*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Vargenau https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Vargenau (RfP scheduled to end after 25 June 2023 07:51 UTC) - Closed request for adminship: Infrastruktur https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator#Infrastruktur (closed on May 12th without prior mention) - Closed request for permissions/Bot: - BEANS Bot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BEANS_Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2700 instead of of (P642) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P642 to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1641 statements.) (closed on 22 May without prior mention) - TiagoLubianaBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings) (closed on 21 May without prior mention)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming - WikidataCon is happening later this year in Taipei and online. The call for proposals is now open https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/. - The role of Wikidata within the research lifecycle https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-role-of-wikidata-within-the-research-lifecycle-tickets-637971609257, Wednesday 21 June, 10am BST (UTC+1), online event hosted by the University of York, UK. International participation is welcome, despite "available to White Rose institutions only" on the booking page. - The Fourth Wikidata Workshop is now accepting paper submissions until Thursday, 20 July 2023 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/YIIOL63KX2D6QPIZTJLWU2YJNLVGZHHL/ . - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 23, 2023: Returning to Podcasts, we will be working on creating podcast episode pages. We will discuss how this episodic content can be transferred to other serialized items. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-June-23_Wikidata_Working_Hour - Webinar: Common European Data Space for cultural heritage (The ontology of Wikidata, how to interact with it for a better quality). Tuesday 20th June 2023, from 3.00 p,.m. to 5.00 p.m. CET. Register https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfc-GKR4XAY8wzPvjDDR16AsoOmbJc57ees6xtqWO0q3w0juA/viewform - GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 scholarship application now open https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/06/glam-wiki-conference-2023-announcing-the-venue-scholarship-application-process-open/. Deadline is June 30, 2023. - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #97, Poetry https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=97 (started on 2023-06-19 12:01:21)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers - Using Wikidata Lexemes and Items to Generate Text from Abstract Representations https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3367.pdf - The Wikipedia Republic of Literary Characters https://culturalanalytics.org/article/70251-the-wikipedia-republic-of-literary-characters - Videos - Wikidata Lexeme Malayalam training (in Malayam) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHj65_MS2rM - Wikidata Lab XXXVII: Uploading images to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COkFNG50UvQ - Intro to Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1p2iu_BLNA - Setting up a Wikidata account (in Urdu) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCiyRuiDlfU - Editing Wikidata Items for Parliament of Ghana Contest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RdxNNRvKWI (Kusaal Wikimedia Community). See also: Introduction to Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mWmzHfek3U, How to Create a Wikidata Item https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbGpa9Ci_M, How to Add Labels and Description to Wikidata Items https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzIZ64asnoM - Africa Environment WikiFocus: Wikidata Training by Yamen Bousrih (in English and French) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj532KOWmIM - Social Studies Campaign for Wikidata for Education project - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhPMmuefMwY - Followup to the OBO Academy's Introduction to Wikidata (BioMed Orientation) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmoPpXV74nQ - Wiki Workshop 2023: Session 1: Diversity and Bias in DBpedia and Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5gS5o34h8E, Session 5: How does Wikidata shape gender identities? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBVrMdqgT9M, Session 11: Wikidata to Bootstrap an Enterprise Knowledge Graph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEJ9_Wzb1oc, Session 11: Synia: Displaying data from Wikibases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKb36kMAHBQ - OpenRefine for Wikidata & WikimediaCommons - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVAKt5HI034 - Wikidata SPARQL session for the Data Reuse Days - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNhCnP-akyg - Documentation for Wikibase Cloud at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 – Athens, Greece - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QdzWm0YkZ4 - KGC 2023 Talk — The EU Knowledge Graph by Dennis Diefenbach, The QA Company - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn5j0vlqmlk - SS 2023 - Session 3: Wikidata for Classicists. The Example of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCHNG9vbKJg - Notebooks - Analysing the profile of people invited to France Inter's Matinale using Wikidata https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/franceinter8h20.ipynb - Wikidata Queries https://observablehq.com/d/b1c377af250f4c19 - Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article https://observablehq.com/d/a98e03ef5a49505d - Charleroi Streets Gender Inequality https://observablehq.com/d/64b1c97e36dbe4a9 - Citation Factory https://observablehq.com/@akrawitz/citation-factory - Slides: Reuse in the Wiki World empowers engagement with Natural History Collections https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NLvYwniO4bbzs6aFrJ8IwGMzSZp6wjPULhyjI6Sn1BY/edit#slide=id.g22e8387ff75_0_165
Tool of the week
- Mapping Diversity https://mappingdiversity.eu/ is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [GLAM] Volunteer Opportunity: 2023 LD4 Wikidata Working Hour Summer/Fall Series https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/glam@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GZBNS4FMNGOYPRRVD3UHI65FJGOHFAIB/ - Want to make knowledge about #NaturalProducts accessible to everyone in more languages? Help us translate our project page https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Wikidata%3AWikiProject+Chemistry+Natural+products&action=page&language=en&filter=%21translated .
