Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th February 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Huda Khan and Astrid Usong on their Linked Data for Production 3 (LD4P3) grant work to use Wikidata in knowledge panels in Cornell’s library catalog Agenda - 2022-02-22 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter)
- Hands-on introduction to Wikidata with The Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library's Edit-a-Thon! Theme: Boston public art and artists. February 23, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Eastern time
- OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons: community meetup - Tuesday, February 22, at 15:00-17:00 UTC (check the time in your timezone).
- Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 22 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #30, Trains
- Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #71 #MelFest - YouTube
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Plans Become Projects
- Papers: "COVID-19 Claim Radar: A Structured Claim Extraction and Tracking System" using Wikidata
- Videos: Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata:Tools/asseeibot - is a tool made by User:So9q to improve the scientific articles in Wikidata. Source code on GitHub under GPLv3+
- Coinherbarium.com - coins depicting plants; powered by Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of lanes, computational complexity
- External identifiers: UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID, Gardens Navigator ID, Tagoo video game ID, Lingua Libre ID, Labyrinth database ID, A9VG game ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, RCN, CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date, quality has state, beforehand-afterward owned by, Number of units, created during, award recipient, medical indication
- External identifiers: KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, YouTube Topic channel ID, YouTube Official Artist Channel ID, GoFood restaurant ID, traveloka restaurant ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, HiSCoD, Databazeknih.cz Book ID, Databazeknih.cz Author ID, Renacyt ID, CBDB.cz Book ID, CBDB.cz Author ID, Gab ID, Drammen byleksikon ID, NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, MakeMyTrip Hotel ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID
- Query examples:
- Frequency of letters in five-letter words in Wikidata lexeme forms (source)
- Visualization of the Prime/Ulam Spiral using natural numbers and primes stored in Wikidata (source)
- Monuments that are named after somebody without being connected to them by any other property (source)
- Places named after Valentine's Day (Saint Valentine) (source)
- Gold medal winners in the Olympic Games by age (source)
- Top 20 languages in number of lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of lexemes with at least one external id (source)
- Count of PropertyLabels for lakes in the UK (source)
- Moons of solar system planets and what they are names for (source)
- Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- We started coding on the Wikibase Rest API based on the proposal we published a while ago.
- We are continuing to work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. The first input fields are in place but not pretty or usable yet.
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
- 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!