Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 30, 2023: We will discuss results from our community survey on advocacy for Wikidata in libraries and hear from community members Mary Aycock, Steve Baskauf and Eric Willey about their experiences with advocacy and gaining support for Wikidata work within their respective libraries. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Mike Peel shares his experience mentoring Wikimedia projects through FOSS outreach programs

Tool of the week[edit | edit source]

• TalkPageHeader.js shows the talk page header for languages other than English.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The libraries of the London School of Economics and the University of York have collaborated to produce a toolkit for uploading research theses metadata to Wikidata. Full announcement and access to the toolkit
• The contents of most Wikimedia Cloud Services Wiki Replicas are out-of-date owing to large & increasing replication lag; see https://replag.toolforge.org/ & Phab T337446. Exercise caution using data from any tools that have a dependency on these databases.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • time of periapsis (the time at which the orbit of an object in space, typically a planet or a satellite, goes through its periapsis)
    • matched by identifier from (this external ID was added because the following link was presented in both the external database and the Wikidata item)
  • External identifiers: Diritto on line ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • ISCED Attainment (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
    • ISCED category orientation (International Standard Classification of Education category (based on focus/orientation) applicable to an educational program)
    • Learning outcome (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program)
  • External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, BFM.ru persons ID, Open Yearbook org id
• Query examples:
  • Count comparison of England, Scotland and Wales items claiming to be a human settlement as well as a parish (source)
  • Twins at Eurovision (source)

Development

• Ontology issues: We are finishing the evaluation of the survey about which types of ontology issues are hindering reuse of Wikidata's data the most.
• Otherwise mostly a slow week because of the Wikimedia hackathon.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!