Wikidata:Status updates/2021 10 25

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-10-25.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • WikidataCon is happening this week! Don’t forget to register if you want to attend!
  • ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (register on meetup)
  • WikidataCon Bioblitz (During WikidataCon)
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #13, Death
• Past:
  • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour log (2021-10-20)
  • Wikiarabia Algeria 2021: Wikibase Presentation - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Georgina Burnett
  • Talk at Wikidata Workshop 2021 - Mathematics In Wikidata
  • LibreOffice Conference 2021 - Enhancing a spellcheck dictionary by Wikidata Lexemes
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube, Facebook
  • Wikipedia Weekly Network: Wikipedia podcast section #152 - Wikidata + Wikipedia: fact templates (in Swedish)
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • The Buggregator
  • AutoDesc Reloaded by Magnus Manske
  • Awesome Wikidata notebooks
  • Close to the Edge - Graph Databases through 1970s Prog Rock
• Videos
  • How to upload Australian Faunal Directory IDs to Wikidata using OpenRefine. Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
  • PhysWikiQuiz - a Physics Formula Question Generation and Test Engine using Wikidata in Education - YouTube
  • Timelapse of churches in the Americas (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
  • UseAsRef 2.0 - adding references using external IDs and other statements on Wikidata - YouTube
  • Addressing the gender gap - Wikidata and SPARQL queries (in French) - YouTube
  • Understanding Wikidata: a free and open knowledge base (in French) - YouTube
  • WikidataTutorial: Learn how to edit / create items on Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
  • Linked Data and Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube

Tool of the week

• User:Bargioni/UseAsRef has now a 2.0 version, allowing to use as references not only external IDs but also some other properties (P1343, P973, P8214 etc.)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• QID ("Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]") now has an entry in Wiktionary
• 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: stylized name, record number, excitation energy
  • External identifiers: 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, AllSides ID, Birdata ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, IRIS GSSI author ID, IRIS IUSS author ID, SISSA Digital Library author ID, NSW Parliament member ID, SNSF person ID, FFCAM ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Conway polyhedron notation, Nombre de voies routières, Museu da Pessoa Story, Official forum, Properties for legislation, Stack Exchange user ID
  • External identifiers: Toolhub ID, Spotify user ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, ORIAS number, Meetup group id, UAE ID, Tennis Abstract player ID, Museu da Pessoa person ID, SoccerPunter player ID, allplayers.in.ua player ID, pfl.uz player ID, ua-football.com player ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Snob.ru author ID, TASS Encyclopedia ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, DFIH financier ID, DFIH business ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, IndexCat ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Penza Encyclopedia ID, SEKO-ID, Musées Nationaux Récupération ID, Women in the Legislature ID, Dissernet person ID, Dissernet institution ID, Dissernet journal ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Vokrug.tv show ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of mosques (Source)
  • Documents from the Boyer collection by decades, subjects most represented (Source)
  • Pronouns of people in different languages (Source)
  • Twitter accounts of libraries in Switzerland (Source)
  • Images of cell types in Wikidata (Source)
  • Map of the place of death of people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
  • Graph of NFDI consortia with their fields of work, the map of (co-)applicants, (Source)
  • Places where people in South-America work who published on Wikidata (Source)
  • Rail link between Narvik and Singapore (Source)

Development

• The new WDQS Streaming Updater now fully shipped to production. This will help the Query Service better deal with the amount of edits happening on Wikidata. (more information)
• Mismatch Finder: Continuing work on the results page where mismatches are shown for review. We are focusing on showing all necessary information for a mismatch to make a good determination if it is a mismatch in Wikidata, the external source or neither.
• Finishing the work on the new change dispatching system that improves how Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about edits happening on Wikidata that affect them. Currently tying up some lose ends.
• Preparing for WikidataCon.

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!