*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: MSGJ
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/MSGJ>
(Successful). Welcome onboard \o/
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikibase live session
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.01.27> is 16:00 UTC on
Thursday 27th January 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on
around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the
community.
- Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch
<https://www.twitch.tv/belett> and in French by Vigneron, January 25
at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call: Professor Pascal Martinolli speaking on tabletop role-playing game
citations practices and Wikidata, January 25th
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PF2DVZXEx5Z1Mxwl0N2JOqe2RwpopDJMTMaCd3PVuSw/edit#>
.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #68 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_FPieB6So4>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3157394024545753/>,
January 29 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #94
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#93>,
January 30 at 13.00 UTC
- Online workshop
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Lexicographical_data/Documentation/Languages/br>
in French about Breton lexicographical data, by Envlh and
Vigneron, January
30 at 15:00 CET (UTC+1)
- On Tuesday, February 22, the OpenRefine team hosts a community
meetup to present current and future work on Structured Data on Commons
support in OpenRefine
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Community_meetup_22_February_2022>
.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #26, Bees
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=26>
- #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February
5th. Contribute
by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#Creating_Wikidata_items_related_to_works_on_Wikisource>
.
- Past:
- Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-01-19
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2022-01-19>
)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- The CIA lost track of who runs the UK, so I picked up the slack
<https://www.opensanctions.org/articles/2022-01-18-peppercat/>
featured on Hacker News
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29976576>
- Solving Wordle, Sutom, and al. with SPARQL queries on Wikidata
<https://www.lehir.net/solving-wordle-sutom-and-al-with-sparql-queries-on-wikidata/>
- Wikitrivia is a web game that challenges your knowledge of
historical dates
<https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2022/1/17/22888461/wikitrivia-web-game-timeline-wikidata-events-fixing-data>
- Wikitrivia, the viral game that tests how much you know about
history
<https://www.infobae.com/america/tecno/2022/01/19/wikitrivia-el-juego-viral-que-pone-a-prueba-cuanto-sabe-de-historia/>
(in Spanish)
- 100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History
<https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-libraries-and-archives/2022/01/18/100-women-in-science-in-smithsonian-history/>
- Papers
- Wikidata: a new perspective towards universal bibliographic control
<https://www.jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/439>
- Wikidata for Digital Preservationists: New DPC Technology Watch
Guidance Note now available on general release
<https://www.dpconline.org/news/twgn-wikidata-gen>
- Videos
- [WORKSHOP] Wikidata and libraries: tools for information managers
(in Spanish) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hobjhuWDOAY>
Tool of the week
- Comparator
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/comparator-compare-named-entities-cited-in-two-wikipedia-a>
compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles
using Wikidata and SPARQL
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Lexemes forms:
- Now supports the Odia language
<https://twitter.com/LucasWerkmeistr/status/1482780512712335360>
- Substantially expanded template for Spanish verbs
<https://lexeme-forms.toolforge.org/template/spanish-verb/>
- How many triples are added when certain edits are made? ...
