*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 - Live editing session on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/belett, in French, by Vigneron, October 11 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2) - Live editing session on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/Jean_Fred as part of the DACH Culture Contest https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/DACH_Culture_Contest, in English (or French, depending on the audience), by Jean-Frédéric, October 12 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2) - 12 November 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Mini Wikimedia Hackathon for experienced Wikimedians https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mini_Hackathon_November_2022. Includes a farewell ceremony to the GLAMwiki Toolset. - UM Data Science Research Seminar https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/um-data-science-research-seminar-37. Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Speaker: Egon Willighagen. Title: Making research output FAIR with Wikidata - Ongoing - DACH Culture Contest https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/DACH_Culture_Contest to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland − until October 16th. - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #62, Cereals https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=62 - Past - The European Citizen Science Association's 2022 conference was held from 5-8 October in Berlin. It included a presentation on Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Interactions_between_citizen_science_and_the_ecosystem_around_Wikipedia_-_talk_at_the_European_Citizen_Science_Association_conference_2022.pdf .
✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - #WikidataBirthday https://twitter.com/hashtag/WikidataBirthday?src=hashtag_click: A series of blog posts written by Sannita (A) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community - 10 Years of Wikidata Part 1 (en https://blog.wikimedia.de/2022/09/30/10-years-of-wikidata-part-1/, de https://blog.wikimedia.de/2022/10/04/10-jahre-wikidata-1/) - 10 Years of Wikidata Part 2 (en https://blog.wikimedia.de/2022/10/06/10-years-of-wikidata-part-2/, de https://blog.wikimedia.de/2022/10/06/10-jahre-wikidata-2/) - The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/10/07/the-state-of-wikidata-and-cultural-heritage-10-years-in/ - Videos - Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8pMv-p8umI (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals) - LIVE Wikidata editing #93 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCajTjEbtt8 - DCMI Webinar: Querying Wikidata - All the Knowledge in the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3T1T51cH3A - Merging data from a remote SPARQL End Point (Wikidata) with locally stored Data using Apache Fuseki and Jena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3T1T51cH3A - Dataviz - All Nobel laureates by year and gender https://observablehq.com/@pac02/all-nobel-laureates-by-gender-and-by-year - Tribute to Annie Ernaux, Literature Nobel lauréate in 2022 https://observablehq.com/@pac02/tribute-to-annie-ernaux
🧰 Tool of the week
- User:Magnus Manske/author strings.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/author_strings.js will automatically run on any item with author name string (P2093) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2093. It allows to "create new author" for the selected entries, and change the string author properties for authors (P50) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P50. (2022-10-10)
✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December. - The September 2022 summary https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/September_2022_scaling_update for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.
🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: model image https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11101 - External identifiers: eGardenGo plant ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11087, Oculus Store ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11088, UniChem compound ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11089, Boomplay artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11090, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11091, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11092, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11093, Chess Federation of Canada ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11094, USGS Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11095, LINCS small molecule ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11096, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11097, Tas Parliament member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11098, VocaDB album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11099, VocaDB track ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11100, JioSaavn album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11102 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: Cultural identity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cultural_identity, Android application ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Android_application_ID, collection items at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/collection_items_at, pin out https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/pin_out, abbreviation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/abbreviation, store number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/store_number - External identifiers: Online French Dictionary Larousse ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Online_French_Dictionary_Larousse_ID, C64-Wiki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/C64-Wiki, IRIS UNIBAS author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_UNIBAS_author_ID, Epson Tour