*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - RPI2026F1Bot 6 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RPI2026F1Bot_6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive ) - IngeniousBot 3 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/IngeniousBot_3 (Task: Adding identifiers to album items, based on existing identifiers) - Closed request for permissions/Bot: - Bitbotje 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Bitbotje_2 (Task: remove redundant item aliases) - MidleadingBot 4 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MidleadingBot_4 (Task: Add social media followers (P8687) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8687 statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11196)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Past - Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/Feb_2022_scaling_community_meetings (Etherpads: Meeting #1 https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/R5n382Ld0Vvykc7Ak3iH, Meeting #2 https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/yPUhyhbmXglC_Magx0Go) - WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata picture (notes https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wikicite-monthly-2023-03, slides https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_Scientific_articles_and_beyond_in_Wikidata.pdf ) - Ongoing - Weekly Lexemes Challenge *(previous challenge: #84, Bones https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=84)* - Upcoming - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate in Wikidata. Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gxWQP7yrCYAZFnjLdhMPmmVrx2_GPlWcd1rTiqglwA8/edit#
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - The Whelming - Musings on the backend, by Magnus Manske http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=691 - Boosting interoperability: towards an increasingly reusable bioinformatics knowledge base https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12329 - Papers - In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/_la_recherche_des_r_cits_queer_travers_les_si_cles/22357246 (French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023 https://sassqueer.fr/, INSA Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on documenting queer history on Wikidata - Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python https://itnext.io/extracting-data-from-wikidata-using-sparql-and-python-59e0037996f - A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3330.pdf - Can you trust Wikidata? https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3376.pdf - Videos - Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj532KOWmIM - LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QnzIvcJbd0 - Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1DdmhHfpig - Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AegX6jcqNE - Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KonJqKquUSU - WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and Gilliane Kern (in French) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udq37sRU60c - A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-1f6CKEgU - Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdoOiMXOrQ8 - Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87A7QMbfpI - Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked Open Data - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKEbxTNFSFM - Notebooks - Statistics on Wikidata property scopes https://observablehq.com/d/154c19f1a036f8d6
Tool of the week
- User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland job openings - Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30730373?l=en - Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30596953?l=en - UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30432915?l=en
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - student retention rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11698 (Proportion of first-year students at the educational institution who return for their second year) - External identifiers: Newguineaworld ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11696, Ticino Scienza IBSA Foundation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11697, China movable cultural relic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11699, JMdict sequence number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11700, TASVideos game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11701 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinoglaz_person_ID, Tatoeba sentence ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tatoeba_sentence_ID, IRIS private universities (3) IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_private_universities_(3)_IDs - Query examples: - Authors from Latin America born today https://w.wiki/6WGF (source https://twitter.com/espejolento/status/1640790970781540353) - Businesses who's official websites use the ".biz" top-level domain https://w.wiki/6VY6 (source https://twitter.com/philbgorman/status/1639746513919176704)
Development
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214884) - Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas ( phab:T321543 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321543) - REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given 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