Wikidata:Status updates/2023 01 09

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-01-09.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Bean49Bot 2. Task/s: Adding statements to plwikisource items with no statements.
  • RPI2026F1Bot 4. Task/s: Reconstruct npm dependencies.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • RKBot (approved). Task/s: Create Wikidata items for "Kulturdenkmal in Hamburg" (heritage monument in Hamburg - Q28661501) from the official list "Denkmalliste Hamburg" (P1822 is the identifier for this list) published as http://static.hamburg.de/fhh/opendata/kb/DenkmallisteHamburg.xml.
  • Andriy.vBot (approved). Task/s: I need to connect a lot of pages (more than 10 thousand) about russian villages that were created with interwiki links in ukwiki.

Events

• Upcoming
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 10, 2023: Egon Willighagen will be introducing us to SARS-CoV-2 queries, a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—January 11, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
  • The full version of View it! Tool is out! The new user script uses structured data to display related media in any Wikimedia content pages—including Wikidata items—in an on-wiki image panel or gallery view. Please join the public launch and demo of the full version of this new tool on Thursday, January 12th, 5:00 UTC via Zoom (Meeting ID: 160 454 5329) to learn more and discuss forthcoming editing features.
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 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.
  • About 2 months left to register for the first digital@IANLS workshop: Learn the basics of Wikidata and how to use it in your Neo-Latin research. Event is online, free, and open to all. More info on event and registration.
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #75, Tools

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos
  • Editor uses Wikidata to find new uses for existing drugs and speed up approval process for new treatments.
  • Early Demo of Wikibase Export by Renat Shigapov and Professional Wiki
• Papers
  • "Is GPT-3 a Good Data Annotator?" with experiments based on Wikidata - guided generation of labeled data.
• Slides
  • Elena Simperl's keynote summary on Wikidata and knowledge engineering research.

Tool of the week

• Web Hub allows users to navigate between origin and destination on the web using information from Wikidata, primarily on Wikimedia sites.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Digital Dictionary of the German Language completed their first iteration of Lexicographical data donation to Wikidata. The number of German lexemes increased accordingly by 185000.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: travel advisory category, model lexeme, does not use
  • External identifiers: NIP, UniProt disease ID, DBpia journal ID, Garuda journal ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, ComingSoon.it person ID, DBpia publisher ID, Disused stations ID, MQWW poet ID, Nîmes cemeteries ID, REGON ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Sinta journal ID, Sinta author ID, SMA ID, Spiritains ID, Strazha ID, Tabelog restaurant ID, TV Maze person ID, utas.hu ID, VG-lista album ID, Afisha person ID, Catalogo storico ragionato degli scrittori sardi dal IV al XXI secolo ID, Macmillan Dictionary entry (British English), Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Wyndham hotel ID, VideoGameGeek series/franchise ID, Plex GUID, Digital Hanja Dictionary ID, Africultures structure ID, Military Historical Archive exile army member ID, The Israeli Opera (English) person ID, J.League referee ID, PodLink ID, VG-lista song ID, Webtoon creator ID, WikiRate company ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Concepticon ID, Ès lettres ID, Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID, eBookJapan books ID, STEDT ID, Matrix room, British Music Collection score ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Green's Dictionary of Slang ID, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online entry, Anadolu Agency infographic ID, Infopédia entry
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: change of, salary level, applies to property, protected entity, Wikidata property example for qualifiers
  • External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database character ID, A Comparative Study of Modern Chinese and Cantonese ID, J-STAGE journal ID, Sens critique contributor ID, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, The Homicide Report person ID, Film.ru serial ID, identifiant SFMTA, California Birth Index person ID, esid, The Counted person ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Roblox experience ID
• Query examples:
  • Pairs of opposites (source)
  • Ratio of paintings at the Museum of Brittany (source)
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (2023.01.08) (source)
  • Cheeses named after towns (source)

Development

• REST API: Preparing the first release to test.wikidata.org on January 17th and to Wikidata on January 24th
• Entity Schemas: Continuing to investigate and prototype technical approaches for version 2
• Mismatch Finder: Working on giving mismatch providers access to the reviews of the mismatches they uploaded (phab:T304794)
• Investigated how to best do language switching for the Query Builder and Mismatch Finder. So far they only support it by specifying the language via a URL parameter and not yet via the UI (phab:T324653)
• Query Service:
  • Lexeme IDs now have tooltips so you can see the Lemma in the SPARQL code, similar as for Items and Properties (phab:T255245)
  • Fixed a bug where the y-axis label on a graph were misaligned and hard to read (phab:T325808)
• Lexicographical data:
  • Statements linking to a Sense now also show the language of the Lexeme to make it easier to see for example which language a translation statement refers to (phab:T207392)
  • Fixed a bug in the language dropdown on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
  • The Lemma of a Lexeme is now shown in the title of the revision history of the Lexeme as well (phab:T312660)
• Vector 2022 theme: worked on making the search on Wikidata work in this new theme. You can test it on test.wikidata.org now and next week on Wikidata. (phab:T316093)
• mul language code:
  • Continued investigation around how to handle language fallbacks on mobile, which is a blocker for adding this language code (phab:T323098)
  • Preventing the addition of descriptions for mul (phab:T313027)
• Constraint violations: Working on also showing them to non-logged in users (phab:T272132)

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!