Wikidata:Status updates/2021 01 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-01-11.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (successful)
• New request for comments: How should we develop and deploy documentation for items ?

Events

• Upcoming: Wikidata Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Using QuickStatements for bulk uploading archived website data to Wikidata with Peter Chan, 12 January. Agenda
• Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #27 on Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook, 16 January
• Past: SMWCon videos are published incl. quite a few Wikidata related ones
• Past: Wiki Workshop 2021 is accepting submissions. The deadline for the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 29. All other submissions should be received by March 1.
• Past: Czech editaton Výzva 63 000 (Q102733400) finished (30.11.2020-31.12.2020). Purpose was connect NL CR AUT ID (P691) to Wikidata by hand in Mix'n'match (Q28054658). Detailed info.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogpost: The nobody who could overtake Wikipedia (in German)
• Blogpost: Documenting Software Applications on Wikidata, by John Samuel
• Article: Nitpicking online knowledge representations of governmental leadership: The case of Belgian prime minsters in Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Paper: Familiar Wikidata: The Case for Building a Data Source We Can Trust - an introduction to the value of Wikidata for humanities research making the case for humanities researchers’ intervention in its development.
• Video: How to use WikiBridge - a userscript that enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video

Tool of the week

• QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikibase now has a dedicated Twitter account: Follow @WikibaseHQ for updates on everything Wikibase.
• You can now create and curate catalog groups on Mix’n’match, and find the most common unmatched entries between them (Source)
• Wikidata Walkabout browsing tool has had some important recent improvements in language support, interface, etc. See a list of all comedy films directed by a vegetarian (in Spanish)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: Bharati Braille, Consejo de Calificación Cinematográfica's video game rating, solution to, archaeological site of
  • External identifiers: AV Production person ID, Mediafilm ID, Radio.com Podcasts show ID, Libsyn show ID, Mitre ATT&CK ID, SFLI ID, e-GEDSH ID, Viceversa Letteratura author ID, Barnivore product ID, AVN movie ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, BG School ID, Muck Rack media outlet ID, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID, BHCL UUID, Calaméo ID, Studium Parisiense ID, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID, DiVo person ID, DiCamillo Database Country House ID, Internet Game Database numeric game ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), Alpine Linux package, A*dS Encyclopedia ID, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: minutes played, two-pointers made, two-pointers attempted, three-pointers attempted, three-pointers made, free throws made, free throws attempted, field goals made, personal fouls, Short DOI, total rebounds, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, number of vaccinations, category for software under a license, assessment outcome, quality for this class, Template combines topics, Medium, FL number, Notable ascent
  • External identifiers: CantoDict identifiers, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, POSIX locale identifier, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, BABEL author ID, Songlexikon ID, FANZA AV actress ID, VAi Building ID, Biographies.net person ID, Literature.com book ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, TikTok music ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Conservapedia Article, NZ Museums ID, Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, WreckSite ID
• Query examples:
  • Mathematicians born in prime number years featuring Albert Einstein, Pierre de Fermat, Georg Ohm, Carl Gauss, Évariste Galois, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, James Maxwell et al.
  • Timeline of coups d'état of the 21st century (including attempted ones) (Source)
  • Map of Karens / Johns per million according to Wikidata (Source)
  • Children of which were born with by a person, and their step child
  • Map of the shortest railway path (in terms of number of stations) between Dibrugarh and the Scottish Highlands (Source)
  • Map of place of birth of Olympique de Marseille football players (Source)
  • Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (Source)
  • Map of beaches in Mexico (Source)
  • Graph of shared borders between Indian districts (Source)
  • Descendants of Upendrakishore Roy (Source)
  • Timeline of Indian High Commissioners to Britain (Source)
  • A tree map of items for artworks depicting Mughal emperors (Source)
  • Example of documented usage of different Bengali words (Source)
  • 'Llan' place names in the UK (Source)
  • Organizations with DZI donation seal approval according to donation amount (Source)
• Newest database reports: Russian given names

Development

• Continued working on the Query Builder. We focused on making it possible to query for Item values and being able to limit the number of Items in the result. We also looked into how to query for quantity values.
• Changed P920’s data type from string to external identifier (phab:T269205)
• Finished working on the problem of Items that have the page prop wikibase:statements set to 0 but actually do have statements (phab:T145712)
• Continued work on the “Publishing” step of the Wikibase release pipeline by building and testing three components of the software suite: Wikibase (phab: T267893), Query Service frontend (phab:T268025), and Query Service backend (phab:T268022)

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!