Wikidata:Status updates/2021 06 07

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-06-07.

Events

• Past:
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 (replay) "Wikidata Live Querying" by Lucas Werkmeister
  • SPARQL #Wikidata Préfixes 1/2 (in French) - YouTube
• Upcoming:
  • Meta meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group, Wednesday, June 9, 16:00 UTC
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #46 - YouTube, Facebook, June 12 at 18:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #66, June 13
  • (Dutch) 16 june 2021, 15.00-16.30 CEST, "Universiteitsbibliotheek: Bijzondere Collecties zichtbaar en vindbaar maken in Wikidata", during "Digitaal Erfgoed @UM | zichtbaar, bruikbaar, houdbaar"

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • "Wikidata and R: a perfect pair" by Evolution and evolvability and Canley. A WikiCite eScholarship.
  • "Brazil’s Laws: Modeling the Brazilian legislation in Wikidata", by Ederporto. A WikiCite project grant project.
• Papers
  • (Preprint) KGPool: Dynamic Knowledge Graph Context Selection for Relation Extraction (Wikidata dataset used in evaluation)
  • (Article) “Wikidata Projects in Times of COVID-19: IUPUI Libraries’ Engagement in Open Knowledge”
  • (Presentation) Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties by User:Jsamwrites at Contribuling
• Videos
  • Understanding data import into Wikidata via Quickstatements (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Workshop for "Cita": a Wikidata addon for Zotero, hosted by Diegodlh - English & en español. A WikiCite grant project.
  • Wikidata: Municipalities of Romania + a map of places in Kuopio - YouTube
  • Wikidata Editing training (in Tamil) - YouTube
  • Excursus: Wikidata Knowledge Graph - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Image Positions is a tool to show and add relative position within image (P2677) qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata items as areas on the item’s image (P18).

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Badkartan.se ID, Eionet bathingWaterIdentifier, ifixit device ID, AlternativeTo software ID, Price One Penny author ID, Nevada Women's History Project ID, Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica ID, Price One Penny work ID, Price One Penny library ID, Price One Penny publisher ID, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800–2000) ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, Romanistenlexikon ID, composers.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, armradioarchive.am person ID, PANGO lineage code, AZGS Document Repository ID, AADFI member ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Romanian diplomatic mission ID, Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID, PAS member ID, fondoambiente.it ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Range, not found in, LdiF person ID, board game mechanism, Date of resignation
  • External identifiers: DIP-ID, Castforward ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID, EBAF ID, FCCOS ID, Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID, TBDB ID, cirkev.cz bohoslužby ID, Ropiky.net pillbox ID, GCD creator ID
• Query examples:
  • Properties used to describe themselves (Inspiration)
  • Most common name in Germany by year of birth (Source)
  • Famous (not French) people born in France (Source)

Development

• You can now add a title to a query visualisation by adding #title:YourTitle to your SPARQL code (phab:T225883, example query with a title)
• Added a new constraints type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes of a certain language (phab:T200689)
• Working on not checking the format constraints via SPARQL to take that load off the SPARQL endpoint and make it technically better (phab:T176312)
• Working on making the API-Sandbox not suggest edits to real Items (phab:T219215)

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!