• New requests for permissions/Bot: MystBot
• Other: Discussion about replacing values with a new format or scheme for "SBN author ID" (P396), an identifier for National Library Service (SBN) of Italy

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andy Mabbett on the "Cite Q" template that uses data from Wikidata in Wikipedia citations and Crystal Clements on setting the framework for a future discussion on addressing ethical concerns surrounding representation of gender for living persons in Wikidata, February 8th. Agenda
  • Wikidata Query Service scaling: You can join 2 calls and provide feedback at the 2 WDQS scaling community meetings on Thursday, 17 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC, and Monday 21 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC. Full details here.
  • Live on Twitch and in French about Academic bibliographical data and Scholia by Vigneron and Jsamwrites, February 8 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #70 - YouTube, Facebook, February 12 at 19:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #95, February 13 at 13.00 UTC
• Ongoing:
  • Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2022)
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #28, Computer
• Past:
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube
  • Jan Ainali, GovDirectory. Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government - Civic Hacker Summit, November 2021

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • How-to: Matching multilingual thesaurus concepts with OpenRefine
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2021 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
  • Importing a Breton dictionary from Wikisource into Wikidata lexicographical data, by Envlh
  • Profiling a Wikibase item creation on test.wikidata.org by Addshore
  • Fast Bulk Import Into Wikibase
• Papers
  • XAlign: Cross-lingual Fact-to-Text Alignment and Generation for Low-Resource Languages
• Videos
  • Wikidata: A knowledge graph for the earth sciences? - YouTube
  • Activate Faktamall biografi WD gadget (see Wikidata info in Wikipedia) - YouTube
  • Wikidata workshop: interwiki links (Questions) - 1, 2 & 3 (YouTube)
  • Wikidata Tutorial (in German): create a user account on Wikidata, add an institution's website to Wikidata

Tool of the week

• Wikidata edit map by Denny puts a dot on the map whenever an Item with a geocoordinate is edited.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• January 1st as date
• Wikidata has 2,540,891 items for people with both date of birth and date of death. There are 9 redirects for every 100 such items. (source). 2000 people share dates of birth and death with another person.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: dpi for A4 printing, time in the pouch, semantic gender
  • External identifiers: AAGM artwork ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Artland fair ID, Artland gallery ID, Douban book series ID, Douban book works ID, Les Archives du spectacle organization ID, Urban Electric Transit city ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, Ezeri.lv lake ID, Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Bugs! music video ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, New York Flora Atlas ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: HSK ID, sports in region, Computational complexity, YouTube video
  • External identifiers: Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2, podchaser episode ID, IFPI UPC/EAN, Weltfussball-Spiel-ID, GoodGame.ru ID, USgamer ID, Riot Pixels game ID, HaBima Archive play id, HaBima Archive person id, NLI topic id, 100Y Hebrew Theatre Guide person id, Old-Games.RU ID, iXBT Games ID, Students of Turin University ID, Tagoo video game ID, AusGamers ID, GameGuru ID, LMHL author ID, VGTimes ID, ULI id, GameMAG ID, SBN new authority IDs, Prosopographia Imperii Romani Online ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, Gesher Theater Archive person id, Gesher Theater Archive play id, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist static ID, A9VG game ID, Qichaha firm ID, Chinese School Identifier, GoHa.ru ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, CiteSeerX ID of a person, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2
• Deleted properties:
  • "Scoresway soccer person ID" (P3043)
  • "SSR WrittenForm ID" (P1849)
  • "FFF female player ID" (P4886)
  • "FFF male player ID" (P4883)
• Query examples:
  • Events by number of video games announced (source)
  • Three-Michelin Stars restaurants with a female chef (source)
  • Wikidata Properties specific to German Lexemes and number of times they are used (source)
  • Countries with count of same Wikidata labels in different languages (source)
  • Team and positions played by National Women's Football League players (source)
  • Location of the graves of personalities in Père Lachaise Cemetery who died between 1800 and 1849 (50 year ranges) (source)
  • Location of statues of women in Italy (source)
  • Count of Lexeme pairs between different languages (source)
  • Birthplaces of General secretaries of USSR (source)
  • Items related to Abdülmecid I, their collections, and their types (source)
  • Objects related in some way to Aurangzeb (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Archaeology

Development

• Mismatch Finder: Tracking down one last issue with the upload of mismatch files. Once that is fixed we are ready to release the tool.
• Lexicographical data: Started coding on the rewrite of Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand and use.

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!