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

   - Closed request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Dr.%C3%BCsenfieber>
   (unsussesful)
   - 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>

   - Upcoming: SPARQL queries <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> live on Twitch
   and in French by Vigneron, March 2 at 18:00 CET
   - Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoUfkQ0mVe8>, Facebook
   
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2902104563408035/>,
   March 6
   - Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #52
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#52>,
   March 7
   - Upcoming: Wikidata bug triage hour
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour>
   about Lexemes, March 22nd
   - Upcoming: Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New
   Brunswick
   <https://www.unb.ca/fredericton/management/ibec/data-challenge1.html>.
   One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams
   will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query
   Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.

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

   - Blogpost: Wikidata and Correspondence Archives
   <https://rpubs.com/yannryan/729877> (Enriching basic metadata with a
   knowledge graph)
   - Blogpost: The promise of Wikidata
   <https://datajournalism.com/read/longreads/the-promise-of-wikidata> -
   How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data
   source (at DataJournalism.com)
   - Video: Accra Archive Wikidata and Wikipedia Workshop (GLAMS Campaign
   Ghana) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt-Gygr3LqE>
   - Video: COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJvBgVWTqM>
   - Video: Identify and describe items of bibliographic interest
   (articles, monographs, authors) on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP1IwCd1w_g>
   - Video: Visualizing the global research ecosystem via Wikidata and
   Scholia - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_XdMCk3fA>
   - Video: Demo: How to upload new bibliography and create dashboards on
   Wikidata - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtwnSB2E--U>
   - Video: Reconciliation Open Refine Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRX3hFu9exs>
   - Video: Reconciling researchers to Wikidata via Google Sheets - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcnLv1j4PyM>
   - Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPQTRMiYYf4>, Facebook
   
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2897172903901201/>
   - Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSU4QylZ3ls>
   - Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) - YouTube
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6AHcat-TKI>

Tool of the week

   - EditSum
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Enhance_user_interface#EditSum>,
   a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any
   label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js>, is a
   userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme
   pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the
   lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's
   Babel box).
   - User:Lucas Werkmeister/addStatementCountsToCategories.js
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister/addStatementCountsToCategories.js>,
   is a userscript that shows the number of statements of the linked item for
   all pages in a category.
   - Shared Citations
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/Shared_Citations>, a *proposal*
   arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management
   database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship
   to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
   - Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre
   
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Mod%C3%A8le:Indice_de_diversit%C3%A9_de_genre>
   (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia
   which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender
   mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite
   women.
   - Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual
   lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata
   dumps containing Items and Properties. phab:T264883
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264883>
   - We found a way to improve the performance of scrolling on the Item
   page by changing how we move the Property labels as you scroll through the
   page <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274569#6864569>. You should see
   the effect after the next deployment.
   - BBC Things <https://www.bbc.co.uk/things/about> includes links to
   Wikidata to provide a single reference for the growing collection of
   entities that matter to the BBC and their audiences.

