*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Wolverène
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wolver%C3%A8ne>
(RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Vargenau
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Vargenau>
(successful) Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RomesfulImporterBot>
(Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information
from the Russian Wiktionary
<https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikt:%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C:%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0>
)
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours> will
take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in
the Wikidata Telegram group
<https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>. The Wikidata and
Wikibase office hours are online events where the development
team presents
what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the
community is
welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the
development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Wikiconvention francophone: Opening of calls for communication and
scholarship applications until July 14th
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2TFAWZVZ6HFHS7YJ5BFDK4Z2LRACXLA5/>
.
- WikiIndaba 2023
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/FMUIEJQ32NTKRTKVCGYOCTMACJPPUOB2/>
Call for Submissions and Scholarship Applications. Deadline:
June 30, 2023.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #98, Shoes
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=98> (started on
2023-06-26 12:01:20)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Dude, where are my pictures?
<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=701>
- BiCIKL is linking people unambiguously and efficiently to their work
<https://bicikl-project.eu/news/bicikl-linking-people-unambiguously-and-efficiently-their-work>
- Understanding Knowledge Graphs: A Beginner’s Guide
<https://redskins101.com/understanding-knowledge-graphs-a-beginners-guide/>
- Videos
- re:publica 2023 - Peer learning methods and Open Educational
Resources (OER) on Wikidata for a viable digital culture of
remembrance (in
German) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQlIYcwiMsk>
- Workshop - Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry
ontologies with Wikidata - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MFg3XIF4J0>
- Managing conflations and duplications of personal items in
Wikidata, National Library of Greece - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HYn5KwRrA4>
- Why Wikidata in Linked Data and Libraries (in Greek)- YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDIjwESR74>
- Adding metadata utilities in the Koha staff interface based on
Wikidata - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70W5xNjzOrM>
- From authority control to identity management - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ1aDDAL5-c&list=PLW3V1R3KCG4nbLDYBL-d8pUwO2M6TTy7s&index=3>
- DSI Webinar - The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for
a better quality - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcn5qCeQdD8>
- Wikidata as a tool for biocuration of cell types, Biocuration
Conference 2023 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLzWrQu-F-4>
- Webinar: Wikidata, a useful knowledge base for any study - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt2tephEkhc>
- KGC '23 Talk — The Error Is The Message: Extracting Insights From
Deceptive Data for Nazi-Looted Art - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBMpZ3NDNRQ>
- Surveys
- Results of the WMDE survey on ontology issues reusers are facing
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Ontology_issues_prioritization>
- Notebooks
- Explore people having notable parents
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/explore-people-having-notable-parents?collection=@pac02/notable-parents>
Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/NarrowUI.css
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/NarrowUI.css> is a User script
that tries to make Wikidata work better on narrower screens, including
mobile devices.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge
<https://www.tu.berlin/en/about/profile/press-releases-news/2020/oktober/restitution-of-knowledge>"
are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project
that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in
getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the
project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_TheRoK/Data_Models>.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers:
PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11833>, Professor at Cologne
univ. ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11834>, Numista
ruling authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11835>, Suomen
etymologinen sanakirja ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11836>, Suomen murteiden
sanakirja ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11837>, Svenska
Akademiens ordlista ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11838>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes:
- 諱
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%E8%AB%B1>
()
- Date of declaration as a town
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Date_of_declaration_as_a_town>
(The date when a settlement is declared a town)
- Loss of town status
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Loss_of_town_status>
(Date of loss of town rank)
- External identifiers: Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Azerbaijani_National_Encyclopedia_ID>,
Alienor.org ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alienor.org_ID>,
The Literary Encyclopedia person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Literary_Encyclopedia_person_ID>,
XWord Info author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/XWord_Info_author_ID>,
WKF ranking ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WKF_ranking_ID>,
Composer's Union of Ukraine person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Composer%27s_Union_of_Ukraine_person_ID>,
Archiefpunt curator ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archiefpunt_curator_ID>,
Archiefpunt archive ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archiefpunt_archive_ID>,
Archiefpunt compiler ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archiefpunt_compiler_ID>,
Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Woordenboek_der_Nederlandsche_Taal_GTB_ID>,
etymologiebank.nl ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/etymologiebank.nl_ID>
- Query examples:
- Last words of authors (adapted from a query generated by ChatGPT)
<https://w.wiki/6rfg> (source)
<https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1671485133600223235>
- List of American actors and actresses having a wikipedia page with
parents having a wikipedia page <https://w.wiki/6sAW>
- (history) Where were the borders crossing between
<https://w.wiki/6sWQ>German Democratic Republic (Q16957)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16957> and West Germany (Q713750)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q713750> ?
- Week 25, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now
<https://w.wiki/6TNS> (source
<https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110599579378411109>)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
- WikiProject University of Washington Libraries
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_University_of_Washington_Libraries>
- projects which individuals at the UW Libraries have done in
collaboration
with the Wikidata community.
- WikiProject New York Public Library
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_New_York_Public_Library>
- work underway at the New York Public Library (Q219555) to
connect library
data with Wikidata.
Development
- Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get
statements from a Property. (phab:T338383
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338383>)
- EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the
testing of the new datatype.
- Ontology issues: We have released the survey results
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Ontology_issues_prioritization#Results_of_the_survey_on_ontology_issues_reusers_are_facing>.
The next step is looking into solutions.
- mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make
it ready for the new special language code. (phab:T329644
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329644>, phab:T338302
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338302>, phab:T339103
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T339103>, phab:T329655
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329655>, phab:T329655
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329655>)
- Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the
default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (phab:T327510
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327510>)
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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