Wikidata:Status updates/2021 10 18

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-10-18.

Discussions

• New request for comments
  • Frequency of YouTube follower count data
  • Should previously linked Wikipedia articles be separated?

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.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Scottish Accused Witches Project with Ewan McAndrew and Emma Carroll (University of Edinburgh). [1], Oct 19th.
  • WikiProject Govdirectory Collab Hour, October 22
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube, Facebook, October 23 at 18:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84, October 24
  • IT Festival Without Borders from 21 to 23 October 2021 in Rovereto - There will be a Wikidata for SPARQL queries workshop for high school and university students.
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #12, Health professions
  • #12MonthsofOSM, mapping historical features

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Introduction to Observablehq.com for Wikidata users in French (Introduction à Observable pour les utilisateurs de Wikidata)
  • Learning to edit Wikidata is challenging; we aim to make it easier with this interactive course
  • Manuscripts on Wikidata: the state of the art? by Martin Poulter
  • Digital scholarship in archives: A data case study
• Papers
  • Accepted papers for the Wikidata Workshop at ISWC have been published: https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2021/
  • Detecting Cross-Language Plagiarism using Open Knowledge Graphs
• Videos
  • Wikidata Scripts and gadgets (in French) - YouTube
  • Import RDF data from Wikidata (part 11) - YouTube
  • New introductory working hour on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Building Wikidata - Queries with Wikidata Query Service (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Building Wikidata - Databases and Open Refine (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • How to retrieve the list of works by Canadian authors available on Wikisource? (in French) - YouTube
• Other:
  • Research project: How can museums improve the usability of collection APIs?

Tool of the week

• Snowman is a static site generator for SPARQL backend (source)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20
• Sina Ahmadi has released a SPARQL query generator for lexicographical data
• Wikidata reached the 10000th numbered property, with the creation of P10000 Research Vocabularies Australia. (There are currently 9285 pages in the Property namespace.)
• Wikidata now has over 600,000 Lexemes!
• Learn Wikidata is an online interactive course created by the Vanderbilt University thanks to a WikiCite grant and available in English, Spanish and Chinese. More information here.
• The 3^rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27^th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, predicate for, has thematic relation, illustrative content, ITU radio emission designation, isotopically modified form of, stylized name, record number, excitation energy
  • External identifiers: 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, Ordbog over det danske sprog ID, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID, Kalliope-Verbund ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, United Nations Treaty Collection object ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID (Web version), RAWG game ID, TMOK ID, Vokrug sveta article, copyright registration, Eneström Number, NRK TV ID, NLI Archive (bibliographic) ID, L'Unificazione ID, IGI Global Dictionary ID, Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID, CANTIC ID, EMBO member ID, NDL earlier law ID, AbandonSocios ID, Bat Sheva Archive ID, Literature.com book ID, Literature.com ebook ID, CantoDict word ID, CantoDict character ID, MYmovies person ID, Chi era Costui plaque ID, Bowers acronym, Turkish Cinema Archive Database person ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Austrian Football Association player ID, Dewan Negara ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: merger, split-off, choreography for, classification, compartmentalisation, or information category for this document, Hotel rating, NatureScot Sitelink ID, pole positions, podium finishes, StopGame ID, fastest laps, Amends, heading, Conway polyhedron notation
  • External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database 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, Apple Music track ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID, Nynorskordboka-ID, Birdata ID, IRIS Superior Graduate Schools IDs, Australian Trade Mark Number, Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, FFCAM ID, TVSA ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID, NSW Parliament Member ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID, KPU Calon 2019, Monaco Nature Encyclopedia ID, Refuges.info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, Norgeshistorie ID, AHPRA registration number, PubCRIS product number, Toolhub ID, Spotify user ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, ORIAS number, SNSF person ID
• Query examples:
  • List of written works authored by recent Nobel laureate Joshua Angrist (via d:Template:Item documentation on d:Talk:Q921499)
  • Books by Canadian authors with a Wikisource page (Source)
  • Repetitive taxon names (Source)
  • Count of sitelinks of museums/tourist attractions in the US (Source)
  • Map of French communes that are >30 characters long (Source)
  • Lexemes in Swedish that are missing in Svenska Akademiens Ordbok (Q1935308) (Source)
  • Attendance at the Bargoin, Roger-Quilliot and Henri-Lecoq museums per year (Source)
  • Present and past members of Czech Chamber of Deputies who are relatives (Source)

Development

• Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are working on letting reviewers submit their decision if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
• In the previous week we 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. This week we monitored the new system and investigated and fixed a few issues that came up.

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!