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Wikidata report
Seven Million People Can't Be Wrong
By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)
News
- Denny Vrandecic, founder of Wikidata, published a proposal that suggests some extensions to Wikidata, and also a wholly new project, Wikilambda.
- schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
- ZFOURGE UDS 19909 (Q90000000) - our ninety-millionth item, about a galaxy - was created on 10 April.
- For the first time, a Wikipedia list article populated entirely from Wikidata, and built using Listeria, has been granted "featured" status, on the Portuguese Wikipedia (video on YouTube).
- Comment on QID Emoji proposal until April 20th
- Wikidata now includes more than seven million people (it has doubled since July 2017), also: project chat discussion
- The Nobel Prize Committee has redesigned its website so that Wikipedia can link to it easier using the Wikidata Property Nobel Laureate API ID (P8024) (more information)
- Mohammed Sadat joined the Wikidata team as community communications manager for Wikidata and Wikibase - Welome, Mohammed!
- ScienceGuide's The COVID-19 pandemic stresses the societal importance of open science mentions WikiProject COVID-19
- SPARC*Europe mentions the WikiProject COVID-19 in Overnight, COVID-19 heightens the need for Open Science post
- Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7: Notes of the discussion
- A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (new preprint about virus info (strains, genes, proteins), ShEx, and SPARQL)
- Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies ("We look at the coverage of two biomedical ontologies focusing on diseases with respect to Wikidata for 9 European languages")
- Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus
- Wikidata topic at the virtual biohackathon. Mid-term updates final presentations (Wikidata report starts at 1:17:40)
- Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic (Wikidata being also mentioned as a source for the research)
- Wiki Workshop 2020 Report
- Videos:
- Live SPARQL queries in English by WikidataFacts
- Live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron
- Editing Wikidata and creating a property proposal: YouTube, Facebook, Periscope
- Commons image uploading and Wikidata: YouTube
- A call to action directed at the audience of the Weekly Debrief to edit Wikidata YouTube
- The Map of Libraries on Wikidata (in Spanish) YouTube
- Editing food items and querying glaciers: YouTube and Facebook
- Propose new identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube
- Interactions between VIAF and Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube
New tools
- ShExStatements to generate Shape Expressions from CSV (more details)
- Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
- COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.
- Anagram generator based on Wikidata names
- You can now use Listeria to generate basic charts (pie, area, line, bar) with d:Template:Graph:Chart, see d:Template:Wikidata list#Charts
Technical matters
- Feedback is invited on
- First step of blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model: introducing the new function
wikibase:isSomeValue()
- LexData – a python library to edit Lexicographical data – has been released in a major new version.
- The ImageHeader gadget, which had been broken since February, was fixed.
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Hebrew nouns
Other news
For all other Wikidata news, new properties, etc, see: 4
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 04 06
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 04 13
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 04 20
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 04 27
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