This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-09-04.

Discussions edit

Open request for adminship: FlyingAce (RfP scheduled to end after 8 September 2023 23:32 UTC)
New request for comments: Must 'Serious' WikiData sources be selective? (The disagreement regards the interpretation of WD:N rule number two, which states an item is acceptable if: "It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.")

Events edit

Upcoming:
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 6, 2023. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
- Registration for 2nd edition of Wikidata MOOC is scheduled for Saturday September 23. Link. (in French)
- Wikidata Days 2023, 28-30* Sept. '23 | 10h00-18h00 | Auditorium and Training Room. Registration (in Portuguess)
Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #108, Roof (Challenge started on 2023-09-04 12:01:27)

User:Sanqui/referenceurl.js - is a userscript that adds a button to add a reference which immediately suggests reference URL (P854).

Job opening: Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d). For our Team Wikidata, based in Berlin, we are looking for a permanent Software Engineer (m/f/d), full-time or part-time (min. 32h/week), as soon as possible.
Wikidata's eleventh birthday is around the corner! One of our traditions is to prepare birthday presents to the community. Now is a great time to start preparing yours!
Developer account signup from Wikitech removed. Now directing new users towards https://idm.wikimedia.org instead.

Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
  - has heir or beneficiary (people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title)
  - towing capacity (the maximum sustainable force with which this vehicle can pull or push another object. Alternatively for road- or track-vehicles, the maximum weight of an object on wheels that this vehicle can reliably and safely pull given usual slopes)
  - learning outcome (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program)
  - tribe (recognised membership in a society, mainly denoted by shared cultural heritage; for ethnicity use P172)
- External identifiers: ANPI person ID, Anikore anime ID, Substack profile ID, Artmajeur artist ID, FantLab translator ID, ‎wadoku ID, identifier in a register in Germany, Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID
New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
  - when used with property (when used with property)
  - Wikimedia Commons campaign (name of a Wikimedia Commons campaign)
  - near (for geo-objects which are located ''near'' some other geo-object)
- External identifiers: animecons.com event id, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, BioGRID Publication, iNaturalist user ID, MyShows, NHK News topic ID, Museoitalia ID, DBpia author ID
Query examples:
- Old Greek personalities with entries in Prosopographia attica (source)
- Largest heist by damage (source)

EntitySchemas: We added language fallbacks to the statements linking to EntitySchemas (phab:T338797)
We fixed the issue with overlapping Lexeme headers in the Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on PATCHing for statements on Properties (phab:T342238)

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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