*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>
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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