Wikidata:Status updates/2022 10 04

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-10-03.

🧵Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Wd-Ryan (RfP scheduled to end after 10 October 2022 17:38 UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • EuropeanCommissionBot 1
    • Task/s: The objective is to link Wikidata with the 'Eu Knowledge Graph'. We introduced this property in order to do this.
  • William Avery Bot 10
    • Task/s: Fix instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143)-->Minor Planet Center (Q522039) to stated in (P248)-->Minor Planet Center Database (Q106600690) as requested at Request to fix certain instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143) (2022-09-25)

🎊 Events

• Upcoming
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
    • October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
    • Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
  • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
  • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
  • Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
• Ongoing
  • Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time

✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Introducing Wikidata to the City of Sydney
  • Linking Portuguese culture to Wikidata
  • Wiki Loves…. Wikidata!
  • More Picasso paintings in one year than all the Vermeer paintings? (Answering an art history question SPARQL).
• Papers
  • LOD4Culture: Easy Exploration of Cultural Heritage Linked Open Data
  • Using logical constraints to validate statistical information about disease outbreaks in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of COVID-19 epidemiology in Wikidata
• Videos
  • Tutorial on how to build SPARQL queries on Wikidata - YouTube
  • 2022: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: Case study of Taiwan's villages and rivers dataset - YouTube
  • Editing Wikidata: Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana - YouTube
  • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #92 - YouTube
  • Wikibase: Build a professional cultural knowledge base with open source and free tools (in Chinese) - YouTube

🧰 Tool of the week

• User:Magnus Manske/smiles gadget.js: This tool displays SMILES renderings for chemical compounds, where the item contains statements for P233 and/or P2017.

✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Valerie Wollinger joins Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager for Wikibase
• The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
• Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund. You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022.
• View it! is now multilingual! Please help us by submitting translations.
• 11 interns successfully completed a project via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24. Many thanks to the participants who worked on Wikidata-related projects.
• It is now possible to create Kartographer maps on Wikimedia wikis which use live SPARQL queries showing individual point features on the map.
• Job openings
  • Open call for a WiR at The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
  • Wikimedia Deutschland
    • Senior Software Engineer (Wikibase.Cloud)
    • Software Engineer (Wikibase Suite)

🤔 Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: won sets
  • External identifiers: UConn Plant Database ID, Breton Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, French Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID, Aragonario ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, vPlants ID, Kubbealti Lugati lexeme ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, VocaDB artist ID, Naturbasen species ID, Linktree ID, Dictionnaire biographique des préfets depuis 1982 ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, Three Decks ship ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: type code, RAM, Universal Content Identifier, PIM publication ID, hlavní spolek, Merriam-Webster entry
  • External identifiers: Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID, Dams in Japan number, Disused stations ID, National Institute of Korean Language IDs, utas.hu ID, Language of Bindings ID, EuDML id, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Förvaltningshistorisk ordbok, Pennsylvania State Park Hiking Trails ID, Matrix channel, Beyond Notability ID, MaDada ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, IHF profile ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID
• Query examples:
  • UK railway stations with coordinates sourced to English Wikipedia that have different coordinates on English Wikipedia (1/10) (source)
  • Graph visualisation of 12 British monarchs and their 56 British prime ministers (source)
  • British Monarchs vs. US Presidents (source)
  • Children of Nobel laureates have themselves been awarded the prize (source)
  • Profession and gender of people whose works are kept in the Musée de Bretagne (source)
  • Map the type locality of New Zealand endemic species (source)
  • Map visualization of Wikidata items located in Ukraine (source)
  • Map of birthplaces of women in Finistère (with and without photo) (source)
  • People in the British Museum's person-institution thesaurus by gender and occupation (source)
  • Films with "it" in the title (source)
  • Buildings most depicted on paintings (source)
  • Emblems depicting birds! (source)
  • Number and percent of lexemes with an external ID for top 20 languages in Wikidata (source)

🧑🏿‍💻 Development

• Improved handling of localized language names (phab:T261851/phab:T275781)
• REST API:
  • Continued work on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
  • We now require clients to send a User-Agent header (phab:T318151)
  • Started work on conditional HTTP request headers (phab:T318221)
• Continued work on the mul language code (phab:T285156)
• Wrapped up Codex work supporting the new design system (phab:T313477)

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!