*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/ - New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/So9qBot_9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish 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, 17th January 2024 (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.* - Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_Mentor_Africa_Hackathon_2024 - Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management https://www.kim.uni-konstanz.de/en/kim-news/news-detail-page/forschungsdateninfo-live-wikidata-als-kollaborative-informationsressource-zum-fdm/ (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? https://pointstodots.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/pubchem-on-wikidata-what-is-the-state-of-coverage/ by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data. - Papers - Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124079430 "scientific article published in 2023" (paper in Italian) https://digitalia.cultura.gov.it/article/view/3035 - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata. - Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-023-09702-y by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model - LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/article/view/247 by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model. - Quantifying Americanization: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08944393231220165?journalCode=ssce Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski. - Videos - Map Kerala Initiative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVP9vGw5xtg is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil. - This video on Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1DLleOWvR4 shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons. - Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline https://observablehq.com/@pac02/waaat - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P585 property in Wikidata.
Tool of the week
Map your list of created articles https://observablehq.com/@pac02/map-your-created-articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article). Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Activities.
Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties and property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review
- Newest General datatypes: - Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12270 (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website) - (Montana Plant Life URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12273 (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website) - plate(s) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12275 (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made) - Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12269, MilliBase taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12271, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12272, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12274, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12276, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12277, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12278, The Criterion Collection spine number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12279 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - Water bottle volume https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Water_bottle_volume (Volume of the water bottle) - Is it metric? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Is_it_metric%3F (To check if it's a metric.) - Anti-Cheat software used https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Anti-Cheat_software_used (anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game) - New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/turismo.marche.it_place_ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Joseph_Smith_Papers_person_ID, Team Scotland ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Team_Scotland_ID, Globoplay ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Globoplay_ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DoblajeVideojuegos_game_ID, National Natural Parks System ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Natural_Parks_System_ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Commonwealth_Games_Australia_ID, Adventure-Treff game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Adventure-Treff_game_ID, TouchArcade game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TouchArcade_game_ID, Mod.io ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mod.io_ID, The Models Resource game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Models_Resource_game_ID, The Models Resource entity ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Models_Resource_entity_ID, tourist information point number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tourist_information_point_number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Jinji_Koshinjyo_ID, Bandcamp track ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bandcamp_track_ID
Did you know?
- Query examples: - Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu https://w.wiki/8hxE according to Appel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124005357 (source https://wikis.world/@pac2/111683066147340243) - Map of running/out of service railway stations in France https://w.wiki/8jVE - Bridges in the UK with photos https://w.wiki/8mLv (source https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1744035707813785997) - Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly) https://w.wiki/8nBH (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1742655469284409451) - Newest WikiProject https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Podcast Episodes 2024 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Podcast_Episodes_2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts. - Newest database report https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: children of unborn parents https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/children_of_unborn_parents - Showcase Item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Helsinki (Q1757) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1757 - capital and most populous city of Finland - Showcase Lexeme https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: Allah korusun (L1226849) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L1226849 - Turkish for 'God forbid'
Development
- IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T351968) - Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305660) - Wikibase REST API: - We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344041) - We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344039)
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.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2024_01_08#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review . - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview - Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2024_01_08#Did_you_know? . - Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Ologies https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=124 - 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