Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih. , Sep 7th.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #78, September 12
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook
- Wikidata Lab XXXI: Reimagining Wikidata from the margins
- Other
- Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language
- Ancient Hellenistic philosophers, visualized as a chain from master to student (Source)
- Generating text with Ninai and Udiron (prototyping using Wikidata items and lexemes in text generation)
- Over 3000 landscape paintings 'depict' something with coordinates. You can now browse them by country (Source)
- Tool of the week
- Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
- In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: National Diet Library persistent work ID, Svensk ordbok ID, ECO code, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Food.com ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, MART catalog person ID, IRIS UNINA author ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, Overnia ID, HandiSport Équipes de France ID, Cinemaitaliano person ID, Cinemaitaliano film ID, Mozilla extension ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, DC Character ID, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index ID, eAmbrosia ID, Edizioni Ares author ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number, Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: літературний редактор, Rotten Tomatoes score
- External identifiers: Eneström Number, Télé-Loisirs ID, PDDikti higher education institution ID, HMS, Barnivore ID, RAWG game ID, Materials Project material ID, INAPP IDs, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Slangopedia ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Urban Dictionary ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, Glitchwave genre ID, Endemia.nc animal ID, Yiddish Dictionary Online ID, Casefile ID, Every Noise at Once ID, museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID
- Query examples:
- Paintings by Waldmüller in the Belvedere, Vienna - Austria (Source)
- Coauthors of coauthors of Birgit Meldal (Q46168094) that have never directly coauthored a paper with her (Source)
- Country-level citation network in biometrics (Scholia) (Source)
- Council Information Systems with OParlOrg API endpoints (Q47450936) (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
- Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
- Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
- Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
- Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (phab:T280229)
- We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.
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!
- Deploy d:Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!