Wikidata:Status updates/2022 06 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-06-22.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • William Avery Bot 7. Task/s: Merge multiple references on the same claim citing Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 30th June 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 28, 2022: Andrew McAllister will introduce us to Scribe, an app that provides keyboards for second-language learners, and its use of Wikidata. This presentation should appeal to anyone who has worked on or is interested in learning more about the applications of lexicographical data in Wikidata as well as anyone who has an interest in language, open information, data and programming. Agenda
  • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 28 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
  • July 8-10: Data Quality Days (see the first version of the program and the list of participants)
  • The Third Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: Friday, 29 July 2022
  • Celtic Knot Conference 2022: presentations from 12 projects communities working on minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects - YouTube
• Past:
  • 21 June: Presentation Wikidata as a data collaboration across multiple boundaries at SciDataCon

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers
  • Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata
  • Practices of Linked Open Data in Archaeology and Their Realisation in Wikidata
  • What Can Tweets and Knowledge Graphs Tell Us About Eating Disorders?
• Videos
  • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 7: Adding references and qualifiers to Wikidata items (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
  • The Joys of Connecting Your Collections to Wikidata - YouTube
  • Using Wikidata to Enhance Discovery & Faculty Interest in Rapid Publishing - YouTube
• Podcasts
  • Data Quality Days Discussion With Lydia Pintscher & Lèa Lacroix
• Other
  • Documented queries: a proposal, feedback is welcome here

Tool of the week

• IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Template Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This a an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record, Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: inker, penciller
  • External identifiers: Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID, Great Plant Picks ID, BVMC organization ID, UK Beetles ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer, foliage type
  • External identifiers: GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID, Copains d'avant ID, P. League+ ID, WO2 Thesaurus ID, Super Basketball League ID, DeSmog ID, Met Constituent ID, IRFA ID, Adequat agency person ID, Israeli Company Registration Number, UKAT term ID, TGbus game ID, TGbus franchise ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, VocaDB Artist ID, VocaDB Album ID, VocaDB Song ID, Moepedia ID
• Query examples:
  • "Queries of the week" archive (sources)
  • Graph of fictional wars and their participants (source)
  • The 100 most common species as subjects of publications known to Wikidata (source)
  • Map of birthplaces of ASM Clermont Auvergne players (source)

Development

• Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and roll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (phab:T307869)
• REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (phab:T306667)
• Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (phab:T309445)
• Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of Wikidata.

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!