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Hello -
The tl;dr version of this post: On a blank Wikibase instance, I want to be
able to do:
api.php?action=wbeditentity&*new=item&id=Q42*&data={"labels":{"en":{"language":"en","value":"Douglas
Adams"}}}
I do not want to do this on wikidata.org - I understand why it makes no
sense in that context. But I would like to be able to do this on my own
Wikibase instance.
Beyond the whimsical like ensuring Doug Adams gets to be Q42, the main
reason for this is data portability and identifier stability. As more
hosted Wikibase providers come online and start offering services, I want
to know that I have data portability if I need to change to a different
provider. Anyone who queries my Wikibase needs to know the identifiers my
Wikibase uses for instances and more importantly for classes, and if I
change providers, those identifiers cannot change without breaking those
queries.
I do not think that MySQL backups are a reliable way to be able to
transition between providers. I am not confident that all providers will
want to offer a service where they accept a MySQL backup to load into their
Wikibase backend, and there are additional challenges moving between
Wikibase versions. (Though some may - I programmatically create the
contents of my Wikibase so I don't care about edit history, but if one were
to care about that history and other things like wikiusers I imagine the
MySQL dumps would be the preferred way to migrate)
One possible solution is to simply create blank items in a new Wikibase,
from 1 to the maximum identifier used in my old wikibase, and then
repopulate each item with the claims from my old Wikibase instance.
Unfortunately this is not a reliable solution because while Wikibase
guarantees that item IDs will not be reused, it does not guarantee that
every ID in the sequence will be created, e.g. in rare cases Wikibase may
go from Q41 to Q43 and skip/never create Q42.
I think Wikibase is awesome, but it is an odd database that does not allow
you to set the keys for the data you are managing :)
In reading through the Wikibase Repo code, it seems like this scenario was
considered though perhaps isn't fully implemented (or has been disabled?).
The code in EntitySavingHelper.php looks like there are/were ways to call
it by providing an ID while still asking for a new entity, though there is
logic earlier in the ModifyEntity code to look for and explicitly reject
the case where the API asks for 'new' and also provides an ID, so I'm not
sure how this code path would get called. There is also code to ask the
entityStores if they 'canCreateWithCustomId', but those all appear to just
return 'false'?
However, if that logic was skipped in the API handler and a bit of code
reworked in ModifyEntity and EntitySavingHelper, along with ensuring that
that the next available ID is kept up to date in the wb_id_counters table
to always be 1 beyond the maximum ID in use, it looks like it might not be
that hard to enable creating entities with specific IDs?
So three questions:
Would the Wikibase development team ever be open to supporting something
like this, behind a flag like $wgWBRepoSettings['allowUserProvidedIds']
that defaulted to false?
Are there more complicated implications from allowing a change like this
that would need to be considered? I understand why the Wikidata.org repo
needs this codepath fast and can't allow users to provide IDs for new
entities anyway, but are there other reasons this isn't supported beyond
"Wikidata doesn't need it?"
Is this all moot with the eventual REST API? I see that there's a PUT
envisioned, could I use that to directly create an item or property and
give it an ID then, or does the ID have to already exist to replace it?
Thank you all for your work on Wikibase and have a nice end of 2020!
Thanks,
-Erik
*Hello all, here's your very last Wikidata newsletter for 2020. Thanks a
lot to everyone who contributed to its content!*
Discussions
- Open request for CheckUser: 997kB
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/CheckUser/1… >
- There's a discussion
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q21510856#mandatory_%E2%86%92_required >
about
what the best label for required qualifier constraint
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21510856 > happens to be.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events >
- Ongoing: rC3 <https://rc3.world/rc3/ > (remote Chaos Communication
Congress). Several Wikidata-related talks and meetups happening on December
27th, 28th and 29th: introduction to Wikidata, Wikidata for
datajournalists, Wikidata meetups in German and English, and a Query
Service workshop. (see Wikipaka schedule
<https://cfp.verschwoerhaus.de/rc3-2020/schedule/ > for more details)
Tool of the week
- Template:TP administrative area
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:TP_administrative_area > is a new
template designed for all items which are instance of administrative
territorial entity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56061 >. It defines
useful queries for those items. For example, {{QT|Q173695}} links to this
page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q173695 >. Feedback and
contributions are welcome.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Project Grants open call for proposals in 2021
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2020-December/096052.html >.
