*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: koavf 3 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/koavf_3 Welcome onboard \o/ - New requests for permissions/Bot: FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/FromCrossrefBot_1:_Publication_dates (Task/s: Using information from Crossref: 1 - Add publication date to items where they are not present in Wikidata 2 - Fix publication dates where they are erroneous)
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, 12th July 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. - LD4 conference (YouTube) - Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFl28pCkoHs- Tuesday, July 11, 2:30pm EST - Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgGq1yNM1Q - Tuesday, July 11, 11:30am EST - Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CiFIIZSCxo - Tuesday, July 11, 11am EST - WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYoD6-aw80M - Wednesday, July 12, 11:00 am - 11:30 am - Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvrxTh8xfdY - How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X70oWw3sXk8 Wednesday, July 12, 10:00 am - 10:30 am ET - Ongoing - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #100, Ants https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=100 (Challenge started on 2023-07-10 12:01:24) - Past - Sailesh Patnaik presents Wikidata for Education at the July session of the Network of Open Orgs - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1s07g-SmE0 - Wikidata Online Course - Cohort 1 graduation - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Vby3NwucY
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - A volunteer-based initiative is flourishing in Arabic Wikipedia: Reliability enhanced with +10k citations added https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/10/a-volunteer-based-initiative-is-flourishing-in-arabic-wikipedia-reliability-enhanced-with-10k-citations-added/ - Wikidata Map in 2023 https://addshore.com/2023/07/wikidata-map-in-2023/ - Videos - How to create a Wikidata Lexeme with ease - Beginner's Guide (in Twi and English) YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJnPpqZb_lg
Tool of the week
- Duplicity https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/duplicity/#/ is a tool on Toolforge that helps find articles on Wikipedia that do not have a Wikidata Item, and match them to an existing Item, or create a new one. (example for English Wikipedia https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/duplicity/#/article/enwiki) - HasProperty.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bamyers99/HasProperty.js displays presence/absence of specific properties (configurable) after the Statements heading. Clicking a property name will jump to that properties section. For absent property, clicking property name will jump to the end of the page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Overview of potential solutions regarding survey on ontology issues reusers are facing https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Ontology_issues_prioritization#Overview_of_potential_solutions have been published. Are there important pieces missing? Is there something you disagree with? Generally sounds sensible? Do add your thoughts. - Wikidata development plan for Q3 has been updated. Wikidata:Development_plan https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan#Wikidata_as_a_platform
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11870, ComingSoon.it TV series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11871, ComingSoon.it TV program ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11872, parliament.bg MP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11873, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11874, Flashpoint database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11875 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - excavated by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/excavated_by (person who has conducted an archaeological excavation of a historic site) - verdict https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury) - Founder of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Founder_of () - underlying structure https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/underlying_structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost) - timetable https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/timetable () - External identifiers: Antenna Structure Registration Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Antenna_Structure_Registration_Number, BDFutbol manager ID 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BDFutbol_manager_ID_2, GSA player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GSA_player_ID, Gameswelt ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gameswelt_ID, DigiListan artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DigiListan_artist_ID, FSHF player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FSHF_player_ID, WWGR player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WWGR_player_ID, Threads username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Threads_username, ProQuest publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ProQuest_publication_ID, Lift Up profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lift_Up_profile_ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Internet_Broadway_Database_touring_theatre_ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ligue_nationale_de_rugby_ID - Query examples: - Week 26, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now https://w.wiki/6TNS (source https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110652193767560122) - Portraits of queer men people https://w.wiki/6yJE - World Universities on Mastodon https://w.wiki/6zR3 (source https://wikis.world/@egonw@scholar.social/110677163462858509)
Development
- Ontology issues: We published the overview of solutions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Ontology_issues_prioritization#Overview_of_potential_solutions and are looking for input on them now. - mul language code: We continued work on it focusing on showing it in the right place in the desktop termbox (phab:T316767 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316767) - Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T339356, phab:T338383 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338383) - Vector 2022 skin: We continued work on improving the search display ( phab:T327510 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327510) - WMF Governance wiki is now connected to Wikidata so can be linked to in the sitelink section under multilingual sites (phab:T321967 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321967)
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