Wikidata:Status updates/2023 09 04

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-09-04.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: FlyingAce (RfP scheduled to end after 8 September 2023 23:32 UTC)
• New request for comments: Must 'Serious' WikiData sources be selective? (The disagreement regards the interpretation of WD:N rule number two, which states an item is acceptable if: "It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.")

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 6, 2023. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
  • Registration for 2nd edition of Wikidata MOOC is scheduled for Saturday September 23. Link. (in French)
  • Wikidata Days 2023, 28-30* Sept. '23 | 10h00-18h00 | Auditorium and Training Room. Registration (in Portuguess)
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #108, Roof (Challenge started on 2023-09-04 12:01:27)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikipedia Will Survive A.I. (including comments from Selena Deckelmann (WMF) and User:Jsamwrites)
  • Wikidata query service Blazegraph JNL file on Cloudflare R2 and Internet Archive
  • Improving equity on Wikipedia using Wikidata
• Papers
  • Wikidata Research Articles Dataset
  • Handling Wikidata Qualifiers in Reasoning
  • Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives
  • SemOpenAlex: The Scientific Landscape in 26 Billion RDF Triples
• Videos
  • #SPARQL #Wikidata: first name, occupation and Academy, by VIGNERON - YouTube (in French)
• Newsletters
  • Wikidata and the epistemology of robots in RAW ((in French)
  • Explore Wikidata differently with Synia in RAW (in French)

Tool of the week

• User:Sanqui/referenceurl.js - is a userscript that adds a button to add a reference which immediately suggests reference URL (P854).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Job opening: Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d). For our Team Wikidata, based in Berlin, we are looking for a permanent Software Engineer (m/f/d), full-time or part-time (min. 32h/week), as soon as possible.
• Wikidata's eleventh birthday is around the corner! One of our traditions is to prepare birthday presents to the community. Now is a great time to start preparing yours!
• Developer account signup from Wikitech removed. Now directing new users towards https://idm.wikimedia.org instead.

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)
    • towing capacity (the maximum sustainable force with which this vehicle can pull or push another object. Alternatively for road- or track-vehicles, the maximum weight of an object on wheels that this vehicle can reliably and safely pull given usual slopes)
    • learning outcome (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program)
    • tribe (recognised membership in a society, mainly denoted by shared cultural heritage; for ethnicity use P172)
  • External identifiers: ANPI person ID, Anikore anime ID, Substack profile ID, Artmajeur artist ID, FantLab translator ID, ‎wadoku ID, identifier in a register in Germany, Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • when used with property (when used with property)
    • Wikimedia Commons campaign (name of a Wikimedia Commons campaign)
    • near (for geo-objects which are located ''near'' some other geo-object)
  • External identifiers: animecons.com event id, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, BioGRID Publication, iNaturalist user ID, MyShows, NHK News topic ID, Museoitalia ID, DBpia author ID
• Query examples:
  • Old Greek personalities with entries in Prosopographia attica (source)
  • Largest heist by damage (source)

Development

• EntitySchemas: We added language fallbacks to the statements linking to EntitySchemas (phab:T338797)
• We fixed the issue with overlapping Lexeme headers in the Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
• Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on PATCHing for statements on Properties (phab:T342238)

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!