Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Cewbot 5
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Cewbot_5>
- Task/s: Add sitelink to redirect (Q70893996)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70893996> for sitelinks to
redirects without intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70894304>.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming:
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#130>,
November 27 at 13.00 UTC
- Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us
on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in
Espoo, Finland
or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at
Aalto Arts,
workshop by Yamen Bousrih.
- Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour>
about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #68, SI base units
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=68>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- Apple Podcasts is auto-tagging episodes with topics
<https://podnews.net/update/apple-podcasts-tagging>
- Papers
- Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers
in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing
<https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e97374> — covers a range of
identifiers (including Wikidata ones) for taxa, people, institutions and
other entities relevant to biodiversity studies
- Videos
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #99 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxAJdSlWBBE>
- The Greek Wikidata community celebrates their 10th birthday (Part
2) (in Greek) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxAJdSlWBBE>
- Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75w12bvkepw>
- Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an
Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBT_8K1yCrs>
- Import Wikidata into an RDF based Ontology using Apache Jena -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UViYCVhds3U>
- SMWCon 2022 - Day 3 - Wikidata Synchronization for the CEUR-WS
publishing platform - Tim Holzheim - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIjZgIiAleY>
- Sitelinks wikibase cloud - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86pG9N2EDcc>
Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js> is a
userscrip that links Labels to Lexemes.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts> is a
model that tries to predict the instance of (P31)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31> or subclass of (P279)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P279> of unlabeled items. You
can play with it and leave Daniel some feedback.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: build system
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11197>, tiratge
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11200>, official demo URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11201>, pinout
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11205>, sitemap URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11212>
- External identifiers: Annales des mines person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11195>, Baidu Tieba name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11196>, DrugCentral ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11198>, Probes And Drugs ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11199>, Musicsperlacobla
sardana ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11202>,
Musicsperlacobla
composer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11203>, Boig
Sardanista sardana ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11204>,
npm scope <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11206>, IRIS UNICT
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11207>, IRIS UNIME
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11208>, IRIS UNIPA
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11209>, IRIS
UNIKORE author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11210>, Hlídač
státu person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11211>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: has visual representation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/has_visual_representation>,
chapter and verse in the Bible
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/chapter_and_verse_in_the_Bible>,
commit hash
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/commit_hash>,
official server list URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/official_server_list_URL>,
translation management URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/translation_management_URL>
- External identifiers: Datastory Glossary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Datastory_Glossary_ID>,
SNE publisher ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SNE_publisher_ID>,
Livres Hebdo ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Livres_Hebdo_ID>,
Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Can_I_Play_That%3F_Games_Codex_game_ID>,
AniList staff ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AniList_staff_ID>,
ECOF saint ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ECOF_saint_ID>,
DFK Paris person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DFK_Paris_person_ID>,
Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Epigraphic_Database_Heidelberg_(EDH)_ID>,
Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Packard_Humanities_Institute_Greek_Inscriptions_ID>
- Query examples:
- Finding the first revision and original creator of items with mwapi
<https://w.wiki/5y7n>
- Mastodon accounts (with Twitter equivalents) <https://w.wiki/5zi5> (
source <https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1594265709986594821>)
- Gender balances of winners of literary awards <https://w.wiki/5$BR>
(source <https://mastodon.world/@mlpoulter/109382467909336541>)
- Newest templates:
- Template:Quickquery
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Quickquery> can be used to
quickly write and link SPARQL queries on the Wikidata wiki
Development
- REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response
format (phab:T321459 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321459>)
- Lexicographical data:
- Added separation between identifiers and other statements on
Lexemes (phab:T318310 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318310>)
- Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on
Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (phab:T322687
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322687>)
- Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field (
phab:T315161 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315161>)
- Mismatch Finder:
- Finished work on better handling of dates (phab:T288511
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288511>)
- Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to
make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing
data (phab:T313468 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313468>)
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/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority>.
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>
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