Wikidata:Status updates/2020 04 06

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-04-06.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Should we create new properties for beaches?

Events

• Upcoming: Wikidata office hour, April 7th at 18:00 UTC+2, on the Wikidata Telegram channel
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Google Sheets add-on, Author Disambiguator Tool, 07 April. Agenda
• Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, April 8 at 20:00 CEST
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #8, April 12
• Upcoming: Wikidata for Beginners (German, Remoted via Zoom), May 3
• Ongoing: WikiGap Challenge until April 8th
• Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Signpost special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters — with mentions of COVID-related Wikidata activities
• Denny Vrandecic published a proposal that suggests some extensions to Wikidata, and also a wholly new project, Wikilambda.
• ScienceGuide's The COVID-19 pandemic stresses the societal importance of open science mentions WikiProject COVID-19
• SPARC*Europe mentions the WikiProject COVID-19 in Overnight, COVID-19 heightens the need for Open Science post
• Video: Live SPARQL queries in English by WikidataFacts
• Video: Live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron

Tool of the week

• Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New tool: ShExStatements to generate Shape Expressions from CSV (more details)
• Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
• New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
• schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
• Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
• wb_terms table will be emptied today
• Your feedback is welcome on two projects to improve the queries and lists workflows

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: organized response related to outbreak, Latvian transcription, country of registry, number of hospitalized cases, ARK formatter, symbol of
  • External identifiers: m3db.com person ID, Filmfront person ID, SIUSA archive conservator ID, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, RPGamer game ID, DR music artist ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, ELAR ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Women of Scotland memorial ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Latvian unified registration number, Amazon Prime Video ID, VGMRips composer ID, Apache Project ID, coinop.org game ID, Glassdoor company ID, AGROVOC ID, Ameli ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, CIRIS author ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, ToposText place ID, ToposText person ID, ToposText work ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: located in the statistical territorial entity, formatter for periodical, CSS Color name
  • External identifiers: JournalTOCs ID, EZB ID, MUSE article ID, Paperity journal ID, Paperity article ID, Flora del Cono Sur Darwinion, MxM xref, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, TED speaker numeric ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID
• Query examples:
  • Country-level citation graph for #COVID19 (source)
  • Movies from artfilm.ch in free access (source)
  • Topic co-occurrence graph in the SARS-CoV-2 & #COVID19 literature (source)
  • Fibulas in Musée Saint-Raymond with date, material, location of discovery

Development

• Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board)
• Bridge: improve rendering of references (phab:T238661)
• Only send incremental changes through the API (phab:T230343)
• Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata (phab:T240333)
• Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (phab:T228857)

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!