*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- ListedBuildingsUKBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/ListedBuildingsUKBot>.
Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons
category pages
for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000
entities that can be updated. e.g. [1]
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26317428> should have a wiki commons
link to [2]
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Outhouse_to_Northeast_of_Red_House,_Bexleyheath>
since they both refer to [3]
<https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064204>.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming
- Live editing session on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett>, in
French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Wikidata Data Quality Days
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Quality_Days_2022>,
online, on July 8-10
- Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/HN45PNQICAMLUR3XDWOSKSPS7RIPR5G3/>
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, Human rights
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=48>
- Past
- Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022>. See Videos
pool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022/Videos_pool>
(replay).
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Videos
- Making Wiki work for Wales - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_BxfkX1fCI>
- Session on Wikibase - Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikipedians of Goa
User Group (WGUG) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE-ZXnTOG7M>
- Scribe: Wikidata-powered keyboard app for second language learners
- YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GpFN0gGmy4>
- Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata A semi automated, user assisted
editing tool - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fXeAlvbNgE>
- Wikidata MOOC (in French) by Wikimedia France - 19 videos on YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoCicXrwO5jBxxXXvSpDANw/videos>
- Wikidata Tutorials (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - 7 videos
on YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-p5ybeTV84QYvX1B3xxZynfFWboOPDGy>
- Report
- User:LennardHofmann/GSoC 2022/Report 2
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LennardHofmann/GSoC_2022/Report_2>
- rewriting the WikiCommons and Wikidata Infobox in Lua
Tool of the week
- User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js> is a
userscript that can add values to properties that already exist on an item
and new statements.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces with the Igbo Wikimedians
User Group and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of
the movement around Wikidata
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/IPRW3TAAZK3DPVGN5JKGVJRVPBUJDQNE/>.
The goal of this collaboration is "to make our software more usable by
cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and
speakers of minority languages".
- Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
- Junior Product Manager Wikidata
<https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/19886514?utm_campaign=google_jobs_apply&utm_source=google_jobs_apply&utm_medium=organic&l=en>
- *"In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be
the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest
knowledge base of free and open data in the world."*
- Product Manager Wikibase Suite
<https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/19887130/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=50403840&l=de>
- In this role *"you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and
the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of
stakeholders in
the Wikibase Ecosystem."*
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10838>, Russia.travel object
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10839>, Yamaha Artists ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10840>, ifwizz ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10841>, IRFA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10842>, DeSmog ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10843>, Teresianum authority
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10844>, AdoroCinema
series ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10845>, CEU author
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10846>, Anime Characters
Database tag ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10847>, Beamish
peerage database peerage ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10848>, Beamish peerage
database person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10849>, Kultboy
video game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10850>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: Gitee username
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gitee_username>,
Punjabi tone
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Punjabi_tone>,
spoken by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/spoken_by>,
recordist
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/recordist>,
part
of molecular family
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/part_of_molecular_family>,
official definition
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/official_definition>
- External identifiers: Anghami artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Anghami_artist_ID>,
Boomplay artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Boomplay_artist_ID>,
Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hamburger_Professorinnen-_und_Professorenkatalog_ID>,
MUSE publisher ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MUSE_publisher_ID>,
EU Knowledge Graph ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EU_Knowledge_Graph_ID>,
Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kazakhstan.travel_tourist_spot_ID>,
identifiant organisation Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la
vie publique
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_organisation_Haute_Autorit%C3%A9_pour_la_transparence_de_la_vie_publique>,
Bibale ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bibale_ID>, SZ
topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SZ_topic_ID>,
IRIS UNIMOL author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_UNIMOL_author_ID>
- Query examples:
- Number of albums in Wikidata by language, in descending order
<https://w.wiki/5Pbw> (source
<https://twitter.com/exmusica/status/1543663049491578881>)
- Occupation about musicians in Wales <https://w.wiki/5LNG> (source
<https://twitter.com/MusicNLW/status/1543846567387578369>)
- Map of tram depots in France <https://w.wiki/5NH8>
- Mountains higher than 2,500 meters in France <https://w.wiki/5P8C> (
source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1543124319349477376>)
- List of all Tour de France's stage winners by nationality from 1903
to 2022 <https://w.wiki/5P7u> (source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1543119052951912449>)
- French rugby teams according to the year of creation
<https://w.wiki/5NvF> (source
<https://twitter.com/belett/status/1542849367660548097>)
- French members of parliament that were on the same legislature and
are or have been married <https://w.wiki/5NKA> (source
<https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/1542173666162647040>)
- Number of countries on Wikidata where at least one pride parade has
been held <https://w.wiki/5PH4> (source
<https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1543275391028236288>)
- Football players whose birthday is today (different every day)
<https://w.wiki/5Ne9> (source
<https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1542556581753126913>)
Development
- Lexicographical data:
- We have finished most of the development on the new
Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at
https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We
will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on
July 14th.
- We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages
to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (phab:T307869
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307869>)
- REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the
API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for
automated edit summaries.
- We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what
changed in an edit (phab:T303317
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303317>)
- We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some
merges (phab:T309445 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309445>)
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>
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