User talk:Masumrezarock100

Previous discussion was archived at User talk:Masumrezarock100/Archive 1 on 2019-06-28.

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last 2 weeks.

• Discussions:
  • New request for comments: Handle genealogical information, Sort identifiers

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Data Roundtripping: a new frontier for GLAM-Wiki collaborations, by Sandra Fauconnier
  • Leveraging open data at the National Library of Wales, by Jason Evans
  • Context-aware Entity Linking with Attentive Neural Networks on Wikidata Knowledge Graph, Isaiah Onando Mulang et al. (on Arxiv)
  • Celebrating FactGrid’s Q100000: Conrad Alexandre Gérard
  • Descartes, social networks and popular culture: An excursion into digital scholarship
  • How to select your Christmas movie using SPARQL and Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • The revised version of the very powerful PetScan offers to edit or create items based on Wikipedia categories, search, SPARQL, links with filters by label or properties

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: Dwynwen, adapted from Crotos, provides users with a search interface designed specifically for artworks and other visual digital content from Commons, using Wikidata.
  • MichaelSchoenitzer is looking for co-maintainers for the tool MachtSinn and the Lexeme Python library
  • We now have Q80000000
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer to work on Wikidata and Wikibase as well as a technical writer

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
    • External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
    • External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map showing objects named after a person represented in Europeana
    • Locations where paintings were made (source)
    • Swedish citizens who died in 1949 and whose works will enter the public domain on 1 January 2020 with profession and image, ordered by number of Wikimedia articles (source)
    • Oldest subways (source)
    • Popes who were children of other popes (source)
    • Colorful flags (source)

• Development
  • Worked on better error dialogues for the Wikidata Bridge
  • Investigated and fixed labels for some Properties not being shown (phabricator:T237984)
  • Continued working on the new database tables that replace wb_terms
  • Expanded documentation for 3rd party Wikibase installs
  • Continued working on making sure components in different areas of Wikibase can easily be shared to make development easier (phabricator:T240329)
  • Enjoying the holidays. Hope so are you :)

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 19:17, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

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

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • More WikidataCon 2019 reports:
    • WikidataCon 2019 report on the Latvian Wikipedia
    • Wikidata+OSM at State of the Map 2019 and WikidataCon 2019

• Tool of the week
  • Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Following a discussion on generalizing P2572 to all hashtags and the rejections of Instagram hashtag, Flickr tag, and Gfycat tag properties propositions, the formerly 'Twitter hashtag' property is now a platform-agnostic hashtag (P2572) property. A tool was created to be used as formatter url and link to those different platforms regrouping content by hashtags: toolforge:hashtags-hub.
  • New tool: WDumper, generating customized Wikidata RDF dumps. More information
  • Call for Proposals for grants to support WikiCite satellite events
  • MediaWiki Technical Advice IRC Meetings will not continue in 2020

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: superfamicom.org ID, nominalized form, PlayStation DataCenter ID, implies
    • External identifiers: Aberdeenshire HER ID, e-WV ID, Français libres ID, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, Musée de la Résistance ID, National Library of Lithuania ID, Slovak National Library ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Spanish Quora topic ID, Europeana Entity, SNESmusic.org company ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Joconde author ID, Joconde domain ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, tDAR creator ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, Vaare falne ID, Complex Portal accession ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Differential diagnosis, part of terminology, voice gender, verifiability of property, study type, NIPS Proceedings author ID, field of training, litter size, Copyright status of author, academic appointment, written at, legislative committee, Member of military unit, access status of contents, EAN-13, filename in archive
    • External identifiers: Computer Emuzone ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PlanetMath, Natural Product Atlas ID, EEPS ID, screenscraper platform ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, ScreenScraper game ID, Nonfiction ID, ScreenScraper company ID, National September 11 Memorial ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID, PS photographer ID, deviantArt, Frick Art Reference Library Artist File Names ID, LiverTox ID, ScreenScraper group ID, ZX81 Collection ID, Netherlands Photo Museum photographer ID, Movie Walker person ID, ZX81 Collection publisher ID, IDFA film ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata properties > 7000
    • Wikidata External identifiers > 4590
    • Map of locations of "big cities" (source)
    • Seats which changed party in the 2019 UK General Election (source) (mapped)
    • artists in Wikidata mapped to the Swedish National museums but are not an entity in Europeana (image view)
  • Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Human Rights (created to support m:WikiForHumanRights)

