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facts and queries about #wikidata; run by WMDE employee @LucasWerkmeister – not an official Wikidata account; also @WikidataFacts on Twitter
Joined Sep 2018
uspol, violence, Wikidata query, long URL
Wikidata query, long URL: people born after 1800 whose “name in native language” is in Latin
I first noticed this on Francis’ item, but there are also four other popes in the list. Most of the rest look like language code mistakes/typos (mainly Latvian→lv, one Japanese→ja).
Wikidata query, long URL: UK statues of non-noble women
I came across a factoid that “only 3% of statues in the UK are of non-royalty women”; in Wikidata, we have 727 UK statues depicting/commemorating known people, of which 39 show a woman with no “noble title” (P97), for a ratio of 5.3%.
uspol/ukpol, Wikidata query, long URL
Wikidata version of a graph by Matt Gray on Twitter (https://twitter.com/MattGrayYES/status/1324136189755072514): age of US President / UK Prime Minister at inauguration/appointment and England mean age, since 1989 (left) or total (right).
(We don’t have data for whole-UK or US mean age, nor a property for median rather than mean age, yet.)
Wikidata query, long URL: programming languages written by women
query was suggested over on twitter: https://twitter.com/FischaelaMeer/status/1296903118580518913
Wikidata query, long URL: programming languages written by women
A-0 System, FLOW-MATIC, MATH-MATIC, ARITH-MATIC (Grace Hopper), Smalltalk (Diana Merry, Adele Goldberg), Logo (Cynthia Solomon, Idit Harel Caperton), and others (not all of these women may be the main/principal designers of their respective languages)
Wikidata query, long URL: wealthiest people on Wikidata
The query defines “queer” as non-heterosexual and/or non-cisgender male/female (we don’t seem to have any aromantic people yet, so depending on how they’re modeled when they’re added, the query may or may not include them in future); wealth must be in USD (excludes one item, Q69750156).
Wikidata query, long URL: wealthiest people on Wikidata
Tim Cook, Ellen DeGeneres, Jared Polis, Miley Cyrus, Caitlyn Jenner, Jim Parsons, Adam Mardel. (That’s all of them – we don’t have a lot of net worth data.)
racism, Wikidata query, long URL
I considered limiting the query to people who held some position there, but it looks like we don’t have much data on that, only five items: https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20people%20who%20held%20a%20position%20in%20the%20Ku%20Klux%20Klan%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP39%2Fwdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ47131.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D
racism, Wikidata query, long URL
Members of the Ku Klux Klan whose English description doesn’t mention that. Some of these are appropriately described as white supremacist, Nazi, and the like – others could do with improvement, I reckon.
Wikidata query, long URL: highest software version numbers recorded on Wikidata
• two programs using YYYYMMDD versions
• MIcrosoft Store 12003.1001.1.0, 11811.1001.18.0, 11804.1001.8.0
• Unreal Tournament 2004 3369.2
• a bunch of programs using YYYY versions
Wikidata query, long URL: longest rivers that don’t feed into a sea or ocean
The longest rivers that don’t feed into a sea or ocean are slightly different: on top is the Paraná River, flowing into the Río de la Plata (an estuary) after 4880 km; third place is the Niger River, flowing into the Gulf of Guinea after 4180 km.
Wikidata query, long URL: longest rivers that feed into another river
The longest river that feeds into another river (according to Wikidata) is the Irtysh river, which joins the Ob after 4248 km. It’s followed by the Missouri River, flowing into the Mississippi River after 3767 km, and the Jurua River, which goes on for 3100 km before feeding into the Amazon.
Wikidata query, long URL: first uninteresting number
Inspired by @blinry and @bleeptrack’s Operation Mindfuck Vol. 3 talk at #36c3 (link with timestamp, English translation available behind the ⚙ icon): https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-66-operation-mindfuck-vol-3#t=1890
Wikidata query, long URL: “cheap” German “public infrastructure” projects
Wikidata query, long URL, fascism
Wikidata query, long URL: popes who were children of other popes
- pronouns
- he/him or they/them
- time zone
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facts and queries about #wikidata; run by WMDE employee @LucasWerkmeister – not an official Wikidata account; also @WikidataFacts on Twitter
Joined Sep 2018
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