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

   - Closed request for adminship: Ameisenigel
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Ameisenigel>,
   welcome!
   - New request for comments: Automated Manipulation and Calculation
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Automated_Manipulation_and_Calculation>

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

   - Upcoming:
      - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on
      Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in
the Wikidata
      Telegram group <https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>.
      - Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour
      
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/5VZUWNMOY52KEIV77BBPWYV4OHDR5FFJ/>
      on January 13th at 18:00 Central Europe Time (17:00 UTC/GMT), in
this Jitsi
      room <https://meet.jit.si/WikidataBugTriageHour>. *This edition will
      be an open discussion without a specific theme: you can bring 1-2
      Phabricator tickets that you really care about, and we will look at them
      together and see how we can add relevant information and triage them.*
      - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
      call: Review Wikimedia Foundation’s Linked Open Data Strategy 2021 and
      community discussion. Agenda
      
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AlxXVpr5OlRChdKnxyoPCIzqwiiIBoEEuClsE8Mbdok/edit?usp=sharing>,
      January 11th. https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1641920436
      - Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours
      
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/G4JTQNFZZ35GBB3MJ6IROZNBV2II4UWG/>.
      Date: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00
      PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
      - SPARQL queries live on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> and in
      French by Vigneron, January 12 at 19:00 CEST (exceptionally on Wednesday)
      - The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award
      <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award>
      will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC
      <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1642179615>. This award is
      highlighting software tools that have been nominated by
contributors to the
      Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show
appreciation
      to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools! Read more about
      the livestream and the discussion channels.
      <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award>
      - LIVE Wikidata editing #66 - YouTube
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8AjBrwsv-k>, Facebook
      
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3147332458885243/>,
      January 15 at 19:00 UTC
      - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #92
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#92>,
      January 16 at 13.00 UTC
   - Ongoing:
      - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #24, Antonyms
      <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=24>
      - Creating, maintaining and updating Shape Expressions as
      EntitySchemas in the Wikimedia ecosystem
      <https://www.validatingrdf.com/tutorial/swat4hcls22/#schedule>.
      International SWAT4HCLS Conference. 10 - 13 Jan 2022. Register
      <http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/leiden2022/registration/>!

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

   - Blogs
      - An introduction to Observable for Wikidata users
      
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/an-introduction-to-observable-for-wikidata-users>
      - 10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier
      
<https://alexasteinbruck.medium.com/10-useful-things-about-wikidata-sparql-that-i-wish-i-knew-earlier-b0e0ef63c598>
   - Videos
      - Introduction to the interwiki links between Wikidata and Wikipedia
      (in French) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XvPGLI5RMI>
      - Exploring Wikipedia infobox from Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ErEKEIwBkA>
      - WIkimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021
         - Implementing Wikidata in Educational Institutions — CEE
         Challenges and Opportunities - YouTube
         <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ie3Pgs6paM>
         - Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
         <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZZ6ShNvJ2U>
         - Wikidata automatization and integration with web resources -
         YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ghEPqo2Yjc>

Tool of the week

   - OneZoom <https://www.onezoom.org> "tree of life explorer" is an
   interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known
   to science using Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - The Celtic Knot Conference (dedicated to underserved languages on the
   Wikimedia project, with a strong focus on Wikidata and lexicographical
   data) will take place online in 2022. You can help the organizers with
   giving input on topics you'd like to see at the conference. Feel
free to fill
   in the survey <https://wolke.wikimedia.de/apps/forms/yrnHWyBZCY4TWjag>
   before January 17.
   - The page Wikidata:WikiProject Duplicates/Wikipedia mergers
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Duplicates/Wikipedia_mergers>
   has been created, in order to facilitate users when they find duplicate
   articles in a Wikipedia whose language is unfamiliar to them:
      - if you want to declare that you are available for merging duplicate
      articles in one or more given Wikipedias, please add your name
to this page
      - if you want to find some user able to merge articles in a certain
      Wikipedia, you can see if there are already available users for that
      Wikipedia and contact them directly
   - New open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikidata/Wikibase teams)
      - Product Manager Wikibase Suite
      
<https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/14652423/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-m-f-d-/?jobDbPVId=38096098&l=en>
      - Working student in International Software Collaboration
      
<https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/14686283/Werkstudent-in-International-Software-Collaboration/?jobDbPVId=38177173&l=en>
   - Post WikidataCon 2021
      - Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021
      
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation/Documentation/WikidataCon_2021>
      presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
      - Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
      
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikidataCon_2021_Survey_report.pdf>
      - Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being
      uploaded
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Documentation/List_of_sessions>

