Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other: Tool ideas/ImproveWikidata
- Events
- Past: Linked Open Storytelling - Winter School 2021 - Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen (in German) (reply on YouTube)
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 16 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube, Facebook, February 20
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #50, February 21
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blog post: The promise of Wikidata: How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source, by Monika Sengul-Jones
- Blog post: Data donation to Wikidata, part 2: country/subject dossiers of the 20th Century Press Archives (by Joachim Neubert, ZBW Labs)
- Blog post: Bibliography and Citations of Hausa Folklore by Anasskoko
- Video: Querying Linked (Wiki)data with SPARQL ✨ (presentation by Lucas Werkmeister at rC3, 90 minutes)
- Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this YouTube video for more information)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Abstract Wikipedia presents prototypes of two tools that could help people to visualize, exemplify, and better guide our understanding of the coverage of lexicographic data in Wikidata.
- Public Domain Tool, developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
- Sizes of country items (like "Portugal" (Q45)) were recently reduced by 30% to 50% by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample: "economy of Portugal" (Q1649355)). The item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal". This can simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can still access the properties with the link through "economy of topic" (P8744).
- Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on all edits. However, bots that often fail to create items may start to see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the problem of skipped item IDs.
- Guidelines and compensation for UX research lead by Wikimedia Germany (announcement)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: service status information URL, first family name in Portuguese name, time played, coordinates of depicted place
- External identifiers: CompositionToday composers showcase ID, Royal Museums Greenwich artwork ID, Saint Louis Art Museum artwork ID, AZLyrics.com song ID, Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI person ID, WreckSite ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Doktori.hu ID, Portal da Literatura ID, IPHAE ID, Play:Right ID, National Portrait Gallery (London) artwork ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, CITWF title ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID, Saxony-Anhalt cultural heritage object ID, FloGrappling ID, Can I use feature ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: National Gallery of Art Library Bibliographic ID, letterer, set during recurring event, number of references, sensors, Applying institution
- External identifiers: Lexikon Literatur in Tirol, Danmarks Adresseregister named street ID, Baidu Baike ID (2), Kickstarter username, Protagonisti della storia delle scienze della mente ID, Curling.fi player ID, RILM ID, Swiss vote ID, svoyak.info player ID, Germanistenverzeichnis, Svenska Institutet i Rom ID, CinemaRx title ID, Sinemalar title ID, English Placenames MADS ID, Armenian Book ID, identifiant inventaire Occitanie, AaRC title ID, Biblioteca Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID, BFS ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, JedeSchule.de ID, bashenc.online ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID
- Query examples:
- Spanish Wikipedia articles about women astronauts (Source)
- Websites related to works in the Women's & Gender History DH list (Source)
- List of states with more than one official language (Source)
- Location of the organizations in the Name Assigning Authority Number (NAAN) registry (Source)
- List of locations named after the planned language Esperanto or its founder, L. L. Zamenhof
- Use the MediaWiki API to get the content of a Wikipedia category into a query
- Number of scholarly articles sharing their datasets (Source)
- Most specific taxon that includes two given species (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (phab:T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (phab:T272887)
- Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
- Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (phab:T272242)
- Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (phab:T272712)
- Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (phab:T272032)
- Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
- Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
- Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (phab:T204031)
- 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!