Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions

- New request for comments: - Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Creating_new_Wikidata_items_for_all_Commons_categories - Other: - SPARQL query service (SDC) mandatory authentication considered harmful https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:SPARQL_query_service/Upcoming_General_Availability_release#Mandatory_authentication_considered_harmful

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events

- Upcoming: - The next Wikibase live session https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.12.30 is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute https://semlab.io/. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome! - Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task. - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #21, Celebration https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=21 - Past: - EduWiki Live on the theme of Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization. ( replay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbK_-C6Rlc&t=2044s) - Wikidata workshop (in Italian) (replay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD4Eptg8KxE) - Semantic Web in Libraries: SWIB21 (replay) - From string to thing: Wikidata based query expansion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CWx4IQyiA8 - Representing the Luxembourg Shared Authority File based on CIDOC-CRM in Wikibase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDjyiYrOWJQ

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

- Blogs - Wikidata user and project talk page connection graph https://addshore.com/2021/12/wikidata-user-and-project-talk-page-connections/ - Images from Wellcome Collection pass 1.5 billion views on Wikipedia https://stacks.wellcomecollection.org/images-from-wellcome-collection-pass-1-5-billion-views-on-wikipedia-ee9663b62bef - Integrating the PM20 companies archive: part 3 of the data donation to Wikidata https://zbw.eu/labs/en/blog/integrating-the-pm20-companies-archive-part-3-of-the-data-donation-to-wikidata - Parliamentary debates are made more transparent and accessible with Wikidata https://blog.wikimedia.de/2021/12/20/parlamentsdebatten-werden-mit-wikidata-transparenter-und-besser-zugaenglich/ - A parliamentary document says more than a thousand words https://wikimedia.se/2021/12/15/ett-riksdagsdokument-sager-mer-an-tusen-ord/ (in Swedish) - The Longest Serving MP in Sweden https://www.datastory.org/blog/the-longest-serving-mp-in-sweden - * "With artificial intelligence, common sense is uncommon* https://news.usc.edu/195978/commonsense-artificial-intelligence-ai/*. "To help overcome this challenge, researchers use several sources of commonplace knowledge like Wikidata to obtain a “reasoned” AI response." * - Papers - A botanical demonstration of the potential of linking data using unique identifiers for people https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261130 - Survey on English Entity Linking on Wikidata https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.01989.pdf - Videos - Tutorial for Wikidata Mix'n'Match tool for database pairing (in Czech) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrzLSrxL7Lc - SPARQL queries on Wikidata - basic level (in Italian) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rLpnydVOpY - Presentation about the Wikidata community (in Italian) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VUCmFdilb0 - Wikidata Advanced Course (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - YouTube - Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buZRcYAV3Eg - Concept of Linked Open Data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcOyaPYjRB4 - SPARQL-Queries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk4pGavI8v0 - Automatic data import https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhqwPraCiSc - Querying Wikidata: Museums, Volcanoes (in French) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MPbbqFZgnw - Wikidata Fundamentals (in French) by CAPACOA - YouTube - Triplets, licenses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvVAKXotzYU - Item, references and qualifiers, history tab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvGUadO35oc - Creation of a user account. Creation of a new items https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c7kEHpU6MM - Wikidata Workshop: The basics by CAPACOA - YouTube - Wikimedia Foundation licenses, item, semantic triples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERICpqHH7Nw - User creation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-P2TGnHWYM - Searching and editing an item https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2IarHeJdxc - Vector Search through Wikidata with Weaviate - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4zlvknSbGc - Creating items on Wikidata using OpenRefine (without sound — subtitles only) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn793UQfaQc

