User talk:JarrahTree/Archive 62
Thanks for your welcome message, it looks like the Wikipedia page on me has been vandalised a couple of times, but strangely I can’t find any editing history that points to which user did it. Any idea as to how to check?
Wikidata weekly summary #408
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7th, 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+2) in the Wikidata Telegram group
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #6, March 29
- Postponed: Wikimania Bangkok is postponed until 2021
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences, Andra Waagmeester et.al.
- Tensor Decompositions for Temporal Knowledge Base Completion ("Additionally, we propose a new dataset for knowledge base completion constructed from Wikidata ... for evaluating temporal and non-temporal link prediction methods.")
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A task force is formed under WikiProject India to work on 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (Q84055514)
- Important for tool maintainers: last steps of wb_terms table migration (wb_terms is not updated anymore and will be renamed next week)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: food energy, quantity symbol, depicted format, electron configuration, endorsed by, ordered by, research subject recruitment status, footedness, IM channel, number of recoveries, number of clinical tests
- External identifiers: FandangoNow ID, CVR person ID, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, Filmfront film ID, stargate-wiki.de article, AncientFaces person ID, Decine21 ID, ACM Conference ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, ExoticA ID, Hrvatska enciklopedija ID, ACM Journal ID, Kanopy ID, Mirabile author ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Mirabile saint ID, Mirabile title ID, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, Treccani Dizionario di Filosofia ID, Colecovision Zone ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, Gry Online company ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Haz-Map ID, Social Security Death Index entry, ColecoVision.dk ID, US Bureau of Prisons Inmate Register Number, Google Scholar case ID, Adventure Games series ID, Trakt.tv ID, Compendium heroicum ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development English ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: tilt, Dog and cat breed registries, terminology, perpetrator, virtual tour, victims, décès, subpopulation 2, Institutionskennzeichen (IK), ODMP person ID, is metaclass for, correct spelling
- External identifiers: Unified registration number, AGROVOC ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, PIV Online ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Curran Index Contributor ID, Curran Index Periodical ID, Artprice artist ID, Reta Vortaro, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, identifiant co-optimus.com, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, CIRIS author ID, motorsportstats.com series, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com team ID, CAB ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, curlingzone.com ID, Visit Tuscany ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Federated properties: set up a test system (phab:T247734)
- ore work on search for remote properties (phab:T246349)
- Bridge: more work on messages about the license (phab:T238728)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Pipe band (and bagpipe) notability
[edit]Hi, thought you might be interested in helping work out a policy for notability in piping at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bagpipes#Notability_guidelines? It seems that there can be quite different understandings of what constitutes notability, especially as a lot of piping coverage is well outside of mainstream media. There are quite a few articles that exist that I suspect are not notable - User:Ostrichyearning3/nn - and many many more notable articles that do not exist yet. But would be useful if there was a clear distinction! best, Ostrichyearning3 (talk) 12:00, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for welcome msg
[edit]Thank you for recommending sources. Meme Lord 519 (talk) 09:24, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #409
[edit]- Events
- Today: Edit tools for Wikidata, on-line workshop in Polish, access link, March 30, 17:00 GMT (7pm Warsaw time)
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #7, April 5
- Upcoming: Wikidata for beginners, April 1
- Upcoming: Wiki Workshop, researchers forum (fully remote), on April 21. More information, registration
- Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
- Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Video: How can Wikimedia projects help fight the pandemic, by Susanna Ånäs
- Investigating Software Usage in the Social Sciences: A Knowledge Graph Approach ("we linked the entities of the knowledge graph to other knowledge bases such as the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, the Software Ontology, and Wikidata")
- Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (free eBook)
- Video: Live SPARQL editing in French by Vigneron
- Video: Live editing in English by Ainali and Abbe98: Youtube, Twitch, Periscope, Facebook
- Tool of the week
- IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- About Wikidata dumps:
- No second XML dump in March
- RDF and JSON dumps generation is broken (no new dump since March 11th, fix in progress)
- Wikidata knowledge imbalance dashboard - Alpha release
- Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library and would like to work together with WikiCite
- wb_terms migration: a temporary table has been created, the current wb_terms table will be emptied on April 6th (more details)
- About Wikidata dumps:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: generational suffix, LiverTox likelihood score, size designation, perpetrator, victim
- External identifiers: IGCD game ID, Kickstarter project ID, Gram.pl game ID, Kooora/Goalzz player ID, RFI Musique artist ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Nobel Laureate API ID, VGMRips system ID, VGMRips company ID, GameRevolution game ID, PIV Online ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, VcBA ID, m3db.com film ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, donated to, number of hospitalized cases, number of home cases, ARK formatter, Filceolaire, viability on surface, entry receptor, birth rate
- External identifiers: SAN archive producer ID, SAR ancestor ID, National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, identifiant Geneastar, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, Women of Scotland ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, World Biographical Information System ID, COTREX trail ID, Natural Atlas ID, Apache Project ID, Amazon Prime Video ID, Archival Resource Key, UM-BBD compound ID, BitterDB Compound ID, FooDB compound ID, ModelSEED compound ID, Hopital.fr ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, FHF hospital group ID, FHF establishment ID, Ameli ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, Elephind.com, What Do They Know organisation ID, Papers Past, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, I-Revues ID, BDSP ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps (phab:T248612)
- Migrate to and read from new store for item terms (phab:T219123)
- Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
- Bridge: improve the rendering of references (phab:T238661)
- More work on editing references (phab:T240333)
- Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
- More research on suggesting references
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Create a scraper for Mix'n'match from the catalogue list.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Thank you for messaging me (March 31, 2020)
[edit]Thank you for messaging me but i found this NON-LOGIN user Special:Contributions/139.192.224.172 keep spreading not-accurate data and low quality picture and information without references, as you can check (Check here!) all of his/her editing is very weird and not left any actual and legitimate references uses?
and she/he already got mentioned before for vandalizing so many pages. so that's why im reverting the page to the previous one before he/she edit it without legitimate sources.
conclusion: that might causing she/he to be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Srivijaya, East Java, Jambi, Riau and further more on this -->>> (Check here!). Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 12:18, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
- If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits referred to above, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so that you can avoid further irrelevant notices.
Ok I move the section already at this very bottom one. But I think I will stop contributing and editing on those pages prevent to stop edit war, I let you to fix this. I also don't know how to stop her/him spreading fake informations, the way she/he reverting another users edits also seems very rude, changing so many informations not based on legitimate references, thats should be fixed as soon as possible. You can check all of his editing not only on the Pages of Provinces in Indonesia but also another subject pages like Foods, she/he changes so many informations without any references that might be HOAX. I hope you can check and fix this... -->>> (Check here!)
Thank You before, I hope you can finish this case... Goodluck.. I Nyoman Gede Anila - (talk) I Nyoman Gede Anila
Manipulation my massage
[edit]User I Nyoman Gede Anila. has changed the "warning" message intentionally to me. please look at history Talk page thank you
changed the warning message March 23 from user Vif12vf
jkrn111 categorization
[edit]Hello, Do I have to ask you to allow my every categorization ? No problem. Please let me know. Have a nice day ! (Jkrn111 (talk) 12:53, 1 April 2020 (UTC)).
jkrn111 edit summaries
[edit]From now, My every edit will have a summary. (Jkrn111 (talk) 12:57, 1 April 2020 (UTC)). i am sorry, you felt extraordinarily frustrated. It must not happen again. I will try. My friend, have a nice day. (Jkrn111 (talk) 18:47, 1 April 2020 (UTC)).
March 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
[edit]- March 2020—Issue 012
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Rottnest Island
[edit]I would like your expert opinion on something; What LGA does Rottnest Island belong to? It seems to be the City of Cockburn, according to Wikipedia. I can't find confirmation for this on either the City of Cockburn website nor the Rottnest Island one. I'm asking because I'm wondering what area the 22 State Register of Heritage Places fall under. Inherit lists the LGA as just Rottnest. Calistemon (talk) 23:20, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
- I have created it's own entry on the Heritage template for now as Islands. Calistemon (talk) 01:35, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
- Given what a popular place the island is I thought we would have lots of photos of heritage buildings for List of State Register of Heritage Places on Rottnest Island but that isn't the case! One day, when we can go there again, I might try to rectify this. Calistemon (talk) 04:11, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #410
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: Should we create new properties for beaches?
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata office hour, April 7th at 18:00 UTC+2, on the Wikidata Telegram channel
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Google Sheets add-on, Author Disambiguator Tool, 07 April. Agenda
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, April 8 at 20:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #8, April 12
- Upcoming: Wikidata for Beginners (German, Remoted via Zoom), May 3
- Ongoing: WikiGap Challenge until April 8th
- Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Signpost special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters — with mentions of COVID-related Wikidata activities
- Denny Vrandecic published a proposal that suggests some extensions to Wikidata, and also a wholly new project, Wikilambda.
- ScienceGuide's The COVID-19 pandemic stresses the societal importance of open science mentions WikiProject COVID-19
- SPARC*Europe mentions the WikiProject COVID-19 in Overnight, COVID-19 heightens the need for Open Science post
- Video: Live SPARQL queries in English by WikidataFacts
- Video: Live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron
- Tool of the week
- Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool: ShExStatements to generate Shape Expressions from CSV (more details)
- Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
- New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
- schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
- Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
- wb_terms table will be emptied today
- Your feedback is welcome on two projects to improve the queries and lists workflows
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: organized response related to outbreak, Latvian transcription, country of registry, number of hospitalized cases, ARK formatter, symbol of
- External identifiers: m3db.com person ID, Filmfront person ID, SIUSA archive conservator ID, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, RPGamer game ID, DR music artist ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, ELAR ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Women of Scotland memorial ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Latvian unified registration number, Amazon Prime Video ID, VGMRips composer ID, Apache Project ID, coinop.org game ID, Glassdoor company ID, AGROVOC ID, Ameli ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, CIRIS author ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, ToposText place ID, ToposText person ID, ToposText work ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: located in the statistical territorial entity, formatter for periodical, CSS Color name
- External identifiers: JournalTOCs ID, EZB ID, MUSE article ID, Paperity journal ID, Paperity article ID, Flora del Cono Sur Darwinion, MxM xref, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, TED speaker numeric ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board)
- Bridge: improve rendering of references (phab:T238661)
- Only send incremental changes through the API (phab:T230343)
- Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata (phab:T240333)
- Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (phab:T228857)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
State Register
[edit]I'm surprised how many State Registered places have an article! Over 300! Time to break the category down into LGAs, like at commons? What do you think? Calistemon (talk) 10:05, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
- I have started breaking the category down. See Category:State Register of Heritage Places by local government area. It might take aw while! Calistemon (talk) 06:13, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
- No, I'm here in Perth, got back after two weeks up in the Pilbara this morning on what, if things go bad, be one of the last Virgin Australia flights going! Calistemon (talk) 11:21, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: March 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #411
[edit]- Discussions
- CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine
- Events
- Ongoing: Wikidata Lab XXII on the Wikidata Wikiproject COVID-19, April 14, 1pm UTC, remote, in English. Event page
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday April 14 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #9, April 19
- Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7, on Telegram. Notes of the discussion
- Past: Wikidata topic at the virtual biohackathon. Mid-term updates final presentations (Wikidata report starts at 1:17:40)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (new preprint about virus info (strains, genes, proteins), ShEx, and SPARQL)
- Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies ("We look at the coverage of two biomedical ontologies focusing on diseases with respect to Wikidata for 9 European languages")
- Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus
- Video: Editing Wikidata and creating a property proposal: YouTube, Facebook, Periscope
- Tool of the week
- COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A database breakage, also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6, 11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However, issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur.
- You're welcome to give feedback on ideas of improvements for the Query Service interface
- The development team is working on automated finding of references, feel free to give feedback on the first batch
- ZFOURGE UDS 19909 (Q90000000) - our ninety-millionth item, about a galaxy - was created on 10 April.
- For the first time, a Wikipedia list article populated entirely from Wikidata, and built using Listeria, has been granted "featured" status, on the Portuguese Wikipedia (video on YouTube).
- ListeriaBot blocked pending review on English Wikipedia.
- A Telegram group has been created for discussions about Wikidata in German
- Comment on QID Emoji proposal until April 20th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: donations, network bands, bus, recommended unit of measurement, CSS color keyword
- External identifiers: BDSP ID, CAB ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, ScreenScraper group ID, The Cover Project game ID, FHF establishment ID, FHF hospital group ID, elibrary.ru person ID, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, WBIS ID, Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Visit Tuscany ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, Curran Index contributor ID, ODMP person ID, GameTDB game ID, Elephind.com ID, EZB ID, GameReactor game ID, Archival Resource Key, EcuRed article, Geneastar person ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, I-Revues ID, JournalTOCs ID, MUSE article ID, NASA active astronaut ID - DO NOT USE, Paperity article ID, Paperity journal ID, SAN archive producer ID, SOCAN work number, Papers Past ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, COTREX trail ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: ACUM work ID, appendix, Wikisource index page, Unicode character, Arlington Cemetery person ID, Eigentümerhistorie, quantification instruction, language level, Included in curricula, Order number, ShEx available at URL, dialect of (computer language), file page offset, station service succession
- External identifiers: Seoul Information Disclosure Plaza management number, Wikiparques ID, NKAA ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Provenio ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, RPPS ID, South African Company Registration Number, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, SNCF station identifier, Benerail station identifier, Indian Railways train number, Soccerdonna coach ID, DLL Catalog IDs, MDN, Psocodea Species File ID, Slovak Registration ID, Swedish Glaciers, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, CPAN person, FactGrid item ID, FactGrid property ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID
- Query examples:
- Schema examples: pandemic (E184), preprint (E185), Macromolecular complex (E186), hospital (E187), 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188), clinical trial (E189), Lockdown (E190), lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191), virus taxon (E192), Preprint server (E193), Complex Portal entity (E194), contact tracing app (E195)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (phab:T248592)
- Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (phab:T249596)
- Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (phab:T249595)
- More work on Automated finding references
- More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties
- Bridge: improve the generic error screen (phab:T241126) and on save (phab:T248087)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #412
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: How to model curricula and link them to educational resources?, Need comment on English item label and foreign language proper noun, Merging 2 items
- Ongoing CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine
- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Schemas, 21 April. Agenda
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #10, April 26
- Past Wikidata Lab XXII - Wikiproject COVID-19 (video in English)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic (Wikidata being also mentioned as a source for the research)
- Videos:
- Tool of the week
- Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- First step of blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model: introducing the new function
wikibase:isSomeValue()
- The tool wikidata-filter was renamed wikibase-dump-filter, to better reflect that it can be used with dumps from any Wikibase instance
- LexData – a python library to edit Lexicographical data – has been released in a major new version.
- The ImageHeader gadget, which had been broken since February, was fixed.
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Hebrew nouns
- New tool: Anagram generator based on Wikidata names
- First step of blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model: introducing the new function
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: eligible award recipient
- External identifiers: Wikiparques ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, FooDB compound ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, HASC
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IDU general item ID, CONI honoured ID, parliament seats, electoral system, same transportation stop on the other side of the road, string instrument handedness, Canadiana Name Authorities in French ID, defines curriculum, clinitalregister.eu
- External identifiers: Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, DPVweb ID, IDU theatre ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, ROKPS ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, Diels-Kranz ID, IDU theatre name ID (2), Oregon Historic Sites Database ID, Infames Romani ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Heritage Gateway ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, identifiant monument MémorialGenWeb, Extratime.ie player ID, DGHS facility code, WikiTrek ID, Itch.io developper profile
- Deleted properties: P134 (has dialect), P1432 (B-side)
- Query examples:
- Women with cats in paintings (Source)
- Films by Peter Mettler available free on VOD (Source)
- Films broadcast on VOD by artfilm.ch sorted by Director and Date (Source)
- Swiss films listed by date and duration per minutes (Source)
- Counties in England (Source)
- Programming Languages, Year of creation and Image of inventor(Source)
- Map of Antonine Wall items on Wikidata (Source)
- Map of Hospitals in Buenos Aires on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
- Map of Michelin starred restaurants in Switzerland (Source)
- English civil parishes on Wikidata with OSM relation ID (Source)
- Collections in Louvre with an image on Wikimedia Commons (Source)
- Chief Mousers(Source)
- Books about Semantics (Source)
- Danish COVID-19 research projects(Source)
- Newest database reports: Lincoln (disambiguation page)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
- try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
- allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
- investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
- com up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
- identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
- create design system components to continue improving consistency
- Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Thanks for your welcome message
[edit]It appears that someone has been vandalising the Wikipedia page on me, but the edit history doesn’t show the trolling. Any idea how to identify the offender? Adrian Vickers (talk) 08:27, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #413
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: Udder balm
- CheckUser nomination: علاء
- Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #11, May 3
- Upcoming: Live editing of Wikidata, May 2 18:00 (UTC) YouTube, Facebook
- Tool of the week
- zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata now includes more than seven million people (it has doubled since July 2017), also: project chat discussion
- Nobelprize.org has now redesigned its website so that Wikipedia can link to it easier using the Wikidata Property Nobel Laureate API ID (P8024) (more information)
- The use of Listeria to generate basic charts (pie, area, line, bar) with d:Template:Graph:Chart, see d:Template:Wikidata list#Charts
- Mohammed Sadat joined the Wikidata team as community communications manager for Wikidata and Wikibase
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: tournament format, dialect of computer language, located in the statistical territorial entity
- External identifiers: ModelSEED compound ID, UM-BBD compound ID, DLL Catalog author ID, DLL Catalog work ID, CPAN author ID, Fandango performer ID, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, IDU theatre company ID, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID, Swedish Glaciers ID, Soccerdonna coach ID, Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, Moravian Lives ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com series ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, SAR ancestor ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, Psocodea Species File ID, SkiMo Stats ID, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, re:publica speaker ID, Provenio ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: nerve origin, 法令番号, interpretation, DoME exhibition ID
- External identifiers: dbchgk, COVIDWHO ID, History Colorado ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID, Epistemonikos ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, Dart thesis, DPE school code
- Query examples:
- Pairs of lakes named after a couple
- The longest river that feeds into another river (Source)
- Longest rivers that do not feed into a sea or ocean (Source)
- Map showing things in Wikidata that are located on or next to the River Thames (Source)
- Defining formulas of physical and other quantities (Source)
- TreeMap visualising the 12 times table (Source)
- Map of the "Leipzig University Villages" (Source)
- There are now more than 7 million people on Wikidata (Source)
- Recently published works on COVID-19 (Source)
- Welsh hospitals, health centres, doctors surgeries and temporary Covid19 hospitals (Source)
- Newest database reports: measures of gobbledygook
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on error screens for the Bridge
- Use updated data for the Bridge (phab:T240223)
- Display statements made with federated properties on item pages (phab:T246606)
- Automated references: normalizing data that the extractor gets out of HTML pages (phab:T249004)
- Create a distributed game so people can vet references easily (phab:T248997)
- Cleanup rows from wb_items_per_site (phab:T249613)
- Don't suggest initial uppercase in mobile termbox (phab:T241978)
- Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Issue 38, January – April 2020
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 38, January – April 2020
- New partnership
- Global roundup
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --15:58, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
Friday funnies (early)
[edit]Kesetiaan Cinta - laugh or cry??? --Merbabu (talk) 13:09, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
...TF??? (at least there's 672 separate citations) --Merbabu (talk) 13:30, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
The joys of wikipedia
[edit]Thanks for noting one of the things I love - where people get excited about whether a space, a thin space or a hair space should be used, and the related riveting question of whether it should be character, code or template, to the point that its quicker & easier to run a script than it is to discuss the matter or fix the corrections. Maybe the next level is edit summary haiku --Find bruce (talk) 23:02, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
29 days to go ...
[edit]Isn't it a bit early to be declaring a winner for May? Mitch Ames (talk) 06:48, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #416
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: Date in Wikidata not properly translated in Wikipedia table, Disallow merging into newer entity
- Events
- Upcoming: WikidataLab XXXIII: Wiki-Education and Data Literacy with Shani Evenstein - May 21st 1pm - 7pm (UTC). Organized by Wiki Movement Brazil User Group, the training will be held in English this time! Join us remotely!
