Wikidata:Status updates/2022 10 17

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-10-17.

🧵Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • DwdsBot
    • Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).
  • RobertgarrigosBOT
    • Task/s: I'm using Openrefine to edit items related to Wikidata:Wikiproject_Lieder, beginning by adding the new subclass lyrico-musical work (Q114586269) to the actual lieder in WD. I hope to gain some experience before going with further edits.
  • Josh404Bot 4
    • Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
  • BorkedBot 8
    • Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate

🎊 Events

• Upcoming
  • The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 18th: session where community members can share their favorite Wikidata gadgets, user scripts, or SPARQL queries Agenda
  • Wikimedia Norge: Wikidata celebrates 10 years, and it is marked both in Oslo and in Bergen. Time: 12:00–16:00 Wikimedia Norway's Oslo office
  • Learn Wikidata and celebrate #WikidataBirthday in Sydney! (An introduction to wikidata: how worlds of wikimedia link). Saturday 22 October from 11am to 2pm. Sign up.
• Ongoing
  • Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #64, Vehicles

✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
    • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 3
  • Adding Jaxsta - the Australian database of international songwriting credits - to Wikidata (How we're using Mix'n'match to add Jaxsta profiles to Wikidata)
• Papers
  • The disambiguation of people names in biological collections - Wikidata, ORCiD and Bionomia
• Videos
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #94
  • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 10: Adding references to Wikidata items
  • Qichwabase as a Wikibase instance - Wikibase as a core technology to support a harmonization process of the Quechua language and knowledge.
• Dataviz
  • Career of Nobel laureates in literature
  • Actress-singers and actor-singers careers in dataviz
• Twitter threads
  • 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata (Curious about some of the more quirky things around Wikidata? Let's have a look!)
  • 10 Queries that teach you something about the world.
  • 10 great website and apps and built on top of Wikidata

🧰 Tool of the week

• New Wikidata game - match new Wikipedia articles and categories with Wikidata items!

✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Outreachy Round 25–projects finalized & contribution period begins!
• The Welsh Government's new mapping platform Data Map Wales (for publishing public geo data) now has an optional base layer entirely in Welsh. This is largely based on OSM data with additional place names from Wikidata.
• The Wikimania 2023 Organizing Team is looking for your suggestions on the first in-person #Wikimania in 4 years or on virtual/hybrid setup next year.
• Job opening
  • Software Engineer (Wikibase Product Platform) (m/f/d) - Wikimedia Deutschland

🤔 Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: model image, annotator, alphabetical index, recorded participant
  • External identifiers: Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID, British Athletics ID, IAHR member ID, SR-Archiv person ID, Onestop ID, CMA ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, NASA International Space Station experiment ID, NASA International Space Station facility ID, Illinois Plants ID, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Yarus feed ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number, said to be the same as (lexeme), has reply, Stamp perforation, Kanseki Repository work ID, solved by algorithm
  • External identifiers: Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID, CIViC gene ID, Assomptionnistes ID, identifiant Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne, Cannabis Database ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, IDG IT-ord ID, OMED ID, MMB ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, MSVF ID, UOM ID, Central Library of Volos ID, Voroklini Library ID, Miraheze article ID, Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, Municipal Library of Volos ID, Levadia Library ID
• Query examples:
  • Bands that have had more members than the Sugababes (source)
  • Average age difference from one's spouse, by profession, (for men) and (women) (source)
  • How long has each UK chancellor been in office? (source)
  • Streets of Paris that meet (source)
  • Players in the FIFA World Cup 2022 Sticker Album with most years in the national team (source)

🧑🏿‍💻 Development

• REST API:
  • Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
  • Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
• Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (phab:T302289)
• The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
• Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (phab:T304943)
• Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (phab:T315423)
• Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (phab:T303103)
• Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (phab:T318137)
• Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (phab:T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!

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!