*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 Working
Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book
podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project
to work on.Event
page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-March-27_Wikidata_Working_Hour>
- WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00
UTC. Information
and notes <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wikicite-monthly-2023-03>
- Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on
Jitsi <https://meet.jit.si/WDQSOfficeHour> on 27 March 2023 at 17:00
UTC (link to the Etherpad
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WDQSOfficeHourMar27>) and 28 March
2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WDQSOfficeHourMar28>)
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=86>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata
<https://www.bobdc.com/blog/wikidatanormalizing/> by Bob DuCharme
- Musings on the Wikidata backend
<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=691> by Magnus Manske
- Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows
<https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Announcing_Our_2023_Wikidata_Fellows> by
Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
- Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor
<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=688> by Magnus Manske
- How linked data can help with anonymization
<https://the-qa-company.com/blog/blog-extended/72> by Sri Kalidindi
- Notebooks
- Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata
<https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/SPARQLDatasetv3.ipynb>.
See the csv file
<https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/large_sparql_queries_dataset.csv>
and
the parquet file
<https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/large_sparql_queries_dataset.parquet>
.
Tool of the week
- Declarator.org <http://declarator.org/> is Transparency Intl. Russia's
project to track politicians assets (mentioned by OpenSanctions
<https://twitter.com/open_sanctions/status/1506560708632326148>)
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID
(new) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11685>, University of
Barcelona authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11686>
, Kinoglaz film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11687>, MobyGames
game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11688>, MobyGames
company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11689>, MobyGames
group ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11690>, Feminae
record ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11691>, Alexandria
UniSG person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11692>,
OpenStreetMap
node ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11693>, literatura.lv
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11695>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
review:
- General datatypes:
- ISCED Attainment
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISCED_Attainment>
(ISCED
attainment is the UNESCO main classification of educational
level, it is
used to map each level to the global classification used by
UNESCO. This is
useful because the same local level can mean different things
in different
countries. It identifies the specific levels of the
International Standard
Classification of Education (ISCED) Attainment model. Has two sub
qualifiers - code and label.)
- first performance by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/first_performance_by>
(performer
or performing group for the first performance of a work)
- External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Enciclopedia_delle_scienze_sociali_ID>
, Boomplay album ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Boomplay_album_ID>
, Ticino Scienza ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ticino_Scienza_ID>
, AML ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AML_ID>, Arabic
Ontology form ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Arabic_Ontology_form_ID>
, NHF club ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NHF_club_ID>
, L'Histoire par l'image ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/L%27Histoire_par_l%27image_ID>
, Sinta affiliation ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sinta_affiliation_ID>
- Query examples:
- Wikidata items which have both a UK Parliament Thesaurus ID and a
subreddit <https://w.wiki/6Vv8> (source
<https://twitter.com/philbgorman/status/1639430275519094787>)
- Number of books written in Basque grouped by the birth place of
their authors <https://w.wiki/6Vv6> (source
<https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1638517496520097792>)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>
: WikiProject Emoji
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Emoji>
Development
- EntitySchemas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Schemas>: We
started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (
phab:T214884 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214884>)
- Query Builder <https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder>: We finished
the work on the language selector so you can switch the interface language
of the tool (phab:T328148 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328148>)
It will be available on the site in the next days.
- Wikibase REST API <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API>:
We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or
aliases in a specific language (phab:T323173
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323173>)
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>
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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