Changes in the review process for Project Grants in 2021; the open call for
community organizing proposals will be from January 11 to February 10 and
the open call for software and research proposals will be from February 15
to March 16.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties >:
- General datatypes: small logo or icon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8972 >, lunar coordinates
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8981 >
- External identifiers: CINE21 person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8969 >, Chinese Painting
Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8970 >, Cinémathèque
québécoise person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8971 >, Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8973 >, SAPA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8974 >, Manus Online author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8975 >, Lichess username
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8976 >, CITWF person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8977 >, DBLP publication ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8978 >, DataTrek ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8979 >, KANTO ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8980 >
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal >
to
review:
- General datatypes: abstract
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/abstract >,
thesis
committee chair
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/thesis_committee_c… >
, character type
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/character_type >
, Calificación de videojuegos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Calificaci%C3%B3n_… >
, Regente
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Regente >, Nação
(candomblé)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Na%C3%A7%C3%A3o_(c… >
, Liderança
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lideran%C3%A7a >
, Bharati Braille
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bharati_Braille >
, number of walks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_walks >
, number of hits
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_hits >
, doubles hit
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/doubles_hit >
, triples hit
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/triples_hit >
, Through point
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Through_point >
- External identifiers: TuneIn Podcasts show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TuneIn_Podcasts_sh… >
, RadioPublic show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RadioPublic_show_ID >
, Player.fm show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Player.fm_show_ID >
, World Rowing ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_Rowing_ID >
, MNBAQ ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MNBAQ_ID >,
Libsyn
show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Libsyn_show_ID >
, PodBean show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PodBean_show_ID >
, BG School ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BG_School_ID >
, JAD ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JAD_ID >, RDA
value vocabularies ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RDA_value_vocabula… >
, BHCL UUID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BHCL_UUID >,
Podtail
show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Podtail_show_ID >
, Provenio UUID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Provenio_UUID >
, AbandonSocios ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AbandonSocios_ID >
, Mitre ATT&CK ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mitre_ATT%26CK_ID >
, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der
Zwischenkriegszeit ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lexikon_zum_Litera… >
, International Encyclopedia of the First World War ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/International_Ency… >
, SFLI ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SFLI_ID >, Game
UI Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_UI_Database_ID >
, DiVo person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DiVo_person_ID >
, e-GEDSH ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/e-GEDSH_ID >
, Projecto Vercial author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Projecto_Vercial_a… >
, Calaméo ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Calam%C3%A9o_ID >
, Lumières Lausanne ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lumi%C3%A8res_Laus… >
, Swiss Unihockey Player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swiss_Unihockey_Pl… >
, IFF player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IFF_player_ID >
, Internet Game Database numeric game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Internet_Game_Data… >
, AV Production person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AV_Production_pers… >
, Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Magyar_%C3%89letra… >
, Studium Parisiense ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Studium_Parisiense… >
, I professori dell'Università di Pavia (1859-1961) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/I_professori_dell%… >
, A*dS Encyclopedia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/A*dS_Encyclopedia >
, Viceversa Letteratura author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Viceversa_Letterat… >
, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ancient_History_En… >
, The Podcast App show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Podcast_App_sh… >
, viaggiareinpuglia.it ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/viaggiareinpuglia.… >
, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Sa… >
, DiCamillo Database Country House ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DiCamillo_Database… >
, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/International_Stan… >
, Biographical Archive of Psychiatry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographical_Archi… >
, Play:Right video game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Play:Right_video_g… >
, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Spletni_biografski… >
, TheCocktailDB ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TheCocktailDB_ID >
, Muck Rack media outlet ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Muck_Rack_media_ou… >
, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographical_Dicti… >
- Query examples:
- Check Corona vaccine progress using Wikidata SPARQL to get metadata
about the countries see notebook
<https://github.com/salgo60/CoronaVaccinationCheck/blob/main/README.md > -
SPARQL query <https://w.wiki/sBQ >
Development
Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no
deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment :)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R >. If you
want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt… >
.
Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview >
- Contribute to a Showcase item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items >
.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats > or
proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge > across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next >
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement Coordinator
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events >
- Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay)
- Wikidata: how to get involved
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH2n2UFr40U > (in Czech)
- Lexemes on Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1kQJs4Y1tg >
(in Czech)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage >
- Video: HGAPS Speaker Series by Thomas Shafee
- Wikidata Overview: how you can use it to improve the overall
knowledge base of the Internet
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN_mRmP8tJs >
- Wikidata Walkthrough: hands-on editing experience
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQEWrd_dz68 >
- Wikidata for Bat Collectors, YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYvoXKBSGA8 >
Tool of the week
- *Wikidata Live* is a real-time visual dashboard for Wikidata edits;
paper
<http://fabriziorlandi.net/pdf/2020/ISWC2020-VOILA_Real_Time_WikiData.pdf >,
interface <https://isobelm.github.io/Software-Engineering/#/ >
(visualizes recent changes to Wikidata in quasi real time).
