*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
- June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Scholia/June_2022_hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows - June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8bDtO4cq8 - July 8-10: Data Quality Days https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Quality_Days_2022, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Events/Data_Quality_Days_2022 until June 19th.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - Travailler avec les épigraphes littéraires dans Wikidata https://jdr.hypotheses.org/1661 - Were more plant genera really named for nymphs than women who actually lived? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yoKhbNM_9yYqni0JAh-3NEKsDjLm5xMn/view - Papers - "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.08184.pdf: Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022) - Videos - Live Wikidata editing #82 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsyPI3ZVwRs by Ainali https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ainali and Abbe98 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Abbe98
Tool of the week
- Article's wikilinks inspector https://observablehq.com/@pac02/articles-wikilinks-inspector?collection=@pac02/wikipedia-tools takes all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The May 2022 summary https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/May_2022_scaling_update for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out! - There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update on Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1655751623 (link to the meeting https://meet.jit.si/WDQS-alternative-backends-jun2022). - Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Feliciss and PangolinMexico https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=UserPangolinMexico&action=edit&redlink=1, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300207, and LennardHofmann https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305869. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator! - A new Mix'n'match page to query entries https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/entries across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: date of incorporation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10786, in operation on service https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10788, coordination number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10795 - External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10784, JBIS horse ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10785, FactGrid property ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10787, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10789, PlantFiles taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10791, Garden.org Plants Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10792, Woody Plants Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10793, Macaulay Library taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10794, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10796, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10797, Midi libre journalist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10798, Heiligen.net ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10799 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COR_lemma-id,_niveau_1 , embargoed until https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/embargoed_until , electric charge capacity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/electric_charge_capacity , COR form ID, level 1 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COR_form_ID,_level_1 , феноритмотип https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BF , type of artefact(s) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/type_of_artefact(s) - External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russia.travel_object_ID , AdoroCinema series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AdoroCinema_series_ID , FirstCycling (riderID) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FirstCycling_(riderID) , snookerscores.net player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/snookerscores.net_player_ID , OVO-code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OVO-code, CEU author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CEU_author_ID , Chaoxing Journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chaoxing_Journal_ID , Springer Nature Person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Springer_Nature_Person_ID , Springer Nature Article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Springer_Nature_Article_ID , Springer Nature Journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Springer_Nature_Journal_ID , MUI Icon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MUI_Icon, UK Beetles ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK_Beetles_ID - Deleted properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion: - Query examples: - Which are the most popular natural products based on the number of statements on their corresponding QID? https://w.wiki/5E6u (from the Telegram Wikidata group) - Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Elisabeth or Élisabeth https://w.wiki/5DYV (source https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1531140106366623745)
Development
- Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (phab:T290733 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290733, phab:T30535 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T30535). - REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (phab:T307031 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307031, phab:T307032 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/js/rest-api/ (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306667).
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