*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming
- Live about SPARQL queries <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> on Twitch
and in French, by Vigneron, November 9 at 18:00 CET
- LIVE Wikidata editing #61 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--pS3UB0uFg>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3098329280452228/>,
November 13 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #86
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#86>,
November 14 at 13.00 UTC
- Wikidata webinar at the Goethe Institute in Athens (Greek). Nov 8,
2021 17:00 UTC+1
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WmX73SA_R5C-nd87ytV4aw?timezone_id=Europe%2FBerlin>
- Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikibase_and_WBStack_Working_Hours>!
Monday 15 November 2021, 3PM - 4PM Eastern (Time zone converter
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20211115T200000&p1=tz_et&p2=tz_ct&p3=tz_mt&p4=tz_pt&p5=tz_gmt&p6=tz_cet>).
Registration: Zoom registration link
<https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtc-CoqTgpGtBjZC0uPQ7qA_in15Qzer6e>
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #15, COP26 (2/2)
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=15>
- Past
- Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 sessions are currently
ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of
content but you
can already watch some of them (from each session's Etherpad
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Documentation/List_of_sessionslinked>
)
- Wikidata SPARQL tutorial around the Saint-Brieuc museum
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE6hw2pu6K0> (in French)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Media
- User:Theklan <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Theklan> at Radio
Euskadi (Q3100760) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3100760>: Wikidata:
una base de datos editable, multilingüe, libre y con datos de todo
conocimiento
<https://www.eitb.eus/es/radio/radio-euskadi/programas/hagase-la-luz/detalle/8435228/wikidata-base-de-datos-editable-multilingue-libre-y-con-datos-de-todo-conocimiento-con-galder-gonzalez/>
(Spanish)
- Blogs
- TIB at WikidataCon: Part 1
<https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2021/11/05/tib-at-wikidatacon-part-1/>
, Part
2 <https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2021/11/05/tib-at-wikidatacon-part-2/>
- With help of their prof, U of T students go from being Wikidata
novices to international conference presenters
<https://www.utoronto.ca/news/help-their-prof-u-t-students-go-being-wikidata-novices-international-conference-presenters>
- Crowdsourcing the Scene at the Boston Rock City Edit-a-Thon
<https://staff.library.harvard.edu/blog/boston-rock-city>
- Videos
- Basic tutorial on how to improve Wikidata items (in Italian) -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR-90s_uZCQ>
- Metadata of cultural institutes: import strategies on Wikidata in
the case of the Tuscany Region (in Italian) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=154u0HvMkyQ>
- Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Databases: a case study of
PanglaoDB - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvjMoaOr68k>
- Using Wikidata entities and properties in schema.org markup and
linked data - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3HSI6zLyo>
Tool of the week
- are occupation labels gender neutral?
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/gendered-labels-in-wikidata> a tool to
explore gender neutrality of labels in different languages.
- RAWGraphs <https://app.rawgraphs.io/>, a dataviz tool which allows
SPARQL queries (source
<https://twitter.com/rawgraphs/status/1455530965749673984?t=bkvv8yg8lwIgmcyWK6HTSw&s=19>
)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and
waiting for your feedback
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/3VJ5ZW3MO3CMCVWW4JDWSWDLXLX4XAEU/>.
Add your comments
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LinkedOpenData/Strategy2021>!