• Development
  • Work on deploying the first version of tainted references on test Wikidata
  • Bridge: show an error dialog if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
  • Set up a shared Vue component library for Wikibase (phab:T240329)
  • More work on the new term store
  • Add Wikidata support for mnwwiki" (phab:T235745)
  • New languages for monolingual strings: mfa, ckt, abq-Latn, dag
  • Help identifying an issue with QuickStatements when one user is blocked on Wikidata (phab:T240316)
  • Hide non-supported languages in the termbox (phab:T227083)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:24, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish, 15 December
  • Upcoming: Sydney Wikidata Workshop, 16 December

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Use of Wikidata in GLAM institutions, research report done by the user experience team at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Measuring Social Bias in Knowledge Graph Embeddings
  • Letra zopak, Scrabble eta euskarazko letrarik ohikoena, about the most common characters in Basque language, and how this should affect automatic letter-soups and Scrabble point-system.
  • Two new blog posts about GLAM pilot projects for Structured Data on Commons:
    • How we helped a small art museum to increase the impact of its collections, with Wikimedia projects and structured data by Sandra Fauconnier
    • How can Structured Data on Commons, Wikidata, and Wikisource walk hand in hand? A pilot project with Punjabi Qisse by Satdeep Gill

• Tool of the week
  • overpass: Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A WikiCite event will take place in May 2020 in Cologne. Call for contributions is now open (more info)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: file page
    • External identifiers: Hoopla series ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, MovieGe person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, POWiS ID, super-famicom.jp ID, GameFAQs credit ID, Scilit journal ID, Scienza a due voci ID, FMV World ID, Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority airport code, NEC Retro ID, Prog Archives artist ID, Semion author ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Vie publique person ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, Wikimapia ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, Kansaspedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, WyoHistory.org ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Complex Portal accession, Cache, is supervisor of, Gazette of India notification, molecular model, SSNE person ID, sex, year of recombination (taxonomy), Text features
    • External identifiers: Slovak National Library id, National Library of Lithuania id, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, e-WV ID, SNESmusic.org company ID, Våre falne person ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, tDAR creator ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, identifiant Auteurs - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Domaines - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Découverte - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Dénominations - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Beni Ecclesiastici in web ID, portable music history ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, identifiant Genèse - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Inscriptions - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Lieux - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Périodes - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Techniques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Epoques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, Prague territorial district ID, SPIE profile ID, console music history ID, Wikispore, DLE RAE ID, DEJ RAE ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, VBProfiles person ID, garaph.info game ID, PubAg ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, NTIS accession number, garaph.info group ID, Fossilworks ID for journal article, Littré ID, DES ID, DAF ID, Bob ID, TLFi ID, NES Cart Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of lexemes on Wikidata in Indian languages (source)
    • Collections of the National Gallery of Armenia imported into Wikidata (source)
    • Movie directors having the longest carrier (source)

• Development
  • Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
  • Add monolingual language code WLS (Wallisian) (phab:T239411)
  • DumpRDF for MediaInfo entities loads each page individually (phab:T222497)
  • Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
  • Wikidata Bridge: Showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:58, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

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: Gadgets, 3 December. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Open Access Directory’s List of Blogs: Wikidata Ingest by A. Britton
  • Wikidata and Archival Metadata ; opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon, 22.11.2019, Linking the Past, Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels.
  • Introducing ISA – a cool tool for adding structured data on Commons by Isla Haddow-Flood
  • Video of live queries building by WikidataFacts
  • Video of the Wikidata editathon in Swedish with Jan Ainali, Magnus Sälgö and UncleCJ

