Wikidata:Status updates/2020 11 16

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-11-16.

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)

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!