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: number of at bats
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9180>, number of hits
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9184>, bases on balls
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9188>, runs batted in
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9190>, letterer
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9191>, sensors
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9192>, FAQ URL
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9214>, set during recurring
      event <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9215>, stolen bases
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9217>, doubles hit
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9220>, triples hit
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9225>
      - External identifiers: 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>, AllMusic genre/style
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9185>, DicoPolHiS ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9186>, EuroBabeIndex.com ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9187>, Sauvons nos tombes
      cemetery ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9189>,
LombardiaBeniCulturali
      archive producer person ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9193>, LombardiaBeniCulturali
      archive producer organization ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9194>, LombardiaBeniCulturali
      archive producer family ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9195>, BookBub author ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9196>, TlF artist ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9197>, Encyclopédie berbère
      article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9198>, Protagonisti
      della storia delle scienze della mente ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9199>, English Placenames
      MADS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9200>, Norwegian
      State Administration Database ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9201>, teatral.ro
      play/theater ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9202>,
CineFAN.ro
      title ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9203>, CinemaRX
      title ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9204>, Sinemalar
      title ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9205>, Swissvote ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9206>, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
      inventory identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9207>, Île-de-France
      inventory identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9208>, Normandie
      inventory identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9209>, Pays
      de la Loire inventory identifier
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9210>, Wisconsin
      Architecture and History Inventory ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9211>, Dizionario biografico
      online degli anarchici italiani ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9212>, Swedish Literature
      Bank place ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9213>, Opera
      Online conductor ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9216>, Discogs
      genre ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9218>, Discogs
      style ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9219>, Danmarks
      Adresseregister named street ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9221>, bashenc.online ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9222>, Provenio UUID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9223>, JedeSchule.de ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9224>, ARAE ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9226>, Encyclopedia Titanica
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9227>, U.S. Masters
      Swimming ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9228>, DzygaMDB
      person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9229>, NLS place
      type ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9230>, Archivo Linz
      de la Transición Española ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9231>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: demographics of topic
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/demographics_of_topic>,
      strikeouts
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/strikeouts>,
      district heating
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/district_heating>,
      number of signatories
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_signatories>,
      opt-out
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/opt-out>,
      payer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/payer>,
      secondary topic
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/secondary_topic>,
      grant number
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/grant_number>,
      Future Salaries ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Future_Salaries_ID>,
      Index égalité professionnelle F/H
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Index_%C3%A9galit%C3%A9_professionnelle_F/H>,
      Commons incompatible image URL
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Commons_incompatible_image_URL>,
      verbal ability
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/verbal_ability>
      - External identifiers: Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diccionari_de_la_traducci%C3%B3_catalana_ID>,
      ANPI person ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ANPI_person_ID>,
      ANPI person numeric ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ANPI_person_numeric_ID>,
      APS author ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/APS_author_ID>,
      EEVA author ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EEVA_author_ID>,
      Archives West finding aid ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archives_West_finding_aid_ID>,
      BiographySampo person ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BiographySampo_person_ID>,
      Discord server numeric ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Discord_server_numeric_ID>,
      Discord user numeric ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Discord_user_numeric_ID>,
      CUT ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CUT_ID>,
Amathus
      ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Amathus_ID>,
      EUC ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EUC_ID>, UPSA
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UPSA_ID>,
      RePEc EconPapers ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RePEc_EconPapers_ID>,
      Dark Horse contributor ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dark_Horse_contributor_ID>,
      ComiXology publisher ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ComiXology_publisher_ID>,
      Austrian Newspapers Online ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Austrian_Newspapers_Online_ID>,
      Cyprus Library ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cyprus_Library_ID>,
      MyMusic artist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MyMusic_artist_ID>,
      LFCHistory.net player ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LFCHistory.net_player_ID>,
      MeSH qualifier ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MeSH_qualifier_ID>
   - Query examples:
      - Hungarian church buildings sorted by confessions
      <https://w.wiki/324x> (Source
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Mohammed_Sadat_(WMDE)#New_query_example>
      )
      - Where Czechs most died if not in their place of birth
      <https://w.wiki/32kG> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1365366579748343809>)
      - Most popular tonalities <https://w.wiki/32kK> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/luisalvaz/status/1365328187211853829>)
   - Newest WikiProjects
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:

      - WikiProject Templates
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Templates> for
      templates in Wikidata

Development

   - Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average
   ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in
   the batch so it's easier to improve them.
   - Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to
   Lexemes later this year.
   - Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches
   between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
   - Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain
   and what should come later.
   - Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250550>)
   - Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for
   monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them
   not showing up was very confusing (phab:T124758
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124758>)
   - Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (
   phab:T271126 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271126>)
   - Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language
   variant to major language (phab:T272712
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272712>)
   - Continuing to build out the Query Builder
   <https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org/> and focusing on input for
   quantity and date queries (phab:T268942
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268942> and phab:T272697
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272697>)
   - Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the
   Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes
   new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on
   v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into
   the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress here
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5218/>.

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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