Wikidata:Status updates/2023 03 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-03-27.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.Event page
  • WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes
  • Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on Jitsi on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad)
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata by Bob DuCharme
  • Musings on the Wikidata backend by Magnus Manske
  • Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows by Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor by Magnus Manske
  • How linked data can help with anonymization by Sri Kalidindi
• Notebooks
  • Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata. See the csv file and the parquet file.

Tool of the week

• Declarator.org is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets (mentioned by OpenSanctions)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new), University of Barcelona authority ID, Kinoglaz film ID, MobyGames game ID, MobyGames company ID, MobyGames group ID, Feminae record ID, Alexandria UniSG person ID, OpenStreetMap node ID, literatura.lv ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • ISCED Attainment (ISCED attainment is the UNESCO main classification of educational level, it is used to map each level to the global classification used by UNESCO. This is useful because the same local level can mean different things in different countries. It identifies the specific levels of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) Attainment model. Has two sub qualifiers - code and label.)
    • first performance by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work)
  • External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, Boomplay album ID, Ticino Scienza ID, AML ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, NHF club ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Sinta affiliation ID
• Query examples:
  • Wikidata items which have both a UK Parliament Thesaurus ID and a subreddit (source)
  • Number of books written in Basque grouped by the birth place of their authors (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Emoji

Development

• EntitySchemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
• Query Builder: We finished the work on the language selector so you can swithc the interface language of the tool (phab:T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days.
• Wikibase REST API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (phab:T323173)

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!