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: João Alexandre Peschanski on Wikidata + Education projects he has worked on in Brazil, 19 May. Agenda
- Upcoming: Indian scientists datathon by Wikidata:WikiProject India. May 22nd to 24th, IST.
- Past: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
- Past: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred (replay), May 13th at 19:30 CEST
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- WhatDoTheyKnow in Wikidata (blog post)
- How to use the Wikidata Query Service (in Italian): YouTube
- Introduction to Wikidata and data modeling: YouTube
- Tool of the week
- WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Update about the Wikidata 8th birthday events regarding the COVID19 situation
- The Wikimedia movement strategy recommendations have been published
- Read-only time for Wikidata on Tuesday 19th May at 05:00 AM UTC for 15 minutes due to upgrade and restart of services. Services targeting Wikidata may not work during the meantime.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: tilt, curriculum vitae
- External identifiers: The Conversation author ID, SILL ID of a software, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork author ID, Bookogs work ID, Gitabitan.net ID, Arlington Cemetery person ID, CDAPNC author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: selma'o, originated from individual of taxon, media franchise, préposition, Edible parts, local time, langue fille, langue mère, langue sœur, banned in
- External identifiers: LiederNet author ID, LiederNet composer ID, LiederNet text ID, LiederNet song cycle ID, Colon Classification, Wyoming SHPO ID, norsk fangeregister person ID, K-Scholar ID, Wiener Wohnen ID, MDAH's HRI ID, National Register Database, Louisiana ID, RI National Register Search ID, MACRIS ID, Mod DB mod ID, GameBanana video game ID, NexusMods video game ID, BaGLAMa GID, Arkansas Register of Historic Places ID, Mediaqueer.ca Artist ID, Mediaqueer.ca Movie ID, SNES central game ID, CTHS author ID, correspondent of, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID, 500 Queer Scientists profile, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, Worlds Without End author ID, Goodreads work ID, FlashScore.com player ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, Origin game ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, LGBT Danmark dictionary ID, Book Marks ID
- Deleted properties: P727
- Query examples:
- Recommended units of measurement listed in the SI Brochure (9th, concise edition) (Source)
- Border with which all the municipalities of the Basque Country share (Source)
- Map of hospitals (blue) and health centers (green) of Argentina (Source)
- Best snipers of the world by number of victims of killer (Source)
- Plans and photographs of the restoration works of cathedrals in the 19th century contained in the French National Archives) (Source)
- Map of railways stations in France (Source)
- List of African countries with their current leaders and their ages (Source)
- Point in time of Advisor and Student relationships for professions mathematician and computer scientist (Source)
- Drawings with an image that depicts a ship (Source)
- Map of National parks in Sweden (Source)
- US States with an A (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- In the query service, variable names with non-“Latin” characters (e. g.
?fiancé
,?π
) can now be used more easily. (T227952) - Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages and warnings (phab:T246676, phab:T247250, phab:T244361)
- Federated properties: display statements made with deleted properties (phab:T250785)
- More work on fixing error messages on Wikidata's edit interface (phab:T247690)
- Form grammatical features: connect labels and inputs (phab:T198703)
- In the query service, variable names with non-“Latin” characters (e. g.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Assessment query
[edit]Whats the process if I disagree with an assessment of B-class that you've done to the new 1915 Victorian soccer season using Wikipedia:RATER? Just "be bold" and change? I have been looking at a lot of the Australian football (soccer) articles over the past week as part of a Destubbing Challenge, and similar quality articles would only rate Start at best. One can argue that as nearly all of the references are taken from essentially the same source whether this article is still close to only being a Stub. However, it is a ways off being B-class in my opinion. Matilda Maniac (talk) 00:07, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Aguilarrios.michelle (talk) 13:28, 25 May 2020 (UTC)I believe a company deserves to be on Wikipedia.
Wikidata weekly summary #417
[edit]This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-05-25.
- Discussions
- Open requests for Oversight: Kostas20142, Esteban16
- Events
- Past: WikidataLab XXXIII: Wiki-Education and Data Literacy with Shani Evenstein on May 21st. The training in English was organized by Wiki Movement Brazil User Group. (replay)
- Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #6 (YouTube)
- Past: Art+Feminism virtual Wikidata editathon by Global Open Initiative on May 19. (Video) Part 1, Part 2
- Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, event dedicated to the German-speaking Wikidata community, will take place fully remote on June 12-14. If you're interested, don't forget to register. We're looking for speakers to give introductions to Wikidata & tools.
- Upcoming #vBIB20 (Q94495218) the first fully remote German library conference: May 26-28. Metadata about all presentations are already stored in Wikidata: Query. Some sessions and presentations are related to Wikidata or other Wikiprojects:
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #14, May 31
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- The Missing Path: Diagnosing Incompleteness in Linked Data ("We describe our iterative design process and evaluation with Wikidata contributors")
- EURECOM at the SemStats 2019 Challenge ("we study the coverage of [the official database of French enterprises] in Wikidata")
- Enriching Knowledge Bases with Interesting Negative Statements ("we argue for the importance of negative information on knowledge bases, and present two methods to mine it")
- Video: Editing Wikidata: File Candidates tool and World heritage of Visby - Youtube, Facebook
- Tool of the week
- If you're looking for even more tools, the Tools Directory indexes over 130 Wikidata tools.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool: Structured Search, a tool allowing you to search through Wikimedia Commons using structured data, is now live. This tool by Hay Kranen was demoed at Wikimedia Hackathon 2020.
- New tool: script by Tohaomg to easily rearrange the order of values for statements in Wikidata (to be added to your common.js page)
- New documentation page: Wikidata:How to create Wikidata Tours
- Teaching notes for introducing people to Wikidataː d:User:Einebillion/Teaching notes
- The Wikidata development team created a distributed Wikidata game called Reference hunt!. With this game, you get a suggestion of an Item and a reference based on structured data from an external website. Try it and leave us feedback.
- Gabriel, an intern at the Google Summer of Code is developing a tool to assist users in verifying (structured) data of media on commons. If you want to help, feel free to fill out this questionnaire.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: molecular model, is metaclass for, lighting, type of age limit, nominal share capital, content partnership category, field of training
- External identifiers: iDAI.chronontology ID, iDAI.gazetteer ID, Archaeology in Greece Online place ID, ASUT ID, NMMA antiquities ID, NMMA built heritage ID, DB chgk, K-Scholar ID, Wyoming SHPO ID, Lower Austrian Castle ID, Co-Optimus ID, Bookogs credit ID, Wiener Wohnen ID, Arkansas Register of Historic Places ID, Augustins de l'Assomption ID, LiederNet author ID, LiederNet composer ID, LiederNet song cycle ID, LiederNet text ID, Bibliography of the History of Slovakia ID, MACRIS ID, National Register Database, Louisiana ID, Niden INE, 500 Queer Scientists profile, Mediaqueer.ca Artist ID, Mediaqueer.ca Movie ID, Natural Atlas ID, Colon Classification, MDAH's HRI ID, RI National Register Search ID, CTHS author ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, PC Games Database.de company ID, SNES central game ID, Super Mario Wiki ID, Wikilengua article
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: US Fault ID, estimated value, funder, principal investigator, contributed to Wikimedia Commons by, Theater poster, transitive over, approval of subject, living people protection class
- External identifiers: Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Library classifications' IDs for topics, Absolute Games game ID, Absolute Games person ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs, ModelHub ID, npm package, AusStage person ID, AusStage venue ID, AusStage organization ID, AusStage work ID, Montreux Jazz Festival song ID, Montreux Jazz Festival person ID, motorsportstats.com event ID, Veldkruus, AustLit ID, AFL player ID, Bioweb Ecuador ID, FilmPolski press collection ID, NTB ID, Odeon ID, Montreux Jazz Festival concert ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Britannica Kids, Latin texts IDs, Medusa NRHP ID, Noovie person ID, Artsdatabanken ID, ICTV taxnode ID, LongTake person ID, ESRB video game ID, OnlyFans ID
- Query examples:
- Famous mathematicians related to famous actors (Source)
- West Highlands of Scotland rail line connections (Source)
- Universities ranked by PageRank on English Wikipedia (Source)
- Interactive, zoomable tree map of second level administrative regions of the world (Source)
- Number of alphabets which use this letter (Source)
- Metabolites and the species where they are found in (Source)
- Items in the United Kingdom with coordinate location (P625) on or near 1 degree 50 west (Source)
- Map of Tunisian museums (Source)
- Map of pairs of homonymous French municipalities linked by a colored line according to the distance (Source)
- Women botanists or botanical collectors with a birth date prior to 1900 (Source)
- vBIB20 lectures in Wikidata (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Schools
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Federated properties: Linking to the source wiki immediately after saving a statement (phab:T251776)
- Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
- Documentation for federated properties (phab:T252991, phab:T252861)
- Last steps of getting the distributed game "Reference hunt" ready
- Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
- Track errors people encounter when using the Bridge (phab:T252683)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Queensland lawyers
[edit]A tag has been placed on Category:Queensland lawyers requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 14:30, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #418
[edit]- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Dan Koehl 2
- Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #15, June 7
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Discussion of our Wikidata priorities and needs as we plan for the group's future, 02 June. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- The WikiCite annual report 2019-20 has been published. Describing the "satellite event grants" program that was run (and details of the nine successful proposals); the changes that resulted from the COVID-19 shutdown of all in-person events; and a summary of WikiCite-related news from across the movement. For more details see Meta:WikiCite/Administration. For more information, contact LWyatt (WMF)
- Defying Wikidata: Validation of Terminological Relations in the Web of Data
- KORE 50DYWC: An Evaluation Data Set for Entity Linking Based on DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata, and Crunchbase
- SchemaTree: Maximum-Likelihood Property Recommendation for Wikidata
- Editorial: Special Issue on Quality Assessment of Knowledge Graphs Dedicated to the Memory of Amrapali Zaveri
- European Semantic Web Conference 2020
- Past video: Querying Wikidata with a glimpse of SPARQL - Thorsten Butz - PSCONFEU 2020. YouTube
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network Live Wikidata editing scheduled for 1st June at 7:00 PM UTC: YouTube, Facebook
- Upcoming video (in Spanish): Wikidata Online Workshop: "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" scheduled for 2nd June at 3:00 PM UTC: YouTube
- Tool of the week
- wdumps allows you to create a limited RDF dump from Wikidata, for those times when your SPARQL queries keep timing out. It is not particularly user-friendly, and it typically takes several hours to get a complete dump, but it is the best way to for example get a list of all English names of humans in Wikidata, or a list of every scientific article with its title and DOI.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The former WikiProject iNaturalist was renamed WikiProject Biodiversity to allow discussions beyond iNaturalist.
- Special:FewestRevisions to be disabled, if you are currently using it, please leave a comment
- Winners of the Wikidata competition during Museum Day 2020: VIGNERON, Alexmar983, Braveheart, Pasleim, Benoît Prieur, Uli.ch, Nono314, Sukkoria and Airon90. Congratulations!
- As part of a thesis project, the search engine "Lister" has been developed to make it easier for the general public to access data on the Semantic Web in general, and WikiData specifically. It's in a usability test-phase right now, and if you'd like to try it out and help improve it, you can do so at this link. The test should at most 15 minutes.
- Follow the discussion about restricting editing of properties to autoconfirmed users.
- New domain
toolforge.org
to be adopted by our Toolforge community. New domain/scheme for Toolforge-hosted webservices will change fromtools.wmflabs.org/toolname
totoolname.toolforge.org
with the aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on 2020-06-15. - Wikidata development team is currently running a survey until June 9th to understand better how people access and reuse Wikidata’s data from the code of their applications and tools (for example through APIs), and how we can improve the tools to make your workflows easier. If you would like to participate, please use this link (Google Forms, estimated fill-in time 5min).
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: curricula, attribution text, based on tabular data
- External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Origin video game ID, npm package, FEMA number, Mod DB mod ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, Norwegian prisoner register person ID, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, BaGLAMa GID, GMC membership number
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: parish church, ISCO-08 occupation code, official product site, tag, heraldic attitude, Non volatile storage capacity
- External identifiers: Australian Classification ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Semantic Scholar corpus ID, Olympedia ID, Emmys person ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID, New York Times contributor ID, Cinema Context, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, Xfinity Stream ID, Juno Download album ID 2, sobory.ru, HBO Max ID, Yle Topic ID, Den Store Danske ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, Geneanet genealogist ID, IGRS video game ID, Wiki-Brest ID, Wiki-Narbonne ID, Wiki-Niort ID, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID, Wiki-Rennes ID, Wikimanche ID, Wiki-Anjou ID, Picardia ID, Grandterrier.net ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, VIAF partner ID
- Query examples:
- Map of German states with links to iNaturalist observations
- Cities/towns named after people (Source)
- Network of researchers who are vBIB20 co-presenters and are linked with a Wikidata item (Source)
- Timeline of legalized same-sex marriages by country (Source)
- BubbleChart of the 7,397 different keywords in DieDatenlaube (Source)
- Weight of royal crowns (Source)
- Recorded COVID-19 cases in difference Indian states (Source)
- Twitter accounts of current UK MP's (Source)
- Number of female employees at different organizations that Wikidata knows about (Source)
- Location of libraries that have a GitHub repository (Source)
- Location of 19th century infectious diseases published in Die Gartenlaube (Source)
- People with an entry in the Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire and biographical articles in Die Datenlaube (Source)
- Fictional spaceship captains from the Star Trek multiverse (Source)
- Timeline of Selenographers, for the birthday of German astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler and his famous map of the Moon (Source)
- Points of interest 2 km within St. Jakobus church, Pesterwitz (Source)
- Images of religious art whose main theme is Pentecost (Source)
- World map of authors with both an ORCID and Twitter account ID's (Source)
- Ratio of (days country has been in the UN) with (sum of periods of office for Heads of Government during that time) (Source)
- Map of 2020 Art+Feminism editathons (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Public art
- Development
- More documentation for federated properties
- Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
- More improvements on the Wikidata Bridge
- Add Wikidata support for awawiki (phab:T252870)
- Fix various bugs on Wikibase
- Work on improving the unclear error messages (phab:T247690)
- Create reports for the reference hunt game
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Change Broach (sailing) to Broach (nautical)?
[edit]Hi, JarrahTree, you might want to weigh in at Talk:Broach (sailing)#Propose moving to "Broach (nautical)". Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 02:35, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
May 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
[edit]- May 2020—Issue 014
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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News at a glance |
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This month we're joined by Jts1882, who is active in depicting evolutionary relationship of taxa via cladograms. Part of this includes responding to cladogram requests, where interested editors can have cladograms made without using the templates themselves. How did you come to be interested in systematics? Are you interested in systematics broadly, or is there a particular group you're most fond of? As long as I can remember I’ve been interested in nature, starting with the animals and plants in the garden, school grounds, and local wood, and then more general wildlife worldwide. An interest in how things are classified grew from this. I like things to be organised and understanding the relationships between things and systems (not just living things) is a big part of that. Biology was always my favourite subject in school and took up a disproportionate part of my time. My interest in systematics is broad as I’d like to comprehend the whole tree of life, but the cat family is my favourite group. What's the background behind cladogram requests? I see that it isn't a very old part of the Tree of Life Well I can’t take any credit for the cladogram requests page, although I help out there sometimes. It was created by IJReid and there are several people who have helped there more than me. I think the motivation is that creating cladograms requires a knowledge of the templates that is daunting for many editors. It was one way of helping people who want to focus on content creation. My main contribution to the cladograms is converting the {{clade}} template to use a Lua module. The template code was extremely difficult to follow and had to be repetitive (I can only admire the efforts of those who got the thing to work in the first place). The conversion to Lua made it more efficient, allowed larger and deeper cladograms, plus facilitating the introduction of new features. The cladogram request page was recently the venue for discussion on making time calibrated cladograms, which is now possible, if not particularly user friendly. What advice do you have for an editor who wants to learn how to make cladograms? The same advice I would give to someone facing any computer problem, just try it out. Start by taking existing code for a cladogram and make changes yourself. The main advice would be to format it properly so indents match the brackets vertically. Of course, not everyone wants to learn and if someone prefers to focus on article content there is the cladogram request page. Examples of cladograms Jts1882 has created, showing different proposed clades for Neoaves
Do you have any personal projects or goals you're working towards on Wikipedia? As I said I like organisation and systems. So I find efforts like the automated taxobox system and {{taxonbar}} appealing. I would like to see more reuse of the major phylogenetic trees on Wikipedia with more use of consensus trees on the higher taxa. Too often they get edited based on one recent report and/or without proper citation. Animals and bilateria are examples where this is a problem. Towards this I have been working on a system of phylogeny templates that can be reused flexibly. The {{Clade transclude}} template allows selective transclusion, so the phylogenetic trees on one page can be reused with modifications, i.e. can be pruned and grafted, used with or without images, with or without collapsible elements, etc. I have an example for the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (see {{Phylogeny/APG IV}}) and one for squamates that also includes collapsible elements (see {{Phylogeny/Squamata}}). A second project is to have a modular reference system for taxonomic resources. I have made some progress along this lines with the {{BioRef}} template. This started off simply as a way of hardlinking to Catalog of Fishes pages and I’ve gradually expanded it to cover other groups (e..g. FishBase, AmphibiaWeb and Amphibian Species of the World, Reptile Database, the Mammalian Diversity Database). The modular nature is still rudimentary and needs a rewrite before it is ready for wider use. What would surprise your fellow editors to learn about your life off-Wikipedia? I don’t think there is anything particularly surprising or interesting about my life. I’ve had an academic career as a research scientist but I don't think anyone could guess the area from my Wikipedia edits. I prefer to work on areas where I am learning at the same time. This why I spend more time with neglected topics (e.g. mosses at the moment). I start reading and then find that I’m not getting the information I want. Anything else you'd like us to know? My interest in the classification of things goes beyond biology. I am fascinated by mediaeval attempts to classify knowledge, such as Bacon in his The Advancement of Learning and Diderot and d’Alembert in their Encyclopédie. They were trying to come up with a universal scheme of knowledge just as the printing press was allowing greater dissemination of knowledge. With the internet we are seeing a new revolution in knowledge dissemination. Just look at how we could read research papers on the COVID virus within weeks of its discovery. With an open internet, everyone has access, not just those with the luxury of books at home or good libraries. Sites like the Biodiversity Heritage Library allow you to read old scientific works without having to visit dusty university library stack rooms, while the taxonomic and checklist databases provide instant information on millions of living species. In principle, the whole world can now find out about anything, even if Douglas Adams warned we might be disinclined to do so. This is why I like Wikipedia, with all its warts, it’s a means of organising the knowledge on the internet. In just two decades it’s become a first stop for knowledge and hopefully a gateway to more specialised sources. Perhaps developing this latter aspect, beyond providing good sources for what we say, is the next challenge for Wikipedia. |
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Wikidata weekly summary #419
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: Handling of stored IDs after they've been deleted or redirected in the external database
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, June 12-14: online Wikidata workshop and hackathon in German. Don't forget to register to get access to attendees information.
- Upcoming: Video: Live Wikidata editing #9: Youtube, Facebook
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #16, June 14
- Upcoming: Webinar on Wikidata and cultural heritage collections, by Science Museum Group UK, June 19th
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata based Location Entity Linking
- WikiBank: Using Wikidata to Improve Multilingual Frame-Semantic Parsing
- Wikimedia Public (Research) Resources
- RDF Reasoning on Large Ontologies: A Study on Cultural Heritage and Wikidata
- What is an Open Knowledge Base anyway? (lists Wikidata as key example).
- KGTK: A Toolkit for Large Knowledge Graph Manipulation and Analysis ("we present KGTK, a data science-centric toolkit... We illustrate KGTK with real-world scenarios... such as Wikidata")
- Video: Live Wikidata editing #8 - Wikidojo edition: YouTube, Facebook
- Wikidata Online Workshop (in Spanish): "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" - YouTube
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Andrew Lih
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Jane Darnell
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Dr. Martin Poulter
- Tool of the week
- QuickStatements lets you edit thousands of Wikidata items at a time. Add labels and descriptions, or statements with sources and qualifiers, add sitelinks, create or merge items, or remove statements that were created in error. Batches can be discussed and, if necessary, reverted in full through the EditGroups tool.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Simple Query Builder: wrap-up of the feedback loop and next steps
- New page Subsetting under WikiProject Schemas for documenting how to define, construct, manage and maintain subsets of Wikidata.
