*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Cleaning_up_the_ontology_of_anonymous> - Other - "und" or "und-latn" language code for addresses <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P969#"und"_or_"und-latn";> - Value label constraint <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Value_label_constraint> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: live SPARQL queries <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> about visualisation on maps 🗺️ on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 10 at 18:00 CET - Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #38 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#38>, November 15 Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Wikidata Eighth Birthday Meetup - Database validation of Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikdata_Eighth_Birthday_Meetup_-_Database_validation_of_Wikidata.pdf> by Houcemeddine Turki - Turning Scholia into a platform for living scientometric studies ( French <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2020_-_Scientom%C3%A9trie_Ouverte.pdf>, English <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2020_-_Living_Scientometric_Study.pdf>) by Houcemeddine Turki - Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community @ ISWC 2020 with papers <https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/#Accepted%20Papers> about interesting aspects of Wikidata. - Video: Visualizing the research ecosystem of neuroscience research via Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bSZq22yiGU>. By Daniel Mietchen at Neuromatch Conference - Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #23 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NfpMLS3NlU>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2814050998880059/> - Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ht8zB9bHA>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2815062592112233/>, November 14, 19.00 UTC Tool of the week - Template:Cite Q <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_Q> on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references. Other Noteworthy Stuff - The next Wikibase live session <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/November_2020> is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar) <https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NThtZjhranRmMjAxYzg2dTYwNGhxdmVxNzQgY183MXZ0MTdhNXFtbTFnYXFlNm1wdjNpYW9kc0Bn&tmsrc=c_71vt17a5qmm1gaqe6mpv3iaods%40group.calendar.google.com>. Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all! - Remember to claim your Cloud VPS project and mark it as {{Used}}. Unclaimed projects risk being suspended or shutdown on 2020-12-01 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-November/094014.html> . - Wrap up of the feedback about bug reports and feature requests <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-November/014385.html> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: birth rate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8763>, port calls <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8764>, rank insignia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8766>, online catalog <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8768>, format as language specific regular expression <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8770> - External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8761>, NCAA Statistics team season ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8762>, Royal Horticultural Society plant ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8765>, EGAFD ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8767>, Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8769>, Vélib' Métropole station ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8771>, Blogger user profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8772>, Malmö Museer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8773>, MTMT journal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8774>, Soccerway stadium ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8775> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: favicon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/favicon>, Dedicated heritage institution <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dedicated_heritage_institution>, MetaSat ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MetaSat_ID>, epithet <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/epithet>, Poverty incidence (Philippines) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Poverty_incidence_(Philippines)>, covid info <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/covid_info>, filestore <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/filestore> - External identifiers: AniDB tag ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AniDB_tag_ID>, ClassInd audiovisual work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ClassInd_audiovisual_work_ID>, ClassInd game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ClassInd_game_ID>, Qobuz label ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Qobuz_label_ID>, IMMuB album ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IMMuB_album_ID>, FIS grass skier ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FIS_grass_skier_ID>, AlKindi ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AlKindi_ID>, French Paralympic and Sports Committee athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/French_Paralympic_and_Sports_Committee_athlete_ID>, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute personal profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mathematical_Sciences_Research_Institute_personal_profile_ID>, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute institution profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mathematical_Sciences_Research_Institute_institution_profile_ID>, EIK <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EIK>, edition humboldt digital ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/edition_humboldt_digital_ID>, European Film Awards ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Film_Awards_ID>, Memorial Book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Memorial_Book_for_the_victims_of_National_Socialism_at_the_University_of_Vienna_1938>, IMMuB artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IMMuB_artist_ID>, AIWARDS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AIWARDS_ID>, LIMIS person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LIMIS_person_ID>, IAFD distributor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IAFD_distributor_ID> - Query examples: - Terminus locations of A Roads in Britain <https://w.wiki/kJK> ( Source <https://twitter.com/philbgorman/status/1324463176453337088>) - POTUS/UK PM age at inauguration/appointment and England mean age <https://w.wiki/kjM> (Source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1324156826087206913>) - Map of (public-sector) winners of H2020 projects in the Netherlands sortable by year <https://w.wiki/jxY> (Source <https://twitter.com/alastairdunning/status/1323663645348401154>) - People who have held the positions of both Vice President and President of the United States <https://w.wiki/ke7> (Source <https://twitter.com/TobiasHellmund/status/1324072992880603146>) - Crew of missions to the ISS and human spaceflights that have docked with the ISS <https://w.wiki/jqY> (Source <https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1323284604959207426>) - Graph of reasons UK MPs have left Parliament, grouped by decade since the 1890s <https://w.wiki/kfy> (Source <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1325557952024076290>) - Number of successful UK election petitions by parliamentary term, 1859 onwards (includes by-elections as well as general elections) <https://w.wiki/kes> (Source <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1325477802985058306>) - List of longest Cars <https://w.wiki/kea> (Source <https://twitter.com/quicoprol/status/1325454920288522242>) Development - Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served - Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code. - Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly. - Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image ( phab:T264538 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264538>) - Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266673>) - Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme ( phab:T263435 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263435>) 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> - 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> -- Mohammed Sadat *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. 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