player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Epson_Tour_player_ID, HomeComputer Museum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HomeComputer_Museum_ID, EPA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EPA_ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/sinta_kemdikbud_Author_ID, Sogou Baike ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sogou_Baike_ID, The Athletic player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Athletic_player_ID, The Athletic team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Athletic_team_ID, Reddit topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Reddit_topic_ID - Query examples: - Wikidata has more than 200 Klingon lexemes https://query.wikidata.org/#%23title%3AKlingon%20lexemes%0ASELECT%20%3Flemma%20%3FlexemeId%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3FlexemeId%20dct%3Alanguage%20wd%3AQ10134%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Alemma%20%3Flemma.%0A%20%20filter%28lang%28%3Flemma%29%20%3D%20%27tlh-latn%27%29%0A%7D. qapla'! - Map of historic Welsh parishes https://w.wiki/5nLR (source https://twitter.com/WIKI_NLW/status/1578031291161006081) - "Controversies” articles with the most sitelinks (language versions) https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20%E2%80%9Ccontroversies%E2%80%9D%20articles%20with%20the%20most%20sitelinks%20%28language%20versions%29%0A%23%20note%3A%20technically%2C%20this%20counts%20all%20sitelinks%2C%20not%20only%20Wikipedia%20ones%20%28e.g.%20also%20Wikimedia%20Commons%20categories%29%20%E2%80%93%0A%23%20the%20top%20results%20are%20correct%2C%20though%2C%20so%20I%20don%E2%80%99t%20think%20it%E2%80%99s%20worth%20complicating%20the%20query%20further%20to%20fix%20this%0ASELECT%20%3Fcontroversies%20%3FcontroversiesLabel%20%3Fsitelinks%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20all%20%E2%80%9Ccontroversies%E2%80%9D%20items%20using%20CirrusSearch%20%28SPARQL%20isn%E2%80%99t%20the%20right%20tool%20for%20this%20job%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22www.wikidata.org%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Search%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20note%3A%20the%20%E2%80%9Cinlabel%E2%80%9D%20keyword%20also%20searches%20aliases%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20exclude%20scholarly%20articles%20%28Q13442814%29%2C%20there%E2%80%99s%20plenty%20of%20them%20and%20we%20don%E2%80%99t%20care%20about%20them%20here%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20also%20exclude%20categories%20%28Q4167836%2C%20P4224%29%3B%20we%E2%80%99ll%20filter%20them%20out%20again%20below%2C%20but%20excluding%20some%20here%20speeds%20things%20up%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrsearch%20%22inlabel%3Acontroversies%40en%20-haswbstatement%3AP31%3DQ13442814%20-haswbstatement%3AP31%3DQ4167836%20-haswbstatement%3AP4224%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20get%20as%20many%20search%20results%20at%20once%20as%20possible%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mwapi%3Asrlimit%20%22max%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcontroversies%20wikibase%3AapiOutputItem%20mwapi%3Atitle.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20get%20the%20number%20of%20sitelinks%20and%20the%20English%20label%0A%20%20%3Fcontroversies%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fsitelinks%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcontroversiesLabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcontroversiesLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%23%20filter%20out%20categories%20%28-haswbstatement%3AP31%3DQ4167836%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20exclude%20categories%20that%20are%20instance%20of%20a%20subclass%20of%20Q4167836%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21STRSTARTS%28%3FcontroversiesLabel%2C%20%22Category%3A%22%40en%29%29%0A%20%20%23%20also%20filter%20out%20templates%20%28only%20one%20match%20at%20the%20moment%2C%20not%20worth%20adding%20this%20to%20the%20search%20string%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21STRSTARTS%28%3FcontroversiesLabel%2C%20%22Template%3A%22%40en%29%29%0A%20%20%23%20filter%20out%20the%20item%20about%20the%20%E2%80%9Ccontroversy%E2%80%9D%20concept%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fcontroversies%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ1255828%29%0A%20%20%23%20require%20at%20least%20one%20sitelink%20%28article%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fsitelinks%20%3E%200%29%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fsitelinks%29 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1577992572391284737 ) - Are you cited by Nobel Prize winners? https://w.wiki/5nCF (Replace with your ORCID id in query to check) (source https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/1577694812245041154) - Current members of UK Parliament and their PhD theses https://w.wiki/5n2o (source https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1577399135040376846) - Map of Rennes https://w.wiki/5nyv, each dot is a thoroughfare, in blue if there is an image of their name sign on Wikimedia Commons, red otherwise (source https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1579021551252361216) - Count of all external identifiers for people with ADB identifier https://w.wiki/5o4R (source https://twitter.com/wragge/status/1579378149288079360)
🧑🏿💻 Development
- MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311617) - Lexicographical data: - Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page - Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T317863) - REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers - Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300770) - Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314360) - Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314611) - Thanks, Mike!
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