Wikidata:Status updates/2021 08 23

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-08-23.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: MusikBot II (RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2021 03:07 UTC)

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Érica Azzellini and Éder Porto on MBABEL, a tool which creates seed Wikipedia articles based on Wikidata statements. Agenda with call link, August 24.
  • BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
• Past:
  • Wikimania 2021 Wikidata related events (summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase)
    • Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata
    • Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects
  • Preparing languages for natural language generation using Wikidata lexicographical (Arctic Knot 2021)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Articles
  • 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights - In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
• Blogs
  • Organizing the Public Data about a Researcher - Charles Tapley Hoyt
  • The Invisible Citation Commons - Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein
  • The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries - Bob DuCharme
  • Wikidata or scraping Wikipedia - Denny Vrandečić
• Videos
  • Introduction to Wikidata SPARQL query service (in Arabic) - YouTube

Tools of the week

• Python script to Add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons from an Excel sheet (Github) - by OlafJanssen

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata:Query Builder has been deployed: Try it!
• The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources from Zotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
• Wikidata Query Service scaling updates for Aug 2021
• [BREAKING CHANGE] Pagename/filename normalization on saving an edit

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, mix or remix of
  • External identifiers: Palynodata taxa ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, PsycNET ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: hunting areas, number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID
  • External identifiers: TeamNL player ID, Finnish National Gallery ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, NDL earlier law ID, Cinemaitaliano IDs, KNHB ID, Deutsche-Sporthilfe-ID, Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code
• Query examples:
  • Predicates implicated in non-scholarly-article item bloat (source)
  • Church of Scotland Synods as Geoshapes (Source)
  • Map of the origin of Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts, current location (Source)
  • Current principal local authorities in England

Development

• Deployed the new shiny Query Builder to https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder
• Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775)
• ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191)
• Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
• Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178)

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!