Working_Hours>
27
May 2021, 1PM Eastern US
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210527T170000&p1=1440&p2=tz_et&p3=tz_cest&p4=tz_pt>.
Please fill in this form
<https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkf-mupj8iGtFYsNZLq4ZqGeat_oPxb889>
to register!
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- KELM: Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Language Model Pre-training
Corpora
<https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/05/kelm-integrating-knowledge-graphs-with.html>.
Wikidata was used to generate sentences to train a language model.
- An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
<http://ai.stanford.edu/blog/introduction-to-knowledge-graphs/>
- Videos
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 - Main track - Saturday 22
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VujfdGnUnp0>
- Curating bibliographic metadata of scholarly publications: demo of
Wikidata-based Scholia workflows
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weYWFgr1ZNc>
- Demo of Ordia, a Wikidata tool to visualize lexicographic
information from Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur-ehBrWbMU>
- Adding references to Wikidata items, as part of #1Lib1Ref campaign
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8-QAzV1yhk> (in Italian)
Tool of the week
- User:Jon Harald Søby/compact items.css
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by/compact_items.css>
is a stylesheet that shrinks the vertical space items take up on your
screen, reducing the need to scroll to get an overview of an item. (
screenshot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Compact_items_screenshot.png>
)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The prefix [[lexemes:]] allows to link to a search for lexemes on any
Wikimedia wiki. Sample: lexemes:describe
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=describe&ns146=1> (project
chat announcement
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#lexemes:_links_to_lexemes>
).
- The wikidata-lang <https://github.com/inventaire/wikidata-lang> JS
module got a major update, and now makes accessible pre-generated
mappings
<https://github.com/inventaire/wikidata-lang/tree/master/mappings>
between Wikidata ids, Wikimedia language code (P424)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P424>, ISO 639-1 code (P218)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P218>, ISO 639-2 code (P219)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P219>, ISO 639-3 code (P220)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P220>, and ISO 639-6 code (P221)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P221>, that can also be used by
non-JS programs by fetching the desired JSON. Examples:
- mapping of Wikimedia language codes to Wikidata ids
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inventaire/wikidata-lang/master/mappings/wd_id_by_wm_code.json>
- mapping of ISO 639-2 to Wikimedia language codes
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inventaire/wikidata-lang/master/mappings/wm_code_by_iso_639_2_code.json>
- Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved
during the Wikimedia
Hackathon 2021 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2021>:
- User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker> -
Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool,
allowing users
to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons
in bulk
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms: Portuguese modal adverb
<https://lexeme-forms.toolforge.org/template/portuguese-adverb-modal/>
- Deployed support for Portuguese modal adverbs in the Wikidata Lexeme
Forms tool
- User:Jon Harald Søby/addSenseImage.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by/addSenseImage.js>
- User script to add images to sense statements on lexemes
- Wikidata:Tools/Enhance user interface#identifierInput.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Enhance_user_interface#identifierInput.js>
- fixing a bug in IdentifierInput.js gadget for Wikidata to better handle
when a property has no format restraints
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: type of lens
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9597>, oral history at
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9600>, official map URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9601>
- External identifiers: The Criterion Collection film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9584>, Lexikon der
österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9585>, Apple TV movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9586>, Canadian Music Centre
Composer Showcase ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9587>, causesanti.va
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9588>, Muziekencyclopedie
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9589>, North Carolina
session law <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9590>, #SOSBrutalism
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9591>, Online Archive of
California finding aid ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9592>, Museums in Styria ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9593>, Bodleian Archives &
Manuscripts person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9594>, SOR
bird ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9595>, ToateAnimalele
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9596>, Polo bibliografico
della ricerca entity ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9598>,
Polo bibliografico della ricerca author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9599>, OSDN project
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9602>, Scholasticon person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9603>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: music for work
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/music_for_work>,
in sense
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/in_sense>,
academic
calendar type
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/academic_calendar_type>
- External identifiers: Romanistenlexikon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Romanistenlexikon_ID>,
Buzer.de law identification
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Buzer.de_law_identification>,
senato.archivioluce.it person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/senato.archivioluce.it_person_ID>,
Apple TV show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Apple_TV_show_ID>,
Apple TV episode ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Apple_TV_episode_ID>,
Australian Music Centre work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Music_Centre_work_ID>,
fondoambiente.it ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fondoambiente.it_ID>,
Unified book number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Unified_book_number>,
GLEI ELF
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GLEI_ELF>, RBF
event ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RBF_event_ID>,
Poetsgate poet ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Poetsgate_poet_ID>,
Badkartan.se ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Badkartan.se_ID>,
Book Owners Online person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Book_Owners_Online_person_ID>,
ifixit device ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ifixit_device_ID>,
Price One Penny Author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Price_One_Penny_Author_ID>,
Price One Penny Publisher ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Price_One_Penny_Publisher_ID>,
Price One Penny Work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Price_One_Penny_Work_ID>,
Medical Institution Code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Medical_Institution_Code>,
AlternativeTo software ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AlternativeTo_software_ID>,
RoBasketballFed IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RoBasketballFed_IDs>,
Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Online_Coins_of_the_Roman_Empire_ID>,
bathingWaterIdentifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/bathingWaterIdentifier>,
Enciclopedia della Matematica ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Enciclopedia_della_Matematica_ID>
- Query examples:
- Danish idioms <https://w.wiki/3MoA> (Source
<https://twitter.com/dhum2021C/status/1395694739542904832>)
- Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020
<https://w.wiki/3MZJ> (Source
<https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/1395387847075635200>)
- Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title
<https://w.wiki/3NMQ>
- 20th-century UK parliaments with count of father/mother who were MPs
<https://w.wiki/3NNt> (Source
<https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1395140118617395201>)
- The tallest known female politicians <https://w.wiki/3MAF> (Source
<https://twitter.com/perstar/status/1394916645454426112>)
- Writing systems/characters and their year of appearance
<https://w.wiki/3Ls7> (Source
<https://twitter.com/wikimediaid/status/1394632991507324931>)
- Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle <https://w.wiki/3NQN> (Source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P9566#Gallery_of_nocturnal_animals>
)
- Newest database reports: Doctor Who episodes (new series)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/lists/Doctor_Who_episodes_new_series>
Development
- Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare
Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need
fixing
- Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (
phab:T281468 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281468>)
- Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (
phab:T281272 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281272>)
- Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that
Property's constraint (phab:T280650
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280650>)
- Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items
where they shouldn't be (phab:T281587
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281587>)
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>
--
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*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
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