*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>
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
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