*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Kristbaumbot 1
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Kristbaumbot_1>
(Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29310412> to German lexemes)
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, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls>,
Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch
and discussion. Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Tq523opcZjtXAa6fLvddIJzAepabvGWhLQ1GJGlRno/edit?usp=sharing>
.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #88, Mountain
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=88>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- First grants announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to support
technical innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/04/13/first-grants-announced-from-the-wikimedia-endowment/>
- Papers
- Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations
Report <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115761263>; English-language
edition
<https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/research/indigenous-artists-and-wikidata/>,
Édition en langue française
<https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/research/indigenous-artists-and-wikidata/>
- Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of
Whiteness
<https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article/41/1%20(154)/21/344220/Wikipedia-s-Race-and-Ethnicity-Gap-and-the>,
Michael Mandiberg, Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
- Videos
- Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Basic Lexeme with Asaf Bartov -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkFLa4m8yis>
- "Wikidata as a Seed for Web Extraction"presentation at the WWW 2023
conference - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_Fa0gE-LA>
- IFLA SCITECH Webinar: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in
Wikidata’s 100 Million Items - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zgLG8vg0dY>
- Wikidata Workshop (adding books) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-uWOD8w9jc>
- Wikidata + Books Workshop (how to add books to Wikidata) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpUg2fSRyXg>
- Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (Wikidata workshop Day 2 (in Chinese) -
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzW2Ul7t9tk>
- Notebook
- Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain
<https://observablehq.com/d/e5b2c559eb80017d>
- Twitter thread
- How to reconcile data in another dataset with Wikidata and import
additional data from there
<https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1644127703715684352>
Tool of the week
- Query Chest <https://query-chest.toolforge.org/> is a tool that allows
you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten
it.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The visual of the upcoming WikidataCon
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidatacon_2023_Banner_-_02.png>
is out (announcement and details
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikidataCon_2023>)
- Christos
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Christos_Varvantakis_(WMDE)>
started a Wikibase to collect and organise existing research-related
resources about Wikibase. Feel free to add to it.
researchwb.wikibase.cloud
<https://researchwb.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Patreon user numeric ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11713>, Team Fortress Wiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11714>, Federiciana ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11715>, Russiancinema.ru
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11716>, Aisberg
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11717>, OPENBS
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11718>, Bicocca
Open Archive author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11719>,
IRInSubria author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11720>, cybersport.ru
player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11721>, Boomplay
album ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11722>, IRIS
HUNIMED author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11723>, IRIS
UNISR author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11724>,
PubliCatt
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11725>, FantLab
dictor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11726>, Portráidí
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11728>, Kulturenvanteri.com
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11729>, Warsaw Uprising
insurgent ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11730>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Atlante Geopolitico ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Atlante_Geopolitico_ID>,
Musée Fabre ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mus%C3%A9e_Fabre_ID>,
Musées Grand Est ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mus%C3%A9es_Grand_Est_ID>,
Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Clavis_Historicorum_Antiquitatis_Posterioris_author_ID>,
Shipbucket drawing ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shipbucket_drawing_ID>
- Query examples:
- ATMs around Munich belonging to the Bankcard-Servicenetz interbank
network (federated query) <https://w.wiki/Xob>
- Population growth in Ghana from 1960 onward <https://w.wiki/6bQm>
- Newest database reports:
- Deleted properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Deleted_properties>
- Deleted properties that were used in items.
Development
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype
that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on
test systems next. (phab:T332139
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332139>)
- QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language
selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. (
phab:T328764 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328764>)
- Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to
create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven 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
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