Wikidata:Status updates/2022 08 15

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-08-15.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Estopedist1 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2022 12:36 UTC)

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour August 15, 2022: Fourth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be covering manually creating publisher items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
• Ongoing:
  • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
  • Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, August 18th at 15:00 UTC
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #54, Fire

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Turns out most famous people aren’t that famous at all
  • An introduction to Wikidata: How worlds of Wikimedia link
• Papers
  • An Analysis of Content Gaps versus User Needs in the Wikidata Knowledge Graph
  • The Democratization of Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement
• Videos
  • Wikimania 2022 happened. Highlights around Wikidata and Wikibase:
    • Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata
    • Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata - Overtime Discussion
    • Wikimania Hackathon: Let us play with PubMed to enrich Wikidata with medical information
    • When Quechua meets Wikibase - QICHWABASE
    • Wikimania Hackathon 2022 Closing Ceremony and Final Showcase
  • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences
  • Power BI project - Create image grids - Images from Wikidata brought in using a simple R script
  • Some reflections on wikidata and color biology
  • Uploading bibliographical items using Quickstatements
  • Wikidata tutorials:
    • Add the official street address of an institution
    • Add visitor numbers to an institution
  • Wikidata tutorials (in French):
    • Adding an institution's official website
    • Create a Wikimedia Account
    • Adding a webpage

Tool of the week

• KnolCase is a case-based knowledge management tool for gathering information about subjects of interest and organizing these into case files.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata integration in OpenRefine: could this be your project? OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
  • External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
  • External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
• Query examples:
  • Most common numbers of statements per item (source)
  • Locations and depicts statements for images in Commons category Mosques in Dubai (source)
  • Art people who died in Nazi camps (source)
  • Count of items in Wikidata by number of statements in the item (source)
  • Fungi with image, ordered by number of languages it has an article (source)
  • Longest natural watercourses in France (source)
  • Multiple forms of a Lexeme with the same grammatical features and where no of these forms have any other statement
  • Bengali Lexemes all of whose parts are derived from Sanskrit words, but which themselves aren't derived from Sanskrit words yet

Development

• Took part in Wikimania and the Wikimania hackathon
• Continuing work on making it possible to add sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)
• Lexicographical data: continuing to address the feedback from testing
• REST API:
  • Finished off validation in the endpoint for replacing a statement on an Item (phab:T314790)
  • Doing research around PATCH and JSON Patch

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!