Wikidata:Status updates/2022 03 28

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-03-28.

Events

• Upcoming
  • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 31st March 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
  • Live Wikidata editing on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 29 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • ArtandFeminism 2022 editathon by Achiri Bitamsimli. Theme: Add Dagbani labels and descriptions of female lawyers in West Africa. Date: April 1st, 2022. Location: Tamale College of Education, Ghana. Time: 9:00am — 9:00pm UTC. Register.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #77 - YouTube, Facebook, April 2nd at 18:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #102, April 3rd at 12.00 UTC
  • Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. This online editing event is organized by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, LaCogency and many partners, with support from Wikimedia Foundation Alliances Fund. Guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French.
  • The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects, with a focus on Wikidata, will take place online and onsite on July 1-2, 2022.
• Ongoing:
  • Wikimedia Indonesia's Datathon program under 2022 Wiki Women's Month started on March 18th 18:00 UTC+7 and will last until March 25th 23:59 UTC+7. 70+ users enrollled. Page.
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #35, Water
• Past:
  • Two Wikidata Training (Kelas Wikidata) on 2022 Wiki Women's Month were held online on March 12th and 13th.
  • Data Reuse Days. For a recap of the event:
    • a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
    • speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
    • all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe
  • Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia
  • Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest
  • Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors? fact checking an intuition using Wikidata
  • Building a Web of Knowledge Through Wikidata
• Presentations
  • LOTUS, Beyond drug discovery: Breaking the boundaries of natural products information, at the American Chemical Society (Q247556) Spring 2022 meeting
• Papers
  • "Exploratory Methods for Relation Discovery in Archival Data" - a holistic approach to discover relations in art historical communities and enrich historians’ biographies and archival descriptions, based on Wikidata
• Videos
  • DataReuseDays 2022 concluded. (see past events above for a full list of the recorded sessions)
  • A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - YouTube
  • FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
  • Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - YouTube
  • A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
• WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Status update about what was achieved for each of the Wikibase related 2021 development goals has been published: Wikidata:Development plan/archive2021/status updates
• Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
• Wikidata now has over 1,600,000,000 edits! The milestone edit was made by Ruky Wunpini.
• The Dutch National Library has a new website with more info on their use of the Wikimedia Projects including their work with Wikidata.
• 2 months paid internship vacancy is available for Wikimedia Indonesia technology division. Registration is open until March 27th. Announcement.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: documentation files at
  • External identifiers: SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID, Rekhta book ID, ILO code, reddoorz hotel ID, Naver VIBE video ID, SberZvuk artist ID, Italian Women Writers ID, RBC company ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia person ID, Booking.com numeric ID, Agoda hotel numeric ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: maintains consistent linking to, ocupante de / occupant of
  • External identifiers: World of Waterfalls ID, New IDU properties, My World@Mail.Ru ID, BillionGraves grave ID, Archivio Storico Intesa Sanpaolo, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Trovo ID, Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID
• Query examples:
  • Wikidata knowledge graph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln (source)
  • Women who served as defense ministers in various countries (source)
  • UK MPs who had paired names (e.g. Owen Thomas / Thomas Owen) (source)
  • List of properties associated with items that are class/subclass of File Format (source)
  • Table frequency of properties used in instances of public libraries

Development

• [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
• Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
• Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (phab:T104344)
• Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
• REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication

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!