Weekly Summary #523 - Wikidata

7 Jun 2022

*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>

   - June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Scholia/June_2022_hackathon>
with
   focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
   - June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e
   Structured Data on Commons <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8bDtO4cq8>
   - July 8-10: Data Quality Days
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Quality_Days_2022>,
   online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit
   sessions or discussion topics
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Events/Data_Quality_Days_2022>
until
   June 19th.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>

   - Blogs
      - Travailler avec les épigraphes littéraires dans Wikidata
      <https://jdr.hypotheses.org/1661>
      - Were more plant genera really named for nymphs than women who
      actually lived?
      <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yoKhbNM_9yYqni0JAh-3NEKsDjLm5xMn/view>
   - Papers
      - "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models"
      <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.08184.pdf>: Infusing structured knowledge
      from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al,
      2022)
   - Videos
      - Live Wikidata editing #82
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsyPI3ZVwRs> by Ainali
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ainali> and Abbe98
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Abbe98>

Tool of the week

   - Article's wikilinks inspector

<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/articles-wikilinks-inspector?collection=@pac02/wikipedia-tools>
takes
   all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those
   entities using Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - The May 2022 summary

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/May_2022_scaling_update>
for
   the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
   - There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query
   Service backend update

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update>
on
   Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC
   <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1655751623> (link to the meeting
   <https://meet.jit.si/WDQS-alternative-backends-jun2022>).
   - Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the
   Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Feliciss> and PangolinMexico

<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=UserPangolinMexico&action=edit&redlink=1>,
   working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for
   Wikicite and Wikidata <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300207>, and
   LennardHofmann <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:LennardHofmann>, working
   on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305869>. Feel free to greet them and
   follow their work on Phabricator!
   - A new Mix'n'match page to query entries
   <https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/entries> across catalogs, by
   various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: date of incorporation
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10786>, in operation on
      service <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10788>, coordination
      number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10795>
      - External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10784>, JBIS horse ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10785>, FactGrid property ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10787>, Lithuania Minor
      Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10789>,
PlantFiles
      taxon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10791>, Garden.org
      Plants Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10792>, Woody
      Plants Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10793>, Macaulay
      Library taxon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10794>, Italian
      Chamber of Deputies government ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10796>, Italian Chamber of
      Deputies parliamentary group ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10797>, Midi libre
      journalist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10798>,
Heiligen.net
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10799>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
   review:
      - General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COR_lemma-id,_niveau_1>
      , embargoed until
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/embargoed_until>
      , electric charge capacity

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/electric_charge_capacity>
      , COR form ID, level 1

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COR_form_ID,_level_1>
      , феноритмотип

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BF>
      , type of artefact(s)

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/type_of_artefact(s)>
      - External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russia.travel_object_ID>
      , AdoroCinema series ID

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AdoroCinema_series_ID>
      , FirstCycling (riderID)

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FirstCycling_(riderID)>
      , snookerscores.net player ID

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/snookerscores.net_player_ID>
      , OVO-code
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OVO-code>, CEU
      author ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CEU_author_ID>
      , Chaoxing Journal ID

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chaoxing_Journal_ID>
      , Springer Nature Person ID

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Springer_Nature_Person_ID>
      , Springer Nature Article ID

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Springer_Nature_Article_ID>
      , Springer Nature Journal ID

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Springer_Nature_Journal_ID>
      , MUI Icon
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MUI_Icon>, UK
      Beetles ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK_Beetles_ID>
   - Deleted properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion>:
   - Query examples:
      - Which are the most popular natural products based on the number of
      statements on their corresponding QID? <https://w.wiki/5E6u> (from
      the Telegram Wikidata group)
      - Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Elisabeth or Élisabeth
      <https://w.wiki/5DYV> (source
      <https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1531140106366623745>)

Development

   - Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and
   displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305854>) and are continuing work on
   accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard
   navigation (phab:T290733 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290733>,
   phab:T30535 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T30535>).
   - REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests
   (phab:T307031 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307031>, phab:T307032
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307032>) and published the OpenAPI
   specification document
   <https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/js/rest-api/> (still subject
   to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the
   API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306667>).

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 Coordinator

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Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
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