Wikidata:Status updates/2021 11 15

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-11-15.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Create massive changes in one property for spesific categories/properties?

Events

• Upcoming
  • Next Bug Triage Hour on API issues. Monday 15th November at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time, see other time zones) (Etherpad)
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Éder Porto will be discussing adding journal articles to Wikidata Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project/Chapter 17. doc, Nov. 16th.
  • Open Source Publishing Tools in Wikidata, 16 November 2021. Part of the Open Publishing Fest.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #62 - YouTube, Facebook, November 20 at 19:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #87, November 21 at 13.00 UTC
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #16, Books
• Past
  • Introduction to Wikidata: GWMAB con IAML Italia replay (in Italian)
  • WikiData4Education_Aligning the sum of all knowledge with school curricula, WikiIndaba (replay)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikidata and open infrastructure: a request for participation
  • Own metadata for own blog posts - science communication and bibliographies with open data and Wikidata
  • How we're tracking elections in symbiosis with Wikidata
  • Recent updates and improvements to Wikidata Query Service
    • How we learned to stop worrying and loved the (event) flow
    • The trouble with triples
    • Getting the WDQS Updater to production: a tale of production readiness for Flink on Kubernetes at WMF
• Videos
  • Fuzheado and T Cells to demonstrate how to discover, track and work with sets of Wikidata - YouTube
  • Wikidata Introduction course (in German) - 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Wikidata in Educational Institutions / Academic research at Wikimedia Polska / Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
• Podcasts
  • Siobhan Leachman - Wikimedia Editor and Citizen Scientist

Tool of the week

• Plantilla:Infotaula persona, infobox for people on Catalan Wikipedia with extensive use of Wikidata, used 175000 times, with Bridge editing. Sample use at ca:Frits Zernike.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
• New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
• What kind of articles have you created? an Observable notebook which use Wikidata API to get the value of P31 for the list of articles created by a user.
• OpenRefine is hiring a part-time Project director (paid position).
• Hewell public beta app: is a virtual tour guide that automatically finds interesting things around you whether you're in a new city or your hometown.
• Full Fact is using the MediaWiki Action API in their workflow to help add some Wikidata identifiers to their mark-up.
• Magnus replaced some live SPARQL queries in Mix’n’match with a database cache. Main page now loads faster.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, Standing Waters Database ID, Vokrug.tv person ID, Atlas Project of Roman Aqueducts ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Philosophica ID, Castforward ID, Baidu Scholar journal ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Tabakalera ID, mathematical symbol, included as part, specific impulse by weight, Newgrounds username
  • External identifiers: 7 Days person ID, DBLP event ID, Osmose Agency person ID, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, IRIS Umbria IDs, biografiA ID, Global Geoparks Network ID (new), identifiant Numelyo
• Query examples:
  • List of properties which have instances or subclass of humans as possible value with male and female form in French (source)
  • Different people with same label / birthday / occupation in a specified year
  • Narrative locations of the book Itinerary from Paris to Mont-d'Or (Source)
  • Maps of tombs of unknown soldiers (Source)
  • Most common first names (> 5) among people with a Wikidata item and born in Auvergne (Source)
  • Student-Teacher relationship based on entries in 'Das Geistige Berlin' (1897) (Source)
  • Relative frequency of reasons MPs' terms end, since 1870 (Source)
• Newest database reports: recently ended TV series

Development

• The language codes agq (Aghem, T288335) and mcn (Massa, T293884) are now supported.
• Mismatch Finder: Added various dialogs and help texts to make it easier to understand what reviewers need to do and what information they are seeing in the tool
• Mismatch Finder: started polishing and bug fixing for release of the first version
• Making the order of Lexeme's grammatical features consistent (phab:T232557)
• Investigating how to share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query Service via short URL (phab:T295560)

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!