Wikidata:Status updates/2021 11 22

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-11-22.

Discussions

• New request for comments:
  • Wikidata:Requests for comment/How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ?

Events

• Upcoming
  • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 25th November 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
  • Editing Scottish government agencies at CTC24 – Open In Practice, November 27-28
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #63 - YouTube, Facebook, November 27 at 19:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #88, November 28 at 13.00 UTC
  • ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (November 23rd 2021 13:00 Berlin time) (register on meetup)
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #17, Bread
• Past
  • Bug Triage Hour on API issues (log)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Using Wikidata to promote epistemic equity
  • How Penn's Librarians are Using Linked Data to Make the Web Better
• Videos
  • How to use the Wikidata query service without having experience with the SPARQL language (Wikidata Query Builder) (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Bringing Linked Data into Libraries via Wikidata - YouTube
  • Presenting the project for integrating data from the Ricordi Archive into Wikimedia projects (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Bio-Ontologies - YouTube
  • ENDORSE Follow up event: Wikibase and the EU Knowledge Graph as a use case - YouTube

Tool of the week

• WikiCite Search is a bibliographic search engine for Wikidata that finds articles either by searching for keywords, or by string matching.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer and Partner Relationships Manager to join the Wikidata/Wikibase team.
• Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
• This post about the question of the week is showing how questions can be answered over Wikidata. Also it gives some insights on how Google and Siri are using Wikidata.
• A new openly accessible book on knowledge graphs has been published by prominent researchers in the field.
• The latest version of WordNet released now links to Wikidata for many entries
• [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!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: train melody
  • External identifiers: SEKO ID, NWT Species ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, SEEK company ID, Tabakalera ID, IRIS UNIPG author ID, EXQUIRITE author ID, State Duma person ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases chemical ID, CREPČ institution ID, CREPČ person ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, CJFD journal ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Osmose Agency person ID, biografiA ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Rehearses at, image with color chart, Wallet Address, dpi, project of, outcome, introduced by, IMA Symbol, Ghana Place Names URL, CSS code, Deity, number of teachers
  • External identifiers: Newgrounds username, identifiant Numelyo, Genie artist ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie media ID, Naver VIBE track ID, Naver VIBE video ID, Bugs! track ID, Bugs! music video ID, Melon music video ID, Rutube channel ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Nintendo64EVER ID, N64-Database ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, Coub channel ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, identifiant OùVoir.Ça, kino-teatr.ru film ID 2, CH district ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, identifiant Initiale, AbeBooks ID, Sceneweb organization ID, SensCritique work ID, Library of Congress providers ID, Irkipedia ID, Delovaya Stolitsa ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, NT Place Names Register ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, IRIS polytechnic universities IDs
• Query examples:
  • Numbers from 0 to 20 sorted alphabetically thanks to lexicographical data (source)
  • Given names of French fictional characters, as chosen by French / non-French authors (Source)
  • Map of members of the International Society of Biocuration (historical and current; affiliation and education institutions) (Source)
  • UK MPs and their reason for *finally* leaving office (Source)
  • Number of new UK MPs at each general election since 1870 (new = never served before) (Source)
  • Crewe Alexandra players from Crewe (Source)
  • Chronological timeline of people buried in Cimetière des Carmes (Source)
  • Stops in the travel routes of Wilhelm Müller on his way from Leipzig to Bad Schandau in 1820/21 (Source)

Development

• Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (phab:T232557)
• Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
• The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (phab:T275251)
• Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (phab:T294465)

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!