Wikidata:Status updates/Next

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-29.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
• Closed request for adminship:
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
• New request for comments:
• Closed request for comments:

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Wikidata Days Bologna 2024, Italian language conference dedicated to Wikidata for libraries and research, taking place in the frame of Wikidata’s 12th birthday, on November 8-9 in Bologna, Italy.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • "Sharing the world’s paintings on Wikidata" By Martin Poulter for the Cultural Content Substack
• Papers
• Videos

Tool of the week

• User:Nikki/ShowIDs.js - This script adds entity IDs in brackets after links.
• Common values, yet another Observable notebook. This one looks at common values between two Wikidata item pages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback to evaluate "default values for all languages" (mul) in the Termbox. Please share your thoughts on this 5-10 minute anonymous survey: https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikidata-default-values-feedback

• The Wikidata (integrations) for Wikimedia projects team have released a progress report on their ongoing research project, investigating the "State of Wikidata usage on other wikis". Available on our Research page, alternatively on Commons.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • coin edge image (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
    • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
    • EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
    • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
    • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
    • Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
    • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
    • myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
    • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
    • object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
    • object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
  • External identifiers: Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, ‎Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, ‎Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
    • Public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
    • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
    • Kunstnerforbundet kunstner ID (Identifier for an artist member of Kunstnerforbundet in norway)
  • External identifiers: Manhom Arabic Profile ID, Thinkwiki article, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (french edition) ID, French Bathing water ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, mandumah ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Political Dictionary entry, United Nations Digital Library ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, FDC ID, 365scores player ID, xdaforums

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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• Query examples:
• Schema examples:
• Newest WikiProjects:
• WikiProject Highlights:
• Newest database reports:
• Showcase Items:
• Showcase Lexemes:

Development

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)