- MyCroft, the open digital personal assistant now has a Wikidata skill to answer questions about current and historic facts & information about a person.
- Do you know a Wikidata/Wikibase community member who has accomplished something new or has been inspiring in the last year? If so, please take a few minutes and nominate someone in the 2020 Community Spotlight survey.
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Bengali nouns.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: curriculum topics, attribution text, based on tabular data, living people protection class, position in biological sequence, region within image, ISCO-08 occupation code, parish church, has grouping, has sorting, has column
- External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Origin video game ID, npm package, FEMA number, Mod DB mod ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, Norwegian prisoner register person ID, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, BaGLAMa GID, GMC registration number, AFL player ID, serial identifier on SerialZone, Absolute Games game ID, Modelhub ID, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID, Medusa NRHP ID, motorsportstats.com event ID, LGBT Danmark online dictionary ID, Olympedia athlete ID, Worlds Without End author ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID, AusStage organization ID, AusStage person ID, AusStage venue ID, AusStage work ID, AustLit ID, Cinema Context ID, New York Times contributor ID, HBO Max ID, Semantic Scholar corpus ID, Montreux Jazz Festival concert ID, Montreux Jazz Festival person ID, Montreux Jazz Festival song ID, ESRB video game ID, NexusMods video game ID, LongTake person ID, Yle Topic ID, digilibLT work ID, PHI Latin Texts work ID, Musisque Deoque work ID, Den Store Danske ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: official product site, tag, heraldic attitude, Non volatile storage capacity, introduced in version (2), height of center of mass, strike tone, number of migrations, depicted without, offset from vertical, for type elements, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, number of branches
- External identifiers: Australian Classification ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Emmys person ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, Xfinity Stream ID, Juno Download album ID 2, sobory.ru, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, Geneanet genealogist ID, IGRS video game ID, Wiki-Brest ID, Wiki-Narbonne ID, Wiki-Niort ID, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID, Wiki-Rennes ID, Wikimanche ID, Wiki-Anjou ID, Picardia ID, Grandterrier.net ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, VIAF partner ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, ICP artist ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, Legacy.com person ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, Uffizi artwork ID, Ancestry.com ID, Dlive game ID, Spotify songwriter ID, MuseScore artist ID, MNBAQ artist ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Cimetières de France ID, vglist video game ID, Gramophone composer ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, CAOI person ID
- Query examples:
- User:PAC2/Prenoms a notebook interface (Q28405706) to explore data about a given name (Q202444) : the idea is to ask simple questions and find answers
- Similarly the talk page of "Ada" with queries
- Postcards of exterior and interior views of theatres on CARTHALIA (Source)
- List of cities (or map) of Russia where no one famous was born and died (Source)
- Turkish scientists by citation count (Source)
- ESWC2020 papers with links to video lectures (Source)
- Women who have been Captain Regent of San Marino (Source)
- Species of birds (Source)
- List of open science fellows (Source)
- Spouses of the German Bundestag (Source)
- MWAPI searches in wikidata about people descibed as slave traders by citizenship (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata Bridge: Made a number of technical improvements to wrap up the work in the first version.
- Reference Hunt: Making final technical improvements and are now running the process to find references on the whole of Wikidata (as opposed to the initial small subset for testing). Once that's done we'll release them as a dump.
- Easier access to data for programmers: Researching and interviewing ways to improve the APIs in preparation for working on them.
- Query builder: Working on defining the first version and creating mockups based on the feedback we received.
- Use modern TypeScript syntax (3.2 -> 3.9) (phab:T253211)
- More technical documentation for Federated Properties (phab:T252991) & preparing for the next steps
- Convert some properties to external identifiers (phab:T253722)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 39, May – June 2020
- Library Card Platform
- New partnerships
- ProQuest
- Springer Nature
- BioOne
- CEEOL
- IWA Publishing
- ICE Publishing
- Bytes in brief
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Wikidata weekly summary #420
[edit]- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
- Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #17, June 21
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday June 16 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Program for Cooperative Cataloging's upcoming Wikidata pilot, June 16. Agenda
- Past: remote Wikidata Wochenende (list of projects - in German)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- KulturNav – a hub for museum vocabularies connected to Wikidata
- Library data as linked open data
- Lord of the Wiki Ring: Importing Wikidata into Neo4j and analyzing family trees
- Video: Live Wikidata editing #9 - YouTube
- How authors and publications are linked in Wikidata Scholia (in Swedish) - YouTube
- ISE2020 - Excursus: How to query Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL - YouTube
- Wikidata Live editing (replay)
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Navino Evans
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Dr. Daniel Mietchen
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting João Alexandre Peschanski
- Part 1 - Meet João! - YouTube
- Part 2 - On choosing to work with Wikidata in Academia - YouTube
- Part 3 - Auto-generating knowledge via Wikidata - YouTube
- Part 4 - Metadata Curation and reconciliation on Wikidata - YouTube
- Part 5 - Visualization of new data artifacts via Wikidata - YouTube
- Part 6 - Data Archaeology via Wikidata - YouTube
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Ewan McAndrew
- Tool of the week
- Mix'n'match lets you match lists of external identifiers to Wikidata items, or create new items if necessary. Thousands of catalogs already exist, in dozens of different topic areas, and it's easy to import new ones.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New: Overview of GLAM metadata standards and (if relevant) how they are mapped and crosswalked on Wikimedia projects. Feel free to add more to the list!
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms can now group forms înto sections, and (on wide screens) distribute sections across two columns!
- New Wikidata Lexeme Forms feature: the warning about duplicate lexemes now links to edit mode, where you can fix any forms that the existing lexeme might be missing.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone
- External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, SIUSA archival fonds ID, qualifier for this property, SIUSA archive producer IDs, Library and bibliographic classification, gloss quote, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area
- External identifiers: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, IDU person ID, SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Unique Property Reference Number, Legacy.com newspaper ID, GCatholic person ID, Econlib ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Opera Online conductor ID, PMSA ID, Deku Deals ID, duden id, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften, KKBox track ID, Rate Your Music album ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, locality number in Austria, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, Singapore Infopedia ID
- Query examples:
- Rose cultivars
- List of present-day countries and capital(s) (Source)
- Aliases of all sovereign states in Wikidata (Source)
- Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders (Source)
- Statues and monuments of slaveholders or traders (Source)
- Members of the Ku Klux Klan whose English description doesn’t mention that (Source)
- Bases named after Union soldiers (Source)
- Married couples who also sat in the Bundestag (Source)
- List of virtual conferences and their environment (Source)
- Network of the Erich Fried Prize winners (Source)
- Notable Russian people with possible (but unproved) descent from Genghis Khan (see the query for explanation)
- Researchers or academics with Native American ancestry
- Count of items by ethnic group (Source)
- Metro map of Stockholm Country showing line colors and layers (Source)
- Countries that have no world heritage sites (Source)
- Number of statues of women, per country (Source)
- 1st level subdivisions of Europe (and colonies) with less than 30 inhabitants per km² (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Collecting a lot of feedback and doing research around how to improve our APIs to start making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
- Finalized the initial feature list for the query builder and working on designs and prototypes for testing
- Doing user research on the Merge gadget to prepare for making it part of the proper code-base so that other Wikibase instances also benefit from easier merging
- Federated Properties: continued working on the first version of Federation that will make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation
- Start of a new project (Wikibase Decoupling & Extension Registration) in order to clean up our codebase a bit and make it easier to extend with new features in the future
- More work on the design system to have a set of unified components for Wikidata that will make it easier to develop new features in the future because we don't have to rewrite components that are used in a lot of places
- Some MediaWiki skin changes meant broken edit links on Wikipedia and co. Fixed now. (phabricator:T252800)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Invite to Revive WikiProject:Shopping Centers!
[edit]Hey there, JarrahTree! I'm Windyshadow32, a new member of the sadly inactive Wikiproject Shopping Centers. I saw your comment on the talk page and it inspired me to revive the project. I am trying to revive the project to highlight the unique stories of malls across the country and the world especially as we lose more and more of them. Undoubtedly, we will lose shopping malls due to the challenges we face at this moment. I would like to know if you would like to help revive the project with me! I could really use some help assessing the quality of each article and how important they are! I can't take on this massive project without you. Please let me know if you'd be willing to help; I really appreciate it!
Windyshadow32 (talk) 07:24, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your article assessment on Australian Antarctic Medal
[edit]Hi JarrahTree, thank you for taking the time to independently review Australian Antarctic Medal and to upgrade its quality rating to B-class. It is still very much a work in progress, but I intend to bring it up to GA status by the time I finish this project. Kangaresearch 11:47, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
[edit]Hello JarrahTree,
- Your help can make a difference
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
- Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
- Discussions and Resources
- A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
- Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
- A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
- Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.
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What do you make of...
[edit]...this Sounds like some old mythology. Not encyclopedic? @User:Davidelit --Merbabu (talk) 10:30, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
- Actually, the addition included a link to another article. It's mythology. I might remove it. --Merbabu (talk) 11:27, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
- Sure, mythology can be important to people's sense of history. Maybe it should be included somehow. But cleary presented as mythology. --Merbabu (talk) 11:51, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
- Clearly a myth, so needs to be labelled as such and linked to Mythology_of_Indonesia#Java Regards Davidelit (Talk) 02:45, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
- Sure, mythology can be important to people's sense of history. Maybe it should be included somehow. But cleary presented as mythology. --Merbabu (talk) 11:51, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Well done
[edit]On clearing 655k - very many very good and important edits - thank you for your persistent effort !! JarrahTree 11:08, 18 June 2020 (UTC) I am not sure what 655k refers to Hugo999 (talk) 11:12, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Shire of Narambeen
[edit]A tag has been placed on Category:Shire of Narambeen requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:06, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #421
[edit]- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
- Events
- Upcoming: Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language conference (remote, July 9-10): program & concept are published, registration is open
- Upcoming: live OpenRefine introduction et demonstration, by Vigneron, on Twitch and in French, Tuesday June 16 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Past: Wikidata queries workshop, June 21st, in the frame of the Small wiki toolkits–Indic workshop series
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- When Deno meets Wikidata (blog post)
- Writing Wikidata Queries (Workshop Notes)
- Wikidata course at TAU: Hosting Denny Vrandečić. The future of Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia WikiLambda - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- On Commons, c:Template:Wikidata Infobox now has over 3 million uses; see c:Category:Uses of Wikidata Infobox.
- New page about the Bibliography of Wikidata – needs help on expanding the list.
- Upcoming domain name migration on the Wikimedia Toolforge implies that OpenRefine users need to update their Wikidata reconciliation service to the new endpoint which will be available by default in the upcoming release of OpenRefine (3.4). phab:T254172
- Wikirecords - proposal for a Wikibase-based sister-project
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone, applies to name of value, entry receptor, estimated value, media franchise, Dewey Decimal Classification (works), Library of Congress Classification (edition), Universal Decimal Classification (works), Regensburg Classification (works), study type
- External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID, Cimetières de France ID, Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, SIUSA archival fonds ID, Odeon ID, WikiTrek ID, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, Spotify songwriter ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, vglist video game ID, Veldkruus ID, BitterDB compound ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, SIUSA archive producer family ID, SIUSA archive producer organization ID, Museum of Family History ID, Deku Deals ID, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, qualifier for this property, Library and bibliographic classification, gloss quote, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area, Dowker-Thistlethwaite notation, Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID, twin town sign, floor material, Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID, intended background color, is exception to constraint, prohibits, permits, Kunya, jour équivalent dans le calendrier correspondant, context of death, inverse agonist of, seatwidth, external error, set in environment
- External identifiers: IDU person ID, SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Unique Property Reference Number, Legacy.com newspaper ID, GCatholic person ID, Econlib ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Opera Online conductor ID, PMSA ID, duden id, KKBox track ID, Rate Your Music album ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, locality number in Austria, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, GCatholic diocese ID, BBFC ID, Criminological Thesaurus ID, FIPRESCI person ID, Web of Science ID, Crossref journal ID, KBpedia ID, QUDT quantity kind ID, Utenlandske krigsgraver i Norge ID, BWFpara.tournamentsoftware.com player ID, Directorio de Afrocubanas, Maitron des fusillés ID, TheFreeDictionary medical term ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, Naturvårdsverket Amenity ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number
- Query examples:
- Apologies for both of the problematic queries ("MWAPI searches in wikidata about people described as slave traders by citizenship" in Weekly Summary #419 and "Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders” in Weekly Summary #420). The "MWAPI searches in wikidata about people described as slave traders by citizenship” in #419 lists any people with the word "slave" in a label, description or alias, among them several people who are not slave traders. The "Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders” in #420 incorrectly linked this query for enslaved people instead of this query for slavetraders.
- Ages of US presidents/vice-presidents: today, when leaving office, at death
- The subway network of Stockholm
- Former footballers who have ever been an MP in the UK parliament (Source)
- Latin American Women Writers with a GND ID (Source)
- Roads that are named after film directors (Source)
- Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Sweden, WikiProject Ennegreciendo/Noircir Wikimedia
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continue working on the infrastructure review, in order to address the most pressing infrastructure issues
- Make the Wikibase.git code base PSR-4 compatible (phab:T172368)
- Work on an overview of existing types of coupling in Wikibase between Repo and Client (phab:T254902)
- More work on consistency of UX components
- Handle failed requests to the federation source wiki when saving statements (phab:T254889)
- Catch federated properties exceptions in getParserOutput and display error page (phab:T255010)
- Improve the permissions for Blazegraph in wdqs docker image (phab:T237248)
- Create entitySources config for WMF production wikis (phab:T254315)
- Participate in fixing several incidents (phab:T255855, phab:T255410)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Hi JarrahTree, as a respected editor I wondered if you had a few moments to contribute to a second RfC on the retention of an image of the Reverse of the Australian Antarctic Medal. It's been re-nominated for deletion by one editor at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2020 June 25, following consensus on its retention previously. As the original RfC was only comprised of 4 views, I think it might help the other editor involved if there was a wider input. It's all fairly short, so takes no more than a minute or two of reading, and you are welcome to express any opinion you think is appropriate. Thanks in advance if you can spare the time. Kangaresearch 04:21, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #422
[edit]- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Disallow merging into newer entity
- Events
- Past: Wikidata Wochenende 2020 (in German)
- Past: Cultural heritage webinar, Science Museum group. (presentations and videos)
- Past: Wikidata Query Service exercise (in Chinese) (video)
- Past: Wikidata in Toronto webinar with Alex Jung (video)
- Past: Writing Wikidata queries workshop, part of the Small Wikis Toolkit series (video recording)
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, Query Service special, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST)
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Merrilee Proffitt, Chris Cyr, and Rob Fernandez on a project to surface library holdings to indicate possible notability for persons, June 30th. Agenda
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #19, July 5
- Upcoming: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest, July 1st
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Lexemes in Wikidata: 2020 status, by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Upcoming video: Live Wikidata editing #10 - with guest: YouTube, Facebook
- Tool of the week
- The Sourcerer edit game suggests some sources that could fit to a claim and helps people adding references easily.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibase Live sessions is coming back with the first call about Data Modeling in the context of Libraries happening on Thursday, July 2nd at 1600 UTC.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone, applies to name of value, entry receptor, estimated value, media franchise, Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions), Library of Congress Classification (works and editions), Universal Decimal Classification (works and editions), Regensburg Classification (works and editions), study type, number of branches, references work, tradition or theory, Dowker-Thistlethwaite notation, qualifier for this property, gloss quote, use with property value, use with qualifier, prompt when missing, offset from vertical
- External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID, Cimetières de France ID, Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, SIUSA archival fonds ID, Odeon ID, WikiTrek ID, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, Spotify songwriter ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, vglist video game ID, Veldkruus ID, BitterDB compound ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, SIUSA archive producer family ID, SIUSA archive producer organization ID, Museum of Family History ID, Deku Deals ID, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften ID, GCatholic person ID, Legacy.com person ID, Econlib ID, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Web of Science ID, Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID, Criminological Thesaurus ID, Crossref journal ID, Duden ID, Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID, Directory of Afrocubanas ID, Emmys person ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Goodreads work ID, locality number in Austria, IDU person ID, Gramophone composer ID, Foreign war churchyards in Norway ID, Riksdagen person guid, GCatholic diocese ID, PMSA ID, BBK (library and bibliographic classification), Rate Your Music release ID, QUDT quantity kind ID, Unique Property Reference Number
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area, twin town sign, floor material, intended background color, is exception to constraint, prohibits, permits, Kunya, jour équivalent dans le calendrier correspondant, context of death, inverse agonist of, seatwidth, external error, set in environment, property constraint for Commons, Dowker-Thistlethwaite name, Localised title, DOI formatter, Open Data portal, subscribed by, Knot Atlas identifier, theorised by, Knotilus identifier, KnotInfo identifier, sorting weight, character designer, image set, taxon synonym string
- External identifiers: SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Legacy.com newspaper ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, Opera Online conductor ID, KKBox track ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, BBFC ID, FIPRESCI person ID, KBpedia ID, BWFpara.tournamentsoftware.com player ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, TheFreeDictionary medical term ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, Naturvårdsverket Amenity ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, Econlib person ID, NUKAT (non-VIAF) ID, Reposcope ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, PPN ID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Grove Art Online ID, Maniadb artist ID, Maniadb album ID, Swiss Timber Bridges, PO ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, InciWeb, HLTV ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Swedish Riksdag document, Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Church of Jesus Christ pioneer ID, Nauvoo community project ID, Dignity Memorial person ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Unique Street Reference Number, TlF ID, identifiant lobbywatch.ch d'un parlementaire, identifiant Manioc livre, Bibliothèque Digital des Caraïbes, identifiant Manioc périodique, AlloCiné theater ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: no statements/enwiki
- Newest properties:
- Development
- It is now possible to search for EntitySchema pages using a shortcut “E:”, similar to “P:” for Properties and “L:” for Lexemes. For example: E:E10 or E:kakapo. T245529
- Continued working on the first version of Federation, which will allow other Wikibase installations to use Wikidata's Properties - getting closer to a first testable version
- More work on consistency of user interface components
- Finalizing the click-dummy for the first version of the Query Builder so we can start testing it with some editors soon and get feedback.
- Continuing to investigate how to improve our APIs and other ways to improve access to the data in Wikidata for programmers
- Discussed the future of the Wikidata Query Service and ideas for next steps we can take to make it scale better. Guillaume will join the next office hour to talk about it.
- More work on clearer separation of Wikibase repository and Wikibase client code in order to improve maintainability
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Category:Mahogany Creek, Western Australia has been nominated for deletion
[edit]Category:Mahogany Creek, Western Australia has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:09, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Category:Uranium in Western Australia has been nominated for merging
[edit]Category:Uranium in Western Australia has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:17, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #423
[edit]- Events
- Past: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest launch (replay)
- Upcoming: Biohackathon 2020 Barcelona 2020 November 9th - 13th The accepted wikidata related proposal: Knowledge graphs and wikidata subsetting
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #20, July 12
- Upcoming: Celtic Knot conference, July 9-10, including several sessions about Wikidata, a Wikidata helpdesk
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Why Ariadne uses Getty AAT over Wikidata
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #10 - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Ptable displays the periodic table automatically extracted from information provided by Wikidata; it also provides a check that all the elements are there with some basic properties. Additional pages provide charts of the nuclides under different criteria such as half-life. Each element or nuclide is linked to its Wikidata item for more information or to edit if necessary.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Abstract Wikipedia was approved.
