Wikidata:Status updates/2021 11 08

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-11-08.

Events

• Upcoming
  • Next Bug Triage Hour on API issues. Monday 15th November at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time, see other time zones) (Etherpad)
  • Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, November 9 at 18:00 CET
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #61 - YouTube, Facebook, November 13 at 19:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #86, November 14 at 13.00 UTC
  • Wikidata webinar at the Goethe Institute in Athens (Greek). Nov 8, 2021 17:00 UTC+1
  • Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour! Monday 15 November 2021, 3PM - 4PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration: Zoom registration link
  • Next Wikidata Affinity Group Call: Éder Porto on adding journal articles to Wikidata November 16, 2021, 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter)
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #15, COP26 (2/2)
• Past
  • Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (from each session's Etherpad)
  • Wikidata SPARQL tutorial around the Saint-Brieuc museum (in French)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Media
  • User:Theklan at Radio Euskadi (Q3100760): Wikidata: una base de datos editable, multilingüe, libre y con datos de todo conocimiento (Spanish)
• Blogs
  • TIB at WikidataCon: Part 1 , Part 2
  • With help of their prof, U of T students go from being Wikidata novices to international conference presenters
  • Crowdsourcing the Scene at the Boston Rock City Edit-a-Thon
• Videos
  • Basic tutorial on how to improve Wikidata items (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Metadata of cultural institutes: import strategies on Wikidata in the case of the Tuscany Region (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Databases: a case study of PanglaoDB - YouTube
  • Using Wikidata entities and properties in schema.org markup and linked data - YouTube

Tool of the week

• are occupation labels gender neutral? a tool to explore gender neutrality of labels in different languages.
• RAWGraphs, a dataviz tool which allows SPARQL queries (source)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
• OpenRefine 3.5.0 was released

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: Museu da Pessoa History, Conway polyhedron notation
  • External identifiers: Tennis Abstract player ID, Women in the Legislature ID, StopGame ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Biografija.ru ID, Derrieux agency person ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, Penza Encyclopedia ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, Musées Nationaux Recuperation ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Nynorskordboka-ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID, Indonesian parliament candidate ID 2019, Trove work ID, Vokrug.tv show ID, Apple maps ID, Federation Council person ID, Meetup group id, Glitchwave genre ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: original catalog description, Kanobu ID, Yandex.Question person ID, 発車メロディ
  • External identifiers: Listen Notes podcast ID, WhatsApp number, CNKI Journal ID, Baidu Scholar Journal ID, AllHomes research location ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Coles Online product ID, Woolworths product ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, NVE Bre ID, Databáze-her.cz ID, FederalPress Encyclopedia ID, babesdirectory, DHAC ID, Naver TV ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, live.ijf competition ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, The-Sports.org competition ID, StarHit ID, Nasha Versia ID, LocalWiki ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Comparably company ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases Chemical ID
• Query examples:
  • Number of virtual twins (pair with the same dates of birth and death) in Wikidata (source)
  • People recently buried in a cemetery nearby without an image of the grave (P1442) on Wikidata (source)
  • List of lexemes in French associated with occupation items (source)
  • Towns with less than 1000 people that have a cathedral (Source)
  • Musical works based on literary works (Source)
  • Main surnames of people born in the Puy-de-Dôme, France (Source)
  • Members of the Ukrainian national sports team (Source)

Development

• Mismatch Finder: We finished adding “next steps” dialog and a “more info” dialog to tell users more about the import a mismatch was added in.
• We had discussions about how to best make the SearchBox WVUI component for the new Vector skin work well for Wikidata (phab:T275251)
• We have put a version of WBStack on wikibase.dev. We will start work to deploy to wikibase.cloud in the coming 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!