Wikidata:Status updates/2022 01 03

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-01-03.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
  • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #23, Residence
• Past:
  • Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • How to get Wikidata claims from Wikipedia sitelinks using Wikidata API ?
• Videos
  • Working hour - Wikidata SPARQL queries (in Italian) - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
• Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
• Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: number of triples, URL for freedom of information requests, official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy
  • External identifiers: Norgeshistorie ID, Numista mint ID, Austrian Street ID, F6S ID, EU Whoiswho ID, DFIH financier ID, Express Gazeta ID, All-Science Journal Classification Codes, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, Numista coin ID, Comparably company ID, Folketinget actor ID, Coub channel ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Index of Middle English Verse ID, Stack Exchange user ID, Listen Notes podcast ID, Casefile ID, ILAB ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database ID, CNSflora ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Artland artist ID, Genie media ID, Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: cantilever sign, yield rate, Stalin Memo ID, Name in Swedish government, reference image
  • External identifiers: FID ID, Labyrinth database ID, doollee.com playwright ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, people.su person ID, Biographe.ru ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Hermitage Museum ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, Tretyakov Gallery ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, ARCHER ID, Pipe Organ Database ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016
• Query examples:
  • Map of New Zealand suburbs (source)
  • Graph of influences in the Age of Enlightenment (source)
  • Family names shared by astronauts (along with how often they occur in Wikidata) (source)
  • Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures) (source)
  • People awarded by the French Legion of Honour on Dec 31, 2021 (source)
  • Average height of people named Joe (Source)
  • Indian writers who died in 1961 (Source)

Development

• Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

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!