Wikidata:Status updates/2022 01 24

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-01-24.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: MSGJ (Successful). Welcome onboard \o/

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th January 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
  • Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 25 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Pascal Martinolli speaking on tabletop role-playing game citations practices and Wikidata, January 25th.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #68 - YouTube, Facebook, January 29 at 19:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #94, January 30 at 13.00 UTC
  • Online workshop in French about Breton lexicographical data, by Envlh and Vigneron, January 30 at 15:00 CET (UTC+1)
  • On Tuesday, February 22, the OpenRefine team hosts a community meetup to present current and future work on Structured Data on Commons support in OpenRefine.
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #26, Bees
  • #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
• Past:
  • Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-01-19)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • The CIA lost track of who runs the UK, so I picked up the slack featured on Hacker News
  • Solving Wordle, Sutom, and al. with SPARQL queries on Wikidata
  • Wikitrivia is a web game that challenges your knowledge of historical dates
  • Wikitrivia, the viral game that tests how much you know about history (in Spanish)
  • 100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History
• Papers
  • Wikidata: a new perspective towards universal bibliographic control
  • Wikidata for Digital Preservationists: New DPC Technology Watch Guidance Note now available on general release

• Videos
  • [WORKSHOP] Wikidata and libraries: tools for information managers (in Spanish) - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Comparator compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata Lexemes forms:
  • Now supports the Odia language
  • Substantially expanded template for Spanish verbs
• How many triples are added when certain edits are made? ... User:Mahir256/Triples

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: admission yield rate, Corruption Perceptions Index, category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast image url
  • External identifiers: AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, ARCHER ID, Senators of Spain (1834-1923) ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Hermitage Museum work ID, Engineer's Line Reference, Archive ouverte UNIGE ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, AsianWiki ID, ENEA-IRIS Open Archive author ID, METRICA author ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community, subpopulation 3, type of register, identifier in a register, phrase in hiero markup
  • External identifiers: Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, XJustiz registration court ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania Encyclopedia ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Index to Organism Names ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, LastDodo-area-id, SberZvuk ID, North Data company ID, Gardens Navigator ID, SAHRA heritage objects ID, ezeri.lv ID, SAHA player ID, norsk fangeregister fangeleir ID, Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of tramways in France
  • Map of categories for honorary citizens (source)
  • Map of the Medieval universities and its founding date (source)
  • Camps/subcamps within a 20km radius of your location (source)
  • Taxa found at Fazenda Tamanduá (Sertão of Paraíba - Brazil) (source)
  • Birthplace of Rabbis (source)
  • Italian parliamentarians and ministers aged between 50 and 80 (source)
  • Female Irish scientists in Wikidata without a Wikipedia article (source)
  • Places in the Hautes-Alpes that are the subject of an article on Wikipedia in at least 10 languages (source)

Development

• Enabling usage tracking specifically for statements on Waray, Armenian and Cebuano Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
• Implementing basic version of mul language code and deploying it to Test Wikidata (phab:T297393)
• Preparing an event centered on reusing Wikidata's data
• Mismatch Finder: Been in touch with people who can potentially provide the first mismatches to load into the new tool for the launch. Finalized the statistics part.

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!