Wikidata:Status updates/2020 07 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-07-27.

Events

• The Wikidata track of the LD4 conference on Linked Data in Libraries takes place on Thursday 30 and Friday 31 July. Free, upon registration.
• Seeking feedback on a possible WikiCite@Wikidata's 8th Birthday online conference; and what content/format/timing preferences you have. Please respond to this short survey. [Privacy policy: https://w.wiki/XfN]
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Liam Wyatt on WikiCite and its future plans, ways to get involved, and discussions that are happening in the community, 28 July. Agenda
• Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour with a focus on the Query Service, July 21st. Notes of the discussions
• Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14, August 1 Facebook YouTube
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #23, August 2

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Croiser des données avec OpenRefine by Ash_Crow (in French, how to match data from inside and outside Wikidata with Open Refine)
• "OBA: An Ontology-Based Framework for Creating REST APIs for Knowledge Graphs"
• Library’s linked-data project gets new grant. "Known as Linked Data for Production, the project is part of a long-term collaboration among Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Through linked data, information about books and other items in library records will be enhanced by related information from external online sources". By Jose Beduya
• Wikidata Training Workshop 1, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association
  • Part 1 - Introduction to Wikidata - YouTube (En, Fr)
  • Part 2 - Usage of Wikidata - YouTube (En, Fr)
  • Part 3 - Components of a Wikidata item - YouTube (En, Fr)
• Video: Wikidata Lab XXIV on relative digital positioning (in Portuguese). YouTube
• Video: Women Writers in Review: Integrating special collections into Wikidata. YouTube
• Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
• Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube

Tool of the week

• We would love suggestions for tools to include in this section of the weekly summary. Please add your suggestions directly under Status updates/Next#Backlog after checking that the tool isn't already listed.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS) launches in Beta. This SPARQL endpoint for Structured Data on Commons can federate with Wikidata's Query Service. (Announcement & discussion)
• A new OpenRefine reconciliation service for Wikidata is available. Add it in OpenRefine with https://wikidata.reconci.link/en/api or by replacing en by any other Wikimedia language code.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: pertainym, BTI Governance Index, BTI Status Index, Ofsted inspection rating, distribution map of taxon
  • External identifiers: Wiki-Rennes ID, Queensland Biota ID, Australian Weed ID, Encyclopedie berbere ID, Japanese magazine code, Lobbywatch.ch ID of a member of parliament, IVS ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, PM20 geo code, PM20 subject code, DATAtourisme ID, OpenCritic critic ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, SmallGroup ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, AHECC 2017 ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: booking URL, member of lexicon, screen (display) resolution, in pixels, Size comparison diagram, Butcher tableau, related laws and regulations, Water area
  • External identifiers: Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge ID, WISAARD ID, Jisho word id, UK Research and Innovation organisation ID, Opta football player ID, Opta football team ID, Opta football competition ID, Power plant operating licence (Turkey), Árvore de Interesse Público ID, MinDat taxon ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Twitter topics numeric ID, People Australia ID
• Query examples:
  • People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap (Source)
  • Number of MPs elected to the Swedish parliament for each election back to 1970 (Source)

Development

• Changed the size of image previews to 1024 in the gallery view of the query service to avoid some images not loading sometimes (phabricator:T258241)
• Added an actual space between the entity title and the name of the fallback language (if any), so that the fallback language isn't selected anymore when double-clicking the entity title for copying (phabricator:T256857)
• Fixed the directionality of text pieces in placeholders that mix LTR and RTL (phabricator:T253812)
• Continued work on first pieces of design system to make coding new features easier in the future
• Continued untangling the code of Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repo to make it easier to develop on them
• Finished first piece of research on how to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - more work to be done
• Preparing to start coding on the Query Builder to make it easier to create queries without having to know SPARQL
• Finished running the scraper that gets potential new references for unreferenced statements and preparing it for publishing

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!