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: official shop URL
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10225>, facilitates flow of
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10228>, next level in
      hierarchy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10229>, is an
      individual of taxon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10241>, reference
      image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10253>, associated
      cadastral district <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10254>
      - External identifiers: Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10224>, Archivio Storico
      dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10226>, National Library of
      Ireland ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10227>, Viber
      group ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10230>, WikiStrinda
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10231>, Volgograd Oblast
      address register <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10232>, NER
      portfolio ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10233>, Der
      Spiegel topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10234>, LocalWiki
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10235>, Initiale ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10236>, Joconde
      representation ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10237>, Biografisches
      Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10238>, Filmovamista.cz film
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10239>, Arthive person ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10240>, Lur Encyclopedic
      Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10242>,
NatureServe
      Explorer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10243>, NT Place
      Names Register ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10244>, MedlinePlus
      drug identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10245>,
MedlinePlus
      supplement identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10246>,
      eurasian-defence.ru person ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10247>, everyeye.it ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10248>, Triple J Unearthed
      artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10249>, Parque de
      la Memoria ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10250>,
Bokselskap.no
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10251>, Digital Mechanism
      and Gear Library ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10252>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: TV3 programme ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TV3_programme_ID>,
      Chief/Naa/Traditional ruler
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chief/Naa/Traditional_ruler>,
      results in quality
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/results_in_quality>,
      official jobs URL
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/official_jobs_URL>,
      relative
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/relative>,
director
      of publication
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/director_of_publication>,
      Business valuation
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Business_valuation>,
      議案番号
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%E8%AD%B0%E6%A1%88%E7%95%AA%E5%8F%B7>
      - External identifiers: Washington Native Plant Society Plant
      Directory ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Washington_Native_Plant_Society_Plant_Directory_ID>,
      TVFPlay series ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TVFPlay_series_ID>,
      UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK%C3%84_standard_classification_of_Swedish_science_topics_2016>,
      New York Flora Atlas ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/New_York_Flora_Atlas_ID>,
      UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK%C3%84_standard_classification_of_Swedish_science_topics_2011>,
      NLC FL Sys. No.
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NLC_FL_Sys._No.>,
      Senators of Spain (1834-1923)
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Senators_of_Spain_(1834-1923)>,
      Finnish real property ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Finnish_real_property_ID>,
      TV3 video ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TV3_video_ID>,
      OpenAlex ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenAlex_ID>,
      IRIS Sardinia IDs
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Sardinia_IDs>,
      CineCartaz
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CineCartaz>,
      identifiant Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Inventaire_national_du_Patrimoine_culturel_immat%C3%A9riel>,
      Numista type number
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Numista_type_number>,
      Indeed company ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indeed_company_ID>,
      DFG Science Classification
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DFG_Science_Classification>,
      SPLC group ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SPLC_group_ID>,
      AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AMS_Glossary_of_Meteorology_ID>,
      EtymWb lemma ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EtymWb_lemma_ID>,
      Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/W%C3%B6rterbuch_der_Pr%C3%A4positionen_ID>,
      archive-ouverte Unige ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/archive-ouverte_Unige_ID>,
      Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali work ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Catalogo_Generale_dei_Beni_Culturali_work_ID>,
      rus.team person ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/rus.team_person_ID>,
      Hessian Literature Council author ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hessian_Literature_Council_author_ID>,
      Bergen byleksikon ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bergen_byleksikon_ID>,
      CNGAL Entry ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CNGAL_Entry_ID>
   - Query examples:
      - Authors without field of work but with topic-tagged publications
      <https://w.wiki/4er9>
      - Compound first names starting with "John" (and the number of uses
      on Wikidata) <https://w.wiki/4eQL> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1479195688680497156>)
      - Presidents of Brazil with the most awards <https://w.wiki/4ePw> (
      Source <https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1479181335428218880>)
      - Locations of parishes across Scotland <https://w.wiki/4eM6> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/MappingScotsRef/status/1479113657866854408>)
      - Map of where Roman Catholic Popes were born <https://w.wiki/4f5a> (
      Source <https://twitter.com/LArtour/status/1478632665465167872>)
      - Birth place of people who are described in the Encyclopaedia
      Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the Great Catalan
Encyclopedia
      and the Store Norske Leksikon <https://w.wiki/4dvS> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1478434721105428481>)
      - Various kinds of New Year's celebrations in the world
      <https://w.wiki/4dYp> (Source
      <https://twitter.com/wikidataid/status/1478331625695899650>)
      - World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade
      <https://w.wiki/4fKM> (source
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P8701#World_map_of_recent_censuses_known_at_Wikidata_for_each_decade>)
      select decade on the right side
      - Non-English labels for a set of objects, with the names of the
      languages <https://w.wiki/4fL9> (source
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter/queries/khalili#Non_English_labels_for_Khalili_Collections_items>
      )

Development

   - Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatch_Finder> ready for
   release. Focusing on adding statistics.
   - Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older
   browser (phab:T298001 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298001>)
   - Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be
   ordered consistently across all Lexemes (phab:T232557
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232557>)
   - Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the
   other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (
   phab:T233520 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233520>)

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>.

Looking back at 2021

   - Developments rolled out in 2021:
      - New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with
      the large number of edits on Wikidata
      - Query Builder <https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder> to make it
      easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
      - Item Quality Evaluator
      <https://item-quality-evaluator.toolforge.org> to make it easy to
      find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
      - Constraints Violations Checker
      <https://github.com/wmde/wikidata-constraints-violation-checker> is a
      small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a
      set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
      - Curious Facts
      <https://wikidata-analytics.wmcloud.org/app/CuriousFacts> finds
      anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and
      amusement
      - Wikidata Map <https://wmde.github.io/wikidata-map/dist/index.html>
      to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the
      connections between them
      - Current Events
      <https://wikidata-analytics.wmcloud.org/app/CurrentEvents> to make it
      easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a
      lot on Wikidata
   - New entities in 2021:
      - Items Q104595000 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104595000>
      (approx.) to Q110342868 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110342868>
      - Properties P9003 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9003> to
      P10223 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10223>
      - Lexemes L400170 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L400170>
      (approx.) to L625164 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L625164>

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*

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