🎊 Events

• Upcoming
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 1, 2022: Egon Willighagen (User:Egonw) on SARS-CoV-2 queries, a a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to Wikidata:Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda.
• Past
  • Wikidata's 10th birthday: see the list of events (some of them are taking place in November), the presents and birthday messages, and the Commons category with photos and videos of the events
  • Some additional materials have been made available from the Wikimedia session at the Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) that took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online:
    • Transforming Closed Silos into Shared Resources: Opening up data on historical collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
    • Community Data Mobilization in Wikidata: A paleontology perspective
    • Connecting IndExs Editors and exsiccata IDs with Wikidata for Disambiguation of People Names and Work in Botanical and Mycological Collections

✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Make Wikidata also Colorful: Using Media in Wikidata by Jsamwrites
  • Interview of Lydia Pintscher for Wikidata's 10th birthday (English and German)
• Videos
  • Wikidata's 10th birthday collaborative video (Youtube, Commons)
  • Livestream with Jan Ainali, Abbe98, Denny Vrandečić and Sandra Fauconnier for Wikidata's birthday (Youtube)
• Threads
  • History of Wikidata by Denny Vrandečić
  • 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
  • 10 WikiProjects you should join
  • 10 tools and helpers to help you around Wikidata
  • 10 websites and apps built on top of Wikidata
  • 10 queries that teach you something about the world
  • 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata

🧰 Tool of the week

• sparklis (source) : query builder in natural language that allows people to explore and query SPARQL endpoints with all the power of SPARQL and without any knowledge of SPARQL, nor of the endpoint vocabulary.

✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.

🤔 Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: embargoed until
  • External identifiers: HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID, C64-Wiki ID, Merriam-Webster online dictionary entry, Undiscovered Scotland ID, Mod DB engine ID, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Inventory identifier, CCB ID, Project Identification Code (Dams), shortened URL formatter, Reddit topic ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma Dada organisation ID, Asian Tour player ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: about, Rotational speed, NIP, Imagem da platibanda, tiratge, Dictionary.com entry, software feature, Base Units, processes to, build system, one of class, Mac OS creator code
  • External identifiers: Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID, RISM siglum, Cinemaazi ID, Hypothèses notebook ID, SMA ID, KBR Catalogue ID for writers, Aathavanitli Gani song ID, Aathavanitli Gani film ID, Identificador Musicsperlacobla de sardana, Identificador musicsperlacobla de compositor, Identificador boig sardanista de sardana, travelweekly hotel ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, Cinemaazi people ID
• Query examples:
  • Collaborative map of events taking place for Wikidata's 10th birthday
  • Birth year of winning candidate of the last eight U.S. presidential elections (source)
  • Number of music albums by language in descending order (source)
  • French préfets with their signature on Commons (source)
  • Graph of filmi music composers (source)
  • Map of the highest points of Spain provinces (source)
  • Twitter usernames and associated mastodon adresses

🧑🏿‍💻 Development

• Sitelinks to Redirects are now available on Wikidata
• Lexicographical data: We are replacing the existing Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866)
• Mismatch Finder: Working on improving the handling of calendar models and precision in dates (phab:T288511)
• REST API: Continued working on better error handling for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)

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!