*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>
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