*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions

   - Open request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Dr.%C3%BCsenfieber>
   - RfP scheduled to end after 24 February 2021 14:19 (UTC)
   - New request for comments: P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as
   main statements
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/P155/P156_as_qualifiers_only,_rather_than_as_main_statements>

Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>

   - Past: Wikidata bug triage hour about Lexemes. Notes available here
   <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikidataBugTriageHour>
   - Past: Online Talk Show on Fri, Feb 19, 2021, by Wikimedia Indonesia
   and Fariz Darari - Take a peek into the data warehouse of Wikimedia
   projects (= Wikidata): Youtube link
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tekLS0UCoeM>
   - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls>
   call: Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in
   residence at the Wales National Library, Tuesday, February 23rd.[1]
   
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IV6TK6JE5tHKO2fga801HnKFBQNQcwN-j58dhDTVtE8/edit#>
   - Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPQTRMiYYf4>, Facebook
   
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2897172903901201/>,
   February 27
   - Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #51
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#51>,
   February 28

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>

   - Blogpost: Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2020 edition
   
<https://commonists.wordpress.com/2021/02/21/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-%e2%88%92-2020-edition/>
   - Video: Basic tutorial on how to annotate an article with Wikidata tags
   for the ANN project - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFKAWNYbBDk>
   - Video: The Wikidata community: tools to communicate, ask for help,
   exchange ideas and opinions (in Italian) - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUZyzWZKoMI>
   - Video: REfB (Reference Bot): Adding new references to WikiData
   statements by Houcemeddine Turki
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Csisc> - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4gJEwB2EkY>
   - Video: Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlxsQQPfrqU>, Facebook
   
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2892173044401187/>
   - Video: Knowledge graphs lecture - RDF, Wikidata, SHACL, ShEx (in
   Russian) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOvProRbG0Q>
   - Podcast: Adam Shorland <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore> talks
   about Wikidata and Wikibase on Between The Brackets Mediawiki podcast
   <https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-80-adam-shorlandtalks>.

Tool of the week

   - LexemeForms-SearchPage
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/LexemeForms-SearchPage.js>
   adds links on the search results page for creating new lexemes
using the Lexeme
   Forms tool <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Lexeme_Forms>
   based on the languages in your Babel box.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Vglist <https://vglist.co/> is a video game library tracking web app
   that is mostly based on Wikidata.
   - WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats: Meetings
   with the Wikidata community on Feb 24 and Mar 3
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Community_Board_seats/Conversations/Wikidata>
   .

