Wikidata:Status updates/2022 12 19

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-12-19.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Bean49Bot
    • Task/s: Update population of Hungarian municipalities.
  • BjoeBot
    • Task/s: Make sure all map data modules have an item and instance of (P31) of map data module (Q18711811).

Events

• Upcoming:
  • You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th. More information: Wikimedia Hackathon 2023/Participate
  • digital@IANLS: online Wikidata workshop for Neo-Latinists in February 2023
  • Call for Papers on Linked Open Data on Journal BiD: Deadline: Sun, 04/09/2023. Some of the ideas and issues to be included in this issue: Creation and exploitation of knowledge graphs, Information services based on linked open data and knowledge graphs, Artificial intelligence and linked open data, Textual corpora and linked open data, Textual corpora and knowledge graphs, Application of bots in linked open data, Application of bots in knowledge graphs, Linked open data and diversity of genres, Graphs of knowledge and diversity of genres, FAIR and linked open data, FAIR and knowledge graphs, Ontologies and linked open data, Ontologies and knowledge graphs, Application of ontologies in information services.
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #72, Rooms

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Fork of User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia
  • Reconciling a Mix’n’Match catalog to Wikidata via Google Sheets
  • Celebrating the Wikipedia and Wikidata Birthday in school
• Papers
  • Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
• Videos
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #101 - YouTube
  • LOD as a way of thinking in the era of digital humanities - a preliminary study on Wikidata/Wikibase practice (in Chinease) - YouTube
  • ESEAP 2022 - Wikidata workshop: Intro to Wikidata, Identifiers & Entity Explosion, OpenRefine & Biota - YouTube
  • What is the Wikidata database, how to contribute, how to write queries in SPARQL by Valerio Bozzolan (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap by Edward Betts - YouTube
  • How to create a wikidata entry for a journalist - YouTube
  • LOD is the future - Wikibase application of Rhizome, an independent digital art agency in New York (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Coolest Tool Award 2022 - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Atlas is a system allows the user to search for different types of entities (with geo-coordinates) on Wikidata and visualize them on a world map. (Feedback is very welcome to help evaluate and improve the tool.)
• Check out a similar tool: wiki-atlas

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata:Wwwyzzerdd got an update where it now will try to predict good statements to add to Wikidata from Wikipedia articles.
• Writing SPARQL queries can be very challenging. You can find inspiration by browsing and searching in this dataset of 2,400 queries collected from Wikidata. (source)
• The French Wikipedia now uses a Wikidata-based list for the pages on specific dates, without relying on ListeriaBot. Who was born on a December 19th and has an article in French? You now can have the answer thanks to a Wikidata query by going to the page 1er décembre on frwiki and clicking on the infobox link "Naissances du jour". This is a link to a Wikidata list provided by the query service. The query is generated by the template fr:Modèle:Naissances un jour du mois. This follows another such template used to find all persons with a certain surname on frwiki, used on all surnames pages and on some disambiguation pages, fr:Modèle:Liste des personnes ou_personnages par prénom. For the surname Victor (Q539581) (view with Reasonator, SQID) this generates on the page w:fr:Victor_(prénom) a query such as this one.
• Wikidata now has more than 100,000,000 items! Exactly which item was the 100 millionth is unknown as of writing, but there are some clues for anyone who wants to dig into it.
• Survey: What are your most important Wikimedia content partnerships tools in 2022? Closes on January 8, 2023.
• Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January until Monday, Feb 6, 2023
• There is a new website to collect contact information for heritage organizations in Georgia for the purpose of disaster response with the data coming from Wikidata.
• Wikibase 1.38 release is delayed until January 2023
• Job opportunities
  • Postdoc, PhDs, and technician opportunities related to Wikibase project at University of Groningen

Did you know?

• Newest properties: This section is currently empty due to technical issues with the bot responsible for filling it. If you are interested in keeping track of new properties on Wikidata, you can check the property proposal page for updates.
• New property proposals to review: RPG Site game ID,member of tribe, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Macmillan Dictionary entry, Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Panjab Digital Library ID, Oh!FM-7 ID, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, model lexeme, format string, travel advisory category, location URL match pattern, Tabelog restaurant ID, service options, RetroAchievements ID, statut administratif, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, relative statement frequency, Mertens-Pack Number (MP3), Nintendo-Online ID, does not use, is not part of, object is, Nintendo World Report ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, ntower ID, Anadolu Agency infographic ID, digital equivalent of, property describes, Computer Science Ontology topic, BookWalker series ID (global version), Le Grenier du Mac ID, Fascist Latin Texts author ID
• Query examples:
  • Football skills! (source)
  • Concepts with more individuals having Mastodon IDs (source)
  • Mastodon follower/subscriber figures (source)
  • Lexeme senses which are described in Jaehoon Yeon and Lucien Brown's Comprehensive Grammar of Korean (source)

Development

• REST API: We are getting ready for a release in January and would really love more people to test the current state on beta. You can find details for testing at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
• Vector 2022 search: We have worked on making the new search in the Vector 2022 skin work for Wikidata. You can now test it on test.wikidata.org and soon on Wikidata.
• Query Service:
  • Removed the SVG download options for result views where SVG downloads are not supported, such as Map (phab:T311594)
  • Fixed the indentation of autocompletion suggestions (phab:T291695)
  • Fixed downloading query results in the Query Builder (phab:T323451)
• Lexicographical data:
  • Working on showing the Lexeme lemmas when you look at a Lexeme’s history (phab:T312660)
  • Fixing a keyboard navigation issue in the lookups on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
• mul language code:
  • Continuing to investigate how to implement language fallbacks on mobile termbox (phab:T323098)
  • Investigating how to disallow `mul` descriptions (phab:T313027)
• Improving and harmonizing the footers in the Query Builder (phab:T324356) and Mismatch Finder (phab:T324366)
• Preparing for showing constraint violations to visitors who aren’t logged in (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!