• Tool of the week
  • Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel and Special:EntitiesWithoutDescription will use ElasticSearch, improving display and ranking
  • Edit summaries coming from wbeditentity API will have a new format

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: covered period
    • External identifiers: Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Lutris genre ID, Lutris platform ID, VLR ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, TheGamesDB game ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, YVNG ID, WPI ID, NVE Powerplant ID, Artsdata.ca ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive publisher ID, MTV Germany artist ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, RomanianMaleActors person ID, IISG ID, Cochrane concept ID, OverDrive series ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, WeChat ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Prog Archives artist ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, quantity symbol, research status, Playstation Data Center ID, recombination author, superfamicom.org ID, commissioned for
    • External identifiers: Code de l'autorité de l'aviation civile grecque, Flanders Architecture Institute ID, NEC Retro ID, Semion author ID, WorldCat Identities, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Vie publique person ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Wikimapia, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, WyoHistory.org ID, Kansaspedia ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Quora topic ID (Spanish) 2, RomanianActresses person ID, Europeana Entity, Aberdeenshire HER ID, AncientFaces person ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, Français libres ID, Musée de la Résistance ID
  • Query examples:
    • Graph of shared borders between regions of Myanmar (source)
    • Plurals in German ending with only "n" (not "en") (source)
    • Women's + Gender History Digital Humanities list (source)
  • Newest database reports: descendants of Charlemagne

• Development
  • Fix security issues impacting the Query Service GUI (more details)
  • Work on a a new Parser function (commaSeparatedList) (phab:T224013)
  • Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
  • Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
  • Add label and description collision detectors for new terms store (phab:T232040)
  • Wikidata Bridge: showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)
  • Showing an error dialog if users can’t edit on Wikidata (phab:T235154)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:26, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

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

• Events
  • Join the global m:WikiForHumanRights Campaign by participating with WikiProject Human rights. The campaigns is focused on increasing coverage of human rights topics on Wikimedia projects through January 30.
  • Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 1 December
  • Past: ProWD, a tool for PROfiling the multi-dimensional completeness of WikiData, was presented at the K-CAP 2019 conference on Nov 21, 2019 in Marina del Rey, USA. Using ProWD, one may compare, for example, the completeness of computer scientists by nationality and sex. The slides are available by clicking this link. The ProWD developers are welcoming any feedback!
  • Past: WikiTechStorm in Amsterdam. See the videos of the sessions, including a lot of Wikidata-related introductions
  • Past: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon
  • Past: Wikimedia Tech Talk: Wikidata, behind the curtain, by Ladsgroup

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Die Datenlaube launched diedatenlaube.github.io - a collection of blog posts, links and scripts around "wikidatafying" the big German Wikisource project Die Gartenlaube (in German).

• Tool of the week
• Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • 570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
  • Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
  • Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
  • New documentation page: Wikidata:Map data

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia page-version URL, IFCO rating, IAST transliteration, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (India) schedule, age estimated by a dating method, effective date, date of assent, ascending scale, descending scale, primary note, secondary note, CITES Appendix, supervisor, Hunterian transliteration
    • External identifiers: CBSE Affiliation No., OGDB company ID, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, Swedish Royal Theater Archive, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, Czech city district ID, DUC ID, Prague administrative district ID, AboutTheArtists artist ID, fyyd podcast ID, NinDB game ID, Cinepub person ID, eFloraSA ID, eBay username, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, CinePT film ID, CinePT person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Ratingraph MALE person ID, Czech municipality ID, WikiTreeCategories, P7608, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Taiwan Cinema company ID, Taiwan Cinema Film ID, Taiwan Cinema person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: amends, syndicate, corporate domicile, Latvian transcription, implies, stargate-wiki.de article ID
    • External identifiers: SciProfiles ID, Scilit journal ID, YVNG ID, TheGamesDB game ID, VLR ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, NVE Powerplant ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, Artsdata ID, WPI ID, TheGamesDB developer ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, Scienza a due voci ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, OverDrive publisher ID, RomanianActors person ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, Cochrane concept ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive series ID, Hoopla series ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, super-famicom.jp ID, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, Riksdagen person guid, Places of Worship in Scotland ID, Museum of Family History ID, MovieGe person ID, GameFAQs credit ID, IMovies person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Scilit publication ID, FMV World ID
  • Query examples:
    • Paintings of people with cats (source)
    • Number of English Lexemes in Wikidata by first letter (source)
    • Tree map of 1990s National Film Award winners, sorted by specific award (source)
    • Map of world's disputed areas (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Human Rights
  • Newest database reports: poems by Emily Dickinson

