Wikidata:Status updates/2023 04 24
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-04-24.
Discussions edit
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)
- New request for comments:
Events edit
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour April 24, 2023: Would you like to know how to join and use Telegram? Two regular Wikidata Telegram users will provide an introduction to Telegram and its available Wikidata channels. They will discuss how they use it, how it can provide help with Wikidata work, and how it can facilitate connections with other Wikidata users Event page
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #89, Ear
- Past
- Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-04-19
Press, articles, blog posts, videos edit
- Blogs
- Papers
- Documenter l'histoire queer sur Wikidata (Documenting Queer History on Wikidata - French), John Samuel, Panel: Queer Data : les plateformes numériques d'archives, Collectif Archives LGBTQI+, Paris, 23 April 2023
- Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base
- Wikidata Atlas: Putting Wikidata on the Map
- Videos
- Using PetScan and Wikidata Terminator, Mooré Wikimedia Community (in Mooré)
- Notebooks
- Twitter thread
Tool of the week edit
- User:Nikki/colour icons.css - is a Userscript to add colour to the editing icons. It uses green for add/save, yellow for edit, red for remove, orange for cancel and blue for help.
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- The Wikibase newbie docs are here (to help to onboard new Wikibase users easier).
Did you know? edit
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- handled, mitigated, or managed by (approach or method that can be used to address an issue or problem)
- holds diplomatic passport of (country of the diplomatic passport held by the person)
- External identifiers: Dailymotion video ID, Databáze sérií ID, Universo del corpo ID, Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, AML ID, AniList character ID, Amarkosh ID, Moly.hu author ID, Podcast Index ID, SINTA affiliation ID, Hall of Light developer ID, Hall of Light publisher ID, Hall of Light artist ID, Kinoglaz person ID, Michaelis ID, Kino1TV ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: KPU Plant Database ID, SoccerPunter team ID, HAL non-registered author ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Dizionario dei prodotti DOP e IGP ID
- Query examples:
- Administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
- Rivers in France over 50 km long (source)
- List of mental disorders (source)
- Paintings once owned by Red Flag Names (source)
- Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 16, 2023) (source)
- Place of birth of humans with Github username (source)
Development edit
- REST API: We continued work on making it possible to create or replace a label, or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)
- EntitySchemas: We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas. It is now available on beta in a very bare-bones version but not ready for wider testing yet. (phab:T332139)
- Ontology issues: We are evaluating the results of the survey we ran earlier this year.
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 edit
- 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!