Wikidata:Status updates/2023 02 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-02-20.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
  • Gabrabot (Bulk upload Maltese lexeme data to wikidata from Gabra.)
  • MsynBot 12 (import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)

Events

• Upcoming
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 21, 2023: Jim Hahn and John Mark Ockerbloom will be presenting on Penn Libraries' Linked Data Vision. They will discuss their framework for activities and goals around linked data, which includes both existing standards and new functionality. Additionally, they will share successes and areas where progress has not yet been made. The presentation will cover projects with Wikidata tie-ins, such as the Digital Scriptorium Wikibase project and the Deep Backfile copyright information project. The presenters also plan to have ample time for conversation with those interested in using linked data to bring new functionality to their libraries. Agenda
  • Wikidata and Wikibase - SEMIC workshop 2 physical hands-on workshop in Brussels on the 23rd of February (Register here)
  • If you are interested in organizing or joining the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 satellite events, you can apply for funds by March 20 via the Rapid Grants maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation.
  • Call for papers for the 10th Wiki Workshop in 2023 is out. Submit your 2-page abstracts by March 23.
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #81, Eye

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blog posts
  • New extension: Wikibase Export
  • BHL is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
• Videos
  • Wikibase Export demo - YouTube
  • Editing Wikidata using your smart phone (Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana) - YouTube
• Notebooks
  • Social reproduction in the French cinema: Occupations of the parents

Tool of the week

• User:Nikki/DisplayColourSwatches.js is a userscript that adds color swatches under color statements.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Blog Series on Wikibase Community via Tech-News
• Freelance technologists are needed to import personal profiles for politically exposed people (PEPs) into Wikidata
• The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on February 24. Don't forget to vote for Wikidata proposals!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • stamp perforation (type of perforation for a series of stamps)
    • Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) value of a country)
    • transcribed by (person who has made a copy of a manuscript text)
  • External identifiers: Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Museu Paulista objects ID, Spreaker show ID, TVer series ID, TVer tarento ID, Padua Research Archive author ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Fonts in Use ID, Rate Your Music venue ID, beniculturali.it place ID, Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno place ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Mosfilm movie ID, Mosfilm person ID, Adventure Game Studio game ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Syoboi Calendar series ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), La grammatica italiana ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Sky News topic ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID
• Query examples:
  • Historical timeline of WorldPride events: (2000 in Rome to 2023 in Sydney) (source)
  • Which glaciers have been named after Moby Dick characters?
  • Free software grouped by licenses (source)
  • German nouns with unparseable combines statements
  • Grammatical features used on English nouns and proper nouns

Development

• REST API:
  • Finished work on endpoints for getting labels and descriptions (phab:T325647, phab:T327881)
  • Started work on makign it possible to get statements from an Item based on the Property ID instead of just the statement ID (phab:T309021)
• Entity Schemas: finalized technical investigation and making plan for the next steps
• Working on more validation for valid URIs for units, globes and calendar models (phab:T102840)
• Query Builder:
  • Adding support for additional data types (phab:T328528)
  • Adding a language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T329487)
• Constraint: Putting finishing touches on showing the constraint clarification messages in the constraint violation popup (phab:T219037)

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!