*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: MusikBot II https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/MusikBot_II (RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2021 03:07 UTC)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - The next Wikibase live session https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.08.26 is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase. - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production#LD4-Wikidata_Affinity_Group call: Érica Azzellini https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EricaAzzellini and Éder Porto https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ederporto on MBABEL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MBABEL, a tool which creates seed Wikipedia articles based on Wikidata statements. Agenda with call link https://docs.google.com/document/d/140OzFz_v5Mff4WyLnPrUWdyrgbJoEDtfxg0CFdrfNzA/edit?usp=sharing, August 24. - BiCIKL https://researchportal.be/nl/project/biodiversity-community-integrated-knowledge-library Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3052500, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekels[image: at]plantentuinmeise.be - Past: - Wikimania 2021 Wikidata related events (summary of sessions and community gatherings https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2021 related to Wikidata and Wikibase) - Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS05wkMRhBE - Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AveonN5pHwY - Preparing languages for natural language generation using Wikidata lexicographical (Arctic Knot 2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1amYq4Vm4U
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Articles - 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights https://kbnlwikimedia.github.io/KBCollectionHighlights/stories/Cool%20new%20things%20you%20can%20now%20do%20with%20the%20KB's%20collection%20highlights/ - *In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights https://www.kb.nl/galerij/digitale-topstukken of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure.* [image: KB collection highlights project meme English.jpg] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_collection_highlights_project_meme_English.jpg *By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before.* Article by OlafJanssen https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:1Veertje_(KB) - Blogs - Organizing the Public Data about a Researcher https://cthoyt.com/2021/08/17/self-organization.html - Charles Tapley Hoyt - The Invisible Citation Commons https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/w88y7brs/release/2 - Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein - The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries http://www.bobdc.com/blog/the-wikidata-data-model-and-yo/ - Bob DuCharme - Wikidata or scraping Wikipedia http://simia.net/wiki/Wikidata_or_scraping_Wikipedia - Denny Vrandečić - Videos - Introduction to Wikidata SPARQL query service (in Arabic) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nexDa3Sx_U
Tools of the week
- Python script to Add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons from an Excel sheet https://github.com/KBNLwikimedia/SDoC/tree/main/writeSDoCfromExcel (Github) - by OlafJanssen https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:OlafJanssen
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata:Query Builder has been deployed https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/V3X4DZPD72DFVWGFPEG24BRFCO6CT7HE/: Try it! https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder/ - The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Zotero which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources *from* Zotero https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q226915 into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators. - Wikidata Query Service scaling updates for Aug 2021 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Query_Service_scaling_update_Aug_2021
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: UEFA stadium category https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9803, mix or remix of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9810 - External identifiers: Palynodata taxa ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9799, CDDA designationTypeCode https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9800, PsycNET ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9801, Penguin Random House author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9802, Palynodata publications ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9804, Mapping the Lives ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9805, WiiG game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9806, SNK ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9807, arheologi.ro ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9808, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9809, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9811, Likee username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9812 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: hunting areas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/hunting_areas, number of evacuated https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_evacuated, External wiki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/External_wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%AD%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0_(%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5), SCTA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SCTA_ID - External identifiers: TeamNL player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TeamNL_player_ID, Finnish National Gallery ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Finnish_National_Gallery_ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Online_Begraafplaatsen_memorial_ID, NDL earlier law ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NDL_earlier_law_ID, Cinemaitaliano IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cinemaitaliano_IDs, KNHB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KNHB_ID, Deutsche-Sporthilfe-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Deutsche-Sporthilfe-ID, Convict Records ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Convict_Records_ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Australian_Medical_Pioneers_Index, YouTube Music https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/YouTube_Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gujarati_Vishwakosh_entry, WikiApiary farm https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiApiary_farm, copyright registration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/copyright_registration, Mozilla extension ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mozilla_extension_ID, NRK TV-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NRK_TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Enciclopedia_dell%27Arte_Medievale_ID, ECO code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ECO_code - Query examples: - Predicates implicated in non-scholarly-article item bloat https://w.wiki/3uee (source https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Request_a_query&oldid=1482702473#Because_I_suck_at_aggregation ) - Church of Scotland Synods as Geoshapes https://w.wiki/3vM6 (Source https://twitter.com/MappingScotsRef/status/1428314437967024128) - Map of the origin of Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts https://w.wiki/36sk, current location https://w.wiki/36sj (Source https://twitter.com/joseagush/status/1428178906746560516) - Current principal local authorities in England https://w.wiki/3wfm
Development
- Deployed the new shiny Query Builder to https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder - Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286775) - ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124191) - Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269724) - Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195178)
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