*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/APSbot_4>:
Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization
Registry (ROR -
https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production#LD4-Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call: Adam Schiff (University of Washington), Tyler Rogers (San
Diego State
University), Julia Gilmore (University of Toronto) on
documenting buildings
on academic campuses. Agenda with call link
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hSlr8GTlk_Q-bE5n1oCxXBncuCPHnqESWMR0oQcuGYA/edit>,
April 5.
- Wikimedia Research Office Hours April 5, 2022
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AWS4SV3TQUS4CZMOB6YH3ML5AIZ6WOEZ/>
- Wikidata items about theatre and dance productions
<https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/event/atelier-pratique-wikidata-produire-un-element-wikidata-relie-aux-productions-en-danse-ou-en-theatre/>,
April 6 (in French). The same workshop will be offered in English
<https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/wikidata-workshops-season-2/> on May
4.
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 6th, 2022.
Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT /
08:00-09:00 PDT /
11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours>
- Art+Feminism Community Hours. Theme: Add your Event Data to Wikidata
<https://artandfeminism.org/panel/community-hours-af-event-metrics/>.
April 9 at 2pm UTC!
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #36, Family
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=36>
- Past: Wikibase live session (March 2022) log
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.03.31>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- Property exploration: How do I learn more about properties on
Wikidata?
<https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/03/30/property-exploration-how-do-i-learn-more-about-properties-on-wikidata/>
- UCSC Ph.D. students dive deep into engineering open-domain dialogue
AI with the support of industry partners
<https://news.ucsc.edu/2022/03/nlp-liveperson-fellowships.html>.
"...*aims
to develop a better system for entity linking, the connection of entities
like “Lebron James” or “the Earth” to their various meanings in
an existing
database of knowledge – in this case, Wikidata*..."
- Highlighting linked data projects
<https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2022/03/highlighting-linked-data-projects/>.
"...*Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries, and the School
of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa are engaging
in the grant-funded Linked Data for Production project. Broadly, the
project uses linked data to show patrons information from outside sources
(such as Wikidata) and build longer, more nuanced links between resources*
".
- Videos
- The Share-VDE project and its relationship with Wikidata (in
Italian) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVpHdphLvCU>
- Create a Wikidata page from scratch (in French) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHed6VZBVFI>
- Clinical Trials, Wikidata and Systems Biology (in Portuguese) -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsYr0PGCW0M>
- New WikidataCon 2021 videos uploaded on YouTube
- Your favorite interface gadgets on Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK5rwhvDj_8>
- Wikidata Query Service scaling challenges
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nZxY4r5KQs>
- Decolonizing Wikidata: Q&A session
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlUfGhPblGo>
- Wikidata et l’écosystème de données ouvertes liées pour les arts
de la scène <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDZpdfbFVpk> (in
French)
- Respectfully representing Indigenous knowledge in Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaPEb_LMHKk>
- Other
- FAIR cookbook's recipe "How to Register a Dataset with Wikidata
<https://faircookbook.elixir-europe.org/content/recipes/findability/registeringDatasets>
"
- OpenRefine will soon hold its two-yearly survey again. Who wants to
help translate the survey to their language
<https://groups.google.com/g/openrefine/c/cBO2EWsCkME>? It will take
around 45 minutes. There are already translations underway in Spanish and
Dutch. Contact User:SFauconnier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:SFauconnier> if you want to help!
Tool of the week
- Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
- QAnswer <https://wikimedia.qanswer.ai/> is a question answering system
based on Wikidata and other projects. *Who was the first to create
liquid helium?* Try it!
<https://wikimedia.qanswer.ai/qa/full?question=who+was+the+first+to+create+liquid+helium&lang=en&kb=wikidata%2Cwikipedia&user=open>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Query Service scaling update, March 2022
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS-scaling-update-mar-2022#Wikidata_Query_Service_scaling_update,_March_2022>
is now available.
- WDQS backend alternatives paper
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_alternatives>
with shortlist of options have been published.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: cantilever sign
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10544>, supports qualifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10551>, APE code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10564>
- External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10534>, RSPA modern authors
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10535>, RSPA ancient
authors ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10536>,
1905.com
film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10537>, Leafsnap ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10538>, ImagesDéfense ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10539>, TASS Encyclopedia
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10540>, TASS
Encyclopedia country ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10541>, TASS Encyclopedia
tag ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10542>, WIPO Pearl
term ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10543>, Arizona
State Legislators: Then & Now ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10545>, db.narb.by ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10546>, Kayak hotel ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10547>, Melon music video ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10548>, Evil Angel movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10549>, ACE Repertory
publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10550>, World
of Waterfalls ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10552>, IxTheo
authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10553>,
BillionGraves
grave ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10554>, eSbírky
institution ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10555>,
Enciclopedia
del Novecento ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10556>, Zotero
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10557>, My World(a)Mail.Ru
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10558>, KSH code
(historical) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10559>, traveloka
activities ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10560>, Virginia
Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10561>, SPLC group ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10562>, GuideStar India
Organisations-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10563>, Encyclopedia
of China ID (Third Edition)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10565>, tiket to-do ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10566>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: oeconym
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/oeconym>, ISCED
Attainment
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCED_Attainment>,
Per capita income
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Per_capita_income>
- External identifiers:
Invasive.org species ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Invasive.org_species_ID>,
ihg Hotel ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ihg_Hotel_ID>,
Monoskop article ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Monoskop_article_ID>,
Le Monde journalist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Le_Monde_journalist_ID>,
Libération journalist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lib%C3%A9ration_journalist_ID>,
Le Parisien journalist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Le_Parisien_journalist_ID>,
Les Échos journalist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Les_%C3%89chos_journalist_ID>,
L'Humanité journalist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/L%27Humanit%C3%A9_journalist_ID>,
L'Opinion journalist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/L%27Opinion_journalist_ID>,
Le Figaro journalist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Le_Figaro_journalist_ID>,
Présent author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pr%C3%A9sent_author_ID>,
Aldiwan poet ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aldiwan_poet_ID>,
Aldiwan poem ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aldiwan_poem_ID>,
International Jewish Cemetery Project ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/International_Jewish_Cemetery_Project_ID>,
AccessScience ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AccessScience_ID>,
IPU Chamber ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IPU_Chamber_ID>,
COL taxon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COL_taxon_ID>,
deckenmalerei.eu ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/deckenmalerei.eu_ID>,
C-SPAN Person Numeric ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/C-SPAN_Person_Numeric_ID>,
SRSLY person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SRSLY_person_ID>,
100 Years of Alaska's Legislature Bio ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/100_Years_of_Alaska%27s_Legislature_Bio_ID>,
Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indiana_State_Historical_Marker_Program_numeric_ID>,
Beatport track ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Beatport_track_ID>,
EIA plant ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EIA_plant_ID>,
EIA utility ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EIA_utility_ID>,
Speleologi del passato ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Speleologi_del_passato_ID>,
HuijiWiki article ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HuijiWiki_article_ID>,
Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Cacti_species_ID>
- Query examples:
- Long swedish / german nouns in Wikidata <https://w.wiki/4zhs> (
source <https://twitter.com/salgo60/status/1508444534216310786>)
- Texts which have Wikisource links in English and French
<https://w.wiki/4$Gg> (source
<https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1509547358366883841>)
Development
- Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page
and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during
Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language
variant.
- REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
- Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added
language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when
editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of
the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense
to people who use screen readers.
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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