*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - RPI2026F1Bot 7 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RPI2026F1Bot_7 (Add start time (P580) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P580 as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3984) - BotFunast https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BotFunast (Task: The bot is already operational in the Tachelhit Wikipedia https://shi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasna_Tamzwarut. One of its main tasks is editing template tags and categories, and creating new ones when necessary, based on a csv database (that you can find in github) . When adding new pages though, a common problem is to link those to Wikidata. This can be unfeasible by hand in a reasonable amount of time, when hundreds of pages, e.g. categories, are added at once. The idea is to have the bot approved for Wikidata, so it can link the pages to their counterparts in other languages automatically.) - Closed request for permissions/Bot: - RPI2026F1Bot 6 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RPI2026F1Bot_6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive )
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, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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. - Registration for Wiki Workshop 2023 on May 11, 2023 has started https://wikiworkshop.org/2023/. - Ongoing - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #87, Beach https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=87
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Celebrating the impacts of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community on Wikidata https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/05/7-in-7-celebrating-the-impacts-of-wikimedia-fulfulde-community-on-wikidata/ - How Open Data can help you out in more diverse situations! https://the-qa-company.com/blog/blog-extended/72 - Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment https://github.com/stefangrotz/Auto-GPT-Wikidata - Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2023/Contents/Wikidata_report - The Whelming - Cram as cram can, by Magnus Manske http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=695 - Finding Impossible Witches: Part One The Search Begins https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/witchcraft_visualisation/finding-impossible-witches-part-one/ - Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons as Linked Data Hubs: Dissemination of KU Leuven Libraries’ digitized collections https://enrichingheritage.wordpress.com/2023/04/05/wikidata-and-wikimedia-commons-as-linked-data-hubs-dissemination-of-ku-leuven-libraries-digitized-collections/ - Papers - Knowledge Graphs and their Role in the Knowledge Engineering of the 21st Century https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/17810/ - Videos - LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QnzIvcJbd0&t=4s - Bootstrap a News Signals Dataset using Wikidata SPARQL Query Service - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCYQ0TP_0dQ - SEMIC community: Third workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd8siJCHxfg - Wikidata The Making Of trailer Web Conference 2023 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxWs_BS31QE - [Open Data Day Taiwan 2023] Wikidata Community Workshop Day 1 (in Chinese - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKQbcexFkco - Notebooks - Fork of Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata https://observablehq.com/d/81039c52dd33a9c0
Tool of the week
- Pauken! https://pauken.toolforge.org/#/ ("to cram" in German) - is a tool that lets you learn words in different languages, based on images.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Mozilla launched the Responsible AI Challenge https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launches-responsible-ai-challenge/, in case someone wants to apply with a great Wikidata-supported project. - Wikimedia Deutschland job openings - Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30730373?l=en - Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30596953?l=en - UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30432915?l=en
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - information sign https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11702 (property for the image of a (historical or other) information sign or board) - location URL match pattern https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11707 (regex pattern of URL that individual shops/amenity within a chain can be matched against) - External identifiers: INEP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11704, Facebook numeric ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11705, Aligulac player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11706, U.S. Epigraphy Project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11708, Artist Directory ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11709, LIBRA Unine ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11710, Litres author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11711, NHF club ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11712 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - orchestration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/orchestration (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement in notated form) - part of other combined lexeme https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/part_of_other_combined_lexeme (qualifier on P5238 to indicate that a component appearing in a compound lexeme actually comes from the appearance of another compound lexeme) - External identifiers: MEL residence ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MEL_residence_ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kress_Collection_Digital_Archive_ID, IRIS Lombardy IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Lombardy_IDs - Query examples: - Superheroes with a degree in the humanities https://w.wiki/6UeA ( source https://twitter.com/tophkat/status/1638647034914955264) - Places of discovery of objects held in the Musée de Bretagne (colored according to the period of the object) https://w.wiki/6Zu5 (source https://twitter.com/belett/status/1645732696105136130) - People with far apart reported death dates https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fdate0%20%3Fdate1%20%3Fprec%20%3Fdiff%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fdate0%20%3Fdate1%20%3Fprec%20%3Fdiff%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%2811%20%20AS%20%3Fminimum_precision%29%20%23%20minimum%20precision%3B%207%20%3D%20century%2C%208%20%3D%20decade%2C%209%20%3D%20year%2C%2010%20%3D%20month%2C%2011%20%3D%20day%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP570%20%3Fstatement0%2C%20%3Fstatement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement0%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank0%20%3D%20%3Frank1%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank0%20%21%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement0%20psv%3AP570%20%3Fvalue0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20psv%3AP570%20%3Fvalue1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue0%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3Fprecision0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue1%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3Fprecision1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fprecision0%20%3C%20%3Fprecision1%2C%20%3Fprecision0%2C%20%3Fprecision1%29%20AS%20%3Fprec%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fprec%20%3E%3D%20%3Fminimum_precision%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue0%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdate0.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvalue1%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdate1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdate0%20%3C%20%3Fdate1%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%207%20%2C%201%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%208%20%2C%2010%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%209%20%2C%20100%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3D%2010%20%2C%201000%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20IF%28%3Fprec%20%3E%3D%2011%2C%2010000%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%200%29%29%29%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20AS%20%3Fprecision_adj%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%28%3Fdate1%20-%20%3Fdate0%29%20%2a%20%3Fprecision_adj%20AS%20%3Fdiff%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20LIMIT%2010000%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20%28%3Fdiff%29 (source https://twitter.com/cuniiform/status/1645253579043659777) - Top album languages found on Wikidata right now https://w.wiki/6TNS (source https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110162296549080264) - Articles in a specific venue citing retracted articles https://w.wiki/6YpN (source https://wikis.world/@egonw@scholar.social/110162154446780288) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Minecraft https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Minecraft: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Minecraft, along with items for user-generated content (like mods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Minecraft_modding).
Development
- EntitySchemas: We continued the work on creating a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T332139 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332139) - Query Builder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the language of the UI (phab:T328148 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328148) - REST API: - We continued the work on making it possible to create or replace, a label or a description in a given language" (phab:T323813 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323813) - The new endpoints for getting labels, descriptions and aliases respectively are now online. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/entities/items/Q10998/labels...
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