Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Yahya https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Yahya (RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC) - Closed request for adminship: Tomodachi94 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Tomodachi94 (successful) Welcome on board \o/
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming - Missed the initial office hour sessions for preparing a WikidataCon 2023 submission? Join the next sessions on 20th, 22nd, and 26th and bring all your questions. Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023#Office hours https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023#Office_hours (available in both Mandarin and English) - Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2oj_NAENvY - Ongoing - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=102 (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Abstract Wikipedia gains new support from The Rockefeller Foundation https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/07/12/abstract-wikipedia-gains-new-support-from-the-rockefeller-foundation/ - Wikibase and reconciliation https://addshore.com/2023/07/wikibase-and-reconciliation/, by Adshore - Wikidata: why we contribute to the robot epistemology https://whoseknowledge.org/wikidata-robot-epistemology/ - Papers - Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011235 - Videos - Wikidata data set of the Sediq language (in Chinese) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XMdiI3izrE - How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSfKu8WESs - WikiConference India 2023 - Linking Wikidata with Wikivoyage - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_th9xT6-2Pw - WikiConference India 2023 — Structured Data in Wikidata and Commons - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUadi5Mumvg - Dataviz - Wikicommunes https://mtmx.github.io/wikicommunes/ (See also the thread https://mastodon.social/@mat@mapstodon.space/109551155521935438 on Mastodon)
Tool of the week
- Images near items https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/images_near_items.php - helps to find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can load a category tree of Commons images with coodrinates, and then find Wikidata items of a certain P31 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31 with coordinates but without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs. (example link https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/images_near_items.php?category=Telephone+booths+in+the+United+Kingdom&depth=5&p31=Q712868&max_distance_m=50 for UK red phone booths)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Update on the collaboration between Wikimedia Deutschland, Igbo Wikimedia Usergroup and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/IPRW3TAAZK3DPVGN5JKGVJRVPBUJDQNE/ .
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - median household income https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11899 (median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country) - login URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11903 (URL of a webpage used to log into a service) - registration page URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11904 (URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service) - External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11891, Threads username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11892, Dutch word ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11893, BSRussia.com team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11895, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11896, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11897, Stage 32 profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11898, Livres Hebdo award ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11900, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11901, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11902, ifkdb.se player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11905, Livres Hebdo tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11906, stats.fm album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11907, Ligue nationale de rugby ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11908, Holarse article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11909, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11910 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - Top scorer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Top_scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).) - External identifiers: BDFutbol referee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BDFutbol_referee_ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Baseball-Reference.com_manager_ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/USOPC_Hall_of_Fame_ID, identifiant d'un défunt sur le site Dans nos cœurs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_d%27un_d%C3%A9funt_sur_le_site_Dans_nos_c%C5%93urs, IbsenStage ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IbsenStage_ID, TV Guide movie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TV_Guide_movie_ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OlimpBase_FIDE_ratings_ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Digitale_Sammlungen_Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek_Frankfurt_ID, Capitolium Art artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Capitolium_Art_artist_ID, Nurnet ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nurnet_ID, Roku Channel Store ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Roku_Channel_Store_ID - Query examples: - Bubble graph of the first letter of the word for "one" for languages where Wikidata has a Lexeme https://w.wiki/74wp (source https://twitter.com/belett/status/1681314960318799878) - Searches for trying to replace broken Art UK external IDs https://w.wiki/76rj (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P1367#Queries_relating_to_changed_Art_UK_identifiers ) - People linked in the English Wikipedia page "List of current United States governors" https://w.wiki/75ye (source https://t.me/c/1224298920/110790) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Henrik Ibsen https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Henrik_Ibsen is a project for users interested in the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Q36661) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36661. - WikiProject Getty Library Wikidata Pilot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Getty_Library_Wikidata_Pilot - is a WikiProject in the Getty Library https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57697861 at the Getty Research Institute https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11203476 (part of the J. Paul Getty Trust) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2919540 to create and enhance Wikidata items related to information in materials from the library’s Whitney and Lee Kaplan Collection of African American Visual Culture.
Development
- EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when available (phab:T338613 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (phab:T214885 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214885 ). - mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (phab:T340644 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340644) - Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (phab:T328149 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328149) - Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST API: - Retrieve all statements from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements - Retrieve a single statement from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id} - You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the existing /statements/{statement_id} endpoint
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