*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Project chat: Wikidata phase 1 regression (interwikis no longer visible in new layout used by some Wikipedias and its impact on minority languages) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_phase_1_regression> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming - Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase <https://openpreservation.org/events/working-with-siegfried-wikidata-and-wikibase/>. December 2, 2021 4:00 pm CET - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production#LD4-Wikidata_Affinity_Group> call: Jan Ainali <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ainali> on WikiProject Govdirectory <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory>, a tool and associated Wikiproject for building a user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence. Agenda with call link <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mHIYuDt_1y3zJhMz18O611rPJ-wxyKEvAeFofAyQ4Eo/edit?usp=sharing>, November 30. - Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikibase_and_WBStack_Working_Hours>. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20211216T160000&p1=tz_et&p2=tz_ct&p3=tz_mt&p4=tz_pt&p5=tz_gmt&p6=tz_cet>). "*We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH*" - LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht8h6pUxgKo>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3115061972112292/>, December 4 at 19:00 UTC - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #89 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#89>, December 5 at 13.00 UTC - Ongoing - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #18, Horse <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=18> - Past - Wikibase live session log <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.11.25>, month of November 2021 - Introduction to Wikibase (part 1), ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup (replay <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCAjhjeJpgY>) Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Blogs - Blog post on how Wikimedia Sweden has worked with two museums to open up their data and make it available on Wikidata <https://wikimedia.se/2021/11/24/flytta-till-stockholm-och-do-vi-stadar-upp-och-visualiserar-kulturarvsdata/> (in Swedish) - Indigenous knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikidata <https://wikiedu.org/blog/2021/11/23/indigenous-knowledge-on-wikipedia-and-wikidata/> - Videos - Video tutorial for Wikidata Scraping, data processing and import (Open Refine) (in Czech) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nFy-ffcjfg> - (Wikidata intro) how it acts as one of the levers for the discoverability of cultural content in dance (in French) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEKxq-fwaxg> - Archive and register of sound art / sound artists with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia (in Spanish) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7pUb5aYMZQ> - Reconciliation server demonstration against Wikidata - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX9acrq98LQ> - Wikidata: A Magic Portal for Siegfried and Roy - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtYJaTyeZJM> Tool of the week - New gadget available in the preferences <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets>: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by/compact_items.css> ) Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer <https://short.sg/j/4361894> to join the Wikidata team. - Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund#Wikimedia_Research_Fund> that you can apply to. - New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/3VJ5ZW3MO3CMCVWW4JDWSWDLXLX4XAEU/>. Add your comments <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LinkedOpenData/Strategy2021>! Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: death rate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10091>, image with color chart <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10093> - External identifiers: Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10086>, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10087>, Dissernet institution ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10088>, DHAC ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10090>, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10092>, AHPRA registration number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10094>, FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10095>, Databáze her ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10096>, 7 Days person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10097>, Oùvoir.ça film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10098> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: Corruption Perceptions Index <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Corruption_Perceptions_Index>, surrounds the enclave <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/surrounds_the_enclave>, Harvard Art Museums ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Harvard_Art_Museums_ID>, GISAID identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GISAID_identifier>, Nextstrain identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nextstrain_identifier>, homophone lexeme <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/homophone_lexeme>, Numista <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Numista> - External identifiers: identifiant base Enluminures <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_base_Enluminures>, The World of Shakespeare ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_World_of_Shakespeare_ID>, oKino.ua film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/oKino.ua_film_ID>, kinobaza.com.ua film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/kinobaza.com.ua_film_ID>, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/kinobaza.com.ua_actor_ID>, oKino.ua actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/oKino.ua_actor_ID>, Natural History Museum (London) person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Natural_History_Museum_(London)_person_ID>, svpressa.ru ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/svpressa.ru_ID>, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russian_Academy_of_Sciences_person_ID>, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Parliamentary_Newspaper_ID>, Lib.ru author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lib.ru_author_ID>, politika-crimea.ru person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/politika-crimea.ru_person_ID>, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Institute_of_the_History_of_Ukraine_scientist_ID>, centrasia.org person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/centrasia.org_person_ID>, Music of Armenia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Music_of_Armenia_ID>, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Transbaikalia_ID> - Query examples: - Number of items without any statements <https://w.wiki/4Sjy> (last week: more than 1,300,000) - Number of items without any statements by sitelinks <https://w.wiki/4Sn7> (sample: 1757 items link to nlwiki, but have no statements). - Taxa named after women (by place of birth) <https://w.wiki/4TSu> ( Source <https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1464316862452359176>) - List of articles on Blaise Pascal in all Wikipedias, sorted by decreasing article size <https://w.wiki/4T73> (Source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/1463887097752961026>) - Texts on French Wikisource by people born in Puy-de-Dôme <https://w.wiki/4Sq6> (Source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/1463528711525965834>) - List of countries by the highest elevation point <https://w.wiki/4Srs> (Source <https://twitter.com/fagerving/status/1463583163360456708>) - Number of distinct (UK parliament) seats returning someone who chose to sit elsewhere each year, 1830-1910 <https://w.wiki/4Sd4> ( Source <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1463284279530688512>) - List of services that support the OpenRefine Reconciliation service <https://w.wiki/4SBV> (Source <https://twitter.com/yayamamo/status/1462787283355009031>) - Things depicted in art works in the Khalili Collections <https://w.wiki/4UDE> (Source <https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1465316000275083270>) - Images of Wikidata's items linked to UBERON ids <https://w.wiki/4sfu> (Source <https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1462848333026844673>) - Population density of administrative subdivisions exceeding 100,000 km² and 100 inhabitants / km² <https://w.wiki/4Tz5> (Source <https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1465058060775342082>) - List of government agencies in Scotland <https://w.wiki/4TpN> ( Source <https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1464907568246140928>) - Which day of the week people died on in the Mauthausen concentration camp <https://w.wiki/4Tyv> (Source <https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1465051707344306182>) Development - Mismatch Finder <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatch_Finder>: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches. - Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294465>) - Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232557>) - More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285156>) - Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DataQualityDaysontologyissues.pdf> ) 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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