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Complex constraint about labels' language
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Property_constraints_portal/Label_langua… >
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties >:
- General datatypes: National Library at Kolkata romanization
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8963 >, URL match pattern
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8966 >, URL match replacement
value <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8967 >
- External identifiers: ClassInd audiovisual work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8958 >, Georgia Museum of Art
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8959 >, Kunsthistorisches
Museum Wien ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8960 >,
tribunsdelaplebe.fr
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8961 >, PBA artwork ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8962 >, OpenReview.net
profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8964 >, OpenReview.net
group ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8965 >, OpenReview.net
submission ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8968 >
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal >
to review:
- General datatypes: applicable "stated in" value
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/applicable_%22stat… >,
WMF hosted image that could be moved to Commons
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WMF_hosted_image_t… >,
Category for the view of the item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Category_for_the_v… >,
OSM object
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OSM_object >,
property related to this topic
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/property_related_t… >,
personality traits
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/personality_traits >,
graph girth
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/graph_girth >,
ALA-LC romanization
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ALA-LC_romanization >
- External identifiers: SAPA
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SAPA >, Manus
Online author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Manus_Online_autho… >,
Mapy.cz ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mapy.cz_ID >,
CollectieGelderland-creator-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CollectieGelderlan… >,
SVTplay identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SVTplay_identifier >,
identifiant Mediafilm
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Mediaf… >,
IFLA form of music ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IFLA_form_of_music… >,
IFLA key of musical work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IFLA_key_of_musica… >,
IFLA mode of musical work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IFLA_mode_of_music… >,
RDA support type ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RDA_support_type_ID >,
SLAM artwork ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SLAM_artwork_ID >,
Kunstmuseum Basel ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kunstmuseum_Basel_… >,
NPG ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NPG_ID >,
jeuxvideo.com
ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/jeuxvideo.com_ID >,
Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo
ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_bio-bib… >,
Google Podcasts show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Google_Podcasts_sh… >,
Royal Museums Greenwich ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Royal_Museums_Gree… >,
PIAC ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PIAC_ID >,
Castbox
show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Castbox_show_ID >,
Stitcher show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Stitcher_show_ID >,
Pocket Casts show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pocket_Casts_show_… >,
Podcast Addict show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Podcast_Addict_sho… >,
Radio.com Podcasts show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Radio.com_Podcasts… >
- Deleted properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion >: street
address (P969)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive/2019/… >
- Query examples:
- Tex-Mex singers <https://w.wiki/qpc > (Source
<https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx/status/1339667100433059841 >)
- Map of images from Wicipics project (photography campaign in Wales)
<https://w.wiki/mPZ > (Source
<https://twitter.com/WICI_LLGC/status/1339242270873313282 >)
- Vito Russo Test in Wikidata <https://w.wiki/rNb >
- Distinct dialects of Wikidata lexemes <https://w.wiki/rTz > (Source
<https://twitter.com/salgo60/status/1340973195827048451 >)
- Patronage of rapid-transit transportation <https://w.wiki/qtH > (
Source <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx/status/1340437955916288001 >)
- People who played Julius Caesar, and what "version" of him they
played <https://w.wiki/r6c >
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects >:
Media Representation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Media_Representation >
- Newest database reports: Reports on Italian given names
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Names/reports/given_name… >
Development
- Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one
query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for
Item values. You can follow along on the demo system
<https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org/ >.
- Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to
Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the
HTML code (phab:T267023) <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267023 )>
- Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using
keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (
phab:T266638 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266638 >)
- Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant
fallbacks (phab:T267502 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267502 >)
- Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (
phab:T250550 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250550 >)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R >. If you
want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt… >.
