This is the last weekly summary of 2022. I want to take a moment to thank
everyone who has contributed to and read the newsletter this year. If you
have a moment, please let us know what you would like to see changed in the
newsletter in 2023
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Status_updates/Next#What_changes_would_you_like_to_see_in_the_newsletter_in_2023>.
Thank you again for your support and have a happy new year!
*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- RPI2026F1Bot 3
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RPI2026F1Bot_3>
- Task/s: Automatically adds qualifiers number of records (P4876)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4876> and point in time
(P585) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P585> to
claims of Mix'n'match
catalog ID (P2264) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2264>.
- Dexbot 16
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Dexbot_16>
- Task: Delete empty items
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- BjoeBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BjoeBot>
(approved)
- Task: Make sure all map data modules have an item and instance
of (P31) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31> of map data
module (Q18711811) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711811>.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours> will
take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00
Berlin time)
in the Wikidata Telegram group
<https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>. The Wikidata and
Wikibase office hours are online events where the development
team presents
what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the
community is
welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the
development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #73, Mystery theme #2
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=73>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- How the "open world hypothesis" of knowledge graph affects model
evaluation
<https://www.ebiotrade.com/newsf/2022-12/20221227064532433.htm> (in
Chinese)
- Papers
- Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s
Natural History Collections <https://riojournal.com/article/98593/>
- Videos
- Early demo of the Wikibase Export extension
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqCuy1Cu4PY>
Tool of the week
- Fediscope <https://eloquence.github.io/fediscope/> (source
<https://social.coop/@eloquence/109565946440493059>)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 2022 proof of concept of a Wikibase "fast import" API
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/W73H7VO7T4PEWPTPKRGTJLBKLRK3UQGP/>.
Outcomes of this workshop
<https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-fast-import-proof-of-concept-2022>
have been published, along with the recorded video
<https://video.rhizome.org/w/nMDGftgpNAWUeDAF3BbA1>.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- prior to last week's status update: MyAnimeList magazine ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11300>, Online Torwali
Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11301>, Google
Product Taxonomy ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11302>, IRIS
UNIBA author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11303>, IRIS
UNIFG author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11304>, IRIS
LUM author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11305>, IRIS
UNISALENTO author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11306>, tuxDB
game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11307>, GCD issue ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11308>, Geograph
Deutschland image ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11309>, ResearchGate
journal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11310>, Lygaeoidea
Species File ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11311>,
Beatport
release ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11312>, Diskograf
song ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11313>, Diskograf
label ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11314>, INKR title
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11315>, BRUZZ topic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11316>, negates property
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11317>, Kanjipedia kanji ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11318>
- since last week's status update: Adventure's Planet ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11361>, Play:Right class ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11360>, GBDB ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11359>, MangaUpdates
publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11358>,
MangaUpdates
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11357>, grading
system <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11356>, KOBIS film
festival ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11355>, Bandcamp
release ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11354>, Anime-Planet
people ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11353>, Anime-Planet
character ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11352>, Czech
structural object ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11351>, Urdu
Lughat ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11350>, Anime-Planet
anime ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11349>, Anime-Planet
manga ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11348>, Scottish
National Dictionary lexeme ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11347>, Cinematografo.it
film ID (new) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11346>,
Cinematografo.it
name or company ID (new)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11345>, identifier French
basketball championship (new schema)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11344>, The Israeli Opera
person ID (heb) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11343>, Indiana
State Historical Marker Program numeric ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11342>, OpenStates person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11341>, ntower ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11340>, Can I Play That?
