*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Wolverène https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wolver%C3%A8ne (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC) - Closed request for adminship: Vargenau https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/ - New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikt:%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C:%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0 )
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 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. - Wikiconvention francophone: Opening of calls for communication and scholarship applications until July 14th https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2TFAWZVZ6HFHS7YJ5BFDK4Z2LRACXLA5/ . - WikiIndaba 2023 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/FMUIEJQ32NTKRTKVCGYOCTMACJPPUOB2/ Call for Submissions and Scholarship Applications. Deadline: June 30, 2023. - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #98, Shoes https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=98 (started on 2023-06-26 12:01:20)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Dude, where are my pictures? http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=701 - BiCIKL is linking people unambiguously and efficiently to their work https://bicikl-project.eu/news/bicikl-linking-people-unambiguously-and-efficiently-their-work - Understanding Knowledge Graphs: A Beginner’s Guide https://redskins101.com/understanding-knowledge-graphs-a-beginners-guide/ - Videos - re:publica 2023 - Peer learning methods and Open Educational Resources (OER) on Wikidata for a viable digital culture of remembrance (in German) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQlIYcwiMsk - Workshop - Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MFg3XIF4J0 - Managing conflations and duplications of personal items in Wikidata, National Library of Greece - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HYn5KwRrA4 - Why Wikidata in Linked Data and Libraries (in Greek)- YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDIjwESR74 - Adding metadata utilities in the Koha staff interface based on Wikidata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70W5xNjzOrM - From authority control to identity management - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ1aDDAL5-c&list=PLW3V1R3KCG4nbLDYBL-d8pUwO2M6TTy7s&index=3 - DSI Webinar - The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcn5qCeQdD8 - Wikidata as a tool for biocuration of cell types, Biocuration Conference 2023 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLzWrQu-F-4 - Webinar: Wikidata, a useful knowledge base for any study - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt2tephEkhc - KGC '23 Talk — The Error Is The Message: Extracting Insights From Deceptive Data for Nazi-Looted Art - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBMpZ3NDNRQ - Surveys - Results of the WMDE survey on ontology issues reusers are facing https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Ontology_issues_prioritization - Notebooks - Explore people having notable parents https://observablehq.com/@pac02/explore-people-having-notable-parents?collection=@pac02/notable-parents
Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/NarrowUI.css https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/NarrowUI.css is a User script that tries to make Wikidata work better on narrower screens, including mobile devices.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge https://www.tu.berlin/en/about/profile/press-releases-news/2020/oktober/restitution-of-knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_TheRoK/Data_Models.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11833, Professor at Cologne univ. ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11834, Numista ruling authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11835, Suomen etymologinen sanakirja ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11836, Suomen murteiden sanakirja ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11837, Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11838 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - 諱 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%E8%AB%B1 () - Date of declaration as a town https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Date_of_declaration_as_a_town (The date when a settlement is declared a town) - Loss of town status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Loss_of_town_status (Date of loss of town rank) - External identifiers: Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Azerbaijani_National_Encyclopedia_ID, Alienor.org ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alienor.org_ID, The Literary Encyclopedia person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Literary_Encyclopedia_person_ID, XWord Info author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/XWord_Info_author_ID, WKF ranking ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WKF_ranking_ID, Composer's Union of Ukraine person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Composer%27s_Union_of_Ukraine_person_ID, Archiefpunt curator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archiefpunt_curator_ID, Archiefpunt archive ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archiefpunt_archive_ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archiefpunt_compiler_ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Woordenboek_der_Nederlandsche_Taal_GTB_ID, etymologiebank.nl ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/etymologiebank.nl_ID - Query examples: - Last words of authors (adapted from a query generated by ChatGPT) https://w.wiki/6rfg (source) https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1671485133600223235 - List of American actors and actresses having a wikipedia page with parents having a wikipedia page https://w.wiki/6sAW - (history) Where were the borders crossing between https://w.wiki/6sWQGerman Democratic Republic (Q16957) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16957 and West Germany (Q713750) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q713750 ? - Week 25, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now https://w.wiki/6TNS (source https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110599579378411109) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- WikiProject University of Washington Libraries https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_University_of_Washington_Libraries - projects which individuals at the UW Libraries have done in collaboration with the Wikidata community. - WikiProject New York Public Library https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_New_York_Public_Library - work underway at the New York Public Library (Q219555) to connect library data with Wikidata.
Development
- Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get statements from a Property. (phab:T338383 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338383) - EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the testing of the new datatype. - Ontology issues: We have released the survey results https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Ontology_issues_prioritization#Results_of_the_survey_on_ontology_issues_reusers_are_facing. The next step is looking into solutions. - mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make it ready for the new special language code. (phab:T329644 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329644, phab:T338302 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338302, phab:T339103 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T339103, phab:T329655 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329655, phab:T329655 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329655) - Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (phab:T327510 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327510)
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