- OpenRefine 3.4 beta 2 was released.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Open Data portal, theorised by, DOI formatter, set in environment, academic appointment
- External identifiers: House Divided ID, thefreedictionary medical term ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, Grove Art Online ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, KBpedia ID, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency OBJECTID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Swiss Timber Bridges ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: taxon synonym string, PM20 subject code, PM20 geo code, number of downloads, Interactive element, course, Zoning symbol, vanDerWaalsConstant, has pattern
- External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Pitchfork artist ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, Austrian encyclopedia of music online, Swiss Tunnel ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID, CPJF ID, TripAdvisor ID 2, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, public transport stop, Homebrew formula name, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, British Museum object ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, code EHESS d'une commune, IAPH code, ProtonDB video game ID
- Query examples:
- France has a new Prime Minister: see the list of all ministers in French history (very long scroll). If you want to know more, see this notebook
- Open data portals in Wikidata (using the newly created property Open Data portal (P8402))
- Objects that are named after people on Wikidata (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on the consistent design system (Phabricator board)
- More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other
- Polishing the first step of Federation (using Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation) (incl. preventing users from selecting a federated property with a non-supported data type (phab:T252012) and preventing users from accessing Special:NewProperty when federation is enabled (phab:T255576) and viewing a list of all properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246339))
- Continuing research and interviews around the topic of making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
- Doing first testing of mockups and prototypes of the first version of the Query Builder - coding can start soon
- Convert a few properties from string to external identifier: Linguasphere code (P1396), KOATUU identifier (P1077) and ISIN (P946)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata glitch
[edit]Greetings! I'm not a wikidata aficionado and therefore cannot handle the quandary which has arisen here. Any chance you could lend a hand, pls? Cheers, Bjenks (talk) 01:54, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: June 2020
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Category:Bathurst Street, Hobart has been nominated for deletion
[edit]Category:Bathurst Street, Hobart has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:46, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #424
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: New co-facilitator introductions and tools for editathons, 14 July. Agenda
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #12, 18 July Facebook, YouTube
- Past: Celtic Knot Wikimedia language conference, online, July 9-10. Videos, documentation and slides of sessions are accessible from the program page.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Using OpenRefine with Wikidata for the first time, by Addshore
- Using Wikidata in Mathematica and Wolfram, by Toni Schindler
- Fostering the presence of museums on Wikipedia and Wikidata, by Debora Lopomo
- Extending the Met’s reach with Wikidata, by Jennie Choi
- Wikidata-related videos from the Celtic Knot Conference:
- Wikidata and how you can use it to support minority languages (Mohammed Sadat)
- Wikidata-powered infoboxes (Pau Cabot)
- Hands-on Wikidata and lexicographical data (Nicolas Vigneron and Léa Lacroix)
- FAIR linguistic data thanks to norm data – Wikidata as part of the research project VerbaAlpina (Christina Mutter)
- Sámi placenames on Wikidata (Jon Harald Søby)
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
- Video: Introducing the Wikidata powered Dictionary of Welsh Biography timeline (Jason Evans), YouTube
- Video: Diving into Wikidata workshop (Will Kent), YouTube
- Video: Linked data for libraries with Wikibase, Infrastructure track (Jens Ohlig), YouTube
- Tool of the week
- DragNDrop.js makes it possible to show a Wikipedia article and drag items to Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Dowker-Thistlethwaite name
- External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Maniadb artist ID, Group Properties wiki ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, GameBanana video game ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Image link, numeric ID, peak bagging classification, vanDerWaalsConstantA, vanDerWaalsConstantB, road name formatter, road number formatter, Medical Service, Ofsted inspection rating, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, traffic sign template image, Vietnamese middle name
- External identifiers: Wiki Loves Earth Ukraine identifier, OHM Relation ID, Filmstarts title ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, SmallGroup ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, SAH Archipedia building ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Our Campaigns candidate ID, VPE railway line ID, Churches in Limburg, The Draft Review ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, ANZSOC ID, ASCRG ID, Encyclopédie berbère, 雑誌コード, OpenStreetMap user name, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, QLD Biota ID, Australian Weed ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continued building out documentation for Federated Properties (phabricator:T255651) and making interface improvements to the first stage of the feature (incl. phabricator:T246886, changes to special pages that interact with both Items/Properties, and phabricator:T255581, changes to Special:ListDataTypes when federation is enabled)
- More work on the consistent design system
- More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier
- Finalizing research and interviews to better understand what could be improved in the way developers access Wikidata's data (APIs, SPARQL)
- Testing the first prototype of the Simple Query Builder with some editors to get final input before coding starts
- Sorting of language links on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects was broken (presumably by a change in MediaWiki core). A fix is being worked on. (phabricator:T257625)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
SJOG Subi
[edit]..."transcript of speeches at the blessing and official opening of St. John of God Hospital, Subiaco, Western Australia, 1st May, 1981 ..."
Just quietly, I was the PR who published that and other stuff and (with Don Franks) planned the whole official opening (even wrote the Archbishop's speech--not bad for an atheist!) However, I'm not guilty of any soap in the article. I can't recall ever making an edit or even reading the article (but will do soon). The following year I accepted an invitation to organise the Charlie Gairdner G Block opening. That's another story! Cheers Bjenks (talk) 08:44, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #425
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: General semi protection for all property pages
- Events
- Upcoming: The First Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: August 10, 2020 | Workshop date: October 29, 2020
- Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
- Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
- Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube
- Upcoming: Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
- Upcoming video: Beyond Wikipedia - Knowledge that even a computer can understand. July 22, 2020 at 17:00 UTC. In this talk, Zbyszko Papierski will present Wikidata Query Service as one way that developers can interact with Wikidata.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities botany pilot using Wikidata QIDs
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
- Video: Wikispore Day, including an interview of Denny Vrandečić about Abstract Wikipedia at 34'00
- Video: Merging elements on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
- Video: Wikibase Ecosystem - taking Wikidata further (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:Frettie/consistency_check_add.js check consistency and add missing relations of a Wikidata object like father/son...
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Breaking change: removing special pageterms behavior on repo wikis, use entityterms instead (relevant for people using pageterms submodule of the query API module on Wikibase repository wikis)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: version control system, interactive elements, course, peak bagging classification, public transport stop, descriptive solubility, applies if regular expression matches, energy consumption per transaction, content partnership category, Van Der Waals Constant a, Van Der Waals Constant b
- External identifiers: Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, EHESS ID of a French commune, OpenHistoricalMap relation ID, IAPH code, Knot Atlas identifier, Knotinfo identifier, Swiss Tunnel ID, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online ID, Swedish Riksdag document ID, Artprice artist ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Digital Library of the Caribbean ID, Homebrew formula name, Our Campaigns candidate ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, Unique Street Reference Number, Benerail station ID, Churches in Limburg, Vmusic.bg artist ID, US Quaternary Fault ID, ASCRG 2016 ID, ANZSOC 2011 ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, SAH Archipedia building ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: BTI Status Index, BTI Governance Index, lyricsmule, number of majors offered, nationality (cultural identity), image of view, web interface software
- External identifiers: Native Plants Database ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, OpenCritic critic ID, DATAtourisme ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, AHECC 2017 ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, Unsplash User ID, South Africa EMIS code, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, HLTV Player ID, HLTV Team ID, SÚKL code, Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers, Science Fiction Awards Database author id, Fototeka person ID, Henrik Ibsen skrifter ID
- Query examples:
- Painters in Wikidata with the surname Ruiz (Source)
- Cities with female mayor (Source)
- MPs in the current UK parliament with identified mythical ancestors (Source)
- Indian subcontinent rail lines (Source)
- List of countries by age of the head of government (Source)
- Cities of the United States between 100,000 and 600,000 inhabitants with the counties and states they are located in (Source)
- Newest database reports: list of 1000, 2000 (without statements) and 10000 (filtered) random items
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on the consistent design system
- More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier:
- load WikibaseClient through the JSON file (phab:T257435),
- decoupling Client from Lib/Repo in the JavaScript code (phab:T256054),
- reduce the uses of Repo classes (phab:T255885, phab:T255882)
- Move all the special pages (phab:T257444), API modules (phab:T257443) and hooks (phab:T257445) from the PHP entry point to the JSON file
- Merge the registration of WikibaseLib into the Repo and Client extensions (phab:T257432) and merge WikibaseView into Repo (phab:T258043)
- Prepare the first development phase for the Simple Query Builder
- Reference game: run a scraper, work on a dashboard that will gives an overview of the potential references that have already been judged in the game
- Fix a bug related to maximum limit of search results (phab:T256885)
- Resolve some configuration issues regarding Entity Sources (phab:T254315)
- Federated Properties:
- Changes to special pages that interact with both items/properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246886)
- Changes to Special:ListDatatypes when federation is enabled (phab:T255581)
- Add new monolingual language codes: mic (Miꞌkmaq), gil (Kiribati)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Please learn the conventions
[edit]Re: Create a separate article
[edit]I don't think so. I modelled this article's section from the biography of Ottoman rulers (sultans and caliphs). For example: Abdul Hamid II. 182.1.69.152 (talk) 05:20, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
RPP
[edit]Hello, I saw you were also combating the 3 IPs (most likely socks or meatpuppets) that were vandalizing Fire Emblem Fates, Telkom Indonesia and Jeanne d'Arc (video game). Do you think I should request page protection? Regards, Giraffer (munch) 11:41, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #426
[edit]- Events
- The Wikidata track of the LD4 conference on Linked Data in Libraries takes place on Thursday 30 and Friday 31 July. Free, upon registration.
- Seeking feedback on a possible WikiCite@Wikidata's 8th Birthday online conference; and what content/format/timing preferences you have. Please respond to this short survey. [Privacy policy: https://w.wiki/XfN]
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Liam Wyatt on WikiCite and its future plans, ways to get involved, and discussions that are happening in the community, 28 July. Agenda
- Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour with a focus on the Query Service, July 21st. Notes of the discussions
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14, August 1 Facebook YouTube
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #23, August 2
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Croiser des données avec OpenRefine by Ash_Crow (in French, how to match data from inside and outside Wikidata with Open Refine)
- "OBA: An Ontology-Based Framework for Creating REST APIs for Knowledge Graphs"
- Library’s linked-data project gets new grant. "Known as Linked Data for Production, the project is part of a long-term collaboration among Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Through linked data, information about books and other items in library records will be enhanced by related information from external online sources". By Jose Beduya
- Wikidata Training Workshop 1, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association
- Video: Wikidata Lab XXIV on relative digital positioning (in Portuguese). YouTube
- Video: Women Writers in Review: Integrating special collections into Wikidata. YouTube
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube
- Tool of the week
- We would love suggestions for tools to include in this section of the weekly summary. Please add your suggestions directly under Status updates/Next#Backlog after checking that the tool isn't already listed.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS) launches in Beta. This SPARQL endpoint for Structured Data on Commons can federate with Wikidata's Query Service. (Announcement & discussion)
- A new OpenRefine reconciliation service for Wikidata is available. Add it in OpenRefine with
https://wikidata.reconci.link/en/api
or by replacingen
by any other Wikimedia language code.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: pertainym, BTI Governance Index, BTI Status Index, Ofsted inspection rating, distribution map of taxon
- External identifiers: Wiki-Rennes ID, Queensland Biota ID, Australian Weed ID, Encyclopedie berbere ID, Japanese magazine code, Lobbywatch.ch ID of a member of parliament, IVS ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, PM20 geo code, PM20 subject code, DATAtourisme ID, OpenCritic critic ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, SmallGroup ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, AHECC 2017 ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: booking URL, member of lexicon, screen (display) resolution, in pixels, Size comparison diagram, Butcher tableau, related laws and regulations, Water area
- External identifiers: Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD ID, Jisho word id, UK Research and Innovation organisation ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, Opta football competition ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey), Árvore de Interesse Público ID, MinDat taxon ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Twitter topics numeric ID, People Australia ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Changed the size of image previews to 1024 in the gallery view of the query service to avoid some images not loading sometimes (phabricator:T258241)
- Added an actual space between the entity title and the name of the fallback language (if any), so that the fallback language isn't selected anymore when double-clicking the entity title for copying (phabricator:T256857)
- Fixed the directionality of text pieces in placeholders that mix LTR and RTL (phabricator:T253812)
- Continued work on first pieces of design system to make coding new features easier in the future
- Continued untangling the code of Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repo to make it easier to develop on them
- Finished first piece of research on how to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - more work to be done
- Preparing to start coding on the Query Builder to make it easier to create queries without having to know SPARQL
- Finished running the scraper that gets potential new references for unreferenced statements and preparing it for publishing
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Re: territory
[edit]Huh? The editor in question is very much alive ... what do you mean? Graham87 12:57, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- Hehehe, indeed ... Graham87 13:09, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- Yeah, I remember the 1996 overflow very well indeed ... I was only eight then! You might find this page interesting ... I don't think it's really classed as a reliable source for Wikipedia's purposes though. Graham87 14:28, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
June/July 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
[edit]- June and July 2020—Issue 015
- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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News at a glance |
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Wikidata weekly summary #427
[edit]- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Wiki13
- Events
- Upcoming: Search Platform Office Hours—August 5th, 2020. This event will be an occasion to talk about the Query Service.
- Upcoming: Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #15, August 8 Facebook, YouTube
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #24, August 9
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata track at the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries:
- (30 July) Wikidata Tutorial: Intro to the Basics (by User:Gamaliel)
- (30 July) Advanced Wikidata Tools and Concepts: More Than Just P's and Q's (by User:Mahir256)
- (30 July) Developing a Wikidata Project (by User:Will (Wiki Ed))
- (31 July) VanderBot: Using a Python script to create and update researcher items in Wikidata (by User:Baskaufs)
- (31 July) No bricks without clay: outcomes from the Stanford Wikidata Working Group (by User:Arcadialib)
- (31 July) LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour: Adding References to Wikidata (by User:Chicagohil)
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14 Facebook YouTube
- Video: Lexemes in Wikidata - structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube
- Video: Wikidata presentation (in Turkish), YouTube
- Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English - Nice article giving some context about why it matters to have Lexemes in Wikidata in many different languages
- Wikidata track at the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries:
- Tool of the week
- SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: height of center of mass, road number formatter, Vietnamese middle name, heraldic attitude, traffic sign template image
- External identifiers: Tree of Public Interest ID, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, South Africa EMIS code, Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD resource ID, Gateway to Research organisation ID, SÚKL code, Science Fiction Awards Database author ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey)
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: certified as, number of stages, convergence rate, step count, Alternative form, view, version type for works, advertisement copy
- External identifiers: LibraryThing series identifier, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, TOPCMB ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID, SAT-matrikulo, Signal number, BHF author ID, BHF magazine ID, SPLC Group ID, SPLC Individual ID, Open Civic Data Division Identifiers, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Presence compositrices ID of work
- Query examples:
- Properties and the number of constraint definition statements on them - there are quite a few with 0 constraint definitions
- a graph of MPs and parties in the Swedish Parliament and with whom they worked together with to create motions 2018 SPOILER: >95% is just with people in the same party
- Wealthiest queer people on Wikidata (Source)
- Bubble chart showing the winners of the FA Cup (Source)
- Map of parks in Oslo missing images on Wikidata (Source)
- Commons queries:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
- Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions).
- REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now.
- Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks.
- Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.
- The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Re: A first
[edit]Hehehe, no worries. Graham87 12:55, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
- Nope, it spells them all out. Graham87 13:04, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Unexplained reverts
[edit]You seem to have reverted about 9 of my edits with no explanation. So far as I can tells, the edits were valid. Looking at two of your reverts as examples:
- [1] - is there some reason why WP:SUBCAT should not apply here?
- [2] - is there some reason why WP:SUBCAT, MOS:DOUBLE, MOS:DATEFORMAT, MOS:CAPS should not apply to this article?
Mitch Ames (talk) 10:27, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #428
[edit]- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516
- Closed request for adminship: Wiki13 (successful)
- Events
- Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020. This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay)
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda]
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25, August 16
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed Wikidata games Facebook, YouTube
- Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube
- Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with Wikidata tools. "To speed up the creation of metadata about faculty and their publications, Steven Baskauf, data science and data curation specialist for libraries, developed “VanderBot,” a set of scripts that can read and write to Wikidata, greatly improving the efficiency by which Vanderbilt’s faculty are discoverable through Wikidata".
- Tool of the week
- OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher links Wikidata entries to places in OpenStreetMap.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- wikidata2df, a Python package for easily turning a Wikidata SPARQL query into a pandas dataframe
- With Wikidata Concept Tree Generator, you can enter any concept and instantly see a visualization of its extended relations. (Source)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: size comparison diagram, view
- External identifiers: Legacy.com newspaper ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, Fototeka person ID, LibraryThing series ID, TOPCMB ID, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: image of entrance, extinction date, notation writer, raga, tala, SMARTS, Editio princeps, recording location
- External identifiers: Sochy a města ID osoby, Sochy a města ID sochy, podvignaroda, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, European Investment Bank project ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset Id, cadastral municipality ID, NPR station ID, NYARC Discovery ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister-ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, Trismegistos Texts ID
- Query examples:
- Commons queries:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- finalized designs for the query builder to start coding at the beginning of September
- wrapping up the initial work on the design system so that we can start using the first pieces of it in the query builder development
- working on properly linking redirects in recent changes, watchlist and co (phabricator:T255387)
- addressed remaining security review comments about the Wikidata Bridge so that we can deploy it finally on the first Wikipedia
- fixed a bug where string values had the wrong length limit (phabricator:T259440)
- finishing the work of untangling Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repository extensions to make development easier
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
This Month in GLAM: July 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #429
[edit]- Discussions
- Closed requests for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516 (all successful)
- New request for comments: How (un)important is preserving the historic character of an item?
- Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #26, August 23
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in Spanish). YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Bridge v1 will be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia on August 18th
- New description and screenshots for the Simple Query Builder project, feedback welcome
- Help:Dataset sizing
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: alternative form
- External identifiers: Henrik Ibsen writings ID, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures, Manioc book ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, Unsplash User ID, EIB project ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: latest start date, earliest end date, Number of votes after transferring, map URL, type of archaeological site, record number, front and back matter
- External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, Panteono de edukado.net, LSG local body code, MobyGames attribute ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), Proballers player ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, Chrome Webstore extension ID, CTHS publication ID, LBS Physical ID, GBIF occurence ID
- Query examples:
- Largest collections of Picasso content (Source). The National Gallery of Art holds the most with 303 objects
- Bubble chart of snooker world champions (Source)
- Map of streets in Tillydrone named after WW2 military leaders (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (phabricator:T259440)
- Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (phabricator:T255387)
- Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
- Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not containing the datatype (phabricator:T249206)
- Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of having to maintain their own
- Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (phabricator:T128486)
- Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content languages (phabricator:T259340, phabricator:T260118)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
August
[edit]Sunflowers in Walsdorf |
A first for me today: a featured list (= a featured topic in this case) on the Main page, see Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 August 21, an initiative by Aza24 in memory of Brian. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:29, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Rhythm Is It! - I expanded that stub on my dad's birthday because we saw the film together back then, and were impressed. As a ref said: every educator should see it. Don't miss the trailer, for a starter. - A welcome chance to present yet another article by Brian on the Main page, Le Sacre du printemps. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:33, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #430
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata distributed birthday in October. You can organize an (online) event with your local group or favorite WikiProject! See also: calendar in progress, information for organizers, 24-hours online meetup
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will talk about gadgets and user scripts. 25 August. Agenda
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #27, August 30
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Commonsense Knowledge in Wikidata (via ArXiv)
- Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online.
- Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
- Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266 (also on YouTube)
- Video: How to add missing descriptions to Wikidata using QuickStatments tool (in Arabic) - YouTube
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #16 Facebook, YouTube
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam) - YouTube
- Video: Wikidata editing basics (in Chinese) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Sophox allows for SPARQL querying of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in a single query
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Two new grant programs from WikiCite, in support of open citations and linked bibliographic data.
- Full documentation, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, program design principles, and contacts at the links. Apply by 1 October.
