Wikidata:Status updates/2023 05 02

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-05-01.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • ForgesBot (Task: Add licensing information to software forges entries in accordance to what is found in the corresponding Wikipedia page. It is used as a helper in the context of the Forges project)
  • BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))

Events

• Upcoming events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 2, 2023: Fudie Zhao will be presenting on Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects. Agenda
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #90, Sewing
• Past
  • Wikibase Live session (April 2023)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Creating Map Visualizations with Wikidata and Python, 24 April 2023, Jelle Vankerkvoorde
• Videos
  • Open data and Wikidata: revolutionizing scientific research (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #109 - YouTube
  • Using MixandMatch gadget - YouTube
  • Back having fun with lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch
  • EMWCon Spring 2023 -YouTube
    • Synchronizing your own MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki content with Wikidata
    • Reasons not to use Wikibase (and reasons to do so)
• Workshops
  • Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata Workshop at 16th Annual International Biocuration Conference (2023) (Q111430238)
  • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
  • Wikimentor Africa workshop - Learn how to report bugs, make feature requests and manage your tasks

Tool of the week

• Twitter Wikipedia Badge - is a Chrome extension for verifying a Twitter username using Wikidata. (code, Tweet)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WeChangEd is an ERC-funded research project and online database by Ghent University, about women editors in Europe. The database shows stories about women editors and their publications, and is powered by Wikidata and Sciencestories.io.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Channel One Russia Worldwide program ID, LSJ Wiki ID, Wastewater treatment plant in France ID, Musées Grand Est ID, INSPIRE-HEP literature ID, Musée Fabre ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Technic Platform modpack ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus root id
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Akadem organization ID, mosff.ru player ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Diritto on line ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, BSWW player ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of where the presidents of BCALA were educated (source)
  • Number of Wikipedia sitelinks for Art Looting Investigation (source)
  • Family relationships of New Zealand MPs (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Piano Rolls

Development

• EntitySchemas: We are still working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
• Wikibase REST API: We're fixing several smaller issues like phab:T335578 and phab:T335581.

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!