*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: MystBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MystBot>
- Other: Discussion about replacing values with a new format or scheme
for "SBN author ID" (P396), an identifier for National Library Service
(SBN) of Italy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P396#Discussion_about_replacing_values_with_a_new_format_or_scheme>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming:
- The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data
reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join
us and discover many cool projects!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Events/Data_Reuse_Days_2022#Template_for_session_proposal>
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call: Andy Mabbett on the "Cite Q" template that uses data from
Wikidata in
Wikipedia citations and Crystal Clements on setting the framework for a
future discussion on addressing ethical concerns surrounding
representation
of gender for living persons in Wikidata, February 8th. Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n4FkfAUUHIMC7BO10ACVLhVWbvu4-2ztrbKWXltIVOE/edit?usp=sharing>
- Wikidata Query Service scaling: You can join 2 calls and provide
feedback at the 2 WDQS scaling community meetings on Thursday,
17 Feb 2022
18:00 UTC, and Monday 21 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC. Full details here
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KPA3CTQG2HCJO55EFZVNINGVFQJAHT4W/>
.
- Live on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> and in French about
Academic bibliographical data and Scholia by Vigneron and Jsamwrites,
February 8 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
- LIVE Wikidata editing #70 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUJjCnL72ak>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3168371536781335/>,
February 12 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #95
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#95>,
February 13 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing:
- Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2022)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Black_History_Edit-A-Thon_(February_2022)>
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #28, Computer
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=28>
- Past:
- LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lNOxhazTwI>
- Jan Ainali, GovDirectory. Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents
With Their Government - Civic Hacker Summit, November 2021
<https://www.conferencecast.tv/talk-44689-using-wikidata-to-connect-constituents-with-their-government?utm_campaign=44689&utm_source=youtube&utm_content=talk>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- How-to: Matching multilingual thesaurus concepts with OpenRefine
<https://zbw.eu/labs/en/blog/how-to-matching-multilingual-thesaurus-concepts-with-openrefine>
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2021 edition
<https://commonists.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-%e2%88%92-2021-edition/>,
by Jean-Frédéric
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric>
- Importing a Breton dictionary from Wikisource into Wikidata
lexicographical data
<https://www.lehir.net/importing-a-breton-dictionary-from-wikisource-into-wikidata-lexicographical-data/>,
by Envlh <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Envlh>
- Profiling a Wikibase item creation on
test.wikidata.org
<https://addshore.com/2022/02/profiling-a-wikibase-item-creation-on-test-wikidata-org/>
by Addshore <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore>
- Fast Bulk Import Into Wikibase
<https://wikibase.consulting/fast-bulk-import-into-wikibase/>
- Papers
- XAlign: Cross-lingual Fact-to-Text Alignment and Generation for
Low-Resource Languages <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.00291.pdf>
- Videos
- Wikidata: A knowledge graph for the earth sciences? - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oN67CfirDI>
- Activate Faktamall biografi WD gadget (see Wikidata info in
Wikipedia) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0CU9eaIh04>
- Wikidata workshop: interwiki links (Questions) - 1
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHI59WavSNk>, 2
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRnu9pSlcoQ> & 3
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bl4yQcBwOg> (YouTube)
- Wikidata Tutorial (in German): create a user account on Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNm2TYOcMco>, add an institution's
website to Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWzJueFZnCw>
Tool of the week
- Wikidata edit map <https://vrandezo.github.io/wikidata-edit-map/> by
Denny <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Denny> puts a dot on the map
whenever an Item with a geocoordinate is edited.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- January 1st as date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Dates#January_1_as_date>
- Wikidata has 2,540,891 items for people with both date of birth and
date of death. There are 9 redirects for every 100 such items. (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/identical_birth_and_death_dates/1>).
2000 people share dates of birth and death with another person.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: dpi for A4 printing
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10316>, time in the pouch
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10322>, semantic gender
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10339>
- External identifiers: AAGM artwork ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10312>, Domain suburb
profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10313>, Archivio
Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10314>, Artland fair ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10315>, Artland gallery ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10317>, Douban book series ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10318>, Douban book works ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10319>, Les Archives du
spectacle organization ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10320>, Urban Electric
Transit city ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10321>, Bergen
byleksikon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10323>, Ezeri.lv
lake ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10324>, Japanese
Canadian Artists Directory ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10325>, ICPSR Geographic
Names Thesaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10326>, ICPSR
Organization Names Authority List ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10327>, ICPSR Personal Names
Authority List ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10328>, ICPSR
Subject Thesaurus ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10329>, Bugs!
