Wikidata:Status updates/2021 06 28

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-06-28.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference)

Events

• Past:
  • log of Wikibase Live session 2021-06-24
• Upcoming:
  • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.; [1], June 29th.
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #69, July 4

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • A Journey Into Wikidata with Five Indigenous Artists
  • Adding Data to Wikidata is Efficient with QuickStatements
• Papers
  • Which methods are the most effective in enabling novice users to participate in ontology creation? A usability study (compares Wikidata to other knowledge modelling tools)
• Videos
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, for the #ArcticKnot.
  • SPARQL queries live on Twitch about lexicography and lexemes by Vigneron, for the #ArcticKnot.
  • Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for Tainacan - YouTube
  • Creating a new faculty item in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu68LM5NicM YouTube
  • Writing data to Wikidata, Wikidata Sandbox items

Tool of the week

• Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for positions. It can be used for every position item in the talk page. See example with head of the United Nations Secretariat.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page.
• Call for candidates for the 2021 election to the position of primary contact for the Wikibase Community User Group. Applicants should present themselves on this page before 2021-07-08 17:00 (UTC), after which voting will commence.
• Bodh is a new tool to edit Lexemes by hand on a larger scale.
• Wikidata Vertical Analysis by AKhatun (WMF)
• Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Igbo nouns
• Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Malayalam proper nouns
• A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: date of resignation, curid, consequence of text
  • External identifiers: RBF event ID, cirkev.cz Catholic services ID, Olympic Committee of Israel athlete ID, ZKM person ID, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID, Fotodok ID, museumPASSmusées ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID, Vindskyddskartan.se ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: delta of, Astrological sign, announced at, contact point (2)
  • External identifiers: WTA-Trainer-ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID, Classical Archives composer ID, UFC ID, Tapology ID, Bellator ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, FightMatrix ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, Ethereum token address, Legie 100 legionary ID, PsycNET ID, Index Theologicus ID, MK ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, African Film Database ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, Native-Land.ca Territory ID, Native-Land.ca Language ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius ID, HockeyLive player ID, eishockey.info player ID
• Query examples:
  • Street names in Alsatian (source)
  • What kind of places in Wales host public toilets? (Source)
  • UK Health Ministers and their occupations on Wikidata (Source)
  • Count of statements by property for theatrical plays (Source)
  • Things dedicated to St. John the Baptist (Source)

Development

• Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
• Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
• Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958)
• Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689)
• Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219)
• Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131)
• Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (phab:T284538)
• Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (phab:T219215)
• Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669)
• Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040)
• Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (phab:T262922, phab:T252198, phab:T283364, phab:T265297)
• The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350, phab:T281702)
• Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (phab:T282512, phab:T279557)
• It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
• Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786)
• A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (phab:T245927)
• "en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149).
• There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313)

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!