Weekly Summary #591 - Wikidata

28 Aug 2023

      *Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/TiagoLubianaBot_2
   (Task: The Open Targets Platform https://www.opentargets.org/ is an
   important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0
   license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of
   User:TiagoLubianaBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TiagoLubianaBot
   to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical
   interactions between proteins and drugs.)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #107, Teeth
   https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=107 (Challenge
   started on 2023-08-28 12:01:31)
   - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
   Working Hour August 28, 2023. We will cover adding the articles from our
   bibliography of diverse LIS resources that we created in our last session
   to Wikidata! We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management
   software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for
   articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded
   using QuickStatements. To get a sneak preview of what we will be doing, you
   can learn more about the Wikidata & Zotero link here: Wikidata:Zotero
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Zotero. This session will be
   recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-August-28_Wikidata_Working_Hour
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata
   https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3462/TADA3.pdf
   - Videos
      - Keynote about Wikidata for the Chinese Confernence on Knowledge
      Graphs and Semantic Computing 2023, by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXEctjXD_GU
      - How to fill an Infobox on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Wikipedia For
      Beginners - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoGst-hhaqU
      - The impact of Wikidata-powered inboxes on minority and
      low-resourced language Wikipedias in Africa (Wikimania 2023) - YouTube
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mog2wXCypA4
      - How to create item in Wikidata about a village (in Malayalam) -
      YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgocEFUv6ok
      - Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap relation (in Guarani) -
      YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCBz6s9uKJ0
      - WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata - YouTube
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz70A8JCGO8
Tool of the week
- Wikitrivia https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ is a web-based game
   that challenges your knowledge of historical events, people, and places.
   The game is a combination of Sudoku and Scrabble, and all the data used in
   the game is sourced from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The objective of the game
   is to place the cards on the timeline in the correct order.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Biyanto Rebin is joining the Software Communication team (SCoT) at
   Wikimedia Deutschland for 2.5 months as an intern. Welcome!
   - Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! Project
   submission deadline - September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC
   https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/IPGTE5XVAZ32DO3NWDSDQW2A3A4NZB5X/
   .
   - Postdoctoral researcher (position) in NLP, Digital Humanities, and
   Semantic Web (0.8 FTE), University of Groningen
   https://www.iamexpat.nl/career/jobs-netherlands/research-academic/postdoctoral-researcher-nlp-digital-humanities-and
Did you know?
- Newest properties
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties:
      - General datatypes:
         - has heir or beneficiary
         https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12002 (people or
         organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the
         subject's property or title)
      - External identifiers: Austrian Cave Register ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11985, ‎research.com ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11986, AFC-Ajax.info player
      ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11987, wiki.gg article ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11988, MUDlistings ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11989, The Mud Connector ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11990, ‎Visiongame.cz game
      ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11991, ‎Visiongame.cz
      studio ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11992, Databáze
      her developer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11993, wiki.gg
      wiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11994, Audio+ show
      ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11995, Cent cols ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11996, Lift Up profile ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11997, Living Music
      Database composer ID
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11998, Dictionary
      of Czech literature after 1945 ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11999, ‎Biographical
      Directory of Federal Judges numeric ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12000, GamerProfiles game ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12001
   - New property proposals
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal
   to review:
      - General datatypes:
         - simule
         https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/simule
         (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
         - sexe ou genre du protagoniste
         https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/sexe_ou_genre_du_protagoniste
         (regarding the work in question, For human: male, female, non-binary,
         intersex, transgender female, transgender male, agender. For
animal: male
         organism, female organism. Groups of same gender use subclass
of (P279))
         - unofficial name
         https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/unofficial_name
         (name which is widely or rarely used, but not official (for
nicknames use
         P1449, for pseudonymes P742))
      - External identifiers: VocalEyes Heritage Access 2022
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VocalEyes_Heritage_Access_2022,
      WikiChip article ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiChip_article_ID,
      identifiant Demozoo d'une démo
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Demozoo_d%27une_d%C3%A9mo,
      identifiant Demozoo d'un membre d'un groupe de démo
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Demozoo_d%27un_membre_d%27un_groupe_de_d%C3%A9mo,
      Czech geological location ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Czech_geological_location_ID,
      Moviefone person ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moviefone_person_ID,
      Moviefone movie ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moviefone_movie_ID,
      Les Petits M'O ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Les_Petits_M%27O_ID,
      Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Internet_Dictionary_of_Polish_Surnames_ID,
      Minerals.net mineral ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Minerals.net_mineral_ID,
      Minerals.net gemstone ID
      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Minerals.net_gemstone_ID
   - Query examples:
      - Map of birthplaces of German women writers https://w.wiki/7KAF (
      source https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1694480115403555205)
      - Week 34, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now
      https://w.wiki/6TNS (source
      https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110956754311815912)
      - Where were people who went to space born? https://w.wiki/7LpT (
      source https://twitter.com/andrawaag/status/966657088687656961)
   - Newest WikiProjects
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
   WikiProject Research expeditions
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Research_expeditions
   - documents the activities of an international working group on Research
   expeditions.
Development
- We started looking at ways to make the Mismatch Finder more powerful
   and capture more mismatches.
   - We updated bootstrap-table library on Wikidata Query Service (
   phab:T328281 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328281)
   - We fixed Lexeme header overlaps page toolbar in Minerva skin (
   phab:T318981 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318981)
   - We fixed lookup component scrollbar problem (phab:T325822
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325822)
   - We added telnet as a valid protocol for URL data types (phab:T344417
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344417)
   - We added language fallback support for EntitySchemas on Special pages (
   phab:T338798 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338798)
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
-- 
Mohammed S. Abdulai
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*

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