Wikidata:Status updates/2022 01 10
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-01-03.
Discussions edit
- Closed request for adminship: Ameisenigel, welcome!
- New request for comments: Automated Manipulation and Calculation
Events edit
- 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.
- Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on January 13th at 18:00 Central Europe Time (17:00 UTC/GMT), in this Jitsi room. This edition will be an open discussion without a specific theme: you can bring 1-2 Phabricator tickets that you really care about, and we will look at them together and see how we can add relevant information and triage them.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Review Wikimedia Foundation’s Linked Open Data Strategy 2021 and community discussion. Agenda, January 11th. https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1641920436
- Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours. Date: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
- SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 12 at 19:00 CEST (exceptionally on Wednesday)
- The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC. This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools! Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #66 - YouTube, Facebook, January 15 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #92, January 16 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #24, Antonyms
- Creating, maintaining and updating Shape Expressions as EntitySchemas in the Wikimedia ecosystem. International SWAT4HCLS Conference. 10 - 13 Jan 2022. Register!
Press, articles, blog posts, videos edit
Tool of the week edit
- OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- The Celtic Knot Conference (dedicated to underserved languages on the Wikimedia project, with a strong focus on Wikidata and lexicographical data) will take place online in 2022. You can help the organizers with giving input on topics you'd like to see at the conference. Feel free to fill in the survey before January 17.
- The page Wikidata:WikiProject Duplicates/Wikipedia mergers has been created, in order to facilitate users when they find duplicate articles in a Wikipedia whose language is unfamiliar to them:
- if you want to declare that you are available for merging duplicate articles in one or more given Wikipedias, please add your name to this page
- if you want to find some user able to merge articles in a certain Wikipedia, you can see if there are already available users for that Wikipedia and contact them directly
- New open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikidata/Wikibase teams)
- Post WikidataCon 2021
- 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? edit
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy, is an individual of taxon, reference image, associated cadastral district
- External identifiers: 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, WikiStrinda ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, NER portfolio ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, LocalWiki ID, Initiale ID, Joconde representation ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, Arthive person ID, Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, NT Place Names Register ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, MedlinePlus supplement identifier, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, everyeye.it ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: TV3 programme ID, Chief/Naa/Traditional ruler, results in quality, official jobs URL, relative, director of publication, Business valuation, 議案番号
- External identifiers: Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016, New York Flora Atlas ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, NLC FL Sys. No., Senators of Spain (1834-1923), Finnish real property ID, TV3 video ID, OpenAlex ID, IRIS Sardinia IDs, CineCartaz, identifiant Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel, Numista type number, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, SPLC group ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, archive-ouverte Unige ID, Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali work ID, rus.team person ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID
- Query examples:
- Authors without field of work but with topic-tagged publications
- Compound first names starting with "John" (and the number of uses on Wikidata) (Source)
- Presidents of Brazil with the most awards (Source)
- Locations of parishes across Scotland (Source)
- Map of where Roman Catholic Popes were born (Source)
- Birth place of people who are described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopedia and the Store Norske Leksikon (Source)
- Various kinds of New Year's celebrations in the world (Source)
- World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade (source) select decade on the right side
- Non-English labels for a set of objects, with the names of the languages (source)
Development edit
- Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder ready for release. Focusing on adding statistics.
- Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older browser (phab:T298001)
- Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be ordered consistently across all Lexemes (phab:T232557)
- Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (phab:T233520)
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.
Looking back at 2021 edit
- Developments rolled out in 2021:
- New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with the large number of edits on Wikidata
- Query Builder to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
- Item Quality Evaluator to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
- Constraints Violations Checker is a small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
- Curious Facts finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
- Wikidata Map to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
- Current Events to make it easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a lot on Wikidata
- New entities in 2021:
- Items Q104595000 (approx.) to Q110342868
- Properties P9003 to P10223
- Lexemes L400170 (approx.) to L625164
Monthly Tasks edit
- 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!