Wikidata:Status updates/2023 05 15

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-05-15.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • WikiRankBot (Task: Use Alexa rank (P1661). "...track the monthly ranking of websites based on Similarweb Ranking")
  • TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings)

Events

• Upcoming
  • Cultural Institutions and Linked Open Data Networks: Create Your Own Database with Wikibase! Friday, 05.26.2023 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (On-line)
  • Conversation on open data and digital innovation in education. Carlos Blin Auditorium of the Central University of Chile, Av. Santa Isabel #1278, Santiago. Thursday May 25 – 10:00 a.m.
  • Towards a new national bibliographic processing policy with linked data. Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 May 2023

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers: Deliberative Quality in Wikimedia Projects: Comparing Requests for Comments on Meta, Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Videos
  • Wikidata The Making Of (The history of Wikidata, from its inception to its creation and the first ten years of operation, up to 2022) - YouTube
  • ETD Wikidata Conversion Project, University of Washington - YouTube
  • Back having even more fun with Lexemes! - Twitch
• Notebooks: Where did the Women Artists within The Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection Go To School?

Tool of the week

• tidywikidatar is an R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 candidates announced, with Wikidata-related projects
• re•shape – A Wikimedia program to support knowledge equity - Applications are open between May 11 and June 18 to apply for a grant to create more space and visibility for marginalized knowledge.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme)
  • External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Humanities Commons member ID, Shipbucket ID, MEL residence ID, JMA weather station ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, GamesRadar+ ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Qualigeo ID, Ut ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Israel Composers' League composer ID
• Query examples:
  • Name of languages ​​containing the words "old" or "ancient" (source)
  • Birthplaces of humans called "Antoine" (source)
  • Who took the most pictures on WikiCommons around a Wikidata item? (source)
  • Graph of art (and other things) owned by Art Looting Red Flag Names or members of the Nazi Party at any time (source)
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 19, 2023) (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Personal Pronouns (Goal: Model and assign pronouns ethically in Wikidata)

Development

• EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
• Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (phab:T334450)
• mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (phab:T330193, phab:T329626)
• Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (phab:T332739).

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!