*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - PodcastBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description) - AradglBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765 - Closed request for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/EnvlhBot_3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming - Tuesday, March 22 at 9AM UTC: first online OpenRefine office hour https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine#Join_OpenRefine_meetups_and_office_hours for Wikimedians. Find the Zoom link and dates/times for next office hours here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine#Join_OpenRefine_meetups_and_office_hours ! - 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: Christian Boulanger on extracting open citation data for legal theory graph project https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/2514927/03-boulanger-legal-theory-graph. Agenda with call link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CD0DidHKOEP1uIw9xX8x2buualVRjYQmHu1oSMAwxVw/edit, March 22. - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #34, Geometry https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=34 - Data Reuse Days https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Reuse_Days_2022, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule https://diff.wikimedia.org/calendar/month/2022-03/?tribe_tags%5B0%5D=13446. For a recap of the event so far: - 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_21#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 - MediaWiki Lua for non-Lua programmers https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/2022/03/20/mw-lua-for-non-lua-programmers/ by Lucas Werkmeister https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister - Kohesio.eu: European Commission goes Open Source https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2022/03/17/kohesio-eu-european-commission-goes-open-source/ - Videos - Ongoing DataReuseDays 2022 - YouTube - Lightning talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx1LXCqfD60&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=2 - Wikidata for performing and visual arts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqQwC70Kyd8&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=3 - Wikxhibit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZXDdA5V0xE&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=4 - How to retrieve Wikidata’s data? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6KrBraWgdw&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=5 - Best practices for reusing Wikidata’s data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqrEfvRo1iU&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=6 - Building a simple web app using Wikidata data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ChC1pplik&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=7 - Biohackathon: report on reviewing Wikidata subsetting method https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNDkajxN_mc&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=8 - GeneWiki: The Wikidata Integrator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBgFeTIHgQ&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=9 - Cartographier des données de Wikidata avec Umap (in French) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbm4b1-XBmU - Mapping Einstein Researchers on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYCKLQRQmzQ
Tool of the week
- Linked People project http://linkedpeople.net let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata. - Gene of the Day https://lubianat.github.io/gene-wordle/ (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are Rapid Grants available for local meetups during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 from May 20-May 22. Apply to host a social for your local community https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022#Local_Meetup_Grants. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2022. - Magnus made a recent Mix’n’match improvement https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1504079153246703618: List of Wikidata properties (incomplete) that could have a MnM catalog, to help create one, or tag as difficult etc. - Andrew https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Andrew_Gray put together a guide https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1503477948057333767 to writing SPARQL queries for the Wikidata MPs project. Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/Building Queries https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_British_Politicians/Building_Queries - The proposed config change https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1600003660#Proposed_config_change:_remove_changetags_right_from_users to remove the changetags right from users – so that they can apply change tags to their own actions as they are made, but not change the tags of other actions after the fact anymore – has been deployed.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10502 - External identifiers: LDT @ Library Name Authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10489, LDT @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10490, LDT @ Library Classification Authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10491, USP Production Repository ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10492, Transilien ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10493, United Russia member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10494, MovieMeter TV season ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10495, Joshua Project people group ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10496, Moscow Street ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10497, Moscow area ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10498, vc.ru company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10499, Repetti on-line ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10500, Cybersport.ru ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10501, Québec Enterprise Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10503, Discover Moscow ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10504, ArTS author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10505, IRIS UNIUD author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10506, Game Informer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10507, Ligue 2 player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10508, Femiwiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10509, Arachne entity ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10510, VideoGameGeek developer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10511, Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10512, Oregon State Parks ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10513, Washington State Parks ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10514, Sport24.ru person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10515, 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 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: Bhashakosha pp. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bhashakosha_pp., local education level https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/local_education_level, hours per week https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/hours_per_week, education level https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/education_level, time allocation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/time_allocation, grading system https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/grading_system, grade https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/grade, ISCED-ALevel https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCED-ALevel, ISCED category orientation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCED_category_orientation, ISCED Broad Field https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCED_Broad_Field, ISCED Narrow Field https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCED_Narrow_Field, ISCED Detailed Field https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCED_Detailed_Field, competency https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/competency, sessions per week https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/sessions_per_week, applies to work https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/applies_to_work, rack system https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/rack_system, maintains consistent linking to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/maintains_consistent_linking_to - External identifiers: Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kramerius_of_Regional_Library_in_Pardubice_UUID, USA Track & Field (www.usatf.org) athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/USA_Track_%26_Field_(www.usatf.org)_athlete_ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GuideStar_India_Organisations-ID, DACS ID (2022) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DACS_ID_(2022), marriott hotel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/marriott_hotel_ID, identifiant Epigraphie https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Epigraphie, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Salzburger_Literatur_Netz_ID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Literatur_Netz_Ober%C3%B6sterreich_ID, CPNI ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CPNI_ID, QQ Music album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/QQ_Music_album_ID, QQ Music song ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/QQ_Music_song_ID, eSbírky institution ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eSb%C3%ADrky_institution_ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Atlante_Beni_Culturali_Calabria_item_ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria cultural place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Atlante_Beni_Culturali_Calabria_cultural_place_ID, Zotero ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Zotero_ID, World of Waterfalls ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_of_Waterfalls_ID - Query examples: - Signature images from Wikidata (change the view to “map” to see the signatures arranged by the person’s place of birth! https://w.wiki/4yCg (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1504249791643013124) - Count of UK lake items with a 'UK Lakes Portal ID' (P7548) property statement https://w.wiki/4x8g (source https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1503581042812362754) - Travel reports by Alfred Brehm as timeline https://w.wiki/4w$k ( source https://twitter.com/diedatenlaube/status/1503383657989517315) - Timeline for the Apple "M" series of Systems on a Chip (SoC) https://w.wiki/4yHx - Religion of men named “Maria” (as one of their given names) https://w.wiki/4yCU (source https://twitter.com/sandpapier/status/1505611447048544256) - Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (passing through Finland and Kazakhstan https://w.wiki/4xyY) - Map of institutions where "where people who studied there" have created written works whose main subject is knowledge graph (Q33002955), knowledge base (Q515701) and (Q33002955) https://w.wiki/4yPA - Colonies of Africa with their or their “main state”’s official language and ISO code https://w.wiki/4x75
Development
- Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them. - Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above). - REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.
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