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