User talk:Jianhui67/Archive October 2020

Wikidata weekly summary #436
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Fuzheado


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT)
 * Upcoming: plenty of events for the Wikidata birthday, check the calendar and feel free to organise one!


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * What does/doesn’t follow Benford’s law: An analysis of hundreds of sets of numbers from Wikidata.
 * Video: How to create and edit items on Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata and wikiprojects of interest to librarians (in Spanish) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: TDD number, twin town sign, character designer, Deutsche Bahn station code
 * External identifiers: Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID, Native Plants Database ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Maniadb album ID, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Présence Compositrices work ID, Regional Council of Tuscany ID, Indonesian prison database ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Twitter topics ID, Naver movie ID, Bollywood Hungama movie ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, London Stock Exchange company ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Infobox based on, CompositionToday composers showcase ID, parallel street, World Factbook country code, port calls, described at Wikipedia page, erected by, PIM award ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
 * External identifiers: Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID, CompositionToday composer ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, ACER code, Dictionnaire biographique du fouriérisme ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, SwissLipids identifier, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Minecraft UUID, Minecraft username, Science Museum Group ID, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), RNACentral ID, NPS people ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers-ID, Dresden Street ID, Spotify playlist ID


 * Query examples:
 * Birthplace of people named Michael or any other variant of the name (Source)
 * [https://sophox.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3FmakeLabel%20%3FmodelLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2A%20before%20querying%20the%20service.%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20outdoor%20warning%20sirens%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Aemergency%20%22siren%22.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20make%20and%2For%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fosm%20%28osmt%3Amanufacturer%3Awikidata%7Cosmt%3Asiren%3Amodel%3Awikidata%29%20%3FmakeModel.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Query%20Wikidata%20for%20the%20make%2Fmodel%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20If%20it%E2%80%99s%20a%20model%2C%20get%20the%20make%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ76920834%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP176%20%3Fmake.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmodel%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20model%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmodel%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmodelLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmodelLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20A%20make%20must%20be%20a%20business%20to%20distinguish%20it%20from%20a%20model%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FmakeModel%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2A%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3FmakeModel%20AS%20%3Fmake%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Get%20the%20manufacturer%E2%80%99s%20name%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmake%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmakeLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FmakeLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3FmakeLabel%2C%20%22Unknown%22%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Get%20coordinates%20to%20display%20on%20a%20map%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmm%3Aloc%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3FmakeLabel%29 Map of outdoor warning sirens, color-coded by manufacturer. A layer selector lets you toggle individual manufacturers on and off. Clicking a siren shows its make and model if available.] - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Soviet cartoons in descending order of popularity in the world (Source)
 * List of ISO countries showing each country's synonyms, labels, etc. (Source)
 * Norwegian politicians who have been members of at least 3 parties (Source)
 * Streets in Leiden named after people/things (Source)
 * Maps of arts and humanities research grants funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK between 2013-2019. Sorted by year, Sorted by budget (Source)
 * Newest database reports:
 * EntitySchema directory - feedback welcome on the report talk page.


 * Development
 * First pieces of the Query Builder are coming together and we are working towards making it generate the first dumb query
 * Talking to people about their thoughts on checking Wikidata's data against other databases. If you're interested reach out to Mohammed.
 * Got some first internal feedback for the REST API specification draft. We'll publish it for feedback in the next days.
 * Fixing an issue with certain language codes no longer being available (T264294)
 * Working on making sure blocked bots don't waste Item IDs when trying to create new Items (T232620)

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) 16:06, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #437
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: MsynABot
 * Closed request for adminship: Fuzheado (successful)


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 13 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, October 14 at 12:00 GMT
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #34, October 18
 * Search Platform Office Hours happens first Wednesday of each month. Come with questions related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata reaches Q100000000, by Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić
 * A new extension can add support for linking to local media files in Statements (and not just files on Wikimedia Commons) to a Wikibase instance (Demo video, developed by Professional.Wiki)
 * LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group presentation: How Entity Explosion fits into the Wikidata ecosystem, by Toby Hudson
 * Video: Wikidata and COVID-19: Creating a collaborative knowledge graph from CORD-19, by Csisc


