Wikidata:Status updates/2022 05 16

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-05-16.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." Agenda
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - YouTube, Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108, May 22 at 12.00 UTC
  • 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, Constitution Day, Norway
  • International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Regional newspaper map with datawrapper and Wikidata
• Papers
  • CAS Common Chemistry in 2021: Expanding Access to Trusted Chemical Information for the Scientific Community (Q111987319)
  • OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts (tool)
• Videos
  • How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Guesser allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items!

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
• The Wikidata community onboarding documentation by Wiki Education.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: quantile function, mean of a probability distribution, median of a probability distribution, mode of a probability distribution, dance, variance of a probability distribution, skewness, excess kurtosis, information entropy, moment-generating function
  • External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID, GeolISSTerm ID, TIME.com author ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Similar web ranking
  • External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID, TamTam chat ID, PM20 ware ID, ANR project ID, HeHaCham HaYomi id, Delaware Department of State file number, JBIS horse ID, Camp Wild
• Query examples:
  • List of oldest cryptocurrencies
  • Scottish rivers that merge to make a river with a new name {source)
  • List of candidates in the French legislative elections (source)
  • List of people with Elisabeth, Élisabeth or Elizabeth as first name (source)
  • Wikimedians with a Twitch channel (source)

Development

• REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)

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!