• Development
  • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
  • More work on tainted references and getting the feature ready to be tested
  • Fix a bug with Wikibase test builds (phab:T238575)
  • More work on improving the edit summaries (phab:T224013)
  • Bridge: Viewing existing references (phab:T233397)
  • Preserving native behavior on key+click (phab:T234060)
  • Speeding up initialization, by attaching link listeners sooner (phab:T235765) and reducing the size of the init module (phab:T235771)
  • Recording metrics for bridge opening performance (phab:T237368)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:18, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

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: Recap of WikidataCon and WikiConference North America, 19 November. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia

• Tool of the week
  • The Mix'n'Match gadget displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There are now over 2.5 million Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories.
  • OpenRefine is awarded a USD 200,000 grant by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to fund its development in 2020.
  • Autojump from a field to another will be removed
  • Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), won the top prize in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. Eugene, the app's developer, recently gave a lightning talk about the app at WikidataCon 2019.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Commons category for the interior of the item
    • External identifiers: Birds of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Moths of India ID, NBAIR pest ID, Odonata of India ID, Planète Aventure ID, Reptiles of India ID, ZSI author ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, askArt person ID, Flowers of India ID, National Health Portal hospital ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete alphabetical ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, UVL game ID, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, OGDB game title ID, CISCE school code, JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IAST transliteration, Hunterian transliteration, IFCO rating, stellar age, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 schedule, nominalisated form, date of assent, effective date, valid for, supervisor, Xmodmap keysym, Properties for Indian ragas
    • External identifiers: Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, OGDB company ID, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, AboutTheArtists artist ID, Czech city district ID, Prague administrative district ID, NinDB game ID, DUC ID, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, Cinepub person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Cinept film ID, CinePT person ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Lutris platform ID, Beaux-arts ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, India PlayStation Store ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Czech municipality ID, Lutris genre ID
  • Query examples:
    • Adaptations of The War of the Worlds (source)
    • Graves at the Stockholm church Riddarholmskyrkan who use book Riddarholmskyrkan - inventories and graves (Q61765464) as a source, source
    • Map of sisterly relationships with cities in India (source)
    • Map of the languages without any Wikidata Lexemes yet (source)
  • Newest database reports: translations for port/starboard and windward/leeward

• Development
  • Tainted references: Show warning icon if statement value is changed but reference is not changed in the same edit (phab:T231728)
  • Make WikibaseQualityConstraints link using SpecialMyLanguage (phab:T233003)
  • Work on the issue of property labels not showing up on some pages (phab:T237984)
  • Track Bridge openings by property datatype (phab:T231204)
  • Viewing existing references in the Bridge (phab:T233397)
  • Attaching the link listener sooner, so the user gets a bit less often wrongly forwarded to wikidata (phab:T235765)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18:36, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata office hour (notes)
  • Past: "Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project (Video), (Slides), (Notes)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop OpenRefine in Prague on 12 November
  • Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 17 November

• Tool of the week
  • Speedpatrolling is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikipedia Personality Infobox in Catalan and French display now the Heritage Institution in charge of their archives via P485 (archives at).
  • The Discord server Wikimedia Community has now a Wikidata channel.
  • @Wikipedia talks about @Wikidata by GerardM

