*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, FlyingAce https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:FlyingAce! (see the closed request https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/FlyingAce ) - New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 4 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Framabot_4 (Task: Import commune of France https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q484170 contact data from french official directory https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117479181, french official directory https://lannuaire.service-public.fr/ - Closed request for permissions/Bot: JoRobot 8 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/JoRobot_8 (Task: Removing good list badge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51759403 from articles in the Catalan Wikipedia)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 15, 2023. We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Zotero to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements.More information on the event page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-September-15_Wikidata_Working_Hour
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- - Paper: Documenting Biodiversity in Underrepresented Languages using Crowdsourcing https://biss.pensoft.net/article/112431/ - Mohammed Kamal-Deen Dnshitobu Fuseini, Agnes Ajuma Abah, Andra Waagmeester - Press: Statement by Alliance F5 on the German Government's data strategy https://okfn.de/blog/2023/09/stn-datenstrategie/ (in German) - Videos - List of free software in *le socle interministériel de logiciels libres* (SILL/the interministerial base of free software) recommended by the French Government in Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo_VpAyby1c - Nicolas Vigneron - Georeferencing using OSM and Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py1JkgkEHI8 - Oficina Wiki Apoia - Members of Riksdag (Sweden's parlement) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxb49PvpaA - Magnus Sälgö - Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments with Content Partnerships Hub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiTjxAy_Z8 - Wikimedia Sweden - From self-documentation to federated querying using Wikibase: a new topology to Media Art Archiving? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY3UeO6yNb8 - Raphael Tsz Kin Chau
Tool of the week
- LowercaseDescription.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ricordisamoa/LowercaseDescription.js is a script that adds a link to automatically lower the first letter of an item's description in the user's language.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can now browse all the Wikibase instances hosted on Wikibase.Cloud: https://www.wikibase.cloud/discovery - Wikibase resources https://github.com/KBNLwikimedia/Wikibase-resources, a collection of resources, overviews, links and knowlegde related to Wikibase, collected and curated by KB, national library of the Netherlands https://www.kb.nl/
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: RBC person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12031, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12032, France 3 Régions journalist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12033, Médiathèque Numérique CVS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12034, MyShows show ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12035, NHK News topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12036, Sitios ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12037, Xiaohongshu user ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12038, Fansly ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12039 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - chronological designation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/chronological_designation (as a typical instance, the stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: the reference source being cited to support the statement being made) - Flora of New Jersey Project atlas URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flora_of_New_Jersey_Project_atlas_URL (URL for a plant species in the Flora of New Jersey Project atlas) - External identifiers: British Pathé ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/British_Path%C3%A9_ID , ProductReview ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ProductReview_ID , BISAC Subject Heading https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BISAC_Subject_Heading , EDItEUR Thema id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EDItEUR_Thema_id , ONIX Subject Scheme id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ONIX_Subject_Scheme_id , MiMoText ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MiMoText_ID , ADVN ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ADVN_ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Register_of_Monumental_Trees_ID , Diktyon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diktyon, Codeberg username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Codeberg_username , RAWG tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RAWG_tag_ID , National Library of Albania ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Library_of_Albania_ID , DfE Group UID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DfE_Group_UID , AARoads Wiki article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AARoads_Wiki_article_ID , Armasanicana person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Armasanicana_person_ID , FloraVeg.EU species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FloraVeg.EU_species_ID , Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/_Vascular_Plants_of_Iowa_species_ID - Query examples: - Google Scholar Organization IDs to Wikidata https://w.wiki/7Md7 ( source https://twitter.com/annreynolds988/status/1703244710641590321 ) - Power stations of this world https://w.wiki/7T6X (source https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1701996445040009566) - Usage state of the nuclear power plant https://w.wiki/7Tth (source https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1702766817993715936)
Development
- We are planning the migration of some of our existing components from the Wikit to the Codex design system in Query Builder, Mismatch Finder and the Special:NewLexeme page. - Warnings about not being logged-in will now have a returnto= parameter attached to their links, so that you can don’t use your flow from logging in (phab:T330550 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330550) - We fixed an issue with the LanguageSwitcher in Query Builder where it would open out of the viewport on some tablet screen widths (phab:T344231 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344231) - Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on making it possible to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342976) and getting the labels of a Property (phab:T342977 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342977)
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