*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: - Pi admin bot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Pi_admin_bot (successful) - New requests for permissions/Bot: - BgeeDB-bot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BgeeDB-bot. Task/s: inserting gene expression data from the Bgee database https://bgee.org/ into Wikidata.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - The next Wikibase live session https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.04.28 is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 28th April 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community. - Cultural Venues Datathon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cultural_venues/Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. The aim of this online editing event is to increase the quantity and quality of performing arts building/venue items. - Daily guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/cultural-venues-datathon/ and in French https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/fr/datathon-des-lieux-culturels/ between April 25 and April 29. - Wikidata Coffee Breaks https://glam.opendata.ch/coffee-break/ From April 25 - April 29, 2022 to fill in missing information on Swiss Performing Arts Institutions and venues. - Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ? https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscumsrD0jHtf8C8X6osnoMywoziJMeEjw, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 26, 19:00-19:30 UTC. - How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcldumvpj0rH9SZpQdaE9xS7ofNoJKSaNWl, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 27, 13:00-13:45 UTC. - The full schedule of official and supplementary activities of the Cultural Venues Datathon is available in the Google Calendar https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/2?cid=Y19rOHJiMzNoZGEwbTl0c2JwZG0zOHVrbG9xOEBncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t . - Third Pywikibot workshop on Friday, April 29th, 16:00 UTC https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/DVHYCRRMJO4OUZW5BHXZ7RFHVZSAJD2B/. *"This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the Pywikibot framework."* - From May 4 to 18 there will be the International Museum Day - Wikidata competition https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/International_Museum_Day_2022. The aim is to improve data about museums in the countries and regions participating. Contributors from anywhere can take part. - The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule#The Wikidata and Wikibase Room https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule#The_Wikibase_and_Wikidata_Room . - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #39, Agriculture https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=39 - Past: - Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-04-20 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2022-04-20 )
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - WeDigBio: A Wikidata empowered workflow https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/04/20/wedigbio-a-wikidata-empowered-workflow/ (diff version) - Wikidata as a tool for biodiversity informatics https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/04/19/wikidata-as-a-tool-for-biodiversity-informatics/ - Papers - Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata Contributors' Motivations https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3512982?casa_token=YOTCjk8m7hgAAAAA:_YII1fxdG0Oo2NF4WV00PSmrRNsgSFcBtruOHz_PQ6sjt5vNIEmDqWgfWQtFMMQhZ5zuavjaOQA (closed access) - Beyond Open Data: The Only Good License Is No License https://plus.pli.edu/Details/Details?fq=id:(352066-ATL2) - WikiProject Clinical Trials for Wikidata https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.01.22273328v1.full-text - Videos - Synchronizing a matched Mix'n'Match set to Wikidata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm8LYUWKmdI - Editing Wikidata Items (in French) - YouTube [1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgD38xG9azA, 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8RDYu4dcJo, 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9AzVfxkzsE, 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIOg6moQOig] - Recently uploaded WikidataCon 2022 YouTube videos - Creating subsets of Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0XqwDHZ-O0 - Wikidata birthday presents lightning talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZuLuXFXaoM - Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc0NsrCp1MQ - Reimagining Wikidata from the margins: listening session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abyK_k7uXfE
Tool of the week
- Wikitaxa https://docs.ropensci.org/wikitaxa/ is a software of taxonomy data written in R. - User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:So9q/fatcat-link.js is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WDQS update lag SLO has been lowered from update lag <10 min 99% of the time, to update lag <10 min 95% of the time. - Wikidata now has over 9,900 Properties! https://twitter.com/WikidataMeter/status/1516342210115125251 (71.16% Identifiers https://w.wiki/564U) - Job opening: Product Manager (PM) for Wikifunctions https://twitter.com/vrandezo/status/1516914803788328960
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: amount of medals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10659, exhibited creator https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10661, applies to work https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10663, featured track(s) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10664, raw material processed https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10672, debut date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10673, OSM object https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10675, number of references https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10676, franchisor https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10680, government debt-to-GDP ratio https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10681, ionic radius https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10685 - External identifiers: DTB artistic gymnast ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10657, Basketball Bundesliga UUID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10658, C-SPAN person numeric ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10660, IndexCat ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10662, lieferando restaurant ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10665, IPU chamber ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10666, ACNP library ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10667, HuijiWiki article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10668, TV Maze season ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10669, Musik und Gender im Internet ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10670, MINEDEX project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10671, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10674, Winterthur Glossar ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10677, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature bio ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10678, Aldiwan poet ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10679, EIA plant ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10682, Uber Eats store ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10683, Aldiwan poem ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10684, Library of the Haskala person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10686, Google Fonts ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10687, Personality Database work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10688 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: CXSMILES https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CXSMILES, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Databank_Beschermheiligen_anno_1959 - External identifiers: Reflora ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Reflora_ID, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/_North_Carolina_Extension_Gardener_Plant_Toolbox_ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RBMS_Controlled_Vocabulary_ID, Biografiskt lexikon för Finland URN.FI https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biografiskt_lexikon_f%C3%B6r_Finland_URN.FI, Galaxy Store app ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Galaxy_Store_app_ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Les_Recteurs_d%27Acad%C3%A9mie_en_France, Identifiant Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique (1802-1914) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Les_inspecteurs_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9raux_de_l%27Instruction_publique_(1802-1914), NSR quay ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NSR_quay_ID, NSR stopplace ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NSR_stopplace_ID, Heiligen.net ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Heiligen.net_ID, PlantFiles taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PlantFiles_taxon_ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Garden.org_Plants_Database_ID, Woody Plants Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Woody_Plants_Database_ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gun_Violence_Archive_incident_ID, WhoSampled television series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WhoSampled_television_series_ID, WhoSampled track ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WhoSampled_track_ID - Deleted properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion: - GS1 Global Product Classification brick code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion/P5420 - Query examples: - Most common classes for values of "depicts" (P180) on Commons https://w.wiki/55p4 (source https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Request_a_query&oldid=1623274376#Federation_question ) - Scottish river drainage basins https://w.wiki/55oy (source https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1513885089284993035) - The earliest road accident victims https://w.wiki/562y (source https://twitter.com/spas_kolev/status/1517841680736653312) - Country of nationality of people linked to the Ghana's top 3 traditional universities https://w.wiki/5646 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataGhana/status/1517872485785653248) - Count of Wikidata property types https://w.wiki/55EE (source https://twitter.com/andrawaag/status/1516659933969797122)
Development
- Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data. - REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.
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