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Wikidata weekly summary #495
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 25th November 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
- Editing Scottish government agencies at CTC24 – Open In Practice, November 27-28
- LIVE Wikidata editing #63 - YouTube, Facebook, November 27 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #88, November 28 at 13.00 UTC
- ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (November 23rd 2021 13:00 Berlin time) (register on meetup)
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #17, Bread
- Past
- Bug Triage Hour on API issues (log)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- How to use the Wikidata query service without having experience with the SPARQL language (Wikidata Query Builder) (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Bringing Linked Data into Libraries via Wikidata - YouTube
- Presenting the project for integrating data from the Ricordi Archive into Wikimedia projects (in Italian) - YouTube
- Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Bio-Ontologies - YouTube
- ENDORSE Follow up event: Wikibase and the EU Knowledge Graph as a use case - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- WikiCite Search is a bibliographic search engine for Wikidata that finds articles either by searching for keywords, or by string matching.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer and Partner Relationships Manager to join the Wikidata/Wikibase team.
- Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
- This post about the question of the week is showing how questions can be answered over Wikidata. Also it gives some insights on how Google and Siri are using Wikidata.
- A new openly accessible book on knowledge graphs has been published by prominent researchers in the field.
- The latest version of WordNet released now links to Wikidata for many entries
- [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
- New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: train melody
- External identifiers: SEKO ID, NWT Species ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, SEEK company ID, Tabakalera ID, IRIS UNIPG author ID, EXQUIRITE author ID, State Duma person ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases chemical ID, CREPČ institution ID, CREPČ person ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, CJFD journal ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Osmose Agency person ID, biografiA ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Rehearses at, image with color chart, Wallet Address, dpi, project of, outcome, introduced by, IMA Symbol, Ghana Place Names URL, CSS code, Deity, number of teachers
- External identifiers: Newgrounds username, identifiant Numelyo, Genie artist ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie media ID, Naver VIBE track ID, Naver VIBE video ID, Bugs! track ID, Bugs! music video ID, Melon music video ID, Rutube channel ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Nintendo64EVER ID, N64-Database ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, Coub channel ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, identifiant OùVoir.Ça, kino-teatr.ru film ID 2, CH district ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, identifiant Initiale, AbeBooks ID, Sceneweb organization ID, SensCritique work ID, Library of Congress providers ID, Irkipedia ID, Delovaya Stolitsa ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, NT Place Names Register ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, IRIS polytechnic universities IDs
- Query examples:
- Numbers from 0 to 20 sorted alphabetically thanks to lexicographical data (source)
- Given names of French fictional characters, as chosen by French / non-French authors (Source)
- Map of members of the International Society of Biocuration (historical and current; affiliation and education institutions) (Source)
- UK MPs and their reason for *finally* leaving office (Source)
- Number of new UK MPs at each general election since 1870 (new = never served before) (Source)
- Crewe Alexandra players from Crewe (Source)
- Chronological timeline of people buried in Cimetière des Carmes (Source)
- Stops in the travel routes of Wilhelm Müller on his way from Leipzig to Bad Schandau in 1820/21 (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (phab:T232557)
- Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
- The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (phab:T275251)
- Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (phab:T294465)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #496
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming
- Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase. December 2, 2021 4:00 pm CET
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Jan Ainali on WikiProject Govdirectory, a tool and associated Wikiproject for building a user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence. Agenda with call link, November 30.
- Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
- LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #89, December 5 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #18, Horse
- Past
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- Video tutorial for Wikidata Scraping, data processing and import (Open Refine) (in Czech) - YouTube
- (Wikidata intro) how it acts as one of the levers for the discoverability of cultural content in dance (in French) - YouTube
- Archive and register of sound art / sound artists with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Reconciliation server demonstration against Wikidata - YouTube
- Wikidata: A Magic Portal for Siegfried and Roy - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- New gadget available in the preferences: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer to join the Wikidata team.
- Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
- New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: death rate, image with color chart
- External identifiers: Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, Dissernet institution ID, DHAC ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, AHPRA registration number, FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, Oùvoir.ça film ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Corruption Perceptions Index, surrounds the enclave, Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista
- External identifiers: identifiant base Enluminures, The World of Shakespeare ID, oKino.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, oKino.ua actor ID, Natural History Museum (London) person ID, svpressa.ru ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID
- Query examples:
- Number of items without any statements (last week: more than 1,300,000)
- Number of items without any statements by sitelinks (sample: 1757 items link to nlwiki, but have no statements).
