*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*Discussions
- Open request for adminship: BrokenSegue https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/BrokenSegue (RfP scheduled to end after 27 September 2021 14:36 UTC)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Ninth_Birthday on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved! https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/JOEJSBFTLRIWCY3WGSCYRBZKDAHBJPKB/ - The next Wikibase live session https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.09.30 is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th September 2021 https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1633017642 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome! - LIVE Wikidata editing #55 (with OpenRefine) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW89di7ljeA, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3062719064013250/, October 2 at 18:00 UTC - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #81 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#81, October 3 - COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard, 30 Sep 2021, Time: 13.00-14.00 WIB (join details https://twitter.com/mrlogix/status/1442282913412706314) - Past: - Data Quality Days: You can find slides, videos and notes for many of the sessions on the event page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Quality_Days_2021 . - Wiki Movimento Brasil. The universe of libraries: - Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q45sstDdjC0 (in Portuguese) - Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge powers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXtOX1X7MJs (in Portuguese) - LIVE Wikidata editing #54 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL94EF_vPMQ, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/posts/3061865424098614/
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - Connecting Cell Ontology and Wikidata via Mix’n’match https://pointstodots.wordpress.com/2021/09/22/connecting-cell-ontology-and-wikidata-via-mixnmatch/ - Papers - WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties, OpenSym 2021 https://opensym.org/os2021/program/, 15-17 September 2021 (Slides https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/WDProp_Web_Application_to_Analyse_Multilingual_Aspects_of_Wikidata_Properties/16641502, source code https://github.com/johnsamuelwrites/wdprop, Short Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMyGdyyU0Kc) - Videos - How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGvP7ipCOE - Demo: create Wikidata lexemes from Goethe's "Der Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHS6rqEX5gA - Demo of adding a string to Wikidata as a lexeme and linking it to the corresponding Wikidata item - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-epCOfMrQ - Wikidata Query Service assistance (in French) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oA_541XmhY - Experiences of Using WDumper to Create Topical Subsets from Wikidata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEA_lC3wVv0 - Other - Chirpanalytica: "Give me your Twitter name and I'll tell you which party you choose" https://p3g3.de/2021/09/chirpanalytica/. *"What if you could automatically determine the political orientation of a person using just a Twitter account? This is exactly what I have been doing for the past two years".* - That Wikidata Buzz https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-wikidata-buzz/id1540506784?i=1000536243833 - Siobhan Leachman https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10 talks about Wikidata in the The World According to Wikipedia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108700243 podcast.
Tool of the week
- User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia https://observablehq.com/@pac02/user-level-gender-statistics-for-wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Contribute/Community_awards (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon community awards.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: App Store age rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9897, music created for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9899, issuing agent of work https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9901, FLOSS development policy URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9904, relevant date for copyright https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9905, inscription image https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9906, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9908 - External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9898, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9900, Materials Project material ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9902, All.Rugby player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9903, swisscovery edition ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9907, e-Maapõu locality ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9909, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9910, PoetsGate poem ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9911, NVE reservoir ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9912, FLORE author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9913, USiena air author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9914, IRIS IMT author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9915 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiProject_importance_scale_rating, predicate for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/predicate_for, eHive ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eHive_ID - External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Database_of_Czech_amateur_theater_ID, National Gallery Prague work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Gallery_Prague_work_ID, George Eastman Museum artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/George_Eastman_Museum_artist_ID, All.Rugby club ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/All.Rugby_club_ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sachsens-Schl%C3%B6sser-Kennung, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_di_Economia_e_Finanza_ID, Densho Encyclopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Densho_Encyclopedia_ID, AsianWiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AsianWiki_ID, Channel One Russia show ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Channel_One_Russia_show_ID, DWDS lemma ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DWDS_lemma_ID, WDG lemma ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WDG_lemma_ID, company code (RICS) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/company_code_(RICS) - Query examples: - Given name "Filaret" ranked within similar names https://w.wiki/47ik (source: talk page of item https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Q108636690&uselang=en ) - Start time of open access journals known to Wikidata https://w.wiki/47i6 (Source https://twitter.com/nemobis/status/1441411330569748486) - Mouths of rivers flowing into the Arctic https://w.wiki/47QR ( Source https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1441101611015696388) - What chocolate mousse is called in different languages https://w.wiki/47JG (Source https://twitter.com/salgo60/status/1440997936343785475) - Women in Wikidata whose husbands are economists with articles on the English Wikipedia, but they themselves lack articles https://w.wiki/48JQ (adapted from Source https://twitter.com/wikigamaliel/status/1440678869539844110) - Same with husbands https://w.wiki/48JU (adapted from Source https://twitter.com/wikigamaliel/status/1440678869539844110) - People employed by the ZDF with an image on Commons and a link to the German language Wikipedia https://w.wiki/3uAj (Source https://twitter.com/BerndWMDE/status/1440648111215415299) - Coordinates of the birth places of people named Antoine https://w.wiki/isU (Source https://twitter.com/Mr_Robinini/status/1439996366227480581) - Place of birth of people named Antoine, Tony, Antonio, etc https://w.wiki/48J4 - UK MPs who had the most identified descendants who were themselves MPs https://w.wiki/48EX (Source https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1442170934945665028) - Newest database reports: top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/top_missing_properties_by_number_of_sitelinks/P26 (works again)
Development
- Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (phab:T104750 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104750) - Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (phab:T289473 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289473) - Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (phab:T291377 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291377) - Mismatch Finder https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatch_Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed - Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
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