Wikidata:Status updates/2022 05 23

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-05-23.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Use of dates in the descriptions of items regarding humans

Events

• Upcoming:
  • 6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
  • 29 July 2022: The submission deadline for the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #43, Towel Day

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos
  • Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa - YouTube

Tool of the week

• LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
• Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: Similarweb ranking
  • External identifiers: Chocolatey Community package ID, Twitter moment ID, Kino-kolo film ID, netkeiba horse ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: has vector, ECLI court code, Mirror image, Norges Nasjonalmuseum Creator ID
  • External identifiers: Radio France person ID, ORKG ID, Authority control/Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici id, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, TVG Programme Identifier, CPRF person ID, New Mexico Digital Collections identifier, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, Lithuania Minor encyclopedia ID
• Query examples:
  • Relationships of Roman deities (source)
  • Ingrediants of dishes on Wikidata (source)
  • Food names after a place in the UK (source)
  • French heads of government classified by tenure (source)
  • Places in Antarctica over 3000km away from the South Pole
  • Topics that members of the Swedish Parliament motioned about 2020/21 (source)
  • Albums with more than one language statement where none has preferred rank (source)

Development

• Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (phab:T307087) completed.
• First batch of WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket phab:T303852.
• Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (T302877, T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (T303806, T290733, T305359) and improving validation / error messages (T305854).

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!