- Taxa named after women (by place of birth) (Source)
- List of articles on Blaise Pascal in all Wikipedias, sorted by decreasing article size (Source)
- Texts on French Wikisource by people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
- List of countries by the highest elevation point (Source)
- Number of distinct (UK parliament) seats returning someone who chose to sit elsewhere each year, 1830-1910 (Source)
- List of services that support the OpenRefine Reconciliation service (Source)
- Things depicted in art works in the Khalili Collections (Source)
- Images of Wikidata's items linked to UBERON ids (Source)
- Population density of administrative subdivisions exceeding 100,000 km² and 100 inhabitants / km² (Source)
- List of government agencies in Scotland (Source)
- Which day of the week people died on in the Mauthausen concentration camp (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
- Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
- Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
- More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
- Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #497
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #90, December 12 at 13.00 UTC
- Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, December 7 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Gender diversity in Wikipedia articles: evidence from some selected academic disciplines in the English Wikipedia
- Bringing together journalists, the public, and Wikidata to understand our world
- Gender diversity in Wikipedia articles: evidence from some selected academic disciplines in Wikipedia in French
- Reflection on filling a new Wikidata item by Addshore
- Papers
- "Knowledge Based Multilingual Language Model" Using the Wikidata to build the language models that not only memorize the factual knowledge but also learn useful logical patterns. (Liu et al, 2021)
- Videos
- Summary of Transbordados, the pre-WikidataCon conference organized by Wiki Movimento Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese)
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Weaviate big graph (source) is a vectorised search engine which returns similar items in Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
- The new Wikimedia Research Fund is live now. It can fund research projects related to Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: specific impulse by weight
- External identifiers: FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, OùVoir.Ça ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub ID, SensCritique work ID, Snob.ru author ID, IRIS POLIBA author ID, Re.Public@Polimi author ID, PORTO@Iris author ID, IRIS UNIVPM author ID, Sceneweb organization ID, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, allplayers.in.ua player ID, Apple Music track ID, AbeBooks ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista, Numista coin ID, lieu de disparition
- External identifiers: Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Lingua Libre ID, Express Gazeta person ID, bards.ru person ID, PGM author ID, Deutsches Zeitungsportal ID, Index of Middle English Verse ID, ICCROM authority ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, ThENC@ thesis ID, Baidu Baike LemmaID, Indonesian College Code, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Museum of the Great Patriotic War encyclopedia ID, iTunes genre, CYT, Folketinget actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Ruskino actor ID, Pandora album ID, Pandora track ID, Swiss National Library ID, Original Esperanto Literature author ID, Athens Academy authority ID
- Query examples:
- List of laureates of the women's Ballon d'or (source)
- List of people born in Cook Islands (source)
- Wordcloud articles without statements of MyLang Wikipedia (switch to "Table" view to list, at left border of screen)
- Artworks picturing snow (source)
- Graph of football players who died per year (source)
- Things depicted in art works of the Khalili Collections (source)
- People represented on the painting "Le Sacre de Napoléon" from 1804 by Jacques-Louis David (source)
- German cities whose names are also verbs (using Lexemes) (source)
- Railway stations in the Baltics (source, see the full thread for more queries)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: Continued polishing for the first version. Improving the texts and adding loading state. Incorporating feedback from testing.
- Continued migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
- Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
- Finished work on small tool to show Items recently edited by several accounts to surface current events.
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #498
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. Agenda, Dec. 14th.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Enriching Claim Reviews - Sharing Experience From Factchecking (schema.org/ Full Fact)
- Most liked Wikidata tweets (addshore)
- Updates on the Wikidata map in 2021 (addshore)
- Papers
- Lukas Schmelzeisen, Corina Dima, Steffen Staab: "Wikidated 1.0: An Evolving Knowledge Graph Dataset of Wikidata's Revision History", https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05003v1
- "ARTchives: a Linked Open Data native catalogue of art historians’ archive" crowdsourcing curated information on notable art historians’ archives (including Wikidata) - paper, tool
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article using Wikidata's API and SPARQL
- embeds.js: This script shows embeds on external identifier statements such as YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Spotify playlists, Genius lyrics, and more!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Blazegraph failure playbook now available
- Initial version of Lua access to Lexemes to be deployed on Bengali and Basque Wiktionaries
- When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” (documentation)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: IMA Mineral Symbol, protective marking, recording date
- External identifiers: Natural History Museum (London) person ID, Indonesian Hospital ID, Music of Armenia ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, World of Shakespeare ID, AllHomes research location ID, Australian Trade Mark Number, Harvard Art Museums ID, BookDepository publisher ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, German Newspaper Portal ID, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Dissernet journal ID, Dissernet person ID, centrasia.org person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, Pandora track ID, Nintendo64EVER ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: alphabetical index, International Standard Content Number ISCN, Number of likes, homophone form, Roovet Sound
- External identifiers: National Library of Ireland ID, Famitsu game ID, JSTOR artwork ID, NYPL Copyright Entries, Kinomania.ru film ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), Irish Times Profile ID, All About Birds ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, f6s id, IRIS Marche IDs, Viber group ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, AAGM Artwork ID, Muz-TV ID, MTV Russia ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Cities
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: Developed a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.
- Preparing for Lexeme Lua access to be enabled on the first wikis. (phab:T294637, phab:T294159)
- Continuing work on migrating the termbox to vue3 (phab:T296202)
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!