Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber (unsussesful)
• New request for comments: P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as main statements

Events

• Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 2 at 18:00 CET
• Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube, Facebook, March 6
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #52, March 7
• Upcoming: Wikidata bug triage hour about Lexemes, March 22nd
• Upcoming: Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New Brunswick. One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogpost: Wikidata and Correspondence Archives (Enriching basic metadata with a knowledge graph)
• Blogpost: The promise of Wikidata - How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source (at DataJournalism.com)
• Video: Accra Archive Wikidata and Wikipedia Workshop (GLAMS Campaign Ghana) - YouTube
• Video: COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata - YouTube
• Video: Identify and describe items of bibliographic interest (articles, monographs, authors) on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
• Video: Visualizing the global research ecosystem via Wikidata and Scholia - YouTube
• Video: Demo: How to upload new bibliography and create dashboards on Wikidata - YouTube
• Video: Reconciliation Open Refine Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
• Video: Reconciling researchers to Wikidata via Google Sheets - YouTube
• Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook
• Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) - YouTube
• Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) - YouTube

Tool of the week

• EditSum, a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js, is a userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's Babel box).
• User:Lucas Werkmeister/addStatementCountsToCategories.js, is a userscript that shows the number of statements of the linked item for all pages in a category.
• Shared Citations, a proposal arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
• Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite women.
• Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata dumps containing Items and Properties. phab:T264883
• We found a way to improve the performance of scrolling on the Item page by changing how we move the Property labels as you scroll through the page. You should see the effect after the next deployment.
• BBC Things includes links to Wikidata to provide a single reference for the growing collection of entities that matter to the BBC and their audiences.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: number of at bats, number of hits, bases on balls, runs batted in, letterer, sensors, FAQ URL, set during recurring event, stolen bases, doubles hit, triples hit
  • External identifiers: Germanistenverzeichnis ID, uta-net.com song ID, uta-net.com artist ID, AllMusic genre/style ID, DicoPolHiS ID, EuroBabeIndex.com ID, Sauvons nos tombes cemetery ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer person ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer organization ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer family ID, BookBub author ID, TlF artist ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Protagonisti della storia delle scienze della mente ID, English Placenames MADS ID, Norwegian State Administration Database ID, teatral.ro play/theater ID, CineFAN.ro title ID, CinemaRX title ID, Sinemalar title ID, Swissvote ID, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté inventory identifier, Île-de-France inventory identifier, Normandie inventory identifier, Pays de la Loire inventory identifier, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, Swedish Literature Bank place ID, Opera Online conductor ID, Discogs genre ID, Discogs style ID, Danmarks Adresseregister named street ID, bashenc.online ID, Provenio UUID, JedeSchule.de ID, ARAE ID, Encyclopedia Titanica ID, U.S. Masters Swimming ID, DzygaMDB person ID, NLS place type ID, Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: demographics of topic, strikeouts, district heating, number of signatories, opt-out, payer, secondary topic, grant number, Future Salaries ID, Index égalité professionnelle F/H, Commons incompatible image URL, verbal ability
  • External identifiers: Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID, ANPI person ID, ANPI person numeric ID, APS author ID, EEVA author ID, Archives West finding aid ID, BiographySampo person ID, Discord server numeric ID, Discord user numeric ID, CUT ID, Amathus ID, EUC ID, UPSA ID, RePEc EconPapers ID, Dark Horse contributor ID, ComiXology publisher ID, Austrian Newspapers Online ID, Cyprus Library ID, MyMusic artist ID, LFCHistory.net player ID, MeSH qualifier ID
• Query examples:
  • Hungarian church buildings sorted by confessions (Source)
  • Where Czechs most died if not in their place of birth (Source)
  • Most popular tonalities (Source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Templates for templates in Wikidata

Development

• Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in the batch so it's easier to improve them.
• Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to Lexemes later this year.
• Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
• Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain and what should come later.
• Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
• Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them not showing up was very confusing (phab:T124758)
• Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (phab:T271126)
• Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
• Continuing to build out the Query Builder and focusing on input for quantity and date queries (phab:T268942 and phab:T272697)
• Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress here.

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!