*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Scholia/June_2022_hackathon> with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows - June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8bDtO4cq8> - July 8-10: Data Quality Days <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Quality_Days_2022>, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Events/Data_Quality_Days_2022> until June 19th. Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Blogs - Travailler avec les épigraphes littéraires dans Wikidata <https://jdr.hypotheses.org/1661> - Were more plant genera really named for nymphs than women who actually lived? <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yoKhbNM_9yYqni0JAh-3NEKsDjLm5xMn/view> - Papers - "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models" <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.08184.pdf>: Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022) - Videos - Live Wikidata editing #82 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsyPI3ZVwRs> by Ainali <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ainali> and Abbe98 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Abbe98> Tool of the week - Article's wikilinks inspector <https://observablehq.com/@pac02/articles-wikilinks-inspector?collection=@pac02/wikipedia-tools> takes all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata. Other Noteworthy Stuff - The May 2022 summary <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/May_2022_scaling_update> for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out! - There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update> on Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1655751623> (link to the meeting <https://meet.jit.si/WDQS-alternative-backends-jun2022>). - Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Feliciss> and PangolinMexico <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=UserPangolinMexico&action=edit&redlink=1>, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300207>, and LennardHofmann <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:LennardHofmann>, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305869>. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator! - A new Mix'n'match page to query entries <https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/entries> across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.) Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: date of incorporation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10786>, in operation on service <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10788>, coordination number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10795> - External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10784>, JBIS horse ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10785>, FactGrid property ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10787>, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10789>, PlantFiles taxon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10791>, Garden.org Plants Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10792>, Woody Plants Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10793>, Macaulay Library taxon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10794>, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10796>, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10797>, Midi libre journalist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10798>, Heiligen.net ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10799> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COR_lemma-id,_niveau_1> , embargoed until <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/embargoed_until> , electric charge capacity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/electric_charge_capacity> , COR form ID, level 1 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COR_form_ID,_level_1> , феноритмотип <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BF> , type of artefact(s) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/type_of_artefact(s)> - External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russia.travel_object_ID> , AdoroCinema series ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AdoroCinema_series_ID> , FirstCycling (riderID) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FirstCycling_(riderID)> , snookerscores.net player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/snookerscores.net_player_ID> , OVO-code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OVO-code>, CEU author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CEU_author_ID> , Chaoxing Journal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chaoxing_Journal_ID> , Springer Nature Person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Springer_Nature_Person_ID> , Springer Nature Article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Springer_Nature_Article_ID> , Springer Nature Journal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Springer_Nature_Journal_ID> , MUI Icon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MUI_Icon>, UK Beetles ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UK_Beetles_ID> - Deleted properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion>: - Query examples: - Which are the most popular natural products based on the number of statements on their corresponding QID? <https://w.wiki/5E6u> (from the Telegram Wikidata group) - Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Elisabeth or Élisabeth <https://w.wiki/5DYV> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1531140106366623745>) Development - Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305854>) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (phab:T290733 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290733>, phab:T30535 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T30535>). - REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (phab:T307031 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307031>, phab:T307032 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307032>) and published the OpenAPI specification document <https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/js/rest-api/> (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306667>). 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> -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement Coordinator Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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