Wikidata:Status updates/2023 04 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-04-10.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • RPI2026F1Bot 7 (Add start time (P580) as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984))
  • BotFunast (Task: The bot is already operational in the Tachelhit Wikipedia. One of its main tasks is editing template tags and categories, and creating new ones when necessary, based on a csv database (that you can find in github) . When adding new pages though, a common problem is to link those to Wikidata. This can be unfeasible by hand in a reasonable amount of time, when hundreds of pages, e.g. categories, are added at once. The idea is to have the bot approved for Wikidata, so it can link the pages to their counterparts in other languages automatically.)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)

Events

• Upcoming
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Registration for Wiki Workshop 2023 on May 11, 2023 has started.
  • LD4 Wikidata – Launch of Indigenous Artists and Wikidata Report - April 14 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #87, Beach

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Celebrating the impacts of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community on Wikidata
  • How Open Data can help you out in more diverse situations!
  • Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment
  • Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items
  • The Whelming - Cram as cram can, by Magnus Manske
  • Finding Impossible Witches: Part One The Search Begins
  • Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons as Linked Data Hubs: Dissemination of KU Leuven Libraries’ digitized collections
• Papers
  • Knowledge Graphs and their Role in the Knowledge Engineering of the 21st Century
• Videos
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
  • Bootstrap a News Signals Dataset using Wikidata SPARQL Query Service - YouTube
  • SEMIC community: Third workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase - YouTube
  • Wikidata The Making Of trailer Web Conference 2023 - YouTube
  • [Open Data Day Taiwan 2023] Wikidata Community Workshop Day 1 (in Chinese - YouTube
• Notebooks
  • Fork of Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata

Tool of the week

• Pauken! ("to cram" in German) - is a tool that lets you learn words in different languages, based on images.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mozilla launched the Responsible AI Challenge, in case someone wants to apply with a great Wikidata-supported project.
• Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
  • Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • information sign (property for the image of a (historical or other) information sign or board)
    • location URL match pattern (regex pattern of URL that individual shops/amenity within a chain can be matched against)
  • External identifiers: INEP ID, Facebook numeric ID, Aligulac player ID, U.S. Epigraphy Project ID, Artist Directory ID, LIBRA Unine ID, Litres author ID, NHF club ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • orchestration (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement in notated form)
    • part of other combined lexeme (qualifier on P5238 to indicate that a component appearing in a compound lexeme actually comes from the appearance of another compound lexeme)
  • External identifiers: MEL residence ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID, IRIS Lombardy IDs
• Query examples:
  • Superheroes with a degree in the humanities (source)
  • Places of discovery of objects held in the Musée de Bretagne (colored according to the period of the object) (source)
  • People with far apart reported death dates (source)
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
  • Articles citing the most retracted articles (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Minecraft: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft, along with items for user-generated content (like mods).

Development

• EntitySchemas: We continued the work on creating a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T332139)
• Query Builder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the language of the UI (phab:T328148)
• REST API:
  • We continued the work on making it possible to create or replace, a label or a description in a given language" (phab:T323813)
  • The new endpoints for getting labels, descriptions and aliases respectively are now online. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/entities/items/Q10998/labels/en

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!