Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- ChristianKl 2 (RfP scheduled to end after 4 December 2022 17:22 UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Identifier sync bot
- Task: Add database identifiers to items, mainly journal article items.
- BorkedBot 9
- Task: Import values of YouTube handle based on YouTube channel ID (P2397) and vice versa.
- Botcrux 11
- Task/s: Replace stated in (P248) to publisher (P123) where the value is World Athletics (Q1158).
- Identifier sync bot
- Open request for adminship:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on d:Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023
- Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 29, 2022: We will be discussing openly managed data gathering and management with Holly Little (Smithsonian), Sabine von Mering (Museum für Naturkunde), Erica Krimmel (Florida State University), and Debra Paul (University of Illinois)! Agenda
- A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #131, December 4 at 13.00 UTC
- Past:
- Wikibase live session (November 2022) log
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #99
- WikiMentorAfrica - Displaying Wikidata DataViz on external web pages day - YouTube (part1, part 2)
- Wikidata Workshop (Digital Humanities on Wikipedia - Archiving of COVID-19 under debate) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Creating a Wikidata item (in Estonian) - YouTube
- Wikidata 10th Birthday Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2022 (in Chinese) - YouTube
- The past and future of Wikidata in Taiwan
- An Attempt to Connect Wikidata with OpenStreetMap
- Wikidata teaching experience in National Cheng Kung University's "Integrating Wiki into History Teaching"
- Is it composition or construction? Talking about the System Thinking of "Data Translation" Opening up in Data Dictionary
- Other
- Tool of the week
- The user script User:Ainali/common-properties.js shows the most common properties using a specific value (video (YouTube))
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenCheck is a new effort to build an open community-powered identity verification system, among other things with the help of Wikidata.
- The Digital Benin website is linking to Wikidata identifiers, making more exploration and understanding possible beyond what the site itself has: https://mastodon.art/@openartdata/109380697777661025
- Wikidata is on Mastodon: wikis.world/@wikidata. Remember to toot using the #Wikidata hashtag so people can find related topics.
- New product managers have joined the Wikimedia Deutschland development team:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: fedpress.ru person ID, UNIMARC: Medium of Performance ID, OVO ID, Best Western hotel ID, Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, New Zealand Legislation ID, Travel Weekly hotel ID, fruit color, e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, Accor hotel ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, Aathavanitli Gani film ID, ID of část obce díl, Livres Hebdo ID, AniList staff ID, Dictionary.com entry, Golfdata ID, Collins Online English Dictionary entry
- New property proposals to review: Verbalization by lexeme, Cultural Good of Croatia ID, access via, Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, image of feces, image of fauna tracks, hackage package, Packagist package, supports authentication method, package registry usernames, Go package path, Dongqiudi.com player ID, Plazi reference ID, Kanjipedia ID, kino1tv.ru ID, EuDML journal ID, Jiten Online kanji ID, lexeme of other gender, serves resource, YouTube handle, Wikimedia Phabricator project, ISFDB award ID, Trismegistos author ID, Africultures Structure-ID, African American Visual Artists Database ID, Lighthouse Directory page, UniProt Disease ID, Google Product Taxonomy ID, object pertains to, negates property, GCD issue ID, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, Nîmes cemetieres person ID, LMÍ id, kód adresního místa podle RÚIAN, IdnaMapping, экологическая группа растений, International Computer Game Collection work ID, JLect entry ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Au Senate ID, manchu.work lexeme ID, Israeli Opera site (English) person id, of instances of, subclass of with uncertain existance, vazn, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Sense relationships connected to semantic roles, TV Maze episode ID
- Query examples:
- Translated Wikidata property labels (top 100 languages) (source)
- Dentists who are notable footballers (source)
- Map of obelisks over 40 m high (source)
- Notable doctoral student/advisor pairs where at least one of them is within the Wikidata:WikiProject NZThesisProject (source)
- Wikimedia affiliates on Mastodon (source)
- Development
- REST API:
- Finished the adjusted statement data structure (phab:T321459)
- Simplifying the structure of sitelinks in Item data (phab:T321483)
- Simplifying the value format for entity ID, time and globecoordinate value types (phab:T322734)
- Investigating the way forward for rate limiting (phab:T322746)
- Ontology issues: Preparing a survey for re-users of Wikidata's data about the different types of ontology issues and which ones are causing the most issues for application builders
- Mismatch Finder:
- Finishing the work on making it possible to provide mismatches with an empty Wikidata value so the tool can also be used to suggest new data (phab:T313468)
- Finishing the work on better handling of calendar models and precision for dates (phab:T288511)
- Lexicographical data: Fixing bugs:
- Improved the markers that indicate the field is required input (phab:T322683)
- Improved a help link (phab:T315161)
- REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Go through the list of pages with وصلة موقع لتحويلة (Q70893996) and update them either to وصلة موقع متعمدة لتحويلة (Q70894304) or remove the sitelink. We have worklists for many languages.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!