 * Tool of the week
 * OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * noratelimit for bots to be removed on October 20th
 * The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services.
 * The 2020 Coolest Tool Award is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of negative votes, number of support votes, x-offset, y-offset, social media followers, fandom, has census, parallel street, entry in abbreviations table
 * External identifiers: Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), FVLB work ID, Passion Patrimoine ID, Biographical dictionary of Fourierism ID, CompositionToday composer ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, SwissLipids identifier, ACER code, Science Museum Group ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers ID, RNACentral ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: ship's captain, planetary coordinates, Date of signature, Unicode name
 * External identifiers: CPV Supplementary, PeoplePill person ID, O*NET OnLine code, Emojipedia ID, GADM ID, CTAN package ID, MinDat taxon ID, AniList anime ID, AniList manga and light novel ID, Normattiva ID, ILO Thesaurus ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List - OSM/Wikidata query
 * Women actress less than 70 years old who are descendants of the first king of Navarre, ordered by number of sitelinks
 * Dead Social Democratic Party members who have been ministers in 1992 or later (Source)
 * Artworks with an image in Wikidata by year of creation (Source)
 * Map of mountains in Switzerland (Source)
 * Map of markets in the city of Surabaya (Source)
 * National Anthems by tonality (Source)


 * Development
 * The RFC to semi-protect all property pages has been implemented, all properties now require the “autoconfirmed” right to edit (T254280)
 * Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (T220883)
 * Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (T232620)
 * Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
 * Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
 * Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.

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) 15:28, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #438
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 20 at 18:00 CEST
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: hands-on work with Wikidata on creating items for authors of COVID 19 papers and brainstorming for future hands-on work, 20 October. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperabilidade e acesso aos dados, in Portuguese by Ederporto (Wiki Movimento Brasil) - October 22 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT)
 * WikiCite 2020: Virtual Conference happening 26-28 October 2020. Many live-stream sessions across several languages and timezones. LWyatt (WMF)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Tisane Labs announce new feature in Tisane API, allowing tagging and extraction of Wikidata entities: blog post
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing at HACK4OPENGLAM - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata Lexeme BY Mahir256 - YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to SPARQL (in Swedish) - YouTube
 * Video: Bibliographic data on Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Prepbio tool uses Wikidata to create the beginnings of a Wikipedia stub biography article. (2020-10-19)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: ritual object
 * External identifiers: Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Spotify playlist ID, Artist ID of the department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre, NBIC taxon ID, Danish educational institution number, CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Unicode name, branch or affiliate, economy of topic, checkin and checkout times (v.2), maximum current, Skipsrevyen ID, route operated, power plant unit, annual average daily traffic, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par
 * External identifiers: Kramerius of Moravian Library UUID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, CCFr library ID, Decorati onorificenze repubblica, BHL name ID, AWMDB person ID, AVN person ID, American Heritage ID, xHamster ID, Great Places ID, Famepedia ID, Nachlässe in Austria, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, PAN member, DC Historic Sites ID, Literary Encyclopedia (1929-1939), Concise Literary Encyclopedia, aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole


