Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Yahya
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Yahya>
(RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Tomodachi94
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Tomodachi94>
(successful) Welcome on board \o/
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming
- Missed the initial office hour sessions for preparing a WikidataCon
2023 submission? Join the next sessions on 20th, 22nd, and 26th and bring
all your questions. Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023#Office hours
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023#Office_hours>
(available in both Mandarin and English)
- Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2oj_NAENvY>
- Ongoing
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=102>
(Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Abstract Wikipedia gains new support from The Rockefeller Foundation
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/07/12/abstract-wikipedia-gains-new-support-from-the-rockefeller-foundation/>
- Wikibase and reconciliation
<https://addshore.com/2023/07/wikibase-and-reconciliation/>, by
Adshore
- Wikidata: why we contribute to the robot epistemology
<https://whoseknowledge.org/wikidata-robot-epistemology/>
- Papers
- Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata
<https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011235>
- Videos
- Wikidata data set of the Sediq language (in Chinese) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XMdiI3izrE>
- How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered
language - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSfKu8WESs>
- WikiConference India 2023 - Linking Wikidata with Wikivoyage -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_th9xT6-2Pw>
- WikiConference India 2023 — Structured Data in Wikidata and Commons
- YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUadi5Mumvg>
- Dataviz
- Wikicommunes <https://mtmx.github.io/wikicommunes/> (See also the
thread
<https://mastodon.social/@mat@mapstodon.space/109551155521935438> on
Mastodon)
Tool of the week
- Images near items
<https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/images_near_items.php> - helps to
find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can
load a category tree of Commons images with coodrinates, and then find
Wikidata items of a certain P31
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31> with coordinates but
without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs.
(example link
<https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/images_near_items.php?category=Telephone+booths+in+the+United+Kingdom&depth=5&p31=Q712868&max_distance_m=50>
for UK red phone booths)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Update on the collaboration between Wikimedia Deutschland, Igbo
Wikimedia Usergroup and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical
capacities of the movement around Wikidata
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/IPRW3TAAZK3DPVGN5JKGVJRVPBUJDQNE/>
.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes:
- median household income
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11899> (median of the
household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific
place, such as
city, state, country)
- login URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11903> (URL
of a webpage used to log into a service)
- registration page URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11904> (URL of a webpage
used to sign up for a service)
- External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11891>, Threads username
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11892>, Dutch word ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11893>,
BSRussia.com team ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11895>, Istituto Italiano di
Tecnologia author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11896>, World
Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11897>, Stage 32 profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11898>, Livres Hebdo award ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11900>, NCI Dictionary of
Cancer Terms entry <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11901>, NCI
Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11902>, ifkdb.se player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11905>, Livres Hebdo tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11906>, stats.fm album ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11907>, Ligue nationale de
rugby ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11908>, Holarse
article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11909>, Musée
critique de la Sorbonne ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11910>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes:
- Top scorer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Top_scorer>
(This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a
team sport's
competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a
competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be:
{{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
- External identifiers: BDFutbol referee ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BDFutbol_referee_ID>,
Baseball-Reference.com manager ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Baseball-Reference.com_manager_ID>,
USOPC Hall of Fame ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/USOPC_Hall_of_Fame_ID>,
identifiant d'un défunt sur le site Dans nos cœurs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_d%27un_d%C3%A9funt_sur_le_site_Dans_nos_c%C5%93urs>,
IbsenStage ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IbsenStage_ID>,
TV Guide movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TV_Guide_movie_ID>,
OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OlimpBase_FIDE_ratings_ID>,
Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Digitale_Sammlungen_Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_Frankfurt_ID>,
Capitolium Art artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Capitolium_Art_artist_ID>,
Nurnet ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nurnet_ID>,
Roku
Channel Store ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Roku_Channel_Store_ID>
- Query examples:
- Bubble graph of the first letter of the word for "one" for
languages where Wikidata has a Lexeme <https://w.wiki/74wp> (source
<https://twitter.com/belett/status/1681314960318799878>)
- Searches for trying to replace broken Art UK external IDs
<https://w.wiki/76rj> (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P1367#Queries_relating_to_changed_Art_UK_identifiers>
)
- People linked in the English Wikipedia page "List of current United
States governors" <https://w.wiki/75ye> (source
<https://t.me/c/1224298920/110790>)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
- WikiProject Henrik Ibsen
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Henrik_Ibsen> is
a project for users interested in the Norwegian playwright Henrik
Ibsen (Q36661) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36661>.
- WikiProject Getty Library Wikidata Pilot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Getty_Library_Wikidata_Pilot>
- is a WikiProject in the Getty Library
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57697861> at the Getty Research
Institute <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11203476> (part of the J.
Paul Getty Trust) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2919540> to create
and enhance Wikidata items related to information in materials from the
library’s Whitney and Lee Kaplan Collection of African American Visual
Culture.
Development
- EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a
statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when
available (phab:T338613 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338613>). We
are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and
similar places (phab:T214885 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214885>
).
- mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to
integrate this new language code better (phab:T340644
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340644>)
- Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so
you can switch the language of the tool (phab:T328149
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328149>)
- Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST
API:
- Retrieve all statements from a Property -
/entities/properties/{property_id}/statements
- Retrieve a single statement from a Property -
/entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id}
- You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the
existing /statements/{statement_id} endpoint
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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