Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - Cewbot 5 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Cewbot_5 - Task/s: Add sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70893996 for sitelinks to redirects without intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70894304.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#130, November 27 at 13.00 UTC - Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto Arts, workshop by Yamen Bousrih. - Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #68, SI base units https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=68
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - Apple Podcasts is auto-tagging episodes with topics https://podnews.net/update/apple-podcasts-tagging - Papers - Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e97374 — covers a range of identifiers (including Wikidata ones) for taxa, people, institutions and other entities relevant to biodiversity studies - Videos - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #99 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxAJdSlWBBE - The Greek Wikidata community celebrates their 10th birthday (Part 2) (in Greek) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxAJdSlWBBE - Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75w12bvkepw - Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBT_8K1yCrs - Import Wikidata into an RDF based Ontology using Apache Jena - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UViYCVhds3U - SMWCon 2022 - Day 3 - Wikidata Synchronization for the CEUR-WS publishing platform - Tim Holzheim - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIjZgIiAleY - Sitelinks wikibase cloud - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86pG9N2EDcc
Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js is a userscrip that links Labels to Lexemes.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts is a model that tries to predict the instance of (P31) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31 or subclass of (P279) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P279 of unlabeled items. You can play with it and leave Daniel some feedback.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: build system https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11197, tiratge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11200, official demo URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11201, pinout https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11205, sitemap URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11212 - External identifiers: Annales des mines person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11195, Baidu Tieba name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11196, DrugCentral ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11198, Probes And Drugs ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11199, Musicsperlacobla sardana ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11202, Musicsperlacobla composer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11203, Boig Sardanista sardana ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11204, npm scope https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11206, IRIS UNICT author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11207, IRIS UNIME author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11208, IRIS UNIPA author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11209, IRIS UNIKORE author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11210, Hlídač státu person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11211 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: has visual representation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/has_visual_representation, chapter and verse in the Bible https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/chapter_and_verse_in_the_Bible, commit hash https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/commit_hash, official server list URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/official_server_list_URL, translation management URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/translation_management_URL - External identifiers: Datastory Glossary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Datastory_Glossary_ID, SNE publisher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SNE_publisher_ID, Livres Hebdo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Livres_Hebdo_ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Can_I_Play_That%3F_Games_Codex_game_ID, AniList staff ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AniList_staff_ID, ECOF saint ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ECOF_saint_ID, DFK Paris person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DFK_Paris_person_ID, Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Epigraphic_Database_Heidelberg_(EDH)_ID, Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Packard_Humanities_Institute_Greek_Inscriptions_ID - Query examples: - Finding the first revision and original creator of items with mwapi https://w.wiki/5y7n - Mastodon accounts (with Twitter equivalents) https://w.wiki/5zi5 ( source https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1594265709986594821) - Gender balances of winners of literary awards https://w.wiki/5$BR (source https://mastodon.world/@mlpoulter/109382467909336541) - Newest templates: - Template:Quickquery https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Quickquery can be used to quickly write and link SPARQL queries on the Wikidata wiki
Development
- REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response format (phab:T321459 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321459) - Lexicographical data: - Added separation between identifiers and other statements on Lexemes (phab:T318310 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318310) - Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (phab:T322687 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322687) - Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field ( phab:T315161 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315161) - Mismatch Finder: - Finished work on better handling of dates (phab:T288511 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288511) - Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing data (phab:T313468 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313468)
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