Wikidata:Status updates/2020 06 15

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-06-15.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Stanglavine

Events

• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #17, June 21
• Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday June 16 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Program for Cooperative Cataloging's upcoming Wikidata pilot, June 16. Agenda
• Past: remote Wikidata Wochenende (list of projects - in German)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• KulturNav – a hub for museum vocabularies connected to Wikidata
• Library data as linked open data
• Lord of the Wiki Ring: Importing Wikidata into Neo4j and analyzing family trees
• Video: Live Wikidata editing #9 - YouTube
• How authors and publications are linked in Wikidata Scholia (in Swedish) - YouTube
• ISE2020 - Excursus: How to query Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL - YouTube
• Wikidata Live editing (replay)
• Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Navino Evans
  • Part 1 - Meet Nav, co-founder of Histropedia - YouTube
  • Part 2 - A guided tour of Histropedia with Nav! - YouTube
  • Part 3 - The future of Histropedia - YouTube
  • Part 3 - Wikidata, entrepreneurship & innovation - YouTube
• Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Dr. Daniel Mietchen
  • Part 1 - Meet Daniel! - YouTube
  • Part 2 - COVID & health topics on Wikidata - YouTube
  • Part 3 - Using Scholia to explore Wikidata - YouTube
  • Part 4 - Data Completeness in Wikidata - YouTube
  • Part 5 - Open & FAIR science and Wikidata - YouTube
  • Part 6 - Why Wikidata is important for students - YouTube
• Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting João Alexandre Peschanski
  • Part 1 - Meet João! - YouTube
  • Part 2 - On choosing to work with Wikidata in Academia - YouTube
  • Part 3 - Auto-generating knowledge via Wikidata - YouTube
  • Part 4 - Metadata Curation and reconciliation on Wikidata - YouTube
  • Part 5 - Visualization of new data artifacts via Wikidata - YouTube
  • Part 6 - Data Archaeology via Wikidata - YouTube
• Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Ewan McAndrew
  • Part 1 - Meet Ewan, WiR at the Uni' of Edinburgh - YouTube
  • Part 2 - the Witch Hunts projects & Wikidata - YouTube
  • Part 3 - Why Wikidata is important for education - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Mix'n'match lets you match lists of external identifiers to Wikidata items, or create new items if necessary. Thousands of catalogs already exist, in dozens of different topic areas, and it's easy to import new ones.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New: Overview of GLAM metadata standards and (if relevant) how they are mapped and crosswalked on Wikimedia projects. Feel free to add more to the list!
• Wikidata Lexeme Forms can now group forms înto sections, and (on wide screens) distribute sections across two columns!
• New Wikidata Lexeme Forms feature: the warning about duplicate lexemes now links to edit mode, where you can fix any forms that the existing lexeme might be missing.
• There are now over 3 million uses of the Wikidata Infobox in Commons categories!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: funder, intended subject of deprecated statement, Democracy Index, principal investigator, file page offset, strike tone
  • External identifiers: Noovie person ID, NTB ID, sobory.ru ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, Australian Classification ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, DLive game ID, MuseScore artist ID, Uffizi artwork ID, MNBAQ artist ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: FIBA Hall of Fame, SIUSA archival fonds ID, qualifier for this property, SIUSA archive producer IDs, Library and bibliographic classification, gloss quote, Vmusic.bg artist ID, black-and-white photograph, Gujin Tushu Jicheng link, version control system, provisions, sleeping capacity, floor area
  • External identifiers: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon ID, IDU person ID, SPOnG game ID, Bundesinventar der historischen Verkehrswege der Schweiz (IVS), Unique Property Reference Number, Legacy.com newspaper ID, GCatholic person ID, Econlib ID, Opera Online opera house ID, Opera Online performer ID, finalesrugby.fr ID, Opera Online conductor ID, PMSA ID, Deku Deals ID, duden id, Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften, KKBox track ID, Rate Your Music album ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, locality number in Austria, UNBIS Thesaurus ID, Qobuz album ID 2, AZLyrics.com song ID, Singapore Infopedia ID
• Query examples:
  • Rose cultivars
  • List of present-day countries and capital(s) (Source)
  • Aliases of all sovereign states in Wikidata (Source)
  • Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders (Source)
  • Statues and monuments of slaveholders or traders (Source)
  • Members of the Ku Klux Klan whose English description doesn’t mention that (Source)
  • Bases named after Union soldiers (Source)
  • Married couples who also sat in the Bundestag (Source)
  • List of virtual conferences and their environment (Source)
  • Network of the Erich Fried Prize winners (Source)
  • Notable Russian people with possible (but unproved) descent from Genghis Khan (see the query for explanation)
  • Researchers or academics with Native American ancestry
  • Count of items by ethnic group (Source)
  • Metro map of Stockholm Country showing line colors and layers (Source)
  • Countries that have no world heritage sites (Source)
  • Number of statues of women, per country (Source)
  • 1st level subdivisions of Europe (and colonies) with less than 30 inhabitants per km² (Source)

Development

• Collecting a lot of feedback and doing research around how to improve our APIs to start making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
• Finalized the initial feature list for the query builder and working on designs and prototypes for testing
• Doing user research on the Merge gadget to prepare for making it part of the proper code-base so that other Wikibase instances also benefit from easier merging
• Federated Properties: continued working on the first version of Federation that will make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation
• Start of a new project (Wikibase Decoupling & Extension Registration) in order to clean up our codebase a bit and make it easier to extend with new features in the future
• More work on the design system to have a set of unified components for Wikidata that will make it easier to develop new features in the future because we don't have to rewrite components that are used in a lot of places
• Some MediaWiki skin changes meant broken edit links on Wikipedia and co. Fixed now. (phabricator:T252800)

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!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!