*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- MsynBot 9
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MsynBot_9>.
Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P227> identifier claims
- DL2204bot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/DL2204bot>.
Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit
lexemes, senses,
forms
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming:
- Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to
the celebration video
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Celebration_video>,
prepare an event
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Run_an_event>
or a birthday present
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Presents>.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital
Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national
leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by
leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA
launched a
digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA
network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is
continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and
Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve
discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation,
reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IjZeAQw79PEFvMz1JGsCVQrzX-9IYvr7LSpg52j_wac/edit#>
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/WGKFH6SIHDY3XXNNZYDTWFIT34RF2Y3M/>
Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT /
11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #57, Numbers (4/n)
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=57>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- Context is Queen <https://queerdata.forummuenchen.org/en/>:
Documenting Queer history based on LGBT+ models
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LGBT/Models> (
source <https://twitter.com/cutterkom/status/1564904647122456576>)
- Papers
- Prompting as Probing: Using Language Models for Knowledge Base
Construction <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.11057.pdf>
- Videos
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #88 - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXQwnv7puBI>
- Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
- Find museums without official website on Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCHsQElUbqw>
- Add coordinates of an institution
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZm7yNdgJts>
- Different ways to display SPARQL queries
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl-2YN-uI18>
- How to enter a personal record of a certain person on Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNAhg0MMEvs>
Tool of the week
- Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/hello-sparql-queries-dataset>. See also
the underlying dataset
<https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/sparql_queries.csv>.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: Gauss notation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11034>, crossing number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11035>
- External identifiers: PTS+ season ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11016>, Turkish National
Paralympic Committee athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11017>, South African Hockey
Association ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11018>, Moroccan
Olympic Committee athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11019>, UCI rider ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11020>, Glossary of
Astronomical Terms ID-identificatiecode
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11021>, Garden Plant Finder
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11022>, Belgian
Paralympic Committee athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11023>, National Olympic
Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11024>, Spiel des Jahres ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11025>, Scientists of
Belarus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11026>, Football
24 article ID Russian <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11027>,
Football 24 article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11028>,
BioNames author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11029>, Devil's
Porridge Worker ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11030>, Czech
electoral party ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11031>, Polish
Paralympic Committee ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11032>, LiLa Linking Latin
URI <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11033>, Instagram post ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11036>, Springer Nature
journal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11037>, Arabic
Ontology lemma ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11038>, Anime
Taizen ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11039>, atletiek.nu
athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11040>,
kulturstiftung.org
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11041>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: coordinates of grave
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/coordinates_of_grave>,
Rekhta Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rekhta_Dictionary_ID>
- External identifiers: vPlants ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/vPlants_ID>,
Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kloster-_und_Ordenslexikon_ID>,
IGDB game engine ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IGDB_game_engine_ID>,
Aragonario ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aragonario_ID>,
CRAB ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CRAB_ID>,
Sõnaveeb
lexeme ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/S%C3%B5naveeb_lexeme_ID>,
Ma'agarim ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ma%27agarim_ID>,
Feb-web IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Feb-web_IDs>,
Diskograf artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diskograf_artist_ID>,
Diskograf label ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diskograf_label_ID>,
Diskograf song ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Diskograf_song_ID>,
NSR doctor ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NSR_doctor_ID>,
Urdu Lughat ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Urdu_Lughat_ID>,
Oculus Store
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Oculus_Store>,
Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nebraska_Invasive_Species_Program_species_ID>,
Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Yahoo!_Japan_News_publisher_ID>,
Woody Plants Database cultivar ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Woody_Plants_Database_cultivar_ID>,
Viveport ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Viveport_ID>,
NOC of Belarus champion ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NOC_of_Belarus_champion_ID>,
newslab.ru dossier ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/newslab.ru_dossier_ID>,
Undiscovered Scotland ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Undiscovered_Scotland_ID>
- Query examples:
- Map of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
<https://w.wiki/5evn>, and around the world that have P625 as a
qualifier <https://w.wiki/5evi> (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/coordinates_of_grave#Discussion>
)
- Age of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends 1997-2002
<https://w.wiki/5fUH> (source
<https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1566497353053442052>)
- Education of French prefects <https://w.wiki/5fDk> (source
<https://twitter.com/daieuxdailleurs/status/1566456581012717569>)
- Number of substance records in PubChem Compounds
<https://w.wiki/5fBj> (source
<https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/1566041862653222914>)
- Map of rivers longer than 50 km passing through French territory,
grouped by watershed <https://w.wiki/5eZm> (source
<https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1565411609182437376>)
- Brazilian players in the Fifa World Cup 2022 Sticker Album!
<https://w.wiki/5dfr> (source
<https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1564367034544263175>)
Development
- REST API:
- We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible
to edit existing statements (phab:T306934
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306934>)
- We started the security review process for one of the libraries we
are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can
unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316523>)
- For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along
development on beta Wikidata <https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org> and
see the latest docs
<https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/js/rest-api/>. More
details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API_feedback_round>.
- Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found
during testing (phab:T314064 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314064>,
phab:T312633 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312633>, phab:T312652
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312652>)
- Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some
special conditions (phab:T278962
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278962>)
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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