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

   - New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/APSbot_4>:
   Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization
   Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.

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

   - Upcoming:
      - 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: Adam Schiff (University of Washington), Tyler Rogers (San
Diego State
      University), Julia Gilmore (University of Toronto) on
documenting buildings
      on academic campuses. Agenda with call link
      
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hSlr8GTlk_Q-bE5n1oCxXBncuCPHnqESWMR0oQcuGYA/edit>,
      April 5.
      - Wikimedia Research Office Hours April 5, 2022
      
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/AWS4SV3TQUS4CZMOB6YH3ML5AIZ6WOEZ/>
      - Wikidata items about theatre and dance productions
      
<https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/event/atelier-pratique-wikidata-produire-un-element-wikidata-relie-aux-productions-en-danse-ou-en-theatre/>,
      April 6 (in French). The same workshop will be offered in English
      <https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/wikidata-workshops-season-2/> on May
      4.
      - Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 6th, 2022.
      Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT /
08:00-09:00 PDT /
      11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad
      <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours>
      - Art+Feminism Community Hours. Theme: Add your Event Data to Wikidata
      <https://artandfeminism.org/panel/community-hours-af-event-metrics/>.
      April 9 at 2pm UTC!
   - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #36, Family
   <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=36>
   - Past: Wikibase live session (March 2022) log
   <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.03.31>

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

   - Blogs
      - Property exploration: How do I learn more about properties on
      Wikidata?
      
<https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/03/30/property-exploration-how-do-i-learn-more-about-properties-on-wikidata/>
      - UCSC Ph.D. students dive deep into engineering open-domain dialogue
      AI with the support of industry partners
      <https://news.ucsc.edu/2022/03/nlp-liveperson-fellowships.html>.
"...*aims
      to develop a better system for entity linking, the connection of entities
      like “Lebron James” or “the Earth” to their various meanings in
an existing
      database of knowledge – in this case, Wikidata*..."
      - Highlighting linked data projects
      
<https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2022/03/highlighting-linked-data-projects/>.
      "...*Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries, and the School
      of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa are engaging
      in the grant-funded Linked Data for Production project. Broadly, the
      project uses linked data to show patrons information from outside sources
      (such as Wikidata) and build longer, more nuanced links between resources*
      ".
   - Videos
      - The Share-VDE project and its relationship with Wikidata (in
      Italian) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVpHdphLvCU>
      - Create a Wikidata page from scratch (in French) - YouTube
      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHed6VZBVFI>
      - Clinical Trials, Wikidata and Systems Biology (in Portuguese) -
      YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsYr0PGCW0M>
      - New WikidataCon 2021 videos uploaded on YouTube
         - Your favorite interface gadgets on Wikidata
         <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK5rwhvDj_8>
         - Wikidata Query Service scaling challenges
         <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nZxY4r5KQs>
         - Decolonizing Wikidata: Q&A session
         <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlUfGhPblGo>
         - Wikidata et l’écosystème de données ouvertes liées pour les arts
         de la scène <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDZpdfbFVpk> (in
         French)
         - Respectfully representing Indigenous knowledge in Wikidata
         <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaPEb_LMHKk>
      - Other
      - FAIR cookbook's recipe "How to Register a Dataset with Wikidata
      
<https://faircookbook.elixir-europe.org/content/recipes/findability/registeringDatasets>
      "
      - OpenRefine will soon hold its two-yearly survey again. Who wants to
      help translate the survey to their language
      <https://groups.google.com/g/openrefine/c/cBO2EWsCkME>? It will take
      around 45 minutes. There are already translations underway in Spanish and
      Dutch. Contact User:SFauconnier
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:SFauconnier> if you want to help!

Tool of the week

   - Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
   - QAnswer <https://wikimedia.qanswer.ai/> is a question answering system
   based on Wikidata and other projects. *Who was the first to create
   liquid helium?* Try it!
   
