Wikidata weekly summary #517Edit
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship:
- Pi admin bot (successful)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- BgeeDB-bot. Task/s: inserting gene expression data from the Bgee database into Wikidata.
- Closed request for adminship:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 28th April 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
- Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. The aim of this online editing event is to increase the quantity and quality of performing arts building/venue items.
- Daily guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French between April 25 and April 29.
- Wikidata Coffee Breaks From April 25 - April 29, 2022 to fill in missing information on Swiss Performing Arts Institutions and venues.
- Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ?, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 26, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
- How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 27, 13:00-13:45 UTC.
- The full schedule of official and supplementary activities of the Cultural Venues Datathon is availabe in the Google Calendar.
- Third Pywikibot workshop on Friday, April 29th, 16:00 UTC. "This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the Pywikibot framework."
- From May 4 to 18 there will be the International Museum Day - Wikidata competition. The aim is to improve data about museums in the countries and regions participating. Contributors from anywhere can take part.
- The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule#The Wikidata and Wikibase Room.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #39, Agriculture
- Past:
- Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-04-20)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tool of the week
- Wikitaxa is a software of taxonomy data written in R.
- User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WDQS update lag SLO has been lowered from update lag <10 min 99% of the time, to update lag <10 min 95% of the time.
- Wikidata now has over 9,900 Properties! (71.16% Identifiers)
- Job opening: Product Manager (PM) for Wikifunctions
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: amount of medals, exhibited creator, applies to work, featured track(s), raw material processed, debut date, OSM object, number of references, franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius
- External identifiers: DTB artistic gymnast ID, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, C-SPAN person numeric ID, IndexCat ID, lieferando restaurant ID, IPU chamber ID, ACNP library ID, HuijiWiki article ID, TV Maze season ID, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, MINEDEX project ID, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature bio ID, Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: CXSMILES, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959
- External identifiers: Reflora ID, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, Biografiskt lexikon för Finland URN.FI, Galaxy Store app ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, Identifiant Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique (1802-1914), NSR quay ID, NSR stopplace ID, Heiligen.net ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID
- Deleted properties:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data.
- REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #518Edit
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another
- TolBot 14. Archives Wikidata:Requests for deletions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on May 5th at 16:00 UTC, online. Open discussion - you can bring a Phabricator ticket that you care about or that needs to be improved.
- Conclusion du Cultural Venues Datathon (in French), May 2, 16:00-16:30 UTC.
- Cultural Venues Datathon wrap-up, May 2, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
- Live editing session on Twitch about structured data on Wikimedia Commons, in French, by Vigneron, May 3 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours May 3, 2022
- May 3rd. Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: The call will include presentations on two projects using Wikidata to enhance discoverability of archival and museum collections. Sharon Garewal (JSTOR) will present “Adding Wikidata QIDs to JSTOR Images,” and Daniela Rovida and Jennifer Brcka (University of Notre Dame) will present “‘Archives At’: An opportunity to leverage MARC to create Linked Open Data.” [1]
- Wikidata Workshop: Wikidata items for dance and theatre productions, May 4, 19:30-21:00 UTC
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—May 4th, 2022
- Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh, May 8 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #40, International Workers' Day
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by WhoseKnowledge
- Videos
- Workshop "Wikidata, Zotero and Cita": tools to understand the construction of knowledge (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Georeferencing cultural heritage on Wikidata - YouTube
- Theory of Machine Learning on Open Data: The Wikidata Case by Goran S. Milovanovic - YouTube
- Introduction to SPARQL (Wikidata Query Service (in Czech) - YouTube
- Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js - is a userscript that adds a button when editing labels to change the text to lowercase.
- EqualStreetNames - is a tool that maps the inequality of name attributions.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenRefine is running its two-yearly user survey! Do you use OpenRefine? Then fill in the survey to tell us how and why you use OpenRefine. Results and outcomes will inform future decisions about the tool.
- The April update for the Wikidata Query Service scaling project is now available.
- Wikidata now contains all major integrated library systems listed at Library Technology Guides.
