Wikidata:Status updates/2023 08 28

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-08-28.

Discussions

• Closed request for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)

Events

• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #107, Teeth (Challenge started on 2023-08-28 12:01:31)
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 28, 2023. We will cover adding the articles from our bibliography of diverse LIS resources that we created in our last session to Wikidata! We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements. To get a sneak preview of what we will be doing, you can learn more about the Wikidata & Zotero link here: Wikidata:Zotero. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata
• Videos
  • Keynote about Wikidata for the Chinese Confernence on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing 2023, by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
  • How to fill an Infobox on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Wikipedia For Beginners - YouTube
  • The impact of Wikidata-powered inboxes on minority and low-resourced language Wikipedias in Africa (Wikimania 2023) - YouTube
  • How to create item in Wikidata about a village (in Malayalam) - YouTube
  • Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap relation (in Guarani) - YouTube
  • WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Wikitrivia is a web-based game that challenges your knowledge of historical events, people, and places. The game is a combination of Sudoku and Scrabble, and all the data used in the game is sourced from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The objective of the game is to place the cards on the timeline in the correct order.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Biyanto Rebin is joining the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland for 2.5 months as an intern. Welcome!
• Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! Project submission deadline - September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC.
• Postdoctoral researcher (position) in NLP, Digital Humanities, and Semantic Web (0.8 FTE), University of Groningen

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • has heir or beneficiary (people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title)
  • External identifiers: Austrian Cave Register ID, ‎research.com ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, wiki.gg article ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, ‎Visiongame.cz game ID, ‎Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, wiki.gg wiki ID, Audio+ show ID, Cent cols ID, Lift Up profile ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Dictionary of Czech literature after 1945 ID, ‎Biographical Directory of Federal Judges numeric ID, GamerProfiles game ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • simule (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
    • sexe ou genre du protagoniste (regarding the work in question, For human: male, female, non-binary, intersex, transgender female, transgender male, agender. For animal: male organism, female organism. Groups of same gender use subclass of (P279))
    • unofficial name (name which is widely or rarely used, but not official (for nicknames use P1449, for pseudonymes P742))
  • External identifiers: VocalEyes Heritage Access 2022, WikiChip article ID, identifiant Demozoo d'une démo, identifiant Demozoo d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Czech geological location ID, Moviefone person ID, Moviefone movie ID, Les Petits M'O ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Minerals.net mineral ID, Minerals.net gemstone ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of birthplaces of German women writers (source)
  • Week 34, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
  • Where were people who went to space born? (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Research expeditions - documents the activities of an international working group on Research expeditions.

Development

• We started looking at ways to make the Mismatch Finder more powerful and capture more mismatches.
• We updated bootstrap-table library on Wikidata Query Service (phab:T328281)
• We fixed Lexeme header overlaps page toolbar in Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
• We fixed lookup component scrollbar problem (phab:T325822)
• We added telnet as a valid protocol for URL data types (phab:T344417)
• We added language fallback support for EntitySchemas on Special pages (phab:T338798)

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!