*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>
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