Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions
- Open request for adminship: - Allenwang6212a https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Allenwang6212a (RfP scheduled to end after 6 July 2021 06:09 UTC)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Past: - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #49 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfBIxMa8qk - Upcoming: - SPARQL queries live on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/belett in French by Vigneron, July 6 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - Schema explorers and how they can help guide adoption of common standards https://blog.ldodds.com/2021/06/01/schema-explorers-and-how-they-can-help-guide-adoption-of-common-standards/ - Tackling Technical Debt, big and small, in Wikidata and Wikibase https://addshore.com/2021/06/tackling-technical-debt-big-and-small-in-wikidata-and-wikibase/ - Papers - A Study of the Quality of Wikidata https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.00156v1.pdf - Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/12959 - Videos - (workshop) Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eRbrmDlTr0 - Adding descriptions and statements to Wikidata using Quickstatements - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAYlEhG0ILA&list=PL688h-0nBPOB3Z7GVKpYU9G23nX7QclT7&index=2 - Editing Wikidata (in German) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIY3zANk9lw
Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A job opening https://karriere-igb.softgarden.io/job/11001088 for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: voted on by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9681, Qualis rank https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9683, author given names https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9687, author last name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9688, delta of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9700 - External identifiers: Gutenberg Biographics ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9682, Idaho Species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9684, Montana Field Guide species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9685, Classical Archives composer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9686, Crosscut author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9689, E-Fauna BC species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9690, E-Flora BC species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9691, LexM ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9692, BES-Net user ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9693, VK artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9694, Legie 100 legionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9695, Buzer.de law identification https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9696, Games@Mail.ru ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9697, World Curling Federation Championship ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9698, FOIH themes ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9699, African Film Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9701, Gameblog.fr game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9702, CCC in Idaho Collection ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9703, Monumental Trees ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9704, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9705, Director Identification Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9706, GCD creator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9707, Handzone player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9708, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9709 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: code name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/code_name, International Tables for Crystallography space group number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/International_Tables_for_Crystallography_space_group_number, Impact factor https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Impact_factor, dependency grammar relations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/dependency_grammar_relations, biological target https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/biological_target, URL for citizen's initiatives https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/URL_for_citizen%27s_initiatives, incubator https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/incubator, project state https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/project_state - External identifiers: fotoCH photographer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fotoCH_photographer_ID, Raakvlak inventory number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Raakvlak_inventory_number, cultural broadcasting archive station ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cultural_broadcasting_archive_station_ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Diet_Library_Persistent_ID, MANTO ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MANTO_ID, e-Rad researcher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/e-Rad_researcher_ID, WMO code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WMO_code - Query examples: - List of pairs of senses on the same lexeme that have the same gloss in at least one language https://w.wiki/3b8y (Source https://t.me/c/1325756915/10445) - Which British Monarch saw most US Presidents; which US President saw most British Monarchs? (graph view https://w.wiki/3b8x) (dimensions view https://w.wiki/3b8u) (Source https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1411624633137311748) - All paintings (Q3305213) that depict (P180) a painting https://w.wiki/3amU (Source https://twitter.com/seeksanusername/status/1411398102163103752) - Count of qualifiers used in performer (P175) statements https://w.wiki/3b3i (Source https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1411721094902452229) - Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List https://w.wiki/3b4k (Source https://twitter.com/anandmallaya/status/1411717642184970243) - Latin American female mathematicians who are not on spanish Wikipedia but have an article in another language https://w.wiki/3U$P (Source https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx/status/1411019089938575361) - US Governors and their religion, if listed https://w.wiki/3aAf ( Source https://twitter.com/erik_paulson/status/1410754713272950784) - Living soccer players whose birthday is on January 1st https://w.wiki/3b4x (Source https://twitter.com/PhiBo23/status/1409932152758808580) - Museums nearby Cēsis (Q107582) https://w.wiki/3ZEU (Source https://twitter.com/jeb_140/status/1409588960414769156) - Distribution of public toilets per administrative units in Wales https://w.wiki/3ZEK (Source https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1409580247348097032)
Development
- Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them. - Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237920) - Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97577) - Language names in Scots (sco) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14549 were updated (phab:T285076 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285076) - A task to complete language names in Dutch (nl) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7411 is being filled (phab:T231748 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231748) - A language code for an undetermined Mixtec language is being *determined* (phab:T155419 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155419)
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