*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Vargenau <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Vargenau> (RfP scheduled to end after 25 June 2023 07:51 UTC) - Closed request for adminship: Infrastruktur <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator#Infrastruktur> (closed on May 12th without prior mention) - Closed request for permissions/Bot: - BEANS Bot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BEANS_Bot> (Task: Use protocol (P2700) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2700> instead of of (P642) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P642> to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1641> statements.) (closed on 22 May without prior mention) - TiagoLubianaBot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/TiagoLubianaBot> (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings) (closed on 21 May without prior mention) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming - WikidataCon is happening later this year in Taipei and online. The call for proposals is now open <https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/>. - The role of Wikidata within the research lifecycle <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-role-of-wikidata-within-the-research-lifecycle-tickets-637971609257>, Wednesday 21 June, 10am BST (UTC+1), online event hosted by the University of York, UK. International participation is welcome, despite "available to White Rose institutions only" on the booking page. - The Fourth Wikidata Workshop is now accepting paper submissions until Thursday, 20 July 2023 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/YIIOL63KX2D6QPIZTJLWU2YJNLVGZHHL/> . - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 23, 2023: Returning to Podcasts, we will be working on creating podcast episode pages. We will discuss how this episodic content can be transferred to other serialized items. 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-June-23_Wikidata_Working_Hour> - Webinar: Common European Data Space for cultural heritage (The ontology of Wikidata, how to interact with it for a better quality). Tuesday 20th June 2023, from 3.00 p,.m. to 5.00 p.m. CET. Register <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfc-GKR4XAY8wzPvjDDR16AsoOmbJc57ees6xtqWO0q3w0juA/viewform> - GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 scholarship application now open <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/06/glam-wiki-conference-2023-announcing-the-venue-scholarship-application-process-open/>. Deadline is June 30, 2023. - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #97, Poetry <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=97> (started on 2023-06-19 12:01:21) Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Papers - Using Wikidata Lexemes and Items to Generate Text from Abstract Representations <https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3367.pdf> - The Wikipedia Republic of Literary Characters <https://culturalanalytics.org/article/70251-the-wikipedia-republic-of-literary-characters> - Videos - Wikidata Lexeme Malayalam training (in Malayam) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHj65_MS2rM> - Wikidata Lab XXXVII: Uploading images to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COkFNG50UvQ> - Intro to Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1p2iu_BLNA> - Setting up a Wikidata account (in Urdu) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCiyRuiDlfU> - Editing Wikidata Items for Parliament of Ghana Contest <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RdxNNRvKWI> (Kusaal Wikimedia Community). See also: Introduction to Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mWmzHfek3U>, How to Create a Wikidata Item <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbGpa9Ci_M>, How to Add Labels and Description to Wikidata Items <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzIZ64asnoM> - Africa Environment WikiFocus: Wikidata Training by Yamen Bousrih (in English and French) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj532KOWmIM> - Social Studies Campaign for Wikidata for Education project - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhPMmuefMwY> - Followup to the OBO Academy's Introduction to Wikidata (BioMed Orientation) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmoPpXV74nQ> - Wiki Workshop 2023: Session 1: Diversity and Bias in DBpedia and Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5gS5o34h8E>, Session 5: How does Wikidata shape gender identities? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBVrMdqgT9M>, Session 11: Wikidata to Bootstrap an Enterprise Knowledge Graph <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEJ9_Wzb1oc>, Session 11: Synia: Displaying data from Wikibases <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKb36kMAHBQ> - OpenRefine for Wikidata & WikimediaCommons - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVAKt5HI034> - Wikidata SPARQL session for the Data Reuse Days - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNhCnP-akyg> - Documentation for Wikibase Cloud at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 – Athens, Greece - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QdzWm0YkZ4> - KGC 2023 Talk — The EU Knowledge Graph by Dennis Diefenbach, The QA Company - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn5j0vlqmlk> - SS 2023 - Session 3: Wikidata for Classicists. The Example of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCHNG9vbKJg> - Notebooks - Analysing the profile of people invited to France Inter's Matinale using Wikidata <https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/franceinter8h20.ipynb> - Wikidata Queries <https://observablehq.com/d/b1c377af250f4c19> - Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article <https://observablehq.com/d/a98e03ef5a49505d> - Charleroi Streets Gender Inequality <https://observablehq.com/d/64b1c97e36dbe4a9> - Citation Factory <https://observablehq.com/@akrawitz/citation-factory> - Slides: Reuse in the Wiki World empowers engagement with Natural History Collections <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NLvYwniO4bbzs6aFrJ8IwGMzSZp6wjPULhyjI6Sn1BY/edit#slide=id.g22e8387ff75_0_165> Tool of the week - Mapping Diversity <https://mappingdiversity.eu/> is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women. Other Noteworthy Stuff - [GLAM] Volunteer Opportunity: 2023 LD4 Wikidata Working Hour Summer/Fall Series <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/GZBNS4FMNGOYPRRVD3UHI65FJGOHFAIB/> - Want to make knowledge about #NaturalProducts accessible to everyone in more languages? Help us translate our project page <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Wikidata%3AWikiProject+Chemistry+Natural+products&action=page&language=en&filter=%21translated> . Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: - satellite view <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11832> (image of the subject taken from outer space) - External identifiers: The Homicide Report person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11823>, KPU Plant Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11824>, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11825>, Media Library for Dance and Theatre person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11826>, documenta archiv ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11827>, Marsilio Editori author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11828>, Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11829>, Israel Composers' League composer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11830>, Alabama Authors ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11831> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - HyperTextAPI <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HyperTextAPI> - Gottstein code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gottstein_code> (Gottstein code as a representation of a cuneiform sign variant) - altesdresden.de object <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/altesdresden.de_object> (altesdresden.de object) - Moroccan administrative geographical coding - الترميز الجغرافي الإداري المغربي <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moroccan_administrative_geographical_coding_-_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A> - Moroccan administrative geographical coding <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moroccan_administrative_geographical_coding> - External identifiers: COSL profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COSL_profile_ID>, snookerscores.net tournament ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/snookerscores.net_tournament_ID>, NBC Olympics Athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NBC_Olympics_Athlete_ID>, European Bridge League ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Bridge_League_ID>, research.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/research.com_ID>, ComingSoon.it TV IDs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ComingSoon.it_TV_IDs>, Team France profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Team_France_profile_ID>, FIGC player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FIGC_player_ID>, Theapolis theater ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Theapolis_theater_ID>, Theapolis actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Theapolis_actor_ID>, AVP player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AVP_player_ID>, Volleyball Canada ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Volleyball_Canada_ID>, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Intangible_cultural_heritage_ID_by_the_Austrian_UNESCO_commission>, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Unidades_de_Conserva%C3%A7%C3%A3o_no_Brasil_ID>, Korean Tour player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Korean_Tour_player_ID>, Austadiums ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Austadiums_ID>, DEL player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DEL_player_ID>, CAMEO Chemicals ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CAMEO_Chemicals_ID> - Query examples: - Which mountaineers died on Mount Everest ordered by their death date? <https://w.wiki/6rCE> (source <https://twitter.com/nopiedra/status/1669452803482218496>) - Gallery of people born in Brittany and named Jeanne, Jean or Yann <https://w.wiki/6qFj> (source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/1669270736710582273>) - List of botanical collectors who have a death date but don't have a Bionomia ID <https://w.wiki/6peC> (source <https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1668451137996087296>) - British MPs who resigned from the Commons mid-parliament on two separate occasions <https://w.wiki/6pbf> (source <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1668311555467771904>) - Dutch members of parliament with a Mastodon account <https://w.wiki/6pJN> (source <https://wikis.world/@[email protected]/110524599570755431>) - [Data quality] [ Inside a given instance of (P31) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31> inside same country, find possibles duplicates if they share same date <https://w.wiki/6puw> : same kind of event same date in same country might be a candidate for review and merge - [Calendars] What is the equivalent in Iranian Hijri of *March 5, 1902*? <https://w.wiki/6qzG> Development - REST API: - We finished the endpoint for getting data from Properties and it is now available on Wikidata. - We started expanding that endpoint with filter options and conditional http headers. - EntitySchemas: The new datatype is now available for testing and feedback <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Schemas#New_EntitySchema_data_type_is_ready_for_testing_on_Test_Wikidata> . - mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. ( phab:T329644 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329644>, phab:T338302 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338302>, phab:T329655 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329655>, phab:T316767 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316767>) - Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (phab:T327510 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327510>) 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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