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 8. Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names|Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17).
- EnvlhBot 4. Task/s: import forms for French verbs on lexemes.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team. Date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST
- Wikidata Birthday is taking place in October 2022, and together we are celebrating 10 amazing years of Wikidata with decentralized community events! Discover more Wikidata:Tenth Birthday -- organize an event and get funding
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #52, Software
- Past:
- Wikidata/Wikibase office hours logs (2022-07-27)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Insights about good articles in Wikipedia in French This Observable's notebook uses SPARQL queries to get insights about good articles.
- Tour de France Femmes : Notebook exploring data from Tour de France Femmes using Wikidata.
- Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Smithsonian Research Online
- Populating Wikipedia: New tool integrating Australian Census data
- Quickstatements User Evaluation of Statements and Terms, or QUEST
- Place of birth and death of people with Peruvian citizenship (source)
- This interactive map highlights the most notable person from your hometown
- Map of notable people based on A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD which is based on Wikidata. Made by Topi Tjukanov
- Wikidata insights from a handy little tool in The Signpost
- Videos
- The process of standardizing OpenStreetMap and Wikidata data - an example in the village of Xiliu (in Chinese) - YouTube
- Wikidata – An attempt to analyse Wikidata Query - YouTube
- Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata: why and how? - YouTube
- WikiProject Scholia - Brazilian Bioinformatics (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Connecting an academic organization to Wikidata (Python script) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- SPARQL queries on trains (stations and lines), cartography (in French) by VIGNERON and Auregann - YouTube
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Gender diversity inspector is a new tool to inspect gender diversity in Wikipedia articles based on SPARQL and Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Template:Generic queries for authors has now generic queries about narrative locations (P840) of works written by an author.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: contains the statistical territorial entity, recordist, spoken by
- External identifiers: Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met Constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Gitee username, Anghami artist ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Base Budé person ID, Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for, Matrix space, Tribe, Prisoner's camp number, field of this item, Linkinfo ID, Zhihu question ID, Baidu Tieba name
- External identifiers: IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID, Galleria Recta author ID, Business Online ID, Real Time IDs, The Devil's Porridge Museum Worker Database, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Scinapse Author ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan ID, National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- [Significant change] New search profile parameter in Wikidata’s wbsearchentities API module
- REST API:
- You can now check out the current development state of the upcoming REST API
- We are continuing work on the API route to remove and replace statements, focusing on error handling and corner cases.
- Lexicographical data: We are addressing the feedback from the first release of the new Special:NewLexeme page.
- Continuing work on allowing redirects and the target article as independent sitelinks if a redirect badge is used (phab:T313896)
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.
- Remove the ملياردير (Q1062083) value for property نموذج من (P31). See the list and the discussion in the project chat Should billionaire (Q1062083) be used as a value of instance of (P31)?
- Help write the next summary!