*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - BorkedBot 10 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BorkedBot_10 (Import values of subject named as (P1810) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1810, start time (P580) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P580, number of subscribers (P3744) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3744, point in time (P585) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P585, has quality (P1552) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1552 (You must be 18+ to view this community (Q83807365) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83807365, private subreddit (Q72970624) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72970624, restricted subreddit (Q99518895) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99518895, quarantined subreddit (Q66364374) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66364374) (if applicable), end time (P582) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P582 (if applicable), based on subreddit (P3984) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3984). - Bitbotje 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Bitbotje_2 (Task/s: remove redundant item aliases) - HubaishanBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/HubaishanBot (The Bot will import some data from GeoNames (Q830106) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q830106, Geographic Names Server (Q1194038) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1194038, OpenStreetMap (Q936) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936 and Yemen General Census of Population, Housing and Establishments 2004 (Q12202700) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12202700 for only Yemen places these data includes: location, refs, names, population, sub administrative territorial, shared borders. all data imported with me in local database and checked.) - Closed request for permissions/Bot: - bitbotje https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1970 has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.) - New request for comments: - Wikidata as fans resources https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Wikidata_as_fans_resources
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Ongoing - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #84, Carnival https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=84 - Past - Open Data Day 2023 edit-a-thon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Kerala/Events/ODD_2023 by Wikidata:WikiProject Kerala https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Kerala - March 10-11th 2023
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Public Domain Day Belgium 2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/February_2023/Contents/Belgium_report - The Biodiversity Heritage Library is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/14/the-biodiversity-heritage-library-is-round-tripping-persistent-identifiers-with-the-wikidata-query-service/ - Named Entity Recognition for Placenames in Welsh Language Texts https://blog.library.wales/named-entity-recognition-for-placenames-in-welsh-language-texts/ - The messy data sources behind “Mapping diversity https://medium.com/european-data-journalism-network/the-messy-data-sources-behind-mapping-diversity-3cc7338b8b84
- Papers - How can the social sciences benefit from knowledge graphs? A case study on using Wikidata and Wikipedia to examine the world’s billionaires https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3370.pdf - Videos - Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl-Ygy7eoao - LIVE Wikidata editing #107 - Twitter https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YpJkgnkgvrJj - Podcasts - WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia https://www.wikimedia.de/wikimove-site/podcast/episode-9-abstract-wikipedia/. The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.
Tool of the week
- Open Etymology Map https://etymology.dsantini.it/#10,45,3,blue,all_db - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost https://gisplay.pl/mapy/10578-dzieki-tej-mapie-poznasz-historie-nazw-ulic-i-interesujacych-miejsc.html in Polish)
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Modrinth project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11635, Akademi Kernewek ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11636, Wattpad username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11637, The Counted person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11638, L’Équipe team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11639, Hart Island Project person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11640, explain xkcd ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11641, La grammatica italiana ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11642, CurseForge project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11643 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: University of Barcelona authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/University_of_Barcelona_authority_ID, IRIS private universities (2) IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_private_universities_(2)_IDs, Deutsche Synchronkartei Person-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Deutsche_Synchronkartei_Person-ID, IRIS Lazio IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Lazio_IDs, Napster album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Napster_album_ID, AIBA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AIBA_ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Athletic_Bilbao_profile_ID, Epson Tour player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Epson_Tour_player_ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WPGA_Tour_Australasia_player_ID, Litres author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Litres_author_ID, Artist Directory ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artist_Directory_ID - Query examples: - Notable milkmaids https://w.wiki/6SA$ - Places of birth or death of female painters in Brittany https://w.wiki/6RPo (source https://twitter.com/belett/status/1633838740761370626) - What profession do women in Basque Wikipedia biographies have? https://w.wiki/KKU (source https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1633372272328163328) - World map according to shared borders https://w.wiki/6Pnm (source https://twitter.com/EntityExplosion/status/1631094721044172800) - Top album languages found on Wikidata right now https://w.wiki/5Pbw (Week 10, 2023) (source https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110004209285152782)
Development
- Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (phab:T328764 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328764) - EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements. - REST API: - We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses ( phab:T330252 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330252) - We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item ( phab:T327882 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327882)
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