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Wikidata weekly summary #402
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Nomen ad hoc
- Events
- Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit at Coventry University on 26 February
- Hackday Niederrhein, Germany, on March 28-29, including a Wikidata workshop
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets, 11 February. Agenda
- WikiCite meetup in Melbourne, Australia, on February 14th
- Wikidata Wednesday in Vienna, Austria, on February 19th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone, keynote video from Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
- Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata, by Tom Hanika, Maximilian Marx and Gerd Stumme.
- Tool of the week
- Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
- Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random list" on d:Property talk:P279
- "Status of Wikidata Query Service" update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
- Facebook page of a volunteer working on Wikidata about the French local elections in Conflans
- Swiss newspaper Le Temps built a new front-end to interact with a Wikibase backend developed by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation of personal data flows.
- There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
- Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado, it is currently in early testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter at his 2019 blog post Making Wikidata Visible. Feedback is appreciated.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Academia.edu publication ID, TI-99/4A Videogame House ID, National Aviation Hall of Fame ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: гражданский чин, uses dataset, CVR person ID, description, Wikimedia community discussion, The Great Biography
- External identifiers: Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID, CYRI ID, Mendeley publication ID, CODEPAC-Bauru ID, Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago, DANFS ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, Haz-Map ID, RAL ID, PC Games Database.de company ID, Kickstarter project ID, Adventure Games company ID, VcBA ID, Adventure Games series ID, Hrvatska enciklopedije ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development ID, Trakt.tv uri, Open Food Facts label, Compendium heroicum ID, Gry Online game ID, Gram.pl game ID, startrekdb.se query, Legislative Assembly of Ontario MPP ID, Gry Online company ID
- Deleted properties: lithography (P2157)
- Query examples:
- Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries (source)
- Chart of the number of infections and deaths casued since the outbreak of novel coronavirus, as reported by the World Health Organisation
- Adjacent constituencies of the UK Parliament - query federated with Ordnance Survey's SPARQL endpoint. (source)
- List of this year’s Academy Awards winners
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
- Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
- Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production, adding the "remove warning" button
- Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are being triggered and opened (phab:T231731)
- Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
- Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
- Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (phab:T243158)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [1]
Problems
- There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [2]
Changes later this week
The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).
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