*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: October 09 - 11, 2023, Leipzig, Germany - workshop on handling and modelling mathematical research data https://www.mis.mpg.de/calendar/conferences/2023/mardimeetsis.html — Wikidata, Wikibase and Scholia are all in scope - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #91, Family (2/n) https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=91
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blog: VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available https://wikimedia.org.uk/2023/05/vocaleyes-wikidata-accessibility-information/ - Papers - Wikidata: The Making Of https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3543873.3585579 (by Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher and Markus Krötzsch) - The SciQA Scientific Question Answering Benchmark for Scholarly Knowledge https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33607-z - Videos: Back having more fun with Lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1812148333
Tool of the week
Open Burial Map https://burial.dsantini.it/#10,45,2,blue,wd_indirect - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11762, Britannica Kids students level article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11764, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11765, TOOI identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11767, Chess Programming Wiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11768 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - character in this lexeme https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/character_in_this_lexeme (character(s) this lexeme consists of) - External identifiers: none - Query examples: - Mapping birthplace and place of death of female Dutch Resistance Fighters on a line https://w.wiki/6fYZ (source https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1654490926859931652) - Countries that have site links to French Wikipedia with a parenthesis in the title https://w.wiki/6fWP (source https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/1654443096820645890) - Map of libraries from Austria with ISIL-code or twitter-handle https://w.wiki/6e$8 (source https://twitter.com/diedatenlaube/status/1653675996502007813)
Development
- (Breaking Change Announcement) Changes to the wblistentityusage API module https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/MDPPS4R7GEZ7TVQVJ3GLZBQWFFM33NPJ/ - (Breaking Change Announcement) Entity Labels Added to Parsed Edit Summaries in API Requests https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/HJ4JB2HBOLFI6CZPRMTJESS2MKS7ZRJF/ - (Breaking Change Announcement) Inconsistencies in the response of `list=wbsubscribers` API Query module https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/BHNEA4EUDZXSLNTOD2A7RIJBSNK5JBIR/ - Query Builder https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder: The Query Builder now has a language selector so you can change the interface language. - Date parsing: Input of dates in notations common in Asia, especially Japan, is now improved. (phab:T214002 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214002) - EntitySchemas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Schemas: We are continuing the development of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214884) - Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on the endpoint for replacing a label of description of an Item. (phab:T323813 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323813)
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