*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>
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our
summer/fall
project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating
items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always,
welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project
series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will
be added to
the event page when available. Event page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/Wikidata_Working_Hour_Summer-Fall_Project_2022/2022-September-12_Wikidata_Working_Hour>
- Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World
<https://www.dublincore.org/webinars/2022/09-15_querying-wikidata/>.
Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=58>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Videos
- Introducing Knowledge Graphs featuring Elena Simperl - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZBm7M0HGzw>
- LIVE Wikidata editing #89 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMYiVyIXDrg>
- Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
- Adding the address of an institution (in French) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpxnsesmk_w>
- Dataviz
- All Tour de France's stage winners from 1903 to today
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/all-tour-de-frances-stage-winners-by-country-of-citizenship>
- All Vuelta's stage winners by country of citizenship
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/all-vueltas-stage-winners-by-country-of-citizenship>
Tool of the week
- View it! Tool <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/View_it!_Tool> - (based
on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given
topic on Wikipedia.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can send a contribution to Wikidata's 10th birthday celebration
video
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Celebration_video>
until Sunday, September 18th.
- Job opening:
- Community Relations Specialist (contractor) at Wikimedia Foundation
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/4514193?gh_src=1847507c1us>
// Commons and Wikidata
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11042>, Hesperomys taxon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11043>, Colorado Plant
Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11044>, Digital
Foundry game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11045>, IGDB
game engine ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11046>,
Odnoklassniki
artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11047>, ZineWiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11048>, Disney+ Hotstar ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11049>, Odnoklassniki album
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11050>, Mindat.org
Glossary of Mineralogical Terms ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11051>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: Transcribed by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Transcribed_by>,
annotator
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/annotator>,
SHAARD-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SHAARD-ID>,
associated
locality
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/associated_locality>,
cadastral municipality name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cadastral_municipality_name>,
NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NARA_File_Format_Preservation_Plan_ID>,
reduces
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/reduces>
- External identifiers: National Library of Indonesia Control Headings
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Library_of_Indonesia_Control_Headings>,
ROSSIO Infrastructure ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ROSSIO_Infrastructure_ID>,
MTV Germany music video ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MTV_Germany_music_video_ID>,
fedpress.ru persons ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fedpress.ru_persons_ID>,
epsd2 identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/epsd2_identifier>,
Naver game lounge ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Naver_game_lounge_ID>,
SR-Archiv band ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SR-Archiv_band_ID>,
SR-Archiv company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SR-Archiv_company_ID>,
SR-Archiv record ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SR-Archiv_record_ID>,
SR-Archiv person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SR-Archiv_person_ID>,
SR-Archiv print media ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SR-Archiv_print_media_ID>,
BIBFRAME Hub ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BIBFRAME_Hub_ID>,
eGardenGo plant ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eGardenGo_plant_ID>,
IAHR member ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IAHR_member_ID>,
FrameNet frame ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FrameNet_frame_ID>,
FrameNet Lexical Unit ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FrameNet_Lexical_Unit_ID>,
IRIS Calabria IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Calabria_IDs>,
legislation.govt.nz ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/legislation.govt.nz_ID>,
Nintendo Switch title ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nintendo_Switch_title_ID>,
Chess.com player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chess.com_player_ID>,
Chrome Platform Status feature ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chrome_Platform_Status_feature_ID>,
Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/W%C3%B6rterbuch_zur_Verbvalenz_ID>
- Query examples:
- Language Wikipedias having biographies on recent UK Prime Ministers
<https://w.wiki/5fgZ> - (source
<https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1566958038472343552>)
- Has Wikidata been updated to show replacement UK ministers post the
Great Boris Resignation of July 2022? <https://w.wiki/5fpG> - (source
<https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1567140611194605574>)
- Map of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) with links to Global
Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) datasets
<https://w.wiki/5gpX> (source <https://w.wiki/5gpW>)
- Places of birth of heads of the city of Riga 1890-2022
<https://w.wiki/5h2u> (source
<https://twitter.com/LArtour/status/1568520957450649600>)
- Things named after Queen Elizabeth II <https://w.wiki/5gJs> (source
<https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1567936306667487233>)
- Essential Open-Source Software funded by CZI Science
<https://w.wiki/5fvF> (source
<https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1567261931530080256>)
Development
- REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (
phab:T306934 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306934>)
- Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also
is shown in older browsers (phab:T311157
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311157>), which was one of the last
remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (phab:T307866
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307866>)
- Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain
conditions (phab:T278962 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278962>)
- Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our
partnership
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata>
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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