Wikidata:Status updates/2023 09 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-09-11.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • First Wikibase Lexical Data Workshop (wikibase-lex). September 13, 14:00 to 18:00, at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna.
  • German-speaking Wikipedia community meets in Linz (in German). September 29 - October 1, 2023.
  • OpenRefine for beginners (in German). October 25-26, 2023.
  • The second Mini Hackathon at Wikimedia Nederland, for experienced Wikimedians, will take place on Saturday, November 4. There is room for 30 participants; you can apply here.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Starting fresh: the Wikibase REST API
• Press
  • Pamitouch Foundation pilots TTAG Goes Digital initiative at Accra College of Education. The Open Foundation West Africa provided an introduction to Wikipedia and its sister tools. The teacher trainees were guided on topics such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wikiversity.
• Papers
  • Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years - Daria Tisch and Emma Ischinsky
  • Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data Labor, and Truth in a More-Than-Technical Project - Heather Ford and Andrew Iliadis
  • KGConv, a Conversational Corpus grounded in Wikidata - Quentin Brabant, Gwenole Lecorve, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, and Claire Gardent
• Videos
  • Interoperability among the digital repository Tainacan and the information networks Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: A case study of FILE ARCHIVE - Paula Perissinotto & Dalton Martins
  • Link data from local index to Wikidata - Josef Moravec, Moravian Library in Brno
  • Improving knowledge dissemination with Wikidata: potentialities of structured data in hearing health - Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos

Tool of the week

• Peppercat is a website listing government ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking data from Wikidata. More information

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Open call: train-the-trainer course for candidate OpenRefine-Wikimedia trainers, with a focus on (structured data on) Wikimedia Commons. More info and application form here. Application deadline is September 15.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • state of transmission (state of transmission of a work (as a concept, not as a physical item; for that, use P5816))
    • describes actor of (predicate sense whose actor (an agent or a cause—basically the instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense)
    • describes undergoer of (predicate sense whose undergoer (a patient, a theme, or a recipient—basically a non-instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense)
  • External identifiers: Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID, ‎animecons.com event ID, Museo Italia ID, Dans nos cœurs ID, WWGR player ID, futzal.rus player ID, iNaturalist user ID, alyga.lt player ID, UETK ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, SEVIS school ID, WikiChip article ID, Mageia package ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Red List of South African Plants conservation status (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the [[w:South African National Biodiversity Institute]])
    • Educational level (school level in which the subject of the item is taught)
    • FragDenStaat tag (tag in FragDenStaat.de)
    • Plate (the plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
  • External identifiers: Fansly ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, BookBrainz series ID, BookBrainz edition ID, ManyVids ID, LoverFans ID, IGI Global affiliate ID, Aparat channel ID, Pandit Project work ID, RKDexcerpts
• Query examples:
  • Territories claimed by irredentism
  • Map of tram stop all over the world (source)
  • Map of public archives in Germany (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Patagonian Archaeology - The project works on the creation and improvement of items on Patagonian Archaeology in Wikidata (archeology of the argentine patagonian coast).
  • WikiProject Archive of National Debt Redemption Movement - The purpose of this project is to promote the use of records related to the National Debt Repayment Movement (국채보상운동) by integrating data from the National Debt Repayment Movement digital archive into Wikidata.

Development

• Machine learning: We are migrating some tools that currently use ORES to the new Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
• EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work around the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements
• Query Builder: We fixed some issues in the Query Builder language selector (phab:T344231)
• We’re making the warning for anonymous editors more useful by letting them return to the page they came from after logging in (phab:T330550); we’re also working on showing those warnings in the first place in WikibaseLexeme (phab:T343979)
• Wikibase REST API: We are working on the ability to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and get the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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!