Wikidata:Status updates/2022 10 10

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-10-10.

🎊 Events

• Upcoming
  • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 11 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Live editing session on Twitch as part of the DACH Culture Contest, in English (or French, depending on the audience), by Jean-Frédéric, October 12 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • 12 November 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Mini Wikimedia Hackathon for experienced Wikimedians. Includes a farewell ceremony to the GLAMwiki Toolset.
  • UM Data Science Research Seminar. Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Speaker: Egon Willighagen. Title: Making research output FAIR with Wikidata
• Ongoing
  • DACH Culture Contest to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland − until October 16th.
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #62, Cereals
• Past
  • The European Citizen Science Association's 2022 conference was held from 5-8 October in Berlin. It included a presentation on Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia.

✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
    • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 1 (en, de)
    • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 2 (en, de)
  • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In
• Videos
  • Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals)
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #93
  • DCMI Webinar: Querying Wikidata - All the Knowledge in the World
  • Merging data from a remote SPARQL End Point (Wikidata) with locally stored Data using Apache Fuseki and Jena
• Dataviz
  • All Nobel laureates by year and gender
  • Tribute to Annie Ernaux, Literature Nobel lauréate in 2022

🧰 Tool of the week

• User:Magnus Manske/author strings.js will automatically run on any item with author name string (P2093). It allows to "create new author" for the selected entries, and change the string author properties for authors (P50).

✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
• The September 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.

🤔 Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: model image
  • External identifiers: eGardenGo plant ID, Oculus Store ID, UniChem compound ID, Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number
  • External identifiers: Online French Dictionary Larousse ID, C64-Wiki, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID
• Query examples:
  • Wikidata has more than 200 Klingon lexemes. qapla'!
  • Map of historic Welsh parishes (source)
  • "Controversies” articles with the most sitelinks (language versions) (source)
  • Are you cited by Nobel Prize winners? (Replace with your ORCID id in query to check) (source)
  • Current members of UK Parliament and their PhD theses (source)
  • Map of Rennes, each dot is a thoroughfare, in blue if there is an image of their name sign on Wikimedia Commons, red otherwise (source)
  • Count of all external identifiers for people with ADB identifier (source)

🧑🏿‍💻 Development

• MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
• Lexicographical data:
  • Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
  • Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
• REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
• Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
• Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
• Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!

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!