*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events

- Upcoming: - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.Event page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-March-27_Wikidata_Working_Hour - WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wikicite-monthly-2023-03 - Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/WDQSOfficeHour on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WDQSOfficeHourMar27) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WDQSOfficeHourMar28) - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=86

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

- Blogs - Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata https://www.bobdc.com/blog/wikidatanormalizing/ by Bob DuCharme - Musings on the Wikidata backend http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=691 by Magnus Manske - Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Announcing_Our_2023_Wikidata_Fellows by Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand - Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=688 by Magnus Manske - How linked data can help with anonymization https://the-qa-company.com/blog/blog-extended/72 by Sri Kalidindi - Notebooks - Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/SPARQLDatasetv3.ipynb. See the csv file https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/large_sparql_queries_dataset.csv and the parquet file https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/large_sparql_queries_dataset.parquet .

Tool of the week

- Declarator.org http://declarator.org/ is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets (mentioned by OpenSanctions https://twitter.com/open_sanctions/status/1506560708632326148)

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11685, University of Barcelona authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11686 , Kinoglaz film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11687, MobyGames game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11688, MobyGames company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11689, MobyGames group ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11690, Feminae record ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11691, Alexandria UniSG person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11692, OpenStreetMap node ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11693, literatura.lv ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11695 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - ISCED Attainment https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCED_Attainment (ISCED attainment is the UNESCO main classification of educational level, it is used to map each level to the global classification used by UNESCO. This is useful because the same local level can mean different things in different countries. It identifies the specific levels of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) Attainment model. Has two sub qualifiers - code and label.) - first performance by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/first_performance_by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work) - External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Enciclopedia_delle_scienze_sociali_ID , Boomplay album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Boomplay_album_ID , Ticino Scienza ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ticino_Scienza_ID , AML ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AML_ID, Arabic Ontology form ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Arabic_Ontology_form_ID , NHF club ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NHF_club_ID , L'Histoire par l'image ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/L%27Histoire_par_l%27image_ID , Sinta affiliation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sinta_affiliation_ID - Query examples: - Wikidata items which have both a UK Parliament Thesaurus ID and a subreddit https://w.wiki/6Vv8 (source https://twitter.com/philbgorman/status/1639430275519094787) - Number of books written in Basque grouped by the birth place of their authors https://w.wiki/6Vv6 (source https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1638517496520097792) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects : WikiProject Emoji https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Emoji

Development

- EntitySchemas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Schemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements ( phab:T214884 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214884) - Query Builder https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder: We finished the work on the language selector so you can switch the interface language of the tool (phab:T328148 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days. - Wikibase REST API https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (phab:T323173 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323173)

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