*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* 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 October 17, 2023: Our scheduled speaker had to unexpectedly cancel, so please join us to transfer group call notes from the Google Drive to the wiki project page (see instructions link in agenda document!) Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hzVSHu9y8J0pCKzO5wGHRtiXpiYHkb7F4ePsCwSj0Y8/edit - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (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 presents 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.* - WikidataCon 2023 on October 28-29: don't forget to register for the online or the onsite event https://pretix.eu/wikidatatw/Wikidatacon2023/! You can also check the program https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/schedule/, prepare a present for the Wikidata birthday https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday, and join or organize a satellite event https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Events with your local community. - Wikidata Day NYC '23 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikidata-day-nyc-2023-tickets-735689496087 Join fellow Wikidata-enthusiasts on October 29th at the Butler Library, 114th Street West, NYC for a free Wikidata-celebration with a selection of engaging workshops and presentations to attend. - State of the Map EU 2023 https://stateofthemap.eu/schedule has a session on OSM-Wikidata Map Framework on Sunday, 12th Nov., taking place in Antwerp, Belgium. - Wikidata Days: WM-Peru https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedistas_de_Per%C3%BA/Actividades/D%C3%ADas_de_Wikidata_2023 (in Spanish) attend a 2-day event, with sessions devoted to Wikidata, OpenRefine, QuickStatements and SPARQL. - Wikimedia Chile: Wikidata Training Course https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbVc63XyoVVXDcFQSvzRxSc1GEA1D02O1mUqzv6nvO0ZJ32w/viewform Staying in South America, Chilean and all Spanish-speakers can attend a 4-day Course and earn a participation Certificate. Online event - 17 to 20th October. - Igbo Wikimedians User Group invites you to a Wikidata event tagged "One Item, One Image" https://twitter.com/wikimediaigbo/status/1713469359996191043. October 17th at 5pm WAT on Google Meet. - Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #113: Apple https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=113 (Challenge started on 2023-10-16 12:01:41) - Past Week: - Weekly Lexeme Challenge #112: Dogs https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=112 has ended. Did you contribute? - Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies https://www.temporal-communities.de/events/international-workshop-wikipedia-wikidata-wikibase.html International Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3462/TADA3.pdf by Vogel & Binnig. - Press: Indexing news with AI https://www.broadcastprome.com/case-studies/tv-networks/indexing-news-with-ai/ via BroadCast Pro ME ("We are able to create a rich multilingual archive, leveraging translations based on the Wikidata knowledge graph.") - Videos - Introduction to Properties: Proposal & Creation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ij2r56P7aY (in French), by Nicolas VIGNERON. - Drag'n'Drop Gadget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJUPmZmUqS8 <-- This handy gadget allows you to click and drag information from a Wikipedia article and add it to a Wikidata-item as a Statement. By Magnus Sälgö. - Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwfGs9asLVY (in French) <-- a comprehensive guide through linking Wikisource entries to their Wikidata-items. - Introduction & Overview of Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdG9yc-xZQQ (in Spanish), by Ismail Olea. - LIVE Wikidata editing #110 <-- Ainali https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ainali and Abbe98 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what we are doing and why we do it. - Notebooks - Analysis of Wikidata reconciliation results https://observablehq.com/@maison-mona/analyse-resultats-reconciliation-wikidata (in French) - What's nearby, Wikidata? https://observablehq.com/@fgregg/whats-nearby-wikidata will generate a list of nearby places that have a Wikipedia article close to your current location. - Reports: Report on the Biodiversity Information Standards Conference 2023 (TDWG2023) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10/TDWG2023 by Ambrosia10 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10
Tool of the week
- Map Kerala (https://wikiproject-kerala.github.io/Panchayat/) uses Wikidata to distinguish Panchayats of Kerala at a glance based on three distinct identifier codes (LGD code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6425, LSG code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8573, SEC code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11817). - User:Nikki/ChecksumCheck.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/ChecksumCheck.js <-- This script displays a symbol after external identifiers which contain checksums, to indicate whether the checksum in the identifier is correct. Currently only supporting a small number of Identifiers.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - WHO Aware Classification https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12081 (antibiotic classification according to the World Health Organization) - self-identified name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12089 (name by which a group of humans refers to itself (endonym)) - non-self-identified name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12090 (name used to identify a group of humans as opposed to their self-determination) - External identifiers: FaroeSoccer referee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12067, Matilda paper ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12068, Sessionize speaker ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12069, Minerals.net mineral and gemstone ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12070, MUSE book ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12071, Game Jolt ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12072, Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12073, ProductReview ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12074, Acclaimed Music album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12075, Nordic Women in Film-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12076, SlackBuilds package https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12077, Metacritic numeric game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12078, Metacritic publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12079, Metacritic company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12080, StopGame series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12082, Steam Workshop mod ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12083, California State Park ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12084, Find my School ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12085, WikiKids ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12086, SBL player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12087, Open Library publisher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12088, DBpia article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12091, Gematsu company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12092, Valve Developer Community article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12093 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - parent form of an active substance https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/parent_form_of_an_active_substance (parent form of a chemical entity used as an active substance in the form of a salt) - FAO WIEWS Institution ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FAO_WIEWS_Institution_ID () - External identifiers: numéro de licence d'un joueur de la FFTT https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/num%C3%A9ro_de_licence_d%27un_joueur_de_la_FFTT, Rahlfs Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rahlfs_Number, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Minnesota_State_Parks_and_Recreation_Areas_ID, Minnesota State Forests ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Minnesota_State_Forests_ID, Kinobox ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinobox_ID, GNU Savannah project https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GNU_Savannah_project, Indie DB company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indie_DB_company_ID, Mod DB company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mod_DB_company_ID, Catenae Catalogue https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Catenae_Catalogue, GameBrew ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GameBrew_ID, JLPGA player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JLPGA_player_ID - Query examples: - List of lighthouses in France https://w.wiki/7oTi (source https://twitter.com/LeuLeudo/status/1709086802454163943) - Which academic journals publish the most International Space Station Research? https://w.wiki/7bV8 (graph) (source https://twitter.com/astro_meganne/status/1707709600886120696) - Tamil Lexemes missing Item for this sense statements https://w.wiki/7o3d (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#missing_item_for_this_sense_in_Tamil_lexemes ) - People with no country of citizenship having Norwegian names https://w.wiki/7ofi (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#People_with_no_country_of_citizenship_having_Norweigian_names ) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Catalan creators https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Catalan_creators - a project for documenting creators born or active in the Catalan speaking territories - WikiProject BeyondNotability https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_BeyondNotability - a project for improving content on Wikidata women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in the UK circa 1870-1950 - WikiProject Manuscripts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Manuscripts/Header
Development
- Wikibase REST API: - Working on the ability to modify the aliases of an Item or Property (phab:T342982 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342982, phab:T337371 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337371) - Working on the ability to add or replace a label in a given language on a Property (phab:T342979 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342979) - Working on the ability to add or replace a description in a given language on a Property (phab:T348150 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348150) - Lexicographical data: We (mostly) fixed an issue where Lexeme pages where missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344362) - Mismatch Finder: We continued work on making it possible to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313467)
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