Games Codex game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11339>, worldofsam
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11338>, Twitter community
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11337>, Fascist Latin
Texts author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11336>,
Shōsetsuka
ni Narō work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11335>, CSO
topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11334>, Expertes ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11333>, MTV Germany music
video ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11332>, CCFr
document ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11331>, Crunchyroll
series ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11330>, Game-Rave
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11329>, Dehkhoda ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11328>, membership number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11327>, impressum URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11326>, Parliamentary Office
number in United Kingdom
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11325>, Parliamentary
Archives ID in United Kingdom
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11324>, Mac OS creator code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11323>, 18th Century Russian
Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11322>, Play:Right
company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11321>, Play:Right
series ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11320>, Little
Academic Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11319>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review: Garuda journal ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Garuda_journal_ID>,
Sinta Journal ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sinta_Journal_ID>,
pixiv comic IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/pixiv_comic_IDs>,
British Music Collection score ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/British_Music_Collection_score_ID>,
VideoGameGeek series-franchise ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VideoGameGeek_series-franchise_ID>,
Autori sardi ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Autori_sardi_ID>,
ComingSoon.it person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ComingSoon.it_person_ID>,
UVL source ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UVL_source_ID>,
British Music Collection composer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/British_Music_Collection_composer_ID>
Rugby
League Record Keepers Club player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rugby_League_Record_Keepers_Club_player_ID>,
Intercontinental Dictionary Series unit ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Intercontinental_Dictionary_Series_unit_ID>,
Concepticon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Concepticon_ID>,
Image stabilitzer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Image_stabilitzer>,
Strazha ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Strazha_ID>,
N-Anime
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/N-Anime_ID>,
Pocket Gamer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pocket_Gamer_ID>,
Image processor
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Image_processor>,
Minimum focusing distance
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Minimum_focusing_distance>,
Museo Egizio in Turin ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Museo_Egizio_in_Turin_ID>,
amstrad.es ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/amstrad.es_ID>,
superclass of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/superclass_of>,
Dark Patterns Games ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dark_Patterns_Games_ID>,
Life stage
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Life_stage>,
Tribal
Council number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tribal_Council_number>,
Objective
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Objective>,
eBookJapan
books ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eBookJapan_books_ID>,
VG-lista song ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VG-lista_song_ID>,
VG-lista album ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VG-lista_album_ID>,
microtransaction.zone ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/microtransaction.zone_ID>,
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online entry
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Longman_Dictionary_of_Contemporary_English_Online_entry>,
use with article
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/use_with_article>,
Cambridge Dictionary entry
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cambridge_Dictionary_entry>,
Cambridge Dictionary entry (American English)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cambridge_Dictionary_entry_(American_English)>,
Digital Hanja Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Digital_Hanja_Dictionary_ID>,
MQWW poetID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MQWW_poetID>,
record
of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/record_of>,
Classic
Adventures Solution Archive game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Classic_Adventures_Solution_Archive_game_ID>,
MQWW workID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MQWW_workID>,
Macmillan
Dictionary entry
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Macmillan_Dictionary_entry>,
Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Macmillan_Dictionary_entry_(American_English)>,
Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionary_of_Frequently-Used_Taiwan_Minnan_ID>,
Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Taiwanese-Japanese_Dictionary_ID>,
Jeju's culture and language ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Jeju%27s_culture_and_language_ID>,
Strong's number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Strong%27s_number>,
World Loanword Database word ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_Loanword_Database_word_ID>,
World Loanword Database meaning ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_Loanword_Database_meaning_ID>
- Query examples:
- List of nonprofit organizations / NGOs on the fediverse that
Wikidata knows about <https://w.wiki/69Sr> (source
<https://wikis.world/@[email protected]/109576066240418128>)
- Top album languages found on Wikidata right now
<https://w.wiki/5Pbw> (Dec. 24th) (source
<https://twitter.com/exmusica/status/1606682826623143938>)
- Alpha-3 codes for countries in Europe <https://w.wiki/69X7> (source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1607345497324265475>)
- Location of paintings in the Paintings Department of the Louvre
made by women <https://w.wiki/69Aq> source
<https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1606552803073220609>
- Most frequent birth places for Italian SBN authors
<https://w.wiki/68NR> (source
<https://twitter.com/StefanoBargioni/status/1605879645378727936>)
Development
- Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and
no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.
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, Wikidata*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
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