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Wikidata weekly summary #512
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description)
- AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Tuesday, March 22 at 9AM UTC: first online OpenRefine office hour for Wikimedians. Find the Zoom link and dates/times for next office hours here!
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Christian Boulanger on extracting open citation data for legal theory graph project. Agenda with call link, March 22.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #34, Geometry
- Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. For a recap of the event so far:
- a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
- speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
- all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tool of the week
- Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
- Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are Rapid Grants available for local meetups during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 from May 20-May 22. Apply to host a social for your local community. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2022.
- Magnus made a recent Mix’n’match improvement: List of Wikidata properties (incomplete) that could have a MnM catalog, to help create one, or tag as difficult etc.
- Andrew put together a guide to writing SPARQL queries for the Wikidata MPs project. Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/Building Queries
- The proposed config change to remove the
changetags
right from users – so that they can apply change tags to their own actions as they are made, but not change the tags of other actions after the fact anymore – has been deployed.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID
- External identifiers: LDT @ Library Name Authority ID, LDT @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, LDT @ Library Classification Authority ID, USP Production Repository ID, Transilien ID, United Russia member ID, MovieMeter TV season ID, Joshua Project people group ID, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, vc.ru company ID, Repetti on-line ID, Cybersport.ru ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Discover Moscow ID, ArTS author ID, IRIS UNIUD author ID, Game Informer ID, Ligue 2 player ID, Femiwiki ID, Arachne entity ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, Oregon State Parks ID, Washington State Parks ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Bhashakosha pp., local education level, hours per week, education level, time allocation, grading system, grade, ISCED-ALevel, ISCED category orientation, ISCED Broad Field, ISCED Narrow Field, ISCED Detailed Field, competency, sessions per week, applies to work, rack system, maintains consistent linking to
- External identifiers: Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, USA Track & Field (www.usatf.org) athlete ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, DACS ID (2022), marriott hotel ID, identifiant Epigraphie, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, CPNI ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, eSbírky institution ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria cultural place ID, Zotero ID, World of Waterfalls ID
- Query examples:
- Signature images from Wikidata (change the view to “map” to see the signatures arranged by the person’s place of birth! (source)
- Count of UK lake items with a 'UK Lakes Portal ID' (P7548) property statement (source)
- Travel reports by Alfred Brehm as timeline (source)
- Timeline for the Apple "M" series of Systems on a Chip (SoC)
- Religion of men named “Maria” (as one of their given names) (source)
- Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (passing through Finland and Kazakhstan)
- Map of institutions where "where people who studied there" have created written works whose main subject is knowledge graph (Q33002955), knowledge base (Q515701) and (Q33002955)
- Colonies of Africa with their or their “main state”’s official language and ISO code
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them.
- Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above).
- REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.
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!
This Month in Education: March 2022
This Month in Education
Volume 11 • Issue 3 • March 2022
Contents • Headlines • Subscribe
In This Issue
- Arte+Feminismo Pilipinas:Advocacy on Women Empowerment
- The edit-a-thon on Serbian Wikipedia on the occasion of Edu Wiki Week
- Call for Participation: Higher Education Survey
- Collection of Good Practices in Wikipedia Education
- Conversation: Open education in the Wikimedia Movement views from Latin America
- EduWiki Week 2022, celebrations and learnings
- EduWiki Week in Armenia
- Open Education Week at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
- Wikipedia + Education Talk With Leonard Hagan
- Wikimedia Israel cooperates with Yad Vashem in developing a training course for teachers
Уведомление о переводе: ContribuLing 2022/Program
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The Signpost: 27 March 2022
- From the team: We stand in solidarity with Ukraine
- News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
- Eyewitness Wikimedian – Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
- Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
- Eyewitness Wikimedian – Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
- Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
- In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
- Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
- Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
- Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
- Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
- Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
- Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
- From the archives: Burn, baby burn
- Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
- Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
- On the bright side: The bright side of news
Wikidata weekly summary #513
- Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 31st March 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
- Live Wikidata editing on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 29 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- ArtandFeminism 2022 editathon by Achiri Bitamsimli. Theme: Add Dagbani labels and descriptions of female lawyers in West Africa. Date: April 1st, 2022 - March 8th, 2022. Location: Tamale College of Education, Ghana. Time: 9:00am — 9:00pm UTC. Register.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #77 - YouTube, Facebook, April 2nd at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #102, April 3rd at 12.00 UTC
- Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. This online editing event is organized by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, LaCogency and many partners, with support from Wikimedia Foundation Alliances Fund. Guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French.
- The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects, with a focus on Wikidata, will take place online and onsite on July 1-2, 2022.
- Ongoing:
- Wikimedia Indonesia's Datathon program under 2022 Wiki Women's Month started on March 18th 18:00 UTC+7 and will last until March 25th 23:59 UTC+7. 70+ users enrollled. Page.
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #35, Water
- Past:
- Two Wikidata Training (Kelas Wikidata) on 2022 Wiki Women's Month were held online on March 12th and 13th.
