Wikidata:Status updates/2023 08 21

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-08-21.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)

Events

• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #106, Sleep
• Past:
  • Wikimania happened over the weekend. You can find a playlist of the events on YouTube here
  • Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #105, Wikimania Singapore

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Celebrating the 2023 Wikimedian of the Year Winners. Congratulations Tofeiku and Siobhan Leachman for your dedication to Wikidata \o/
• Videos
  • Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap (relation (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Promoting GLAM Institution in Indonesia through OSM-Wikidata Mapping - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Psychiq, a Distributed Wikidata Game system, suggests statements to add to Items based on Wikipedia English articles content.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • appears before phonological feature (this lexeme form appears only when another lexeme form with this phonological feature comes after it)
    • appears after phonological feature (this lexeme form appears only when it comes after another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
    • appears before lexeme form (this lexeme form appears only when this other specific lexeme form comes after it)
    • appears after lexeme form (this lexeme form appears only when it comes after this other specific lexeme form)
    • Gottstein code (code representing a variant of the cuneiform sign according to the Gottstein system)
    • tournament type (significance or status of a sports competition for a league, tour, association, etc.)
  • External identifiers: Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, UMLS Semantic Network ID, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, Moroccan geographic code (2015), BHL item ID, TVING ID, Google Scholar organization ID, Rumble channel, GSA player ID, Roku Channel Store ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Antenna Structure Registration Number, Korean Tour player ID, Kastelenlexicon ID, NFDI4Culture ID, Pouët group ID, Pouët group member ID, Pouët demo ID, Steam curator ID, Podbay ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, Diamond Catalogue work ID, Diamond Catalogue edition ID, Frankfurt University Library Digital Collection ID, Nurnet ID, DUMAS thesis ID, Syok podcast ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • patron deity ()
    • WHO Aware Classification (The World Health Organization currently classifies 258 antibiotics into "Access", "Watch", and "Reserve" based partly on the risk of resistance developing as a result of such use and critical nature of the antibiotic in question.)
    • nombre de niveaux (number of levels in a video game or number of stages in a particular sport)
    • URL du plan du jeu vidéo (URL of the video game detailed map in subject provided by the site CPC-Power)
    • Positioning (A list of all the satellite navigation system (ex. GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS, NavIC etc. ) a mobile device, or a smartphone supports. [https://w.wiki/7HE9 List of all the Satellite Navigation System].)
    • place on the route (object, station, facility, city, natural formation or other place on a road, track, route, line, watercourse, utility line or other linear route)
    • simule (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
  • External identifiers: ANPI person ID (2), J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, ID ve Slovníku české literatury po roce 1945, Vazhaju Word ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, Visiongame.cz game ID, Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges Numeric ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Anikore anime ID, wiki.gg wiki ID
• Query examples:
  • Count of items with an article on fr.wikivoyage.org by country (source)
  • Count of items with an article on fr.wikiquote.org by instance of (source)
  • Count of items that have X amount of statements. A simple showcase of Blazegraph optimizations.
  • Week 33, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)

Development

• EntitySchemas: We investigated ways to help you search for EntitySchemas by their Labels, Aliases and Descriptions (phab:T341969)
• Mismatch Finder: We have added the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
• Improved language fallback: We are testing to clearly show the fallback Label in the placeholders for empty Labels (phab:T338330, phab:T340832)

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!