- Project & events [$2-10k]
- e-Scholarships [per-diem calculated on your city; 1-5 people (single, or as a 'remote group') for 2-4 days, for COVID-era "stay at home" projects. Paid in advance living allowance, no expense report required.]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: SMARTS notation, tala, raga, recording location, law or regulation identifying number, earliest end date, latest start date, extinction date
- External identifiers: Filmstarts title ID, Trismegistos text ID, SPLC Individual ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, BHF magazine ID, Macedonian cadastral municipality ID, Monumentbrowser ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938 ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister ID, BHF author ID, Proballers ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, Opera Online opera house ID, CTHS publication ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Namesakes, Engineer's Line Reference, bibliography, external auditor, ITF-identificatiecode voor speler 2020, rotated image, mirrored image, combined from, overlaid from, number of deaths in senior care homes, number of cases intensive care, negotiated by, is solution to, Commons category for the exterior of the item, Number of taxpayers, medium
- External identifiers: Abbreviations related to ancient authors and works and to academic works regarding classical antiquity, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Emporis company ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, FBref.com squad ID, Operator licence number, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Istrapedia ID, monumenta.ch ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Art Bonus ID, The Living New Deal ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, UG Digital Collections, jewishencyclopedia.com ID, Fancyclopedia 3 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, Grandterrier.net ID
- Query examples:
- British MPs with sons- or daughters-in-law who were also MPs (source)
- MPs with the largest number of children or childen-in-law who became MPs (source)
- Descendants of Robert Emett (born 1729), with counts of sitelinks and external IDs for them and their spouses (source)
- Programming languages written by women (Source)
- Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc) annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (Source)
- Female soccer players who have a (known) social media account (Source)
- Largest cities in France by population (Source)
- Commons queries:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Gazetteer
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Deployed the first version of the Wikidata Bridge to Catalan Wikipedia
- Creating Grafana Dashboards for the new Wikidata Bridge so we have some data to help us determine which datatypes to support next for example (phabricator:T260532)
- Finished working on ensuring Labels of Items in some unusual, often minority, languages are still available on Wikipedia and other clients (phabricator: T259340)
- Fixed error messages for API modules that will not work with the first version of Federated Properties (phabricator:T258558)
- Working on improving how ORES judges the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
- Started coding on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Just love that magpie with attitude (;-) Bjenks (talk) 07:58, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #431
[edit]- Events
- Past: Editing contest - Members of the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. By Global Open Initiative - YouTube (1), (2)
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries 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, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
- Upcoming: Wikidata birthday events organizers call, September 2nd at 19:00 CEST.
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #28, September 6
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18 Facebook, YouTube, September 5 at 19.00 UTC
- Upcoming: Onam label-a-thon (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
- Video: How to use the Wikidata Query Service, by Dr Chris Langley
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #17 Facebook, YouTube
- Video: Creating a Wikidata item (in Spanish) - YouTube
- WikiCite and bibliographic data on Wikidata, how to contribute and how to view it with Scholia (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way - article by Lydia Pintscher in the Wikipedia Signpost
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata for Firefox 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, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. 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. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for up to an hour from 14:00 UTC
- The Wikidata community now has a channel on the newly-established Wikimedia Chat service.
- reconciler, a Python wrapper for Open Refine's API to reconcile pandas data frames with Wikidata items.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Butcher tableau, front and back matter, external auditor
- External identifiers: edukado.net Panteono ID, Chrome Webstore extension ID, PARADISEC Catalog, NPR station ID, JSTOR publisher ID, Emporis company ID, Art Bonus ID, British Museum object ID, monumenta.ch ID, The Living New Deal ID, Jewish Virtual Library person ID, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe ID, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: parent superproperty, publisher of, performed at, Barcelona Public art identifier, opening hours (v.3), Fanbase name, aerial view, ground clearance, axle track, placeholder text element ID, displacement, Deutsche Bahn station abbreviation, entry in abbreviations table, Liturgical rank
- External identifiers: NHK Archives Portal person ID, EPA Ecoregion Level 1 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code, EPA Ecoregion Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 3 Code, EPA Ecoregion US Level 4 Code, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945, Firefox add-on ID, London Stock Exchange company, Fatcat ID, NDL law ID, e-Gov law ID, OFAC sanction ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, YUAG ID, Grove Music Online ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe person ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID
- Query examples:
- Map of cities and towns in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area - OSM/Wikidata query
- Map of structures that have won architectural awards - OSM/Wikidata query
- Birth places of Buffalo Sabres players (Source)
- Timeline of all of Bird’s tunes (Source)
- Approximate proportion of people called "John" in any given UK Parliament since 1372 (Source)
- People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade of birth (Source)
- Location of decommissioned aircraft - OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
- Railway network in Czechia (Source)
- People born in Czechia who died in Germany and vice versa, by decade (of birth) (Source)
- List of locations of Woolf's books (Source)
- Newest properties:
- 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. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
August 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
[edit]- September 2021—Issue 016
- Tree of Life
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Horseshoe bat by Enwebb |
Black-and-red broadbill by AryKun |
Hoax taxon sniffed out after nearly fifteen years |
Cross posted from the Signpost On August 7, WikiProject Palaeontology member Rextron discovered a suspicious taxon article, Mustelodon, which was created in November 2005. The article lacked references and the subsequent discussion on WikiProject Palaeontology found that the alleged type locality (where the fossil was first discovered) of Lago Nandarajo "near the northern border of Panama" was nonexistent. In fact, Panama does not even really have a northern border, as it is bounded along the north by the Caribbean Sea. No other publications or databases mentioned Mustelodon, save a fleeting mention in a 2019 book that presumably followed Wikipedia, Felines of the World. The article also appeared in four other languages, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch, and Serbian. In Serbian Wikipedia, a note at the bottom of the page warned: "It is important to note here that there is no data on this genus in the official scientific literature, and all attached data on the genus Mustelodon on this page are taken from the English Wikipedia and are the only known data on this genus of mammals, so the validity of this genus is questionable." Editors took action to alert our counterparts on other projects, and these versions were removed also. As the editor who reached out to Spanish and Catalan Wikipedia, it was somewhat challenging to navigate these mostly foreign languages (I have a limited grasp of Spanish). I doubted that the article had very many watchers, so I knew I had to find some WikiProjects where I could post a machine translation advising of the hoax, and asking that users follow local protocols to remove the article. I was surprised to find, however, that Catalan Wikipedia does not tag articles for WikiProjects on talk pages, meaning I had to fumble around to find what I needed (turns out that WikiProjects are Viquiprojectes in Catalan!) Mustelodon remains on Wikidata, where its "instance of" property was swapped from "taxon" to "fictional taxon". How did this article have such a long lifespan? Early intervention is critical for removing hoaxes. A 2016 report found that a hoax article that survives its first day has an 18% chance of lasting a year.[1] Additionally, hoax articles tend to have longer lifespans if they are in inconspicuous parts of Wikipedia, where they do not receive many views. Mustelodon was only viewed a couple times a day, on average. Mustelodon survived a brush with death three years into its lifespan. The article was proposed for deletion in September 2008, with a deletion rationale of "No references given; cannot find any evidence in peer-reviewed journals that this alleged genus actually exists". Unfortunately, the proposed deletion was contested and the template removed, though the declining editor did not give a rationale. Upon its rediscovery in August 2020, Mustelodon was tagged for speedy deletion under CSD G3 as a "blatant hoax". This was challenged, and an Articles for Deletion discussion followed. On 12 August, the AfD was closed as a SNOW delete. WikiProject Palaeontology members ensured that any trace of it was scrubbed from legitimate articles. The fictional mammal was finally, truly extinct. At the ripe old age of 14 years, 9 months, this is the longest-lived documented hoax on Wikipedia, topping the previous documented record of 14 years, 5 months, set by The Gates of Saturn, a fictitious television show, which was incidentally also discovered in August 2020. How do we discover other hoax taxa? Could we use Wikidata to discover taxa are not linked to databases like ITIS, Fossilworks, and others?
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Spotlight with Mattximus |
This month's spotlight is with Mattximus, author of two Featured Articles and 29 Featured Lists at current count.
I think I have a compulsion to make lists, it doesn't show up in my real life, but online I secretly get a lot of satisfaction making orderly lists and tables. It's a bit of a secret of mine, because it doesn't manifest in any other part of my life. My background is in biology, so this was a natural (haha) fit.
This experiment was just to see if I could get any random article to FA status, so I picked the very first alphabetical animal species according to the taxonomy and made that attempt. Technically, there isn't enough information for a species page so I just merged the species into a genus and went from there. It was a fun exercise, but doing it alone is not the most fun so it's probably on pause for the foreseeable future. Note: Aporhynchus is the first alphabetical taxon as follows: Animalia, Acanthocephala, Archiacanthocephala, Apororhynchida, Apororhynchidae, Apororhynchus
I would recommend getting a good article nominated, then a featured list up before tackling the FA. Lists are a bit more forgiving but give you a taste of what standards to expect from FA. The most time consuming thing is proper citations so make sure that is in order before starting either.
My personality in real life does not match my wikipedia persona. I'm not a very organized, or orderly in real life, but the wikipedia pages I brought to FL or FA are all very organized. Maybe it's my outlet for a more free-flowing life as a scientist/teacher.
The fact that wikipedia exists free of profit motive and free for everyone really is something special and I encourage everyone to donate a few dollars to the cause. |
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August 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
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- Tree of Life
- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
Horseshoe bat by Enwebb |
Black-and-red broadbill by AryKun |
Hoax taxon sniffed out after nearly fifteen years |
Cross posted from the Signpost On August 7, WikiProject Palaeontology member Rextron discovered a suspicious taxon article, Mustelodon, which was created in November 2005. The article lacked references and the subsequent discussion on WikiProject Palaeontology found that the alleged type locality (where the fossil was first discovered) of Lago Nandarajo "near the northern border of Panama" was nonexistent. In fact, Panama does not even really have a northern border, as it is bounded along the north by the Caribbean Sea. No other publications or databases mentioned Mustelodon, save a fleeting mention in a 2019 book that presumably followed Wikipedia, Felines of the World. The article also appeared in four other languages, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch, and Serbian. In Serbian Wikipedia, a note at the bottom of the page warned: "It is important to note here that there is no data on this genus in the official scientific literature, and all attached data on the genus Mustelodon on this page are taken from the English Wikipedia and are the only known data on this genus of mammals, so the validity of this genus is questionable." Editors took action to alert our counterparts on other projects, and these versions were removed also. As the editor who reached out to Spanish and Catalan Wikipedia, it was somewhat challenging to navigate these mostly foreign languages (I have a limited grasp of Spanish). I doubted that the article had very many watchers, so I knew I had to find some WikiProjects where I could post a machine translation advising of the hoax, and asking that users follow local protocols to remove the article. I was surprised to find, however, that Catalan Wikipedia does not tag articles for WikiProjects on talk pages, meaning I had to fumble around to find what I needed (turns out that WikiProjects are Viquiprojectes in Catalan!) Mustelodon remains on Wikidata, where its "instance of" property was swapped from "taxon" to "fictional taxon". How did this article have such a long lifespan? Early intervention is critical for removing hoaxes. A 2016 report found that a hoax article that survives its first day has an 18% chance of lasting a year.[1] Additionally, hoax articles tend to have longer lifespans if they are in inconspicuous parts of Wikipedia, where they do not receive many views. Mustelodon was only viewed a couple times a day, on average. Mustelodon survived a brush with death three years into its lifespan. The article was proposed for deletion in September 2008, with a deletion rationale of "No references given; cannot find any evidence in peer-reviewed journals that this alleged genus actually exists". Unfortunately, the proposed deletion was contested and the template removed, though the declining editor did not give a rationale. Upon its rediscovery in August 2020, Mustelodon was tagged for speedy deletion under CSD G3 as a "blatant hoax". This was challenged, and an Articles for Deletion discussion followed. On 12 August, the AfD was closed as a SNOW delete. WikiProject Palaeontology members ensured that any trace of it was scrubbed from legitimate articles. The fictional mammal was finally, truly extinct. At the ripe old age of 14 years, 9 months, this is the longest-lived documented hoax on Wikipedia, topping the previous documented record of 14 years, 5 months, set by The Gates of Saturn, a fictitious television show, which was incidentally also discovered in August 2020. How do we discover other hoax taxa? Could we use Wikidata to discover taxa are not linked to databases like ITIS, Fossilworks, and others?
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Spotlight with Mattximus |
This month's spotlight is with Mattximus, author of two Featured Articles and 29 Featured Lists at current count.
I think I have a compulsion to make lists, it doesn't show up in my real life, but online I secretly get a lot of satisfaction making orderly lists and tables. It's a bit of a secret of mine, because it doesn't manifest in any other part of my life. My background is in biology, so this was a natural (haha) fit.
This experiment was just to see if I could get any random article to FA status, so I picked the very first alphabetical animal species according to the taxonomy and made that attempt. Technically, there isn't enough information for a species page so I just merged the species into a genus and went from there. It was a fun exercise, but doing it alone is not the most fun so it's probably on pause for the foreseeable future. Note: Aporhynchus is the first alphabetical taxon as follows: Animalia, Acanthocephala, Archiacanthocephala, Apororhynchida, Apororhynchidae, Apororhynchus
I would recommend getting a good article nominated, then a featured list up before tackling the FA. Lists are a bit more forgiving but give you a taste of what standards to expect from FA. The most time consuming thing is proper citations so make sure that is in order before starting either.
My personality in real life does not match my wikipedia persona. I'm not a very organized, or orderly in real life, but the wikipedia pages I brought to FL or FA are all very organized. Maybe it's my outlet for a more free-flowing life as a scientist/teacher.
The fact that wikipedia exists free of profit motive and free for everyone really is something special and I encourage everyone to donate a few dollars to the cause. |
August DYKs |
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Wikidata weekly summary #432
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Rob Fernandez (Wikimedia District of Columbia) on Listeria, a tool that uses SPARQL queries to define a list, and provides a bot that will update a wiki page containing that list if the results of that SPARQL query change, all based on Wikidata, 08 September. Agenda
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 8 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19 Facebook, YouTube, September 10
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #29, September 13
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Semantic Wikibase has been released by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18, workflows for SPARQL queries and QuickStatements Facebook, YouTube
- OpenRefine 3.4 was released
- How can I get data on all the dams in the world? Use Wikidata. By Addshore
- Wikidata Training Workshop 2, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
- Video: How to use QuickStatements - a tool to bulk upload data onto Wikidata. By Dr Sara Thomas
- Tool of the week
wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/WD_percentUsageDashboard
is a dashboard that measures Wikidata's usage and coverage on Wikimedia Foundation projects.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Entity Explosion, the browser add-on for Chrome is now also available for Firefox. When the user visits a web page, it displays data from Wikidata, about the subject of that page.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: LSG local body code, NYARC Discovery ID, Encyclopaedia of Architects, Vienna 1770–1945 ID, Hrvatska tehnička enciklopedija ID, ICP artist ID, TracesOfWar person ID, Firefox add-on ID, NHK Archives Portal person ID, Hrvatski biografski leksikon ID, InciWeb ID, YUAG ID, Wikipedia Library partner ID, FIPRESCI person ID, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: applies to form or aspect, blocked on the territory of, Liturgical category, Flickr image URL, turning radius, number of reboots, financials URL, SI base units, rank insignia2
- External identifiers: Syro-Malabar Church Parish ID, Database of Umgebinde houses in Bohemian Switzerland ID, Re-Member ID, DIL ID, Naver Vibe Artist ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust person ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, VA facility ID, Hikr Waypoint ID, tvmaze ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Danish educational institution number, Past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, photoLondon ID, uta-net.com song ID, Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
- Query examples:
- Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial
- A table of the 100 highest fees charged for using various kinds of facilities, normalized to United States dollars - OSM/Wikidata query
- Youngest age of UK MPs leaving office since 1900 (Source)
- Longest time UK MPs lived after leaving office since 1900 (Source)
- British cabinet members with past military service (Source)
- Earliest written record of 10 largest Czech cities (Source)
- Churches dedicated to Czech patron St. Wenceslas (blue) and Moravian patrons St. Cyril and Methodeus (orange) (Source)
- German municipality names ending with -in, -ing, -heim (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Added Wikidata support to Japanese Wikivoyage. phab:T261451
- Investigating the nature of our training outliers to improve the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item.
- Working on error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an item. phab:T260869
- Completed various investigations to make an informed decision on the output format of WikibaseManifest files (automated configuration detection for toolbuilders) phab:T261285
- Completed various bug fixes and wrap-up tasks to conclude the major engineering work on the Federated Properties project
- More work on Item Quality Scoring and Federated Properties
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Books & Bytes – Issue 40
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 40, July – August 2020
- New partnerships
- Al Manhal
- Ancestry
- RILM
- #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
- AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:15, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 40
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 40, July – August 2020
- New partnerships
- Al Manhal
- Ancestry
- RILM
- #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
- AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --14:26, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: August 2020
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Category:Flooding in Jakarta has been nominated for renaming
[edit]Category:Flooding in Jakarta has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Hanif Al Husaini (talk) 04:23, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #433
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: Alternate disclosure policy
- Events
- Past: The Workshop On Open Citations And Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 took place in Bologna and online on September 9 and included a talk State of WikiCite in 2020, available on Zenodo via doi:10.5281/zenodo.4019954.
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 15 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, September 16th at 13:00 UTC/GMT
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20: Facebook, YouTube, September 19
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #30, September 20
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Video: Youtuber Tom Scott tries to answer the question What Is The Best Thing?, using Wikidata to curate a collection of "things", and an online poll for people to vote on those things.
- "Our admiration for Wikidata and for the people who work with it knows no bounds. Having a single source of well modelled, massively interlinked, well managed data that anyone can query at the press of a button is a real thing of wonder." - says the UK Parliament data team
- Houcemeddine Turki, et al. (2020). Using logical constraints to validate information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of COVID-19 on Wikidata (Zenodo Preprint).
- Video: Wikidata basics short videos by Wikimedian in Residence at University of Edinburgh (YouTube)
- Video: Creating a Mix'n'Match set for Queensland Biota on Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19: Cradle and colours in queries. Facebook, YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Mbabel is a tool that simplifies article creation by providing pre-made sentences based on Wikidata statements.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The consultation phase for the Wikimedia movement Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is in progress until 6 October 2020. The UCoC drafting committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
- All the lists of languages used on Wikidata: feel free to improve this draft documentation page.
- The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
- WikiMap, a tool by User:DB111 that maps geocoded images from Commons and Wikipedia articles, now supports Wikidata items as well (Q99232292)
- Wikidata QID's are approaching 9 digits. Now is the time to fix any code or schemas that assume that Q numbers are smaller than 9 characters.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: aerial view, ride height, category for the exterior of the item, axle track
- External identifiers: Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, Grove Music Online ID, Hikr waypoint ID, DIL ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: expansion of, Oakeshott typology, Slack URL, TDD number, Hill size, K point, number of negative votes, number of support votes
- External identifiers: Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, KinoWiki ID, BD Gest' series ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, Discord username, China Treaty Database ID, Discord channel, Bollywood Hungama movie, NMC Heritage ID, identifiant d'un artiste département des arts graphiques du musée du Louvre, SPoT skater ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Lambiek Special pages, Lambiek comic magazines, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID
- Query examples:
- Shortest path of descent from Charlemagne to George Washington, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Elizabeth II
- List of most recent common ancestors (ordered by number of total degrees separated) between George Washington and George W. Bush (9th cousin 8 times removed), George Washington and Barack Obama (12th cousin 9 times removed), George Washington and Elizabeth II (2th consin 7 times removed), George W. Bush and Barack Obama (11th cousin), George W. Bush and Elizabeth II (14th cousin once removed), Barack Obama and Elizabeth II (19th cousin 3 times removed)
- Artists that have recorded songs in several languages, by number of different languages used (Source)
- Average age of companies listed on major indices (Source)
- Basque Country sister cities with world municipalities (Source)
- Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial (Source)
- Map of mountains in Austria showing their heights; from red for the lowest through green to black for the highest (Source)
- Top World Heritage sites by number of paintings depicting them (Source)
- Map of sports pitches for team sports that require between 10 and 20 players on the field - Wikidata/OSM query
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixing an error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an Item instead of just one. (phabricator:T260869)
- Development of version one of Federated Properties has concluded! Expect an announcement with timing of the release of this feature soon. Wikibase users who want an early look at the feature are invited to reach out to participate in the pre-release testing round.
- Development of the WikibaseManifest extension has continued into its second sprint; we focused on determining a product specification for the Manifest output.
- Finishing a draft documentation for a REST API to get it ready for a feedback round before implementation.
