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Wikidata weekly summary #440
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #37, November 8
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 3 at 18:00 CET


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata is eight years old - an interview with product manager Lydia Pintscher (in German), by Elisabeth Giesemann
 * Wikidata 8th birthday, Message from the development team
 * Happy 8th birthday, Wikidata! (8 reasons why Wikidata is great), by Will Kent
 * Happy Eighth Birthday Wikidata!, by Stella Wisdom
 * Tree networks, national history and open mountains of data - knowledge through node formation with Wikidata for the 8th, by Jens Bemme
 * Video: Why is Wikidata important? (Wikidata birthday event - in Spanish)
 * SPARQL in the shadow of Structured Data on Commons, by Zbyszko Papierski
 * Answers to curious questions and where to find them: here's how to query wikidata with SPARQL, by Lianna D'amato
 * CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia patch, by Egon Willighagen
 * Video: Wikidata+OpenStreetMaps talk and discussion
 * Video: Wikidata – what libraries need to know about wikidata - Kohacon20, by David Nind
 * Video: Visualizing the neuroscience research ecosystem via Wikidata Scholia, by Daniel Mietchen
 * Video: Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian)
 * All videos from the WikiCite 2020 Virtual Conference are now on Commons, and embedded in the program page on Meta.
 * This is 32 hours of video covering 85 individual presentations in 7 languages.
 * 1266 "unique viewers" have watched some portion on YouTubeSince the conference began last Monday.


 * Tool of the week
 * reCH is a Wikidata anti-vandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Eighth Birthday Presents
 * All recordings of Wikidata Labs are now available on Wikimedia Commons (Wiki Movimento Brasil)
 * Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) tutorial website – a new user-friendly tutorial to querying Wikidata (Wikimedia Israel)
 * Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website – a brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital collection of Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico)
 * Happy Birthday from Semantic MediaWiki
 * Wikidata Lexeme Forms  feature: announcement tweet and documentation edit
 * Automated finding references: dump and dashboard (Wikidata development team - announcement)
 * Better Item quality judgments from ORES (Wikidata development team)
 * Announcement of the distributed WikidataCon 2021 (Wikidata development team - announcement)
 * Results of Sum of all Indian paintings datathon organized by WikiProject India.
 * Happy birthday Wikidata! In the Abstract Wikipedia Updates (2020-10-29) by the project team, speaking about the future integration with Wikidata.
 * Knowledge Grapher filmmaker mode can visually display all the films and cast members of an individual director or producer.
 * User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript to show how an item conforms to an entityschema
 * The next WikidataCon will take place on 29-30-31 October 2021, in a distributed format. Follow this page to keep up to date: WikidataCon 2021.
 * The Election Tracker, uses Wikidata to keep track of upcoming national elections around the world.
 * Accepted published papers for the Wikidata Workshop on Monday, 02.11 are now available online wikidataworkshop.github.io
 * witches.is.ed.ac.uk shows the geographical residence location for accused witches in Scotland.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: die axis, annual average daily traffic, maximum current
 * External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, VA facility ID, Sports-Reference.com college basketball box score ID, Persée article ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, Base constructions bibliothèques ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Matrix room, regex (lang), Ukrainian romanization, Power consumption index, Heating energy consumption index, Business Number (Canada), notable tv series, number of points or goals attempted
 * External identifiers: Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, NCAA Statistics coach ID, NCAA school code, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Twitch team ID, Twitch tag ID, FINA Wiki ID, All the Tropes identifier, MTMT journal ID, UAF person ID, Soccerway stadium ID, NCAA Statistics player ID, Portuguese Football Federation ID, Wolfram language WordData sense, Namuwiki


