*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 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Wikidata_to_use_data_schemas_to_standardise_data_structure_on_a_subject> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Past: Wikidata office hour (notes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2019-11-05> ) - Past: "Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project (Video) <https://stanford.zoom.us/recording/play/D1VuJKF4stRiEysoXj0Q8h40T_-bVcAOMonncNCI_Ouq0WpC-642R0aXLoJJEeNE?startTime=1572972276000>, (Slides) <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zPayHge1v-v_1_7c9kxrWYb3FM_-EmBO/view>, (Notes) <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e09HBXcLQxGJggEjGiaurZPLt9V4DKA5jLbb9bmbFuA/view> - Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop OpenRefine <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mezi_bajty/OpenRefine_Workshop> in Prague on 12 November - Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon> 17 November Tool of the week - *Speedpatrolling <https://tools.wmflabs.org/speedpatrolling/>* is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikipedia Personality Infobox in Catalan <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archival_Description/Use_cases#En_catalan> and French <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archival_Description/Use_cases#En_français> display now the Heritage Institution in charge of their archives via P485 (archives at) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P485>. - The Discord server <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Discord> Wikimedia Community <https://discord.gg/e8xxGMP> has now a Wikidata <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata> channel. - @Wikipedia talks about @Wikidata <https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2019/11/wikipedia-talks-about-wikidata.html?fbclid=IwAR3dKqt8-kVXcB4pFz1zFhaaliEbwjv3SXU5Qo3Sn-p46IosHWHR3u9Nzmk> by GerardM Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: landscape architect <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7514>, charge conjugation quantum number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7527>, statement is regarded as spoiler for <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7528>, room number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7532>, scope and content <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7535> - External identifiers: startrek.com Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7512>, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7513>, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7515>, Software Preservation Society ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7516>, Sega Retro ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7517>, classicamiga ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7518>, Filmový přehled film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7519>, Filmový přehled person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7520>, Gaming-History company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7521>, SK cinema authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7522>, SK cinema film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7523>, CA PROP 65 ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7524>, ePSD identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7525>, Czech cadastral area ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7526>, dp.ru company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7529>, Fortuna liga player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7530>, MEA Indian Mission ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7531>, AaRC person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7533>, MIC market code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7534> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: general law <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/general_law>, population rank <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/population_rank>, area rank <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/area_rank>, population density rank <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/population_density_rank>, references <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/references>, territorial entity ranking context <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/territorial_entity_ranking_context>, mentions named entity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/mentions_named_entity>, plot features event <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/plot_features_event>, Jyutping (2) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Jyutping_(2)> - External identifiers: National Health Portal hospital ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Health_Portal_hospital_ID>, IPC ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IPC_ID>, Plusliga player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Plusliga_player_ID>, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Finnish_Biodiversity_Information_Facility%27s_Species_List_ID>, Sinemalar person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sinemalar_person_ID>, UVL game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UVL_game_ID>, WikiTreeCategories <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiTreeCategories>, Ahotsak Lexeme <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ahotsak_Lexeme>, UVL platform ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UVL_platform_ID>, Inguma database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inguma_database_ID>, UVL company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UVL_company_ID>, UVL group ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UVL_group_ID>, Home of the Underdogs game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Home_of_the_Underdogs_game_ID>, name-suggestion-index identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/name-suggestion-index_identifier>, OGDB game title ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OGDB_game_title_ID>, common exchange code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/common_exchange_code>, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Memorial_Book_Bundesarchiv_ID>, CISCE school code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CISCE_school_code>, CBSE Affiliation No. <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CBSE_Affiliation_No.>, JNAF artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JNAF_artist_ID>, OGDB compilation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/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 <https://w.wiki/BYM> - Minimum temperature records on Earth <https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20minimum%20temperatures%20on%20Earth%20%0A%23%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FProperty_talk%3AP7422%0ASELECT%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3FlocationLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcoor%20%3Flayer%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20p%3AP7422%20%3Fst%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP7422%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ25267%20%5D%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28%20ROUND%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2a%201.8%20%2B%2032%20%29%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%09%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20psv%3AP7422%20%20%5B%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20%3B%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ42289%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20ROUND%28%20%28%20%3Fdegrees_Fahrenheit%20-%2032%20%29%20%2F%201.8%20%2a%2010%29%2F10%20as%20%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP276%20%3Flocation%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor0%20%7D%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fst%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor1%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20COALESCE%28%3Fcoor0%2C%20%3Fcoor1%29%20as%20%3Fcoor%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20CONCAT%28str%28Floor%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%20%2F%2010%29%29%2C%220s%20%C2%B0C%22%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3Fdegrees_Celsius%29%0ALIMIT%201000> - Map of districts of India by ratio of illiterate to literate population in 2011 <https://w.wiki/Bqt> (source <https://twitter.com/wikidataindia/status/1193415490485411840>) - 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 <https://w.wiki/Bqv> (source <https://twitter.com/rachmatwhd/status/1193081706728738816>) - Parent and child who both had a governor mandate in the USA <https://w.wiki/Bqw> (source <https://twitter.com/iamlemec/status/1192210436726374400>) - Belgian artists whose work will be in public domain starting in 2020 <https://w.wiki/Bqy> (source <https://twitter.com/JolanWuyts/status/1192092099468046340>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Wolfram Language <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wolfram_Language>, most frequent first names in Poland <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Poland/lists/first_name>, Paintings and images of signatures of painters <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pinxit> 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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236749>) - Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (phabricator:T235261 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235261>) - Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field ( phabricator:T234322 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234322> - thanks to Envlh for the patch) - Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase installations that don't need them (phabricator:T232248 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224013>) - For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can not edit the article anymore (phabricator:T235152 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235152>) - Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge ( phabricator:T233397 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237849>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority>. Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Suggested and open tasks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks> ! - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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