*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming - The next Wikibase live session https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.03.31 is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 31st March 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community. - Live Wikidata editing on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/belett and in French by Vigneron, March 29 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2) - ArtandFeminism 2022 editathon by Achiri Bitamsimli https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Achiri_Bitamsimli. Theme: Add Dagbani labels and descriptions of female lawyers in West Africa. Date: April 1st, 2022 - March 8th, 2022. Location: Tamale College of Education, Ghana. Time: 9:00am — 9:00pm UTC. Register https://artandfeminism.org/edit_a_thon/artandfeminism-2022-in-ghana-notable-female-lawyers-in-west-africa/ . - LIVE Wikidata editing #77 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9CqmS9jzEo, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3206229169662238/, April 2nd at 18:00 UTC - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #102 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#102, April 3rd at 12.00 UTC - Cultural Venues Datathon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cultural_venues/Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. This online editing event is organized by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, LaCogency and many partners, with support from Wikimedia Foundation Alliances Fund. Guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/cultural-venues-datathon/ and in French https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/fr/datathon-des-lieux-culturels/. - The Celtic Knot Conference https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022, dedicated to underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects, with a focus on Wikidata, will take place online and onsite on July 1-2, 2022. - Ongoing: - Wikimedia Indonesia's *Datathon* program under 2022 Wiki Women's Month https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Bulan_Wiki_Perempuan_2022 started on March 18th 18:00 UTC+7 and will last until March 25th 23:59 UTC+7. 70+ users enrolled. Page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Indonesia/Kegiatan/Datathon . - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #35, Water https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=35 - Past: - Two Wikidata Training (*Kelas Wikidata*) on 2022 Wiki Women's Month https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Bulan_Wiki_Perempuan_2022 were held online on March 12th and 13th. - Data Reuse Days https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Reuse_Days_2022. For a recap of the event: - a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm or below https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2022_03_28#Press,_articles,_blog_posts,_videos - speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Data_Reuse_Days_2022_presentations - all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Reuse_Days_2022/Outcomes/notes
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2022/03/18/lexicographical-data-for-language-learners-the-wikidata-based-app-scribe/ - Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Inaugural_Wikidata_Fellows_announced - Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/03/22/wikidatas-lexemes-sparked-this-librarians-interest/ - Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors? https://observablehq.com/@pac02/actress-singers-and-actor-singers-do-actresses-become-sing fact checking an intuition using Wikidata - Building a Web of Knowledge Through Wikidata https://americanart.si.edu/blog/wikidata-artists - Presentations - LOTUS, Beyond drug discovery: Breaking the boundaries of natural products information https://www.bjonnh.net/share/20220320_acs/, at the American Chemical Society (Q247556) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q247556 Spring 2022 meeting - Papers - "Exploratory Methods for Relation Discovery in Archival Data" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.11361.pdf - a holistic approach to discover relations in art historical communities and enrich historians’ biographies and archival descriptions, based on Wikidata - Videos - DataReuseDays 2022 concluded. (see past events above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2022_03_28#Events for a full list of the recorded sessions https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm ) - A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgCgEje-kiM - FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yRhCENeezQ - Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ53x5GcfmE - A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqDgZJaVj20
Tool of the week
- Scribe https://apps.apple.com/app/scribe-language-keyboards/id1596613886 is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2022_03_28#Press,_articles,_blog_posts,_videos ). - WorldlEH https://worldleh.talaios.coop/ is a wordle clone in Basque.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Status update about what was achieved for each of the Wikibase related 2021 development goals has been published: Wikidata:Development plan/archive2021/status updates https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan/archive2021/status_updates - Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiki_Mentor_Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiki_Mentor_Africa/Mentor%27s_Room ! - Wikidata now has over 1,600,000,000 edits! The milestone edit was made by Ruky Wunpini https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ruky_Wunpini. - The Dutch National Library has a new website with more info on their use of the Wikimedia Projects including their work with Wikidata https://www.kb.nl/over-ons/projecten/wikipedia-wikimedia. - 2 months paid internship vacancy is available for Wikimedia Indonesia technology division. Registration is open until March 27th. Announcement https://twitter.com/wikidataid/status/1506113550460530691.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: documentation files at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10527 - External identifiers: SINGULART artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10516, eBru ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10517, ICCROM authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10518, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10519, Rekhta book ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10520, ILO code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10521, reddoorz hotel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10522, Naver VIBE video ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10523, SberZvuk artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10524, Italian Women Writers ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10525, RBC company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10526, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10528, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10529, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10530, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10531, Booking.com numeric ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10532, Agoda hotel numeric ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10533, Australian Reptile Online Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10534, RSPA modern authors ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10535, RSPA ancient authors ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10536, 1905.com film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10537, Leafsnap ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10538, ImagesDéfense ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10539, TASS Encyclopedia person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10540, TASS Encyclopedia country ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10541, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10542, WIPO Pearl term ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10543 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: maintains consistent linking to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/maintains_consistent_linking_to, ocupante de / occupant of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ocupante_de_/_occupant_of - External identifiers: World of Waterfalls ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_of_Waterfalls_ID, New IDU properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/New_IDU_properties, My World@Mail.Ru ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/My_World@Mail.Ru_ID, BillionGraves grave ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BillionGraves_grave_ID, Archivio Storico Intesa Sanpaolo https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archivio_Storico_Intesa_Sanpaolo, GEMET ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GEMET_ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Enciclopedia_del_Novecento_ID, Trovo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Trovo_ID, Invasive.org species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Invasive.org_species_ID, ihg Hotel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ihg_Hotel_ID, Monoskop article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Monoskop_article_ID, Le Monde journalist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Le_Monde_journalist_ID, Libération journalist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lib%C3%A9ration_journalist_ID, Le Parisien journalist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Le_Parisien_journalist_ID, Les Échos journalist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Les_%C3%89chos_journalist_ID, L'Humanité journalist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/L%27Humanit%C3%A9_journalist_ID, L'Opinion journalist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/L%27Opinion_journalist_ID, Le Figaro journalist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Le_Figaro_journalist_ID, Présent author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pr%C3%A9sent_author_ID, Aldiwan poet ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aldiwan_poet_ID, Aldiwan poem ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aldiwan_poem_ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/International_Jewish_Cemetery_Project_ID - Query examples: - Wikidata knowledge graph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln https://w.wiki/4JHa (source https://twitter.com/fuzheado/status/1506380715985887241) - Women who served as defense ministers in various countries https://w.wiki/4yJM (source https://twitter.com/wikimediaid/status/1506212109381644292) - UK MPs who had paired names (e.g. Owen Thomas / Thomas Owen) https://w.wiki/4zVn (source https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1507443437200678918) - List of properties associated with items that are class/subclass of File Format https://w.wiki/4yr2 (source https://twitter.com/beet_keeper/status/1506625658490871819) - Table frequency of properties used in instances of public libraries https://w.wiki/4zGb
Development
- [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/3LA6FDOZGSK6HSQY73XCFNT4BTYWOY64/ - Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation - Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response ( phab:T104344 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104344) - Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session - REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication
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