*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- BorkedBot 10
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BorkedBot_10>
(Import values of subject named as (P1810)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1810>, start time (P580)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P580>, number of subscribers
(P3744) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3744>, point in time
(P585) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P585>, has quality
(P1552) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1552> (You must be
18+ to view this community (Q83807365)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83807365>, private subreddit
(Q72970624) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72970624>, restricted
subreddit (Q99518895) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99518895>,
quarantined
subreddit (Q66364374) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66364374>) (if
applicable), end time (P582)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P582> (if applicable), based
on subreddit (P3984) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3984>).
- Bitbotje 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Bitbotje_2>
(Task/s: remove redundant item aliases)
- HubaishanBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/HubaishanBot>
(The Bot will import some data from GeoNames (Q830106)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q830106>, Geographic Names Server
(Q1194038) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1194038>, OpenStreetMap
(Q936) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936> and Yemen General Census
of Population, Housing and Establishments 2004 (Q12202700)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12202700> for only Yemen places these
data includes: location, refs, names, population, sub administrative
territorial, shared borders. all data imported with me in local database
and checked.)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- bitbotje
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/bitbotje>
(Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1970> has a suggested
constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter
website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured
data access.
I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database
reports/Constraint violations/P1970
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P1970>
and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a
label.)
- New request for comments:
- Wikidata as fans resources
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Wikidata_as_fans_resources>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #84, Carnival
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=84>
- Past
- Open Data Day 2023 edit-a-thon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Kerala/Events/ODD_2023>
by Wikidata:WikiProject Kerala
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Kerala> - March
10-11th 2023
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Public Domain Day Belgium 2023
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/February_2023/Contents/Belgium_report>
- The Biodiversity Heritage Library is Round Tripping Persistent
Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/14/the-biodiversity-heritage-library-is-round-tripping-persistent-identifiers-with-the-wikidata-query-service/>
- Named Entity Recognition for Placenames in Welsh Language Texts
<https://blog.library.wales/named-entity-recognition-for-placenames-in-welsh-language-texts/>
- The messy data sources behind “Mapping diversity
<https://medium.com/european-data-journalism-network/the-messy-data-sources-behind-mapping-diversity-3cc7338b8b84>
- Papers
- How can the social sciences benefit from knowledge graphs? A case
study on using Wikidata and Wikipedia to examine the world’s billionaires
<https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3370.pdf>
- Videos
- Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia:
ORES - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl-Ygy7eoao>
- LIVE Wikidata editing #107 - Twitter
<https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YpJkgnkgvrJj>
- Podcasts
- WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia
<https://www.wikimedia.de/wikimove-site/podcast/episode-9-abstract-wikipedia/>.
The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.
Tool of the week
- Open Etymology Map <https://etymology.dsantini.it/#10,45,3,blue,all_db>
- is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and
points of interest. (blogpost
<https://gisplay.pl/mapy/10578-dzieki-tej-mapie-poznasz-historie-nazw-ulic-i-interesujacych-miejsc.html>
in Polish)
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Modrinth project ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11635>, Akademi Kernewek ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11636>, Wattpad username
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11637>, The Counted person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11638>, L’Équipe team ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11639>, Hart Island Project
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11640>, explain
xkcd ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11641>, La
grammatica italiana ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11642>,
CurseForge project ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11643>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: University of Barcelona authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/University_of_Barcelona_authority_ID>,
IRIS private universities (2) IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_private_universities_(2)_IDs>,
Deutsche Synchronkartei Person-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Deutsche_Synchronkartei_Person-ID>,
IRIS Lazio IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Lazio_IDs>,
Napster album ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Napster_album_ID>,
AIBA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AIBA_ID>,
Athletic
Bilbao profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Athletic_Bilbao_profile_ID>,
Epson Tour player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Epson_Tour_player_ID>,
WPGA Tour Australasia player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WPGA_Tour_Australasia_player_ID>,
Litres author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Litres_author_ID>,
Artist Directory ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artist_Directory_ID>
- Query examples:
- Notable milkmaids <https://w.wiki/6SA$>
- Places of birth or death of female painters in Brittany
<https://w.wiki/6RPo> (source
<https://twitter.com/belett/status/1633838740761370626>)
- What profession do women in Basque Wikipedia biographies have?
<https://w.wiki/KKU> (source
<https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1633372272328163328>)
- World map according to shared borders <https://w.wiki/6Pnm> (source
<https://twitter.com/EntityExplosion/status/1631094721044172800>)
- Top album languages found on Wikidata right now
<https://w.wiki/5Pbw> (Week 10, 2023) (source
<https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110004209285152782>)
Development
- Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch
the language of the UI (phab:T328764
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328764>)
- EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some
underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
- REST API:
- We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (
phab:T330252 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330252>)
- We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (
phab:T327882 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327882>)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you
want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority>.
Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>
- Contribute to a Showcase item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
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