*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* 🧵Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: - Welcome onboard, Wd-Ryan https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wd-Ryan ! - New requests for permissions/Bot: - AniMangaDBImportBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/AniMangaDBImportBot - Task/s: Imports properties include genre (P136) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P136, intended public (P2360) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2360, publication date (P577) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P577. Adds references to new and/or existing values from the databases they are imported from.
🎊 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, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group Wikidata Working Hour October 24, 2022: ninth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be batch loading data using QuickStatements to create items for works and editions in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/Wikidata_Working_Hour_Summer-Fall_Project_2022/2022-October-24_Wikidata_Working_Hour - October, 25, 2022 (Tuesday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXV: Modeling Elections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-8XCpSzPWg - Live querying session on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/belett, in French, by Vigneron, October 25 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2) - [LIVE Wikidata editing #96] Wikidata Birthday special of Wikidata live editing with surprise guests, October 29 18.00 UTC YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7sc8BH8NjI - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #126 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#126, October 30 at 13.00 UTC - Webinar: Exploring Wikidata to Find Good Stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy818BjQWzQ - October 28 at 7:00 PM CEST (in Portuguese) - Ongoing - Filmi music datathon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/India/Filmi_music_datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikidata_Tenth_Birthday/Filmi_Music_datathon?enroll= - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Vegetables https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=67
- Past - The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111972123) took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online. It included a session https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2022/session-list/#int19%20the%20role%20of%20the%20wikimedia%20ecosystem%20in%20linking%20biodiversity%20data about the role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data, which featured six talks https://biss.pensoft.net/collection/405/, all of which with strong Wikidata components. Slides and/ or video recordings are already available for some (more to follow): - Unpacking IPCC and IPBES Reports https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7223065 - Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7226858
✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - #WikidataBirthday https://twitter.com/hashtag/WikidataBirthday?src=hashtag_click: A series of blog posts written by Sannita (A) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community - The Impact of Wikidata and its Community – Part 1 https://blog.wikimedia.de/2022/10/18/the-impact-of-wikidata-and-its-community-part-1/, Part 2 https://blog.wikimedia.de/2022/10/20/the-impact-of-wikidata-and-its-community-part-2/ - Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022 https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/September_2022/Contents/Sweden_report - What you need to know to kickstart a Wikidata Initiative https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/10/19/what-you-need-to-know-to-kickstart-a-wikidata-initiative/ - Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister, reaches 100 million items https://www.emerce.nl/wire/wikidata-zusje-wikipedia-bereikt-100-miljoen-items (in Dutch) - Volunteers speaking Turkic languages met at Wikidata Istanbul 2022 https://www.mahalligundem.com/prof-dr-nevzat-tarhan-vikipedia-nin-kapali-kalmasi-turkiye-ye-yakismadi/57519/ (in Turkish) - Videos - Wikimedia Research Showcase - October 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML-ULyARpU4. A panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18016466. - LIVE Wikidata editing #95 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSyyunmjgOA - GND meets Wikibase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDh-0V2p8FE - COVIWD - Lightning Talk @Wikidata Workshop 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8epCOEisLxk - Wikidata 10th Birthday Speaker Series 3 - Sustaining a Wikidata Initiative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t69vokViKrY - Wikidata 10 years celebration video by WMTURKIC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abbep49d7gE - Wikidata at the museum: lowering thresholds for research with linked data in Sweden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6gsRnEgjvI - Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk_hkNk16BY (The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference in 2022) - Papers - Towards improving Wikidata reuse with emerging patterns https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2022/papers/Wikidata_Workshop_2022_paper_1411.pdf - The disambiguation of people names in biological collections https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/86089/ - Empirical Study of Elite Networks with Wikidata https://osf.io/yrfvs/ - Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research data management services for cultural heritage data https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2022/papers/Wikidata_Workshop_2022_paper_9049.pdf - Dataviz - Nobel laureates in Economics https://observablehq.com/@pac02/career-of-nobel-laureates-in-economics - Twitter threads - 10 awesome tools and little helpers to help you around Wikidata https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/1582751186460897280 - 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/1582751186460897280 - Presentations - Documenting our languages with Lexeme https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Documenting_our_languages_with_Lexeme.pdf by Asaf Bartov https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ijon
🧰 Tool of the week
- spacyfishing https://github.com/Lucaterre/spacyfishing is a Wikidata entity disambiguation tool based on entity-fishing https://github.com/kermitt2/entity-fishing.
✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata has crossed the mark of 100,000,000 items https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/status/1582698797494595584
- The Small wiki toolkits team are looking for feedback on the ongoing workshop series around bots and scripts development https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/G4UFRFWRV7STNFSDRZG7TEQ3YVW3WLYY/ . - Job openings - Wikimedia Deutschland - Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d) https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/24059808?l=en - Data Analyst Wikidata (m/f/d) https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/23871746/Data-Analyst-Wikidata-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=60493149&l=en
🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Viveport ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11117, Larousse Online French Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11118, RaiPlay ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11119, Rai Teche person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11120, Rai Teche program ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11121, HomeComputer Museum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11122, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11123, Basic Korean Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11124, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11125, Rowing Australia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11126, MEXT school code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11127, SA Parliament member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11128 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: shortened URL formatter https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/shortened_URL_formatter, addresses https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/addresses, model for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/model_for, e-mail subscription URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/e-mail_subscription_URL, official websites https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/official_websites, e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/e-mail_unsubscribe_URL_or_e-mail, about https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/about, Rotational speed https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rotational_speed, NIP https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NIP - External identifiers: Piraeus Library ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Piraeus_Library_ID, note.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/note.com_ID, MangaUpdates manga ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MangaUpdates_manga_ID, Mod DB engine ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mod_DB_engine_ID, Litres author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Litres_author_ID, Bureau of Meteorology Location Identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bureau_of_Meteorology_Location_Identifier, OKRB 011-2022 code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OKRB_011-2022_code, Cimetière russe ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cimeti%C3%A8re_russe_ID, New Cinematografo.it IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/New_Cinematografo.it_IDs, Ministry of Unification politician ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ministry_of_Unification_politician_ID, Mines ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mines_ID, Listal.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Listal.com_ID, identifiant web Léonore https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_web_L%C3%A9onore, FDIC Certificate ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FDIC_Certificate_ID, NCUA Charter ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NCUA_Charter_ID, AUTC heritage object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AUTC_heritage_object_ID, Famous Birthdays ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Famous_Birthdays_ID - Query examples: - Number of French lexemes per number of dictionaries they are linked to https://w.wiki/5r3X (source https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1583206161796329490) - People born in Split or Šibenik for whom there is a statement that they wrote or spoke Latin https://w.wiki/5rG7 (source https://twitter.com/NevenJovanovic2/status/1584117174264025088) - Locations of employers/affiliations of first authors of articles in the Journal of Cheminformatics https://w.wiki/5r3Q (source https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/1583717027016941568) - Birthplaces of the presidents of the American Medical Association https://w.wiki/5rQK (source https://twitter.com/violetbfox/status/1584327667301879808) - Flags containing the colors white and yellow https://w.wiki/5rNX ( source https://twitter.com/mikadata/status/1583588250857660416) - AI models https://w.wiki/5quZ (source https://twitter.com/fsasaki/status/1583450413256564736) - Swedes accused for churel https://w.wiki/5qve (source https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1583462038474399745) - Lunar craters and gender of their namesakes https://w.wiki/5qqE ( source https://twitter.com/lesley_elis/status/1583388515026755584)
🧑🏿💻 Development
- Lexicographical data: New Lexeme creation page will be live on Wikidata on November 2nd https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/WMQITKDJVNOWMMBJ4NL3633Y7HCARUUN/ (phab:T307866 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307866) - Updated the ontology file at https://wikiba.se/ontology (phab:T314360 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314360) - Mismatch Finder https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org: Added a Random mode to make it easier to get mismatches (phab:T302289 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302289) - REST API: - Documented the differences in the JSON data format between the REST API and the ActionAPI (phab:T318681 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318681) - Continued work on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors (phab:T320358 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320358)
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