*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Pi bot 26
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Pi_bot_26>
*Task/s:* Auto-correct coordinates set to the wrong globe
- Pi bot 27
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Pi_bot_27>
*Task/s:* Auto-copy coordinate globe to located on astronomical body
(P376) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P376> (except for Q2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2>)
- William Avery Bot 9
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/William_Avery_Bot_9>
*Task/s:* Remove tracking parameters from reference URLs, as
suggested at Wikidata:Bot requests § Tracking parameters in reference
URLs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#Tracking_parameters_in_reference_URLs>.
I would like to run this as a recurring task, after clearing the c. 2800
current instances.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- William Avery Bot 8
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/William_Avery_Bot_8>
(approved) *Task/s:* Set qualifiers on family name (P734)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P734> to standardised values,
as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names § Qualifiers for
given names and surnames - establish a guideline
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Names#Qualifiers_for_given_names_and_surnames_-_establish_a_guideline>,
and requested at WD:RBOT § Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:RBOT#Request_to_replace_qualifiers_(2022-07-17)>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming
- Wikimania 2022 <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania>,
August 11 to 14, online event. The Hackathon
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon> will take place
August 12-14 <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Schedule>.
On this page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2022>
you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to
Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic
OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image
data from Wikidata. Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LK33z_L6ARux-jzRXIVPlF4yApsFxx7INpKaaZ2MUIg/edit?usp=sharing>
.
- The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 16-22! There are
still lots of spots in the schedule
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Schedule> to add your
Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
- Ongoing
- Wikimedia Indonesia's Wikidata edit-a-thon (*datathon*)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Indonesia/Kegiatan/Datathon>
for the 77th anniversary of the Indnesian Independence Day started on 5th
August and will be held until 12th August. Participants are instructed to
edit items containing the statement country of origin (P495)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P495>: Indonesia (Q252)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q252>.
- Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide
variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently
improving
the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already
familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave
feedback
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback>.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #53, Sheep
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=53>
- Past
- First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the
Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited
items on Indonesian ethnic groups.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Books
- Wikidata for Scholarly Communication Librarianship
<https://iu.pressbooks.pub/wikidatascholcomm/>
- Blogs
- Most notable person, everywhere in the world
<https://flowingdata.com/2022/08/02/most-notable-person-everywhere-in-the-world/>
- Wikidata now escapes SMILES and CXSMILES!
<https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2022/08/wikidata-now-escapes-smiles-and-cxsmiles.html>
- Bringing the whole zoo to Wikidata
<https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Bringing_the_whole_zoo_to_Wikidata> -
User:MargaretRDonald
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MargaretRDonald>
- Using tfsl to clean grammatical features on Wikidata lexemes
<https://www.lehir.net/using-tfsl-to-clean-grammatical-features-on-wikidata-lexemes/>
- Using Machine Learning, IIIF and Wikidata to find female scientists
in historical Newspaper and Journals
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/using-machine-learning-iiif-wikidata-find-female-scientists-jones/>
- Papers
- Embracing Wikidata: How to Increase Discoverability for Musicians
Online
<https://digitalartsnation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Embracing-Wikidata-Guide-2022.pdf>
- Tweet <https://twitter.com/ipetri/status/1554631438187827201>
- Videos
- New Zealand Thesis Project July 2022
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii2esyEaPjI> - User:DrThneed
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:DrThneed>
- Wikidata academic bibliographic data and Scholia
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj_lxwFS98I> (in French) by VIGNERON
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:VIGNERON> and Jsamwrites
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jsamwrites>
- Wikidata: Just Three Steps to Turn Books into Data Collections (in
Chinese) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatu9UjI0VQ>
- Presentations:
- KB Wikibase.cloud Unboxing Experience, Netherlands Wikibase
Knowlegde Group
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Wikibase.cloud_Unboxing_Experience,_Netherlands_Wikibase_Knowlegde_Group,_22-07-2022.pdf>
Tool of the week
- Wiki tools
<https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/wikipedia_and_wikidata_tools/595109124715?pann=cwsdp&hl=en>
- adds dozens of Wikipedia and Wikidata functions to your Google sheets.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's 10th birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday>:
you can contribute to the collaborative celebration video by sending a
"happy birthday video" before September 18th, more information here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Celebration_video>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: recordist
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10893>, spoken by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10894>, foliage type
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10906>
- External identifiers: Israeli Company Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10889>, PM20 ware ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10890>, pad.ma person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10891>, Bioconductor project
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10892>, Broadway World
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10895>, pad.ma
video ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10896>, ORKG ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10897>, International
