Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 28th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel.
- Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
- Upcoming: OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-05-10
- COSCUP 2021 CFP is now open
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 1
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #60, May 2
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- User:Lucas Werkmeister/P642 considered harmful
- New extension: Wikibase EDTF by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
- Videos
- OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Meetup #27 - Wikidata Lexeme Teaching - LBRY, Odysee
- (Workshop) Introduction to Wikidata by Lucie Aimée Kaffee
- Graphic Possibilities Comics Wikidata Tutorial
- SPARQL tutorial (in Portuguese)
- An Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam)
- Wikidata tutorials in Albanian (1, 2, 3, 4)
- SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French)
- (Workshop) #1Lib1Ref on Wikidata
- Adding an article to Wikidata by DOI (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook
- Working with Zotero on WiKidata (in Italian) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:So9q/AddNewLexemeMenu.js is a userscript that adds a section to the sidebar with links for creating new lexemes.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WMDE built two tools to help editors get a better understanding of the quality of Wikidata's data in a specific area of interest. Try them out and let us know what you think.
- Collaborative translation of Cita is now available on translatewiki.net. Cita is a Wikidata addon that adds citations metadata support to Zotero, using cites work (P2860) information from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data. Cita is currently under development with a WikiCite grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and presentation workshops will be held on May 27th (Spanish) and May 31st (English). More info and pre-registration here.
- RaiseWikibase is a tool for speeding up multilingual knowledge graph construction with Wikibase. Among other features, it can be utilized to create a mini Wikibase instance with Wikidata properties in a few minutes.
- SPARQL-Blockly is a tool to visualise and construct SPARQL queries as visual blocks (Wikidata example)
- Wikibase/FAQ is a living document of a list of frequently asked questions about Wikibase. Community members are welcome to contribute to it.
- RIP Liz Marley
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ALA-LC romanization for Ukrainian
- External identifiers: ANPI place numeric ID, National Provider Identifier, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Brapci author ID, Wikiroute ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Periodical ID in a database of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National Database of Laws and Regulations ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Rekhta author ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, DzygaMDB film ID, Bioguiden movie theater ID, MovieMeter person ID, Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú ID, SonyLIV show ID, Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID, IAU member ID, LIMA media artist ID, Singers.com ID, HistoryLink essay number, inventory number of a work of art in the Art for the City database, Cimiterium ID, Smithsonian Ark ID, Oregon Poetic Voices poet ID, Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID, Malaysian school code, Trap Danmark ID, Finna ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Mitte ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf ID, Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg ID, Catalogue of the General State Archives ID, CofE archives ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: accessibility statement URL, symbol represents, main upper course, Political Graveyard geography ID, diel cycle, Taxon holotype location, Smithsonian trinomial prefix, Digital Atlas of Idaho taxon ID, hardware threading standard
- External identifiers: music austria ID, identifiant Localisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant utilisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant représentation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID, Forbes (Russia) profile ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID, Digital DISCI ID, The Draft Review ID 2, Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID, Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID, National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID, IUCN Green List ID, Gardens of the Roman Empire ID, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation ID, UNITER Award person ID, ID právnické osoby vedené Ministerstvem kultury ČR, CEV Team-ID, Anime Filler List show id, CEV Coach-ID, memento.wien person ID, MyBIS ID, Ultime lettere di condannati a morte e di deportati della Resistenza italiana person ID, am.hayazg.info ID, The Criterion Collection film ID, Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID, Kielitoimiston sanakirja ID, Gopo Award ID, Director Identification Number, TheTVDB character ID, JECFA number, Norges Fotballforbund klubb ID, representatives1821.gr ID, Parliament of Romania person ID, Apple TV movie ID
- Query examples:
- Timeline of road vehicles crashing into Montague Street Bridge, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Coal-fired power plants in Germany (Source)
- Average lifespan by profession (Select the desired columns and get labels) (Source)
- The number of natural disasters in various countries since 1970 (Source)
- Heads of states/governments whose cause of death was a military casualty (Source)
- List of French stations sorted by number of tracks (Source)
- Relationship of the different Corona viruses (Source)
- Map of about one third of the ancient trees in Bulgaria (Source)
- Lexemes without statements or senses by language
- Newest database reports: Doctor Who companions
- Newest properties:
- Development
- wbeditentity now supports editing statements on Senses (phab:T199896)
- We added syntax highlighting for viewing Entity Schema pages. There is not syntax highlighting for editing of Entity Schemas yet. (phab:T238831)
- Improved the way Lua deals with redirects (phab:T238831)
- Worked on making it possible to add a title to the top of a query visualization via a comment in the SPARQL code (phab:T225883)
- Discussed how to get persistent storage of constraint violations unstuck as this is a prerequisite to making it easier to analyze and query constraint violations (phab:T214362)
- Discussed a high-level plan for how to move forward with checking Wikidata's data against 3rd-party databases
- Finished work on version 1 of the Query Builder. Not it is awaiting security review before we can deploy it.
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.
- Take a list of cities in your country, add {{Item documentation}} in the talk page and have fun looking at people born in this place ordered by number of sitelinks. You may have some surprises!
- Help write the next summary!