*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
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H8Ro0bYUgRVZe3vo5qPgJam9DinJusbCw99vko65npM/ - Wikidata Workshop 2023 https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2023/ will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vVdkYYj05NUKl9g3PH2dUDQaHR4vJ-fQ1wVnzK_20Bs/edit?usp=sharing
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Modeling and Querying Awards in Wikidata https://cthoyt.com/2023/06/08/wikidata-awards.html - Creating Bengali Freebase Using Wikidata https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=125244 - Probability of having notable parents by country of citizenship https://observablehq.com/@pac02/probability-of-having-notable-parents-by-country-of-citize
Tool of the week
- narrow.css https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - quality is the result of process https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11821 (quality that this process/activity directly correlates to and produces) - External identifiers: theCrag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11816, SEC Kerala code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11817, Modern History Database person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11818, Netflix person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11819, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11820, PM20 film section ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11822, The Homicide Report person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11823 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - ISCED field https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCED_field (mapping of a particular course's local fields according to the International Standard Classification of Education) - Romanian river code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Romanian_river_code (River codes from ApeleRomâne) - External identifiers: Artmajeur artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artmajeur_artist_ID , UETK ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UETK_ID, Trésors de Nice ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tr%C3%A9sors_de_Nice_ID , German University Collections PersonID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/German_University_Collections_PersonID - Query examples: - Terminus stations of the Transilien railroad network https://w.wiki/6pYf (source https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1666484618793549825) - List of children of Johann Sebastian Bach https://w.wiki/6pYi ( source https://twitter.com/nopiedra/status/1666905105860288536)
Development
- Wikibase REST API https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API: - We finished work on accessing data for Properties (phab:T337720 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337720) - We started work on supporting conditional HTTP headers for accessing Property data (phab:T338138 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338138) - You can now add sitelinks to outreach wiki (phab:T171140 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171140) - Query Builder https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder: Fixed an issue with missing icons in the language selector (phab:T335754 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335754) - EntitySchemas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Schemas: Final polishing on the new datatype before wider testing.
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