Wikidata:Status updates/2020 08 10

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-08-10.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516
• Closed request for adminship: Wiki13 (successful)

Events

• Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020. This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay)
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda]
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25, August 16

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed Wikidata games Facebook, YouTube
• Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube
• Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with Wikidata tools. "To speed up the creation of metadata about faculty and their publications, Steven Baskauf, data science and data curation specialist for libraries, developed “VanderBot,” a set of scripts that can read and write to Wikidata, greatly improving the efficiency by which Vanderbilt’s faculty are discoverable through Wikidata".

Tool of the week

• OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher links Wikidata entries to places in OpenStreetMap.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• wikidata2df, a Python package for easily turning a Wikidata SPARQL query into a pandas dataframe
• With Wikidata Concept Tree Generator, you can enter any concept and instantly see a visualization of its extended relations. (Source)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: size comparison diagram, view
  • External identifiers: Legacy.com newspaper ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Dizionario Biografico dei Protestanti in Italia ID, Maitron des fusillés ID, Fototeka person ID, LibraryThing series ID, TOPCMB ID, Swiss Industrial Heritage ID, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: image of entrance, extinction date, notation writer, raga, tala, SMARTS, Editio princeps, recording location
  • External identifiers: Sochy a města ID osoby, Sochy a města ID sochy, podvignaroda, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, European Investment Bank project ID, WordNet 3.1 Synset Id, cadastral municipality ID, NPR station ID, NYARC Discovery ID, Nasjonalt skoleregister-ID, ERIC Thesaurus ID, American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID, Trismegistos Texts ID
• Query examples:
  • Ancestors of the current King of Spain color coded by sex or gender
  • Political alignments of the parties of world leaders (Source)
  • Female Mathematicians whose birth/death anniversary is today (Source)

• Commons queries:
  • Map of images found in the medieval Atlas De Wit (source)
  • Things depicted with cats (source)

Development

• finalized designs for the query builder to start coding at the beginning of September
• wrapping up the initial work on the design system so that we can start using the first pieces of it in the query builder development
• working on properly linking redirects in recent changes, watchlist and co (phabricator:T255387)
• addressed remaining security review comments about the Wikidata Bridge so that we can deploy it finally on the first Wikipedia
• fixed a bug where string values had the wrong length limit (phabricator:T259440)
• finishing the work of untangling Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repository extensions to make development easier

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!