*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- ForgesBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/ForgesBot>
(Task: Add licensing information to software forges entries in accordance
to what is found in the corresponding Wikipedia page. It is used as a
helper in the context of the Forges
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forges> project)
- BEANS Bot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BEANS_Bot>
(Task: Use protocol (P2700)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2700> instead of of (P642)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P642> to specify the protocol
used in port (P1641) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1641>
statements.)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot>
(Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items
which already
have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call May 2, 2023: Fudie Zhao will be presenting on Wikidata in Digital
Humanities projects. Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tTX5c4tBDdUM2mrIv4yT45l3vJC7bFesddR_U8c_qvI/edit#heading=h.4g1blwfiu9jc>
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #90, Sewing
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=90>
- Past
- Wikibase Live session
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2023.04.27> (April 2023)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Creating Map Visualizations with Wikidata and Python
<https://itnext.io/extracting-data-from-wikidata-using-sparql-and-python-59e0037996f>,
24 April 2023, Jelle Vankerkvoorde
- Videos
- Open data and Wikidata: revolutionizing scientific research (in
Spanish) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJAD0T8vkpo>
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #109 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ezz3fL7MA>
- Using MixandMatch gadget - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN-_O-odEVc>
- Back having fun with lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch
<https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1805958491>
- EMWCon Spring 2023
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2023> -YouTube
- Synchronizing your own MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki content
with Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwqF9GYQJLU>
- Reasons not to use Wikibase (and reasons to do so)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO_Oi7QhKlE>
- Workshops
- Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies
with Wikidata
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obo_Wikidata_at_Biocuration_2023.pdf>
Workshop at 16th Annual International Biocuration Conference (2023)
(Q111430238) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111430238>
- Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foss-north_2023_-_Tools_for_linking_Wikidata_and_OpenStreetMap.pdf>
- Wikimentor Africa workshop - Learn how to report bugs, make feature
requests and manage your tasks
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimentor_Africa_workshop_-_Learn_how_to_report_bugs,_make_feature_requests_and_manage_your_tasks.pdf>
Tool of the week
- Twitter Wikipedia Badge
<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twitter-wikipedia-badge/dlkpigaliodpkkhcfhhohnldpbooglnn>
- is a Chrome extension for verifying a Twitter username using Wikidata. (
code <https://github.com/irony/verified-by-wikipedia>, Tweet
<https://twitter.com/Landgren/status/1649185915644829698>)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WeChangEd <https://www.wechanged.ugent.be/> is an ERC-funded research
project and online database by Ghent University, about women editors in
Europe. The database shows stories about women editors and their
publications, and is powered by Wikidata and Sciencestories.io
<https://www.sciencestories.io/>.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Channel One Russia Worldwide program ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11749>, LSJ Wiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11750>, Wastewater treatment
plant in France ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11753>, Musées
Grand Est ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11754>, INSPIRE-HEP
literature ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11755>, Musée
Fabre ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11756>, Arabic
Ontology form ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11757>, WPGA
Tour Australasia player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11758>, Technic Platform
modpack ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11759>, Tatoeba
sentence ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11760>, Quranic
Arabic Corpus root id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11761>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Wood Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wood_Database_ID>,
Akadem organization ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Akadem_organization_ID>,
mosff.ru player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/mosff.ru_player_ID>,
BSRussia.com team ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BSRussia.com_team_ID>,
Diritto on line ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diritto_on_line_ID>,
Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Soprintendenza_Speciale_di_Roma_place_ID>,
BSWW player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BSWW_player_ID>
- Query examples:
- Map of where the presidents of BCALA were educated
<https://w.wiki/6dNF> (source
<https://twitter.com/violetbfox/status/1650956447000272896>)
- Number of Wikipedia sitelinks for Art Looting Investigation
<https://w.wiki/6ej2> (source
<https://twitter.com/OpenLinkArtData/status/1651090988021043200>)
- Family relationships of New Zealand MPs
<https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/H1B0RMTBrcwwOKeiyYA8kMyo8aQiu2MQkqSuu6U6EuW>
(source <https://twitter.com/KnitMeAThneed/status/1653248464497836038>
)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
WikiProject Piano Rolls
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Piano_Rolls>
Development
- EntitySchemas: We are still working on the new datatype to link to
EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214884>)
- Wikibase REST API: We're fixing several smaller issues like
phab:T335578 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335578> and phab:T335581
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335581>.
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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