*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>
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