Wikidata:Status updates/2021 08 30

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-08-26.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Wikidata Labs XXXI in English on the topic of Reimagining Wikidata from the margins, August 31
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook, September 4 at 18:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #77, September 5
  • Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
  • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about data quality, September 13
  • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—September 1st, 2021 Come with anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
• Past
  • Wikibase Live session (August 26th, 2021) logs
  • RubyConfTW 2021
    • Wikidata basics (in Chinese)
    • Wikidata and Open Streetmaps (in Chinese)
    • Using the MediaWiki open data API to solve data description problems (in Chinese)
    • Moving Wikipedia's Infobox to Wikidata's Property:Taiwanese place names (in Chinese)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Why Are Citations Not Part of Discussions on Open Knowledge?
  • Mapping Diversity Puts The Gender Gap of Toponymy On Paper (in Italian)
• Videos
  • Wikidata: Behind the Scenes of the Great Wikipedia Data Repository (in Spanish)
  • Bring data from Wikidata and any other LOD Knowledge Graph to your Roam graph
• Notebooks
  • What are the Wikipedia articles you've created about? a notebook which show how to compute statistics about the articles you've created in Wikipedia by "instance of" (P31) property

Tool of the week

• Wikidata2ical provides an ical file for each wikidata entity that has start time (P580) and end time (P582).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Wikidata2Ical

• Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
• Wikibase Installation & Updating survey has been published!
• The Board of Trustees election has started. Votes will be accepted until 23:59 31 August 2021 (UTC). View candidate statements, verify your eligibility and vote now.
• Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
• WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, remix of, container, release of
  • External identifiers: Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username, Team Deutschland Paralympics ID, BMC ID, Kartridge game ID, ISL ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Daum Cafe ID, Freeview show ID, Unconsenting Media ID, TeamNL athlete ID, Volleybox ID, COD ID, allabolag.se person ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius entry ID, GSSO ID, Fontaines de France ID, KNHB ID, DC Books book ID, Igromania developer/publisher ID, Deutsche Sporthilfe ID, Finnish National Gallery artwork ID, Igromania series ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, Svenska ord ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID, uses natural resource, created for, number of triples, reprinted in, Eneström Number, літературний редактор
  • External identifiers: Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code, Government Publications Number, Food.com ID, Dewan Negara ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, BBC Food ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, IRIS Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II author ID, IndieMag game ID, Bleus Handisport-ID, Overnia, Edizioni Ares author ID, hmmlid, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Naver Post member ID, eAmbrosia ID, DC Character ID, Postimees topic ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of Items in Sweden with coordinate location and elevation above sea-level statements (Source)
  • Map of UK's most extreme cities (Source)
  • All current principal Local Authorities in England (Source)

Development

• Wikidata:Mismatch Finder development continues. We are now working on the frontend. First pieces are starting to be visible at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org (but nothing usable yet)
• Fixed an issue with unicode characters in constraints checks (phab:T289805)
• Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
• Continued work on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
• Continued work on new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)

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!