Wikidata:Status updates/2022 06 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-06-13.

Discussions

• Closed request for comments:
  • Integration of POTD template
• Closed request for comments:
  • How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ? has been closed. Property labels in French should now includes both male and female or a verbal form if relevant (see P50).

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. Where: Zoom (Registration link). When: 30 June 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter)
  • Data Quality Days (July 8-10): you can propose discussion topics or sessions until June 19th.
  • Small wiki toolkits: Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC "This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access to Toolforge via ssh, and run bots and scripts on Toolforge and in background mode."
  • (Tutorial) OpenRefine - A fundamental tool for every librarian's toolbox. Thursday 23 June - 17: 00-19: 30. Write to laz-corsiaib.it to book and receive the link of the event.
  • Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa 3rd edition - Creating tools on Wikimedia Toolforge using Python and Flask. Friday 24th June and Sunday 26th June 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00 (UTC)
  • Collect, archive and provide games - a "panel about video game metadata". Fri. 24.6.2022 – Sat. June 25, 2022
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #47, Numbers (3/n)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts
  • Using Wikidata Identifiers to Enhance Agent Discovery
• Videos
  • Wikidata editing tools (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 6: Creating Wikidata items from scratch (in Dagbani) - YouTube
  • Fun with lexemes in some language! by Mahir256 - Twitch

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Card Game Generator: generate card games from Wikidata!

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Job opening: UX Researcher - Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland
• Wikimedia Deutschland welcomes new Wikibase.cloud Product Manager, Evelien Zandbergen
• Developer Portal is launched! Discover Wikimedia’s technical areas and how to contribute
• Starting on June 21, all Wikimedia wikis can use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua (discussions welcome on the project talk page)
• Wikimedia Deutschland looking for a partner affiliate to organize the WikidataCon 2023

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: preceding halt on service, following station on service, number of housing units, last entry, homophone form, fastest laps
  • External identifiers: HaBama person ID, Shopee shop ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Proza.ru author ID, neftegaz.ru person ID, National Union Catalog ID, MAYA site company ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Ethereum token address, BelTA dossier ID, Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: opus number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, U.S. vaccine status, theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer
  • External identifiers: Theatrical Index person ID, National Archives of Australia Entity ID, Mozilla Hacks author ID, CVX vaccine code, BVMC Corporate Body, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID, Teresianum authority ID, GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID
• Query examples:
  • Islands with at least 1 spring or freshwater body (source)
  • Notable people who you share a birthday with (find the string "1966-08-25" and replace it with your date of birth) (source)
  • List of filmmakers with whom Jean-Louis Trintignant has played (source)
  • Cemeteries in France near churches (source)

Development

• Lexicographical data:
  • Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
  • Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T307869)
  • Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T290733)
  • Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T298146)
• REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to an Item

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!