*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- William Avery Bot 6
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/William_Avery_Bot_6>.
Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed
at WD:RBOT
§ Shakeosphere person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#Shakeosphere_person_ID>
- Crystal-bot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Crystal-bot>.
Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9675> and language of work
or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737)
identifier.
- William Avery Bot 5
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/William_Avery_Bot_5>.
References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi
Persecution (Q104074149) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104074149>
that use reference URL (P854)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P854> will be changed to to
use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9109>, as requested at
d:Wikidata:Bot
requests#reference URL (P854) → Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109)
(2021-02-05)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#reference_URL_(P854)_→_Holocaust.cz_person_ID_(P9109)_(2021-02-05)>
- OJSOptimetaCitationsBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/OJSOptimetaCitationsBot>.
Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open
Journal Systems <https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/>.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki
Education)
and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting
Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will
present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language
wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content
gender gap. Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lM5fWZcQpvn4rA_olx4aNIp6DQjX2DV-LLgSY1Qm98A/edit#>
- Live editing session on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett>, in
French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, Cartography
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=46>
- Past
- 'Mind Your Manors'
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mind-your-manors-medieval-hack-weekend-tickets-293300027277>
Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval
Studies), June 11-12. Included some useful Wikidata linkage
<https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1536121787263725568>.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- Wikibase.cloud: a new project at Wikimedia Deutschland
<https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2022/06/03/wikibase-cloud-a-new-project-at-wikimedia-deutschland/>
- 50,000 video games on Wikidata
<https://commonists.wordpress.com/2022/06/07/50000-video-games-on-wikidata/>
by Jean-Frédéric
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric>
- The Current Version of Popular Browsers API (powered by Wikidata)
<https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/latest-browser-versions-api.html>
- Wikidata, a free collaborative knowledge database
<https://aldizkaria.elhuyar.eus/mundu-digitala/wikidata-ezagutzarako-datu-base-libre-kolaboratibo/>
(in Basque)
- Papers
- A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4>
- WikidataComplete – An easy-to-use method for rapid validation of
text-extracted new facts applied to the Wikidata knowledge graph
<https://2022.eswc-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/pd_Guo_et_al_paper_206.pdf>
- Videos
- Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in
Dagbanli) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWs69F8QWVA>
- LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1MD8scGSS8>
- Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally
developed to run on Wikipedia - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wplqB_DIoL0>
- Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8bDtO4cq8>
- Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata -
Part 2 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EOCMj7-PxI>
- A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmGpfuShLrI>
- Demographic profiling in Wikipedia Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF9tb-RWmaM>
- DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to
enrich metadata - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLGci9II30>
- How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbZoYMi3pM>
- Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube (En
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKA4pVZMOEo>, [De
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc8C77lgrtw>)
- FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGhH3ysuzeQ>
- The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v5jgwXlqOM>
- Wikidata Testimonials
- Giovanna Fontenelle (Wikimedia Foundation)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp1kRiRlBgg>
- Frédéric Julien (Director of Research and Development CAPACOA))
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PqG9Ul4Zr0&t=3s> (in French)
- Nathalie Thibault (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
(MNBAQ)) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp1kRiRlBgg> (in French)
- Michael Gasser (ETH Bibliothek Zürich)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6mOeAAUBA8> (in German)
Tool of the week
- ExtraInterwiki
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Enhance_user_interface#ExtraInterwiki>.
Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those
who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool
aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on
an article with no article on your wiki.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created!
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GMCJQLEBKEURMODIJ7AWD2FJJRLJ3WEO/>
- Qichwabase <https://qichwa.wikibase.cloud> is a Wikibase instance
curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata
- Using Wikidata search API in Observable
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wikidata-search-api> by PAC2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2>
- Explore Wikidata using Observable
<https://observablehq.com/collection/@pac02/wikidata>, a collection of
notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2>.
- Programming languages on Wikidata
<https://observablehq.com/@johnsamuelwrites/programming-languages-on-wikidata>
in Observable by Jsamwrites
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jsamwrites>, based on examples by
PAC2 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2> (see above)
- New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by
exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available
<https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1534102853572341760>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: orchestrator
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10806>
- External identifiers: Championat ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10800>, Ukrainian Live
Classic composer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10801>, Esports
Earnings game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10802>, Esports
Earnings player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10803>, Twitter
list ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10804>, Museum of
Gothenburg object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10805>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: inker
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/inker>,
penciller
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/penciller>,
KFCB
classification (Kenya)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KFCB_classification_(Kenya)>,
Miljørapporter File ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Milj%C3%B8rapporter_File_ID>,
plural forms
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/plural_forms>
- External identifiers: ifwizz ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ifwizz_ID>,
IRIS
Abruzzo IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Abruzzo_IDs>,
Great Plant Picks ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Great_Plant_Picks_ID>,
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Survey_of_Scottish_Witchcraft_-_Case_ID>,
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Encyclopedia_of_Fantasy_ID>,
Kultboy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kultboy>, Atom
Package Manager name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Atom_Package_Manager_name>,
ZineWiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ZineWiki_ID>,
Broadway World person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Broadway_World_person_ID>,
Yamaha Artists ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Yamaha_Artists_ID>
- Query examples:
- Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings,
according to wikidata statements <https://w.wiki/5FrF> (source
<https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1534643745437765636>)
- Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for
Commons categories
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jheald/Scotland/bridges/average_Commons_coordinates>
(useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) (source
<https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1533939286999019521>)
- items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata
<https://w.wiki/5GMW>, with a sample language and lexeme in that
language.
- Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games
<https://w.wiki/5F$m> (source
<https://twitter.com/JeanFred/status/1535256175943589889>)
- A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges <https://w.wiki/5Fjy> (
source <https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1534704886306197507>)
- Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations
<https://w.wiki/5Fio> (source
<https://twitter.com/jmcollado/status/1534654806056488960>)
- Articles studying chemicals from the oceans <https://w.wiki/5FhN> (
source
<https://twitter.com/TheLOTUSInitia1/status/1534579229685436416>)
- Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude
<https://w.wiki/5GrL> (source
<https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1536330112009895937>)
- In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later) <https://w.wiki/5GpK> (
source <https://twitter.com/perstar/status/1536299902480826368>)
- Actors who played the same real politician the most times
<https://w.wiki/5GvW> (source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1536042914287075328>)
- Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks)
<https://w.wiki/5GDV> (source
<https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1535360235258380288>)
Development
- Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after
selecting an Item in an Item selector (phab:T306214
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306214>)
- Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new
Special:New Lexeme page (phab:T290733
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290733>), improving error messages
for the new page (phab:T310134
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310134>) and worked on a new search
profile to make selecting languages easier (phab:T307869
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307869>)
- REST API: continued work on creating statements (phab:T306667
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306667>)
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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