*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- بوٹ دا عثمان
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%B9_%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%B9%D8%AB%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86>
- Task/s:
- Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and
descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking
a conservative
approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
- Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of
information which can be inferred from other language
labels (again, only
for "obvious" cases).
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>
call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his
work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and
Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kPAhqH1UD7S_FKtKEKfpLr7qC4zWJdhnUxDKHz1NGnU/edit?usp=sharing>
- The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event
on September 24. Registration
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-climate-knowledge-hunt-hackathon-tickets-414825362827>
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #59, Election
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=59>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- Vue le vue <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=672>, by Magnus
Manske
- Using Wikidata to check votes of the Wikimedia Foundation board
election
<https://www.lehir.net/using-wikidata-to-check-votes-of-the-wikimedia-foundation-board-election/>
- Papers
- Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over
Wikidata
<https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00499/112914>
- Hidden Author Bias in Book Recommendation
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.00371.pdf>
- WikiGOA: Gene set enrichment analysis based on Wikipedia and the
Gene Ontology
<https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.15.508149v1> (uses
Wikidata prominently)
- Scholia for Software <https://riojournal.com/article/94771/> by
Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #90 #softwarefreedomday
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbM0u3X4U0U>
- Using Wikidata to explore depictions of nature in the fine arts
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnpdHXP2x0g>
- Wikidata and GLAM 2021 (in French)
- Wikidata, Mix'N'Match and the Wikibase Ecosystems
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOBrC9o_zuA>
- Wikibase project "Resistants" at the State Archives in Belgium
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysx0lNdJY4s>
- ContribuLing 2021
- Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCNHcw8nj2Y>
- Wikidata Lexemes, Where to Find Them and How to Use Them
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJL0marl3FI>
- Wikidata tutorial: How to get a Twitter user's numeric ID by
"Report an issue" method
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LdwgbkWOJo>
- Dataviz
- A tribute to Jean-Luc Godard
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/tribute-to-jlg>
- Presentation
- New Zealand Thesis Project - Institutional Repository Day 2022
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NZ_Thesis_Project_-_Institutional_Repository_Day_2022.pdf>
Tool of the week
- WD-FIST <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/wdfist.js>
is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the
item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Govdirectory recognized as Digital Public Goods
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Digital_Public_Goods_Announcement>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: grammatical person
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11053>, grammatical number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11054>
- External identifiers: DiACL lexeme ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11055>, Revised Mandarin
Chinese Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11056>,
Royal Collection (UK) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11057>, Naver game lounge ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11058>, IRIS UNIRC author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11059>, IRIS UNICZ author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11060>, IRIS UNICAL author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11061>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: Bank of information on the historical and
cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bank_of_information_on_the_historical_and_cultural_heritage_of_the_Republic_of_Belarus>,
river system's length
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/river_system%27s_length>,
National Olympic Committee
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Olympic_Committee>,
autosuggest value
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/autosuggest_value>,
Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inequality-adjusted_Human_Development_Index>
- External identifiers: Código de Identificação do Aeródromo
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/C%C3%B3digo_de_Identifica%C3%A7%C3%A3o_do_Aer%C3%B3dromo>,
identifiant Championnat de France de basket-ball (nouveau format)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Championnat_de_France_de_basket-ball_(nouveau_format)>,
JCDb ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JCDb_ID>,
UniChem
compound ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UniChem_compound_ID>,
Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Library_of_Integrated_Network-based_Cellular_Signatures_ID>,
BindingDB ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BindingDB_ID>,
Drugcentral ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Drugcentral_ID>,
Probes And Drugs ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Probes_And_Drugs_ID>,
VMH (compound) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VMH_(compound)_ID>,
ID for IFUW members database
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ID_for_IFUW_members_database>,
Rowing Australia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rowing_Australia_ID>,
Chess Federation of Canada ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chess_Federation_of_Canada_ID>,
British Athletics ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/British_Athletics_ID>,
AustralasiaTour player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AustralasiaTour_player_ID>,
England Hockey ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/England_Hockey_ID>,
Athletics Canada ID (New)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Athletics_Canada_ID_(New)>,
Golfdata ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Golfdata_ID>,
Latindex 2022 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Latindex_2022_ID>,
British Swimming IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/British_Swimming_IDs>,
Professional Referee Organization ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Professional_Referee_Organization_ID>,
BSDB player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BSDB_player_ID>
- Query examples:
- Timeline of movies directed by Jean Luc Godard <https://w.wiki/5hRN>
(source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1569764923412213760>)
- Map of narrative locations of movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard
<https://w.wiki/5hRW> (source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1569769880680808452>)
- List of actors and actresses who have worked with Jean-Luc Godard
by number of movies <https://w.wiki/5hVi> (source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1569925367267221505>)
- Route of the Aberdeenshire Canal, as indicated by its remains
<https://w.wiki/5iHP> (source
<https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1571109883231215616>)
- People born in Rennes classified according to the number of links
pointing to them <https://w.wiki/5hoe> (source
<https://twitter.com/belett/status/1570395922932334595>)
- French heads of state and government who were not born on current
French territory (and after 1789) <https://w.wiki/5hSA> (source
<https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1569786810275872768>)
- Where were the players in the FIFA 2022 Sticker Album born?
<https://w.wiki/5hN7> (source
<https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1569696572891332609>)
- World Cup Qatar 2022: The heaviest team is Ghana, averaging 87
kilos, and the lightest is Qatar, averaging 70 kilos
<https://w.wiki/5hLk> (source
<https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1569696572891332609>)
- Streets of Milan, Italy named after males (blue) vs. females
(orange) <https://w.wiki/5iRb> (source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataQueries/status/1569327537821556737>)
- Map of Roman theaters and amphitheaters <https://w.wiki/5gtH> (
source <https://twitter.com/a_winkler3/status/1568979569788551171>)
- Chart of English monarch names by cause of death
<https://w.wiki/5gMe>
- Cause of death of US presidents by party <https://w.wiki/5gUy>
Development
- REST API:
- Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306934>)
- Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312811>)
- Making small modifications to the response format for statements (
phab:T317866 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T317866>)
- Lexicographical data:
- Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for
languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for
the language
of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312853>)
- Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back
to other locally defined examples for languages other than
English instead
of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313599>)
- Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be
used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T317863>)
- Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on
test.wikidata.org
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/TXNOK64GLOTNJSQAPADT5YQQUOPJFN5Q/>
- Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header
of an Item (phab:T315991 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315991>)
Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
- Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (
phab:T316770 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316770>) Thanks to
Amire80 for the patch!
- Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed
in the new design system (phab:T306932
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306932>)
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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