 * Query examples:
 * Movies by rate of actors who studied at RADA (When distribution has at last 5 actors)
 * Central libraries in California linked to their branch library
 * Writers in the SIEFAR dictionary with a portrait in Wikimedia Commons (Source)
 * Place and date of birth of people buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (one color per century of birth) (Source)
 * Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) (Source)
 * Things Donald Trump and others own / have owned (Source)
 * Graveplots by gender in Père Lachaise Cemetery (Source)
 * Co-authorship between researchers from National University of La Plata (Source)
 * Number of Harvard Law graduates dead by year between 1850 and 1950 (Source)
 * Visualization of the works of Charles Heaphy (Source)
 * Identifiers present on the item for Penelope Cruz (or other movie people), but not on the item for Sean Connery
 * Map of places of birth of people with an identifier Inter-university Health Library in Wikidata colored by century of birth (Source)
 * Map of the trees recorded in OSM with protection status. OSM/Wikidata query (Source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject European Film Awards
 * Newest database reports: Sean Connery filmography


 * Development
 * Fixing the issue of `content was: ""` (empty string) when deleting Lexemes (T263435)
 * Final steps for deployment of JSON dumps for Lexeme (T264883)
 * Working on fixing an issue with adding statements with datatype mathematical formula (T266673)
 * The Query Builder can now generate its first very simple query and show the result. You can follow along as we develop it at the demo system.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:47, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #441
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous
 * Other
 * "und" or "und-latn" language code for addresses
 * Value label constraint


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries about visualisation on maps 🗺️ on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 10 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #38, November 15


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata Eighth Birthday Meetup - Database validation of Wikidata by Houcemeddine Turki
 * Turning Scholia into a platform for living scientometric studies (French, English) by Houcemeddine Turki
 * Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community @ ISWC 2020 with papers about interesting aspects of Wikidata.
 * Video: Visualizing the research ecosystem of neuroscience research via Wikidata. by Daniel Mietchen at Neuromatch Conference
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #23 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube, Facebook, November 14, 19.00 UTC


 * Tool of the week
 * Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar). Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all!
 * Remember to claim your Cloud VPS project and mark it as . Unclaimed projects risk being suspended or shutdown on 2020-12-01.
 * Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: birth rate, port calls, rank insignia, online catalog, format as language specific regular expression
 * External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, NCAA Statistics team season ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Vélib' Métropole station ID, Blogger user profile ID, Malmö Museer ID, MTMT journal ID, Soccerway stadium ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: favicon, Dedicated heritage institution, MetaSat ID, epithet, Poverty incidence (Philippines), covid info, filestore
 * External identifiers: AniDB tag ID, ClassInd audiovisual work ID, ClassInd game ID, Qobuz label ID, IMMuB album ID, FIS grass skier ID, AlKindi ID, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute personal profile ID, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute institution profile ID, EIK, edition humboldt digital ID, European Film Awards ID, Memorial Book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938, IMMuB artist ID, AIWARDS ID, LIMIS person ID, IAFD distributor ID


 * Query examples:
 * Terminus locations of A Roads in Britain (Source)
 * POTUS/UK PM age at inauguration/appointment and England mean age (Source)
 * Map of (public-sector) winners of H2020 projects in the Netherlands sortable by year (Source)
 * People who have held the positions of both Vice President and President of the United States (Source)
 * Crew of missions to the ISS and human spaceflights that have docked with the ISS (Source)
 * Graph of reasons UK MPs have left Parliament, grouped by decade since the 1890s (Source)
 * Number of successful UK election petitions by parliamentary term, 1859 onwards (includes by-elections as well as general elections) (Source)
 * List of longest Cars (Source)


 * Development
 * Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
 * Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
 * Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
 * Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (T264538)
 * Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (T266673)
 * Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (T263435)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:53, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #442
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * 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)

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.
 * Development
 * Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (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 (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 (T191831)
 * Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (T266496)
 * Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (T267553) and prototype test workflow (T267554)


 * 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:15, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

ikidata weekly summary #443
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)
 * Wikidata introduction - YouTube
 * Content model of Wikidata - YouTube
 * How the content of Wikidata can be represented in RDF - YouTube


 * 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)


 * 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 (T261275)
 * Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (T267502)
 * Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (T267023)
 * Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (T266936)
 * Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to dockerhub (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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:21, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #444
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will have several speakers joining us to discuss their projects in lightning talks, 1 December. Agenda
 * Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
 * Online edition of the Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award ceremony, on Friday, December 11th at 17:00 UTC.
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #41, December 6


