*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions

- Project chat: Wikidata phase 1 regression (interwikis no longer visible in new layout used by some Wikipedias and its impact on minority languages) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_phase_1_regression

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events

- Upcoming - Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase https://openpreservation.org/events/working-with-siegfried-wikidata-and-wikibase/. December 2, 2021 4:00 pm CET - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production#LD4-Wikidata_Affinity_Group call: Jan Ainali https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ainali on WikiProject Govdirectory https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory, a tool and associated Wikiproject for building a user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence. Agenda with call link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mHIYuDt_1y3zJhMz18O611rPJ-wxyKEvAeFofAyQ4Eo/edit?usp=sharing, November 30. - Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikibase_and_WBStack_Working_Hours. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20211216T160000&p1=tz_et&p2=tz_ct&p3=tz_mt&p4=tz_pt&p5=tz_gmt&p6=tz_cet). "*We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH*" - LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht8h6pUxgKo, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3115061972112292/, December 4 at 19:00 UTC - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #89 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#89, December 5 at 13.00 UTC - Ongoing - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #18, Horse https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=18 - Past - Wikibase live session log https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.11.25, month of November 2021 - Introduction to Wikibase (part 1), ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup (replay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCAjhjeJpgY)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage

- Blogs - Blog post on how Wikimedia Sweden has worked with two museums to open up their data and make it available on Wikidata https://wikimedia.se/2021/11/24/flytta-till-stockholm-och-do-vi-stadar-upp-och-visualiserar-kulturarvsdata/ (in Swedish) - Indigenous knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikidata https://wikiedu.org/blog/2021/11/23/indigenous-knowledge-on-wikipedia-and-wikidata/ - Videos - Video tutorial for Wikidata Scraping, data processing and import (Open Refine) (in Czech) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nFy-ffcjfg - (Wikidata intro) how it acts as one of the levers for the discoverability of cultural content in dance (in French) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEKxq-fwaxg - Archive and register of sound art / sound artists with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia (in Spanish) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7pUb5aYMZQ - Reconciliation server demonstration against Wikidata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX9acrq98LQ - Wikidata: A Magic Portal for Siegfried and Roy - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtYJaTyeZJM

Tool of the week

- New gadget available in the preferences https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by/compact_items.css )

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer https://short.sg/j/4361894 to join the Wikidata team. - Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund#Wikimedia_Research_Fund that you can apply to. - New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/3VJ5ZW3MO3CMCVWW4JDWSWDLXLX4XAEU/. Add your comments https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LinkedOpenData/Strategy2021!

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: death rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10091, image with color chart https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10093 - External identifiers: Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10086, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10087, Dissernet institution ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10088, DHAC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10090, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10092, AHPRA registration number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10094, FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10095, Databáze her ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10096, 7 Days person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10097, Oùvoir.ça film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10098 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: Corruption Perceptions Index https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Corruption_Perceptions_Index, surrounds the enclave https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/surrounds_the_enclave, Harvard Art Museums ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Harvard_Art_Museums_ID, GISAID identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GISAID_identifier, Nextstrain identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nextstrain_identifier, homophone lexeme https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/homophone_lexeme, Numista https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Numista - External identifiers: identifiant base Enluminures https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_base_Enluminures, The World of Shakespeare ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_World_of_Shakespeare_ID, oKino.ua film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/oKino.ua_film_ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/kinobaza.com.ua_film_ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/kinobaza.com.ua_actor_ID, oKino.ua actor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/oKino.ua_actor_ID, Natural History Museum (London) person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Natural_History_Museum_(London)_person_ID, svpressa.ru ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/svpressa.ru_ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russian_Academy_of_Sciences_person_ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Parliamentary_Newspaper_ID, Lib.ru author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lib.ru_author_ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/politika-crimea.ru_person_ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Institute_of_the_History_of_Ukraine_scientist_ID, centrasia.org person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/centrasia.org_person_ID, Music of Armenia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Music_of_Armenia_ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Transbaikalia_ID - Query examples: - Number of items without any statements https://w.wiki/4Sjy (last week: more than 1,300,000) - Number of items without any statements by sitelinks https://w.wiki/4Sn7 (sample: 1757 items link to nlwiki, but have no statements). - Taxa named after women (by place of birth) https://w.wiki/4TSu ( Source https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1464316862452359176) - List of articles on Blaise Pascal in all Wikipedias, sorted by decreasing article size https://w.wiki/4T73 (Source https://twitter.com/belett/status/1463887097752961026) - Texts on French Wikisource by people born in Puy-de-Dôme https://w.wiki/4Sq6 (Source https://twitter.com/belett/status/1463528711525965834) - List of countries by the highest elevation point https://w.wiki/4Srs (Source https://twitter.com/fagerving/status/1463583163360456708) - Number of distinct (UK parliament) seats returning someone who chose to sit elsewhere each year, 1830-1910 https://w.wiki/4Sd4 ( Source https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1463284279530688512) - List of services that support the OpenRefine Reconciliation service https://w.wiki/4SBV (Source https://twitter.com/yayamamo/status/1462787283355009031) - Things depicted in art works in the Khalili Collections https://w.wiki/4UDE (Source https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1465316000275083270) - Images of Wikidata's items linked to UBERON ids https://w.wiki/4sfu (Source https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1462848333026844673) - Population density of administrative subdivisions exceeding 100,000 km² and 100 inhabitants / km² https://w.wiki/4Tz5 (Source https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1465058060775342082) - List of government agencies in Scotland https://w.wiki/4TpN ( Source https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1464907568246140928) - Which day of the week people died on in the Mauthausen concentration camp https://w.wiki/4Tyv (Source https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1465051707344306182)

Development

- Mismatch Finder https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatch_Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches. - Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294465) - Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232557) - More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285156) - Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DataQualityDaysontologyissues.pdf )

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