Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past: Remote Wikimedia Hackathon, May 9-10 (see the showcase replay and the description of projects). Several Wikidata-related sessions took place:
- Past: Wikidata local school gathering was organised by Wikidata Taiwan. Link to Event page and dashboard
- Upcoming: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred, May 13th at 19:30 CEST
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding
wikidata=*tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube - Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Lydia Pintscher from Wikimedia Deutschland
- How to create external identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian): YouTube
- Open Data and Wikidata training (in Mandarin Chinese): YouTube
- Bandaid: using Wikidata to generate band names
- Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding
- Tool of the week
- WikidataExtract extracts schemas (shape expressions) from Wikidata entities
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/VIAF linking to multiple items has been created: most of the items listed probably need merging - have a look!
- New tool: universal almanac based on Wikidata by Alexander Doria
- A proposal for a new Wikiproject Wikilambda that allows creating multilingual content in Wikidata that can be used in all Wikipedias. Signatures of support are needed and discussion and questions are welcomed!
- V1 of Wikidata Bridge is almost ready to be tested on Catalan Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: general property-based URL formatter, hardiness of plant, hardiness zone, ex-libris, voting system, supported metadata, tabular case data, Gazette of India notification
- External identifiers: motorsportstats.com team ID, Canadiana NCF ID, Indian Railways train number, SNCF Station Identifier, South African Company Registration Number, DART-Europe thesis ID, DoME exhibition ID, DPE school code, Epistemonikos ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, Joconde technique ID, PragerU presenter ID, regional government of Sicily ID, Anagrafe Istituti Culturali Ecclesiastici ID, BeWeb cultural institution ID, ACUM work ID, Reta Vortaro ID, Mozilla Developer Network article
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: social media followers, Gobbledygook, forearm length, number of stepchildren, number of adopted children, CV, axe, banned in
- External identifiers: NMMA built heritage ID, NMMA antiquities ID, Super Mario Wiki ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, Archaeology in Greece Online place ID, iDAI.gazetteer ID, iDAI.chronontology ID, identifiant SILL d'un logiciel, Lower Austrian Castle ID, Naturdenkmal-ID Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Bookogs credit ID, Bookogs work ID, Bookogs book ID, GMC membership number, Bibliography of the History of Slovakia ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali author ID, Augustins de l'Assomption ID, ASUT ID, Niden INE
- Query examples:
- Films claimed to pass the Bechdel test with less than 2 female cast members in Wikidata
- African-American librarians in Wikidata that don't have Wikipedia articles (Source)
- Magicians with known precise birth date (Source)
- Sheffield Shield cricket players and the number of states they have played in (Source)
- Number of Twitter followers of scientists at Dutch universities (Source)
- Former United Kingdom Parliament MP's still living (by first election) (Source)
- Number of paintings in National Gallery with artist and gender (Source)
- Nearby table tennis tables to public spaces for the Wiki Explorer Android application (Source)
- Map of Ramsar sites in France (Source)
- Highest software version numbers recorded on Wikidata (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Speed skating, Witches
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Display statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
- Federated properties: fix a bug that caused some properties to not appear in search results (phab:T252024)
- Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
- Prevent Wikibase schema updaters to modify database directly (phab:T249598)
- Write a technical RFC about site-wide edit rate limiting (phab:T247459)
- Fix an issue on Wikibase: property names are missing when rendering (phab:T247196)
- More work on automated 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!