Wikidata:Status updates/2022 06 06

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-06-06.

Events

• June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
• June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons
• July 8-10: Data Quality Days, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics until June 19th.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Travailler avec les épigraphes littéraires dans Wikidata
  • Were more plant genera really named for nymphs than women who actually lived?
• Papers
  • "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models": Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022)
• Videos
  • Live Wikidata editing #82 by Ainali and Abbe98

Tool of the week

• Article's wikilinks inspector takes all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The May 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
• There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update on Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC (link to the meeting).
• Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss and PangolinMexico, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata, and LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator!
• A new Mix'n'match page to query entries across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: date of incorporation, in operation on service, coordination number
  • External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, JBIS horse ID, FactGrid property ID, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Macaulay Library taxon ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID, Midi libre journalist ID, Heiligen.net ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1, embargoed until, electric charge capacity, COR form ID, level 1, феноритмотип, type of artefact(s)
  • External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID, AdoroCinema series ID, FirstCycling (riderID), snookerscores.net player ID, OVO-code, CEU author ID, Chaoxing Journal ID, Springer Nature Person ID, Springer Nature Article ID, Springer Nature Journal ID, MUI Icon, UK Beetles ID
• Deleted properties:
• Query examples:
  • Which are the most popular natural products based on the number of statements on their corresponding QID? (from the Telegram Wikidata group)
  • Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Elisabeth or Élisabeth (source)

Development

• Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (phab:T290733, phab:T30535).
• REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (phab:T307031, phab:T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667).

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!