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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

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) 15:44, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #445
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Comment on a proposal for proposed deletion system


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia, presented in English by Mike Peel (Wiki Movimento Brasil). The event is supported by a WikiCite e-scholarship. December 8th 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT), via YouTube.
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 8 at 18:00 CET
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia 2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony, December 11th at 17:00 GMT (details)
 * Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #42, December 13


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * A massive new effort to name millions sold into bondage during the transatlantic slave trade. The Washington Post writes about enslaved.org, a Wikibase instance run at Michigan State University, that collects and creates Linked Open Data about the transatlantic slave trade. (Source)
 * Video: Introduction to Wikidata by and with Alicia Fagerving from Wikipedia Day 2020
 * Video: How to use Wikidata Mix'n'match tool - YouTube
 * Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
 * Linking K10plus library union catalog with Wikidata
 * Building Wikidata One Branch of Knowledge at a Time


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Zvpunry/EntitySchemaHighlighter.js user script highlights the entities in the content of a Schema and shows information when hovering the link. (2020-12-07)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We now have a central repository for wikibase-cli templates, with the aim to document best practices, offer general purpose request/create/edit templates, but also offer more niche templates as examples of what's possible: contributions and template requests welcome!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: 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, road name formatter, ELSPA rating, kunya, religion or world view
 * External identifiers: 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, BG EIK, All the Tropes identifier, Concise Literary Encyclopedia ID, Reliwiki page ID, Arken ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, Archives at Yale names ID, HAL journal id, Parler username, Museo del Prado ID, National Gallery of Ireland ID, Auckland Art Gallery artwork ID, CINE21 film ID, National Gallery of Australia ID, Fitzwilliam Museum ID, Sonneveld-index, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), NSSDCA ID, ZOBODAT person ID, ZOBODAT taxon ID, DIA ID, SKD ID, Max Movie film ID, Gab username, Movist film ID, KOBIS ID, Amsterdam Museum ID, SMB-digital ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia artwork ID, CQVIP article ID, DBLP conference ID, Filmstriben film-ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: 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, Mailing List, curid, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data, archaeological site of, does not have cause, conductor for, reason for normal rank, value is one of, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, lineage marker, has surface, DBLP journal id
 * External identifiers: U.S. Masters Swimming ID, Artfacts ID, Order of Canada ID, AppGallery app ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, theses.cz ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, CollEx-Persée ID, The Galileo Project ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Chinese Painting Database ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum ID, Max-Movie-Personen-ID, CINE21 person ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Basic Formal Ontology ID, Fichier des décès ID


 * Query examples:
 * Russian cuisine
 * Belgian artists that rise to the public domain in 2021 (Source)
 * Asian food made from noodles (Source)
 * Bubble diagram by wiki page numbers in each language on objects kept at the Bardo National Museum (note: Commons is counted as English) (Source)
 * Amusement parks around the world (Source)
 * Schema examples: Video game


 * Development
 * Simple Query Builder development continues. We worked on combining different query conditions as well as internationalisation.
 * Making the precision translatable in geocoordinate and date inputs (T269102)
 * Changes to descriptions in a specific language now show up on watchlist and recent changes on the Wikipedia and co for that language (T191831)
 * Finished working on the problem of incorrectly-escaped label being included in a link to Special:NewItem if there are no search results (T263258)
 * Investigating why we're currently skipping a significant number of Item IDs (T268625)
 * Wikibase Release Strategy/Infrastructure: We have decided where to host future Docker and tarball releases of Wikibase. You can read about the details and the reasoning in the following ADRs: Docker Image Repository, Tarball Repository

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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:31, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #446
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy


