*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>
--
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