*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/TiagoLubianaBot_2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform https://www.opentargets.org/ is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #107, Teeth https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=107 (Challenge started on 2023-08-28 12:01:31) - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 28, 2023. We will cover adding the articles from our bibliography of diverse LIS resources that we created in our last session to Wikidata! We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements. To get a sneak preview of what we will be doing, you can learn more about the Wikidata & Zotero link here: Wikidata:Zotero https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Zotero. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-August-28_Wikidata_Working_Hour
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3462/TADA3.pdf - Videos - Keynote about Wikidata for the Chinese Confernence on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing 2023, by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXEctjXD_GU - How to fill an Infobox on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Wikipedia For Beginners - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoGst-hhaqU - The impact of Wikidata-powered inboxes on minority and low-resourced language Wikipedias in Africa (Wikimania 2023) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mog2wXCypA4 - How to create item in Wikidata about a village (in Malayalam) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgocEFUv6ok - Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap relation (in Guarani) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCBz6s9uKJ0 - WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz70A8JCGO8
Tool of the week
- Wikitrivia https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ is a web-based game that challenges your knowledge of historical events, people, and places. The game is a combination of Sudoku and Scrabble, and all the data used in the game is sourced from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The objective of the game is to place the cards on the timeline in the correct order.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Biyanto Rebin is joining the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland for 2.5 months as an intern. Welcome! - Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! Project submission deadline - September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/IPGTE5XVAZ32DO3NWDSDQW2A3A4NZB5X/ . - Postdoctoral researcher (position) in NLP, Digital Humanities, and Semantic Web (0.8 FTE), University of Groningen https://www.iamexpat.nl/career/jobs-netherlands/research-academic/postdoctoral-researcher-nlp-digital-humanities-and
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - has heir or beneficiary https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12002 (people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title) - External identifiers: Austrian Cave Register ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11985, research.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11986, AFC-Ajax.info player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11987, wiki.gg article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11988, MUDlistings ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11989, The Mud Connector ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11990, Visiongame.cz game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11991, Visiongame.cz studio ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11992, Databáze her developer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11993, wiki.gg wiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11994, Audio+ show ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11995, Cent cols ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11996, Lift Up profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11997, Living Music Database composer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11998, Dictionary of Czech literature after 1945 ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11999, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges numeric ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12000, GamerProfiles game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12001 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - simule https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/simule (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real) - sexe ou genre du protagoniste https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/sexe_ou_genre_du_protagoniste (regarding the work in question, For human: male, female, non-binary, intersex, transgender female, transgender male, agender. For animal: male organism, female organism. Groups of same gender use subclass of (P279)) - unofficial name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/unofficial_name (name which is widely or rarely used, but not official (for nicknames use P1449, for pseudonymes P742)) - External identifiers: VocalEyes Heritage Access 2022 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VocalEyes_Heritage_Access_2022, WikiChip article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiChip_article_ID, identifiant Demozoo d'une démo https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Demozoo_d%27une_d%C3%A9mo, identifiant Demozoo d'un membre d'un groupe de démo https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Demozoo_d%27un_membre_d%27un_groupe_de_d%C3%A9mo, Czech geological location ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Czech_geological_location_ID, Moviefone person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moviefone_person_ID, Moviefone movie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moviefone_movie_ID, Les Petits M'O ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Les_Petits_M%27O_ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Internet_Dictionary_of_Polish_Surnames_ID, Minerals.net mineral ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Minerals.net_mineral_ID, Minerals.net gemstone ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Minerals.net_gemstone_ID - Query examples: - Map of birthplaces of German women writers https://w.wiki/7KAF ( source https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1694480115403555205) - Week 34, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now https://w.wiki/6TNS (source https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110956754311815912) - Where were people who went to space born? https://w.wiki/7LpT ( source https://twitter.com/andrawaag/status/966657088687656961) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: WikiProject Research expeditions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Research_expeditions - documents the activities of an international working group on Research expeditions.
Development
- We started looking at ways to make the Mismatch Finder more powerful and capture more mismatches. - We updated bootstrap-table library on Wikidata Query Service ( phab:T328281 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328281) - We fixed Lexeme header overlaps page toolbar in Minerva skin ( phab:T318981 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318981) - We fixed lookup component scrollbar problem (phab:T325822 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325822) - We added telnet as a valid protocol for URL data types (phab:T344417 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344417) - We added language fallback support for EntitySchemas on Special pages ( phab:T338798 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338798)
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