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - satellite view https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11832 (image of the subject taken from outer space) - External identifiers: The Homicide Report person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11823, KPU Plant Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11824, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11825, Media Library for Dance and Theatre person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11826, documenta archiv ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11827, Marsilio Editori author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11828, Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11829, Israel Composers' League composer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11830, Alabama Authors ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11831 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - HyperTextAPI https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HyperTextAPI - Gottstein code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gottstein_code (Gottstein code as a representation of a cuneiform sign variant) - altesdresden.de object https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/altesdresden.de_object (altesdresden.de object) - Moroccan administrative geographical coding - الترميز الجغرافي الإداري المغربي https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moroccan_administrative_geographical_coding_-_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A - Moroccan administrative geographical coding https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moroccan_administrative_geographical_coding - External identifiers: COSL profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COSL_profile_ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/snookerscores.net_tournament_ID, NBC Olympics Athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NBC_Olympics_Athlete_ID, European Bridge League ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Bridge_League_ID, research.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/research.com_ID, ComingSoon.it TV IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ComingSoon.it_TV_IDs, Team France profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Team_France_profile_ID, FIGC player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FIGC_player_ID, Theapolis theater ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Theapolis_theater_ID, Theapolis actor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Theapolis_actor_ID, AVP player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AVP_player_ID, Volleyball Canada ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Volleyball_Canada_ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Intangible_cultural_heritage_ID_by_the_Austrian_UNESCO_commission, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Unidades_de_Conserva%C3%A7%C3%A3o_no_Brasil_ID, Korean Tour player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Korean_Tour_player_ID, Austadiums ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Austadiums_ID, DEL player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DEL_player_ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CAMEO_Chemicals_ID - Query examples: - Which mountaineers died on Mount Everest ordered by their death date? https://w.wiki/6rCE (source https://twitter.com/nopiedra/status/1669452803482218496) - Gallery of people born in Brittany and named Jeanne, Jean or Yann https://w.wiki/6qFj (source https://twitter.com/belett/status/1669270736710582273) - List of botanical collectors who have a death date but don't have a Bionomia ID https://w.wiki/6peC (source https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1668451137996087296) - British MPs who resigned from the Commons mid-parliament on two separate occasions https://w.wiki/6pbf (source https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1668311555467771904) - Dutch members of parliament with a Mastodon account https://w.wiki/6pJN (source https://wikis.world/@egonw@scholar.social/110524599570755431) - [Data quality] [ Inside a given instance of (P31) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31 inside same country, find possibles duplicates if they share same date https://w.wiki/6puw : same kind of event same date in same country might be a candidate for review and merge - [Calendars] What is the equivalent in Iranian Hijri of *March 5, 1902*? https://w.wiki/6qzG
Development
- REST API: - We finished the endpoint for getting data from Properties and it is now available on Wikidata. - We started expanding that endpoint with filter options and conditional http headers. - EntitySchemas: The new datatype is now available for testing and feedback https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Schemas#New_EntitySchema_data_type_is_ready_for_testing_on_Test_Wikidata . - mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. ( phab:T329644 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329644, phab:T338302 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338302, phab:T329655 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329655, phab:T316767 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316767) - Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (phab:T327510 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327510)
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