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Linking OpenStreetMap with knowledge graphs — Link discovery for schema-agnostic volunteered geographic information (the KGs referred to are Wikidata & DBPedia)
 * "Women’s representation and voice in media coverage of the coronavirus crisis": an analysis linking news articles to information on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
 * Wikidata Bib v0, prototype for personalized analytics of scientific readings using Wikidata.
 * Video: Strategies for Assembling the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph by Roderic Page
 * Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
 * ORCID for Wikidata: A workflow for matching author and publication items in Wikidata
 * id.loc.gov and Wikidata, one year later


 * Tool of the week
 * osm2kg is a tool to facilitate matching Wikidata entries to OSM nodes.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted video and chat channels for socializing.
 * The University of Nevada has an open position around Wikidata; Digital Collections Wikimedian-in-Residence
 * Round 2 of the consultation on using Wikidata for curriculum digitization begun on November 24th, and will end on December 7th. You can participate by sharing your ideas in this response form (Google forms)
 * Wiki Movimento Brasil will support WikidataCon 2021
 * Wikidata descriptions changes will be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist on Wikimedia wikis


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: facial hair, identity element, mathematical inverse, has operator, has marker, Hong Kong film rating, indexed in bibliographic review, number of taxpayers, ITRANS, complementary property, number of points/goals attempted, Water area, MTRCB rating, power consumption index, heating energy consumption index
 * External identifiers: Absolute Games person ID, FIS grass skier ID, FISG athlete ID, Kinorium movie ID, CONOR.AL ID, CONOR.BG ID, CONOR.KS ID, CONOR.SR ID, Musica Brasilis ID, Salzburgwiki ID, IEV number, British Phonographic Industry ID, CRGPG ID, Drizly product ID, Canada Business Number, FINA Wiki ID, Foodlocate restaurant ID, Qobuz label ID, AAA campground ID, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, Hyperion Records person ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item ID, DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ID, HLTV player ID, Kinorium person ID, AstroGen ID, BBC sound effects asset ID, Namuwiki ID, CIP data sheet, AniDB episode ID, edition humboldt digital Flora ID, Sistema de Información Legislativa ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ELSPA rating, cites work string, artistic director, MDJF ID, Coordinates of depicted place, first family name in Portuguese name, propriétés à éviter, Commons category for the view from the item, Filmstriben film-ID, Mailing List, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data
 * External identifiers: vets.cz ID, Parler ID, HAL Journal id, Fitzwilliam Museum ID, National Gallery of Australia ID, U.S. Masters Swimming ID, Gab ID, Museo del Prado ID, National Gallery of Ireland ID, Auckland Art Gallery ID, Artfacts ID, Order of Canada ID, SKD ID, DIA ID, ZOBODAT, AppGallery app ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, Amsterdam Museum ID, theses.cz ID, curid


 * Query examples:
 * Politicians with an account at GitHub, CPAN, or Wikimedia (Source)
 * Percentage of deaths caused by tuberculosis by decade (Source)
 * Number of programming languages and their paradigms (Source)
 * Museums within 2 miles of MoMA (federated query) (Source)
 * Largest cities of the world ordered by population (Source)
 * Italian politicians who served as a minister in more than one cabinet since 1990 (Source)
 * People born after 1800 whose “name in native language” is in Latin (Source)
 * UK statues and whether they are of nobles and/or women (Source)
 * Location of German cities with a population count greater than 50.000 (Source)
 * Map of medicines used (green) to fight infectious diseases (orange) (Source)
 * Schema examples: museum


 * Development
 * Development on the Query Builder is continuing. You can follow along at https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org
 * Fixed an issue where language fallback indicators were still shown when falling back from a variant of the language (T267502)
 * Fixed an issue on Lexeme pages where language and lexical category fields turn red on unfocus even though no changes were made (T266936)
 * Working on improving what happens to sitelinks when an article is moved to a unsupported namespace (T261275))
 * Investigating a significant increase in skipped Item IDs (T268625)
 * Addressing the feedback for the draft of the REST API spec

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 * 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:44, 30 November 2020 (UTC)