*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>
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.