*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- RPI2026F1Bot 6
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RPI2026F1Bot_6>
(Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for
deletions/Archive
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive>
)
- IngeniousBot 3
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/IngeniousBot_3>
(Task: Adding identifiers to album items, based on existing identifiers)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- Bitbotje 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Bitbotje_2>
(Task: remove redundant item aliases)
- MidleadingBot 4
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MidleadingBot_4>
(Task: Add social media followers (P8687)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8687> statements for Baidu
Tieba name (P11196) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11196>)
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Past
- Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/Feb_2022_scaling_community_meetings>
(Etherpads: Meeting #1
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/R5n382Ld0Vvykc7Ak3iH>, Meeting #2
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/yPUhyhbmXglC_Magx0Go>)
- WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata
picture (notes
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wikicite-monthly-2023-03>, slides
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_Scientific_articles_and_beyond_in_Wikidata.pdf>
)
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge *(previous challenge: #84, Bones
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=84>)*
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and
tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate
in Wikidata. Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gxWQP7yrCYAZFnjLdhMPmmVrx2_GPlWcd1rTiqglwA8/edit#>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- The Whelming - Musings on the backend, by Magnus Manske
<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=691>
- Boosting interoperability: towards an increasingly reusable
bioinformatics knowledge base <https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12329>
- Papers
- In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries
<https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/_la_recherche_des_r_cits_queer_travers_les_si_cles/22357246>
(French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023 <https://sassqueer.fr/>, INSA
Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on
documenting queer history on Wikidata
- Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python
<https://itnext.io/extracting-data-from-wikidata-using-sparql-and-python-59e0037996f>
- A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata
<https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3330.pdf>
- Can you trust Wikidata?
<https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3376.pdf>
- Videos
- Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj532KOWmIM>
- LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QnzIvcJbd0>
- Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1DdmhHfpig>
- Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AegX6jcqNE>
- Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KonJqKquUSU>
- WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and
Gilliane Kern (in French) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udq37sRU60c>
- A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-1f6CKEgU>
- Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdoOiMXOrQ8>
- Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87A7QMbfpI>
- Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked
Open Data - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKEbxTNFSFM>
- Notebooks
- Statistics on Wikidata property scopes
<https://observablehq.com/d/154c19f1a036f8d6>
Tool of the week
- User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js> is a
userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
- Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
<https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30730373?l=en>
- Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
<https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30596953?l=en>
- UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects
<https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30432915?l=en>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes:
- student retention rate
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11698> (Proportion of
first-year students at the educational institution who return
for their
second year)
- External identifiers: Newguineaworld ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11696>, Ticino Scienza IBSA
Foundation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11697>, China
movable cultural relic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11699>, JMdict sequence
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11700>, TASVideos
game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11701>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinoglaz_person_ID>,
Tatoeba sentence ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tatoeba_sentence_ID>,
IRIS private universities (3) IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_private_universities_(3)_IDs>
- Query examples:
- Authors from Latin America born today <https://w.wiki/6WGF> (source
<https://twitter.com/espejolento/status/1640790970781540353>)
- Businesses who's official websites use the ".biz" top-level domain
<https://w.wiki/6VY6> (source
<https://twitter.com/philbgorman/status/1639746513919176704>)
Development
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to
link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214884>)
- Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that
makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (
phab:T321543 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321543>)
- REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a
label or a description in a given language (phab:T323813
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323813>)
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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