GLAM/Newsletter/April 2020/Contents/Wikidata report

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue IV, April 2020

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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!

Press, articles, blog posts

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
- ideas of improvements for the Query Service interface
- automated finding of references, first batch
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