*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Infrastruktur> (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: October 09 - 11, 2023, Leipzig, Germany - workshop on handling and modelling mathematical research data <https://www.mis.mpg.de/calendar/conferences/2023/mardimeetsis.html> — Wikidata, Wikibase and Scholia are all in scope - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #91, Family (2/n) <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=91> Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Blog: VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available <https://wikimedia.org.uk/2023/05/vocaleyes-wikidata-accessibility-information/> - Papers - Wikidata: The Making Of <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3543873.3585579> (by Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher and Markus Krötzsch) - The SciQA Scientific Question Answering Benchmark for Scholarly Knowledge <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33607-z> - Videos: Back having more fun with Lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1812148333> Tool of the week Open Burial Map <https://burial.dsantini.it/#10,45,2,blue,wd_indirect> - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11762>, Britannica Kids students level article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11764>, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11765>, TOOI identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11767>, Chess Programming Wiki ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11768> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - character in this lexeme <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/character_in_this_lexeme> (character(s) this lexeme consists of) - External identifiers: none - Query examples: - Mapping birthplace and place of death of female Dutch Resistance Fighters on a line <https://w.wiki/6fYZ> (source <https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1654490926859931652>) - Countries that have site links to French Wikipedia with a parenthesis in the title <https://w.wiki/6fWP> (source <https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/1654443096820645890>) - Map of libraries from Austria with ISIL-code or twitter-handle <https://w.wiki/6e$8> (source <https://twitter.com/diedatenlaube/status/1653675996502007813>) Development - (Breaking Change Announcement) Changes to the wblistentityusage API module <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/MDPPS4R7GEZ7TVQVJ3GLZBQWFFM33NPJ/> - (Breaking Change Announcement) Entity Labels Added to Parsed Edit Summaries in API Requests <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/HJ4JB2HBOLFI6CZPRMTJESS2MKS7ZRJF/> - (Breaking Change Announcement) Inconsistencies in the response of `list=wbsubscribers` API Query module <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/BHNEA4EUDZXSLNTOD2A7RIJBSNK5JBIR/> - Query Builder <https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder>: The Query Builder now has a language selector so you can change the interface language. - Date parsing: Input of dates in notations common in Asia, especially Japan, is now improved. (phab:T214002 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214002>) - EntitySchemas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Schemas>: We are continuing the development of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214884>) - Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on the endpoint for replacing a label of description of an Item. (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 https://wikimedia.de Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly. Keep up to date! 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