Wikidata:Status updates/2020 11 30

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-11-30.

Events

• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will have several speakers joining us to discuss their projects in lightning talks, 1 December. Agenda
• Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
• Online edition of the Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award ceremony, on Friday, December 11th at 17:00 UTC.
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #41, December 6

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Linking OpenStreetMap with knowledge graphs — Link discovery for schema-agnostic volunteered geographic information (the KGs referred to are Wikidata & DBPedia)
• "Women’s representation and voice in media coverage of the coronavirus crisis": an analysis linking news articles to information on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
• Wikidata Bib v0, prototype for personalized analytics of scientific readings using Wikidata.
• Video: Strategies for Assembling the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph by Roderic Page
• Video: Semantic Web in Libraries 2020 (replay)
  • ORCID for Wikidata: A workflow for matching author and publication items in Wikidata
  • id.loc.gov and Wikidata, one year later

Tool of the week

• osm2kg is a tool to facilitate matching Wikidata entries to OSM nodes.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted video and chat channels for socializing.
• The University of Nevada has an open position around Wikidata; Digital Collections Wikimedian-in-Residence
• Round 2 of the consultation on using Wikidata for curriculum digitization begun on November 24^th, and will end on December 7^th. You can participate by sharing your ideas in this response form (Google forms)
• Wiki Movimento Brasil will support WikidataCon 2021
• Wikidata descriptions changes will be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist on Wikimedia wikis

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: facial hair, identity element, mathematical inverse, has operator, has marker, Hong Kong film rating, indexed in bibliographic review, number of taxpayers, ITRANS, complementary property, number of points/goals attempted, Water area, MTRCB rating, power consumption index, heating energy consumption index
  • External identifiers: Absolute Games person ID, FIS grass skier ID, FISG athlete ID, Kinorium movie ID, CONOR.AL ID, CONOR.BG ID, CONOR.KS ID, CONOR.SR ID, Musica Brasilis ID, Salzburgwiki ID, IEV number, British Phonographic Industry ID, CRGPG ID, Drizly product ID, Canada Business Number, FINA Wiki ID, Foodlocate restaurant ID, Qobuz label ID, AAA campground ID, AAA hotel ID, AAA restaurant ID, Hyperion Records person ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item ID, DriveThruComics numeric publisher identifier, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ID, HLTV player ID, Kinorium person ID, AstroGen ID, BBC sound effects asset ID, Namuwiki ID, CIP data sheet, AniDB episode ID, edition humboldt digital Flora ID, Sistema de Información Legislativa ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: ELSPA rating, cites work string, artistic director, MDJF ID, Coordinates of depicted place, first family name in Portuguese name, propriétés à éviter, Commons category for the view from the item, Filmstriben film-ID, Mailing List, provides HTML microdata, provides JSON-LD data
  • External identifiers: vets.cz ID, Parler ID, HAL Journal id, Fitzwilliam Museum ID, National Gallery of Australia ID, U.S. Masters Swimming ID, Gab ID, Museo del Prado ID, National Gallery of Ireland ID, Auckland Art Gallery ID, Artfacts ID, Order of Canada ID, SKD ID, DIA ID, ZOBODAT, AppGallery app ID, Czech Gymnastics athlete ID, Students of Prague Universities ID, Amsterdam Museum ID, theses.cz ID, curid
• Query examples:
  • Politicians with an account at GitHub, CPAN, or Wikimedia (Source)
  • Percentage of deaths caused by tuberculosis by decade (Source)
  • Number of programming languages and their paradigms (Source)
  • Museums within 2 miles of MoMA (federated query) (Source)
  • Largest cities of the world ordered by population (Source)
  • Italian politicians who served as a minister in more than one cabinet since 1990 (Source)
  • People born after 1800 whose “name in native language” is in Latin (Source)
  • UK statues and whether they are of nobles and/or women (Source)
  • Location of German cities with a population count greater than 50.000 (Source)
  • Map of medicines used (green) to fight infectious diseases (orange) (Source)
• Schema examples:
  • museum

Development

• Development on the Query Builder is continuing. You can follow along at https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org
• Fixed an issue where language fallback indicators were still shown when falling back from a variant of the language (phab:T267502)
• Fixed an issue on Lexeme pages where language and lexical category fields turn red on unfocus even though no changes were made (phab:T266936)
• Working on improving what happens to sitelinks when an article is moved to a unsupported namespace (phab:T261275))
• Investigating a significant increase in skipped Item IDs (phab:T268625)
• Addressing the feedback for the draft of the REST API spec

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!