Wikidata:Status updates/2023 06 26

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-06-26.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Wolverène (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/
• New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)

Events

• Upcoming
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 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.
  • Wikiconvention francophone: Opening of calls for communication and scholarship applications until July 14th.
  • WikiIndaba 2023 Call for Submissions and Scholarship Applications. Deadline: June 30, 2023.
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #98, Shoes (started on 2023-06-26 12:01:20)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Dude, where are my pictures?
  • BiCIKL is linking people unambiguously and efficiently to their work
  • Understanding Knowledge Graphs: A Beginner’s Guide
• Videos
  • re:publica 2023 - Peer learning methods and Open Educational Resources (OER) on Wikidata for a viable digital culture of remembrance (in German) - YouTube
  • Workshop - Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata - YouTube
  • Managing conflations and duplications of personal items in Wikidata, National Library of Greece - YouTube
  • Why Wikidata in Linked Data and Libraries (in Greek)- YouTube
  • Adding metadata utilities in the Koha staff interface based on Wikidata - YouTube
  • From authority control to identity management - YouTube
  • DSI Webinar - The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality - YouTube
  • Wikidata as a tool for biocuration of cell types, Biocuration Conference 2023 - YouTube
  • Webinar: Wikidata, a useful knowledge base for any study - YouTube
  • KGC '23 Talk — The Error Is The Message: Extracting Insights From Deceptive Data for Nazi-Looted Art - YouTube
• Surveys
  • Results of the WMDE survey on ontology issues reusers are facing
• Notebooks
  • Explore people having notable parents

Tool of the week

• User:Nikki/NarrowUI.css is a User script that tries to make Wikidata work better on narrower screens, including mobile devices.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), Professor at Cologne univ. ID, Numista ruling authority ID, Suomen etymologinen sanakirja ID, Suomen murteiden sanakirja ID, Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • 諱 ()
    • Date of declaration as a town (The date when a settlement is declared a town)
    • Loss of town status (Date of loss of town rank)
  • External identifiers: Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Alienor.org ID, The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, XWord Info author ID, WKF ranking ID, Composer's Union of Ukraine person ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, etymologiebank.nl ID
• Query examples:
  • Last words of authors (adapted from a query generated by ChatGPT) (source)
  • List of American actors and actresses having a wikipedia page with parents having a wikipedia page
  • (history) Where were the borders crossing between German Democratic Republic (Q16957) and West Germany (Q713750) ?
  • Week 25, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject University of Washington Libraries - projects which individuals at the UW Libraries have done in collaboration with the Wikidata community.
  • WikiProject New York Public Library - work underway at the New York Public Library (Q219555) to connect library data with Wikidata.

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get statements from a Property. (phab:T338383)
• EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the testing of the new datatype.
• Ontology issues: We have released the survey results. The next step is looking into solutions.
• mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make it ready for the new special language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T339103, phab:T329655, phab:T329655)
• Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (phab:T327510)

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!