Wikidata:Status updates/2023 02 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-02-27.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))
  • ScikingBot (The bot is going to fix interwiki links for the Lombard Wikipedia)
  • fromCrossrefBot (Task/s: Importing licenses for 1.45 million CC licensed papers from the Crossref April 2022 dump.)
• Closed 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.)
  • MsynBot 12 (Task/s: import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)

Events

• Upcoming
  • Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 1st, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
  • Eager to discover the potential of Wikidata and Wikibase for semantics? SEMIC is organising a series of workshops that are very much hands-on. Join the first workshop online on 24 January 2023 from 14:00 to 16:00 (CET) via Webex. Register for the first event via this link!
  • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 March 3rd - 4th
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #82, Restaurant
• Past
  • Wikibase Live Session: February 2023 log

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #106 - YouTube
  • CALA Speaker Series "Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections" Session 1 - YouTube
  • TWed Talk (21 Feb 2023): Sola Shirai on "Working with Wikidata" - YouTube

Tool of the week

• AutosuggestSitelink is a gadget that suggests Wikidata items for possible linking with a Wikimedia site page, using interwiki linking.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Inconsistencies on WDQS data - data reload on WDQS
• Survey Results: Wikibase.Cloud user research. The goal of the research was to uncover usergroups and usecases.
• Wikibase Suite Survey is now open! The goal is to understand what role Wikibase plays in your organization and identify what you need from Wikibase based on how you currently make use of it.
• Wikibase.Cloud logo is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
• Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
  • Senior Product Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • Product Manager Wikibase Product Platform

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • Norwegian media rating (age rating system for motion pictures, video and tv content used in Norway)
  • External identifiers: National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID, SACEM Museum artist ID, WSJ article ID, InfluenceWatch influencer, World Sailing sailor ID, WiKirby ID, SFMTA ID, Full Fact ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID (new), Hungarian National Namespace person ID (new), Rate Your Music concert ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • rebuilt (year or date when the structure was reconstructed, rebuilt, repurposed or replaced by similar one (if the new and old structures have separate items, use P167/P1398 links instead))
  • External identifiers: Faber Music composer ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Wise Music Classical catalogue ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, L’Équipe team ID, encyclopedia.com.ua ID, L’Équipe coach ID, CurseForge project ID, Modrinth project ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of lighthouses in South America (source)
  • List of countries sorted by life expectancy (source)

Development

• REST API:
  • We added a way to get all statements on an Item for a given Property ID via a filter (phab:T309021)
  • We made it possible to configure the server for the "Try it out" button on the OpenAPI spec (phab:T329606)
• Query Builder:
  • We added support for additional datatypes. Lexeme (phab:T329204), Sense (phab:T329206) and URL (phab:T329824) are already available now. Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207) are in progress.
  • We continued the work on making it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T329487)
• Constraints: We added support for showing constraint clarifications in constraint violation pop-up (phab:T219037)
• We finished restricting unit/calendar/globe URIs to sensible values (phab:T102840)

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!