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, statement is regarded as spoiler for, room number, scope and content
    • External identifiers: startrek.com Database ID, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society ID, Sega Retro ID, classicamiga ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, Gaming-History company ID, SK cinema authority ID, SK cinema film ID, CA PROP 65 ID, ePSD identifier, Czech cadastral area ID, dp.ru company ID, Fortuna liga player ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, AaRC person ID, MIC market code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: general law, population rank, area rank, population density rank, references, territorial entity ranking context, mentions named entity, plot features event, Jyutping (2)
    • External identifiers: National Health Portal hospital ID, IPC ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, UVL game ID, WikiTreeCategories, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, OGDB game title ID, common exchange code, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, CISCE school code, CBSE Affiliation No., JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID
  • Query examples:
    • Persons in the genealogy family tree WikiTree were WIkidata has a source from the Swedish National Archives Birth/Death records
    • Minimum temperature records on Earth
    • Map of districts of India by ratio of illiterate to literate population in 2011 (source)
    • List of episodes of Detective Conan's Case Closed, with date and place of publication and series and season number, sorted by date of publication (source)
    • Parent and child who both had a governor mandate in the USA (source)
    • Belgian artists whose work will be in public domain starting in 2020 (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wolfram Language, most frequent first names in Poland, Paintings and images of signatures of painters

• Development
  • In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (phabricator:T236749)
  • Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (phabricator:T235261)
  • Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field (phabricator:T234322 - thanks to Envlh for the patch)
  • Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase installations that don't need them (phabricator:T232248)
  • Continued working on the migration of the wb_terms table to address scalability issues
  • Continued working on the shortened version of edit summaries for edits made through the mobile termbox (phabricator:T224013)
  • For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can not edit the article anymore (phabricator:T235152)
  • Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge (phabricator:T233397)
  • Worked on showing an information popup when clicking the tainted reference icon to tell you what went wrong and how to solve it.
  • Worked on defining first version of Federation for wikis outside Wikimedia
  • Commons search have stopped indexing statements (structured data) since 30 October 2019 (phabricator:T237849)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:53, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata Zurich Training 2019
  • Upcoming: Next Wikidata office hour on Tuesday, November 5th at 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+1) on the the Wikidata Telegram channel
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • ZBW Labs: 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata
  • The WikidataCon Card Game, Envel Le Hir
  • The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork
  • Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and more presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and schema.org at Semantics 2019 by Felix Sasaki and Christian Lieske
  • Querying the Edit History of Wikidata - Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
  • Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)

• Tool of the week
  • SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Product Manager for Wikibase
  • Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes videos showing his process while editing Wikidata. Magnus Sälgö also makes videos showing specific features and tools
  • {{query page}} is a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement)
  • New feature on Mix'n'match: job management

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: comorbidity, audio system, election called by, XML namespace
    • External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 - 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, NZPCN ID, Wolfram Language entity type, Women Film Pioneers ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, Golden ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, doujinshi.org author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: food composition, landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, IP address or range, featured in, Room number, Jabber channel, lighting, Mentioned at
    • External identifiers: Sega Retro ID, CA Prop 65 ID, Gaming-History company ID, dp.ru company ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, SK cinema film ID, SK cinema authority ID, ePSD ID, classicamiga ID, Czech cadastral area ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, Planète Aventure ID, AaRC person ID, fyyd podcast identifer, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, UEFA referee ID, Flowers of India ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, NBAIR pest ID, Reptiles of India ID, Odonata of India ID, Birds of India ID, Moths of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, ZSI author ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, askArt person ID
  • Deleted properties: P2035 (LinkedIn personal profile URL), P1946 (N6I ID)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of UK MPs coloured by party (source) - may change in the next few weeks
    • Maintenance query: items which have a value of "unknown" (Q24238356) rather than the "unknown" special value (source)
    • 100 cities closest to the North pole with more than 200k inhabitants (source)
    • Actors with whom Shah Rukh Khan collaborated, in a bubble chart showing how many times it happened (source)
  • New Integraality dashboards: Journals by publisher, Theses by institution
  • Schema examples:
    • Painting
    • Member of parliament from Sweden
    • Malayalam lexeme
  • Newest WikiProjects: Sum of all Podcasts
  • Newest database reports:
    • Uniform Resource Name (URN) in Wikidata
    • Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) constraint check

