Wikidata:Status updates/2021 11 29

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-11-29.

Discussions

• Project chat: Wikidata phase 1 regression (interwikis no longer visible in new layout used by some Wikipedias and its impact on minority languages)

Events

• Upcoming
  • Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase. December 2, 2021 4:00 pm CET
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Jan Ainali on WikiProject Govdirectory, a tool and associated Wikiproject for building a user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence. Agenda with call link, November 30.
  • Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #89, December 5 at 13.00 UTC
  • EduWiki Live: Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization - Tuesday (30th November) at 15:00 UTC
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #18, Horse
• Past
  • Wikibase Live session log, month of November 2021
  • Introduction to Wikibase (part 1), ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup (replay)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Blog post on how Wikimedia Sweden has worked with two museums to open up their data and make it available on Wikidata (in Swedish)
  • Indigenous knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Videos
  • Video tutorial for Wikidata Scraping, data processing and import (Open Refine) (in Czech) - YouTube
  • (Wikidata intro) how it acts as one of the levers for the discoverability of cultural content in dance (in French) - YouTube
  • Archive and register of sound art / sound artists with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Reconciliation server demonstration against Wikidata - YouTube
  • Wikidata: A Magic Portal for Siegfried and Roy - YouTube

Tool of the week

• New gadget available in the preferences: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer to join the Wikidata team.
• Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
• New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: death rate, image with color chart
  • External identifiers: Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, Dissernet institution ID, DHAC ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, AHPRA registration number, FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, Oùvoir.ça film ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Corruption Perceptions Index, surrounds the enclave, Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista
  • External identifiers: identifiant base Enluminures, The World of Shakespeare ID, oKino.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, oKino.ua actor ID, Natural History Museum (London) person ID, svpressa.ru ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID
• Query examples:
  • Number of items without any statements (last week: more than 1,300,000)
  • Number of items without any statements by sitelinks (sample: 1757 items link to nlwiki, but have no statements).
  • Taxa named after women (by place of birth) (Source)
  • List of articles on Blaise Pascal in all Wikipedias, sorted by decreasing article size (Source)
  • Texts on French Wikisource by people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
  • List of countries by the highest elevation point (Source)
  • Number of distinct (UK parliament) seats returning someone who chose to sit elsewhere each year, 1830-1910 (Source)
  • List of services that support the OpenRefine Reconciliation service (Source)
  • Things depicted in art works in the Khalili Collections (Source)
  • Images of Wikidata's items linked to UBERON ids (Source)
  • Population density of administrative subdivisions exceeding 100,000 km² and 100 inhabitants / km² (Source)
  • List of government agencies in Scotland (Source)
  • Which day of the week people died on in the Mauthausen concentration camp (Source)

Development

• Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
• Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
• Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
• More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
• Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)

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!