Wikidata:Status updates/2023 03 06

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-03-06.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Mbchbot 3 (Task/s: Adding missing YouTube channel ID (P2397) statements to YouTube handle (P11245) claims that are missing that mandatory qualifier)
  • MidleadingBot 4 (Task/s: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))
  • Biondibot (Task/s: Import us patent from a csv file)
  • bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))

Events

• Upcoming
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 7, 2023: Lydia Pintscher and Silvan Heintze will tell us about the new Wikidata REST API and Silvan will demonstrate some of its aspects. Agenda
  • Do you want to present at Wikimania 2023? Program submissions are open now until the end of day Tuesday 28 March.
  • Wiki Workshop 2023 Call for Papers. The call is for extended abstracts (2 pages) of ongoing or completed work. The deadline is March 23.
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2023: Call for projects & sessions is now open! The deadline to submit sessions is April 4th. The final schedule will be made public on April 15th.
  • Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
  • Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - 8 March 2023, on YouTube

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • This app places on a world map all the places that have their Wikipedia page
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2022 edition
  • WikiData on Video Games
  • Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!
• Papers
  • Two years of explicit CiTO annotations (Q116676168), include how Wikidata and Scholia visualize citation typing annotations explain why research is cited
• Videos
  • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 recorded livestreams: Day 1; Day 2
  • Wikidata for History of Science projects, by Martin Poulter - YouTube
  • How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia via categories - YouTube
  • How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia 2 - YouTube
  • LD4P3 - Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata - YouTube
  • Extracting political data & relations from Wikidata - YouTube
  • Operation of Wikidata and its centralized management of metadata linked to multiple databases (in French) - YouTube
  • Wikidata and higher education and research libraries (in French) - YouTube
  • Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry - YouTube

Tool of the week

• wikidata-todo is a tool that helps you find Commons categories with files, where none of the files are used on Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The WMDE Wikibase.Cloud team is currently seeking individuals who are interested in participating in interviews regarding the pressing issue of data modeling. Please reach out if you'd like to participate.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • Lighthouse Directory page (group string for the item in The Lighthouse Directory)
    • colocated with (event sharing location, facility or organization with another, typically larger event)
  • External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary ID, HAA member ID, Spotify user ID, Vintage Fashion Guild label, Biographical Dictionary of Emigrants of Georgia ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, Swiss Games Garden game ID, ERA ID, Sky News topic ID, Russian Second League player ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: FLOW ID, Electrodoc person ID, electrocd artist ID, Wattpad username, Virksomme ord ID, Identifier for an item in the norwegian database for political adresses ID, Kinoglaz film ID, DBpia article ID
• Query examples:
  • Railway bridges in Germany and Austria (source)
  • Number of deaths in train wrecks per country (source)
  • Pairs of people who both have an English #Wikipedia article and are married to one another (source)

Development

• Wikibase REST API:
  • The statements endpoint now supports filtering by Property ID like ?property=P123 (phab:T309021)
  • We started working on GET /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T327882)
  • We started working on including sitelink URLs in GET /entities/items/{item_id} (phab:T330252)
• Community Wishlist Survey: We reviewed the results and what we can do to address some of the wishes.
• Query Builder:
  • We continued work on the language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T328764)
  • We have added support for the datatypes for Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207)
• Search: We are looking deeper into how we can make it possible to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas in the search box, not just Items (phab:T321543)

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!