Wikidata:Status updates/2022 05 02

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-05-02.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another
  • TolBot 14. Archives Wikidata:Requests for deletions

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on May 5th at 16:00 UTC, online. Open discussion - you can bring a Phabricator ticket that you care about or that needs to be improved.
  • Conclusion du Cultural Venues Datathon (in French), May 2, 16:00-16:30 UTC.
  • Cultural Venues Datathon wrap-up, May 2, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
  • Live editing session on Twitch about structured data on Wikimedia Commons, in French, by Vigneron, May 3 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours May 3, 2022
  • May 3rd. Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: The call will include presentations on two projects using Wikidata to enhance discoverability of archival and museum collections. Sharon Garewal (JSTOR) will present “Adding Wikidata QIDs to JSTOR Images,” and Daniela Rovida and Jennifer Brcka (University of Notre Dame) will present “‘Archives At’: An opportunity to leverage MARC to create Linked Open Data.” [1]
  • Wikidata Workshop: Wikidata items for dance and theatre productions, May 4, 19:30-21:00 UTC
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—May 4th, 2022
  • Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh, May 8 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #40, International Workers' Day

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Queries to explore a dataset. Even a schemaless one
• Papers
  • Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by WhoseKnowledge
• Videos
  • Workshop "Wikidata, Zotero and Cita": tools to understand the construction of knowledge (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Georeferencing cultural heritage on Wikidata - YouTube
  • Theory of Machine Learning on Open Data: The Wikidata Case by Goran S. Milovanovic - YouTube
  • Introduction to SPARQL (Wikidata Query Service (in Czech) - YouTube
  • Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences - YouTube

Tool of the week

• User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js - is a userscript that adds a button when editing labels to change the text to lowercase.
• EqualStreetNames - is a tool that maps the inequality of name attributions.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• OpenRefine is running its two-yearly user survey! Do you use OpenRefine? Then fill in the survey to tell us how and why you use OpenRefine. Results and outcomes will inform future decisions about the tool.
• The April update for the Wikidata Query Service scaling project is now available.
• Wikidata now contains all major integrated library systems listed at Library Technology Guides.
• Wikidata Lexeme Forms has a new template for Norwegian Bokmål passive verbs
• Job opening: PR Manager in Digital Technologies, software development department - Wikimedia Deutschland

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius, Thai romanization, introduced in, image set, Bill Number
  • External identifiers: Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID, OpenStreetMap object, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, DBLP event ID, CNKI institute ID, Woolworths product ID, TEİS ID, FamousFix topic ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, Reflora ID, Hrono.ru article ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, DACS ID (2022), AccessScience ID, settlement area code in Sweden, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, Galaxy Store app ID, Invasive.org species ID, EIA utility ID, Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland (urn.fi) ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: probability distribution related properties, Ladungszahl, Koordinationszahl, danse, Median household income, background of death, Number of housing units, number of reblogs, IBAN banking code, contraindication, incorporated
  • External identifiers: PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID, Encyclopedia of ideas, Personality Database person identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, TIME.com author ID, Investopedia term ID, GeoSciML, GeolISS, National Archives of Sweden persistent identifier, Linz DB ID, belfercenter person ID, Data Commons ID, sextpanther person ID, Tüik number, ERR project, MCCP ID
• Query examples:
  • Languages and dialects with number of first language speakers (preferred rank) (source)
  • Graph of influences in the age of Enlightenment (source)
  • Countries which are named after a person (source)
  • Number of musical works (compositions) in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)

Development

• The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
• Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
• REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item.

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!