*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: MSGJ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/MSGJ (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg. *The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.* - SPARQL queries live on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/belett and in French by Vigneron, January 18 at 19:00 CEST - LIVE Wikidata editing #67 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8doF7FFwU4, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3152103715074784/, January 22 at 19:00 UTC - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #93 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#93, January 23 at 13.00 UTC - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #25, Volcano https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=25 - #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#Creating_Wikidata_items_related_to_works_on_Wikisource . - Past: - Bug Triage Hour (log https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikidataBugTriageHour). The next session will be announced here in the Wikidata Weekly Summary and on the Wikidata mailing-list. - Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award 2021 (replay on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdnwhDAdrxE)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - Tour de France's stage winners https://observablehq.com/@pac02/tour-de-frances-stage-winners an Observable notebook to explore Tour de France's data using SPARQL and Observable's Plot library. - Wikidata, Open Infrastructures, Recognition & Rewards https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2022/01/wikidata-open-infrastructures.html - Equal Street Names Wiesbaden https://blog.sperrobjekt.de/content/1000545-EqualStreetNames-Wiesbaden.html - Videos - Using Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata to mport a book into Wikisource -YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPTepM7_Ghc - Musicbrainz.org and wikidata.org - What can we learn from the designs and how to use the API's to extract information - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1QgXqOD5S0
Tool of the week
- Wiki History Game https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ is a game based on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened. - GraphQL demo for WikiCite https://wikicite-graphql.herokuapp.com/ is a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Do you have an idea you want to explore & want to investigate it using Wikidata? Apply for a WMAU fellowship grant https://twitter.com/QUTDataScience/status/1481141478940639232.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: reference image https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10253, associated cadastral district https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10254, admission yield rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10263 - External identifiers: Triple J Unearthed artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10249, Parque de la Memoria ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10250, Bokselskap.no ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10251, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10252, oKino.ua film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10255, AMPAS collections item ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10256, Pipe Organ Database organ ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10257, UNICA IRIS author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10258, IRIS UNISS author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10259, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10260, EtymWb lemma ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10261, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10262 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: Business valuation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Business_valuation, 議案番号 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%E8%AD%B0%E6%A1%88%E7%95%AA%E5%8F%B7, podcast image url https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/podcast_image_url, list of TV show episode https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/list_of_TV_show_episode, XJustiz registration court ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/XJustiz_registration_court_ID, LinkedIn showcase ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LinkedIn_showcase_ID, religious community https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/religious_community - External identifiers: Bergen byleksikon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bergen_byleksikon_ID, CNGAL Entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CNGAL_Entry_ID, Amazon podcast ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Amazon_podcast_ID, Podchaser numeric ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Podchaser_numeric_ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Linguistic_Atlas_of_Late_Mediaeval_English_ID, Football Federation of Armenia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Football_Federation_of_Armenia_ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Union_of_Bulgarian_Composers_ID, Habr company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Habr_company_ID, Douban book Works ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_book_Works_ID, German Lobbyregister-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/German_Lobbyregister-ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Google_Arts_%26_Culture_entity_ID2, Vesti.ru dossier ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Vesti.ru_dossier_ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Catalogue_of_Life_ID_2, Orthodoxie.com topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Orthodoxie.com_topic_ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Russian_Jewry_ID, Wikisimpsons ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikisimpsons_ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/R%C3%A9seau_documents_d%27artistes_ID, Millattashlar ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Millattashlar_ID, Transphoto city ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Transphoto_city_ID, IRIS national research institutes IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_national_research_institutes_IDs - Query examples: - Things that turned 20 years old today https://w.wiki/4gSt (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1481713498023501824) - Irish artists and their relationships https://w.wiki/4fu9 (source https://twitter.com/restlesscurator/status/1481276819554852866) - Eating or drinking establishments near you (1.5 radius) https://w.wiki/4gT3 (source https://twitter.com/SPARQLCRMSUPPE/status/1481180146421936129) - Most common day for UK by-elections since 1880 https://w.wiki/4hGr (source https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1482822129427132417)
Development
- Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully dispatched to the clients (phab:T233520 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233520) - Mismatch Finder: Improved the texts in the tool to be more understandable after testing - Mismatch Finder: added a way to get statistics about all the reviews that have been done in the tool and what is still awaiting review - Special:NewLexeme: kicked off the development work to improve the page in order to make it more understandable
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