Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 🧵Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: MsynBot 10, Mr Robot
- New request for comments: Create items for property proposals
- Other discussions: State of the Wikidata, thoughts on data quality and structure (on the mailing-list)
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour November 7, 2022: tenth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
- Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, November 8 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1)
- Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, taking place online on November 9th at 17:00 UTC (more details here)
- Raising an Artist Profile with Wikidata: Thursday November 10, 2022 at 20:00 UTC (Session A) and 23:00 UTC (Session B). This free, step-by-step Wikidata workshop will focus mainly on Indigenous artists. Participants may choose to attend either Session A or Session B: both will cover the exact same material.
- Wikidata editathon in Swedish with focus on climate politics and COP27, online and in Stockholm, 11 November 13.00-18.00 UTC
- A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Analysis of City Information on Wikidata by Jsamwrites
- Exploring government departments by linking Wikidata to the National Archives of Australia by Tim Sherratt
- Trust in Rust by Magnus Manske
- Papers
- Leveraging Wikidata's edit history in knowledge graph refinement tasks (Gonzalez-Hevia and Gayo-Avello)
- Videos
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox.
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: collection items at
- External identifiers: Language of Bindings ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, AUTC herritage object ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Universal Content Identifier, Léonore Web ID, BritBox ID (UK version), OMED ID, Municipal Library of Trikala ID, MMB ID, HiSCoD ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ILAMDIR ID, Cannabis Database ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, island code of Indonesia, SR-Archiv print media ID, SR-Archiv record ID, EuDML work ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: official demo URL, WMOOV movie ID, press information URL, contact page URL, sitemap URL, REGON, Check Digit, impressum URL, from language & to language, object identifies
- External identifiers: Oblio author ID, Pittori Liguri ID, Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, SciSpace author ID, RomArchive person ID, Webtoon creator ID, Archives West repository ID, npm scope, Team Norway profile ID, identifiant USTC, worldofsam ID, Open Supply Hub organization ID, Kotobank ID, Weblio ID, Haymarket Books Author ID, ILNM ID, BookWalker series ID, IRIS Sicily IDs
- Query examples:
- Intangible cultural heritage (source)
- Wikimedians with Mastodon accounts
- Politicians with Mastodon accounts (source)
- Graph of the characters of the book "We Are Here" (source)
- Map of birth places of women mentioned in the book "Femmes de lettres en Bretagne" (source)
- Participants in the 1955 Bandung Conference (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Lexicographical data: Replaced the old Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866) - a few remaining issues will still be fixed
- Vue 3: Almost finished the Vue 3 migration in Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme (phab:T321595 and (phab:T304534) - this is needed for finalizing the migration in MediaWiki overall
- Mismatch Finder: Worked on improving the handling of dates (phab:T288511)
- Search: Working with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093)), especially regarding “load more” behavior
- REST API:
- Continued improving error reporting for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
- Ensuring that the API correctly marks bot edits as bot edits and treats them as such in various other places
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!