Wikidata:Status updates/2022 08 22

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-08-22.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship:
  • Estopedist1 (successful)
• Closed request for comments:
  • Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French
  • Alternate disclosure policy

Events

• Past events:
  • Clutch sprint August 2022

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Automatic word relatedness evaluation
• Videos
  • Datavisualisation in Wikidata (in French)
  • Highlights from Wikimania 2022
    • Ninai-Udiron: Using Wikidata Items and Lexemes for Abstract Wikipedia-Like Text Generation By Mahir Morshed
    • Partner Up for Wikidata!
    • Wikidata for everyone: a methodology to teach different communities
    • Wikifunctions: A new Wikimedia project
• Tutorial
  • Wikimania 2022 UK Festival: SPARQL tutorial (Wikidata for Wizards) & Wikidata SPARQL Tips and Tricks

Tool of the week

• List of created Wikidata items a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Outreachy Round 25–call for projects and mentors now open!
• Template:Documented queries skeleton
• Wikidata's tenth birthday: you can organize a distributed event and get funding, create your own swag, attend the next organizers call on August 23, and participate in the collaborative video until September 18th.
• OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: contraindication, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s)
  • External identifiers: ZOBODAT publication ID, abART book series ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: fog signal characteristic, Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL
  • External identifiers: Planeta Belarus sigh ID, Flemish Heritage designation object ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID
• Query examples:
  • Longest tram line in the world with 68 stops Map of Coast Tram (Q1510414)¹
  • Most frequent .uk domains for P973 "described at URL" (source)
  • Online accounts used by people that were born in People's Republic of China (Source)
  • Journals with the most retractions (source)

Development

• Lexicographical data: continuing to address feedback from testing. We are almost done now.
• REST API: continued investigating the use of PATCH and JSON Patch and worked on a proof-of-concept
• Birthday planning and prepping is in full swing

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!