Wikidata:Status updates/Next

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-12.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
• Closed request for adminship:
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
• New request for comments:
• Closed request for comments:

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• Papers
• Videos

Tool of the week

• New Q5 - is a form that quickly sets up a Wikidata Item for an individual by generating a QuickStatement with the basic parameters such as name and age.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
    • object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
    • object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
    • public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
    • relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
  • External identifiers: Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, mandumah ID, Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID, FoodData Central ID, French bathing water ID, Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID, Political Dictionary ID, United Nations Digital Library ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, 365scores football player ID, African Music Library artist ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID, GamingOnLinux Database ID, TIPLOC code, JJM Habitation ID, IDU play ID, ‎IDU original ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
    • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
    • has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
    • growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
    • lifespan (duration of a person's known or recorded lifespan)
    • APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
    • exponent of base unit (a qualifier of {{Q|P12571}} used to describe the exponent of the unit)
    • Javanese registers (suggest the relationship between similar Javanese lexemes, between its various registers (social variants), mainly {{Q|12500634}} register (plain Javanese), {{Q|12492493}} register (high/polite Javanese), and {{Q|13091955}} register (middle Javanese))
  • External identifiers: Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, xdaforums, FolkWiki ID, 365scores basketball player ID, The House of Graphs ID, SIMBAD catalog properties (used more than 1 million times), All Musicals lyrics ID, 365scores football team ID, 365scores basketball team ID, Illinois Center for the Book Author ID, Ôlyrix Person ID, Ідентифікатор відеогри Gamekombo, Slekt og Data grave ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Wikidata's "instance of" and its associated properties, according to "properties for this type" (P1963)
• Schema examples:
• Newest WikiProjects: Redundancy - The primary aim of WikiProject Redundancy is to reduce the amount of Wikidata's data—without reducing the amount of information in Wikidata!—for the well-being of Wikidata, its community, and its downstream users.
• WikiProject Highlights:
• Newest database reports:
• Showcase Items: Cambridge (Q350): city in Cambridgeshire, England
• Showcase Lexemes:

Development

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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!

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