- Finished improvements to the automated scoring of the quality of Items with ORES. Still need to retrain ORES and deploy the changes before the scores are actually different though.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #434
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata Introduction Workshop (German) (September 29)
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 21 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: A starting point for newer institutions to think through what is involved in coordinating a Wikidata project, including shared infrastructure, training, and documentation, 22 September. Agenda
- Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 WikiDojo: Facebook, YouTube, September 25
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- "Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of Wikidata"
- ProWD: Detecting Knowledge Imbalances on Wikidata on blog.wikimedia.de
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20 WLM: Facebook, YouTube
- Video: Wikidata Training Workshop 3, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association (YouTube)
- Tool of the week
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
- WDQS/WCQS Status update (September 2): "We are planning to spend more time doing some analytics on our data. (1) What are the most expensive queries, what are they trying to achieve and is that reasonable? (2) Do we have performant subgraphs that we could expose independently?"
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: category for the exterior of the item, axle track, Stairway To Hell ID, Oakeshott typology, construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography
- External identifiers: Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID, TV Maze series ID, Barcelona Public art ID, University of Ghana Digital Collections (UGSpace) ID, Istrapedia ID, OnlyFans person ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, The Cutting Room Floor ID, Fatcat ID, China Treaty Database ID, e-GOV law ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Slack organization ID, Kansas Historic Resources Inventory ID, Historic Montana ID, ITF player ID 2020, BD Gest' series ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, P8624
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: defining mutations, nombre d'essais marqués, Netflix maturity rating, held event, number of paying subscribers, has census
- External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID, identificativo Ministero dell'interno, Dallas Museum of Art ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Energy Identification Code, Wikimedia Chat channel, Symptom Ontology ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, monumentsauxmorts.fr ID, monumentsdememoire.fr ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Museen Dresden article ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NPS place ID, SSYK 2012
- Query examples:
- Map of anything that memorializes or is named after a Whig Party member - OSM/Wikidata query
- Map of every railway station presently connected directly or indirectly to St Pancras on Wikidata
- Age of the winners of the Tour de France (Source)
- Location and date of death of Danish rulers (Source)
- Map of the places & causes of death of Roman Emperors (Source)
- Images of members of the 16th Odisha Assembly (2019-24) (Source)
- Star signs of Japanese Prime Ministers (Source)
- Video game series with the longest time gap between a game and its direct sequel (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- WQS now supports mwapi service request for Wikibooks (phab:T261125)
- The language codes lij-mc, ja-Hira, ja-Kana, ja-Hrkt, ja-Hani, ojp, ojp-Hira and ojp-Hani" have been added for use in monolingual text property values (phab:T254968, phab:T195816)
- The language codes de-1901, eo-hsistemo and eo-xsistemo, ja-hira, ja-kana and ja-hrkt have been added for Lexemes (phab:T262330,phab:T257422, phab:T250559)
- P1438 has been converted from string to external ID datatype (phab:T262198)
- Worked on fixing an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
- Investigating what work would be needed to get the new termbox that's available on mobile to also work on desktop
- Fixing several issues with Special:Undelete (phab:T261747)
- Fixing an error message being shown twice (phab:T260869)
- Starting the coding work on the Query Builder
- Continuing to write a draft for a REST API specification
- Finishing the remaining work needed to get the improved quality scoring for Items deployed to ORES
- Continuing work on WikibaseManifest: Determined the essential metadata that will be included in the WikibaseManifest file, added some new features (mostly MediaWiki metadata) to the Manifest that were requested by the OpenRefine team (phab:T262805 and phab:T262804) and set up a test system that will soon be ready for tool builders to use for testing the integration of their tools with WikibaseManifest
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #435
[edit]- Events
- Linking the 20th century paper history to the sum of all knowledge (Best practice presentation at DCMI Virtual 2020)
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 29 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: WikiNeocomensia: Wikidata + OpenRefine, workshop in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and in French, October 3
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #32, October 4
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions [IFLA] have published a series of six videos "discussions with professionals in order to discuss projects, issues, progress of Wikidata, Wikibase and bibliographic data in the field of libraries." Currently available as a playlist on YouTube under CC-By (Wikimedia Commons upload soon), with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French (Arabic and Chinese coming soon). The production was made by the IFLA Wikidata Working Group and funded by a WikiCite grant.
- Sidestepping the limitations of collection catalogues with machine learning and Wikidata
- Navigating the maze of Wikidata query logs by Angela Bonifati, Wim Martens, Thomas Timm
- Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 - WikiDojo on the Global Climate Strike: Facebook, YouTube
- Video: Wikidata tutorial for lecturers (in Czech) - YouTube
- Video: Creating and enriching linked data with Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Mix'n'Match Tutorial - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata for librarians (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- omeka-s-wikidata is an Omeka-S module for auto-suggesting Wikidata URIs and labels.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
- Nominate your favorite tools for the Coolest Tool Award 2020 before October 14th.
- Wikidata Walkabout is a new site that lets you browse and drill down through different "classes" of data on Wikidata: wikidatawalkabout.org
- Como is a new Android app, that uses Wikidata lexemes and senses to create a word-guessing game. It let's players create new senses and tests them on other players to finally save them in Wikidata. The app is developed as part of a BA thesis, to determine if this concept is useful to create more lexicographical data, and testers would be very welcome.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography, opening time, closing time, engine displacement, expansion of, Netflix maturity rating, TDD number
- External identifiers: American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, American Battlefield Trust ID (person), Occupational Outlook Handbook ID, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Book Marks ID, Re-Member ID, SPoT skater ID, NDL law ID, McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID, L'Officiel des spectacles ID, British and Irish Furniture Makers Online ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Dallas Museum of Art ID, FBref.com squad ID, Dostoyevsky and His Entourage ID, Lambiek comic magazines ID, Energy Identification Code, Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID, Ministry of the Interior of Italy ID, National Park Service place ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, Open Civic Data Division ID, Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Regional Council of Tuscany ID, level of professionalness, defined in terms of, form of property constraint, Attraction to, group identity, analog television standard, ritual object, number of rooms
- External identifiers: USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Indonesian prison database ID, LinkedIn group ID, Naver movie ID, CINE21 film ID, Movist film ID, KOBIS-ID, Max Movie film ID, The Boardr profile ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID, Google Play developer slug, Passion Patrimoine ID, FVLB work ID, BBC Sound Effects Asset ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the
Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist
setting enabled. (TheAdd pages and files I edit to my watchlist
setting was probably likewise ineffective, but this was not tested specifically.) Affected tools include QuickStatements, Mix'n'Match, and Wikidata Lexeme Forms; users of these and other tools may see more pages being added to their watchlists now. (This only applies to new edits and page creations; previously created or edited pages will not be automatically added to the watchlist retroactively.) - Working on the basic building blocks of the Query Builder towards making it possible to create the first very simple query with it
- Talking to people about comparing Wikidata's data against other databases and flagging mismatches
- Fixing an issue with Item creations via the API by blocked users leading to skipped entity IDs (phab:T232620)
- Fixed an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
- Finishing the draft of the REST API spec to get it ready for feedback
- WikibaseManifest: created a separate key for local entities and decided what we do about non-local entity sources based on tool-builder feedback (phab:T263527) and specifying the API in OpenApi format (phab:T262919)
- A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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[edit]Wikidata weekly summary #436
[edit]- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Fuzheado
- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT)
- Upcoming: plenty of events for the Wikidata birthday, check the calendar and feel free to organise one!
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- What does/doesn’t follow Benford’s law: An analysis of hundreds of sets of numbers from Wikidata.
- Video: How to create and edit items on Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata and wikiprojects of interest to librarians (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: TDD number, twin town sign, character designer, Deutsche Bahn station code
- External identifiers: Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID, Native Plants Database ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Maniadb album ID, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Présence Compositrices work ID, Regional Council of Tuscany ID, Indonesian prison database ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Twitter topics ID, Naver movie ID, Bollywood Hungama movie ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, London Stock Exchange company ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Infobox based on, CompositionToday composers showcase ID, parallel street, World Factbook country code, port calls, described at Wikipedia page, erected by, PIM award ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
- External identifiers: Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID, CompositionToday composer ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, ACER code, Dictionnaire biographique du fouriérisme ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, SwissLipids identifier, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Minecraft UUID, Minecraft username, Science Museum Group ID, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), RNACentral ID, NPS people ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers-ID, Dresden Street ID, Spotify playlist ID
- Query examples:
- Birthplace of people named Michael or any other variant of the name (Source)
- Map of outdoor warning sirens, color-coded by manufacturer. A layer selector lets you toggle individual manufacturers on and off. Clicking a siren shows its make and model if available. - OSM/Wikidata query
- Soviet cartoons in descending order of popularity in the world (Source)
- List of ISO countries showing each country's synonyms, labels, etc. (Source)
- Norwegian politicians who have been members of at least 3 parties (Source)
- Streets in Leiden named after people/things (Source)
- Maps of arts and humanities research grants funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK between 2013-2019. Sorted by year, Sorted by budget (Source)
- Newest database reports:
- EntitySchema directory - feedback welcome on the report talk page.
- Newest properties:
- Development
- First pieces of the Query Builder are coming together and we are working towards making it generate the first dumb query
- Talking to people about their thoughts on checking Wikidata's data against other databases. If you're interested reach out to Mohammed.
- Got some first internal feedback for the REST API specification draft. We'll publish it for feedback in the next days.
- Fixing an issue with certain language codes no longer being available (phab:T264294)
- Working on making sure blocked bots don't waste Item IDs when trying to create new Items (phab:T232620)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Postcard #5
[edit]Postcard from the West Coast
Sunday 4 October: Hokitika |
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Kia ora from Hokitika! Tomorrow I pack up the car and head to Greymouth to present to Development West Coast our previous month's work, before heading south • Yes, Glacier Country are supplying accommodation in south Westland – Ōkārito, Franz Josef, and Fox – for the next two weeks. Possibly because I mouthed off to the media that Fox Glacier's entry is so short who would want to stay there? • So this week it's Ōkārito (splitting the article into settlement and lagoon), kōtuku, spoonbills, the West Coast Wildlife Centre (Q99767675), rowi, Franz Josef glacier (and NZ glacier photos in general glacier articles), historic buildings thereabouts, etc • I uploaded lots of Stewart Nimmo photos of the Haast area, and have some Paparoa ones by Jase Blair coming soon. • Pakoire noticed that Fayne Robinson (Q99836010) needs an article – can we collaborate on one? He's def notable and we need more coverage of Māori from the Coast. • Also women: see the Westland women in the WikiProject Hokitika Museum Google doc and Hokitika Museum Google drive. • Last week I wrote or improved articles about Hokitika Museum, Lake Kaniere, History House Museum, Lake Mahinapua, and Westland District Library. Error check, cleanup etc welcome. It's great to be able to work from folders and scrapbooks stuffed full of newspaper clippings! • Housekeeping: Thank you all for collaborating and filling in gaps, especially with historic buildings. Paora has been doing some great work. Please keep letting me know of any photos you need taking on the spot. • Take care — Giantflightlessbirds |
Postcard #6
[edit]Postcard from the West Coast
Sunday 11 October: Franz Josef |
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Gidday from Franz Josef/Waiau! Deserted tourist town, everything's a bit pricey, but there are kea circling over the main street which makes up for a lot • I just spent three days in Ōkārito, wrote articles about pakihi and Ōkārito lagoon, and took/was given a lot of photos of Kōtuku and hiking trails. A dearth of printed sources on Ōkārito but there are enough photos and info to make at least sections/galleries for buildings like Donovan's Store (Q79300924), Ōkārito School (Q79303038), and Ōkārito Obelisk (Q79309599) on its article • There are too many photos of Franz Josef glacier! It would be great to make a curated gallery of the most useful ones on its Commons page. Also finding and uploading good photos from DigitalNZ and the Macmillan Brown A. C. Graham Collection would help heaps • Local heritage sites that need articles: the Hendes Gallery, Defiance Hut, Chancellor Hut • I'll be spending Tuesday in the West Coast Wildlife Centre, looking at baby kiwi and improving Haast Tokoeka and Rowi articles • Great to see a new Fayne Robinson article from Pakoire, and Maida Bryant from MurielMary; Paora's been beavering away on lists of mayors • Housekeeping: do reach out to any of the team for a hand if some random editor knocks you back or makes trouble. Don't let them rattle you! We're here to help each other. • Take care and be kind — Giantflightlessbirds |
Wikidata weekly summary #437
[edit]- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 13 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, October 14 at 12:00 GMT
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #34, October 18
- Search Platform Office Hours happens first Wednesday of each month. Come with questions related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata reaches Q100000000, by Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić
- A new extension can add support for linking to local media files in Statements (and not just files on Wikimedia Commons) to a Wikibase instance (Demo video, developed by Professional.Wiki)
- LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group presentation: How Entity Explosion fits into the Wikidata ecosystem, by Toby Hudson
- Video: Wikidata and COVID-19: Creating a collaborative knowledge graph from CORD-19, by Csisc
- Tool of the week
- OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- noratelimit for bots to be removed on October 20th
- The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services.
- The 2020 Coolest Tool Award is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of negative votes, number of support votes, x-offset, y-offset, social media followers, fandom, has census, parallel street, entry in abbreviations table
- External identifiers: Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), FVLB work ID, Passion Patrimoine ID, Biographical dictionary of Fourierism ID, CompositionToday composer ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, SwissLipids identifier, ACER code, Science Museum Group ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers ID, RNACentral ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: ship's captain, planetary coordinates, Date of signature, Unicode name
- External identifiers: CPV Supplementary, PeoplePill person ID, O*NET OnLine code, Emojipedia ID, GADM ID, CTAN package ID, MinDat taxon ID, AniList anime ID, AniList manga and light novel ID, Normattiva ID, ILO Thesaurus ID
- Query examples:
- Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List - OSM/Wikidata query
- Women actress less than 70 years old who are descendants of the first king of Navarre, ordered by number of sitelinks
- Dead Social Democratic Party members who have been ministers in 1992 or later (Source)
- Artworks with an image in Wikidata by year of creation (Source)
- Map of mountains in Switzerland (Source)
- Map of markets in the city of Surabaya (Source)
- National Anthems by tonality (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The RFC to semi-protect all property pages has been implemented, all properties now require the “autoconfirmed” right to edit (T254280)
- Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T220883)
- Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
- Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
- Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
- Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
This Month in GLAM: September 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #438
[edit]- Discussions
- Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates
- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 20 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: hands-on work with Wikidata on creating items for authors of COVID 19 papers and brainstorming for future hands-on work, 20 October. Agenda
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperabilidade e acesso aos dados, in Portuguese by Ederporto (Wiki Movimento Brasil) - October 22 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT)
- WikiCite 2020: Virtual Conference happening 26-28 October 2020. Many live-stream sessions across several languages and timezones. LWyatt (WMF) (talk)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tisane Labs announce new feature in Tisane API, allowing tagging and extraction of Wikidata entities: blog post
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing at HACK4OPENGLAM - YouTube
- Video: Wikidata Lexeme BY Mahir256 - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
- Video: Introduction to SPARQL (in Swedish) - YouTube
- Video: Bibliographic data on Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Prepbio tool uses Wikidata to create the beginnings of a Wikipedia stub biography article. (2020-10-19)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ritual object
- External identifiers: Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Spotify playlist ID, Artist ID of the department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre, NBIC taxon ID, Danish educational institution number, CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Unicode name, branch or affiliate, economy of topic, checkin and checkout times (v.2), maximum current, Skipsrevyen ID, route operated, power plant unit, annual average daily traffic, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par
- External identifiers: Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, CCFr library ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica, BHL name ID, AWMDB person ID, AVN person ID, American Heritage ID, xHamster ID, Great Places ID, Famepedia ID, Nachlässe in Austria, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, PAN member, DC Historic Sites ID, Literary Encyclopedia (1929-1939), Concise Literary Encyclopedia, aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole
- Query examples:
- Gallery of 3D models of structures mapped in OpenStreetMap that are available under Creative Commons licenses at Wikimedia Commons - OSM/Wikidata query (sophox.org)
- Item named after item named after item named after item named after item named after item
- UK parliament members' opposition posts, start dates and end dates where Wikidata has a Parliament ID for that member (Source)
- Count of Irish Statutory Instruments, 1948-2020 (Source)
- Movie genre trends (Source)
- Scientific papers explaining backward contact tracing (Source)
- List of sovereign states in en, fr, de, ru (Source)
- Locations depicted in paintings (Source)
- The most commonly depicted locations (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
- So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (phab:T264883)
- Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
- Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Postcard #7
[edit]Final Postcard from the West Coast
Friday 23 October:Reefton |
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Kia ora koutou from Reefton! • We're in the last few days of the project, so time to wrap up loose ends. • Most of the last week I was based in in Fox Glacier, organising photo uploads from Fox Glacier Guiding of the glacier itself and Chancellor Hut, check them out • I've also photographed hiking trails and worked on articles about the West Coast Wildlife Centre, Lake Gault and Lake Matheson • Here in Reefton I'm improving the article about the town, have found info on the Inangahua County Library for DrThneed, and am writing about the Reefton Distillery • There are photos of all of Reeftons's historic buildings (and I've added a few), but no articles about the Reefton Courthouse or the Reefton School of Mines, and the Reefton Power Station article could do with work • Since I last wrote DrThneed has been hard at work on libraries, there's a nice Donovan's Store article from Gertrude206, much-needed improvements to pounamu by Pakoire, and Paora's been super-industrious with historic buildings but most importantly managed to produce a photo of the giant sandfly of Pukekura • Housekeeping: I'm sending out prizes kindly donated by Development West Coast and Friends of Waiuta to those of you who've worked hardest on the project, so if I ask for a postal address that's why. But even if you just signed up to get these postcards, that's fine too! • Thank you all for making a wonderful project work; I've never coordinated a team effort like this, and I think it's potentially a model for other edit-a-thons. Its been great fun. And I hope this has inspired you to keep chipping away, improving the coverage of New Zealand's beautiful West Coast. Ka kite ano, — Giantflightlessbirds |
Wikidata weekly summary #439
[edit]- Events
- Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
- Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
- Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
- Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
- WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
- Wikidata Education Week, online, on October 26-30
- 24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
- Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
- Birthday celebration in Rennes, France, on October 29th
- Birthday Celebration in Accra, Ghana, and online, on October 29th
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CET (16:00 GMT)
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 27 at 18:00 CET
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Excerpts from Wikidata Birthday events
- Analyze Swedish politics with Wikidata (Blog post)
- WikiCite awards 23 grants & eScholarships to improve open citations (including plenty of Wikidata-related projects)
- Video: Eyoungstrom and Evolution and evolvability explore and explain different Wikidata tools in 15-part series on YouTube - Playlist
- Video: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperability and data access (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Video: Wikidata for cultural institutions and GLAM-WIKI partnerships (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Wikidata Training Workshop 4, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Server switch: all wikis will be in read-only on Tuesday, October 27th at 14:00 UTC for up to an hour (more information). All services hosted by WMF (e.g. tools hosted on wmcloud.org) are also impacted. Non-essential code deployments will not happen this week.
- Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) develops instructional material for the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS): wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of rooms, permits, prohibits, economy of topic, check-in time, check-out time
- External identifiers: CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article, GADM ID, Lambiek Special pages ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, ILO Thesaurus ID, AVN performer ID, CCFr library ID, xHamster performer ID, AWMDB performer ID, Normattiva ID, American Heritage place ID, BHL name ID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Minecraft UUID, Nachlässe in Austria ID, AniList anime ID, National Park Service people ID, AniList manga ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, O*NET OnLine code, Opta football competition ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, The Boardr profile ID, Great Places ID, PIM award ID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, DC Historic Sites place ID, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: annual average daily traffic, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par, Online catalog, funeral, Inaugural address, Hong Kong film rating, word lookup, hair or facial hair style, Cup size, for color scheme
- External identifiers: aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole, Base constructions bibliothèques ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Malmö Museer, IMVDb music video ID, NSSDCA ID, Docker Hub repository, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Persée article ID, Geneanet Family Name ID, Blogger user profile ID, USL League One ID, Stolperstein identifiers, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID
- Query examples:
- Commemorative plaques and their subjects in Aberdeen, Scotland; with photos of plaque and subject and Wikipedia links. (Source)
- Cities with female mayor (Source)
- Most common variants of the name "Susanne" in each country (Source)
- Birthplaces of art historians (Source)
- Invasive species in EU and whether they have articles in different languages (Source)
- Birthplace of Olympique de Marseille players (Source)
- COVID-19 deaths by month (Source)
- Wikimedia Commons Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
- Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T264883)
- Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
- Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T265897)
- Created Extension:WikibaseManifest documentation on MediaWiki.
- Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
- Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
- Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (phab:T265118)
- Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (phab:T258354)
- Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #440
[edit]- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)
- Events
- Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
- 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
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37, November 8
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata is eight years old - an interview with product manager Lydia Pintscher (in German), by Elisabeth Giesemann
- Wikidata 8th birthday, Message from the development team
- Happy 8th birthday, Wikidata! (8 reasons why Wikidata is great), by Will Kent
- Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!, by Stella Wisdom
- Tree networks, national history and open mountains of data - knowledge through node formation with Wikidata for the 8th, by Jens Bemme
- Video: Why is Wikidata important? (Wikidata birthday event - in Spanish)
- 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, by Lianna D'amato
- CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia patch, by Egon Willighagen
- Video: Wikidata+OpenStreetMaps talk and discussion
- Video: Wikidata – what libraries need to know about wikidata - Kohacon20, by David Nind
- Video: Visualizing the neuroscience research ecosystem via Wikidata Scholia, by Daniel Mietchen
- Video: Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian)
- All videos from the 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 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 (Wiki Movimento Brasil)
- Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial website – a new user-friendly tutorial to querying Wikidata (Wikimedia Israel)
- Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website – 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 from Semantic MediaWiki
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms
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feature: announcement tweet and documentation edit - Automated finding references: dump and dashboard (Wikidata development team - announcement)
- Better Item quality judgments from ORES (Wikidata development team)
- Announcement of the distributed WikidataCon 2021 (Wikidata development team - announcement)
- Results of Sum of all Indian paintings datathon organized by WikiProject India.
- Happy birthday Wikidata! In the Abstract Wikipedia Updates (2020-10-29) by the project team, speaking about the future integration with Wikidata.
- Knowledge Grapher filmmaker mode can visually display all the films and cast members of an individual director or producer.
- 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. Follow this page to keep up to date: WikidataCon 2021.
- The 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.
- Wikidata Eighth Birthday Presents
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: die axis, annual average daily traffic, maximum current
- External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, VA facility ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, Persée article ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, Base constructions bibliothèques ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Matrix room, regex (lang), Ukrainian romanization, Power consumption index, Heating energy consumption index, Business Number (Canada), notable tv series, number of points or goals attempted
- External identifiers: Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, NCAA school code, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Twitch team ID, Twitch tag ID, FINA Wiki ID, All the Tropes identifier, MTMT journal ID, UAF person ID, Soccerway stadium ID, NCAA Statistics player ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, Wolfram language WordData sense, Namuwiki
- Query examples:
- Movies by rate of actors who studied at RADA (When distribution has at last 5 actors)
- Central libraries in California linked to their branch library
- Writers in the SIEFAR dictionary with a portrait in Wikimedia Commons (Source)
- Place and date of birth of people buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (one color per century of birth) (Source)
- Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) (Source)
- Things Donald Trump and others own / have owned (Source)
- Graveplots by gender in Père Lachaise Cemetery (Source)
- Co-authorship between researchers from National University of La Plata (Source)
- Number of Harvard Law graduates dead by year between 1850 and 1950 (Source)
- Visualization of the works of Charles Heaphy (Source)
- Identifiers present on the item for Penelope Cruz (or other movie people), but not on the item for Sean Connery
- Map of places of birth of people with an identifier Inter-university Health Library in Wikidata colored by century of birth (Source)
- Map of the trees recorded in OSM with protection status. OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject European Film Awards
- Newest database reports: Sean Connery filmography
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (phab:T263435)
- Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (phab:T264883)
- Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (phab: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.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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[edit]Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bunbury Wildlife Park, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Discover Deadly, and given [3] you might consider adding West Australian Reptile Park to the list. Mitch Ames (talk) 07:32, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #441
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous
- Other
- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries about visualisation on maps 🗺️ on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 10 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #38, November 15
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata Eighth Birthday Meetup - Database validation of Wikidata by Houcemeddine Turki
- Turning Scholia into a platform for living scientometric studies (French, English) by Houcemeddine Turki
- Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community @ ISWC 2020 with papers about interesting aspects of Wikidata.
- Video: Visualizing the research ecosystem of neuroscience research via Wikidata. by Daniel Mietchen at Neuromatch Conference
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #23 - YouTube, Facebook
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube, Facebook, November 14, 19.00 UTC
- Tool of the week
- Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar). Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all!
- Remember to claim your Cloud VPS project and mark it as
{{Used}}
. Unclaimed projects risk being suspended or shutdown on 2020-12-01. - Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: birth rate, port calls, rank insignia, online catalog, format as language specific regular expression
- External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Vélib' Métropole station ID, Blogger user profile ID, Malmö Museer ID, MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: favicon, Dedicated heritage institution, MetaSat ID, epithet, Poverty incidence (Philippines), covid info, filestore
- External identifiers: AniDB tag ID, ClassInd audiovisual work ID, ClassInd game ID, Qobuz label ID, IMMuB album ID, FIS grass skier ID, AlKindi ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute personal profile ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute institution profile ID, EIK, edition humboldt digital ID, European Film Awards ID, Memorial Book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938, IMMuB artist ID, AIWARDS ID, LIMIS person ID, IAFD distributor ID
- Query examples:
- Terminus locations of A Roads in Britain (Source)
- POTUS/UK PM age at inauguration/appointment and England mean age (Source)
- Map of (public-sector) winners of H2020 projects in the Netherlands sortable by year (Source)
- People who have held the positions of both Vice President and President of the United States (Source)
- Crew of missions to the ISS and human spaceflights that have docked with the ISS (Source)
- Graph of reasons UK MPs have left Parliament, grouped by decade since the 1890s (Source)
- Number of successful UK election petitions by parliamentary term, 1859 onwards (includes by-elections as well as general elections) (Source)
- List of longest Cars (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
- Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
- Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
- Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (phab:T264538)
- Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673)
- Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (phab:T263435)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
This Month in GLAM: October 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #442
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 17 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: SWIB20 (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference, multiple Wikidata-related presentations, free and online, November 23-27
- Upcoming: Editathon (or "connection sprint") on parliamentarian documents in Swedish, November 20
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Dan Shick on creating and managing community documentation, November 17. Agenda
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #39, November 22
- Past: ELIXIR BioHackathon 2020 updates:
- Project #13: >20 thousand PDB ligand identifiers added and new formatter URL: https://twitter.com/ESchymanski/status/1326875606177492993
- Project #33: Using wikidata query service in the taxon_mapper in Molseq - connecting molecular (genbank) and specimen (GBIF) data app
- Project #35: Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas with Wikidata starting at 18:00
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Upcoming: Wikidata Knowledge graph (in Polish) by Zbyszko Papierski on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 6:45 pm to 9:30 pm GMT+1
- Video: A Linked and Open Bibliography for Aegean Glyptic in the Bronze Age by Martina Trognitz, recorded in April 2019
- Video: ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2020 Introduction to ShEx/Entity Schemas
- Video: Introduction to Gene Wiki
- Video: ISB Biocuration 2020 Online Workshop: Genewiki 2 Methodology - Updating with bots
- Video: An Introduction to Wikibase and Wikidata. Barbara Fischer and Sarah Hartmann
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24
- Video: Programming for Cultural Heritage: Using Python to retrieve data from Wikidata
- Video: Wikipedia & Wikidata for Middle East Librarians
- Video: OpenStreetMap & Wikidata using Sophox - OpenStreetMap US Connect 2020
- Video: Adding Pashas to Wikidata. 7 videos: Wikipedia to OpenRefine, Standardizing dates, Standardizing names in OpenRefine, Wikidata reconciliation, Adding additional data, Combining Arabic and English Lists, Wikidata Schema
- Blogpost: Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data. "Most of the individuals we have found are obviously relatively obscure and have no item entry in Wikidata...As such, we have created around one thousand new items over the last two months, all of which serve as a framework to record the key parameters of a cleric’s career".
- Tool of the week
- ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Join the upcoming #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia campaign from January 15th to February 5th 2021 and improve Wikidata items by adding references to statements.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: dedicated heritage entity, defining mutations, digitised by, for color scheme, parent (unspecified)
- External identifiers: MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID, IMVDb music video ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, Docker Hub repository, USL League One ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, ClassInd game ID, AAGM people ID, AAGM site ID, AniDB tag ID, UAF person ID, Dignity Memorial person ID, Opera Online performer ID, Bioweb Ecuador ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica ID, BBFC reference, AlKindi ID, FilmPolski press collection ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Twitch tag ID, European Film Awards ID, MSRI institution ID, MSRI person ID, stolpersteine-berlin.de Stolperstein identifier, stolpersteine-hamburg.de Stolperstein identifier, LIMIS person ID, NSDOK Stolperstein identifier, stolpersteine-bremen.de Stolperstein identifier, snublestein.no Stolperstein identifier, AIWARDS ID, Twitch team ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: use as citation in Wikimedia page, GitLab username, given name identical to this family name, population connectée, indexed in bibliographic review, ISDS ID, inscription image, Wanfang article ID, CQVIP article ID, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, CIP data sheet
- External identifiers: IMMuB artist ID, IAFD distributor ID, Swiss-Gym Male ID, Swiss-Gym Female ID, FISG person ID, Ligue 1 player ID, Ligue 2 player ID, AAA ID, Museum Day ID, TeachMe tutor ID, ISOF place, CRGPG ID, Visages du diocèse d'Autun ID, Geneall ID, Namuwiki (2), Union des artistes ID, Kinorium Movie ID, Kinorium Person ID, Prêtres du diocèse de Quimper ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries authority ID, Restaurant Guru Restaurant ID, Foodlocate Restaurant ID, Musica Brasilis ID, IEV number, CONOR authority IDs, LibraryThing venue ID, BPI ID, PromoDj ID, Salzburgwiki, Drizly Product ID, Baijiahao ID, ESPN men's college basketball team ID
- Query examples:
- Rivers and canals in the United Kingdom.
- Map of images taken for the Wicipics photography campaign in Wales (Source)
- Number of people and terms of UK parties since the 1945 election (Source)
- UK MPs who have voluntarily resigned their seats and then come back for a different seat in the same Parliament (Source)
- Media articles, public documents and academic references on backward/cluster-focused contact tracing (including models) (Source)
- Date of birth of current French prefects and their sources (Source)
- Protected heritage related to the Camino in the Basque Country (Source)
- Living 'notable' people with the given name "Karen" per 100k per country (Source)
- Paintings in the Suter Art Gallery (Source)
- Chilean ministers who were not educated at any high school (Source)
- Age of US presidents start and end time (Source)
- Map of Welsh Railways (Source)
- Connections of railways of the Netherlands (Source)
- Distinct languages of Wikidata lexemes. Top 5 are Russian-101144, English-69066, Latin-32106, Hebrew-28286 and Basque-22904.(Source)
- Death place of all Basque people with known birthplace on Wikipedia, by century. Interactive map on kepler.gl (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (phab:T205525). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
- Working on language/spelling variant selector bug on Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme that makes it difficult to continue creating Items or Lexemes (phab:T266638)
- Work on the Query Builder continues. We're focusing on making it possible to query for all Items with a specific Property but any value next.
- Went over all the feedback we have received for the REST API specification draft. Overall the feedback is positive and really useful. So we will move ahead after thinking more about the remaining points that were raised.
- Working on making changes to descriptions show up in the RecentChanges feed and watchlists on Wikipedia and co as well even if they are not explicitly used (phab:T191831)
- Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266496)
- Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (phab:T267553) and prototype test workflow (phab:T267554)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Books & Bytes – Issue 41
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 41, September – October 2020
- New partnership: Taxmann
- WikiCite
- 1Lib1Ref 2021
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:48, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
ikidata weekly summary #443
[edit]- Events
- Past: Wikidata Workshop 2020 presentations YouTube playlist
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 24 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: rC3, the remote version of the Chaos Communication Congress, on December 27-30. Like in previous years, the WikipakaWG will host sessions and workshops related to Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects. The call for participation is open until November 30th.
- Upcoming: Ghana Histo Cita-thon. Friday 27th November 2020. 9am to 2pm UTC.
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #40, November 29
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Wikidata, the collaborative database for machines and humans. Blogpost by Àlex Hinojo (in Catalan)
- 24 hours of open data - The meetup for the eighth Wikidata birthday, Blogpost by Lea Lacroix (in German)
- The future of the Riksdag's data in Wikidata. Blogpost by Jan Ainali (in Swedish)
- WikiPathways: connecting communities: research article outlining, among other things, how Wikidata is used and integrated
- Using SPARQL to combine Wikidata and OSM triples
- ANN: A platform to annotate text with Wikidata IDs (report) "Report of the work done by the Ann team at the eLife Sprint 2020. It describes the effort pursued towards a system for universal annotation of biomedical articles using the collaborative knowledge graph of Wikidata".
- TU Dresden lecture on Knowledge Graphs (replay)
- Tool of the week
- EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The proposals phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until November 30th. You can submit wishes in various categories, like Wikidata.
- SMWCon 2020 virtual conference is from 24 to 26 November 2020. Do not forget to register at Hopin!
- The note-taking app Kanopi got first pieces of Wikidata integration.
- The Listeria Evolution: Listeria has got an update
- Wikimedia Deutschland has two open positions around the Wikidata development team; Full Stack Developer and Partner Relationship Manager
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: epithet, attraction to, hairstyle, poverty incidence
- External identifiers: IMMuB artist ID, IMMuB album ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset ID, IAFD film distributor ID, Yandex Zen ID, NCAA school code, Church of Jesus Christ pioneer ID, Pitchfork artist ID, Monuments de mémoire ID, Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism ID, Xfinity Stream ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID, edition humboldt digital ID, GitLab username, AAA attraction ID, Swiss-Gym Male ID, Swiss-Gym Female ID, Museum Day ID, PAN member, Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries authority ID, MetaSat ID, Visages du diocèse d'Autun ID, SPOnG game ID, Prêtres du diocèse de Quimper ID, LibraryThing venue ID, Union des artistes ID, Restaurant Guru Restaurant ID, PromoDj ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: vénéré à, Number of blood donors, People reached, number of awards, has positive marker, ID pattern, lunar coordinates, adjacent to, date posted, ITRANS, National Library at Kolkata romanization, complementary property, MTRCB rating, DBLP conference ID, fait l'objet d'une vénération à
- External identifiers: DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Hyperion Records person ID, Arken, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, AAA campground ID, AstroGen ID, Reliwiki page ID, Sonneveld-index, SIL ID, AniDB Episode ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, Lumni ID, Archives at Yale Names ID
- Query examples:
- Aberdeen recycling centers and recycling points (Source)
- Map of Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 participant's institutions (federated query) (Source)
- Women who play chess and have a Wikipedia article in Spanish (They are 132 while men have 899 entries) (Source)
- Timeline of Dietary Advocates (Source)
- Philosophers born between 0 and 500 grouped by the decade where they lived (Source)
- Video games from ?country (template) (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is)
- Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (phab:T261275)
- Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (phab:T267502)
- Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (phab:T267023)
- Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (phab:T266936)
- Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to dockerhub (phab:T264538)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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[edit]Deletion of my comments CordiKFR
[edit]Hi JarrahTree,
you messaged me a few days ago about my edits and that they might be advertisement. They are not, as they primarily explain the music to the users. Please do not delete my edits, as they are for informational purposes.
Thank you and kind regards, CordiKFR CordiKFR (talk) 12:54, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
What to do with WP:PORTS and WP:YAR
[edit]What do you think should be done with WP:PORTS? We had the 2011 merger discussion with the Maritime Transport Taskforce, which was adopted with fairly minimal discussion but never fully enacted. Unfortunately the merger did not lead to any real gain in editor numbers, and perhaps diluted the attention anyone actually paid to ports topics. And now as far as I can tell I'm the only member of WP:PORTS not to have retired from Wikipedia. :)
I particularly don't like the project being left in its current half-merged state. I reckon it needs to either be completely merged into the Maritime Transport taskforce and that taskforce then urged to get involved in the wonders of port articles; or it needs un-merging and re-promotion as an independent collaboration.
WP:YAR also seems to have died a sad death (again). If anything this is more serious, as pirate articles more quickly fill with unsourced nonsense. The project has no obvious merger target, but there's surely enough editor interest in poach to get it up and running again on its own. Or is this not worth the effort, and should it just be left in its current inactive state?
Anyway: given your own background in maritime history, I was hoping to get your views on the above, before raising it more widely. Opinions welcome on these or any other options! -- Euryalus (talk) 09:17, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #444
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will have several speakers joining us to discuss their projects in lightning talks, 1 December. Agenda
- Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
- Online edition of the Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award ceremony, on Friday, December 11th at 17:00 UTC.
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #41, December 6
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Linking OpenStreetMap with knowledge graphs — Link discovery for schema-agnostic volunteered geographic information (the KGs referred to are Wikidata & DBPedia)
- "Women’s representation and voice in media coverage of the coronavirus crisis": an analysis linking news articles to information on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Wikidata Bib v0, prototype for personalized analytics of scientific readings using Wikidata.
- Video: Strategies for Assembling the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph by Roderic Page
- Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
- Tool of the week
- osm2kg is a tool to facilitate matching Wikidata entries to OSM nodes.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted video and chat channels for socializing.
- The University of Nevada has an open position around Wikidata; Digital Collections Wikimedian-in-Residence
- Round 2 of the consultation on using Wikidata for curriculum digitization begun on November 24th, and will end on December 7th. You can participate by sharing your ideas in this response form (Google forms)
- Wiki Movimento Brasil will support WikidataCon 2021
- Wikidata descriptions changes will be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist on Wikimedia wikis
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: facial hair, identity element, mathematical inverse, has operator, has marker, Hong Kong film rating, indexed in bibliographic review, number of taxpayers, ITRANS, complementary property, number of points/goals attempted, Water area, MTRCB rating, power consumption index, heating energy consumption index
- External identifiers: Absolute Games person ID, FIS grass skier ID, FISG athlete ID, Kinorium movie ID, CONOR.AL ID, CONOR.BG ID, CONOR.KS ID, CONOR.SR ID, Musica Brasilis ID, Salzburgwiki ID, IEV number, British Phonographic Industry ID, CRGPG ID, Drizly product ID, Canada Business Number, FINA Wiki ID, Foodlocate restaurant ID, Qobuz label ID, AAA campground ID, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, Hyperion Records person ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item ID, DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ID, HLTV player ID, Kinorium person ID, AstroGen ID, BBC sound effects asset ID, Namuwiki ID, CIP data sheet, AniDB episode ID, edition humboldt digital Flora ID, Sistema de Información Legislativa ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: ELSPA rating, cites work string, artistic director, MDJF ID, Coordinates of depicted place, first family name in Portuguese name, propriétés à éviter, Commons category for the view from the item, Filmstriben film-ID, Mailing List, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data
- External identifiers: vets.cz ID, Parler ID, HAL Journal id, Fitzwilliam Museum ID, National Gallery of Australia ID, U.S. Masters Swimming ID, Gab ID, Museo del Prado ID, National Gallery of Ireland ID, Auckland Art Gallery ID, Artfacts ID, Order of Canada ID, SKD ID, DIA ID, ZOBODAT, AppGallery app ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, Amsterdam Museum ID, theses.cz ID, curid
- Query examples:
- Politicians with an account at GitHub, CPAN, or Wikimedia (Source)
- Percentage of deaths caused by tuberculosis by decade (Source)
- Number of programming languages and their paradigms (Source)
- Museums within 2 miles of MoMA (federated query) (Source)
- Largest cities of the world ordered by population (Source)
- Italian politicians who served as a minister in more than one cabinet since 1990 (Source)
- People born after 1800 whose “name in native language” is in Latin (Source)
- UK statues and whether they are of nobles and/or women (Source)
- Location of German cities with a population count greater than 50.000 (Source)
- Map of medicines used (green) to fight infectious diseases (orange) (Source)
- Schema examples: museum
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Development on the Query Builder is continuing. You can follow along at https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org
- Fixed an issue where language fallback indicators were still shown when falling back from a variant of the language (phab:T267502)
- Fixed an issue on Lexeme pages where language and lexical category fields turn red on unfocus even though no changes were made (phab:T266936)
- Working on improving what happens to sitelinks when an article is moved to a unsupported namespace (phab:T261275))
- Investigating a significant increase in skipped Item IDs (phab:T268625)
- Addressing the feedback for the draft of the REST API spec
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #445
[edit]- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia, presented in English by Mike Peel (Wiki Movimento Brasil). The event is supported by a WikiCite e-scholarship. December 8th 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT), via YouTube.
