Wikidata:Status updates/2022 02 14

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-02-14.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 2
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dexbot 15
• New request for comments: Population data model

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 15 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
  • Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata February 17, 5:00 PM
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #71 - YouTube, Facebook, February 19 at 19:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #96, February 20 at 13.00 UTC
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #29, Love
• Past: LIVE Wikidata editing #70 #Beijing2022 - YouTube

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration
  • Wikidata in Stardog
  • Does your birthplace affect your probability to have your Wikipedia biography ? some evidence from people born in France.
• Videos
  • Wikidata Tutorial (in German): add qualifiers, coordinates & address
  • PADE Workshop: Wikidata – Linked, Open Data - YouTube
  • OpenGLAM Valentine's Day School: Intro to Wikidata (in Finish) - YouTube
  • Workshop on adding intangible heritage community data and images on Wikidata/Wikimedia - YouTube
  • Hands On: SPARQL Query Dbpedia Wikidata Python - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Equal Street Names is a map visualizing the streetnames of a city by gender.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New development plan for Wikidata and Wikibase for Q1 2022

• Krbot's constraint reports are now generally updated daily, after code optimizations and hardware upgrades.
• 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!
• Wikidata ESR is a tool to visualize evolutions of universities and schools, such as creations, mergers, deletions and relations. Feedback and help to develop this project further is requested.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: semantic gender, original catalog description
  • External identifiers: doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, Viki ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, World Economic Forum ID, USgamer ID, Podvig Naroda ID, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Turin University student ID, Naver TV ID, AusGamers ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Maritimt Magasin ship ID, TV3 show ID, TV3 video ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, nzs.si player ID, UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Computational complexity, audio contains, identifies, Cadastral areas, video depicts, YouTube video, cadastral plot reference, Finisher, trainiert von, identifier values as, YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date
  • External identifiers: Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Transilien ID, Cybersport.ru ID, JeuxActu ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Name Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Classification Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, ICQ user ID, previous property definition, State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, VK Music ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, BelTA dossier ID, Spotify user ID, NTSF ID, BritBox ID, KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID
• Query examples:
  • Tram bridges in France
  • Polish Righteous Among the Nations
  • Launch date, logo of social media services (source)
  • Oscar winners from 1929 (source)
  • Images of biologists by height (source)
  • Biggest coins outside the U.S. (source)

Development

• Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page. Nothing to see yet though.
• Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get them. (phab:T301247)

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!