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

   - Open request for adminship: MSGJ
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/MSGJ>
   (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)

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>. *The
      Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the
development
      team present what they have been working on over the past
quarter, and the
      community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important
issues related
      to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.*
      - SPARQL queries live on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> and in
      French by Vigneron, January 18 at 19:00 CEST
      - LIVE Wikidata editing #67 - YouTube
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8doF7FFwU4>, Facebook
      
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3152103715074784/>,
      January 22 at 19:00 UTC
      - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #93
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_#93>,
      January 23 at 13.00 UTC
   - Ongoing:
      - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #25, Volcano
      <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=25>
      - #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February
5th. Contribute
      by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource
      
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#Creating_Wikidata_items_related_to_works_on_Wikisource>
      .
   - Past:
      - Bug Triage Hour (log
      <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikidataBugTriageHour>). The next
      session will be announced here in the Wikidata Weekly Summary and on the
      Wikidata mailing-list.
      - Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award
      <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award> 2021 (replay on
      YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdnwhDAdrxE>)

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

   - Blogs
      - Tour de France's stage winners
      <https://observablehq.com/@pac02/tour-de-frances-stage-winners> an
      Observable notebook to explore Tour de France's data using SPARQL and
      Observable's Plot library.
      - Wikidata, Open Infrastructures, Recognition & Rewards
      
<https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2022/01/wikidata-open-infrastructures.html>
      - Equal Street Names Wiesbaden
      
<https://blog.sperrobjekt.de/content/1000545-EqualStreetNames-Wiesbaden.html>
   - Videos
      - Using Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata to mport a book into
      Wikisource -YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPTepM7_Ghc>
      - Musicbrainz.org and wikidata.org - What can we learn from the
      designs and how to use the API's to extract information - YouTube
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1QgXqOD5S0>

Tool of the week

   - Wiki History Game <https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/> is a game based
   on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened.
   - GraphQL demo for WikiCite <https://wikicite-graphql.herokuapp.com/> is
   a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Do you have an idea you want to explore & want to investigate it using
   Wikidata? Apply for a WMAU fellowship grant
   <https://twitter.com/QUTDataScience/status/1481141478940639232>.

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: reference image
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10253>, associated cadastral
      district <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10254>, admission
      yield rate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10263>
      - External identifiers: 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>, oKino.ua
      film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10255>, AMPAS
      collections item ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10256>, Pipe
      Organ Database organ ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10257>, UNICA IRIS author ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10258>, IRIS UNISS author ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10259>, AMS Glossary of
      Meteorology ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10260>, EtymWb
      lemma ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10261>, Offizielle
      Deutsche Charts album ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10262>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: 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>,
      podcast image url
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/podcast_image_url>,
      list of TV show episode
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/list_of_TV_show_episode>,
      XJustiz registration court ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/XJustiz_registration_court_ID>,
      LinkedIn showcase ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LinkedIn_showcase_ID>,
      religious community
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/religious_community>
      - External identifiers: 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>,
      Amazon podcast ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Amazon_podcast_ID>,
      Podchaser numeric ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Podchaser_numeric_ID>,
      Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Linguistic_Atlas_of_Late_Mediaeval_English_ID>,
      Football Federation of Armenia ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Football_Federation_of_Armenia_ID>,
      Union of Bulgarian Composers ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Union_of_Bulgarian_Composers_ID>,
      Habr company ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Habr_company_ID>,
      Douban book Works ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_book_Works_ID>,
      German Lobbyregister-ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/German_Lobbyregister-ID>,
      Google Arts & Culture entity ID2
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Google_Arts_%26_Culture_entity_ID2>,
      Vesti.ru dossier ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Vesti.ru_dossier_ID>,
      Catalogue of Life ID 2
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Catalogue_of_Life_ID_2>,
      Orthodoxie.com topic ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Orthodoxie.com_topic_ID>,
      Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Russian_Jewry_ID>,
      Wikisimpsons ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikisimpsons_ID>,
      Réseau documents d'artistes ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/R%C3%A9seau_documents_d%27artistes_ID>,
      Millattashlar ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Millattashlar_ID>,
      Transphoto city ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Transphoto_city_ID>,
      IRIS national research institutes IDs
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_national_research_institutes_IDs>
   - Query examples:
      - Things that turned 20 years old today <https://w.wiki/4gSt> (source
      <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1481713498023501824>)
      - Irish artists and their relationships <https://w.wiki/4fu9> (source
      <https://twitter.com/restlesscurator/status/1481276819554852866>)
      - Eating or drinking establishments near you (1.5 radius)
      <https://w.wiki/4gT3> (source
      <https://twitter.com/SPARQLCRMSUPPE/status/1481180146421936129>)
      - Most common day for UK by-elections since 1880 <https://w.wiki/4hGr>
      (source <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1482822129427132417>)

Development

   - Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully
   dispatched to the clients (phab:T233520
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233520>)
   - Mismatch Finder: Improved the texts in the tool to be more
   understandable after testing
   - Mismatch Finder: added a way to get statistics about all the reviews
   that have been done in the tool and what is still awaiting review
   - Special:NewLexeme: kicked off the development work to improve the page
   in order to make it more understandable

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*

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