*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* 🧵Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - MsynBot 11 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MsynBot_11 - Task: update Wikidata:Main Page/Popular https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page/Popular daily - VojtěchDostálBot 1 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Vojt%C4%9BchDost%C3%A1lBot_1 - Task/s: Import of field of work (P101) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P101 from Czech National Authority Database (Q13550863) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13550863 - Closed request for permissions/Bot: - MsynBot 10 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MsynBot_10 - Task/s: manage badges in sitelinks to redirects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sitelinks_to_redirects - Josh404Bot 4 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Josh404Bot_4 - Task/s: Add review score (P444) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P444 for video game (Q7889) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7889 items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2864 with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21039459 API. - BorkedBot 8 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BorkedBot_8 - Update official website (P856) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P856 to HTTPS when appropriate - DwdsBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/DwdsBot - Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1225026.
🎊 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_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group call November 15, 2022: We will be discussing the first Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour series, which ran from July to early November of this year. We will offer visualizations based on our data, listen to some of our volunteers talk about their experience helping to build the series, and discuss the results of our participant survey. We want to hear your questions and suggestions for future series! Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Ng82z82j6e3dXROrLPFvsSkCDs_DvGEUG_WPtF1h2o/edit?usp=sharing - Enrichissement des données sur la danse https://www.quebecdanse.org/actu/2022/10/24/venez-contribuez-a-la-decouvrabilite-des-donnees-de-la-danse-sur-le-web-avec-wikidata/: Wednesday 16 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session A) and Thursday 17 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session B). Join the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) and the Linked Digital Future Initiative (LDFI) for two dynamic sessions focusing on dance data. Session A will focus on artists, while Session B will focus on organizations and dance companies. Note: These sessions are offered in French only. - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Numbers (5/n) https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=67 - Past: - Wikidata/Wikibase Telegram office hours log (2022-11-09 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Telegram_office_hour_2022-11-09 )
✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - Awesome Wikidata https://github.com/johnsamuelwrites/awesome-wikidata: Curated list of Wikidata Projects and information - The Wednesday index https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wednesday-index, evolution of gender diversity in a selection of Wikipedia articles. The data are collected from Wikidata using @pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article https://observablehq.com/@pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article?wikipedia=en.wikipedia.org&article=Economics - The Enduring Allure of the Library of Alexandria https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/enduring-allure-library-alexandria - Cultural AI team wins special award at the Heritage Hackathon https://www.cwi.nl/news/2022/cultural-ai-team-wins-special-award-at-heritage-hackathon - Checking lexical forms https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2022-11-09 - Abstract Wikipedia Updates - Papers - Building the European Social Innovation Database with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01818-0 - WDBench: A Wikidata Graph Query Benchmark https://aidanhogan.com/docs/wdbench_sparql_benchmark_wikidata.pdf - Videos - Get to know Wikidata Lexemes (in Indonesian) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYv-nKX9G9Y - Live Wikidata editing #98 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKBo3-GzGd0 - The theme is music! with User:Moebus as guest. - David Lindemann: LOD-infication of Bibliographical Data Using Free Software: CLB Wikibase - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5VxW-kPsmA - Experience in Integrating Wikidata and Government Open Data, By Wikidata Taiwan (in Chinese) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccl5SaK3nW0 - The Greek Wikidata community celebrated the Wikidata 10th birthday (in Greek) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2JTwId8zvQ - 10 Years of Wikidata: Wikidata for Open Access to Cultural Heritage, by Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM) (in Portuguese) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgh5_oD1yec
🧰 Tool of the week
- QLever https://qlever.cs.uni-freiburg.de/Wikidata - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries. - Discuss.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1/Discuss.js - Adds a link to a diff when clicked will open a new topic on the talk page that mentions the revision and the user.
🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11167, JioSaavn artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11168, England Hockey ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11172, UWIND ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11173, NCUA Charter ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11174, FDIC Certificate ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11175, Niconico ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11176, Camp Wild ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11177, Cordial Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11178, MSVF ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11179, Central Library of Volos authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11180, Aerodrome identification Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11181, UOM ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11182, Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11184, Levadia Library ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11185, IHF profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11186, ihg Hotel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11187, Conspiracy Watch person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11188, Louisiana Plant ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11189, WMOOV movie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11190, PGA of Australia Player Profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11191, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (A) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11192, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (B) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11193, Famous Birthdays ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11194 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: subfunction https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/subfunction, mastodon URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/mastodon_URL, unique name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/unique_name, user input & output https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/user_input_%26_output, Cuneiform character in this lexeme https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cuneiform_character_in_this_lexeme, fruit color https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fruit_color, headline, chapter or section https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/headline,_chapter_or_section - External identifiers: BestWestern hotel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BestWestern_hotel_ID, Wyndham Hotel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wyndham_Hotel_ID, Hilton Hotel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hilton_Hotel_ID, DML-CZ publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DML-CZ_publication_ID, Accor Hotel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Accor_Hotel_ID, article ID in Alex Författarlexikon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/article_ID_in_Alex_F%C3%B6rfattarlexikon, Hlídač státu https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hl%C3%ADda%C4%8D_st%C3%A1tu, Kirjasampo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kirjasampo_ID, Boksampo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Boksampo_ID, UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UNIMARC_Medium_of_Performance_ID, KOBIS people ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KOBIS_people_ID, RISM siglum https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RISM_siglum, Infopédia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Infop%C3%A9dia_ID, ResearchGate journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ResearchGate_journal_ID, Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/_Culinary_Heritage_of_Switzerland_ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ni%C5%9Fanyan_S%C3%B6zl%C3%BCk_lexeme_ID, Collins Online English Dictionary entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Collins_Online_English_Dictionary_entry, Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dicion%C3%A1rio_de_Gent%C3%ADlicos_e_Top%C3%B3nimos_lemma_ID, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionnaire_de_l%27Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise - Query examples: - Biggest Mastodon instances according to Wikidata https://w.wiki/5xFi - Mastodon accounts of researchers https://w.wiki/5xA3 (source https://twitter.com/koehr_in/status/1592126813806788608) - Most annotated servers according to Wikidata https://w.wiki/5xfm ( source https://twitter.com/cthoyt/status/1591756487898054659) - Map of birthplaces of people with known mastodon address https://w.wiki/5vgA (source https://twitter.com/dasprive/status/1590554686083727363) - European islands culminating at more than 1,000 m of altitude https://w.wiki/5wea (source https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1590809714291449856) - Map of water bodies in France https://w.wiki/5wCp (source https://twitter.com/R1_C/status/1590289183066980353) - Other awards won by winners of the Booker Prize https://w.wiki/5xgB (source https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1592170596246630401) - Timeline of Libre and Open Source videogames https://w.wiki/5xgR ( source https://t.me/c/1224298920/95871)
🧑🏿💻 Development
- REST API: - Finished work on improved error reporting of the PATCH routes ( phab:T320358 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320358) - Finished work on properly handling bot user right and marking bot edits as such - Adjusting statement data structure in Wikibase REST API responses and requests (phab:T321459 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321459 ) - Mismatch Finder: continuing work om improving the handling of dates in the Mismatch Finder (phab:T288511 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288511) - New Vector skin: continuing work with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316093, phab:T317682 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T317682)
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