Wikidata:Status updates/2023 04 03

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-03-27.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)
  • IngeniousBot 3 (Task: Adding identifiers to album items, based on existing identifiers)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • Bitbotje 2 (Task: remove redundant item aliases)
  • MidleadingBot 4 (Task: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))

Events

• Past
  • Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings (Etherpads: Meeting #1, Meeting #2)
  • WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata picture (notes, slides)
  • Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge (previous challenge: #85, Bones)
• Upcoming
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate in Wikidata. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • The Whelming - Musings on the backend, by Magnus Manske
  • Boosting interoperability: towards an increasingly reusable bioinformatics knowledge base
• Papers
  • In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries (French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023, INSA Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on documenting queer history on Wikidata
  • Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python
  • A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata
  • Can you trust Wikidata?
• Videos
  • Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih - YouTube
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
  • Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - YouTube
  • Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - YouTube
  • WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and Gilliane Kern (in French) - YouTube
  • A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - YouTube
  • Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - YouTube
  • Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) - YouTube
  • Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked Open Data - YouTube
• Notebooks
  • Statistics on Wikidata property scopes

Tool of the week

• User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
  • Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • student retention rate (Proportion of first-year students at the educational institution who return for their second year)
  • External identifiers: Newguineaworld ID, Ticino Scienza IBSA Foundation ID, China movable cultural relic ID, JMdict sequence number, TASVideos game ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, IRIS private universities (3) IDs
• Query examples:
  • Authors from Latin America born today (source)
  • Businesses whose official websites use the ".biz" top-level domain (source)

Development

• EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
• Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (phab:T321543)
• REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)

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!