Wikidata:Status updates/2021 04 19

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-04-19.

Events

• Past: Wikidata - HackaLOD Online sessions (replay in Dutch)
• Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, April 20 at 18:00 CEST
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Kelli Babcock and Alexandra Wong on experiences and workflows for linking archival collections to Wikidata. There will also be a recap of insights from the recent Canadian archivists’ panel on Wikidata by the University and College Archives Special Interest Section (UCASIS) of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA). Agenda, April 20
• Upcoming: Wikipedia Weekley Network - Biodiversity edition: iNaturalist place ID YouTube, Facebook, April 23
• Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook, April 24
• Upcoming: 25 April - WikidataDays Sessions II, an online editing session dedicated to democracy and political parties, coinciding with the celebration of Freedom Day.
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #59, April 25

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikibase: the Software for Open Data projects
• Videos
  • Structured Data on Commons explained, with Andrew Lih, John Cummings and Pharos (Youtube)
  • Discovering history's notable people (audio). Using Wikidata and Wikipedia as the backbone, this project "construct[s] a new dataset of more than seven million notable individuals across recorded human history".
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #40 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Adding information through EntitySchemas to Wikidata Andra Waagmeester and Jose Labra
  • SPARQL query requests around lexicography mapping] by VIGNERON - YouTube
  • Fast Linking of Mathematical Wikidata Entities in Wikipedia Articles Using Annotation Recommendation - YouTube
  • Wiki2Prop: A Multimodal Approach for Predicting Wikidata Properties from Wikipedia - YouTube
  • Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws - YouTube
  • Librarians and Wikidata. A short tour - YouTube

Tool of the week

• User:So9q/Gadget-CreateNewEntity.js is a userscript to add a "create new item" link in the dropdown menu for when you want to * add an item to a property, but the item does not exist. (recently modified to support lexemes).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Humaniki March Update: Public Launch of Alpha Release
• Another history of Denelezh

• Wikidata Lexeme Forms no longer automatically redirects you to login, so you can now use edit mode to view the forms of a lexeme in the “right” order. Here is an example.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: pH value, introduced on, ALA-LC romanization for Ukrainian
  • External identifiers: Generals of World War II ID, La Réunion des Livres ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija concept ID, Humanitāro zinātņu virtuālā enciklopēdija person ID, Encyclopedia of Jewish Women ID, Urban Archive ID, GCD publisher ID, Letecká badatelna accident ID, Proveana ID, KATOTTH ID, La Fenice Theatre in Venice person ID, Politiklexikon ID, Europalexikon ID, National Inventory of Dams ID, Wissens-Aggregator Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit ID, Indigenous Lands in Brazil ID, Virginia House of Delegates ID, CAOI person ID, Encyklopedie antropologie ID, Our Campaigns race ID, Olympedia affiliations ID, ANPI place numeric ID, National Provider Identifier, Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro ID, Brapci author ID, Wikiroute ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Periodical ID in a database of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, National Database of Laws and Regulations ID, Russians of Latvia ID, Rekhta author ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID, DzygaMDB film ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: translator name string, scope note, LIMA media artist ID, CofE archives ID, CofE archives name ID, CofE archives place ID, has artist file in, term in higher taxon, accessibility statement URL, Hotel des Causses
  • External identifiers: Dialnet thesis ID, IAU member ID, MileSplit ID, Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID, Malaysian school code, synonymer.se Swedish synonym ID, Prague City Gallery inventory number in Art for the City, Yukon Archives authority record ID, Cimiterium ID, Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID, HERO-tunniste, Smithsonian Ark ID, Oregon Poetic Voices poet ID, J! Archive player ID, Gender Glossar ID, Beirut Arab University's Libraries Title ID, music austria ID, identifiant Localisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant techniques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant utilisation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant représentation - Joconde du Service des musées de France, NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID
• Query examples:
  • Artists on Spotify that lack a Spotify Artist ID (P1902) on Wikidata (Source)
  • Timeline of the discovery of elements in the periodic table (Source)
  • 19th-century depictions of sunflowers (Source)
  • Czech art collections by size (Source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Cyprus

Development

• Finished work on the support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via the API (phab:T199896)
• Got all feature work done on the first version of the Query Builder. It is now awaiting security review.
• Statements linking to deleted Lexemes now indicate this similar to statements linking to deleted Items (phab:T277089)
• Fixing a bug with misaligned grammatical features after an OOUI update (phab:T278522)
• Finished work on the small tools to get the number of constraints violations and ORES scores for a list of Items. Will publish soon.
• Did interviews with a few people about how they work around lexicographical data
• Selected focus languages for continued work on lexicographical data and Abstract Wikipedia together with Abstract Wikipedia team. The selected ones are Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam and Dagbani. You can read more about it in the Abstract Wikipedia newsletter.
• Gave input to WMF search platform team for a survey draft around the query service in order to better understand how to move forward with improvements

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!