🧵Discussions

• Closed request for adminship:
  • Welcome onboard, Wd-Ryan!
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • AniMangaDBImportBot
    • Task/s: Imports properties include genre (P136), intended public (P2360), publication date (P577). Adds references to new and/or existing values from the databases they are imported from.

🎊 Events

• Upcoming
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour October 24, 2022: ninth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be batch loading data using QuickStatements to create items for works and editions in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
  • October, 25, 2022 (Tuesday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXV: Modeling Elections
  • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 25 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • [LIVE Wikidata editing #96] Wikidata Birthday special of Wikidata live editing with surprise guests, October 29 18.00 UTC YouTube
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #126, October 30 at 13.00 UTC
  • Webinar: Exploring Wikidata to Find Good Stories - October 28 at 7:00 PM CEST (in Portuguese)
• Ongoing
  • Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Vegetables

• Past
  • The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online. It included a session about the role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data, which featured six talks, all of which with strong Wikidata components. Slides and/ or video recordings are already available for some (more to follow):
    • Unpacking IPCC and IPBES Reports
    • Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia

✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita (A) highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
    • The Impact of Wikidata and its Community – Part 1, Part 2
  • Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022
  • What you need to know to kickstart a Wikidata Initiative
  • Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister, reaches 100 million items (in Dutch)
  • Volunteers speaking Turkic languages met at Wikidata Istanbul 2022 (in Turkish)
• Videos
  • Wikimedia Research Showcase - October 2022. A panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #95
  • GND meets Wikibase
  • COVIWD - Lightning Talk @Wikidata Workshop 2022
  • Wikidata 10th Birthday Speaker Series 3 - Sustaining a Wikidata Initiative
  • Wikidata 10 years celebration video by WMTURKIC
  • Wikidata at the museum: lowering thresholds for research with linked data in Sweden
  • Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia (The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference in 2022)
• Papers
  • Towards improving Wikidata reuse with emerging patterns
  • The disambiguation of people names in biological collections
  • Empirical Study of Elite Networks with Wikidata
  • Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research data management services for cultural heritage data
• Dataviz
  • Nobel laureates in Economics
• Twitter threads
  • 10 awesome tools and little helpers to help you around Wikidata
  • 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
• Presentations
  • Documenting our languages with Lexeme by Asaf Bartov

🧰 Tool of the week

• spacyfishing is a Wikidata entity disambiguation tool based on entity-fishing.

✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata has crossed the mark of 100,000,000 items

• The Small wiki toolkits team are looking for feedback on the ongoing workshop series around bots and scripts development.
• Job openings
  • Wikimedia Deutschland
    • Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d)
    • Data Analyst Wikidata (m/f/d)

🤔 Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Viveport ID, Larousse Online French Dictionary ID, RaiPlay ID, Rai Teche person ID, Rai Teche program ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: shortened URL formatter, addresses, model for, e-mail subscription URL, official websites, e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, about, Rotational speed, NIP
  • External identifiers: Piraeus Library ID, note.com ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Mod DB engine ID, Litres author ID, Bureau of Meteorology Location Identifier, OKRB 011-2022 code, Cimetière russe ID, New Cinematografo.it IDs, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID
• Query examples:
  • Number of French lexemes per number of dictionaries they are linked to (source)
  • People born in Split or Šibenik for whom there is a statement that they wrote or spoke Latin (source)
  • Locations of employers/affiliations of first authors of articles in the Journal of Cheminformatics (source)
  • Birthplaces of the presidents of the American Medical Association (source)
  • Flags containing the colors white and yellow (source)
  • AI models (source)
  • Swedes accused for churel (source)
  • Lunar craters and gender of their namesakes (source)

🧑🏿‍💻 Development

• Lexicographical data: New Lexeme creation page will be live on Wikidata on November 2nd (phab:T307866)
• Updated the ontology file at https://wikiba.se/ontology (phab:T314360)
• Mismatch Finder: Added a Random mode to make it easier to get mismatches (phab:T302289)
• REST API:
  • Documented the differences in the JSON data format between the REST API and the ActionAPI (phab:T318681)
  • Continued work on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors (phab:T320358)

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!