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Wikidata weekly summary #363

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

Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: BRPever, welcome on board!

Events
- Upcoming: Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, workshop by Sandra Fauconnier about modelling copyright statuses on Wikidata, 10 May, at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Lisbon
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands, on May 11th
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XV about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil

Press, articles, blog posts
- Kennisverrijking via Wikidata (in Dutch), by Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen, Hanno Lans and Janneke Jorna
- Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums. Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a few times
- Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac.
- Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata - C. Deha Doğan, et al.
- Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation
- An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
- New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: precedes word-initial, music video, specifying descriptor
  - External identifiers: Australian War Memorial ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID, SIUSA ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, IndieDB video game ID, interwiki prefix at Wikimedia, K10plus editions, FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, Trainline ID, CatholicSaints.info ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: gene sequence, Has written for, Rigging, Guix Variable Name, review of, NSF FICE Code ID
  - External identifiers: Watercolour World artist ID, VTB United League player ID, GNU ELPA package ID, MELPA package ID, Paměť národa ID, FragDenStaat public body ID, MobyGames genre ID, Interactive Fiction Database ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, HAL institution ID, Swedish Royal Theater
- Query examples:

Development
- Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (phab:T220772)
- Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (phab:T222182, phab:T222133, phab:T222129)
- Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (phab:T221942)
- Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T210598)
- Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (phab:T220977)
- Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox (phab:T217000)
- Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T218690)
- Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T215951)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:30, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #364

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

Events
- Upcoming: Wikimedia hackathon in Prague, that will include many Wikidata-related sessions and projects, May 17-19
- Upcoming: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019, by Julie Birkholz, 3 - 5 July 2019 Ghent, Belgium
- Upcoming: DC-2019 Hack Day on Wikidata, Wikibase, Application Profiles and FAIR data at DC19 in Seoul, South Korea 23rd - 26th September 2019, Hackathon by Tom Baker and Andra Waagmeester
- Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics, Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-25 October

Press, articles, blog posts
- How to use a Wikidata full json dump, requirements, steps and script, by Aliakbar Akbaritabar
- New testing ground for Wikibase: A federal agency goes on an expedition in the Wiki universe, by Barbara Fischer and Jens ohlig

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, number of polling stations
  - External identifiers: VTB United League player ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, Watercolour World artist ID, Drobné památky ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, Musixmatch track ID, LNB Coach id, FragDenStaat public body ID, Orlando author ID, Paměť národa ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, tads.org Unique Identifier, CanLII ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya ID, RGALI ID, OBIS ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Xikao School ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, langue d'écriture, nominalised item for this sense, copyright clarification, WMI Code, archevêque, langue liturgique, date d'élévation, province ecclésiastique, diocèse suffragant, f-number, paroisse, prêtre, religieux, religieuse, diacre
  - External identifiers: Victoria and Albert Museum name ID, Campendium ID, ROR ID, MEMORIA ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, Prazdne Domy architect ID, Know Your Meme entry, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, Harper's author ID, The Atlantic author ID, Character entry on LGBT fans deserve better database, Igromania ID, Pro-Football-Reference coach ID, Keybase username, RFGS person ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Limits of Wikidata

Development
- Finish renaming WikibaseSchema to EntitySchema
- Investigate how to port Wikibase Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (phab:T221638)
- Include a clear two step process in shex simple tool (phab:T221612)
- Fix the "edit visually" on the Query Service interface (phab:T222181)
- More work on wb_terms redesign (see documentation on phab:T221764)
- More work on mobile termbox
- Investigate on a bug found on wbeditentity not removing all aliases (phab:T203337)
- Getting ready for the Wikimedia hackathon

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:08, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #365

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

Discussions
- New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2

Events
- Past: Wikimedia hackathon 2019 in Prague, where plenty of people worked on Wikidata and Wikibase related projects (see list below)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting, 21 May 2019
- Upcoming: Hacknowledge 2019 hackathon, where you can make a project that uses or improves Wikidata. Moscow, Russia, May 25-26
- Upcoming: Let's start Wikidata!/ウィキデータを始めよう！, 25 May 2019@Tokyo

Press, articles, blog posts
- Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Papers on Rust by Magnus Manske
- Building Knowledge Base through Deep Learning Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Published in AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering, 2019)

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [Breaking Change] wbeditentity including empty alias set will remove all aliases
- Update: change of dates regarding wb_terms redesign. More information in this ticket
- Support for shape expressions will be enabled on Wikidata on May 28th
- Reminder: the program submission phase for Wikimania runs until June 1st
- QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects, now supports lexicographical data
- Wikidata-related projects presented during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)
  - Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made for Sum of all Paintings, hospitals and video games
  - BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
  - Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of Wikidata Source Code Screenshot
  - Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
  - Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
  - GPS-friendly download of query result & Download of RDF Formats
  - Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
  - Improvements on Namescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
  - Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
  - Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
  - Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
  - AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
  - ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
  - Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
  - All of the copyright-negative pictures and metadata of the digital image repository of the National Archive of Curaçao were scraped. They will possibly be batch-uploaded later on.
  - Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: exposure time, supported sports team
  - External identifiers: Flora of Australia ID (new), NARA record group number, Know Your Meme ID, NARA collection identifier, FilmFreeway ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, V&A artist ID, Guix Variable Name, Who's on First ID, FoodOn ID, SportSport.ba news ID, CNKI article ID, Swiss National Sound Archives ID, Arabic Ontology ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Seating chart properties, Arachne Bauwerk ID, ISO speed, target muscle, Pinakes author ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID
  - External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, ITF women's tournament ID, Digital Giza ID, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, NooSFere edition ID, TV Tropes identifier, Find New Zealand Artists iD, Kobo author ID, Malaysia company number, GLIMS ID, Gamepedia Wiki id, ProofWiki ID, Mediapart tag ID, abART ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, speedrun.com game ID, JIS standard, Hoopla artist ID, OSZMI ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Repology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Elhuyar Dictionary ID
- Query examples:

Development
- Added lastrevid of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch!
- Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (phab:T203366)
- Imrpove logging in on mobile (phab:T215913)
- More work on mobile termbox
- Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:26, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #366

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

Events
- Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
- Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.

Press, articles, blog posts
- Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
- Published in WWW 2019
  - Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
  - QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
  - Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
  - Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
- Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
- Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: none
  - External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, HAL structure ID, Mod DB video game ID, Finnish Trade Register ID, IMTL.org ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, OBO Gazetteer ID, (speedy delete me), LGBTFansDB character ID, ProofWiki ID, ROR ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: title qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of, UPA transcription, hospital beds, Courage ID, bibliography url
  - External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The DRAGON Archive id, racing-reference track ID, racing-reference race ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID, MSX Games World ID, Coco Game List ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, Ask.fm ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier
- Query examples:

Development
- Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
- Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (phab:T220609)
- Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245)
- Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995)
- Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
- Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (phab:T214557)
- More work to get termbox ready for deployment
- Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831)

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!