*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - RenmBot 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RenmBot_2. Task/s: The bot adds/edits labels/descriptions of Wikidata items in Ukrainian. At the beginning, the bot will correct "проект" to "проєкт" in descriptions. These changes are caused by Ukrainian orthography of 2019 (Q56368731) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56368731 (see en:Ukrainian orthography of 2019#Major changes to the 1993 orthography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_orthography_of_2019#Major_changes_to_the_1993_orthography ). - Bean49Bot 3 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Bean49Bot_3. Task/s: Add parent astronomical body to asteroid belt asteroids, required by multiple constraints. - JhsBot 7 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/JhsBot_7. Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P898 statements. - Closed request for permissions/Bot: Heinmabot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Heinmabot. Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places. (approved) - Closed request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Adopt_Help:SitelinksToRedirects_as_policy (implemented)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase. - Wikimedia Research Showcase on January 18 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/L2PJZ3PAXWQ2MPUU4KBFHVQBEG3ZKVYL/. Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors https://parklize.github.io/publications/ISWC2021.pdf. - Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour on Tuesday 17th January https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/CSNAPGETB5UIOTEFJEFPQNLLDDJ4V4IB/: Update on wikibase.cloud by Evelien Zandbergen, product manager for Wikibase.cloud at Wikimedia Deutschland. - Ongoing - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #76, Wikipedia https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=76 - Past - LD4-Wikidata Group Call: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7521891, 10th January.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Wikimedia Israel and the Israel Film Archive bring Short films from Israel’s History to Wikidata https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/01/09/wikimedia-israel-and-the-israel-film-archive-bring-short-films-from-israels-history-to-wikidata/ - Deploying Wikidata to different graph databases and what works best: Blazegraph, QLever, QEndpoint, Amazon Neptune https://harej.co/posts/2023/01/loading-wikidata-into-different-graph-databases-blazegraph-qlever/ - Papers - Gender equality in library science and book history Italian journals: a focus on boards, authors and peer-reviewers https://www.jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/509/485?fbclid=IwAR0lOvSPqGFdPsbn4iY-Ui9wy4Xo4QsiPXsQXJYiwbqdA6oMc9SAkY_VOrc - Videos/Audios - Mémoires minoritaires, mémoires LGBTI https://audioblog.arteradio.com/blog/97461/podcast/196441/pluriel-gay-emission-du-11-janvier-2023 (French): Documenting Queer (LGBTIQ+) history on Wikipedia and Wikidata (Radio/Podcast) (source https://twitter.com/PlurielGay/status/1613971785413951490) - LIVE Wikidata editing #102 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GOI91VVz4A - Wikispore, Wikidata, and Small Wikis with Sam Wilson - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApZ3flBg7H0 - Introduction to Wikidata with Alex Lum (2022) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4-2mniUPUI - iPres 2022 - Long Paper 153: A Digital Preservation Wikibase - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx6-Z4EDxEk
Tool of the week
- Auhority Control data to Wikidata item https://ac2wd.toolforge.org/ - helps to create Wikidata Items based on authority control records. - A new Wikidata distributed game https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=84 that populates instance of statements using a neural network.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can apply for a scholarship for Wikimania https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2023:Scholarships . - Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 is ongoing! https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/ - The upcoming steward elections are open for nominations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2023. - Wikibase Suite: wmde.10 (Mediawiki 1.38) compatible release updates https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KFPAI4S3S24IPAXTSF3AKYGSFUOKTM34/ - Applications are open now for Wikidata Fellowship by Wikimedia Australia https://twitter.com/wm_au/status/1612238162646175744
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: does not use https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11484: item or concept not used by the subject but that could have been expected, member of Roman tribe https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11491: Roman tribe in which one was inscribed - External identifiers: Infopédia entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11485, 1001Tracklists track ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11486, 1001Tracklists DJ ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11487, 1001Tracklists source ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11489, MyAnimeList company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11490, MQWW work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11492, Biblissima Authority File https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11493, Kitsu manga ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11494, Kitsu anime ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11495, CiNii Research ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11496, Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11497, United States House of Representatives ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11500, ComicWalker content ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11501, The Numbers franchise ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11502 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: heir or beneficiary https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/heir_or_beneficiary: people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title, disinherited https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/disinherited: someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/heir_or_beneficiary, Northstar Travel’s 10-Tier Classification System https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Northstar_Travel%E2%80%99s_10-Tier_Classification_System: [none], 神奇宝贝百科页面标识符 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%E7%A5%9E%E5%A5%87%E5%AE%9D%E8%B4%9D%E7%99%BE%E7%A7%91%E9%A1%B5%E9%9D%A2%E6%A0%87%E8%AF%86%E7%AC%A6: article name on 52Poké Wiki, a Pokémon encyclopedia, value contains sense https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/value_contains_sense: qualifier to indicate the sense of a lexeme part of a monolingual text value, form applies to sense https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/form_applies_to_sense: this form is only or mainly applicable this sense, clan https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/clan: [none] - External identifiers: Landgate Object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Landgate_Object_ID, IRIS Trentino-South Tyrol IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Trentino-South_Tyrol_IDs, IRIS Venice IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Venice_IDs, Sinta affiliation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sinta_affiliation_ID, Knowledge portal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Knowledge_portal_ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fr%C3%A9jus_et_Toulon_ID, MangaSeek IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MangaSeek_IDs, Dicionário Priberam ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dicion%C3%A1rio_Priberam_ID, Michaelis ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Michaelis_ID, Dicionário Aulete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dicion%C3%A1rio_Aulete_ID, Dicionário Aberto ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dicion%C3%A1rio_Aberto_ID, Léxico ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/L%C3%A9xico_ID, Dicio ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dicio_ID, GamesRadar+ ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GamesRadar%2B_ID, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bosworth-Toller%27s_Anglo-Saxon_Dictionary_Online_ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Online_Etymology_Dictionary_ID, norsk fangeregister soningsinstitusjon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/norsk_fangeregister_soningsinstitusjon_ID, Dictionary of the Russian Language (Ozhegov) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionary_of_the_Russian_Language_(Ozhegov)_ID, Great Encyclopedic Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Great_Encyclopedic_Dictionary_ID, AllMovie genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AllMovie_genre_ID, Artlog person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artlog_person_ID, Artlog institution ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artlog_institution_ID - Query examples: - Map of sub-categories of a Commons category https://w.wiki/6DJd ( source https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Forum&oldid=1807764797#Commons-Kategorien_und_Koordinaten ) - Number of sitelinks to redirects by wiki https://w.wiki/6DJe ( source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Sitelinks_to_redirects#Initial_bot_run_complete ) - Top album languages found on Wikidata right now https://w.wiki/5Pbw (source https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/109689915471233054) - Airports named after poets https://w.wiki/6CJ5 (source https://wikis.world/@edward@octodon.social/109644730476614367)
Development
- Vector 2020 skin: the search that works properly with Wikidata has been deployed - Entity Schemas: Making progress on the proof of concept that will help us figure out the technical way forward - REST API: getting ready to deploy the first version to test.wikidata.org on February 17th - Lexicographical data: When linking to a Sense in a statement the language of the Lexeme for that Sense is now also shown. This makes it easier to understand translation statements for example (phab:T207392 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207392) - Constraints: Constraint violations are now also shown to logged out users (phab:T272132 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272132) - Fixing a regression where Wikipedia and co are no longer notified about a disconnected sitelink when the Item that contains the sitelink is deleted (phab:T326082 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326082)
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