 * Events
 * Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, December 15 at 18:00 CET
 * Past: WikiConference North America/2020
 * Past: Localization and structuring of open data-Zhu Tinghong-Wikidata Community of Local Studies - MOPCON 2020 (replay), YouTube
 * Past: SMWCon 2020/Day 2 - "Wikidata Walkabout" by Yaron Koren (replay), YouTube
 * Past: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia (replay), YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Building the SWIB20 participants map - combining Wikidata with custom data points via a federated query (ZBW Labs).
 * Introducing the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Website - A new Wikidata-driven website to explore the Scottish Reformation.
 * Introduction to Querying Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL by John Samuel
 * Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change, YouTube
 * Video: How to take data from OpenRefine to Wikidata through QuickStatements, YouTube
 * Video: Editing Wikidata live - casual session by Jan Ainali, YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * is a visual tool for querying and exposing Wikidata easily.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Coolest Tool Award 2020 featured some Wikidata tools: Lingua Libre won in the category “Diversity”; Listeria, Lexeme Forms and Entity Explosion got honorable mentions. Congratulations!
 * Complex constraint check for recency of value
 * The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is open until December 21st. You can vote on as many wishes as you want. There's a separate category for Wikidata.
 * Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for the view from the item, mailing list archive, word lookup, inappropriate property for this type, compatible with
 * External identifiers: Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID, Encyklopedie mostů v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID, CollEx-Persée ID, theses.cz ID, Google Play developer slug, AppGallery app ID, The Galileo Project ID, Artfacts ID, Biblioteca Marciana owner ID, Museo Galileo biography ID, National Galleries of Scotland ID, Museo Galileo authority ID, Bavarian State Painting Collections artwork ID, Delft municipal monument ID, Dizionario degli artisti ID, Order of Canada recipient ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, vets.cz ID, Chapels of southern Bohemia ID, GS1 GPC brick code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: insufficiently precise value, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, applies when property is used, River Code, Wikimedian in Residence, Commons compatible image available at URL (non-artwork), number of at bats, runs batted in, stolen bases, subdivision monétaire
 * External identifiers: PBA ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries IDs, LFH staff ID, Cephalopod Ontology entity ID, Fungal gross anatomy entity ID, Plant Ontology entity ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology entity ID, DataTrek ID, DBLP publication ID, PeriodO period ID, KANTO, CITWF title ID, CITWF person ID, identifiant de la Cinémathèque québécoise pour une personne, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, DzygaMDB film, DzygaMDB person ID, XXXBios female performer ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, AVN movie ID, Lichess Username, Evil Angel movie ID, Evil Angel video ID


 * Query examples:
 * All stumbling stones in the city of Hannover
 * (partial) list, timeline and gallery of successful ascents of Mount Everest (and few other summits)
 * Web & social media URLs for UK Civic Societies (Source)
 * Publication related to Research Institute of Text Analysis and Applications: no. of pages per author/year, authors network (Source)
 * Map of the ritual objects said to be used by accused witches in Scotland (colourcoded layer accessible on top right to see the list of objects) (Source)
 * Seats of the Parliament of England, and the first year we have a named person listed for them (Source)
 * Female race car drivers on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
 * Places of Geological Interest in Alamedilla (Source)
 * Number of Nature articles that were published on a Sunday in a given year
 * Schema examples:
 * Schema for stumbling stones
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Agriculture


 * Development
 * We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from 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.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:42, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #447
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
 * Wikidata: how to get involved (in Czech)
 * Lexemes on Wikidata (in Czech)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Video: HGAPS Speaker Series by Thomas Shafee
 * Wikidata Overview: how you can use it to improve the overall knowledge base of the Internet
 * Wikidata Walkthrough: hands-on editing experience
 * Wikidata for Bat Collectors, YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Live is a real-time visual dashboard for Wikidata edits; paper, interface (visualizes recent changes to Wikidata in quasi real time).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Complex constraint about labels' language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: National Library at Kolkata romanization, URL match pattern, URL match replacement value
 * External identifiers: ClassInd audiovisual work ID, Georgia Museum of Art ID, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ID, tribunsdelaplebe.fr ID, PBA artwork ID, OpenReview.net profile ID, OpenReview.net group ID, OpenReview.net submission ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: applicable "stated in" value, WMF hosted image that could be moved to Commons, Category for the view of the item, OSM object, property related to this topic, personality traits, graph girth, ALA-LC romanization
 * External identifiers: SAPA, Manus Online author ID, Mapy.cz ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, SVTplay identifier, identifiant Mediafilm, IFLA form of music ID, IFLA key of musical work ID, IFLA mode of musical work ID, RDA support type ID, SLAM artwork ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, NPG ID, jeuxvideo.com ID, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Royal Museums Greenwich ID, PIAC ID, Castbox show ID, Stitcher show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID


 * Deleted properties: street address (P969)
 * Query examples:
 * Tex-Mex singers (Source)
 * Map of images from Wicipics project (photography campaign in Wales) (Source)
 * Vito Russo Test in Wikidata
 * Distinct dialects of Wikidata lexemes (Source)
 * Patronage of rapid-transit transportation (Source)
 * People who played Julius Caesar, and what "version" of him they played
 * Newest WikiProjects: Media Representation
 * Newest database reports: Reports on Italian given names


 * Development
 * Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the demo system.
 * Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (T267023)
 * Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (T266638)
 * Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (T267502)
 * Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (T250550)

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
 * Help add human (Q5) to properties that currently don't have it.
 * 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 untangle items that refer to different concepts.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:50, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

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