Wikidata:Status updates/2023 01 30

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-01-30.

Events

• A citation hunt program was organized for secondary school students at IIS School in Dubai as part of the 74th Republic Day celebration of India. 16 students participated, with different mother tongues and from different states of India living as expatriates in Dubai. The goal was to increase references for Wikidata statements based on research. The students were introduced to the importance of protecting India's history on the internet, and were taught how to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata. They were given a special event page on Wikidata with instructions and a list of Wikidata items to add citations to, and they searched for references in their textbooks and search engines to add to the Wikidata items.More details are given here.
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour January 30, 2023: The #1Lib1Ref campaign is afoot, so we will be working on adding references to Wikidata statements. We'll have some data for you to work with, but you're welcome to bring your own. We'll be mainly working with adding webpages as sources, but if you want to get experience using books or articles as sources, we recommend bringing some to the session to use as references for Wikidata items you have identified. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Building a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (uses Wikidata as a main source)
• Papers
  • Systematic review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects
• Videos
  • Interoperable Europe: First workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase

Tool of the week

• theyrule.net is a website that helps to explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• AfLIA's online course Wikidata is open. Participation is free for all librarians, museums, archives and other information professionals in Africa. Call is open until 7th February 2023 (12 midnight GMT).
• LetsQuiz is a new website generating quizzes using data from Wikidata.
• from WMF Wishathon: The Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article Wish is complete and the work merged. It is available for testing in Beta, and will be deployed to users with the first train of 2023 scheduled for this week. Learn more about the gadget created at meta
• Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
• Status update on the 2022 Wikidata and Wikibase development plan
• Development plan and activities for 2023 for Wikidata as a platform and the Wikibase ecosystem

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: applies to use with property (qualifier that specifies that the statement refers to usage with the property)
  • External identifiers: Dicionário Priberam ID, NPB umpire ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, addons.mozilla.org user, Packagist username, Hackage username, RubyGems username, PyPI username, Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Glitchwave platform ID, Glitchwave character ID, Artlog artist ID, pixiv comic work ID, pixiv comic product ID, British Music Collection composer ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: place of resident registration at death (the place or administrative unit where the deceased person was registered as having his or her residence at the time of their death), has instance (thing(s) which this subject describes or encompasses, inverse property of P31), Norwegian media rating (In short, the Norwegian version of Denmark's Medierådet rating (P5970), an age rating system for motion pictures, video, internet and tv content), iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject), number of penalty kicks scored, precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
  • External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary entry, Professional shogi player number, Women's professional shogi player number, LPSA professional shogi player number, esid, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, authors.gr ID, GLANSIS ID, literatura.lv ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Enciclopedia dell'Italiano ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno e Avellino place ID, World Loanword Database word ID, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, Podbay show ID, Walt Disney movie ID, The Counted person ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, World Sailing sailor ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Mosfilm IDs, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID, DOSBox Compatibility ID, HAA member ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID
• Query examples:
  • Modern descendants of the Achaemenes (Achaemenid dynasty of rulers of Persia, 7th century BCE)

Development

• Wikibase REST API: The first version of the new API is released on Wikidata now \o/ We'd love to hear your feedback on what to improve next in the API.
• Property Suggester: We updated the data for the Property Suggester so suggestions for new statements to add to an Item should be more in line with current Property usage on other similar Items again.
• Fixed an issue with Item deletions not showing up on Wikipedia and co if they affect an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)
• Vector 2022: Made it possible to add a new sitelink on Wikipedia and co in the new Vector 2022 language selector (phab:T310259)
• Lua: Working on two new Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378)

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!