Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- William Avery Bot 6. Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID
- Crystal-bot. Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier.
- William Avery Bot 5. References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) that use reference URL (P854) will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109), as requested at d:Wikidata:Bot requests#reference URL (P854) → Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109) (2021-02-05)
- OJSOptimetaCitationsBot. Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, Cartography
- Past
- 'Mind Your Manors' Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval Studies), June 11-12. Included some useful Wikidata linkage.
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
- LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - YouTube
- Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally developed to run on Wikipedia - YouTube
- Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons - YouTube
- Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata - Part 2 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Demographic profiling in Wikipedia Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia - YouTube
- DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata - YouTube
- How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? - YouTube
- Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube (En, [De)
- FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
- The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - YouTube
- Wikidata Testimonials
- Tool of the week
- ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created!
- Qichwabase is a Wikibase instance curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata
- Using Wikidata search API in Observable by PAC2
- Explore Wikidata using Observable, a collection of notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2.
- Programming languages on Wikidata in Observable by Jsamwrites, based on examples by PAC2 (see above)
- New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: orchestrator
- External identifiers: Championat ID, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Twitter list ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: inker, penciller, KFCB classification (Kenya), Miljørapporter File ID, plural forms
- External identifiers: ifwizz ID, IRIS Abruzzo IDs, Great Plant Picks ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Kultboy, Atom Package Manager name, ZineWiki ID, Broadway World person ID, Yamaha Artists ID
- Query examples:
- Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings, according to wikidata statements (source)
- Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for Commons categories (useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) (source)
- items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata, with a sample language and lexeme in that language.
- Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games (source)
- A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges (source)
- Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations (source)
- Articles studying chemicals from the oceans (source)
- Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude (source)
- In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later) (source)
- Actors who played the same real politician the most times (source)
- Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks) (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (phab:T306214)
- Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (phab:T307869)
- REST API: continued work on creating statements (phab:T306667)
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!