music video ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10330>,
Washington
Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10331>, Kaspersky
Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10332>, New
York Flora Atlas ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10333>,
doollee.com
literary agent ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10334>,
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>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: HSK ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HSK_ID>, sports
in region
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/sports_in_region>,
Computational complexity
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Computational_complexity>,
YouTube video
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/YouTube_video>
- External identifiers: Viki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Viki_ID>,
Absolute
Games developer and publisher IDs 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Absolute_Games_developer_and_publisher_IDs_2>,
podchaser episode ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/podchaser_episode_ID>,
IFPI UPC/EAN
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IFPI_UPC/EAN>,
Weltfussball-Spiel-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Weltfussball-Spiel-ID>,
GoodGame.ru ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GoodGame.ru_ID>,
USgamer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/USgamer_ID>,
Riot Pixels game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Riot_Pixels_game_ID>,
HaBima Archive play id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HaBima_Archive_play_id>,
HaBima Archive person id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HaBima_Archive_person_id>,
NLI topic id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NLI_topic_id>,
100Y Hebrew Theatre Guide person id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/100Y_Hebrew_Theatre_Guide_person_id>,
Old-Games.RU ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Old-Games.RU_ID>,
iXBT Games ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/iXBT_Games_ID>,
Students of Turin University ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Students_of_Turin_University_ID>,
Tagoo video game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tagoo_video_game_ID>,
AusGamers ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AusGamers_ID>,
GameGuru ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GameGuru_ID>,
LMHL author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LMHL_author_ID>,
VGTimes ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VGTimes_ID>,
ULI id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ULI_id>,
GameMAG
ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GameMAG_ID>,
SBN new authority IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SBN_new_authority_IDs>,
Prosopographia Imperii Romani Online ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Prosopographia_Imperii_Romani_Online_ID>,
IRIS UNIGE author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_UNIGE_author_ID>,
Gesher Theater Archive person id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gesher_Theater_Archive_person_id>,
Gesher Theater Archive play id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gesher_Theater_Archive_play_id>,
Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist static ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Offizielle_Deutsche_Charts_artist_static_ID>,
A9VG game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/A9VG_game_ID>,
Qichaha firm ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Qichaha_firm_ID>,
Chinese School Identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chinese_School_Identifier>,
GoHa.ru ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GoHa.ru_ID>,
Urban Electric Transit country ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Urban_Electric_Transit_country_ID>,
CiteSeerX ID of a person
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CiteSeerX_ID_of_a_person>,
Drevo Encyclopedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Drevo_Encyclopedia_ID>,
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>
- Deleted properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion>:
- "Scoresway soccer person ID" (P3043)
- "SSR WrittenForm ID" (P1849)
- "FFF female player ID" (P4886)
- "FFF male player ID" (P4883)
- Query examples:
- Events by number of video games announced <https://w.wiki/4ncM> (
source
<https://commonists.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-%e2%88%92-2021-edition/>
)
- Three-Michelin Stars restaurants with a female chef
<https://w.wiki/4ncV> (source
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Groupes_de_travail/Groupes_locaux/Rennes/3_f%C3%A9vrier_2022>
)
- Wikidata Properties specific to German Lexemes and number of times
they are used <https://w.wiki/4n$u> (source
<https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1489921667707068419>)
- Countries with count of same Wikidata labels in different languages
<https://w.wiki/4oEG> (source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1489774243617378305>)
- Team and positions played by National Women's Football League
players <https://w.wiki/4ncu> (source
<https://twitter.com/antholo/status/1489362535518199817>)
- Location of the graves of personalities in Père Lachaise Cemetery
who died between 1800 and 1849 (50 year ranges) <https://w.wiki/4nXu>
(source <https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1489224972409180162>)
- Location of statues of women in Italy <https://w.wiki/4oEa> (source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1488853768972259329>)
- Count of Lexeme pairs between different languages
<https://w.wiki/4n6g> (source
<https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/1488602739433218049>)
- Birthplaces of General secretaries of USSR <https://w.wiki/4oEg> (
source <https://twitter.com/LArtour/status/1488525141281751045>)
- Items related to Abdülmecid I, their collections, and their types
<https://w.wiki/4oVf> (source
<https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1490656031340335107>)
- Objects related in some way to Aurangzeb <https://w.wiki/4oVj> (
source <https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1490656566462328832>)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Archaeology
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archaeology>
Development
- Mismatch Finder: Tracking down one last issue with the upload of
mismatch files. Once that is fixed we are ready to release the tool.
- Lexicographical data: Started coding on the rewrite of
Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand and use.
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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