*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - RKBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RKBot. Task/s: Create Wikidata items for "Kulturdenkmal in Hamburg" (heritage monument in Hamburg - Q28661501 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28661501) from the official list "Denkmalliste Hamburg" (P1822 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1822 is the identifier for this list) published as http://static.hamburg.de/fhh/opendata/kb/DenkmallisteHamburg.xml. - Andriy.vBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Andriy.vBot. Task/s: I need to connect a lot of pages (more than 10 thousand) about russian villages that were created with interwiki links in ukwiki. - Heinmabot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Heinmabot. Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places. - New request for comments: - Improving the performance of retrieving labels, descriptions and aliases https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Improving_the_performance_of_retrieving_labels,_descriptions_and_aliases
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, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 2023 (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. - Ongoing - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #74, Urology https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=74
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - Connecting Preprints to Peer-reviewed Articles on Wikidata https://cthoyt.com/2023/01/02/wikidata-preprints.html - The 10 best-known Catalans in the world https://elmon.cat/societat/10-catalans-mes-coneguts-mon-539049/ - Papers - Fetching Automatic Authority Data in ILS from Wikidata via OpenRefine https://www.srels.org/index.php/sjim/article/view/170677 - Videos - Add Wikidata/Wikipedia Template to WikiTree Profile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdyaAHkWays
Tool of the week
- OWL Map https://map.osm.wikidata.link/ - a tool to help in linking Wikidata items with the matching object on OpenStreetMap.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibase.Cloud has a new logo! https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/CRYGBXBUVYZBMHFUYSS4QAHGQIZRNKHT/
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: NIP https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11429, NSR doctor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11402, NSR stopplace ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11362, Nintendo World Report ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11391, Nintendo-Online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11392, Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11403, Oh!FM-7 ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11404, Olympedia venue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11405, Ozon person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11407, Pixiv Encyclopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11408, Plazi reference ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11409, Pocket Gamer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11411, Programming Language Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11410, RPG Site game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11418, RetroAchievements ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11393, Rugby League Record Keepers Club player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11428, Sega-Saturn.net ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11377, Strong's number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11416, Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11421, UVL source ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11427, UniProt Disease ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11430, amstrad.es ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11426, camera lens https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11385, image processor https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11387, image stabilitzer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11415, microtransaction.zone ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11400, minimum focusing distance https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11412, note.com user ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11401, sampling rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11413, service options https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11424 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: Podbay show ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Podbay_show_ID, Biblissima Authority File https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblissima_Authority_File, Walt Disney movie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Walt_Disney_movie_ID, NTV program ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NTV_program_ID, National Grid Balancing Mechanism Unit ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Grid_Balancing_Mechanism_Unit_ID, InfluenceWatch influencer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/InfluenceWatch_influencer, Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Case Search person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Los_Angeles_County_Coroner%27s_Office_Case_Search_person_ID, Hungarian Football Federation player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hungarian_Football_Federation_player_ID, Magazine Pocket series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Magazine_Pocket_series_ID, United States House of Representatives ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/United_States_House_of_Representatives_ID, PR Times company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PR_Times_company_ID, NPB umpire ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NPB_umpire_ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Law_Insider_Legal_Dictionary_entry, ZAMP.hr ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ZAMP.hr_ID, Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Digital_Library_of_Mathematical_Functions_ID, CiNii Research ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CiNii_Research_ID, Identificador del Catàleg de Patrimoni de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identificador_del_Cat%C3%A0leg_de_Patrimoni_de_l%27Ajuntament_de_Barcelona, Green's Dictionary of Slang ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Green%27s_Dictionary_of_Slang_ID, SysTraitementEauxUsees https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SysTraitementEauxUsees, WikiRate company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiRate_company_ID, The Numbers franchise ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Numbers_franchise_ID, J.League referee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/J.League_referee_ID, Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Jeju_Dialect_Dictionary_ID, Military Historical Archive exile army member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Military_Historical_Archive_exile_army_member_ID, 1001Tracklists IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/1001Tracklists_IDs, Ivi IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ivi_IDs, TV Maze person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TV_Maze_person_ID, MyAnimeList company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MyAnimeList_company_ID, VideoGameGeek series-franchise ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VideoGameGeek_series-franchise_ID, Afisha person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Afisha_person_ID - Query examples: - Finnish hockey players whose child is also a hockey player https://w.wiki/6AjN (source https://twitter.com/ttso/status/1608854793396551680) - Map of the birthplaces of Italian authors who died in 1952 https://w.wiki/6B7v (source https://twitter.com/WikidataI/status/1609671638223671296)
Development
- The development team took a break during the winter holidays and as a result, no development occurred.
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