Wikidata:Status updates/2021 01 04

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-01-04.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (RfP scheduled to end after 7 January 2021 17:21 UTC)
• Should we rename place of burial (P119) to place of mortal remains?

Events

• Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 5 at 18:00 CET
• Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #26 - YouTube, Facebook, 9 January
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #44, January 10
• Past: Wikidata sessions at rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress) (replay)
  • Introduction to Wikidata
  • Wikidata for datajournalists
• Past: Wikidata sessions at g0vsummit2020 (in Chinese) (replay)
  • Wikidata one year in Taiwan, what is our results and what is our future plan
  • Challenges of GLAM Taiwan

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Video: Applying linked data model for the Bogotá Digital Library (in Spanish) - YouTube
• Video: Wikidata with Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Wikimedia Armenia - YouTube
• Video: How to import scholarly articles to Wikidata using Zotero - YouTube
• Video: How to import books to Wikidata using a spreadsheet and OpenRefine - YouTube
• Video: How to import library materials to Wikidata using MarcEdit and OpenRefine - YouTube
• Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
• Video: Linking a new Wikipedia article to a Wikidata item - YouTube
• Video: Schema and Wikidata - YouTube
• Video: Using Twinkle on Wikidata - YouTube
• Video: Managing Interlanguage links with Wikidata (in Urdu) - YouTube
• Blog post: 52 Wikidata weeks 2020
• Blog post: Scottish nautical wrecks in wikidata

Tool of the week

• User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video (in Italian)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata Lexeme Forms now lists languages on the index page using their autonyms (language name in that language). (Source)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: graph girth, category for the view of the item, ALA-LC romanization, liturgical rank
  • External identifiers: PIAC ID, CPV Supplementary, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo ID, ISDS ID, Mapy.cz ID, World Rowing ID (UUID format), 1914-1918-Online ID, JAD ID, Game UI Database ID, Lumières.Lausanne ID, Swiss Unihockey player ID, IFF player ID, Magyar életrajzi lexikon ID, Lexikon zum Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit ID, Ancient History Encyclopedia ID, Literary Encyclopedia ID, Google Podcasts show ID, Stitcher show ID, Castbox show ID, Pocket Casts show ID, Podcast Addict show ID, TuneIn Podcasts show ID, RadioPublic show ID, Player.fm show ID, PodBean show ID, Podtail show ID, Encyclopedia of Saami Culture ID, The Podcast App show ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries manuscript ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries work ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries person ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries place ID, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries organization ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: YouTube custom URL, Author last names, Author first names, Naval flag, supplements, closed WMF project sitelink, has part (string value), member, number of data sets
  • External identifiers: IFPI Danmark work ID, National Museum in Warsaw ID, Olympedia Affiliations ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Erudit article ID, Olympedia Event ID, dati.beniculturali.it ID, Barnivore product ID, Archivo Histórico de diputados de España ID, Port Letter, FFF player ID (new scheme), Hungarian Film Archive ID, GEPRIS-Historisch ID (Person), EuroBabeIndex ID, MFAT person ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Alpine Linux package, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, NLS place type ID, BookDepository publisher ID, National Historic People id, NFL.com ID (new scheme)
• Query examples:
  • Works identified (via dedicated property P3893) as entering the public domain on 1/1/2021, ordered by number of articles on Wikimedia sites (Source)
  • Painters in the collections of Paris Musées which enter the public domain on January 1 (Source)
  • Map of forts related to Dutch trading companies VOC and WIC found in the Atlas of Mutual Heritage (Source)
  • Map of forts in the Cologne fortress ring (Source)
  • First-level administrative divisions in Germany
  • Population of cities in Germany corresponds to the total number of vaccinations in Germany (Source)
  • Most popular theorems according to their number of articles on Wikipedia (Source)
  • Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (Source)
  • Deaths in 2020 - date of birth, date of death, cause of death and country of nationality (Source)
  • Summary of a UK parliamentary career seat-party-start pairs(Source)
  • Timeline of aircraft types around the world and the first time a type of aircraft made a flight (Source)
  • Indonesian legislation related to indigenous people (Source)
  • Which artist could be "D.K. 1964"? (source)
  • Line graph of colleges and universities in India by year of establishment (Source)
  • Graph of Indian films that are remakes of other Indian films (Source)
  • Graph of academic descendants of C. R. Rao and K. Ananda Rau (Source)
  • Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (Source)
  • Maps of different places in West Bengal according to suffix (Source)
  • Tree map of Rabindranath's poems according to the month of writing (Source)
  • Count of locations of exhibitions on Wikidata (Source)
  • Wikidata lexeme forms by language (Source)
• Newest database reports: 2021, Greek given names

Development

• Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

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!