*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg. - SPARQL queries live on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/belett and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #23, Residence https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=23 - Past: - Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.12.30
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - How to get Wikidata claims from Wikipedia sitelinks using Wikidata API ? https://observablehq.com/@pac02/how-to-get-claims-from-wikidata-api-using-sitelinks - Videos - Working hour - Wikidata SPARQL queries (in Italian) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzRaxH8Ao3c
Tool of the week
- Wikidata's Q item explorer https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wikidatas-q-item-explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation/Documentation/WikidataCon_2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team - Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikidataCon_2021_Survey_report.pdf - Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Documentation/List_of_sessions
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: number of triples https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10209, URL for freedom of information requests https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10214, official shop URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10225, facilitates flow of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10228, next level in hierarchy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10229 - External identifiers: Norgeshistorie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10196, Numista mint ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10197, Austrian Street ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10198, F6S ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10199, EU Whoiswho ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10200, DFIH financier ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10201, Express Gazeta ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10202, All-Science Journal Classification Codes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10203, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10204, Numista coin ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10205, Comparably company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10206, Folketinget actor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10207, Coub channel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10208, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10210, Index of Middle English Verse ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10211, Stack Exchange user ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10212, Listen Notes podcast ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10213, Casefile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10215, ILAB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10216, Oslo Byleksikon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10217, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10218, CNSflora ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10219, Baseball Prospectus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10220, UNESCO ICH ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10221, Artland artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10222, Genie media ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10223, Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10224, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10226, National Library of Ireland ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10227, Viber group ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10230 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: cantilever sign https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cantilever_sign, yield rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/yield_rate, Stalin Memo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Stalin_Memo_ID, Name in Swedish government https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Name_in_Swedish_government, reference image https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/reference_image - External identifiers: FID ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FID_ID, Labyrinth database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Labyrinth_database_ID, doollee.com playwright ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/doollee.com_playwright_ID, doollee.com play ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/doollee.com_play_ID, doollee.com literary agent ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/doollee.com_literary_agent_ID, doollee.com play publisher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/doollee.com_play_publisher_ID, people.su person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/people.su_person_ID, Biographe.ru ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographe.ru_ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Filmovamista.cz_film_ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ICPSR_Subject_Thesaurus_ID, Hermitage Museum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hermitage_Museum_ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ICPSR_Personal_Names_Authority_List_ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ICPSR_Organization_Names_Authority_List_ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ICPSR_Geographic_Names_Thesaurus_ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Clavis_Apocryphorum_Novi_Testamenti_ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Clavis_Apocryphorum_Veteris_Testamenti_ID, Tretyakov Gallery ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tretyakov_Gallery_ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Maritimt_Magasin_skips_ID, ARCHER ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ARCHER_ID, Pipe Organ Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pipe_Organ_Database_ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Washington_Native_Plant_Society_Plant_Directory_ID, TVFPlay series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TVFPlay_series_ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK%C3%84_standard_classification_of_Swedish_science_topics_2016 - Query examples: - Map of New Zealand suburbs https://w.wiki/4cFr (source https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1475673160213172224) - Graph of influences in the Age of Enlightenment https://w.wiki/4cHH (source https://twitter.com/kvistgaard/status/1475755951668047877) - Family names shared by astronauts (along with how often they occur in Wikidata) https://w.wiki/4dA5 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1476883840467668994) - Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures) https://w.wiki/4cn2 (source https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1476575000140423169) - People awarded by the French Legion of Honour on Dec 31, 2021 https://w.wiki/4dNJ (source https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1477632390478581765) - Average height of people named Joe https://w.wiki/4dFR (Source https://twitter.com/vrandezo/status/1477423978901753858) - Indian writers who died in 1961 https://w.wiki/4dJG (Source https://twitter.com/aintgd/status/1477499327551459328)
Development
- Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.
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