Wikidata:Status updates/2022 04 25

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-04-25.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship:
  • Pi admin bot (successful)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • BgeeDB-bot. Task/s: inserting gene expression data from the Bgee database into Wikidata.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 28th April 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
  • Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. The aim of this online editing event is to increase the quantity and quality of performing arts building/venue items.
    • Daily guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French between April 25 and April 29.
    • Wikidata Coffee Breaks From April 25 - April 29, 2022 to fill in missing information on Swiss Performing Arts Institutions and venues.
    • Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ?, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 26, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
    • How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 27, 13:00-13:45 UTC.
    • The full schedule of official and supplementary activities of the Cultural Venues Datathon is availabe in the Google Calendar.
  • Third Pywikibot workshop on Friday, April 29th, 16:00 UTC. "This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the Pywikibot framework."
  • From May 4 to 18 there will be the International Museum Day - Wikidata competition. The aim is to improve data about museums in the countries and regions participating. Contributors from anywhere can take part.
  • The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule#The Wikidata and Wikibase Room.
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #39, Agriculture
• Past:
  • Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-04-20)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • WeDigBio: A Wikidata empowered workflow (diff version)
  • Wikidata as a tool for biodiversity informatics
• Papers
  • Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata Contributors' Motivations (closed access)
  • Beyond Open Data: The Only Good License Is No License
  • WikiProject Clinical Trials for Wikidata
• Videos
  • Synchronizing a matched Mix'n'Match set to Wikidata - YouTube
  • Editing Wikidata Items (in French) - YouTube [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Recently uploaded WikidataCon 2022 YouTube videos
    • Creating subsets of Wikidata
    • Wikidata birthday presents lightning talks
    • Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata
    • Reimagining Wikidata from the margins: listening session

Tool of the week

• Wikitaxa is a software of taxonomy data written in R.
• User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WDQS update lag SLO has been lowered from update lag <10 min 99% of the time, to update lag <10 min 95% of the time.
• Wikidata now has over 9,900 Properties! (71.16% Identifiers)
• Job opening: Product Manager (PM) for Wikifunctions

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: amount of medals, exhibited creator, applies to work, featured track(s), raw material processed, debut date, OSM object, number of references, franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius
  • External identifiers: DTB artistic gymnast ID, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, C-SPAN person numeric ID, IndexCat ID, lieferando restaurant ID, IPU chamber ID, ACNP library ID, HuijiWiki article ID, TV Maze season ID, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, MINEDEX project ID, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature bio ID, Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: CXSMILES, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959
  • External identifiers: Reflora ID, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, Biografiskt lexikon för Finland URN.FI, Galaxy Store app ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, Identifiant Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique (1802-1914), NSR quay ID, NSR stopplace ID, Heiligen.net ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID
• Deleted properties:
  • GS1 Global Product Classification brick code
• Query examples:
  • Most common classes for values of "depicts" (P180) on Commons (source)
  • Scottish river drainage basins (source)
  • The earliest road accident victims (source)
  • Country of nationality of people linked to the Ghana's top 3 traditional universities (source)
  • Count of Wikidata property types (source)

Development

• Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data.
• REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.

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!