Wikidata:Status updates/2022 01 17

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-01-17.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: MSGJ (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)

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. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 18 at 19:00 CEST
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #67 - YouTube, Facebook, January 22 at 19:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #93, January 23 at 13.00 UTC
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Pascal Martinolli on tabletop role-playing game citations practices and WD. Agenda, January 25th. https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1643130000
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #25, Volcano
  • #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
• Past:
  • Bug Triage Hour (log). The next session will be announced here in the Wikidata Weekly Summary and on the Wikidata mailing-list.
  • Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award 2021 (replay on YouTube)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Tour de France's stage winners an Observable notebook to explore Tour de France's data using SPARQL and Observable's Plot library.
  • Wikidata, Open Infrastructures, Recognition & Rewards
  • Equal Street Names Wiesbaden
• Videos
  • Using Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata to mport a book into Wikisource -YouTube
  • Musicbrainz.org and wikidata.org - What can we learn from the designs and how to use the API's to extract information - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Wiki History Game is a game based on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened.
• GraphQL demo for WikiCite is a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Do you have an idea you want to explore & want to investigate it using Wikidata? Apply for a WMAU fellowship grant.
• New open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikidata/Wikibase teams)
  • Product Manager Wikibase Suite
  • Working student in International Software Collaboration

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: reference image, associated cadastral district, admission yield rate
  • External identifiers: Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, oKino.ua film ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Pipe Organ Database organ ID, UNICA IRIS author ID, IRIS UNISS author ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Business valuation, 議案番号, podcast image url, list of TV show episode, XJustiz registration court ID, LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community
  • External identifiers: Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID, Amazon podcast ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Football Federation of Armenia ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, Habr company ID, Douban book Works ID, German Lobbyregister-ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID2, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, IRIS national research institutes IDs
• Query examples:
  • Things that turned 20 years old today (source)
  • Irish artists and their relationships (source)
  • Eating or drinking establishments near you (1.5 radius) (source)
  • Most common day for UK by-elections since 1880 (source)

Development

• Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully dispatched to the clients (phab:T233520)
• Mismatch Finder: Improved the texts in the tool to be more understandable after testing
• Mismatch Finder: added a way to get statistics about all the reviews that have been done in the tool and what is still awaiting review
• Special:NewLexeme: kicked off the development work to improve the page in order to make it more understandable

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!