Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Cewbot 5
- Task/s: Add sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) for sitelinks to redirects without intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304).
- Cewbot 5
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130, November 27 at 13.00 UTC
- Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto Arts, workshop by Yamen Bousrih.
- Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #68, SI base units
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing — covers a range of identifiers (including Wikidata ones) for taxa, people, institutions and other entities relevant to biodiversity studies
- Videos
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #99 - YouTube
- The Greek Wikidata community celebrates their 10th birthday (Part 2) (in Greek) - YouTube
- Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
- Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata - YouTube
- Import Wikidata into an RDF based Ontology using Apache Jena - YouTube
- SMWCon 2022 - Day 3 - Wikidata Synchronization for the CEUR-WS publishing platform - Tim Holzheim - YouTube
- Sitelinks wikibase cloud - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js is a userscrip that links Labels to Lexemes.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts is a model that tries to predict the instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279) of unlabeled items. You can play with it and leave Daniel some feedback.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: build system, tiratge, official demo URL, pinout, sitemap URL
- External identifiers: Annales des mines person ID, Baidu Tieba name, DrugCentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, Musicsperlacobla sardana ID, Musicsperlacobla composer ID, Boig Sardanista sardana ID, npm scope, IRIS UNICT author ID, IRIS UNIME author ID, IRIS UNIPA author ID, IRIS UNIKORE author ID, Hlídač státu person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: has visual representation, chapter and verse in the Bible, commit hash, official server list URL, translation management URL
- External identifiers: Datastory Glossary ID, SNE publisher ID, Livres Hebdo ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, AniList staff ID, ECOF saint ID, DFK Paris person ID, Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) ID, Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions ID
- Query examples:
- Newest templates:
- Template:Quickquery can be used to quickly write and link SPARQL queries on the Wikidata wiki
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response format (phab:T321459)
- Lexicographical data:
- Added separation between identifiers and other statements on Lexemes (phab:T318310)
- Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (phab:T322687)
- Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field (phab:T315161)
- Mismatch Finder:
- Finished work on better handling of dates (phab:T288511)
- Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing data (phab:T313468)
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!