Wikidata:Status updates/2022 03 07

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-03-07.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3. Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: IndoBot (Approved). Task/s: I would like to import all Indonesian schools, more than 100000. The data includes school type, location, and coordinates as well as external identifiers

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the 35 presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule.
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #99, March 13th at 13.00 UTC
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #74 - YouTube, Facebook, March 12th at 19:00 UTC
  • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Presentation and discussion: "Introduction to Linked Open Data Strategy with Lea Voget, Head, Product Management WMDE". Lea is not only the team lead of product, project and program managers at WMDE, she is also one of the main thinkers behind the Linked Open Data strategy. When: 11 March 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter). Registration: Registration link
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Associate Librarian Stacy Allison-Cassin and her students on Wikidata in the classroom. Agenda
  • Art+Feminism editathon at the University Library Center of the University of Salerno. 8 March 2022
  • Wikidata workshop, held in collaboration with IPTC and explores the use of Wikidata concepts when dealing with metadata in media applications. Timing: from 10:00 to 18:00 CET. With presentations from: Yle, RAI, France TV, IPTC, Gruppo RES, Media Press, Perfect Memory, New York Times, NTB, Imatrics.
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Ukraine
• Past:
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #73 #opendataday - YouTube
  • NFDI InfraTalk: Wikibase - knowledge graphs for RDM in NFDI4Culture - YouTube (March 7, 4:00 PM CEST)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos
  • Creating a new item on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Connecting Wikidata with OpenStreetMap (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (in French) - YouTube: 1, 2, 3.

Tool of the week

• Wikxhibit is a tool that allows anyone, even non-programmers, to create cool presentations of Wikidata, and other sources of data on the web, only using HTML and without any additional programming. Are you interested in creating presentations of Wikidata? We would like to understand your experience with Wikidata to better improve our tool. It would help if you can fill out our survey https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvZKKlRu2S7C9Fk

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata dumps: Due to technical issues the JSON and RDF dumps for the week of March 1st couldn't be properly generated (phab:T300255#7746418). The situation is expected to get back to normal this week.
• Item with QID 111,111,111 was created
• Job openings:
  • The development team at WMDE is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop and improve the software behind the Wikidata project. Apply here!
  • The WMF Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop Wikidata Query Service. Apply here!
  • Natural History Museum, Berlin (Q233098) is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: created during, Ghana Place Names URL, trained by
  • External identifiers: Old-Games.RU ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, SBN work ID, SBN place ID, Kanobu numeric game ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, CBDB.cz author ID, CBDB.cz book ID, ULI ID, NLC Bibliography ID, LMHL author ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Latvia water body classification code, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, QQ Music singer ID, PubCRIS product number, PKULaw CLI Code, NVE glacier ID, iXBT Games ID, TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Агрегатируется с, Observer
  • External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, tiket to-do ID, TEIS ID, OBD Memorial ID, Hrono.ru article ID, db.narb.by ID, Shopee Shop ID, Grab Food ID, US trademark serial number, Scottish Built Ships ID, trivago hotel ID, skyscanner hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, pravo.gov.ru ID, NGO Darpan ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID
• Query examples:
  • Use of free software license for describing software (source)
  • Count of latest available Twitter follower count for different programming languages (source)
  • Timeline of programming languages and their paradigms (source)
  • Most popular programming language on Wikipedia with multilingual articles (source)
  • Russian TV channels from and about Russia (source)
  • Places of birth of people named "Désirée" (source)
  • People in the Père-Lachaise cemetery who were born in a city that is or was in Ukraine (source)
  • Properties linking between a church and its saint (source)

Development

• Data Reuse Days: Preparing for the upcoming Data Reuse Days. Join us! A lot of exciting sessions are coming together.
• Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are getting close to the point where it can create a Lexeme.
• REST API: Continuing to work on the first endpoint to read Item data.

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!