GLAM/Newsletter/August 2018/Contents/Wikidata report

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue VIII, August 2018

Wikidata report

Upcoming conferences, and more

Special Report: Upcoming Events

Wikidata Tour Down Under

Andy Mabbett is in Australia in September and early October 2018, talking about Wikidata and WikiCite, as well as their sister projects, and how they impact GLAMs, and Open Science, as well as explaining how institutions can work with the community of volunteers who maintain those projects, to mutual benefit.

We hope to see those of you in Australia at one of the events listed at Wikidata Tour Down Under (2018)

For an idea of what to expect, see the report from Andy's February 2016 visit.

WikiCite 2018

Applications to attend WikiCite 2018 in Berkeley, California (including travel funding requests) are now open, including the opportunity for would- be speakers to pitch sessions.

PIDapalooza 2019

PIDapalooza is a conference about Permanent IDentfers, with a strong Wikidata component. Registration for #PIDapalooza19 in Dublin, Ireland, January 23-24, is now open. A call for pers/ presentations wil follow shortly

Other

September 8, Zurich: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon a hacking event to code with and for Wikidata.
- Wikidata IRC office hour: September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the channel #wikimedia-office
October 23, Berlin: Workshop on how to use Wikidata in research contexts
October 26/27, The Hague: Wiki Techstorm
Reminder: Wikidata's sixth birthday happens in two months. It's time to think about organizing a meetup with your local community, or preparing a gift (see the list of presents last year).

GLAM news

Google Summer of Code roundup:
- GSoC ‘18: In 60 seconds: Prssanna Desai has been helping improve the Query Service
- JOSM/Plugins/Wikipedia/GSoC 2018: 'Floscher' has been working to improve the Wikidata/Wikipedia-related functionality of the 'JOSM' editor for OpenStreetMap
A list of Wikidata-related activities for coursework has been started at d:Wikidata:Wikidata curricula/Activities
http://sciencestories.io/ - Using Wikidata to explore the scientific research of women - e.g. http://sciencestories.io/Q6376201
WikiCite/Roadmap: a summary of the meetup at Wikimania 2018 and presentation of four possible ways forward for Wikicite
Structured Data on Commons: A draft specification for using Depicts statements on Commons is up for community feedback.

Tech developments

Wikibase quality constraints are now loaded into the Query Service and can be queried. Queries on property talk pages have been adapted.
Wikidata Toolkit 0.9 has been released
Sitelinks for the new Santali Wikipedia (satwiki) can be added. Links to the new Chinese Wikiversity (zhwikiversity) can be made
Wikidata Extractor: A tool to extract Wikidata IDs from OpenStreetMap, given an Overpass Turbo query
d:Wikidata:ScienceSource focus list/Main subject needed, ListeriaBot-generated workflow for main subject (P921)
Wikidata Shape Expressions Inference tool announced
New version of JsonDumpReader, a tool for using JSON dumps from Wikidata or other Wikibase instances
It's possible to add somevalue and novalue using QuickStatements, and to use the tool on test.wikidata.org as well.
More properties can be searched using haswbstatement. This includes all properties with "external identifier", "string", "item", "property", "lexeme", "form" and "sense" datatypes, except published in (P1433) and cites (P2860). In addition you may make queries without a specified value.
The page creation and edit rate limit imposed in April will be removed in the next days. However, users who are not bots or administrators are throttled to 90 edits per minute (which was set up on all Wikimedia wikis in May).
These new languages are now supported for monolingual text strings: mid, mnw, gmy, rar, haz, uga. The language doesn't show up in the suggester, but you can save the statement and it will be stored properly.
Gender gap in Wikidata: the tool Denelezh will be closed on October 31st