*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- PangolinBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/PangolinBot>.
Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another
- TolBot 14
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/TolBot_14>.
Archives Wikidata:Requests for deletions
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming:
- Wikidata Bug Triage Hour
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour>
on
May 5th at 16:00 UTC, online. Open discussion - you can bring a
Phabricator
ticket that you care about or that needs to be improved.
- Conclusion du Cultural Venues Datathon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cultural_venues/Datathon>
(in French), May 2, 16:00-16:30 UTC
<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lcu6uqTMuGtBi7O0Avn_sjoIlW1y5Ixnn>
.
- Cultural Venues Datathon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cultural_venues/Datathon>
wrap-up, May 2, 19:00-19:30 UTC
<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlcuCorjIoHN2-DWtO6_YNTfWtQol0Lo5W>
.
- Live editing session on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> about
structured data on Wikimedia Commons, in French, by Vigneron, May 3 at
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours May 3, 2022
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/4Z36WIDMBEAV7X4X3OO32BXY4RZX4DRW/>
- May 3rd. Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call: The call will include presentations on two projects using
Wikidata to
enhance discoverability of archival and museum collections.
Sharon Garewal
(JSTOR) will present “Adding Wikidata QIDs to JSTOR Images,” and Daniela
Rovida and Jennifer Brcka (University of Notre Dame) will present
“‘Archives At’: An opportunity to leverage MARC to create Linked Open
Data.” [1]
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ji6eTubixBWrAPv7UUV0gxxW7y_lzyZTf4vvzo5Iwiw/edit?usp=sharing>
- Wikidata Workshop: Wikidata items for dance and theatre productions
<https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/event/wikidata-workshop-production-items/>,
May 4, 19:30-21:00 UTC
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—May 4th, 2022
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/5ARWH7WLDUPNLTWPJCGOGVHW64GVIVOI/>
- Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data
<https://www.twitch.tv/envlh>, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh, May 8
at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #40, International Workers' Day
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=40>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- Queries to explore a dataset. Even a schemaless one
<https://www.bobdc.com/blog/exploringadataset/>
- Papers
- Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report
<https://whoseknowledge.org/resource/dti-structured-data-report/> by
WhoseKnowledge
- Videos
- Workshop "Wikidata, Zotero and Cita": tools to understand the
construction of knowledge (in Spanish) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYlqIkzu608>
- Georeferencing cultural heritage on Wikidata - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urhUMcQm7g8>
- Theory of Machine Learning on Open Data: The Wikidata Case by Goran
S. Milovanovic - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg8cjXwg9SM>
- Introduction to SPARQL (Wikidata Query Service (in Czech) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7LwaJwW1_A>
- Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdZBB9Zz5fE>
Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js> - is a
userscript that adds a button when editing labels to change the text to
lowercase.
- EqualStreetNames <https://equalstreetnames.org/> - is a tool that maps
the inequality of name attributions.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenRefine is running its two-yearly user survey
<https://openrefine.limesurvey.net/155968>! Do you use OpenRefine? Then fill
in the survey <https://openrefine.limesurvey.net/155968> to tell us how
and why you use OpenRefine. Results and outcomes will inform future
decisions about the tool.
- The April update
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/April_2022_scaling_update>
for the Wikidata Query Service scaling project is now available.
- Wikidata now contains all major integrated library systems listed at
Library Technology Guides
<https://twitter.com/nichtich/status/1519687758780014597>.
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms has a new template for Norwegian Bokmål passive
verbs
<https://lexeme-forms.toolforge.org/template/bokm%C3%A5l-verb-passive/>
- Job opening: PR Manager in Digital Technologies
<https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/17915169/PR-Manager-in-Digitale-Technologien?jobDbPVId=45768964&l=en>,
software development department - Wikimedia Deutschland
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: franchisor
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10680>, government
debt-to-GDP ratio <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10681>, ionic
radius <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10685>, Thai
romanization <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10694>, introduced
in <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10695>, image set
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10696>, Bill Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10703>
- External identifiers: Aldiwan poet ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10679>, EIA plant ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10682>, Uber Eats store ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10683>, Aldiwan poem ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10684>, Library of the
Haskala person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10686>, Google
Fonts ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10687>, Personality
Database work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10688>, OpenStreetMap
object <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10689>, GEMET ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10690>, Enciclopedia
Colchagüina ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10691>, DBLP
event ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10692>, CNKI
institute ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10693>, Woolworths
product ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10697>, TEİS ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10698>, FamousFix topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10699>, Parcours de vies
dans la Royale ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10700>, Reflora
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10701>, Hrono.ru article
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10702>, Biographical
Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10704>, Historic Oregon
Newspapers ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10705>, DACS
ID (2022) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10706>, AccessScience
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10707>, settlement area
code in Sweden <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10708>, North
Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10709>, Galaxy Store app ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10710>, Invasive.org species
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10711>, EIA utility ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10712>, Biografiskt Lexikon
för Finland (urn.fi) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10713>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: probability distribution related properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/probability_distribution_related_properties>,
Ladungszahl
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ladungszahl>,
Koordinationszahl
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Koordinationszahl>,
danse <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/danse>,
Median household income
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Median_household_income>,
background of death
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/background_of_death>,
Number of housing units
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Number_of_housing_units>,
number of reblogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_reblogs>,
IBAN banking code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IBAN_banking_code>,
contraindication
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/contraindication>,
incorporated
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/incorporated>
- External identifiers: PlantFiles taxon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PlantFiles_taxon_ID>,
Garden.org Plants Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Garden.org_Plants_Database_ID>,
Woody Plants Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Woody_Plants_Database_ID>,
Gun Violence Archive incident ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gun_Violence_Archive_incident_ID>,
WhoSampled television series ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WhoSampled_television_series_ID>,
WhoSampled track ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WhoSampled_track_ID>,
Encyclopedia of ideas
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_ideas>,
Personality Database person identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Personality_Database_person_identifier>,
TheGuardian.com profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TheGuardian.com_profile_ID>,
TIME.com author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TIME.com_author_ID>,
Investopedia term ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Investopedia_term_ID>,
GeoSciML
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GeoSciML>,
GeolISS
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GeolISS>,
National
Archives of Sweden persistent identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Archives_of_Sweden_persistent_identifier>,
Linz DB ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Linz_DB_ID>,
belfercenter person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/belfercenter_person_ID>,
Data Commons ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Data_Commons_ID>,
sextpanther person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/sextpanther_person_ID>,
Tüik number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/T%C3%BCik_number>,
ERR project
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ERR_project>,
MCCP ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MCCP_ID>
- Query examples:
- Languages and dialects with number of first language speakers
(preferred rank) <https://w.wiki/56ye> (source
<https://twitter.com/exmusica/status/1519451096531582982>)
- Graph of influences in the age of Enlightenment
<https://w.wiki/57XU> (source
<https://twitter.com/kvistgaard/status/1520528095589150721>)
- Countries which are named after a person <https://w.wiki/57dj> (
source <https://twitter.com/kanedr/status/1520048548745822208>)
- Number of musical works (compositions) in Wikidata by language, in
descending order <https://w.wiki/57XN> (source
<https://twitter.com/exmusica/status/1520521925906382853>)
Development
- The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/IIEZFOF2F7JUKGM7HSAOC4KXQYMJWWOB/>
- Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that
should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We
also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already
exists before creating one.
- REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements
of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item.
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>
--
Mohammed Sadat
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