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: coordinates of depicted place
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9149>, thesis committee
      member <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9161>, number of at
      bats <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9180>
      - External identifiers: IPHAE ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9142>, Play:Right ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9143>, National Portrait
      Gallery (London) artwork ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9144>, Xinjiang Data Project
      identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9145>, CITWF
      title ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9146>, Union
      Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9147>, Saxony-Anhalt
      cultural heritage object ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9148>, FloGrappling ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9150>, Can I use feature ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9151>,
      CollectieGelderland-creator-ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9152>, VAi building ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9153>, Heritage Information
      System ID in the database of cultural heritage in Austria
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9154>, Joods Monument ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9155>, Lumni person ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9156>, Open Tree of Life ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9157>, Wurdboek fan de
      Fryske taal GTB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9158>, People
      Australia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9159>, Biographical
      Dictionary of the Czech Lands ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9160>, EMS ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9162>, Spletni biografski
      leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9163>, Svenska Institutet i
      Rom ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9164>, Lexikon
      Literatur in Tirol ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9165>, Curling.fi
      player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9166>, De Lakenhal
      artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9167>,
Hauts-de-France
      Inventory identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9168>, Tree
      of Life contributor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9169>,
      Taiwan River Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9170>, RILM
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9171>, playDB artist ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9172>, Rate Your Music genre
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9173>, XXXBios
      transgender performer ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9174>, Centre-Val de Loire
      Inventory identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9175>, Occitanie
      Inventory identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9176>, playDB
      play ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9177>, Biblioteca
      Franco Serantini ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9178>, Biblioteca
      Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9179>, Germanistenverzeichnis
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9181>, uta-net.com song ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9182>, uta-net.com artist ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9183>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: sensors
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/sensors>,
Applying
      institution
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Applying_institution>,
      FAQ url
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FAQ_url>,
digital
      distribution platform
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/digital_distribution_platform>,
      Bandcamp Tag
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bandcamp_Tag>,
      Anzahl der Staffeln
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Anzahl_der_Staffeln>,
      PDDikti ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PDDikti_ID>,
      template applies category
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/template_applies_category>,
      workers represented by
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/workers_represented_by>,
      alt text
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/alt_text>,
demographics
      of topic
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/demographics_of_topic>
      - External identifiers: AaRC title ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AaRC_title_ID>,
      Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_biografico_online_degli_anarchici_italiani_ID>,
      JedeSchule.de ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JedeSchule.de_ID>,
      bashenc.online ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/bashenc.online_ID>,
      Svoya Igra television player ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Svoya_Igra_television_player_ID>,
      Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wisconsin_Architecture_and_History_Inventory_ID>,
      TaDiRAH ID (2)
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TaDiRAH_ID_(2)>,
      Oklahoma's NRHP ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Oklahoma%27s_NRHP_ID>,
      Sauvons nos tombes cemetery ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sauvons_nos_tombes_cemetery_ID>,
      Discogs genre ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Discogs_genre_ID>,
      Sauvons nos tombes person ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sauvons_nos_tombes_person_ID>,
      Odnoklassniki user numeric ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Odnoklassniki_user_numeric_ID>,
      CPC-PR ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CPC-PR_ID>,
Obituaries
      Australia ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Obituaries_Australia_ID>,
      Indigenous Australia ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indigenous_Australia_ID>,
      Women Australia ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Women_Australia_ID>,
      AIATSIS Subject Thesaurus ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AIATSIS_Subject_Thesaurus_ID>,
      Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen
      Vorhang ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biografisches_Handbuch_%E2%80%93_Todesopfer_der_Grenzregime_am_Eisernen_Vorhang_ID>,
      Filmitalia film ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Filmitalia_film_ID>,
      Filmitalia person ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Filmitalia_person_ID>,
      Resident Advisor Venue ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Resident_Advisor_Venue_ID>,
      GB1900 ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GB1900_ID>,
AIATSIS
      Place Thesaurus ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AIATSIS_Place_Thesaurus_ID>,
      Mixcloud ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mixcloud_ID>,
      Labour Australia ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Labour_Australia_ID>,
      Mexicana Repositorio
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mexicana_Repositorio>,
      Science Magazine author ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Science_Magazine_author_ID>,
      Everipedia ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Everipedia_ID>,
      ARAE ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ARAE_ID>,
Archivo
      Linz de la Transición Española ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archivo_Linz_de_la_Transici%C3%B3n_Espa%C3%B1ola_ID>,
      Museo Nacional de la Estampa ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Museo_Nacional_de_la_Estampa_ID>,
      NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NParks_Flora_%26_Fauna_Web_ID>,
      identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_Bourgogne-Franche-Comt%C3%A9>,
      identifiant inventaire Île-de-France
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_%C3%8Ele-de-France>,
      identifiant inventaire Normandie
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_Normandie>,
      identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_Pays_de_la_Loire>,
      identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur>,
      Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diccionari_de_la_traducci%C3%B3_catalana_ID>
   - Query examples:
      - List of vegan restaurants <https://w.wiki/zdd>
      - List of food that are iconic to particular countries
      <https://w.wiki/$fK> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/KarlXOblique/status/1363054210900762627>)
      - Map of monuments in Lower Saxony, Germany <https://w.wiki/zyH> (
      Source <https://w.wiki/zyC>)
      - Map of former plantations in Surinam <https://w.wiki/$aX> (Source)
      <https://twitter.com/hayify/status/1363075272447324161>
      - Map of Wats in Thailand <https://w.wiki/fP7> - (Source
      <https://twitter.com/MaewNam/status/1362020624487612417>)
      - Localities in Mexico and contain 𝐒𝐚n in their name
      <https://w.wiki/zZd> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx/status/1361796008305393665>)
      - Female mycologists born pre-1900, sorted by number of sitelinks
      <https://w.wiki/zm6> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1361727131030413312>)
      - Women scientists who were born between the year 1500 and 1900
      <https://w.wiki/zd2> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx/status/1363307817696776192>)

Development

   - Fixed wrongly encoded HTML in some messages in the Wikidata Bridge (
   phab:T272350 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272350>)
   - Working on showing all languages in the language suggester for
   monolingual text Properties (phab:T124758
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124758>)
   - Fixed an issue with spaces in external identifier URLs being replaced
   by "+" (phab:T271126 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271126>)
   - Added a rate limit for creating Item IDs, which should help with
   decreasing the number of skipped Q-IDs (phab:T272032
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272032>)
   - Fixed an issue where whitespace was stripped while typing when editing
   Lexemes (phab:T250550 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250550>)
   - Fixing the case where you cannot easily edit negative quantities after
   saving (phab:T274129 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274129>)
   - Working on making it possible to query for quantity values in the
   Query Builder (phab:T268942 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268942>)

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>

-- 

Mohammed Sadat

*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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