Wikidata:Status updates/2021 07 19

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-07-19.

Events

• Past:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th.
• Upcoming:
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #72, July 25
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
  • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikipedia Citations in Wikidata English & Italian by OpenCitations, report on a WikiCite grant project.
  • Opportunities to improve integration between Wikisource and Wikidata (part 2 of a WikiCite blogpost series) by KCVelaga & Satdeep Gill
  • Finding gendered street names. A step-by-step walkthrough with R
  • Introducing the MathFoldr Project
• Videos
  • Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project (by Mahir256) - YouTube
  • Bringing IIIF Manifests to Life in Wikidata with Mirador 3 (2021 IIIF Annual Conference) - YouTube
  • Moving Wikipedia's InfoBox to Wikidata (in Taiwanese) - YouTube
• Notebooks
  • Using xtools created pages and wikidata API to measure gender statistics about articles created by a user (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice)
  • Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice).
  • A first look at featured articles in Wikipedia in French using Wikidata (SPARQL Jupyter notebook using PAWS)

Tool of the week

• searchy.toolforge.org is a semantic search engine to find articles on a topic and filter results by metascientific info (gender and region).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Scholia gets an upgrade and 1 click import of new scientific paper via citation-js and QS
• For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Among them, active Wikidata contributors Mike Peel, Laurentius and Rosiestep. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.
• Sitelinks to the recently created Tachelhit Wikipedia and Dagbani Wikipedia are being added.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, number of request signatories, translation of
  • External identifiers: Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, Città e Cattedrali ID, MANTO ID, WMO code, IFPNI author ID, Landshuth ID, Pladias ID, Central records of collections ID, Podchaser creator ID, Steam Greenlight game ID, CEICE school code
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, URL for freedom of information requests, Legal History, bridge number, Notable role, inventory number, Weverse user ID, ITU radio emission designation
  • External identifiers: IRIS SNS author ID, eBru ID, Daum Cafe ID, Douyin Video ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, SDBM IDs, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts ID, The New Yorker ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, Marmiton ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, PubFacts author ID
• Query examples:
  • List of all stages of all tour de France (source)
  • Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles (source)
  • Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in (Source)
  • Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online (Source)
  • Unemployment rate in Sweden by year (1970-2020) (Source)
  • Serious plane crashes with only one survivor (Source)
  • Mayors' genders of U.S. cities above 100k population (Source)
  • Global usage of pronouns (in English Language) (Source)
  • Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen (Source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject_Medieval_Nobility
• Newest database reports: language names in Italian (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)

Development

• Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. It can import first mismatches now.
• Fixing an issue where month and year are sometimes parsed as the first day of the month (phab:T233105)
• Fixing an issue with adding sitelinks for some of the newer Wikipedias (phab:T285919)
• Working on improving the Lua usage tracking for redirected Items (phab:T280910)
• {{SPARQL}} was amended on the 4th July to use the report #title, if present, as the anchor for the 'Try it' link. (example)

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!