User:Mahir256/Triples
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mahir256/Triples>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: admission yield rate
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10263>, Corruption
Perceptions Index
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10273>, category
for honorary citizens of entity
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10280>, podcast image url
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10286>
- External identifiers: AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10260>, EtymWb lemma ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10261>, Offizielle Deutsche
Charts album ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10262>, ARCHER
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10264>, Senators of Spain
(1834-1923) ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10265>,
AdoroCinema
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10266>, Kinofilms.ua
film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10267>, Kinofilms.ua
actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10268>, kino-teatr.ru
film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10269>, Hermitage
Museum work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10270>,
Engineer's
Line Reference <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10271>, Archive
ouverte UNIGE ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10272>, Union
of Bulgarian Composers ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10274>, AsianWiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10275>, ENEA-IRIS Open
Archive author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10276>, METRICA
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10277>, Encyclopedia
of Russian Jewry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10278>, TVFPlay
series ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10279>,
Orthodoxie.com
topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10281>, Slangopedia
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10282>, OpenAlex ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10283>, iCSO ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10284>, Indeed company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10285>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: LinkedIn showcase ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LinkedIn_showcase_ID>,
religious community
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/religious_community>,
subpopulation 3
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/subpopulation_3>,
type of register
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/type_of_register>,
identifier in a register
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifier_in_a_register>,
phrase in hiero markup
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/phrase_in_hiero_markup>
- External identifiers: Vesti.ru dossier ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Vesti.ru_dossier_ID>,
Catalogue of Life ID 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Catalogue_of_Life_ID_2>,
XJustiz registration court ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/XJustiz_registration_court_ID>,
Wikisimpsons ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikisimpsons_ID>,
Réseau documents d'artistes ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/R%C3%A9seau_documents_d%27artistes_ID>,
Millattashlar ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Millattashlar_ID>,
Transphoto city ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Transphoto_city_ID>,
Grand Duchy of Lithuania Encyclopedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania_Encyclopedia_ID>,
Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archivio_Biografico_Comunale_(Palermo)_ID>,
Sceneweb artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sceneweb_artist_ID>,
Index to Organism Names ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Index_to_Organism_Names_ID>,
Leopoldina member web site ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Leopoldina_member_web_site_ID>,
Dico en ligne Le Robert ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dico_en_ligne_Le_Robert_ID>,
LastDodo-area-id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LastDodo-area-id>,
SberZvuk ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SberZvuk_ID>,
North Data company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/North_Data_company_ID>,
Gardens Navigator ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gardens_Navigator_ID>,
SAHRA heritage objects ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SAHRA_heritage_objects_ID>,
ezeri.lv ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ezeri.lv_ID>,
SAHA player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SAHA_player_ID>,
norsk fangeregister fangeleir ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/norsk_fangeregister_fangeleir_ID>,
Mnemosine ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mnemosine_ID>,
World Economic Forum ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_Economic_Forum_ID>,
Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Apple_Podcasts_podcast_episode_ID>
- Query examples:
- Map of tramways in France <https://w.wiki/4j6Z>
- Map of categories for honorary citizens <https://w.wiki/4j5D> (
source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P10280>)
- Map of the Medieval universities and its founding date
<https://w.wiki/4hr5> (source
<https://twitter.com/larswillighagen/status/1483586097166888964>)
- Camps/subcamps within a 20km radius of your location
<https://w.wiki/4jKL> (source
<https://twitter.com/SPARQLCRMSUPPE/status/1485529805676240900>)
- Taxa found at Fazenda Tamanduá <https://w.wiki/4iin> (Sertão of
Paraíba - Brazil) (source
<https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1484630713722937346>)
- Birthplace of Rabbis <https://w.wiki/4hwA> (source
<https://twitter.com/sharozwa/status/1483731259985694722>)
- Italian parliamentarians and ministers aged between 50 and 80
<https://w.wiki/4haR> (source
<https://twitter.com/nemobis/status/1483217197858279429>)
- Female Irish scientists in Wikidata without a Wikipedia article
<https://w.wiki/4hZB> (source
<https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1483168128632827910>)
- Places in the Hautes-Alpes that are the subject of an article on
Wikipedia in at least 10 languages <https://w.wiki/4hoz> (source
<https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1483533204090990599>)
Development
- Enabling usage tracking specifically for statements on Waray, Armenian
and Cebuano Wikipedias (phab:T296383
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296383>, phab:T296382
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296382>, phab:T296384
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296384>)
- Implementing basic version of mul language code and deploying it to
Test Wikidata (phab:T297393 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297393>)
- Preparing an event centered on reusing Wikidata's data
- Mismatch Finder: Been in touch with people who can potentially provide
the first mismatches to load into the new tool for the launch. Finalized
the statistics part.
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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