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms has a new template for Norwegian Bokmål passive verbs
- Job opening: PR Manager in Digital Technologies, software development department - Wikimedia Deutschland
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius, Thai romanization, introduced in, image set, Bill Number
- External identifiers: Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID, OpenStreetMap object, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, DBLP event ID, CNKI institute ID, Woolworths product ID, TEİS ID, FamousFix topic ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, Reflora ID, Hrono.ru article ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, DACS ID (2022), AccessScience ID, settlement area code in Sweden, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, Galaxy Store app ID, Invasive.org species ID, EIA utility ID, Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland (urn.fi) ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: probability distribution related properties, Ladungszahl, Koordinationszahl, danse, Median household income, background of death, Number of housing units, number of reblogs, IBAN banking code, contraindication, incorporated
- External identifiers: PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID, Encyclopedia of ideas, Personality Database person identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, TIME.com author ID, Investopedia term ID, GeoSciML, GeolISS, National Archives of Sweden persistent identifier, Linz DB ID, belfercenter person ID, Data Commons ID, sextpanther person ID, Tüik number, ERR project, MCCP ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
- Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
- REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item.
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #519Edit
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another (Approved)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Live editing session on Twitch about International Museum Day 2022, in French, by Vigneron, May 10 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- LIVE Wikidata editing #79 - YouTube, Facebook, May 14 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #106, May 15 at 12.00 UTC
- The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #41, Music
- International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
- Past:
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- MapComplete is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees!
- User:Nikki/flag-emoji.css is a userscript that adds emoji flags before items for flags supported by either Noto Color Emoji or BabelStone Flags.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, CXSMILES, class of property value, finisher, support of a function, probability mass function, probability generating function, Fisher information, characteristic function, cumulative distribution function
- External identifiers: Investopedia term ID, fanvue creator ID, Encyclopedia of Ideas ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, WhoSampled track ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, French Inspector General for Education (1802-1914) identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, Hmoegirl ID, English Everipedia ID, GeoSciML ID, Présent author ID, Data Commons ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: beteiligte Parteien, ligament insertion, proper motion components, distributed from, IBAN banking code, contains statistical territorial entity
- External identifiers: The Israeli Directors Guild id, Twitter moment ID, Muziekweb composition ID, TOBuilt ID, Afisha.ru movie ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Baidu Scholar paper ID, ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, Chocolatey Community Package, IRIS Emilia-Romagna IDs, Kubbealti Lugati term ID, Kinokolo.ua film ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Twitter list ID
- Query examples:
- List of French public administrations with an open data portal, a siren number (P1616) and a servicepublic id (P6671) (source)
- Largest cities with a female mayor (source)
- Reach of Twitter accounts on Wikidata (source)
- Which works published in the 1970s have been most cited from works on archaeology? (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
- Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (phab:T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (phab:T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (phab:T298150).
- We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (phab:T277836).
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #520Edit
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." Agenda
- LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - YouTube, Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108, May 22 at 12.00 UTC
- 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, Constitution Day, Norway
- International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata Guesser allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- The Wikidata community onboarding documentation by Wiki Education.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: quantile function, mean of a probability distribution, median of a probability distribution, mode of a probability distribution, dance, variance of a probability distribution, skewness, excess kurtosis, information entropy, moment-generating function
- External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID, GeolISSTerm ID, TIME.com author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Similar web ranking
- External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID, TamTam chat ID, PM20 ware ID, ANR project ID, HeHaCham HaYomi id, Delaware Department of State file number, JBIS horse ID, Camp Wild
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #521Edit
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Use of dates in the descriptions of items regarding humans
- Events
- Upcoming:
- 6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
- 29 July 2022: The submission deadline for the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #43, Towel Day
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa - YouTube
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Similarweb ranking
- External identifiers: Chocolatey Community package ID, Twitter moment ID, Kino-kolo film ID, netkeiba horse ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: has vector, ECLI court code, Mirror image, Norges Nasjonalmuseum Creator ID
- External identifiers: Radio France person ID, ORKG ID, Authority control/Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici id, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, TVG Programme Identifier, CPRF person ID, New Mexico Digital Collections identifier, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, Lithuania Minor encyclopedia ID
- Query examples:
- Relationships of Roman deities (source)
- Ingrediants of dishes on Wikidata (source)
- Food names after a place in the UK (source)
- French heads of government classified by tenure (source)
- Places in Antarctica over 3000km away from the South Pole
- Topics that members of the Swedish Parliament motioned about 2020/21 (source)
- Albums with more than one language statement where none has preferred rank (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (phab:T307087) completed.
- First batch of WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket phab:T303852.
- Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (T302877, T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (T303806, T290733, T305359) and improving validation / error messages (T305854).
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!