 * Query examples:
 * [https://sophox.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fosm%20%3Fmodel%20%3Flicense%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Prevent%20optimizer%20from%20querying%20for%20everything%20tagged%20with%20wikidata%3D%2A%20before%20querying%20the%20service.%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20the%20Wikidata%20Query%20Service%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Models%20of%20things%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwd%20wdt%3AP4896%20%3Fmodel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20OpenStreetMap%20for%20features%20corresponding%20to%20these%20things%0A%20%20%23%20This%20greatly%20narrows%20the%20set%20of%20results%2C%20making%20the%20subsequent%20MediaWiki%20API%20call%20much%20faster%0A%20%20%3Fosm%20osmt%3Awikidata%20%3Fwd.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Query%20the%20Wikidata%20Query%20Service%20again%20for%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20The%20same%20model%20of%20the%20same%20thing%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fwd%20wdt%3AP4896%20%3Fmodel.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Convert%20the%20file%20path%20URL%20into%20a%20file%20description%20page%20title%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22File%3A%22%2C%20wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28STRAFTER%28STR%28%3Fmodel%29%2C%20%22%2FSpecial%3AFilePath%2F%22%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Ftitle%29%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Query%20the%20MediaWiki%20API%20Query%20Service%20for%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Categories%20that%20contain%20these%20pages%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Categories%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22commons.wikimedia.org%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Alimit%2050%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Atitles%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Output%20the%20page%20title%20and%20category%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ftitle%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Atitle.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcategory%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Acategory.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Only%20include%20the%20model%20if%20it%20has%20been%20categorized%20with%20a%20Creative%20Commons%20license%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20STRSTARTS%28%3Fcategory%2C%20%22Category%3ACC-%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Extract%20a%20%E2%80%9Clicense%E2%80%9D%20name%20out%20of%20the%20category%20page%20title%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRAFTER%28%3Fcategory%2C%20%22Category%3A%22%29%20AS%20%3Flicense%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D Gallery of 3D models of structures mapped in OpenStreetMap that are available under Creative Commons licenses at Wikimedia Commons] - OSM/Wikidata query (sophox.org)
 * Item named after item named after item named after item named after item named after item
 * UK parliament members' opposition posts, start dates and end dates where Wikidata has a Parliament ID for that member (Source)
 * Count of Irish Statutory Instruments, 1948-2020 (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fdecade%20%3Fgenre%20%3FgenreLabel%20%3Fcount%20%3FdecadeCount%20%28100%20%2a%20%3Fcount%20%2F%20%3FdecadeCount%20AS%20%3Fpercentage%29%20WHERE%20%7B%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdecade%20%3Fgenre%20%28count%28%3Fx%29%20as%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20TOP%2020%20Genres%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Ftop20Genre%20%3Fcount%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%28count%28%3Fx%29%20as%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP136%20%3Fgenre.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Exclude%20silent%20film%3B%20doesn%27t%20make%20a%20ton%20of%20sense%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20in%20this%20context%2C%20since%20it%27s%20more%20about%20the%20medium%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20than%20the%20content%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fgenre%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ226730%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Fgenre%20as%20%3Ftop20Genre%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20LIMIT%2020%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fx%20%28min%28%3FpubDate%29%20as%20%3FfirstPubDate%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FpubDate.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fx%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP136%20%3Ftop20Genre.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Ftop20Genre%20as%20%3Fgenre%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28concat%28str%28floor%28year%28%3FfirstPubDate%29%20%2F%2010%29%29%2C%20%220s%22%29%20as%20%3Fdecade%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%21isBlank%28%3Fdecade%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdecade%20%3Fgenre%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Movies%20per%20decade%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdecade%20%28count%28%3Fx%29%20as%20%3FdecadeCount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fx%20%28min%28%3FpubDate%29%20as%20%3FfirstPubDate%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fx%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FpubDate.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fx%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28concat%28str%28floor%28year%28%3FfirstPubDate%29%20%2F%2010%29%29%2C%20%220s%22%29%20as%20%3Fdecade%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20This%20filter%20is%20very%20important%20%28in%20both%20subqueries%29%21%20Otherwise%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20the%20results%20of%20the%20sub%20queries%20can%27t%20be%20properly%20aligned.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%21isBlank%28%3Fdecade%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdecade%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20See%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FQ22917333%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdecade%20%21%3D%20%222110s%22%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Movie genre trends] (Source)
 * Scientific papers explaining backward contact tracing (Source)
 * List of sovereign states in en, fr, de, ru (Source)
 * Locations depicted in paintings (Source)
 * The most commonly depicted locations (Source)


 * Development
 * Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (T232620)
 * So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (T264883)
 * Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
 * Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.

