Wikidata:Status updates/2023 10 16

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-10-16.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 17, 2023: Our scheduled speaker had to unexpectedly cancel, so please join us to transfer group call notes from the Google Drive to the wiki project page (see instructions link in agenda document!) Agenda
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 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.
  • WikidataCon 2023 on October 28-29: don't forget to register for the online or the onsite event! You can also check the program, prepare a present for the Wikidata birthday, and join or organize a satellite event with your local community.
  • Wikidata Day NYC '23 Join fellow Wikidata-enthusiasts on October 29th at the Butler Library, 114th Street West, NYC for a free Wikidata-celebration with a selection of engaging workshops and presentations to attend.
  • State of the Map EU 2023 has a session on OSM-Wikidata Map Framework on Sunday, 12th Nov., taking place in Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Wikidata Days: WM-Peru (in Spanish) attend a 2-day event, with sessions devoted to Wikidata, OpenRefine, QuickStatements and SPARQL.
  • Wikimedia Chile: Wikidata Training Course Staying in South America, Chilean and all Spanish-speakers can attend a 4-day Course and earn a participation Certificate. Online event - 17 to 20th October.
  • Igbo Wikimedians User Group invites you to a Wikidata event tagged "One Item, One Image". October 17th at 5pm WAT on Google Meet.
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #113: Apple (Challenge started on 2023-10-16 12:01:41)
• Past Week:
  • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #112: Dogs has ended. Did you contribute?
  • Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies International Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata by Vogel & Binnig.
• Press: Indexing news with AI via BroadCast Pro ME ("We are able to create a rich multilingual archive, leveraging translations based on the Wikidata knowledge graph.")
• Videos
  • Introduction to Properties: Proposal & Creation (in French), by Nicolas VIGNERON.
  • Drag'n'Drop Gadget <-- This handy gadget allows you to click and drag information from a Wikipedia article and add it to a Wikidata-item as a Statement. By Magnus Sälgö.
  • Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) <-- a comprehensive guide through linking Wikisource entries to their Wikidata-items.
  • Introduction & Overview of Wikidata (in Spanish), by Ismail Olea.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #110 <-- Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what we are doing and why we do it.
• Notebooks
  • Analysis of Wikidata reconciliation results (in French)
  • What's nearby, Wikidata? will generate a list of nearby places that have a Wikipedia article close to your current location.
• Reports: Report on the Biodiversity Information Standards Conference 2023 (TDWG2023) by Ambrosia10

Tool of the week

• Map Kerala (https://wikiproject-kerala.github.io/Panchayat/) uses Wikidata to distinguish Panchayats of Kerala at a glance based on three distinct identifier codes (LGD code, LSG code, SEC code).
• User:Nikki/ChecksumCheck.js <-- This script displays a symbol after external identifiers which contain checksums, to indicate whether the checksum in the identifier is correct. Currently only supporting a small number of Identifiers.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • ‎WHO Aware Classification (antibiotic classification according to the World Health Organization)
    • ‎self-identified name (name by which a group of humans refers to itself (endonym))
    • non-self-identified name (name used to identify a group of humans as opposed to their self-determination)
  • External identifiers: FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID, Minerals.net mineral and gemstone ID, MUSE book ID, ‎Game Jolt ID, Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français ID, ‎ProductReview ID, ‎Acclaimed Music album ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, SlackBuilds package, Metacritic numeric game ID, Metacritic publication ID, Metacritic company ID, StopGame series ID, Steam Workshop mod ID, California State Park ID, ‎Find my School ID, WikiKids ID, SBL player ID, Open Library publisher ID, DBpia article ID, ‎Gematsu company ID, ‎Valve Developer Community article ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • parent form of an active substance (parent form of a chemical entity used as an active substance in the form of a salt)
    • FAO WIEWS Institution ID ()
  • External identifiers: numéro de licence d'un joueur de la FFTT, Rahlfs Number, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID, Minnesota State Forests ID, Kinobox ID, GNU Savannah project, Indie DB company ID, Mod DB company ID, Catenae Catalogue, GameBrew ID, JLPGA player ID
• Query examples:
  • List of lighthouses in France (source)
  • Which academic journals publish the most International Space Station Research? (graph) (source)
  • Tamil Lexemes missing Item for this sense statements (source)
  • People with no country of citizenship having Norwegian names (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Catalan creators - a project for documenting creators born or active in the Catalan speaking territories
  • WikiProject BeyondNotability - a project for improving content on Wikidata women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in the UK circa 1870-1950
  • WikiProject Manuscripts - a project for gathering and curating structured data on manuscripts

Development

• Wikibase REST API:
  • Working on the ability to modify the aliases of an Item or Property (phab:T342982, phab:T337371)
  • Working on the ability to add or replace a label in a given language on a Property (phab:T342979)
  • Working on the ability to add or replace a description in a given language on a Property (phab:T348150)
• Lexicographical data: We (mostly) fixed an issue where Lexeme pages where missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
• Mismatch Finder: We continued work on making it possible to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)

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!