*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - Kristbaumbot 1 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Kristbaumbot_1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29310412 to German lexemes)
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 on Wednesday, 19th April 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. - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls, Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch and discussion. Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Tq523opcZjtXAa6fLvddIJzAepabvGWhLQ1GJGlRno/edit?usp=sharing . - Ongoing - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #88, Mountain https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=88
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - First grants announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to support technical innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/04/13/first-grants-announced-from-the-wikimedia-endowment/ - Papers - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations Report https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115761263; English-language edition https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/research/indigenous-artists-and-wikidata/, Édition en langue française https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/research/indigenous-artists-and-wikidata/ - Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article/41/1%20(154)/21/344220/Wikipedia-s-Race-and-Ethnicity-Gap-and-the, Michael Mandiberg, Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46. - Videos - Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Basic Lexeme with Asaf Bartov - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkFLa4m8yis - "Wikidata as a Seed for Web Extraction"presentation at the WWW 2023 conference - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_Fa0gE-LA - IFLA SCITECH Webinar: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zgLG8vg0dY - Wikidata Workshop (adding books) (in Portuguese) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-uWOD8w9jc - Wikidata + Books Workshop (how to add books to Wikidata) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpUg2fSRyXg - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (Wikidata workshop Day 2 (in Chinese) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzW2Ul7t9tk - Notebook - Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain https://observablehq.com/d/e5b2c559eb80017d - Twitter thread - How to reconcile data in another dataset with Wikidata and import additional data from there https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1644127703715684352
Tool of the week
- Query Chest https://query-chest.toolforge.org/ is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten it.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The visual of the upcoming WikidataCon https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidatacon_2023_Banner_-_02.png is out (announcement and details https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikidataCon_2023) - Christos https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Christos_Varvantakis_(WMDE) started a Wikibase to collect and organise existing research-related resources about Wikibase. Feel free to add to it. researchwb.wikibase.cloud https://researchwb.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Patreon user numeric ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11713, Team Fortress Wiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11714, Federiciana ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11715, Russiancinema.ru person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11716, Aisberg author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11717, OPENBS author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11718, Bicocca Open Archive author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11719, IRInSubria author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11720, cybersport.ru player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11721, Boomplay album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11722, IRIS HUNIMED author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11723, IRIS UNISR author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11724, PubliCatt author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11725, FantLab dictor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11726, Portráidí ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11728, Kulturenvanteri.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11729, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11730 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Atlante Geopolitico ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Atlante_Geopolitico_ID, Musée Fabre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mus%C3%A9e_Fabre_ID, Musées Grand Est ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mus%C3%A9es_Grand_Est_ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Clavis_Historicorum_Antiquitatis_Posterioris_author_ID, Shipbucket drawing ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shipbucket_drawing_ID - Query examples: - ATMs around Munich belonging to the Bankcard-Servicenetz interbank network (federated query) https://w.wiki/Xob - Population growth in Ghana from 1960 onward https://w.wiki/6bQm - Newest database reports: - Deleted properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Deleted_properties - Deleted properties that were used in items.
Development
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on test systems next. (phab:T332139 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332139) - QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. ( phab:T328764 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328764) - Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven language. ( phab:T323813 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323813)
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