Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- WikiRankBot (Task: Use Alexa rank (P1661). "...track the monthly ranking of websites based on Similarweb Ranking")
- TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Cultural Institutions and Linked Open Data Networks: Create Your Own Database with Wikibase! Friday, 05.26.2023 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (On-line)
- Conversation on open data and digital innovation in education. Carlos Blin Auditorium of the Central University of Chile, Av. Santa Isabel #1278, Santiago. Thursday May 25 – 10:00 a.m.
- Towards a new national bibliographic processing policy with linked data. Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 May 2023
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tool of the week
- tidywikidatar is an R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 candidates announced, with Wikidata-related projects
- re•shape – A Wikimedia program to support knowledge equity - Applications are open between May 11 and June 18 to apply for a grant to create more space and visibility for marginalized knowledge.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme)
- External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Humanities Commons member ID, Shipbucket ID, MEL residence ID, JMA weather station ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, GamesRadar+ ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Qualigeo ID, Ut ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Israel Composers' League composer ID
- Query examples:
- Name of languages containing the words "old" or "ancient" (source)
- Birthplaces of humans called "Antoine" (source)
- Who took the most pictures on WikiCommons around a Wikidata item? (source)
- Graph of art (and other things) owned by Art Looting Red Flag Names or members of the Nazi Party at any time (source)
- Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 19, 2023) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Personal Pronouns (Goal: Model and assign pronouns ethically in Wikidata)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
- Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (phab:T334450)
- mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (phab:T330193, phab:T329626)
- Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (phab:T332739).
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!