<https://wikimedia.qanswer.ai/qa/full?question=who+was+the+first+to+create+liquid+helium&lang=en&kb=wikidata%2Cwikipedia&user=open>

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Wikidata Query Service scaling update, March 2022
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS-scaling-update-mar-2022#Wikidata_Query_Service_scaling_update,_March_2022>
   is now available.
   - WDQS backend alternatives paper
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_alternatives>
   with shortlist of options have been published.

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
      - General datatypes: cantilever sign
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10544>, supports qualifier
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10551>, APE code
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10564>
      - External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10534>, RSPA modern authors
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10535>, RSPA ancient
      authors ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10536>, 1905.com
      film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10537>, Leafsnap ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10538>, ImagesDéfense ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10539>, TASS Encyclopedia
      person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10540>, TASS
      Encyclopedia country ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10541>, TASS Encyclopedia
      tag ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10542>, WIPO Pearl
      term ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10543>, Arizona
      State Legislators: Then & Now ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10545>, db.narb.by ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10546>, Kayak hotel ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10547>, Melon music video ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10548>, Evil Angel movie ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10549>, ACE Repertory
      publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10550>, World
      of Waterfalls ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10552>, IxTheo
      authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10553>,
BillionGraves
      grave ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10554>, eSbírky
      institution ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10555>,
Enciclopedia
      del Novecento ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10556>, Zotero
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10557>, My [email protected]
      ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10558>, KSH code
      (historical) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10559>, traveloka
      activities ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10560>, Virginia
      Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10561>, SPLC group ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10562>, GuideStar India
      Organisations-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10563>, Encyclopedia
      of China ID (Third Edition)
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10565>, tiket to-do ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10566>
   - New property proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
   to review:
      - General datatypes: oeconym
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/oeconym>, ISCED
      Attainment
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCED_Attainment>,
      Per capita income
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Per_capita_income>
      - External identifiers: Invasive.org species ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Invasive.org_species_ID>,
      ihg Hotel ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ihg_Hotel_ID>,
      Monoskop article ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Monoskop_article_ID>,
      Le Monde journalist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Le_Monde_journalist_ID>,
      Libération journalist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lib%C3%A9ration_journalist_ID>,
      Le Parisien journalist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Le_Parisien_journalist_ID>,
      Les Échos journalist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Les_%C3%89chos_journalist_ID>,
      L'Humanité journalist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/L%27Humanit%C3%A9_journalist_ID>,
      L'Opinion journalist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/L%27Opinion_journalist_ID>,
      Le Figaro journalist ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Le_Figaro_journalist_ID>,
      Présent author ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pr%C3%A9sent_author_ID>,
      Aldiwan poet ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aldiwan_poet_ID>,
      Aldiwan poem ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aldiwan_poem_ID>,
      International Jewish Cemetery Project ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/International_Jewish_Cemetery_Project_ID>,
      AccessScience ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AccessScience_ID>,
      IPU Chamber ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IPU_Chamber_ID>,
      COL taxon ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COL_taxon_ID>,
      deckenmalerei.eu ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/deckenmalerei.eu_ID>,
      C-SPAN Person Numeric ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/C-SPAN_Person_Numeric_ID>,
      SRSLY person ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SRSLY_person_ID>,
      100 Years of Alaska's Legislature Bio ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/100_Years_of_Alaska%27s_Legislature_Bio_ID>,
      Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indiana_State_Historical_Marker_Program_numeric_ID>,
      Beatport track ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Beatport_track_ID>,
      EIA plant ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EIA_plant_ID>,
      EIA utility ID
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EIA_utility_ID>,
      Speleologi del passato ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Speleologi_del_passato_ID>,
      HuijiWiki article ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HuijiWiki_article_ID>,
      Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID
      
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Cacti_species_ID>
   - Query examples:
      - Long swedish / german nouns in Wikidata <https://w.wiki/4zhs> (
      source <https://twitter.com/salgo60/status/1508444534216310786>)
      - Texts which have Wikisource links in English and French
      <https://w.wiki/4$Gg> (source
      <https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1509547358366883841>)

Development

   - Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page
   and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during
   Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language
   variant.
   - REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
   - Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added
   language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when
   editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of
   the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense
   to people who use screen readers.

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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