*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming:
- The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022.
Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase
during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room:
Wikimedia
Hackathon 2022/Schedule
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule>.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University
of Virigina
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about
their Open Data
Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using
EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on
institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is
"open." Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c_6b0IEsCXqh6nMgct4VHsJQFyT_wrb3L1N5cea3J2s/edit?usp=sharing>
- LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LO_JwNUZNw>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3244367102515111/>,
May 21 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träff_%23108>,
May 22 at 12.00 UTC
- 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data
Standards Conference TDWG 2022
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111972123>, including for a session
on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
<https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2022/session-list/#int19%20the%20role%20of%20the%20wikimedia%20ecosystem%20in%20linking%20biodiversity%20data>
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, Constitution Day, Norway
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=42>
- International Museum Day Wikidata Competition
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/International_Museum_Day_2022>,
4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- Regional newspaper map with datawrapper and Wikidata
<https://datengraben.com/posts/2022-05-05-wikidata-datawrapper-regionalzeitungen/>
- Papers
- CAS Common Chemistry in 2021: Expanding Access to Trusted Chemical
Information for the Scientific Community (Q111987319)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111987319>
- OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues,
institutions, and concepts <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.01833.pdf> (
tool <https://openalex.org/>)
- Videos
- How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8nh03wu4Cg>
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Guesser <https://guessr.blinry.org/?Q117> allows you to guess
the locations of random Wikidata items!
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase
<https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/18061438?l=en> at
Wikimedia Deutschland.
- The Wikidata community onboarding
<https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/wikidata/wikidata-community>
documentation by Wiki Education <https://wikiedu.org/>.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: quantile function
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10737>, mean of a
probability distribution
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10738>, median of a
probability distribution
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10739>, mode of a
probability distribution
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10740>, dance
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10741>, variance of a
probability distribution
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10743>, skewness
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10744>, excess kurtosis
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10745>, information entropy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10746>, moment-generating
function <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10747>
- External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10742>, GeolISSTerm ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10748>,
TIME.com author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10749>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: Similar web ranking
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Similar_web_ranking>
- External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Italian_Chamber_of_Deputies_Government_ID>,
Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bookbinding_and_the_Conservation_of_Books_term_ID>,
TamTam chat ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TamTam_chat_ID>,
PM20 ware ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PM20_ware_ID>,
ANR project ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ANR_project_ID>,
HeHaCham HaYomi id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HeHaCham_HaYomi_id>,
Delaware Department of State file number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Delaware_Department_of_State_file_number>,
JBIS horse ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JBIS_horse_ID>,
Camp Wild
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Camp_Wild>
- Query examples:
- List of oldest cryptocurrencies <https://w.wiki/59dS>
- Scottish rivers that merge to make a river with a new name
<https://w.wiki/59tq> (source
<https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1524799946280652800>)
- List of candidates in the French legislative elections
<https://w.wiki/5ASw> (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2/L%C3%A9gislatives>)
- List of people with Elisabeth, Élisabeth or Elizabeth as first name
<https://w.wiki/5ATF> (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2/Elisabeth>)
- Wikimedians with a Twitch channel <https://w.wiki/5AFE> (source
<https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1525382998006308873>)
Development
- REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all
statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (
phab:T305988 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305988>, phab:T307087
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307087>, phab:T307088
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307088>)
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>
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
https://wikimedia.de
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