Wikidata:Status updates/2023 07 03

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-07-03.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: koavf 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 8 July 2023 13:16 UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Wolverène Welcome onboard \o/
• New requests for permissions/Bot: UrbanBot (Task: UrbanBot's task is to mass-add English descriptions to items that don't have one)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)

Events

• Upcoming
  • The third iteration of the WikiWomenCamp will be hosted in New Delhi, India, from the 20th to the 22nd of October 2023. Scholarship applications are now open.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour July 7, 2023: Let's collaborate to upgrade our community infrastructure! We'll transfer notes and content from Google Docs to our WikiProject subpages. We'll be practicing our Wiki markup skills and learning to manage Wikidata Project pages Event page
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #99, Breast milk (Challenge started on 2023-07-03 12:01:21)
• Past: The “Games & Literature” conference took place June 28th-30th at German Literature Archive Marbach (Q1205813), several sessions mentioned Wikidata (see for example Why we thought it was a good idea to build a DACH games database).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos
  • More lexeme fun! with Mahir256 - Twitch
  • EduWiki 2023 Wikidata for Education - YouTube
  • EduWiki 2023 Wikidata in Secondary School Classrooms - YouTube
• Notebooks
  • Visualizing all Tour de France's yellow jersey wearers. See also, all notebooks about the Tour de France.

Tool of the week

• m:User:Base/Scripts/HaveWikibaseLabelLowercased.js - is a Userscript that adds an arrow next to the main label (page title) which upon double click (a tap and a confirmation on touch devices) automatically makes the label's first letter lowercase for the current interface language. If there was already a matching alias it gets removed.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The WikidataCon 2023 call for proposals is running until July 31st. If you have questions or need advice before sending a program proposal, join the program team during one of the office hour sessions (online or in Taiwan, in Chinese or in English). More information
• Scholia has a new aspect dedicated to profiling WikiProjects, e.g. toolforge:scholia/wikiproject/Q56241615 for WikiProject Invasion biology. Using it revealed inconsistencies across WikiProjects in terms of which properties they use (and how) to associate a page with a WikiProject, as discussed here.
• Introducing Wikibase World. The Wikibase registry has moved. Add an entry for your Wikibase if it's accessible over the open internet.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • first performance by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work)
    • record of (signal over time this object is a physical representation of)
    • orchestration (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement described using score notation)
    • type of document(s) held (used to specify the type of document(s) contained in an archival collection or documentation file)
  • External identifiers: French sports venue number, Challenges billionaire ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, mosff.ru player ID, Austadiums ID, Akadem organization ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia.com ID, QLIT ID, Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Kartvelologists of Georgia ID, Politique pappers identifier, altesdresden.de object ID, BFM.ru person ID, beachsoccer.com player ID, National Science Foundation award, BIBFRAME Hub ID, elibrary.ru article ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris work ID, Radiomuseum company ID, BSDB player ID, NBC Olympics athlete ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • elected on (Date when a person was elected to a {{P|P39}}, in difference to {{P|P580}} (= {{Q|Q28530236}}). {{P|P2715}} cannot always be applied.)
    • collage combines images (collage composed of images)
    • Nigerian registered company (RC) id (RC number (Registration Number), identifier assigned to a business by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Nigeria)
    • Cent cols (A property to link Wikidata entries to the dedicated pages of each pass by the Cent Cols)
    • Phonographic copyright (identifier for phonographic copyright)
  • External identifiers: myjewishitaly.it ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Lemmy community identifier, Mythoskop ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara settlement ID, LFG player ID, Flashpoint database ID, Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, Wikibase World identifier, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, National Library of Colombia authority ID, CNR ExploRA author ID
• Query examples:
  • Subject areas of journals that have published papers about the replication crisis (by User:Zeromonk and User:MartinPoulter)
  • Count of games published in ROM format per platform per year, 1995-1997 (source)
  • Countries with similar populations
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Conflation aims to identify and untangle conflated items.
  • WikiProject Scotland's Accused Witches aims at producing structured data documenting witchhunts, and prosecuted Scotland's accused witches on Wikidata using the University of Edinburgh's landmark Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (1563 to 1736).

Development

• Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the GetProperty endpoint with fields filter and Conditional headers (phab:T338141, phab:T338138)
  • We started working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356), phab:T338383)
• Ontology issue survey: We put together an overview of solutions for the various types of issues and will share them this week.
• mul language code: We are continuing to work through the language fallback issues that were uncovered.

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!