*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>
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