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

   - Open request for adminship: Minorax
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Minorax>
   (RfP scheduled to end after 19 March 2021 11:23 UTC)

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

   - Upcoming: 30 Lexic-o-days
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/30_lexic-o-days_2021>,
   events and projects around lexicographical data, from March 15th to April
   14th. (full schedule, details and links here
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/30_lexic-o-days_2021#Events>)

      - March 15: Kickstart and open discussion about lexicographical data
      - March 16: SPARQL queries about Lexemes (in French) with Vigneron
      - March 17: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
      - March 20: Live editing on Lexemes with Ainali and Abbe98
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Octg9GuHc>
      - March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
   - Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #54
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#54>,
   March 21
   - Upcoming: Wikidata - The Linked Open Data Platform Everyone Can
   Contribute To (Public talk) - Registration link
   
<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/wikidata-the-linked-open-data-platform-everyone-can-contribute-to-tickets-142031683589>

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

   - Blogs
      - Internet Archive Scholar is launched
      
<https://blog.archive.org/2021/03/09/search-scholarly-materials-preserved-in-the-internet-archive/>
      - Wikidata is thanked in the acknowledgements
      - 10 basic but essential SPARQL queries for lexicographical data on
      Wikidata
      
<https://sinaahmadi.github.io/posts/10-essential-sparql-queries-for-lexicographical-data-on-wikidata.html>
      - Using Wikidata to model Aberdeen’s Industrial Heritage
      <https://codethecity.org/2021/03/12/using-wikidata-aberdeens-heritage/>
      - Carnegie Hall experienced a veritable rock explosion during its
      1971-72 season, with 70 rock concerts between September 1971 and
June 1972
      <https://carnegiehall.github.io/datalab/experiments/chdl-0011.html>
      - Writing your own data to Wikidata using spreadsheets: Part 1
      
<http://baskauf.blogspot.com/2021/03/writing-your-own-data-to-wikidata-using.html>
   - Videos
      - OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taiwan Meetup Record - Odysee
      <https://odysee.com/@WikidataTaiwan:c/2021-03-08-19-30-26:6>
      - RDF data model of Wikidata - YouTube
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMjCCXqQcw>
      - OpenRefine / SPARQL editing session with Saint-Raymond Museum in
      Toulouse. By VIGNERON <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:VIGNERON> -
      YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjDfbS4MhBI>
      - LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDMhcxCBA9o>, Facebook
      
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2907430509542107/>
      - An initial look at the TopicTagger tool for Wikidata - YouTube
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTx-XpjtME>

Tool of the week

   - User:Nikki/LexemeToggleSections.js
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/LexemeToggleSections.js>
   script allows to expand/collapse the sections on lexeme pages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Plant Humanities Lab <https://lab.plant-humanities.org/> is a website
   you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence
   on human societies.
   - DX Lab Art Index <https://dxlab.sl.nsw.gov.au/art-index/> is an
   interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks
   by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over
   10 years.
   - The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a
   pre-production test server for feedback. Available at
   https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details here
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_WDQS_Streaming_Updater_now_available_on_pre-production_test_server_for_feedback>
   .
   - Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2021-March/014562.html>
   - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from,
   and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other
   Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than
   2021-03-22.