• Development
  • Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
  • Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (phab:T236677)
  • Update Wikibase Lua documentation (phab:T225497)
  • Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (phab:T234079)
  • Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (phab:T230881, phab:T220284, phab:T234330)
  • Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (phab:T232595)
  • Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (phab:T236491)
  • Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (phab:T231204)
  • Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (phab:T235152)
  • A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (phab:T235622)
  • Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (phab:T230342)
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:35, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

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

• Happy birthday, Wikidata!
  • Today, on October 29th, it’s Wikidata’s 7th birthday. Time to reflect and celebrate and to look forward to see where we are going from here. Message from the Wikidata development team
  • You can also write a birthday message or add a present to the list

• Events
  • Past: Several sessions at Wikidata goes Library, Vienna, Vienna Public Library (Q1020347) (18 October):
    • Wikidata is amazing, talk by Jean-Fréd
    • Uses of Wikidata and Wikibase in France, talk by Nicolas Vigneron
    • Using Wikidata for Video Game Research, talk by Tracy Hoffmann
    • Wikidata based extended search queries, talk by Christian Erlinger (Q67173261)
  • Past: WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin. You can see the videos of the sessions and the list of slides and notes, also from the program. Among them, here are few suggestions of sessions to watch:
    • Glimpse over Wikidata & Wikidata and languages (Lydia Pintscher)
    • Birthday presents demo (various people presenting new tools and features)
    • WikidataCon awards ceremony (Birgit Müller & Liam Wyatt)
    • New usages of Wikidata to support underserved language communities (Lucie-Aimée Kaffee)
    • Overview of the data import process (Navino Evans)
    • A lot of interesting tools and projects presented during the two lightning talks sessions
  • Upcoming: plenty of events taking place for Wikidata's seventh birthday! In London on 29th, in Cape Town on 31st, a datathon organized in India, in Barcelona on November 13th, etc.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Analysis of Urban Information of Colombia on Wikidata, 2nd CATAÏ Workshop, Bogota, Colombia, 23-24 October 2019 (Preprint)
  • Wikidata as a FAIR knowledge graph for the life sciences (preprint in Biorxiv)

• Tool of the week
  • MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Open request for oversight permission: -revi
  • OpenRefine 3.3 beta was released
  • The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 from Wikimedia Foundation started. This year, it is focused on small projects and Wikidata-related wishes will not be included.
  • You can help expanding the list of databases, encyclopedias, etc. which could be added to Mix'n'match. Can be used for property creation too.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: graph diameter, orientation, URN formatter, iFixit Repairability Score, key col, variety of form, source of file, grammatical aspect
    • External identifiers: CanadaSoccer.com person ID, FlashScore.com match ID, Publons journals/conferences ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Genetics Home Reference Conditions ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munch's correspondance person ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, MOHW HospID, iNaturalist place ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Neliti Journal ID, Online Cenotaph ID, dp.ru person ID, ifixit ID, ICP license ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, CinemaRx person ID, Kinematoscope - Film director, Kinematoscope - Writer, Kinematoscope - Literary work, BDFutbol team ID, Stathletics ID, teams.by team ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: religion or world view, Comorbidity, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, XML namespace, Commons category for the interior of the item, statement is regarded as spoiler for, menu items
    • External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 – 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, NZPCN ID, Women Film Pioneers ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Golden ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, startrek.com Database ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society game ID
  • Query examples:
    • Tree map of members of the 16th Lok Sabha, grouped by state represented (source)
    • Pictures of animals with female grammatical gender in German but male grammatical gender in French (source)
    • Map of bus stops in Biscay (source)
    • Tree graph of doctoral advisors going backward from Abhijit Banerjee (source)

• Development
  • Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (phab:T235055)
  • Save original revision data in store (phab:T235052)
  • Add interface for tracking/logging (phab:T236233)
  • Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (phab:T235056)
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 09:54, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

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)

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:36, 21 October 2019 (UTC)