Monthly Tasks
- Help add human (Q5) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5 > to properties
that currently don't have it
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Property_constraints_portal/Property_Sco… >
.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview >
- Contribute to a Showcase item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items >
.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats >
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge > across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help untangle items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Yupik/Detanglement > that refer to
different concepts.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next >
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Adopt_Help:Site… >
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events >
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries <https://www.twitch.tv/belett > on Twitch
and in French by Vigneron, December 15 at 18:00 CET
- Past: Meta:WikiConference North America/2020
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_North_America/2020 >
- Past: Localization and structuring of open data-Zhu Tinghong-Wikidata
Community of Local Studies <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10jWyh-Ca84 >
- MOPCON 2020 (replay), YouTube
- Past: SMWCon 2020/Day 2 - "Wikidata Walkabout" by Yaron Koren
(replay), YouTube
- Past: Wikidata Lab XXVI: Structured citations module on Wikipedia
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2AiaRHVesjQYv3pbq5qpdQ > (replay),
YouTube
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage >
- Building the SWIB20 participants map
<https://zbw.eu/labs/en/blog/building-the-swib20-participants-map > -
combining Wikidata with custom data points via a federated query (ZBW Labs).
- Introducing the Mapping the Scottish Reformation Website
<http://mappingthescottishreformation.org/announcements/launch/ > - A new
Wikidata-driven website to explore the Scottish Reformation.
- Introduction to Querying Wikidata Knowledge Graph using SPARQL
<https://jsamwrites.medium.com/introduction-to-querying-wikidata-knowledge-g… >
by John Samuel
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmzEk8uYSf4 >, YouTube
- Video: How to take data from OpenRefine to Wikidata through
QuickStatements <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FbsUb6Nek >, YouTube
- Video: Editing Wikidata live - casual session
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0vGW2vYryU > by Jan Ainali, YouTube
Tool of the week
- datao.net
<http://search.datao.net/?q=david+gilmour&resource=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata… >
is a visual tool for querying and exposing Wikidata easily.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Coolest Tool Award 2020 featured some Wikidata tools: Lingua Libre
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60024037 > won in the category
“Diversity”; Listeria <https://listeria.toolforge.org/ >, Lexeme Forms
<https://lexeme-forms.toolforge.org/ > and Entity Explosion
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98398855 > got honorable mentions.
Congratulations!
- Complex constraint check for recency of value
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Property_constraints_portal/Recency >
- The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021 > is open
until December 21st. You can vote on as many wishes as you want. There's a
separate category for Wikidata
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Wikidata >
.
- Template:Notebook Given name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Notebook_Given_name > is a new
template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries.
The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See Alexandre
(Q16002466) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q16002466 > for an
example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
- The next Wikibase live session
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/Dece… >
is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar)
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NnM5bWhxYTA5cmg1czM… >.
We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half
of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about
what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is
welcome to attend!
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties >:
- General datatypes: category for the view from the item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8933 >, mailing list archive
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8934 >, word lookup
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8942 >, inappropriate
property for this type <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8952 >,
compatible with <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8956 >
- External identifiers: Church of Jesus Christ missionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8930 >, Encyklopedie mostů v
Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8931 >, Czech Gymnastics
athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8932 >, Encyclopedia
of the History of Ukraine ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8935 >, CollEx-Persée ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8936 >, theses.cz ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8937 >, Google Play developer
slug <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8939 >, AppGallery app ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8940 >, The Galileo Project ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8941 >, Artfacts ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8943 >, Biblioteca Marciana
owner ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8944 >, Museo
Galileo biography ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8945 >, National
Galleries of Scotland ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8946 >, Museo Galileo
authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8947 >, Bavarian
State Painting Collections artwork ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8948 >, Delft municipal
monument ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8949 >, Dizionario
degli artisti ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8950 >, Order
of Canada recipient ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8951 >,
Students of Prague Universities ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8953 >, vets.cz ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8954 >, Chapels of southern
Bohemia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8955 >, GS1 GPC
brick code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8957 >
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal >
to review:
- General datatypes: insufficiently precise value
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/insufficiently_pre… >,
OpenReview.net group ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenReview.net_gro… >,
OpenReview.net submission ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenReview.net_sub… >,
OpenReview.net profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenReview.net_pro… >,
applies when property is used
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/applies_when_prope… >,
River Code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/River_Code >,
Wikimedian in Residence
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikimedian_in_Resi… >,
Commons compatible image available at URL (non-artwork)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Commons_compatible… >,
number of at bats
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_at_bats >,
runs batted in
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/runs_batted_in >,
stolen bases
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/stolen_bases >,
