Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past
- HackaLOD Online: Estimating the interest of art relationships with Wikidata - YouTube
- Ongoing
- #1Lib1Ref Campaign by IFLA Wikidata Working Group (May 15 - June 5)
- #1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy, as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 - June 5); more than 10k references have already been added (see the dashboard for more details)
- #1Lib1Ref Campaign by IFLA Wikidata Working Group (May 15 - June 5)
- Upcoming
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th May 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
- 27/05 (17h UTC): Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process with Ederporto, Pharos e Susannaanas (in English), on YouTube
- SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 25 at 18:00 CEST
- LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook, May 29 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #64, May 30
- LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: The history, present and future of WBStack & WBaas (Wikibase as a service) 27 May 2021, 1PM Eastern US. Please fill in this form to register!
- Past
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- KELM: Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Language Model Pre-training Corpora. Wikidata was used to generate sentences to train a language model.
- An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
- Videos
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 - Main track - Saturday 22
- Curating bibliographic metadata of scholarly publications: demo of Wikidata-based Scholia workflows
- Demo of Ordia, a Wikidata tool to visualize lexicographic information from Wikidata
- Adding references to Wikidata items, as part of #1Lib1Ref campaign (in Italian)
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- User:Jon Harald Søby/compact items.css is a stylesheet that shrinks the vertical space items take up on your screen, reducing the need to scroll to get an overview of an item. (screenshot)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The prefix
[[lexemes:]]allows to link to a search for lexemes on any Wikimedia wiki. Sample: lexemes:describe (project chat announcement). - The
wikidata-langJS module got a major update, and now makes accessible pre-generated mappings between Wikidata ids, Wikimedia language code (P424), ISO 639-1 code (P218), ISO 639-2 code (P219), ISO 639-3 code (P220), and ISO 639-6 code (P221), that can also be used by non-JS programs by fetching the desired JSON. Examples: - Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2021:
- User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker - Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool, allowing users to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons in bulk
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms: Portuguese modal adverb - Deployed support for Portuguese modal adverbs in the Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool
- User:Jon Harald Søby/addSenseImage.js - User script to add images to sense statements on lexemes
- Wikidata:Tools/Enhance user interface#identifierInput.js - fixing a bug in IdentifierInput.js gadget for Wikidata to better handle when a property has no format restraints
- The prefix
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: type of lens, oral history at, official map URL
- External identifiers: The Criterion Collection film ID, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Apple TV movie ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, causesanti.va ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, North Carolina session law, #SOSBrutalism ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, Museums in Styria ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts person ID, SOR bird ID, ToateAnimalele ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca entity ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca author ID, OSDN project, Scholasticon person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: music for work, in sense, academic calendar type
- External identifiers: Romanistenlexikon ID, Buzer.de law identification, senato.archivioluce.it person ID, Apple TV show ID, Apple TV episode ID, Australian Music Centre work ID, fondoambiente.it ID, Unified book number, GLEI ELF, RBF event ID, Poetsgate poet ID, Badkartan.se ID, Book Owners Online person ID, ifixit device ID, Price One Penny Author ID, Price One Penny Publisher ID, Price One Penny Work ID, Medical Institution Code, AlternativeTo software ID, RoBasketballFed IDs, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Enciclopedia della Matematica ID
- Query examples:
- Danish idioms (Source)
- Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020 (Source)
- Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title
- 20th-century UK parliaments with count of father/mother who were MPs (Source)
- The tallest known female politicians (Source)
- Writing systems/characters and their year of appearance (Source)
- Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle (Source)
- Newest database reports: Doctor Who episodes (new series)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need fixing
- Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (phab:T281468)
- Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (phab:T281272)
- Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that Property's constraint (phab:T280650)
- Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items where they shouldn't be (phab:T281587)
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!