Wikidata:Status updates/2023 07 17

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-07-17.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Peuc bot 3 (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works)
  • MajavahBot (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from PyPI)

Events

• Upcoming: The 4th Wikidata Workshop. (Extended deadline)! Papers are due on Thursday, 27 July 2023
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #101, Archives (Challenge started on 2023-07-17 12:01:18
• Past: Wikidata and Wikibase Q3 office hour session log: Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2023-07-12

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Issue 01: Who Builds The Internet?
  • Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema? in The Signpost, July 17, 2023
  • The humble guide to building an asset library
• Papers
  • OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction
  • "Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata completion using Wikipedia" (browser extension to import information from Wikipedia, assisted by a DistilBERT-based ML model to predict Wikidata statements for instance and subclass)
  • A universal literary canon based on multilingual encyclopedic data: proposal for a measurement method of literary works using quantitative data obtained from Wikidata and Wikipedia
• Videos
  • Live Q & A with Denny Vrandečić - on Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia and GenAi - YouTube
  • Constructing ethnic language links to open data? Status of Sediq usage on Wikidata (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • LD4 conference (YouTube)
    • Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog
    • Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas
    • Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
    • WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration
    • Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
    • How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Recent Changes API (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • autosuggest value (qualifier for P1963 that suggests which values should be autosuggested to the user that uses the property for items that are instances of the subject)
  • External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, ComingSoon.it TV series ID, ComingSoon.it TV program ID, ‎parliament.bg MP ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, Flashpoint database ID, Choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr organization ID, Gameswelt ID, Vélo'v station ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Alienor.org ID, Musées Occitanie ID, Trésors de Nice ID, Image Duplicator ID, CNR ExploRA author ID, ECLI court code, Romanian river code, ‎German University Collections person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
    • Founder of ()
    • underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
    • timetable ()
    • Canadian Archival Information Network authority record ()
  • External identifiers: BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, DigiListan artist ID, FSHF player ID, WWGR player ID, Threads username, ProQuest publication ID, Lift Up profile ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, FantLab translator ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, Acclaimed Music album ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, Friedländer ID, IMDb keyword
• Query examples:
  • List of data journals at Wikidata (source)
  • Week 28, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Antiquity (aims to gather all contributors working in an aspect or another of Antiquity)
  • WikiProject Lodging (aims at creating, improving, and organizing Wikidata items related to lodging, such as hotels, motels, inns, guest houses and lodging-related topics)

Development

• Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (phab:T327510)
• EntitySchemas: We are working on showing EntitySchema by their label on Special pages (phab:T339924)
• Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
• Language fallback (mul): We want to make language fallbacks for Labels and Aliases more clearly visible in the user interface. A promising solution is to make placeholders more intuitive, so we are currently creating a prototype for community testing (phab:T340832)

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!