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: assessment outcome
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9259>, music transcriber
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9260>, subsidy
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9274>, inverse agonist of
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9275>, gender equality index
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9279>, transitivity
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9295>, script style
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9302>
      - External identifiers: Oklahoma's NRHP ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9261>, ChemRxiv ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9262>, Provence-Alpes-Côte
      d'Azur Inventory ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9263>, FFF
      player ID (new scheme) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9264>,
      Physics Magazine author ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9265>, Ligue 1 player ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9266>, ANPI person numeric ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9267>, Science Magazine
      author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9268>, Odnoklassniki
      user numeric ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9269>, ANSI/NISO
      standard ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9270>, Kickstarter
      username <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9271>, DeCS ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9272>, RePEc EconPapers ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9273>, Encyclopedia of
      Ostrava History person ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9276>, LFChistory.net player
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9277>, Pandektis ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9278>, Museum of the Jewish
      People at Beit Hatfutsot ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9280>, Encyclopedia of
      Greater Philadelphia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9281>,
      Catalogue of the Capitular Library of Verona author ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9282>, AaRC film ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9283>, GB1900 ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9284>, Stadtlexikon
      Karlsruhe ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9285>,
Encyclopaedia
      Herder concept ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9286>, Cyprus
      Bibliography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9287>,
EncyclopediaPR
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9288>, Filmitalia person
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9289>, TikTok music ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9290>, Eesti entsüklopeedia
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9291>, Encyclopédie du
      patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9292>, AIATSIS Place
      Thesaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9293>, AIATSIS
      Subject Thesaurus ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9294>, Astro
      Awani topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9296>, TapTap
      application ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9297>,
Encyclopedia
      of Plzeň person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9298>, OsobnostiRegionu.cz
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9299>, Terezín Memorial
      Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9300>, National
      Gallery of Art Library Bibliographic ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9301>, svoyak.info player ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9303>, Encyclopedia of
      Melbourne ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9304>, Max
      Movie person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9305>, EudraCT
      trial ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9306>, Fancyclopedia
      3 ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9307>, operator licence
      number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9308>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: Cantonese romanisation
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cantonese_romanisation>,
      repairability
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/repairability>,
      Gedong Kirtya classification
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gedong_Kirtya_classification>,
      Valence
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Valence>, has
      graphical element
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/has_graphical_element>,
      Antarctic Specially Protected Area ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Antarctic_Specially_Protected_Area_ID>,
      CBO Occupation Code (en) / Classificação Brasileira de Ocupações
      (CBO) (pt)
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CBO_Occupation_Code_(en)_/_Classifica%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Brasileira_de_Ocupa%C3%A7%C3%B5es_(CBO)_(pt)>,
      Reason for unknown/no value
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Reason_for_unknown/no_value>,
      generalization of/generalized by
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/generalization_of/generalized_by>,
      acronym
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/acronym>, Sales
      of arms and military services
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sales_of_arms_and_military_services>,
      formé en même temps que
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/form%C3%A9_en_m%C3%AAme_temps_que>,
      Suggested fields
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Suggested_fields>
      - External identifiers: AWB lemma ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AWB_lemma_ID>,
      MWB lemma ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MWB_lemma_ID>,
      MHDBDB lemma ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MHDBDB_lemma_ID>,
      Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for Middle High German
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Woerterbuchnetz.de_IDs_for_Middle_High_German>,
      Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/L%C3%ABtzebuerger_Online_Dictionnaire_ID>,
      Woerterbuchnetz.de IDs for modern German
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Woerterbuchnetz.de_IDs_for_modern_German>,
      Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Das_wissenschaftliche_Bibellexikon_im_Internet_ID>,
      SVKKL authority ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SVKKL_authority_ID>,
      Demozoo Group ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Demozoo_Group_ID>,
      GameSpot developer ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GameSpot_developer_ID>,
      Washington Place Names ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Washington_Place_Names_ID>,
      PatER ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PatER_ID>,
Latin
      Place Names ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Latin_Place_Names_ID>,
      Enslaved ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Enslaved_ID>,
      Ávvir topic ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%C3%81vvir_topic_ID>,
      Salaborsa building ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Salaborsa_building_ID>,
      storiaememoriadibologna ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/storiaememoriadibologna_ID>,
      UniversalMusic France artist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UniversalMusic_France_artist_ID>,
      Oxford African American Studies Center ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Oxford_African_American_Studies_Center_ID>,
      La Fenice Theatre in Venice person ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/La_Fenice_Theatre_in_Venice_person_ID>,
      MeSH descriptor/qualifier ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MeSH_descriptor/qualifier_ID>,
      Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú researcher ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblioteca_Digital_Curt_Nimuendaj%C3%BA_researcher_ID>,
      Fortalezas.org ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fortalezas.org_ID>,
      Keratsini-Drapetsona libraries' catalogue authority ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Keratsini-Drapetsona_libraries%27_catalogue_authority_ID>,
      France24 topic ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/France24_topic_ID>,
      CNA topic ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CNA_topic_ID>,
      Portrait Archive ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Portrait_Archive_ID>,
      athletics.lv athlete id
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/athletics.lv_athlete_id>,
      temples.ru ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/temples.ru_ID>
   - Query examples:
      - Latin American women who are activists and were born between
      1900-1999 <https://w.wiki/34km> (ordered by the number of articles
      written on Wikipedia) (Source
      <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx/status/1369057880159051776>)
      - Transportation routes in Zurich named after women
      <https://w.wiki/34yJ> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/sharozwa/status/1369256516193239047>)
      - Location of buildings designed by <https://w.wiki/34kF> Zaha Hadid
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47780> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx/status/1369835767007223811>)
      - Proportion of Basque men / women in Donostialdea region
      <https://w.wiki/35dE> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/kepasarasola/status/1370287282222170114>)
      - Count of the industry companies on Wikidata belong to
      <https://w.wiki/35eP> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/watty62/status/1370319664480460801>)
      - Danish verbs-derived-from-non-verbs <https://w.wiki/35jV> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/1370427333606309893>)
      - Mountains of the Basque Country <https://w.wiki/JnF> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/kepasarasola/status/1371469523723939842>)

Development

   - Continued working on the Query Builder
   <https://query-builder-test.toolforge.org/> and focused on querying for
   quantity values (phab:T268942 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268942>),
   handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (
   phab:T274634 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274634>) adding
   tooltips (phab:T275542 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275542>) and
   sharing a visual query (phab:T272887
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272887>)
   - Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make
   more pages accessible through interwiki links (phab:T165061
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165061>)
   - Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (
   phab:T275999 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275999>)
   - Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via
   wbeditentity API module (phab:T199896
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199896>)

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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