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 8 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: Wikimedia 2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony, December 11th at 17:00 GMT (details)
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #42, December 13
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- A massive new effort to name millions sold into bondage during the transatlantic slave trade. The Washington Post writes about enslaved.org, a Wikibase instance run at Michigan State University, that collects and creates Linked Open Data about the transatlantic slave trade. (Source)
- Video: Introduction to Wikidata by and with Alicia Fagerving from Wikipedia Day 2020
- Video: How to use Wikidata Mix'n'match tool - YouTube
- Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
- Tool of the week
- User:Zvpunry/EntitySchemaHighlighter.js user script highlights the entities in the content of a Schema and shows information when hovering the link. (2020-12-07)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We now have a central repository for wikibase-cli templates, with the aim to document best practices, offer general purpose request/create/edit templates, but also offer more niche templates as examples of what's possible: contributions and template requests welcome!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: identity element, mathematical inverse, has operator, has marker, Hong Kong film rating, indexed in bibliographic review, number of taxpayers, ITRANS, complementary property, number of points/goals attempted, water area, MTRCB rating, power consumption index, heating energy consumption index, road name formatter, ELSPA rating, kunya, religion or world view
- External identifiers: FINA Wiki ID, Foodlocate restaurant ID, Qobuz label ID, AAA campground ID, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, Hyperion Records person ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item ID, DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ID, HLTV player ID, Kinorium person ID, AstroGen ID, BBC sound effects asset ID, Namuwiki ID, CIP data sheet, AniDB episode ID, edition humboldt digital Flora ID, Sistema de Información Legislativa ID, BG EIK, All the Tropes identifier, Concise Literary Encyclopedia ID, Reliwiki page ID, Arken ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, Archives at Yale names ID, HAL journal id, Parler username, Museo del Prado ID, National Gallery of Ireland ID, Auckland Art Gallery artwork ID, CINE21 film ID, National Gallery of Australia ID, Fitzwilliam Museum ID, Sonneveld-index, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), NSSDCA ID, ZOBODAT person ID, ZOBODAT taxon ID, DIA ID, SKD ID, Max Movie film ID, Gab username, Movist film ID, KOBIS ID, Amsterdam Museum ID, SMB-digital ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, CQVIP article ID, DBLP conference ID, Filmstriben film-ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: cites work string, artistic director, MDJF ID, Coordinates of depicted place, first family name in Portuguese name, propriétés à éviter, Commons category for the view from the item, Mailing List, curid, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data, archaeological site of, does not have cause, conductor for, reason for normal rank, value is one of, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, lineage marker, has surface, DBLP journal id
- External identifiers: U.S. Masters Swimming ID, Artfacts ID, Order of Canada ID, AppGallery app ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, theses.cz ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, CollEx-Persée ID, The Galileo Project ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Chinese Painting Database ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum ID, Max-Movie-Personen-ID, CINE21 person ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Basic Formal Ontology ID, Fichier des décès ID
- Query examples:
- Russian cuisine
- Belgian artists that rise to the public domain in 2021 (Source)
- Asian food made from noodles (Source)
- Bubble diagram by wiki page numbers in each language on objects kept at the Bardo National Museum (note: Commons is counted as English) (Source)
- Amusement parks around the world (Source)
- Schema examples: Video game
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Simple Query Builder development continues. We worked on combining different query conditions as well as internationalisation.
- Making the precision translatable in geocoordinate and date inputs (phab:T269102)
- Changes to descriptions in a specific language now show up on watchlist and recent changes on the Wikipedia and co for that language (phab:T191831)
- Finished working on the problem of incorrectly-escaped label being included in a link to Special:NewItem if there are no search results (phab:T263258)
- Investigating why we're currently skipping a significant number of Item IDs (phab:T268625)
- Wikibase Release Strategy/Infrastructure: We have decided where to host future Docker and tarball releases of Wikibase. You can read about the details and the reasoning in the following ADRs: Docker Image Repository, Tarball Repository
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help untangle items that refer to different concepts.
- Help write the next summary!
New Page Patrol December Newsletter
[edit]Hello JarrahTree,
- Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
---|---|---|---|
1 | DannyS712 bot III (talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Rosguill (talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | John B123 (talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Onel5969 (talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | JTtheOG (talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | Mcampany (talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Mccapra (talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Hughesdarren (talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Utopes (talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
- Reviewer of the Year
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
- NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271
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18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: November 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #446
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy
- Events
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 15 at 18:00 CET
- Past: m:WikiConference North America/2020
- Past: Localization and structuring of open data-Zhu Tinghong-Wikidata Community of Local Studies - MOPCON 2020 (replay), YouTube
- Past: SMWCon 2020/Day 2 - "Wikidata Walkabout" by Yaron Koren (replay), YouTube
- Past: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia (replay), YouTube
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Building the SWIB20 participants map - combining Wikidata with custom data points via a federated query (ZBW Labs).
- Introducing the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Website - A new Wikidata-driven website to explore the Scottish Reformation.
- Introduction to Querying Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL by John Samuel
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change, YouTube
- Video: How to take data from OpenRefine to Wikidata through QuickStatements, YouTube
- Video: Editing Wikidata live - casual session by Jan Ainali, YouTube
- Tool of the week
datao.net
is a visual tool for querying and exposing Wikidata easily.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Coolest Tool Award 2020 featured some Wikidata tools: Lingua Libre won in the category “Diversity”; Listeria, Lexeme Forms and Entity Explosion got honorable mentions. Congratulations!
- Complex constraint check for recency of value
- The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until December 21st. You can vote on as many wishes as you want. There's a separate category for Wikidata.
- Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: category for the view from the item, mailing list archive, word lookup, inappropriate property for this type, compatible with
- External identifiers: Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, CollEx-Persée ID, theses.cz ID, Google Play developer slug, AppGallery app ID, The Galileo Project ID, Artfacts ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections artwork ID, Delft municipal monument ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Order of Canada recipient ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, vets.cz ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, GS1 GPC brick code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: insufficiently precise value, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, applies when property is used, River Code, Wikimedian in Residence, Commons compatible image available at URL (non-artwork), number of at bats, runs batted in, stolen bases, subdivision monétaire
- External identifiers: PBA ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries IDs, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Fungal gross anatomy entity ID, Plant Ontology entity ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology entity ID, DataTrek ID, DBLP publication ID, PeriodO period ID, KANTO, CITWF title ID, CITWF person ID, identifiant de la Cinémathèque québécoise pour une personne, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, DzygaMDB film, DzygaMDB person ID, XXXBios female performer ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, AVN movie ID, Lichess Username, Evil Angel movie ID, Evil Angel video ID
- Query examples:
- All stumbling stones in the city of Hannover
- (partial) list, timeline and gallery of successful ascents of Mount Everest (and few other summits)
- Web & social media URLs for UK Civic Societies (Source)
- Publication related to Research Institute of Text Analysis and Applications: no. of pages per author/year, authors network (Source)
- Map of the ritual objects said to be used by accused witches in Scotland (colourcoded layer accessible on top right to see the list of objects) (Source)
- Seats of the Parliament of England, and the first year we have a named person listed for them (Source)
- Female race car drivers on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
- Places of Geological Interest in Alamedilla (Source)
- Number of Nature articles that were published on a Sunday in a given year
- Schema examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from it.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Meetup/Perth
[edit]Most of this makes no sense - on particular the comments from January 2020. Please fix (ie delete most of) it. Mitch Ames (talk) 05:21, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #447
[edit]- Events
- Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
- Wikidata: how to get involved (in Czech)
- Lexemes on Wikidata (in Czech)
- Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Video: HGAPS Speaker Series by Thomas Shafee
- Wikidata for Bat Collectors, YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: National Library at Kolkata romanization, URL match pattern, URL match replacement value
- External identifiers: ClassInd audiovisual work ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ID, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, PBA artwork ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: applicable "stated in" value, WMF hosted image that could be moved to Commons, Category for the view of the item, OSM object, property related to this topic, personality traits, graph girth, ALA-LC romanization
- External identifiers: SAPA, Manus Online author ID, Mapy.cz ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, SVTplay identifier, identifiant Mediafilm, IFLA form of music ID, IFLA key of musical work ID, IFLA mode of musical work ID, RDA support type ID, SLAM artwork ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, NPG ID, jeuxvideo.com ID, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Royal Museums Greenwich ID, PIAC ID, Castbox show ID, Stitcher show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID
- Deleted properties: street address (P969)
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Media Representation
- Newest database reports: Reports on Italian given names
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the demo system.
- Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (phab:T267023)
- Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (phab:T266638)
- Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (phab:T267502)
- Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (phab:T250550)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Help add human (Q5) to properties that currently don't have it.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help untangle items that refer to different concepts.
- Help write the next summary!
Season's Greetings
[edit]Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021! | |
Hello JarrahTree, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2021. Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Starzoner (talk) 18:51, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Yo Ho Ho
[edit]Donner60 (talk) is wishing a foaming mug of Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec20}} to your friends' talk pages.
Happy XMAS
[edit]Wikidata weekly summary #448
[edit]- Discussions
- Open request for CheckUser: 997kB
- There's a discussion about what the best label for required qualifier constraint happens to be.
- Events
- Ongoing: rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress). Several Wikidata-related talks and meetups happening on December 27th, 28th and 29th: introduction to Wikidata, Wikidata for datajournalists, Wikidata meetups in German and English, and a Query Service workshop. (see Wikipaka schedule for more details)
- Tool of the week
- Template:TP administrative area is a new template designed for all items which are instance of administrative territorial entity. It defines useful queries for those items. For example, {{QT|Q173695}} links to this page. Feedback and contributions are welcome.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Project Grants open call for proposals in 2021. Changes in the review process for Project Grants in 2021; the open call for community organizing proposals will be from January 11 to February 10 and the open call for software and research proposals will be from February 15 to March 16.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: small logo or icon, lunar coordinates
- External identifiers: CINE21 person ID, Chinese Painting Database ID, Cinémathèque québécoise person ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, SAPA ID, Manus Online author ID, Lichess username, CITWF person ID, DBLP publication ID, DataTrek ID, KANTO ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: abstract, thesis committee chair, character type, Calificación de videojuegos, Regente, Nação (candomblé), Liderança, Bharati Braille, number of walks, number of hits, doubles hit, triples hit, Through point
- External identifiers: TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, World Rowing ID, MNBAQ ID, Libsyn show ID, PodBean show ID, BG School ID, JAD ID, RDA value vocabularies ID, BHCL UUID, Podtail show ID, Provenio UUID, AbandonSocios ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, International Encyclopedia of the First World War ID, SFLI ID, Game UI Database ID, DiVo person ID, e-GEDSH ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, Calaméo ID, Lumières Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey Player ID, IFF player ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, AV Production person ID, Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon ID, Studium Parisiense ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, A*dS Encyclopedia, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, The Podcast App show ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID, Play:Right video game ID, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID, TheCocktailDB ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment :)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Books & Bytes - Issue 42
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 42, November – December 2020
- New EBSCO collections now available
- 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
- Library Card input requested
- Libraries love Wikimedia, too!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --14:00, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #452
[edit]- Events
- Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
- Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries and OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, Januray 26 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook, 30 January
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #47, 31 January
- Upcoming: The Open Festival of Persistent Identifiers starts from 27 January 2021. See schedule here.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blog: Adding New Literature Sources to the Wikidata Integrator, by Charles Tapley Hoyt
- Blog: Using Wikidata for teaching computer programming using real-world cases (in Basque)
- Bog: Wikidata: data for everyone (in Dutch)
- Methodology paper: A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses
- Video: Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Wikidata for research (webinar in French) - YouTube
- Video: Let's make sparks with SPARQL tools(in French), by Nicolas Vigneron -YouTube
- Video: Wrap up presentation of the SWAT4HCLS hackathon project
- Tool of the week
- TAViewer is a web-based anatomy atlas viewer that cross-references Terminologia Anatomica terms with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Change to how Cloud VPS and Toolforge contact Wikis to go live on 2021-02-08. If you are a Cloud VPS user or Toolforge developer, check your tools after that date to make sure they are properly running.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: character type, derived from organism type, applicable “stated in” value, number of aid beneficiaries
- External identifiers: BABEL author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, Parabola package, FL number, Hungarian Film Archive ID, IFPI Danmark work ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, NZ Museums ID, StrategyWiki page, Australian Fungi ID, Discord invite ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, JAANUS ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: onscreen participant, catégorie d'établissement sanitaire et social, code Activité principale exercée, catégorie d'entreprise, Imagehash perceptual hash
- External identifiers: SISSCO ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID, Malpedia ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Sachsen-Anhalt, Swiss Games Showcase ID, Baudenkmal-ID Niedersachsen, PeriodO ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, Pantone color ID, Family Video Game Database ID, AAR ID, github topic, TeatralRo ID, Landshuth ID, Patrinum ID, ChemRxiv ID, TlF ID, PO ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, CinefanRo person ID, CinefanRo film ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer IDs, BookBub Author ID, HERIS-ID
- Query examples:
- Czech religious buildings used also as a fire station
- Common ingredients to prepare a sandwich (Source)
- Location of GLAMs with open access policies (Source)
- Mexican presidents who have an image of their signature on Wikidata (Source)
- Timeline of Mexican writers who were born between 1800 and 1900 (Source)
- TV-Series in Spain by Decade (Source)
- Diplomats who are also art collectors (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
- Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (phab:T267656)
- Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (phab:T268456)
- Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
- Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
- Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
- Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (phab:T267627)
- Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (phab:T270133)
- Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (phab:T271194)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Rollback (ab)use
[edit]As a side note to Talk:Nannup, Western Australia#Lead - town vs shire, please note that your rollback of my edits – "reverting good-faith changes which you happen to disagree with – is likely to be considered misuse of the tool."
When there are multiple edits that you disagree with, please use individual reverts (which are then easier to refer to), each with a meaningful comment. Mitch Ames (talk) 03:53, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- I'm sure it was an honest mistake, but it's not the first time that you have rolled back multiple edits - including clearly valid edits - with no explanation. There was no justification (according to WP:ROLLBACK) for use of the rollback tool in this case. Mitch Ames (talk) 04:38, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- so you are perfect then mitch, and in all your 100,000 + edits havent done somethiung similar? smells of having to have the last word.. JarrahTree 05:09, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Once again you have rolled back my reasonable, explained-in-edit-summary, edits without any explanation, contrary to WP:ROLLBACKUSE, in a manner that "is likely to be considered misuse of the tool". Please discuss the edits at Talk:Yarloop Workshops. Mitch Ames (talk) 13:26, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
CFDs rarely get noticed
[edit]"Category changes usually go un-noticed - as there is no connection to projects affected"
If only someone had thought to add a project banner to the category's talk page - surely that would make a difference.</sarcasm> Mitch Ames (talk) 09:08, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #453
[edit]- Events
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook, 6 February
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #48, 7 February
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Paper: A Review of the Semantic Web Field
- Paper: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync FactualData across Wikipedia, Wikidata and ExternalData Sources
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Set preferences and common.js (in Italian) - YouTube
- Video: Entity Linking and Neural Semantic Parsing - YouTube
- Video: Persistent identifiers as the basis for multilingual and human-machine collaboration - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Labelcleaner is a script by Andrew Gray used to clean up Wikidata labels/aliases/descriptions for a given language on a set of items.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenRefine has got a new user manual and your feedback is welcome;
- A new tool, Ranker (documentation, announcement tweet and video), lets you edit the ranks of multiple statements at once.
- The SPARQL endpoint for linguaLibre is now available (Source)
- New Wikidata property GitHub topic (P9100) announced at the GITHUB community
- Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Query Service(WDQS) Data Analyst Consultant. Apply today!
- Clean-up tasks to experiment with bots or other tools
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: BAMID film rating
- External identifiers: Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, 45cat 7" release ID, ABC News topic ID, Aracne author ID, Econlib person ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Songlexikon ID, Swiss Games Showcase ID, MNBAQ ID, Art in the Christian Tradition ID, Australian Lichen ID, Pantone color ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, Malpedia ID, AAR ID, BiblioLMC ID, Cultural heritage ID in Lower Saxony, GitHub topic, Discord username
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: represented in sport by, photographer of, reissue, master's thesis, service status information URL, unusualness, Debian Package Tracker ID, Seismic classification
- External identifiers: Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, EMS ID, FloGrappling ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Wolfram language WordData word ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, Finna ID, LexML ID, Swedish Literature Bank placeID, BVFE author ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources authority ID, playDB play ID, playDB artist ID, DicoPolHiS ID, Pandektis ID, NHS Organisation Data Service ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Baudenkmal), Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Bodendenkmal), Whiskybase distillery ID
- Query examples:
- Basque lexemes and their attestations in a 1745 Spanish-Basque dictionary, with links to dictionary entries in Wikisource
- Lexemes describing a color (Source)
- Danish-Hebrew Lexeme pairs (Source)
- Lexemes in Swedish with usage example that demonstrates both a form and a sense and a reference (Source)
- Episodes of the TV series "The Mentalist"
- Nationality of authors publishing papers relevant to the Australian fauna (Source)
- Number of musicians on Wikidata by country (Source)
- Map of ISO 3166-2 codes (Source)
- Map films that have been filmed in Mexico (Source)
- Map of Githubtopics on Wikidata (Source)
- Eye color distribution of the people on Wikidata (Source)
- Timeline with the start date of the Summer Olympics (Source)
- Newest database reports: Czech given names
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
- Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
- Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
- Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
- Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
- Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
- Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
- Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
- Wikibase Release Strategy
- Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
- Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Happy New Year!
[edit]Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! North America1000 05:53, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
- – Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year}} to user talk pages.
inneresting
[edit]Yeah, it is inneresting. I didn't know that Maersk operated oil rigs.
The page you linked lists the "fleet" (of ships, not rigs).
The page for the rig is: https://www.maerskdrilling.com/what-we-do/rigs/semi-submersibles/maersk-deliverer Bahnfrend (talk) 06:12, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #454
[edit]- Events
- Past: Parliament of Ghana Wikidata contest launch: from February 1 to February 28, 2020 - (YouTube replay)
- Upcoming: Next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 11 February 2021 (Add to calendar). You're welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mapping the Scottish Reformation, Tuesday, February 9th.[4]
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 9 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #49, February 14
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook, February 14
- Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blog post by 62mkv about importing Estonian Lexemes on Wikidata
- Video: Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Global Open Initiative Foundation Open Refine and Quikstatement Workshop. By Ursula Oberst - YouTube
- Video: Wikidata and Minority Languages (Art+Feminism 2021 in Ghana). By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group - (YouTube)
- Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
- Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Update on the state of WikidataCon 2021 for January
- New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2021 has been published. In addition, you will find here the status updates on what was achieved for each of the 2020 goals.
- Update on the development of the Easy Query Builder, your feedback is welcome
- Call for feedback on Wikimedia Foundation Community Board seats has started on February 1. More information and ways to participate are available on this Meta-Wiki page.
- New updates to Mix'n'match:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of vaccinations, Commons media contributed by
- External identifiers: CineFanRo person ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, Encyclopedia of Brno object ID, Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Erudit article ID, Holocaust.cz person ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, SISSCO ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Patrinum ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, BVFE author ID, Family Video Game Database ID, LexML Brazil ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Catalan Vikidia ID, Russian Vikidia ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Debian Package Tracker ID, Data Collection of the Hungarian Peerage ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IPHAE ID, FLOSS policy URL, Digest, subsidy, fingerprint
- External identifiers: TlF Artist ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, GTDB taxon, Joods Monument ID, HathiTrust Volume Identifier, Open Tree of Life ID, AllMusic IDs, Evighetsrunor, Tree of Life contributor ID, Astro Awani topic ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, De Lakenhal-artwork-ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Can I use, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Centre-Val de Loire, identifiant inventaire Hauts-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (phab:T272694)
- Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (phab:T272699)
- Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (phab:T272032)
- Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
- Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (phab:T265783)
- Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
- Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
This Month in GLAM: January 2021
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