Wikidata:Status updates/2020 06 08

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-06-08.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Handling of stored IDs after they've been deleted or redirected in the external database

Events

• Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, June 12-14: online Wikidata workshop and hackathon in German. Don't forget to register to get access to attendees information.
• Upcoming: Video: Live Wikidata editing #9: Youtube, Facebook
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #16, June 14
• Upcoming: Webinar on Wikidata and cultural heritage collections, by Science Museum Group UK, June 19th

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Wikidata based Location Entity Linking
• WikiBank: Using Wikidata to Improve Multilingual Frame-Semantic Parsing
• Wikimedia Public (Research) Resources
• RDF Reasoning on Large Ontologies: A Study on Cultural Heritage and Wikidata
• What is an Open Knowledge Base anyway? (lists Wikidata as key example).
• KGTK: A Toolkit for Large Knowledge Graph Manipulation and Analysis ("we present KGTK, a data science-centric toolkit... We illustrate KGTK with real-world scenarios... such as Wikidata")
• Video: Live Wikidata editing #8 - Wikidojo edition: YouTube, Facebook
• Wikidata Online Workshop (in Spanish): "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" - YouTube
• Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Andrew Lih
  • Part 1 - Meet Andrew! - YouTube
  • Part 2 - Wikidata at the Met - YouTube
  • Part 3 - Wikidata Tools used at the Met project - YouTube
  • Part 4 - Spreadsheets & QuickStatements for mass-upload - YouTube
• Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Jane Darnell
  • Part 1 - Meet Jane! - YouTube
  • Part 2 - WWikidataProject Some of All Paintings - YouTube
  • Part 3 - Listeria Lists - YouTube
  • Part 4 - Modeling, provenance and new properties - YouTube
• Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Dr. Martin Poulter
  • Part 1 - Meet Martin! - YouTube
  • Part 2 - The residency at the Bodleian Libraries - YouTube
  • Part 3 - The Astrolabe Explorer & other datasets - YouTube

Tool of the week

• QuickStatements lets you edit thousands of Wikidata items at a time. Add labels and descriptions, or statements with sources and qualifiers, add sitelinks, create or merge items, or remove statements that were created in error. Batches can be discussed and, if necessary, reverted in full through the EditGroups tool.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Simple Query Builder: wrap-up of the feedback loop and next steps
• New page Subsetting under WikiProject Schemas for documenting how to define, construct, manage and maintain subsets of Wikidata
• MyCroft, the open digital personal assistant now has a Wikidata skill to answer questions about current and historic facts & information about a person.
• Do you know a Wikidata/Wikibase community member who has accomplished something new or has been inspiring in the last year? If so, please take a few minutes and nominate someone in the 2020 Community Spotlight survey.
• Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Bengali nouns.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: curriculum topics, attribution text, based on tabular data, living people protection class, position in biological sequence, region within image, ISCO-08 occupation code, parish church, has grouping, has sorting, has column
  • External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Origin video game ID, npm package, FEMA number, Mod DB mod ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, Norwegian prisoner register person ID, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, BaGLAMa GID, GMC registration number, AFL player ID, serial identifier on SerialZone, Absolute Games game ID, Modelhub ID, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID, Medusa NRHP ID, motorsportstats.com event ID, LGBT Danmark online dictionary ID, Olympedia athlete ID, Worlds Without End author ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID, AusStage organization ID, AusStage person ID, AusStage venue ID, AusStage work ID, AustLit ID, Cinema Context ID, New York Times contributor ID, HBO Max ID, Semantic Scholar corpus ID, Montreux Jazz Festival concert ID, Montreux Jazz Festival person ID, Montreux Jazz Festival song ID, ESRB video game ID, NexusMods video game ID, LongTake person ID, Yle Topic ID, digilibLT work ID, PHI Latin Texts work ID, Musisque Deoque work ID, Den Store Danske ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: official product site, tag, heraldic attitude, Non volatile storage capacity, introduced in version (2), height of center of mass, strike tone, number of migrations, depicted without, offset from vertical, for type elements, Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, number of branches
  • External identifiers: Australian Classification ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Emmys person ID, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, Xfinity Stream ID, Juno Download album ID 2, sobory.ru, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, Geneanet genealogist ID, IGRS video game ID, Wiki-Brest ID, Wiki-Narbonne ID, Wiki-Niort ID, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID, Wiki-Rennes ID, Wikimanche ID, Wiki-Anjou ID, Picardia ID, Grandterrier.net ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, VIAF partner ID, NVE Elvenett elvID, Scholars Strategy Network ID, Opera Online work ID, Opera Online composer ID, ICP artist ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, Legacy.com person ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, Uffizi artwork ID, Ancestry.com ID, Dlive game ID, Spotify songwriter ID, MuseScore artist ID, MNBAQ artist ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Cimetières de France ID, vglist video game ID, Gramophone composer ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, CAOI person ID
• Query examples:
  • User:PAC2/Prenoms a notebook interface (Q28405706) to explore data about a given name (Q202444) : the idea is to ask simple questions and find answers
  • Similarly the talk page of "Ada" with queries
  • Postcards of exterior and interior views of theatres on CARTHALIA (Source)
  • List of cities (or map) of Russia where no one famous was born and died (Source)
  • Turkish scientists by citation count (Source)
  • ESWC2020 papers with links to video lectures (Source)
  • Women who have been Captain Regent of San Marino (Source)
  • Species of birds (Source)
  • List of open science fellows (Source)
  • Spouses of the German Bundestag (Source)
  • MWAPI searches in wikidata about people descibed as slave traders by citizenship (Source)

Development

• Wikidata Bridge: Made a number of technical improvements to wrap up the work in the first version.
• Reference Hunt: Making final technical improvements and are now running the process to find references on the whole of Wikidata (as opposed to the initial small subset for testing). Once that's done we'll release them as a dump.
• Easier access to data for programmers: Researching and interviewing ways to improve the APIs in preparation for working on them.
• Query builder: Working on defining the first version and creating mockups based on the feedback we received.
• Use modern TypeScript syntax (3.2 -> 3.9) (phab:T253211)
• More technical documentation for Federated Properties (phab:T252991) & preparing for the next steps
• Convert some properties to external identifiers (phab:T253722)

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!