Wikidata:Status updates/2021 09 13

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-09-13.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • WikidataCon update: you can now check in the program of the first day of the online conference
  • Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
    • 14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
    • 21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
    • 28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
  • Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
• Ongoing:
  • Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
• Past:
  • Forex - 36C3 Wikipaka WG: Live querying: let’s explore Wikidata together! - YouTube

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers
  • Linking Data and Descriptions on Moths Using the Wikimedia Ecosystem Part of collection TDWG Proceedings 2021
• other
  • Ainali talks about Wikidata on The World According to Wikipedia podcast.

Tool of the week

• Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
• Wikidata now has over 150,000 Senses on Lexemes!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: GRAC rating
  • External identifiers: Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number (Taiwan), Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, Télé-Loisirs ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Douyin video ID, IndieMag game ID, INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Mexican Video Game content classification category, NZTCS conservation status, Unique Identifier, relevant date for copyright, Allaboutjazz musician ID, Google Fonts ID
  • External identifiers: museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, thefreedictionary dictionary term ID, TermCymru ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, NZTCS ID, Australian Research Council Grant ID, PSC, SAM id, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID, Norsk Akademis Ordbok ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Kallías, Owler company ID
• Query examples:
  • List of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo ordered by number of sitelinks (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
  • List of actors with whom Jean-Paul Belmondo has played the most (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
  • count of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo by decade
  • List of characters in Tintin ordered by number of apparitions (source)
  • People with no birth/death/floruit dates but which have a position from which dates can be inferred (source)
  • Map of the origin of diamond open access journal (Q108440863) publications (source)
  • Map of place names in Ghana ending with "li", "ti", "om" (source)

Development

• Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
• Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (phab:T280229)
• Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (phab:T251480)
• All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)

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!