Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 on October 25-26. If you're not attending, you can follow most of the sessions remotely with live stream.
- Upcoming: Wikidata's seventh birthday, on October 29th. You can organize an event in your area and add it to the list!
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign cont. with OpenRefine demo, 22 October. Agenda
- Upcoming: Wikidata and Archival Metadata : opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon in Study day on Linked Data, Brussels, Friday November 22th, 2019.
- Past: Several sessions at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019 (11–13 October):
- Wikidata content oriented projects, talk by Mārtiņš Bruņenieks (video)
- Using Wikidata as an Educational Platform, talk by Nebojša Ratković (video)
- Beyond the basics: Intermediate Wikidata tools, workshop by Asaf Bartov (not recorded)
- Your first Wikidata Lua infobox, workshop by Tobias Schönberg (not recorded)
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Querying Wikidata RDF with SQL using RDF2X
- Ozymandias in Canberra - how the Atlas of Living Australia could be enhanced using Wikidata
- Knowledge Graph Consolidation by Unifying Synonymous Relationships - Jan-Christoph Kalo, et al.
- PhD thesis: Candela Romero, Gustavo (2019). Publicación y enriquecimiento semántico de datos abiertos en bibliotecas digitales (in Spanish).
- Wikidata Wordmap
- Tool of the week
- The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata won an Open Publishing Award (description).
- Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
- Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (T235540).
- You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to this file
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: image backside, frontside image, gender educated, image with frame, line(s), minimum temperature record, glacier status, number of processor threads, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature
- External identifiers: Professional Football League of Ukraine player ID, Rotterdam City Archives actor ID, FreeBSD port, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, Steam bundle ID, FantLab author ID, NAD place ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com referee ID, FantLab award ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab work ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, WorldFootball.net competition ID, Rijksmuseum Research Library authority ID, Basis Wien person ID, Basis Wien institution ID, Basis Wien event ID, Basis Wien object ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Czech Fortuna liga player ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Soccerbase team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinematoscope film ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: MOHW HospID, graph diameter, ICP filing, aspect, key col, key col of
- External identifiers: FlashScore.com match ID, GHR Conditions ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munchs correspondance person ID, Neliti Journal ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph Serviceperson ID, iNaturalist place ID, dp.ru persons ID, IISG ID, ifixit ID, Wolfram Language entity type, CinemaRx person ID, Kinématoscope - Literary work, Kinématoscope - Film director, Kinématoscope - Writer, Stathletics-ID, BDFutbol team ID
- Query examples:
- Map of châteaux in the French world heritage site "the Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes" (source)
- Graph of the personal relationships between Tekken characters and their fighting styles (source)
- Timeline of the chief ministers of Haryana and Maharashtra (source)
- Language representation of descriptions in Wikidata for objects connected to Ksamsök (source)
- Cricketers who have ever played on an Indian Super League team (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed the DuplicateReferences gadget that was broken due to refactoring work needed to make pages load faster and development easier (phab:T234094)
- Wikidata Bridge: restricting the length of string value inputs (phab:T229241)
- research delayed kicking in of Bridge (phab:T233305)
- enable/disable save button depending on Bridge state (phab:T230342)
- More work on reducing the resource loader modules
- More work on tainted references
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!