Wikidata:Status updates/2020 09 14

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-09-14.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Alternate disclosure policy

Events

• Past: The Workshop On Open Citations And Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 took place in Bologna and online on September 9 and included a talk State of WikiCite in 2020, available on Zenodo via doi:10.5281/zenodo.4019954.
• Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 15 at 18:00 CEST
• Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, September 16th at 13:00 UTC/GMT
• Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20: Facebook, YouTube, September 19
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #30, September 20

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Video: Youtuber Tom Scott tries to answer the question What Is The Best Thing?, using Wikidata to curate a collection of "things", and an online poll for people to vote on those things.
• "Our admiration for Wikidata and for the people who work with it knows no bounds. Having a single source of well modelled, massively interlinked, well managed data that anyone can query at the press of a button is a real thing of wonder." - says the UK Parliament data team
• Houcemeddine Turki, et al. (2020). Using logical constraints to validate information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of COVID-19 on Wikidata (Zenodo Preprint).
• Video: Wikidata basics short videos by Wikimedian in Residence at University of Edinburgh (YouTube)
  • A brief intro to Wikidata and how to set up an account
  • How to add a new item to Wikidata
  • How to add an image to Wikidata
• Video: Creating a Mix'n'Match set for Queensland Biota on Wikidata - YouTube
• Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19: Cradle and colours in queries. Facebook, YouTube

Tool of the week

• Mbabel is a tool that simplifies article creation by providing pre-made sentences based on Wikidata statements.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The consultation phase for the Wikimedia movement Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is in progress until 6 October 2020. The UCoC drafting committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
• All the lists of languages used on Wikidata: feel free to improve this draft documentation page.
• The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30^th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
• WikiMap, a tool by User:DB111 that maps geocoded images from Commons and Wikipedia articles, now supports Wikidata items as well (Q99232292)
• Wikidata QID's are approaching 9 digits. Now is the time to fix any code or schemas that assume that Q numbers are smaller than 9 characters.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: aerial view, ride height, category for the exterior of the item, axle track
  • External identifiers: Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Legacies of British Slave-ownership place ID, Wisconsin Historical Society NRHP ID, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, Grove Music Online ID, Hikr waypoint ID, DIL ID, Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: expansion of, Oakeshott typology, Slack URL, TDD number, Hill size, K point, number of negative votes, number of support votes
  • External identifiers: Historic Montana ID, KHRI ID, KinoWiki ID, BD Gest' series ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, Discord username, China Treaty Database ID, Discord channel, Bollywood Hungama movie, NMC Heritage ID, identifiant d'un artiste département des arts graphiques du musée du Louvre, SPoT skater ID, Canadian Women Artists History Initiative ID, Lambiek Special pages, Lambiek comic magazines, Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID
• Query examples:
  • Shortest path of descent from Charlemagne to George Washington, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Elizabeth II
  • List of most recent common ancestors (ordered by number of total degrees separated) between George Washington and George W. Bush (9th cousin 8 times removed), George Washington and Barack Obama (12th cousin 9 times removed), George Washington and Elizabeth II (2th consin 7 times removed), George W. Bush and Barack Obama (11th cousin), George W. Bush and Elizabeth II (14th cousin once removed), Barack Obama and Elizabeth II (19th cousin 3 times removed)
  • Artists that have recorded songs in several languages, by number of different languages used (Source)
  • Average age of companies listed on major indices (Source)
  • Basque Country sister cities with world municipalities (Source)
  • Map of companies developing/manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that is at least in a phase 1 clinical trial (Source)
  • Map of mountains in Austria showing their heights; from red for the lowest through green to black for the highest (Source)
  • Top World Heritage sites by number of paintings depicting them (Source)
  • Map of sports pitches for team sports that require between 10 and 20 players on the field - Wikidata/OSM query

Development

• Fixing an error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an Item instead of just one. (phabricator:T260869)
• Development of version one of Federated Properties has concluded! Expect an announcement with timing of the release of this feature soon. Wikibase users who want an early look at the feature are invited to reach out to participate in the pre-release testing round.
• Development of the WikibaseManifest extension has continued into its second sprint; we focused on determining a product specification for the Manifest output.
• Finishing a draft documentation for a REST API to get it ready for a feedback round before implementation.
• Finished improvements to the automated scoring of the quality of Items with ORES. Still need to retrain ORES and deploy the changes before the scores are actually different though.

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!