Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/EnvlhBot_2>
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dexbot 15
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Dexbot_15>
- New request for comments: Population data model
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Population_data_model>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming:
- Live on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> and in French by
Vigneron, February 15 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
- Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYz61-_gWko> February 17, 5:00 PM
- LIVE Wikidata editing #71 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0wjjHjsPeI>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3173143136304175/>,
February 19 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #96
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#96>,
February 20 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #29, Love
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=29>
- Past: LIVE Wikidata editing #70 #Beijing2022 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUJjCnL72ak>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration
<https://medium.com/wiki-playtime/historical-people-and-modern-collections-a-wikidata-exploration-8f361b4ead78>
- Wikidata in Stardog
<https://www.stardog.com/labs/blog/wikidata-in-stardog/>
- Does your birthplace affect your probability to have your Wikipedia
biography ? some evidence from people born in France.
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/births-department-wikipedia>
- Videos
- Wikidata Tutorial (in German): add qualifiers
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6NMqyuq7bE>, coordinates
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUv3k_hFNqE> & address
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbwYTdDjgEk>
- PADE Workshop: Wikidata – Linked, Open Data - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxjpn9wtLPg>
- OpenGLAM Valentine's Day School: Intro to Wikidata (in Finish) -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5oTOCKfDsA>
- Workshop on adding intangible heritage community data and images on
Wikidata/Wikimedia - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4UOGnm123k>
- Hands On: SPARQL Query Dbpedia Wikidata Python - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAqlDLCU1Gg>
Tool of the week
- Equal Street Names <https://equalstreetnames.org/> is a map
visualizing the streetnames of a city by gender.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New development plan for Wikidata and Wikibase for Q1 2022
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ZXIBB4X4I2H4YFMZLX4AD6CPDAO6QPLU/>
- Krbot's constraint reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations>
are now generally updated daily, after code optimizations and hardware
upgrades.
- Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiki_Mentor_Africa> is a
mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a
mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiki_Mentor_Africa/Mentor%27s_Room>
!
- Wikidata ESR <https://github.com/cpesr/WikidataESR> is a tool to
visualize evolutions of universities and schools, such as creations,
mergers, deletions and relations. Feedback and help to develop this project
further is requested.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: semantic gender
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10339>, original catalog
description <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10358>
- External identifiers:
doollee.com play ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10335>,
doollee.com play
publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10336>,
doollee.com
playwright ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10337>, Dico
en ligne Le Robert ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10338>,
Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10340>, Réseau documents
d'artistes ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10341>, Linguistic
Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10342>, Key Biodiversity
Areas factsheet ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10343>, Viki
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10344>, Clavis
Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10345>, Clavis Apocryphorum
Veteris Testamenti ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10346>,
World Economic Forum ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10347>, USgamer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10348>, Podvig Naroda ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10349>, Vesti.ru dossier ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10350>, Turin University
student ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10351>, Naver TV
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10352>, AusGamers ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10353>, PlayGround.ru ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10354>, Maritimt Magasin
ship ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10355>, TV3 show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10356>, TV3 video ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10357>, IRIS UNIGE author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10359>, nzs.si player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10360>, UKÄ classification
of science topics 2016 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10361>,
Lib.ru author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10362>, Hessian
Literature Council author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10363>, Finnish real
property ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10364>, GoodGame.ru
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10365>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: Computational complexity
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Computational_complexity>,
audio contains
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/audio_contains>,
identifies
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifies>,
Cadastral areas
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cadastral_areas>,
video depicts
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/video_depicts>,
YouTube video
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/YouTube_video>,
cadastral plot reference
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cadastral_plot_reference>,
Finisher
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Finisher>,
trainiert
von
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/trainiert_von>,
identifier values as
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifier_values_as>,
YouTube video or playlist privacy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/YouTube_video_or_playlist_privacy>,
debut date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/debut_date>
- External identifiers: Strongman Archives athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Strongman_Archives_athlete_ID>,
TVSA actor ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TVSA_actor_ID>,
vc.ru company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/vc.ru_company_ID>,
Change.org decision maker ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Change.org_decision_maker_ID>,
INPA nature reserve id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/INPA_nature_reserve_id>,
Basketball Bundesliga UUID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Basketball_Bundesliga_UUID>,
Roskomnadzor media license number 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Roskomnadzor_media_license_number_2>,
Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Viciebsk_Encyclopedia_ID>,
Dumbarton Oaks object ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dumbarton_Oaks_object_ID>,
Transilien ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Transilien_ID>,
Cybersport.ru ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cybersport.ru_ID>,
JeuxActu ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JeuxActu_ID>,
Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Name Authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Linked_Open_Data_Taiwan_@_Library_Name_Authority_ID>,
Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Classification Authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Linked_Open_Data_Taiwan_@_Library_Classification_Authority_ID>,
Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Linked_Open_Data_Taiwan_@_Library_Subject_Terms_Authority_ID>,
St. Sergius Institute authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/St._Sergius_Institute_authority_ID>,
ICQ user ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ICQ_user_ID>,
previous property definition
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/previous_property_definition>,
State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/State_Heraldic_Register_of_the_Russian_Federation_ID>,
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Boris_Yeltsin_Presidential_Library_ID>,
ScienceDirect topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ScienceDirect_topic_ID>,
VK Music ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VK_Music_ID>,
Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biographisches_Portal_der_Rabbiner_ID>,
Künstlerdatenbank ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/K%C3%BCnstlerdatenbank_ID>,
BelTA dossier ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BelTA_dossier_ID>,
Spotify user ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Spotify_user_ID>,
NTSF ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NTSF_ID>,
BritBox
ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BritBox_ID>,
KLADR ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KLADR_ID>,
Springer
Nature Subjects Taxonomy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Springer_Nature_Subjects_Taxonomy>,
PLOS Thesaurus ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PLOS_Thesaurus_ID>,
traveloka hotel id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/traveloka_hotel_id>,
tiket com hotel id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tiket_com_hotel_id>,
trip.com Hotel ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/trip.com_Hotel_ID>,
VerbaAlpina ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VerbaAlpina_ID>
- Query examples:
- Tram bridges in France <https://w.wiki/4oc3>
- Polish Righteous Among the Nations <https://w.wiki/4ovS>
- Launch date, logo of social media services <https://w.wiki/4oxe> (
source <https://twitter.com/wikidataid/status/1491366263880355841>)
- Oscar winners from 1929 <https://w.wiki/4p35> (source
<https://twitter.com/Mcx83/status/1491068804704923656>)
- Images of biologists by height <https://w.wiki/4pKw> (source
<https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1491852186036449280>)
- Biggest coins outside the U.S. <https://w.wiki/4p6w> (source
<https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1491510965388599300>)
Development
- Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page.
Nothing to see yet though.
- Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get
them. (phab:T301247 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301247>)
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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