*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- RKBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RKBot>.
Task/s: Create Wikidata items for "Kulturdenkmal in Hamburg" (heritage
monument in Hamburg - Q28661501
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28661501>) from the official list
"Denkmalliste Hamburg" (P1822
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1822> is the identifier for
this list) published as
http://static.hamburg.de/fhh/opendata/kb/DenkmallisteHamburg.xml.
- Andriy.vBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Andriy.vBot>.
Task/s: I need to connect a lot of pages (more than 10 thousand) about
russian villages that were created with interwiki links in ukwiki.
- Heinmabot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Heinmabot>.
Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places.
- New request for comments:
- Improving the performance of retrieving labels, descriptions and
aliases
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Improving_the_performance_of_retrieving_labels,_descriptions_and_aliases>
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, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 2023 (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 #74, Urology
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=74>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- Connecting Preprints to Peer-reviewed Articles on Wikidata
<https://cthoyt.com/2023/01/02/wikidata-preprints.html>
- The 10 best-known Catalans in the world
<https://elmon.cat/societat/10-catalans-mes-coneguts-mon-539049/>
- Papers
- Fetching Automatic Authority Data in ILS from Wikidata via
OpenRefine <https://www.srels.org/index.php/sjim/article/view/170677>
- Videos
- Add Wikidata/Wikipedia Template to WikiTree Profile
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdyaAHkWays>
Tool of the week
- OWL Map <https://map.osm.wikidata.link/> - a tool to help in linking
Wikidata items with the matching object on OpenStreetMap.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibase.Cloud has a new logo!
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/CRYGBXBUVYZBMHFUYSS4QAHGQIZRNKHT/>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: NIP
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11429>, NSR doctor ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11402>, NSR stopplace ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11362>, Nintendo World Report
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11391>, Nintendo-Online ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11392>, Occitanie Livre et
Lecture ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11403>, Oh!FM-7 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11404>, Olympedia venue ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11405>, Ozon person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11407>, Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11408>, Plazi reference ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11409>, Pocket Gamer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11411>, Programming Language
Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11410>, RPG Site
game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11418>, RetroAchievements
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11393>, Rugby League Record
Keepers Club player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11428>, Sega-Saturn.net
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11377>, Strong's number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11416>, Taiwanese-Japanese
Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11421>, UVL
source ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11427>, UniProt
Disease ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11430>, amstrad.es
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11426>, camera lens
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11385>, image processor
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11387>, image stabilitzer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11415>, microtransaction.zone
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11400>, minimum focusing
distance <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11412>, note.com user
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11401>, sampling rate
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11413>, service options
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11424>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review: Podbay show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Podbay_show_ID>,
Biblissima Authority File
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblissima_Authority_File>,
Walt Disney movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Walt_Disney_movie_ID>,
NTV program ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NTV_program_ID>,
National Grid Balancing Mechanism Unit ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Grid_Balancing_Mechanism_Unit_ID>,
InfluenceWatch influencer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/InfluenceWatch_influencer>,
Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Case Search person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Los_Angeles_County_Coroner%27s_Office_Case_Search_person_ID>,
Hungarian Football Federation player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hungarian_Football_Federation_player_ID>,
Magazine Pocket series ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Magazine_Pocket_series_ID>,
United States House of Representatives ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/United_States_House_of_Representatives_ID>,
PR Times company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PR_Times_company_ID>,
NPB umpire ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NPB_umpire_ID>,
Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Law_Insider_Legal_Dictionary_entry>,
ZAMP.hr ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ZAMP.hr_ID>,
Digital
Library of Mathematical Functions ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Digital_Library_of_Mathematical_Functions_ID>,
CiNii Research ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CiNii_Research_ID>,
Identificador del Catàleg de Patrimoni de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identificador_del_Cat%C3%A0leg_de_Patrimoni_de_l%27Ajuntament_de_Barcelona>,
Green's Dictionary of Slang ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Green%27s_Dictionary_of_Slang_ID>,
SysTraitementEauxUsees
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SysTraitementEauxUsees>,
WikiRate company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiRate_company_ID>,
The Numbers franchise ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Numbers_franchise_ID>,
J.League referee ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/J.League_referee_ID>,
Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Jeju_Dialect_Dictionary_ID>,
Military Historical Archive exile army member ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Military_Historical_Archive_exile_army_member_ID>,
1001Tracklists IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/1001Tracklists_IDs>,
Ivi IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ivi_IDs>, TV
Maze person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TV_Maze_person_ID>,
MyAnimeList company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MyAnimeList_company_ID>,
VideoGameGeek series-franchise ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VideoGameGeek_series-franchise_ID>,
Afisha person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Afisha_person_ID>
- Query examples:
- Finnish hockey players whose child is also a hockey player
<https://w.wiki/6AjN> (source
<https://twitter.com/ttso/status/1608854793396551680>)
- Map of the birthplaces of Italian authors who died in 1952
<https://w.wiki/6B7v> (source
<https://twitter.com/WikidataI/status/1609671638223671296>)
Development
- The development team took a break during the winter holidays and as a
result, no development occurred.
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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