Wikidata:Status updates/2021 03 29

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-03-29.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Minorax, welcome onboard!

Events

• Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
  • March 30: Live SPARQL queries about Lexemes in French by Vigneron
  • March 30: Abstract Wikipedia & Lexemes Q&A with Denny Vrandečić
  • April 1: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
  • April 5-11: Climate Lexeme Week
  • April 5: Abstract Wikipedia & Lexemes Q&A with Denny Vrandečić
• Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #38 - YouTube, Facebook, April 3
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #56, April 4
• Upcoming: WikiCommons metadata analysis tool is intended to be developed at the online hackathon at hack.glam.opendata.ch, 16-17 April 2021

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Dataroundtripping Wikidata - Wikicommons - Runestones pictures
• Papers
  • FAIR and open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata and Wikipedia
  • Painel de informação sobre a COVID-19: consultas SPARQL na Wikidata (Portuguese)
• Videos
  • Live Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Live SPARQL queries on Lexemes by Vigneron (in English): on Youtube

Tool of the week

• d:User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js userscript is a proper entity suggester that gives a fixed set of properties for various languages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Sitelinks links for two new Wikipedias can be entered: Atayal Wikipedia (Q105723660) and Seediq Wikipedia (Q105975521)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: does not have cause, external georeferencing URL
  • External identifiers: Discord server numeric ID, France24 topic ID (French), France24 topic ID (English), France24 topic ID (Spanish), France24 topic ID (Arabic), PeriodO period ID, MHDBDB lemma ID, Portrait Archive ID, Porcelana Brasil ID, Slovník českých filosofů ID, Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology ID, Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID, MWB lemma ID, Encyclopedia of Migration ID, Ministry of Education New Zealand school ID, Encyklopedie migrace ID, Tacoma-Pierce County Obituary Index ID, Encyclopedia of Mediterranean Humanism ID, Modernist Commons ID, Rombase ID (English), Filmitalia film ID, CNA topic ID, Fortalezas.org ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Ottoman Association ID, url text, audio transcription 2, OFDb person ID, won sets, Number of stitches
  • External identifiers: Biblio.com ID, Czech Encyclopedia of Theater identifiers (Czech and German), Identifiant des Collections du Louvre, Verified Handles VHID, Michigan State University Library Record Number, Washington Flora Checklist ID, Washington Flora Checklist species ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, KATOTTH identifier, Viasona ID, Musikasten ID, Discover the networks, GCD publisher ID, Image Comics creator ID, BLPL ID, MnM ID, Arca author ID, Editorial Freelancers Association member ID, IFCVPF ID, American University of Beirut's Libraries Title ID, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID, USCG MIC ID, Berlin Bezirkslexika identifiers, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID, Brapci author ID, ÖCV Biolex ID, OregonFlora taxon ID, Oregon Flora Image Project ID
• Deleted properties:
• Query examples:
  • Donald P. Bellisario credits as screenwriter or director
  • Interwiki table from P6720, with end date for prefixes that are no longer in use (source)
  • Index map of Ordnance Survey Old Series preparatory drawings, with georeferencer links (source)
  • Listed buildings in Wales that would be lost if the sea level rose by 70 metres (source)
  • Music releases with incomplete track lists, showing diff count (Source)
  • Date and place of birth of female musicians in Nigeria (Source)
  • Scholarly articles on multilingualism and bilingualism (Source)
  • Things in Czechia which changed coordinate location at some point (Source)
  • Images about women programmers (Source)
  • UK railway stations connected from Topsham railway station (Source)
  • Most awarded person affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark (Source)
• Newest database reports: current TV seasons

Development

• The dev team spent the last week prototyping a few things to learn if some things would be feasible/a good idea. Among other things we tried building a small tool to connect Senses to Items, looked into the different types of ontology issues that can be found on Wikidata and checked what using a document store for data storage would look like.
• Note: from March 29th until April 12th, Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) is not available to answer messages. If you have any requests for the development team, please ask on Contact the development team. For any emergency, you can contact Lea Lacroix (WMDE). Because of Easter holidays in Germany, the upcoming newsletter will be issued one day later, on April 6th.

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!