Wikidata:Status updates/2022 11 14

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-11-14.

🧵Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • MsynBot 11
    • Task: update Wikidata:Main Page/Popular daily
  • VojtěchDostálBot 1
    • Task/s: Import of field of work (P101) from Czech National Authority Database (Q13550863)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • MsynBot 10
    • Task/s: manage badges in sitelinks to redirects
  • Josh404Bot 4
    • Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
  • BorkedBot 8
    • Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate
  • DwdsBot
    • Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).

🎊 Events

• Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 15, 2022: We will be discussing the first Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour series, which ran from July to early November of this year. We will offer visualizations based on our data, listen to some of our volunteers talk about their experience helping to build the series, and discuss the results of our participant survey. We want to hear your questions and suggestions for future series! Agenda
  • Enrichissement des données sur la danse: Wednesday 16 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session A) and Thursday 17 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session B). Join the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) and the Linked Digital Future Initiative (LDFI) for two dynamic sessions focusing on dance data. Session A will focus on artists, while Session B will focus on organizations and dance companies. Note: These sessions are offered in French only.
  • Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 29, 2022: We will be discussing openly managed data gathering and management with Holly Little (Smithsonian), Sabine von Mering (Museum für Naturkunde), Erica Krimmel (Florida State University), and Debra Paul (University of Illinois)! Agenda
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Numbers (5/n)
• Past:
  • Wikidata/Wikibase Telegram office hours log (2022-11-09)

✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Awesome Wikidata: Curated list of Wikidata Projects and information
  • The Wednesday index, evolution of gender diversity in a selection of Wikipedia articles. The data are collected from Wikidata using @pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article
  • The Enduring Allure of the Library of Alexandria
  • Cultural AI team wins special award at the Heritage Hackathon
  • Checking lexical forms - Abstract Wikipedia Updates
• Papers
  • Building the European Social Innovation Database with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
  • WDBench: A Wikidata Graph Query Benchmark
• Videos
  • Get to know Wikidata Lexemes (in Indonesian) - YouTube
  • Live Wikidata editing #98 - YouTube - The theme is music! with User:Moebus as guest.
  • David Lindemann: LOD-infication of Bibliographical Data Using Free Software: CLB Wikibase - YouTube
  • Experience in Integrating Wikidata and Government Open Data, By Wikidata Taiwan (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • The Greek Wikidata community celebrated the Wikidata 10th birthday (in Greek) - YouTube
  • 10 Years of Wikidata: Wikidata for Open Access to Cultural Heritage, by Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM) (in Portuguese) - YouTube

🧰 Tool of the week

• QLever - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries.
• Discuss.js - Adds a link to a diff when clicked will open a new topic on the talk page that mentions the revision and the user.

🤔 Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, JioSaavn artist ID, England Hockey ID, UWIND ID, NCUA Charter ID, FDIC Certificate ID, Niconico ID, Camp Wild ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, MSVF ID, Central Library of Volos authority ID, Aerodrome identification Code, UOM ID, Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, Levadia Library ID, IHF profile ID, ihg Hotel ID, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Louisiana Plant ID, WMOOV movie ID, PGA of Australia Player Profile ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (A) ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (B) ID, Famous Birthdays ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: subfunction, mastodon URL, unique name, user input & output, Cuneiform character in this lexeme, fruit color, headline, chapter or section
  • External identifiers: BestWestern hotel ID, Wyndham Hotel ID, Hilton Hotel ID, DML-CZ publication ID, Accor Hotel ID, article ID in Alex Författarlexikon, Hlídač státu, Kirjasampo ID, Boksampo ID, UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID, KOBIS people ID, RISM siglum, Infopédia ID, ResearchGate journal ID, Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Collins Online English Dictionary entry, Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
• Query examples:
  • Biggest Mastodon instances according to Wikidata
  • Mastodon accounts of researchers (source)
  • Most annotated servers according to Wikidata (source)
  • Map of birthplaces of people with known mastodon address (source)
  • European islands culminating at more than 1,000 m of altitude (source)
  • Map of water bodies in France (source)
  • Other awards won by winners of the Booker Prize (source)
  • Timeline of Libre and Open Source videogames (source)

🧑🏿‍💻 Development

• REST API:
  • Finished work on improved error reporting of the PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
  • Finished work on properly handling bot user right and marking bot edits as such
  • Adjusting statement data structure in Wikibase REST API responses and requests (phab:T321459)
• Mismatch Finder: continuing work om improving the handling of dates in the Mismatch Finder (phab:T288511)
• New Vector skin: continuing work with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093, phab:T317682)

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!