subdivision monétaire
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/subdivision_mon%C3… >
- External identifiers: PBA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PBA_ID >,
Medieval
Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Medieval_Manuscrip… >,
LFH staff ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LFH_staff_ID >,
Cephalopod Ontology entity ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cephalopod_Ontolog… >,
Fungal gross anatomy entity ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fungal_gross_anato… >,
Plant Ontology entity ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Plant_Ontology_ent… >,
Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology entity ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hymenoptera_Anatom… >,
DataTrek ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DataTrek_ID >,
DBLP publication ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DBLP_publication_ID >,
PeriodO period ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PeriodO_period_ID >,
KANTO <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KANTO >,
CITWF title ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CITWF_title_ID >,
CITWF person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CITWF_person_ID >,
identifiant de la Cinémathèque québécoise pour une personne
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_de_la_… >,
Encyclopedia Titanica ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_Titan… >,
DzygaMDB film
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DzygaMDB_film >,
DzygaMDB person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DzygaMDB_person_ID >,
XXXBios female performer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/XXXBios_female_per… >,
XXXBios transgender performer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/XXXBios_transgende… >,
AVN movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AVN_movie_ID >,
Lichess Username
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lichess_Username >,
Evil Angel movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Evil_Angel_movie_ID >,
Evil Angel video ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Evil_Angel_video_ID >
- Query examples:
- All stumbling stones in the city of Hannover <https://w.wiki/pZo >
- (partial) list, timeline and gallery of successful ascents of Mount
Everest (and few other summits)
<https://reasonator.toolforge.org/?q=Q104070264 >
- Web & social media URLs for UK Civic Societies <https://w.wiki/qFU >
(Source <https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1337563387505602560 >)
- Publication related to Research Institute of Text Analysis and
Applications: no. of pages per author/year <https://w.wiki/qEF >, authors
network <https://w.wiki/qEH > (Source
<https://twitter.com/espejolento/status/1337459979289149440 >)
- Map of the ritual objects said to be used by accused witches in
Scotland (colourcoded layer accessible on top right to see the list of
objects) <https://w.wiki/oH9 > (Source
<https://twitter.com/emcandre/status/1337087720108273669 >)
- Seats of the Parliament of England, and the first year we have a
named person listed for them <https://w.wiki/pkL > (Source
<https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1336457097064689664 >)
- Female race car drivers on Spanish Wikipedia <https://w.wiki/pZw > (
Source <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx/status/1336423828973563912 >)
- Places of Geological Interest in Alamedilla <https://w.wiki/qWY > (
Source <https://twitter.com/olea/status/1338431105993740288 >)
- Number of Nature articles that were published on a Sunday in a
given year <https://w.wiki/pkg >
- Schema examples:
- Schema for stumbling stones
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E206 >
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects >:
- Agriculture
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Agriculture >
Development
- We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among
other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint
violations on an average Item and what we can learn from it.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R >. If you
want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt… >.
Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview >
- Contribute to a Showcase item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items >
.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats >
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge > across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next >
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
FYI, the WMF community wishlist survey is now open for votes on proposals
until December 21st.
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From: Szymon Grabarczuk <sgrabarczuk-ctr(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 09:27
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey 2021
To:
We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist
Survey[1]. You can vote until 21 December for as many different wishes as
you want.
In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors
are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes.
We will start with the most popular ones.
We, the Community Tech[2], are one of the Wikimedia Foundation[3] teams. We
create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is
decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you
can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're
most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some
of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.
We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Tech
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation
Kind regards,
Szymon Grabarczuk (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/ >
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Hi Everyone!
A reminder that the Coolest Tool Award
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award > event will happen
online this Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC[^1].
Here is more information about the venue:
-
The event will be live streamed on Youtube in the MediaWiki
<https://www.youtube.com/user/watchmediawiki > channel
-
The following venues can be used for socializing:
-
Youtube live stream chat (MediaWiki
<https://www.youtube.com/user/watchmediawiki >)
-
Twitter #CoolestToolAward
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CoolestToolAward&f=live >
-
#wmhack Telegram group <https://t.me/wmhack > / IRC #wmhackconnect
<https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wmhack >
See you on Friday!
Joaquin, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2020
[^1]: 17:00 UTC is 9:00 PT, 18:00 CET, 22:30 IST. More timezones in
timeanddate.com
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201211T17 >
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 6:01 PM Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <
jhernandez(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
>
> The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award > will happen online
> on Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC[^1].
>
> The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted
> video and chat channels for socializing. We will send more details soon.
>
> Save the date, and join us celebrating the great work volunteer developers
> do for the Wikimedia communities.
>
> We hope to see you there!
> Joaquin, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2020
>
> [^1]: 17:00 UTC is 9:00 PST, 18:00 CEST, 22:30 IST. More timezones in
> timeanddate.com
> <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201211T17 >
> --
> Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
> Developer Advocate - Wikimedia Foundation
>
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