Wikidata:Status updates/2022 08 29

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-02-21.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Small wiki toolkits/Workshops#Writing Wikidata queries using the WDQS tool
  • Wikidata Affinity Group Call Tuesday September 6: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects.
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #56, Mystery theme (guess the theme)
• Past:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #55, Wiki Loves Monuments

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Interoperable USP Bioinformatics Theses Catalog with Wikidata (in Portuguese)
  • Growing the representation of Australian Women in Religion through Wikidata
  • Working with Wikidata: (1) Introduction and Terminology
  • Mapping the Brazilian Association for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to Wikidata
• Papers
  • DrNote: An open medical annotation service
• Videos
  • [Wiki Mentor Africa] Introduction to using OpenRefine for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons Editing (part 1, part 2)
  • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences (in Spanish)
  • Relations on wikidata and color biology (in Spanish)
  • Wikidata Tutorial: Different ways to display SPARQL queries (in German)

Tool of the week

• SenseForThisItem.js: Adds a button on items to show what senses are linked to it.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Upgrade of the Search clusters to Elasticsearch 7.10.2 will start on August 29 2022 for 3-weeks.
• The latest round of Outreachy internships wrapped up on 26 August. Two interns worked on improving author-name data; their bots have made over 340,000 edits. Their project description, documentation, blog posts and code are available.
• The August 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
• Open vacancy:
  • Wikimedia Indonesia - Technology internships in the GLAM and Wikidata fields

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: contraindicated in case of, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s), power series expansion, KFCB classification (Kenya), website title match pattern
  • External identifiers: 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 and Interfederal Committee athlete ID, Federation Council reference ID, Russian Football Union player ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, motocross.ru rider ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, athletics.by person ID, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Anghami album ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, Olympic Committee of Serbia athlete ID (new), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, Swedish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Field Hockey Canada person ID, Real Time person ID, Real Time organization ID, Communist Party of the Russian Federation person ID, Rugby Federation of Russia athlete ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, RailScot location ID, GIE gas storage ID, RailScot line or company ID, YAPPY profile ID, Business Online ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, izsambo.ru person ID, national-football-teams.com, TGbus ID, TGbus franchise ID, AFC player ID, SABRE wiki ID, Moepedia ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Scinapse author ID, Hockey New Zealand person ID, Artsy artwork ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, European Hockey Federation ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, EU Knowledge Graph item ID, Cultural Property in Liechtenstein ID, Belarus in persons and events ID, Planeta Belarus sight ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL, Indicator, Curriculum Reference Number, Content standards
  • External identifiers: 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, Garden Plant Finder ID, Archaeology Data Service ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, Tanzania administrator ID, Digital Foundry game ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, King County Parcel Number, Anime Taizen ID, Betrail runner ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, A Utah Flora ID
• Query examples:
  • Occupations as classified by ISCO/ESCO (source)
  • Occupation of people in the New Zealand Thesis Project (source)
  • Average weights and heights of sportsmen (source)
  • Letters by numbers of alphabet where they are found (source)

Development

• REST API: working on the ability to change existing statements on an Item (phab:T306934)
• Lexicographical data: Finishing up the remaining pieces of the new Special:NewLexeme page based on the testing feedback (subtickets of phab:T307866)

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!