Wikidata:Status updates/2022 07 04

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-07-04.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. [1] should have a wiki commons link to [2] since they both refer to [3].

Events

• Upcoming
  • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Wikidata Data Quality Days, online, on July 8-10
  • Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, Human rights
• Past
  • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos
  • Making Wiki work for Wales - YouTube
  • Session on Wikibase - Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikipedians of Goa User Group (WGUG) - YouTube
  • Scribe: Wikidata-powered keyboard app for second language learners - YouTube
  • Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata A semi automated, user assisted editing tool - YouTube
  • Wikidata MOOC (in French) by Wikimedia France - 19 videos on YouTube
  • Wikidata Tutorials (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - 7 videos on YouTube
• Report
  • User:LennardHofmann/GSoC 2022/Report 2 - rewriting the WikiCommons and Wikidata Infobox in Lua

Tool of the week

• User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js is a userscript that can add values to properties that already exist on an item and new statements.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata. The goal of this collaboration is "to make our software more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and speakers of minority languages".
• Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Junior Product Manager Wikidata - "In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest knowledge base of free and open data in the world."
  • Product Manager Wikibase Suite - In this role "you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of stakeholders in the Wikibase Ecosystem."

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, Russia.travel object ID, Yamaha Artists ID, ifwizz ID, IRFA ID, DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Gitee username, Punjabi tone, spoken by, recordist, part of molecular family, official definition
  • External identifiers: Anghami artist ID, Boomplay artist ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, MUSE publisher ID, EU Knowledge Graph ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, identifiant organisation Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID
• Query examples:
  • Number of albums in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)
  • Occupation about musicians in Wales (source)
  • Map of tram depots in France
  • Mountains higher than 2,500 meters in France (source)
  • List of all Tour de France's stage winners by nationality from 1903 to 2022 (source)
  • French rugby teams according to the year of creation (source)
  • French members of parliament that were on the same legislature and are or have been married (source)
  • Number of countries on Wikidata where at least one pride parade has been held (source)
  • Football players whose birthday is today (different every day) (source)

Development

• Lexicographical data:
  • We have finished most of the development on the new Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on July 14th.
  • We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (phab:T307869)
• REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
• We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (phab:T303317)
• We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)

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!