*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>
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*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
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Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
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