Baccalaureate school ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10898>, Prophy author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10899>, Telmore Musik artist
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10900>, FirstCycling
rider ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10902>, Super
Basketball League ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10903>, Sport24.ru
team ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10904>, P. League+ ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10905>, Paleobiology
Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10907>, Kinokolo.ua
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10908>, Theatrical
Index person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10909>, Korean
Academy of Science and Technology member ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10910>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: Zhihu question ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Zhihu_question_ID>,
counts instances of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/counts_instances_of>,
holds diplomatic passport of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/holds_diplomatic_passport_of>,
Identifier of Czechoslovak books
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifier_of_Czechoslovak_books>
- External identifiers: Belgian Olympic Committee ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Belgian_Olympic_Committee_ID>,
Olympic Federation of Ireland ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Olympic_Federation_of_Ireland_ID>,
Russian Football Union player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russian_Football_Union_player_ID>,
All-Russian Sambo Federation ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/All-Russian_Sambo_Federation_ID>,
Baidu Tieba name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Baidu_Tieba_name>,
Dictionnaire Favereau (fr)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionnaire_Favereau_(fr)>,
Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Serbian_Olympic_Committee_athlete_ID_(New)>,
Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Singapore_National_Olympic_Council_athlete_ID>,
NOCNSF athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NOCNSF_athlete_ID>,
numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/num%C3%A9ro_d%27inscription_au_Registre_national_des_marques>,
Modstand person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Modstand_person_ID>,
Danacode
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Danacode>,
British
Paralympic Association athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/British_Paralympic_Association_athlete_ID>,
Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Canadian_Paralympic_Committee_athlete_ID>,
Paralympics Australia athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Paralympics_Australia_athlete_ID>,
Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Paralympics_New_Zealand_athlete_ID>,
ILAMDIR ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ILAMDIR_ID>,
identifiant BD oubliées d'un auteur
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_BD_oubli%C3%A9es_d%27un_auteur>,
Bolshoi Theatre person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bolshoi_Theatre_person_ID>,
kulturstiftung.org person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/kulturstiftung.org_person_ID>,
Mariinsky Theatre person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mariinsky_Theatre_person_ID>,
Onestop ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Onestop_ID>,
Federation Council reference ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Federation_Council_reference_ID>,
athletics.by person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/athletics.by_person_ID>,
AFC player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AFC_player_ID>,
izsambo.ru person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/izsambo.ru_person_ID>,
Rugby Union of Russia athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rugby_Union_of_Russia_athlete_ID>,
Online Torwali Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Online_Torwali_Dictionary_ID>,
wrestdag.ru person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/wrestdag.ru_person_ID>,
Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Climbing_Federation_of_Russia_athlete_ID>,
Shooting Union of Russia person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shooting_Union_of_Russia_person_ID>,
Russian Trampoline Federation ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russian_Trampoline_Federation_ID>,
Freestyle Federation of Russia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Freestyle_Federation_of_Russia_ID>,
Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Federation_of_Ski-Jumping_and_Nordic_Combined_of_Russia_ID>,
USK ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/USK_ID>,
BiatlonMag
profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BiatlonMag_profile_ID>,
motocross.ru profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/motocross.ru_profile_ID>,
Football 24 article ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Football_24_article_ID>,
abART book series ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/abART_book_series_ID>,
Turkish Paralympic Committee athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Turkish_Paralympic_Committee_athlete_ID>,
Jewish Pediatricians 1933–1945 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Jewish_Pediatricians_1933%E2%80%931945_ID>
- Query examples:
- Most recent date not used as a date of birth (P569) or date of
death (P570) <https://w.wiki/5XZ4>
- Map of war memorials, showing EN Wikipedia article if it exists
<https://w.wiki/5YAx> (source
<https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1555288388235821058>)
- Most frequent occupations of people born in Épinal
<https://w.wiki/5XY7> (source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1554207788687138820>)
- Species named after places in the state of Espírito Santo
<https://w.wiki/5XY2> (source
<https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1554202922132860928>)
- Places named after Lenin <https://w.wiki/5YKw> (source
<https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1555613271679537153>)
Development
- Lexicographical data:
- Continuing to address feedback from the testing (e.g. phab:T312292
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312292>, phab:T313113
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313113>, phab:T313466
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313466>)
- We have pushed back replacing Special:NewLexeme with the new
Special:NewLexemeAlpha a bit to address more of the testing feedback.
- Continuing to tackle allowing sitelinks to redirects under some
circumstances (phab:T278962 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278962>)
- REST API:
- Finishing up the endpoints for removing and replacing statements
and adding authentication and authorization to them
- Looking into feedback from first testing
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you
want to help out, 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>
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