Wikidata:Status updates/2022 01 31

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-01-31.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • GretaHeng18bot
  • Pi bot 24
  • SchoolBot
  • companyBot

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Talk to the Search Platform Team about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.! February 2nd, 2022. Etherpad.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube, Facebook, February 5 at 19:00 UTC
  • Wikimedia Research February Office Hours Wednesday, 2022-02-02 at 00:00-1:00 UTC (16:00 PT 02-01 /19:00 ET 02-01 / 1:00 CET 02-02).
  • Data Reuse Days will take place on March 14-24, highlighing applications and tools using Wikidata's data. You can already propose a session.
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #27, Numbers (1/n)
• Past:
  • Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron
  • Wikibase Live Session (2022.01.27)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Press
  • "Massive open index of scholarly papers launches" - called OpenAlex, it draws its data from sources including Wikidata
• Blogs
  • OpenSanctions is integrating persons of interest from Wikidata
  • Celebrating the 2,000 featured articles milestone in Wikipedia in French: Using the Wikipedia Categorymembers API through a SPARQL query to get all articles featured in category "Article de qualité" and compute statistics.
  • Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Using Linked Open Data to Connect Smithsonian Information
  • The origin of the gender gap
• Videos
  • Wikidata as a Modality for Accessible Clinical Research
  • Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase

Tool of the week

• Basque version of Wordle using Wikidata's lexicographic data. Check it out!

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WDQS scaling update for Jan 2022 available here. We will be trying to do monthly updates starting this month.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast logo URL, hotel rating, dpi for original size, director of publication, official jobs URL
  • External identifiers: TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, Muz-TV ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, Tretyakov Gallery work ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania encyclopedia ID, Amazon podcast ID, Habr company ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, German Lobbyregister ID, Film.ru actor ID, Film.ru film ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID, StarHit ID, North Data ID, CYT/CCS, LKI ID, Unified book number
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: has member, register in Germany, dailytelefrag.ru ID, time in the pouch, semantic gender, Game World Navigator ID
  • External identifiers: Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, CHY Number, OpenSanctions ID, identifiant Les Archives du spectacle (organisme), Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, histrf.ru person ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, Chgk person ID, Latvijas ūdenstilpju klasifikatora kods, RCN (Irish Registered Charity Number), RBC company ID, OpenStates ID, NetEase Music Artist ID, QQ Music Singer ID, Euro NCAP ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2
• Query examples:
  • US states with the most punk bands (source)
  • List of Ghanaian scientists by citation count (source)
  • Actresses who have played Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, with type of production (source)
  • MPs with identified mythical ancestors
  • Items with "language of work or name = Toki Pona" as qualifier
  • Timeline of 1st women practising a given sports discipline (source)
  • Water boards in the Netherlands (source)
  • Birthplaces of US Presidents, Russian emperors, Roman emperors (source)
  • Age of the actress when she played "Elizabeth Bennet" (source)
  • People with dates of birth and death on January 1st (day precision dates) (source)
  • More than 500 lexemes in Breton now have at least one sense (source)

Development

• Continuing work on adding the mul language code for labels, descriptions and aliases. (phab:T297393)
• Enabled statement usage tracking for Cebuano, Armenian and Warai Warai to ensure fine-grained notifications about edits on Wikidata on those Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
• Continuing work on fixing a bug where Wikidata changes do not get sent to Wikipedia and co for the first sitelink adding leading to missing information in the page_props table (phab:T233520)
• Continuing work on making sure the Wikidata search box works with the new Vector skin improvements (phab:T296202)
• Mismatch Finder: Debugging some issues with the first files we got with mismatches that we can load into the Mismatch Finder

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!