Wikidata:Status updates/2022 09 19

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-09-19.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • بوٹ دا عثمان
    • Task/s:
      • Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
      • Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
  • The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #59, Election

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Vue le vue, by Magnus Manske
  • Using Wikidata to check votes of the Wikimedia Foundation board election
• Papers
  • Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
  • Hidden Author Bias in Book Recommendation
  • WikiGOA: Gene set enrichment analysis based on Wikipedia and the Gene Ontology (uses Wikidata prominently)
  • Scholia for Software by Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen
• Videos
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #90 #softwarefreedomday
  • Using Wikidata to explore depictions of nature in the fine arts
  • Wikidata and GLAM 2021 (in French)
    • Wikidata, Mix'N'Match and the Wikibase Ecosystems
    • Wikibase project "Resistants" at the State Archives in Belgium
  • ContribuLing 2021
    • Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties
    • Wikidata Lexemes, Where to Find Them and How to Use Them
    • Wikidata tutorial: How to get a Twitter user's numeric ID by "Report an issue" method
• Dataviz
  • A tribute to Jean-Luc Godard
• Presentation
  • New Zealand Thesis Project - Institutional Repository Day 2022

Tool of the week

• WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Govdirectory recognized as Digital Public Goods

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: grammatical person, grammatical number
  • External identifiers: DiACL lexeme ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Naver game lounge ID, IRIS UNIRC author ID, IRIS UNICZ author ID, IRIS UNICAL author ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, river system's length, National Olympic Committee, autosuggest value, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
  • External identifiers: Código de Identificação do Aeródromo, identifiant Championnat de France de basket-ball (nouveau format), JCDb ID, UniChem compound ID, Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures ID, BindingDB ID, Drugcentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, VMH (compound) ID, ID for IFUW members database, Rowing Australia ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, British Athletics ID, AustralasiaTour player ID, England Hockey ID, Athletics Canada ID (New), Golfdata ID, Latindex 2022 ID, British Swimming IDs, Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID
• Query examples:
  • Timeline of movies directed by Jean Luc Godard (source)
  • Map of narrative locations of movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard (source)
  • List of actors and actresses who have worked with Jean-Luc Godard by number of movies (source)
  • Route of the Aberdeenshire Canal, as indicated by its remains (source)
  • People born in Rennes classified according to the number of links pointing to them (source)
  • French heads of state and government who were not born on current French territory (and after 1789) (source)
  • Where were the players in the FIFA 2022 Sticker Album born? (source)
  • World Cup Qatar 2022: The heaviest team is Ghana, averaging 87 kilos, and the lightest is Qatar, averaging 70 kilos (source)
  • Streets of Milan, Italy named after males (blue) vs. females (orange) (source)
  • Map of Roman theaters and amphitheaters (source)
  • Chart of English monarch names by cause of death
  • Cause of death of US presidents by party

Development

• REST API:
  • Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
  • Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
  • Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
• Lexicographical data:
  • Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
  • Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
  • Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
• Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
• Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (phab:T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
• Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (phab:T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
• Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (phab:T306932)

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!