- OpenRefine 3.5.0 <https://openrefine.org/download.html> was released
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: Museu da Pessoa History
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10032>, Conway polyhedron
notation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10038>
- External identifiers: Tennis Abstract player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10028>, Women in the
Legislature ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10029>, StopGame
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10030>, Enciclopedia di
Roma person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10031>,
Biografija.ru
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10033>, Derrieux agency
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10034>, Kola
Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10035>, Penza
Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10036>,
Enciclopedia
della Scienza e della Tecnica ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10037>, Musées Nationaux
Recuperation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10039>,
Lithuanian
Heritage Registry code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10040>,
Nynorskordboka-ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10041>,
Bokmålsordboka-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10042>, Indonesian
parliament candidate ID 2019
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10043>, Trove work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10044>, Vokrug.tv show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10045>, Apple maps ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10046>, Federation Council
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10047>, Meetup
group id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10048>, Glitchwave
genre ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10049>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: original catalog description
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/original_catalog_description>,
Kanobu ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kanobu_ID>,
Yandex.Question
person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Yandex.Question_person_ID>,
発車メロディ
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%E7%99%BA%E8%BB%8A%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AD%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3>
- External identifiers: Listen Notes podcast ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Listen_Notes_podcast_ID>,
WhatsApp number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WhatsApp_number>,
CNKI Journal ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CNKI_Journal_ID>,
Baidu Scholar Journal ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Baidu_Scholar_Journal_ID>,
AllHomes research location ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AllHomes_research_location_ID>,
Domain suburb profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Domain_suburb_profile_ID>,
Coles Online product ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Coles_Online_product_ID>,
Woolworths product ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Woolworths_product_ID>,
Maritime Business Directory ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Maritime_Business_Directory_ID>,
Oslo Byleksikon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Oslo_Byleksikon_ID>,
NVE Bre ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NVE_Bre_ID>,
Databáze-her.cz ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Datab%C3%A1ze-her.cz_ID>,
FederalPress Encyclopedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FederalPress_Encyclopedia_ID>,
babesdirectory
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/babesdirectory>,
DHAC ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DHAC_ID>, Naver
TV ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Naver_TV_ID>,
IJF competition ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IJF_competition_ID>,
JudoInside competition ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JudoInside_competition_ID>,
live.ijf competition ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/live.ijf_competition_ID>,
FAOLEX No
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FAOLEX_No>, EJU
competition ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EJU_competition_ID>,
The-Sports.org competition ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The-Sports.org_competition_ID>,
StarHit ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/StarHit_ID>,
Nasha Versia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nasha_Versia_ID>,
LocalWiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LocalWiki_ID>,
ESPN MMA fighter ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ESPN_MMA_fighter_ID>,
Comparably company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Comparably_company_ID>,
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Spanish_Cultural_Heritage_thesauri_ID>,
Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases Chemical ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dr._Duke%27s_Phytochemical_and_Ethnobotanical_Databases_Chemical_ID>
- Query examples:
- Number of virtual twins (pair with the same dates of birth and
death) in Wikidata <https://w.wiki/4LKf> (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Virtual_Twins#Number_of_virtual_twins_at_a_given_milestone>
)
- People recently buried in a cemetery nearby without an image of the
grave (P1442) on Wikidata <https://w.wiki/4LPV> (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P1442#People_recently_buried_in_a_cemetery_nearby_without_an_image_of_the_grave_(P1442)_on_Wikidata>
)
- List of lexemes in French associated with occupation items
<https://w.wiki/4L5o> (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2/Gender_neutral_labels>)
- Towns with less than 1000 people that have a cathedral
<https://w.wiki/4LuG> (Source
<https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1457053245663113216>)
- Musical works based on literary works <https://w.wiki/4Lkt> (Source
<https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1456785592436641794>)
- Main surnames of people born in the Puy-de-Dôme, France
<https://w.wiki/4Kwq> (Source
<https://twitter.com/daieuxdailleurs/status/1455861015187496962>)
- Members of the Ukrainian national sports team <https://w.wiki/4Kox>
(Source <https://twitter.com/fed4ev/status/1455657383313788932>)
Development
- Mismatch Finder: We finished adding “next steps” dialog and a “more
info” dialog to tell users more about the import a mismatch was added in.
- We had discussions about how to best make the SearchBox WVUI component
for the new Vector skin work well for Wikidata (phab:T275251
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275251>)
- We have put a version of WBStack <https://www.wbstack.com/> on
wikibase.dev. We will start work to deploy to wikibase.cloud in the
coming weeks.
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>
--
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