Tool of the week

- NoclaimsBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:NoclaimsBot adds the first statements on items without claims https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Items_without_statements based on templates used on the linked Wikipedia article.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- The 500th Wikidata weekly summary is 2 issues away. We are putting together interesting things related to the number 500 to include in that issue. Do you know any Wikidata facts or queries or anything cool related to 500? Please add them to Wikidata:Status updates/Next#Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Welcome_to_the_500th_Weekly_Summary! - Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), currently in beta, will soon be in production with a planned General Availability date of 1 Feb 2022. See the Upcoming General Availability release discussion page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/Upcoming_General_Availability_release for more details. - Seth https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1 started an essay to summarize the multiple data-related projects going on between Wikimedia Projects at the moment: User:Lectrician1/The grand mess of data on Wikimedia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1/The_grand_mess_of_data_on_Wikimedia . - When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” by using “!Sxx” instead of “Sxx” syntax to start a new reference group https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1468976001413754880. - Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links - Wikibase Installation Survey https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAR1kj9th1wRZU027zEPJd_xP8nFgj-T29iXrpZ2wuDBeXmg/viewform - Wikibase Software Updating Survey https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-8wDOCDR-uXLecNLzuM3jxc9K81mIKq1EtUhrweEveO8aTQ/formResponse - Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams - Engineering Director https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/14145264/Director-Engineering-m-w-d-/?jobDbPVId=36933089&l=en - Full-Stack Developer https://short.sg/j/4361894

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: iTunes genre https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10150 - External identifiers: Pandora album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10138, Indonesian College Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10139, Institute of History of Ukraine ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10140, Academy of Athens authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10141, ThENC@ ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10142, CDAEM person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10143, Famitsu game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10144, EPA Facility Registry Service ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10145, Levels.fyi company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10146, U-PAD author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10147, CAMPUS author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10148, Original Esperanto Literature author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10149, iTunes genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10151, Rutube channel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10152, Nasha Versia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10153 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: Category for work of subject https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Category_for_work_of_subject, Honorary citizens category of entity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Honorary_citizens_category_of_entity, Kanobu numeric ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kanobu_numeric_ID, cadastral district https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cadastral_district, official shop URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/official_shop_URL, website https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/website, documented files https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/documented_files - External identifiers: street number in Austria https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/street_number_in_Austria, EU Whoiswho ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EU_Whoiswho_ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dicionario_da_Real_Academia_Galega, Österreichische Schulkennzahl https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%C3%96sterreichische_Schulkennzahl, iCSO ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/iCSO_ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bloomsbury_Fashion_Central_ID, Lur Encyclopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lur_Encyclopedia_ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Z%C3%BCrich_Herbaria_collector_ID, KSH code (historical) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KSH_code_(historical), Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Krasnoyarsk_Krai_ID, WikiStrinda ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiStrinda_ID, Bokselskap.no ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bokselskap.no_ID, Film.ru film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Film.ru_film_ID, Film.ru actor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Film.ru_actor_ID, Artland artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artland_artist_ID, Artland gallery ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artland_gallery_ID, ILAB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ILAB_ID, UNESCO ICH ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UNESCO_ICH_ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Maritimt_Magasin_skips_ID - Query examples: - Shijian (SJ 实践) experimental satellites https://w.wiki/4Zgo ( source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q11452851#Queries) - Age of living Hawthorn FC players https://w.wiki/3DzA (source https://twitter.com/FreoPope/status/1472166997513289728) - People died on their 50th birthday https://w.wiki/4Zmj (Source https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1471923820965646342) - Relationship between London School of Economics doctoral advisors and students https://w.wiki/3Z$7 (source https://twitter.com/HelsKRW/status/1471388444593172481) - Map of twinned towns (or partners) of municipalities of Puy-de-Dôme https://w.wiki/4Yo8 (source https://twitter.com/belett/status/1470782945732538378) - Map of the places named in reference the horse https://w.wiki/4YTF (source https://twitter.com/belett/status/1470374814972059655) - Map of bridges in Kaliningrad https://w.wiki/4XWd (source https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1468960428805869579) - Latvian citizens by occupation https://w.wiki/4a9v (source https://twitter.com/LArtour/status/1470309158503301126) - Wikidata items which are the most linked by lexemes using the property “item for this sense” https://w.wiki/4WaA (source https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1467830070773432326) - Actors in Christmas movies: by frequency, with film titles and sample film item https://w.wiki/4aJw (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q28026639#actors) - Filming locations of Christmas movies, with film titles and sample film item https://w.wiki/4aJy (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q28026639#filming_locations) - Recent Christmas movies lacking filming location https://w.wiki/4aK4 (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q28026639#films_lacking_filming_location )

Development

- Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment. Happy holidays, everyone :)

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