Wikidata:Status updates/2023 04 17

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-04-17.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)

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.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call, Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch and discussion. Agenda.
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #88, Mountain

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • First grants announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to support technical innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
• Papers
  • Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations Report; English-language edition, Édition en langue française
  • Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness, Michael Mandiberg, Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
• Videos
  • Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Basic Lexeme with Asaf Bartov - YouTube
  • "Wikidata as a Seed for Web Extraction"presentation at the WWW 2023 conference - YouTube
  • IFLA SCITECH Webinar: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items - YouTube
  • Wikidata Workshop (adding books) (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Wikidata + Books Workshop (how to add books to Wikidata) - YouTube
  • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (Wikidata workshop Day 2 (in Chinese) - YouTube
• Notebook
  • Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain
• Twitter thread
  • How to reconcile data in another dataset with Wikidata and import additional data from there

Tool of the week

• Query Chest is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten it.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The visual of the upcoming WikidataCon is out (announcement and details)
• Christos started a Wikibase to collect and organise existing research-related resources about Wikibase. Feel free to add to it. researchwb.wikibase.cloud

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Patreon user numeric ID, Team Fortress Wiki ID, Federiciana ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Aisberg author ID, OPENBS author ID, Bicocca Open Archive author ID, IRInSubria author ID, cybersport.ru player ID, Boomplay album ID, IRIS HUNIMED author ID, IRIS UNISR author ID, PubliCatt author ID, FantLab dictor ID, Portráidí ID, Kulturenvanteri.com ID, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Atlante Geopolitico ID, Musée Fabre ID, Musées Grand Est ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Shipbucket drawing ID
• Query examples:
  • ATMs around Munich belonging to the Bankcard-Servicenetz interbank network (federated query)
  • Population growth in Ghana from 1960 onward
• Newest database reports:
  • Deleted properties - Deleted properties that were used in items.

Development

• EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on test systems next. (phab:T332139)
• QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. (phab:T328764)
• Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven language. (phab:T323813)

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!