*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*Discussions
- Open request for adminship: BrokenSegue <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/BrokenSegue> (RfP scheduled to end after 27 September 2021 14:36 UTC) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: - We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Ninth_Birthday> on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved! <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/JOEJSBFTLRIWCY3WGSCYRBZKDAHBJPKB/> - The next Wikibase live session <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.09.30> is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th September 2021 <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1633017642> (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome! - LIVE Wikidata editing #55 (with OpenRefine) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW89di7ljeA>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3062719064013250/>, October 2 at 18:00 UTC - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #81 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#81>, October 3 - COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard, 30 Sep 2021, Time: 13.00-14.00 WIB (join details <https://twitter.com/mrlogix/status/1442282913412706314>) - Past: - Data Quality Days: You can find slides, videos and notes for many of the sessions on the event page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Quality_Days_2021> . - Wiki Movimento Brasil. The universe of libraries: - Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q45sstDdjC0> (in Portuguese) - Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge powers <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXtOX1X7MJs> (in Portuguese) - LIVE Wikidata editing #54 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL94EF_vPMQ>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/posts/3061865424098614/> Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Blogs - Connecting Cell Ontology and Wikidata via Mix’n’match <https://pointstodots.wordpress.com/2021/09/22/connecting-cell-ontology-and-wikidata-via-mixnmatch/> - Papers - WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties, OpenSym 2021 <https://opensym.org/os2021/program/>, 15-17 September 2021 (Slides <https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/WDProp_Web_Application_to_Analyse_Multilingual_Aspects_of_Wikidata_Properties/16641502>, source code <https://github.com/johnsamuelwrites/wdprop>, Short Video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMyGdyyU0Kc>) - Videos - How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGvP7ipCOE> - Demo: create Wikidata lexemes from Goethe's "Der Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären" - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHS6rqEX5gA> - Demo of adding a string to Wikidata as a lexeme and linking it to the corresponding Wikidata item - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-epCOfMrQ> - Wikidata Query Service assistance (in French) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oA_541XmhY> - Experiences of Using WDumper to Create Topical Subsets from Wikidata - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEA_lC3wVv0> - Other - Chirpanalytica: "Give me your Twitter name and I'll tell you which party you choose" <https://p3g3.de/2021/09/chirpanalytica/>. *"What if you could automatically determine the political orientation of a person using just a Twitter account? This is exactly what I have been doing for the past two years".* - That Wikidata Buzz <https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-wikidata-buzz/id1540506784?i=1000536243833> - Siobhan Leachman <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10> talks about Wikidata in the The World According to Wikipedia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108700243> podcast. Tool of the week - User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia <https://observablehq.com/@pac02/user-level-gender-statistics-for-wikipedia> an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API. Other Noteworthy Stuff - You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Contribute/Community_awards> (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon community awards. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: App Store age rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9897>, music created for <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9899>, issuing agent of work <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9901>, FLOSS development policy URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9904>, relevant date for copyright <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9905>, inscription image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9906>, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9908> - External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9898>, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9900>, Materials Project material ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9902>, All.Rugby player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9903>, swisscovery edition ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9907>, e-Maapõu locality ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9909>, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9910>, PoetsGate poem ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9911>, NVE reservoir ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9912>, FLORE author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9913>, USiena air author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9914>, IRIS IMT author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9915> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiProject_importance_scale_rating>, predicate for <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/predicate_for>, eHive ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eHive_ID> - External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Database_of_Czech_amateur_theater_ID>, National Gallery Prague work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Gallery_Prague_work_ID>, George Eastman Museum artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/George_Eastman_Museum_artist_ID>, All.Rugby club ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/All.Rugby_club_ID>, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sachsens-Schl%C3%B6sser-Kennung>, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dizionario_di_Economia_e_Finanza_ID>, Densho Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Densho_Encyclopedia_ID>, AsianWiki ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AsianWiki_ID>, Channel One Russia show ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Channel_One_Russia_show_ID>, DWDS lemma ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DWDS_lemma_ID>, WDG lemma ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WDG_lemma_ID>, company code (RICS) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/company_code_(RICS)> - Query examples: - Given name "Filaret" ranked within similar names <https://w.wiki/47ik> (source: talk page of item <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Q108636690&uselang=en> ) - Start time of open access journals known to Wikidata <https://w.wiki/47i6> (Source <https://twitter.com/nemobis/status/1441411330569748486>) - Mouths of rivers flowing into the Arctic <https://w.wiki/47QR> ( Source <https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1441101611015696388>) - What chocolate mousse is called in different languages <https://w.wiki/47JG> (Source <https://twitter.com/salgo60/status/1440997936343785475>) - Women in Wikidata whose husbands are economists with articles on the English Wikipedia, but they themselves lack articles <https://w.wiki/48JQ> (adapted from Source <https://twitter.com/wikigamaliel/status/1440678869539844110>) - Same with husbands <https://w.wiki/48JU> (adapted from Source <https://twitter.com/wikigamaliel/status/1440678869539844110>) - People employed by the ZDF with an image on Commons and a link to the German language Wikipedia <https://w.wiki/3uAj> (Source <https://twitter.com/BerndWMDE/status/1440648111215415299>) - Coordinates of the birth places of people named Antoine <https://w.wiki/isU> (Source <https://twitter.com/Mr_Robinini/status/1439996366227480581>) - Place of birth of people named Antoine, Tony, Antonio, etc <https://w.wiki/48J4> - UK MPs who had the most identified descendants who were themselves MPs <https://w.wiki/48EX> (Source <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1442170934945665028>) - Newest database reports: top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/top_missing_properties_by_number_of_sitelinks/P26> (works again) Development - Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (phab:T104750 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104750>) - Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (phab:T289473 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289473>) - Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (phab:T291377 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291377>) - Mismatch Finder <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatch_Finder>: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed - Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects 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. 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