Wikidata:Status updates/2022 05 30

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-05-30.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project Agenda
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #110, June 5 at 12.00 UTC

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • The evolution of a Wikidata SPARQL query for taxon names, by Tiago Lubiana
• Papers
  • The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research (Q112143478)
  • Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles in The Signpost. The article using Wikidata's SPARQL queries to measure gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.
  • Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles? in The Signpost (February 2022)
• Videos
  • Replay of the livestream "Even more fun with Lexemes" by Mahir256

Tool of the week

• Template Item documentation is now automatically displayed in the header of each item's talk page via MediaWiki:Talkpageheader.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Want to know more about Abstract Wikipedia & Wikifunctions? You can now subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a friendly reminder every time a new issue is published!
• Radioactivity map: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: candidate position
  • External identifiers: Lithuanian company code, Afisha.ru movie ID, art is next artist ID, Gun Violence Archive ID, HeHaCham HaYomi ID, CPNI ID, Collection Hermann Göring DB ID, Radio France person ID, ANR project ID, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Umanity horse ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: number of versions, voting age (reproposed), code dans la Classification centrale des produits, identificador WikiBurgos, orchestrator
  • External identifiers: HaBama person id, Odnoklassniki album ID, WorldCat Entities ID, BRUZZ topic ID, BRUZZ place ID, CBC Gem ID, MAYA site company id, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Plex GUID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Liquipedia ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID, Ozon person identifier
• Query examples:
  • List of candidates for the next French legislative elections (source)
  • Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Élisabeth or Elisabeth in Wikidata (source)
  • Percentage of films passing the Bechdel test by genre / percentage of films passing the reverse Bechdel test by genre
  • Timeline of the start of pride parades from 1970 (source)
  • Top 20 genes with most genetic associations on Wikidata (source)
  • Biennales that aren’t biennial (source)

Development

• Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (phab:T307087), all statements of an item (phab:T305988), a single statement for a specific item (phab:T307088))
• Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (phab:T307915, decision)
• Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (phab:T306008)

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!