Wikidata:Status updates/2021 10 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-10-11.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
  • Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th October 2021 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel.
  • Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 at 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #57 - YouTube, Facebook, October 16 at 18:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #83, October 17
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #11, Perception and Senses

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikidata in African Language Communities
  • Media art on Wikipedia wants to make collections and metadata more accessible (in Dutch)
• Papers
  • Modeling and Documenting Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata, Panel on Metadata and Gender Diversity, Amber Billey, Clair A Kronk, John Samuel, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker, DCMI Virtual 2021, October 8, 2021, Slides
• Videos
  • Introduction to Wikidata for beginners. Part 2 (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Introduction to Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Scripts and gadgets in Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
  • Wikidata Workshop 2021 - Coupling Wikipedia Categories with Wikidata Statements for Better Semantics - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Neguess is a Wikidata entity guessing game with negative clues. (demo video)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 12th for the WikidataCon Community Awards
• You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
• Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20
• Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Graph Consultant to help migrate the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store. Apply here!
• The WMF Search team will begin data transfer for the new Streaming Updater today (11 Oct 2021).

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: dissertation program, date of probate
  • External identifiers: Densho Encyclopedia ID, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) identifier, DWDS lemma ID, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID, Database of Czech Amateur Theater person ID, WDG lemma ID, The World Factbook country ID, AFNIL publisher ID, RICS company code, Greek Castles ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, Product and Service Code, SAM ID, IRIS Sapienza author ID, museum-digital place ID, Det Norske Akademis Ordbok ID, PDDikti ID, VI.BE platform ID, Owler company ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: registration number, present in non-fictional work, NIK (Nomor Induk Kependudukan), reports to, excitation energy, merger, split-off, choreography for
  • External identifiers: AllSides ID, Apple maps id, Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID, NLI archive ID, CANTIC ID, Bat Sheva Archive ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, Chi era Costui - Plaque ID, Research Data Australia ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub resource ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, Trove work ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID, Apple Music track ID
• Query examples:
  • Share of women for each Nobel prize (source)
  • Nobel Prize statistics on number of recipients for award wrt. gender (interactive plot) (source)
  • Share of women among Nobel prize winners by decade
  • Notable books on linked data, semantic technologies, and semantic knowledge graphs (source)
  • Benelux railway stations connected from Brussels-South railway station (Q800587) (source)
  • Date of opening and closing of railway stations in Denmark (Source)
  • Map or Talaiotic archeological culture sites located in the Menorca island in Spain (source)
  • Location of all the meteorological stations in Navarre (source)
  • Photos of participants in the Pandora Papers (source)
  • Diameter, size and mass of balls (source)
  • French departments with their shape
  • Longest rivers located in France and which did not gave their name to a department (source)
  • Statues measuring more than 30 m in height (excluding the pedestal) (Source)

Development

• Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are now working on letting reviewers indicate if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
• Fixed a bug where it was possible for two Properties to have the same label in a given language by undoing/reverting an edit (phab:T289473)
• Fixed a confusing error message that was being shown when trying to save geoshape / tabular data that doesn’t exist (phab:T285758)
• Removing some unnecessary entity link formatting in edit summaries and special pages to improve performance (phab:T292203)
• Fixing an issue with invalid dates that the API accepts but should not (phab:T289417)
• Migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists.

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!