*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - MsynBot 9 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MsynBot_9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P227 identifier claims - DL2204bot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Celebration_video, prepare an event https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Run_an_event or a birthday present https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Presents. - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IjZeAQw79PEFvMz1JGsCVQrzX-9IYvr7LSpg52j_wac/edit# - Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/WGKFH6SIHDY3XXNNZYDTWFIT34RF2Y3M/ Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #57, Numbers (4/n) https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=57
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - Context is Queen https://queerdata.forummuenchen.org/en/: Documenting Queer history based on LGBT+ models https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LGBT/Models ( source https://twitter.com/cutterkom/status/1564904647122456576) - Papers - Prompting as Probing: Using Language Models for Knowledge Base Construction https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.11057.pdf - Videos - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #88 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXQwnv7puBI - Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland - Find museums without official website on Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCHsQElUbqw - Add coordinates of an institution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZm7yNdgJts - Different ways to display SPARQL queries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl-2YN-uI18 - How to enter a personal record of a certain person on Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNAhg0MMEvs
Tool of the week
- Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries https://observablehq.com/@pac02/hello-sparql-queries-dataset. See also the underlying dataset https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/sparql_queries.csv.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: Gauss notation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11034, crossing number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11035 - External identifiers: PTS+ season ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11016, Turkish National Paralympic Committee athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11017, South African Hockey Association ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11018, Moroccan Olympic Committee athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11019, UCI rider ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11020, Glossary of Astronomical Terms ID-identificatiecode https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11021, Garden Plant Finder ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11022, Belgian Paralympic Committee athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11023, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11024, Spiel des Jahres ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11025, Scientists of Belarus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11026, Football 24 article ID Russian https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11027, Football 24 article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11028, BioNames author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11029, Devil's Porridge Worker ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11030, Czech electoral party ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11031, Polish Paralympic Committee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11032, LiLa Linking Latin URI https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11033, Instagram post ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11036, Springer Nature journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11037, Arabic Ontology lemma ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11038, Anime Taizen ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11039, atletiek.nu athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11040, kulturstiftung.org person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11041 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: coordinates of grave https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/coordinates_of_grave, Rekhta Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rekhta_Dictionary_ID - External identifiers: vPlants ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/vPlants_ID, Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kloster-_und_Ordenslexikon_ID, IGDB game engine ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IGDB_game_engine_ID, Aragonario ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aragonario_ID, CRAB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CRAB_ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/S%C3%B5naveeb_lexeme_ID, Ma'agarim ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ma%27agarim_ID, Feb-web IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Feb-web_IDs, Diskograf artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diskograf_artist_ID, Diskograf label ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diskograf_label_ID, Diskograf song ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diskograf_song_ID, NSR doctor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NSR_doctor_ID, Urdu Lughat ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Urdu_Lughat_ID, Oculus Store https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Oculus_Store, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nebraska_Invasive_Species_Program_species_ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Yahoo!_Japan_News_publisher_ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Woody_Plants_Database_cultivar_ID, Viveport ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Viveport_ID, NOC of Belarus champion ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NOC_of_Belarus_champion_ID, newslab.ru dossier ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/newslab.ru_dossier_ID, Undiscovered Scotland ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Undiscovered_Scotland_ID - Query examples: - Map of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris https://w.wiki/5evn, and around the world that have P625 as a qualifier https://w.wiki/5evi (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/coordinates_of_grave#Discussion ) - Age of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends 1997-2002 https://w.wiki/5fUH (source https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1566497353053442052) - Education of French prefects https://w.wiki/5fDk (source https://twitter.com/daieuxdailleurs/status/1566456581012717569) - Number of substance records in PubChem Compounds https://w.wiki/5fBj (source https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/1566041862653222914) - Map of rivers longer than 50 km passing through French territory, grouped by watershed https://w.wiki/5eZm (source https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1565411609182437376) - Brazilian players in the Fifa World Cup 2022 Sticker Album! https://w.wiki/5dfr (source https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1564367034544263175)
Development
- REST API: - We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306934) - We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316523) - For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and see the latest docs https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/js/rest-api/. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API_feedback_round. - Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (phab:T314064 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314064, phab:T312633 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312633, phab:T312652 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312652) - Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278962)
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