Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Kostas20142
- Events
- March 7: Wikidata introductions and editathon during OpenDataDay in Hasselt, Belgium
- July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
- Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Tutorial on how to use machine learning with Wikidata.
- Bob DuCharme's blog post: Populating a Schema.org dataset from Wikidata
- About Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons:
- OpenRefine: results of the 2020 user survey
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: business model, format of creative work, associated electoral district
- External identifiers: Adelsvapen ID, Irish playography play ID, Irish playography person ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Adventure Gamers company ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, NHLR ID, The Washington Post writer ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Type of bow used, staking lock-up period, validator bond lock-up period, URL match pattern, Pertainym, cognate, symbol of, transactions per month, compatible wallets, minimum amount to run a validator, minimum amount to participate in voting
- External identifiers: Kooora player ID, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, EcuRed, IGCD fictional car ID, Chicago Landmarks ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, BC Register of Historic Places ID
- Query examples:
- Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation
- British Prime Ministers with children under the age of 5 when elected, or born during their time in office (source)
- Timeline of countries of origin of the winner of the European Film Award for Best European Film
- People with profiles on the Washington Post website
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
- Bridge: more style adjustments
- Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (phab:T244987)
- Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (phab:T245637)
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!