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) 15:56, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #439
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
 * Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
 * Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
 * Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
 * WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
 * Wikidata Education Week, online, on October 26-30
 * 24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
 * Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
 * Birthday celebration in Rennes, France, on October 29th
 * Birthday Celebration in Accra, Ghana, and online, on October 29th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CET (16:00 GMT)
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 27 at 18:00 CET


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Excerpts from Wikidata Birthday events
 * Video: How the Wikimedia Brazil contributed to Wikidata in 2020 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata and data reconciliation (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Analyze Swedish politics with Wikidata (Blog post)
 * WikiCite awards 23 grants & eScholarships to improve open citations (including plenty of Wikidata-related projects)
 * Video: Eyoungstrom and Evolution and evolvability explore and explain different Wikidata tools in 15-part series on YouTube - Playlist
 * Video: Wikidata Lab XXV: Interoperability and data access (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Video: Wikidata for cultural institutions and GLAM-WIKI partnerships (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * Wikidata Training Workshop 4, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association - YouTube
 * Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)
 * Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (in French) - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)


 * Tool of the week
 * WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Server switch: all wikis will be in read-only on Tuesday, October 27th at 14:00 UTC for up to an hour (more information). All services hosted by WMF (e.g. tools hosted on wmcloud.org) are also impacted. Non-essential code deployments will not happen this week.
 * Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) develops instructional material for the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS): wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of rooms, permits, prohibits, economy of topic, check-in time, check-out time
 * External identifiers: CTAN package ID, Dresden Street ID, Emojipedia ID, FIBA Hall of Fame ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article, GADM ID, Lambiek Special pages ID, Mir@bel publisher ID, ILO Thesaurus ID, AVN performer ID, CCFr library ID, xHamster performer ID, AWMDB performer ID, Normattiva ID, American Heritage place ID, BHL name ID, Hungarian Water Polo Federation player ID, Irish Statute Book ID, Minecraft UUID, Nachlässe in Austria ID, AniList anime ID, National Park Service people ID, AniList manga ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi opera ID, O*NET OnLine code, Opta football competition ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, The Boardr profile ID, Great Places ID, PIM award ID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, DC Historic Sites place ID, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: annual average daily traffic, isotopically modified form of, Numérisé par, Online catalog, funeral, Inaugural address, Hong Kong film rating, word lookup, hair or facial hair style, Cup size, for color scheme
 * External identifiers: aagm people ID, aagm sites ID, Yandex Zen ID, GeoGuessr ID, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID, Polski Słownik Judaistyczny ID, SMB-digital ID, identifiant station Vélib' Métropole, Base constructions bibliothèques ID, Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses ID, Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID, Malmö Museer, IMVDb music video ID, NSSDCA ID, Docker Hub repository, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID, Persée article ID, Geneanet Family Name ID, Blogger user profile ID, USL League One ID, Stolperstein identifiers, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID, EGAFD ID


 * Query examples:
 * Commemorative plaques and their subjects in Aberdeen, Scotland; with photos of plaque and subject and Wikipedia links. (Source)
 * Cities with female mayor (Source)
 * Most common variants of the name "Susanne" in each country (Source)
 * Birthplaces of art historians (Source)
 * Invasive species in EU and whether they have articles in different languages (Source)
 * Birthplace of Olympique de Marseille players (Source)
 * COVID-19 deaths by month (Source)
 * Wikimedia Commons Query examples:
 * Get information of Europeana item using federated query


 * Development
 * Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
 * Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (T264883)
 * Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
 * Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (T265897)
 * Created Extension:WikibaseManifest documentation on MediaWiki.
 * Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
 * Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
 * Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (T265118)
 * Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (T258354)
 * Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report

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) 16:00, 26 October 2020 (UTC)