Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Pi admin bot (RfP scheduled to end after 20 April 2022 17:58 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Stang (successful)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Stangbot 2. Task/s: Insert electorate (P1831) and keep it updated on Brazilian municipalities and states items
- AmeisenBot. Task/s: Label unsigned comments on talk pages
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call will be on Tuesday, April 19 at 11 AM Eastern US time: Martin Schibel will be speaking on Entitree. Please note this is one hour earlier than the usual meeting time Agenda
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
- LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Learn about Wikibase system exploration, data model development, and the road ahead for Digital Scriptorium. When: Thurs. 21 April 2022, 3PM Eastern US (time zone converter). Where: Registration Link
- Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software. Conference date: April 22
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #105, April 24th at 12.00 UTC
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- WeDigBio Transcription workflow "...blogpost...showing how I go from finding the name of a collector when transcribing labels to adding them to Wikidata & then linking them to their collections via Bionomia."
- More Wikidata metrics on the Dashboard
- Videos
- other:
- Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by Whose Knowledge?
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world!
- Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the second quarter (Q2).
- There is a new hub page for the Wikidata Query Service scaling updates, to help you all stay updated.
- Wikidata metrics are now easily accessible on the Dashboard. Here's an example Dashboard including a blog post above detailing the process.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, type of a register in Germany, notable role, athletics program, number of teachers, has certification, choreography for, surrounds the enclave, has surface, per capita income, number of blood donors, official observer status in organisation, web interface software, Martian coordinates, suggested data fields, medical indication, number of conferences, historic insurance number (building), pole positions, place of disappearance, code name, reports to, podium finishes, number of likes, number of dislikes, number of comments, rack system, oeconym
- External identifiers: MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, FID performing arts ID, PLOS Thesaurus ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, Beatport track ID, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, 1905.com star ID, OpaqueNamespace ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, ODOT county code, OpenSanctions ID, CNGAL entry ID, USA Track & Field athlete ID (www.usatf.org), National Associations Register Number Spain, AperTO author ID, IRIS UNIUPO author ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, ARTEINFORMADO person ID, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, Via Rail station code, WikiApiary farm
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID, Unique image of unicode char, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, Thai Romanization, construction start, construction end
- External identifiers: MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID, fanvue creator ID, ACNP library ID, lieferando restaurant ID, Yarus feed ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Personality Database work identifier, Hmoegirlpedia, CNKI Institute ID, Peacock ID, techradar review ID
- Query examples:
- Birthplace of rappers (source)
- Bubble chart of occupation of people linked to University of Clermont (source)
- List of corporate archives, location, and address where available (source)
- French adventure video games (source)
- Women with the citizenship of a country and the most articles in other languages (including English) but without an article in French Wikipedia (source)
- Countries that are bigger (blue) or smaller (red) than all their neighbours (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data: Worked on inferring the spelling variant from the language's Item on the new Special:NewLexeme page and started building a little help box on the special page to explain what lex. data is.
- REST API: Getting closer to having a first version of the REST API that returns Item data.
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!