- Data Reuse Days. For a recap of the event:
- a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
- speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
- all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe
- Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia
- Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest
- Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors? fact checking an intuition using Wikidata
- Building a Web of Knowledge Through Wikidata
- Presentations
- Papers
- "Exploratory Methods for Relation Discovery in Archival Data" - a holistic approach to discover relations in art historical communities and enrich historians’ biographies and archival descriptions, based on Wikidata
- Videos
- DataReuseDays 2022 concluded. (see past events above for a full list of the recorded sessions)
- A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - YouTube
- FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
- Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - YouTube
- A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - YouTube
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
- WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Status update about what was achieved for each of the Wikibase related 2021 development goals has been published: Wikidata:Development plan/archive2021/status updates
- Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
- Wikidata now has over 1,600,000,000 edits! The milestone edit was made by Ruky Wunpini.
- The Dutch National Library has a new website with more info on their use of the Wikimedia Projects including their work with Wikidata.
- 2 months paid internship vacancy is available for Wikimedia Indonesia technology division. Registration is open until March 27th. Announcement.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: documentation files at
- External identifiers: SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID, Rekhta book ID, ILO code, reddoorz hotel ID, Naver VIBE video ID, SberZvuk artist ID, Italian Women Writers ID, RBC company ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia person ID, Booking.com numeric ID, Agoda hotel numeric ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: maintains consistent linking to, ocupante de / occupant of
- External identifiers: World of Waterfalls ID, New IDU properties, My World@Mail.Ru ID, BillionGraves grave ID, Archivio Storico Intesa Sanpaolo, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Trovo ID, Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID
- Query examples:
- Wikidata knowledge graph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln (source)
- Women who served as defense ministers in various countries (source)
- UK MPs who had paired names (e.g. Owen Thomas / Thomas Owen) (source)
- List of properties associated with items that are class/subclass of File Format (source)
- Table frequency of properties used in instances of public libraries
- Newest properties:
- Development
- [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
- Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
- Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (phab:T104344)
- Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
- REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication
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!
Sunday April 3 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting
The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.
We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including UCoC Voting, Hubs Global Conversation held + CEE Hub update, Movement Charter + Leadership Development Working Group, Desktop Improvements, Celebrate Women in March + International Women's Day, Wikimania 2022 survey concluded + Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 May 20-22 + local events, and other ongoing activities.
This month we are meeting on Sunday April 3, and you are all invited to RSVP here.
(UTC meeting times are and , note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 12:44, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #514
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4: Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adam Schiff (University of Washington), Tyler Rogers (San Diego State University), Julia Gilmore (University of Toronto) on documenting buildings on academic campuses. Agenda with call link, April 5.
- Wikimedia Research Office Hours April 5, 2022
- Wikidata items about theatre and dance productions, April 6 (in French). The same workshop will be offered in English on May 4.
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 6th, 2022. Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad
- Art+Feminism Community Hours. Theme: Add your Event Data to Wikidata. April 9 at 2pm UTC!
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #36, Family
- Past: Wikibase live session (March 2022) log
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Property exploration: How do I learn more about properties on Wikidata?
- UCSC Ph.D. students dive deep into engineering open-domain dialogue AI with the support of industry partners. "...aims to develop a better system for entity linking, the connection of entities like “Lebron James” or “the Earth” to their various meanings in an existing database of knowledge – in this case, Wikidata..."
- Highlighting linked data projects. "...Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries, and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa are engaging in the grant-funded Linked Data for Production project. Broadly, the project uses linked data to show patrons information from outside sources (such as Wikidata) and build longer, more nuanced links between resources".
- Videos
- Other
- FAIR cookbook's recipe "How to Register a Dataset with Wikidata"
- OpenRefine will soon hold its two-yearly survey again. Who wants to help translate the survey to their language? It will take around 45 minutes. There are already translations underway in Spanish and Dutch. Contact User:SFauconnier if you want to help!
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
- QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Query Service scaling update, March 2022 is now available.
- WDQS backend alternatives paper with shortlist of options have been published.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: cantilever sign, supports qualifier, APE code
- External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, Arizona State Legislators: Then & Now ID, db.narb.by ID, Kayak hotel ID, Melon music video ID, Evil Angel movie ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, World of Waterfalls ID, IxTheo authority ID, BillionGraves grave ID, eSbírky institution ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Zotero ID, My World@Mail.Ru ID, KSH code (historical), traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: oeconym, ISCED Attainment, Per capita income
- External identifiers: Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, AccessScience ID, IPU Chamber ID, COL taxon ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, C-SPAN Person Numeric ID, SRSLY person ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature Bio ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, Beatport track ID, EIA plant ID, EIA utility ID, Speleologi del passato ID, HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language variant.
- REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
- Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense to people who use screen readers.
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #515
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Stang (RfP scheduled to end after 14 April 2022 12:18 UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Botcrux 10. Task/s: Change publication date (P577) of scientific articles from "1 January YYYY" to just "YYYY".
- Pi bot 25. Task/s: Wikidata:Properties for deletion maintenance
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #104, April 17th at 12.00 UTC
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- April 26, Ghent, Belgium: public OpenRefine data cleaning workshop and meet&greet with the OpenRefine team, including preview of Structured Data on Commons functionalities. Physical event, free, sign up via this link.
- Wiki Workshop 2022 - Registration open! The event is virtually held on April 25, 12:00-18:30 UTC
- April 22nd - 24th, from Wiki Mentor Africa, A three days workshop on Linking biodiversity data through wikidata using Webaps and jupyter notebooks to attend, register here
- May 5th: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour, open discussion. Come with your favorite Phabricator task and we will improve its description together.
- DigAMus goes Wikidata workshop: make digital projects in museums visible and findable. April 29, 3-5 p.m. TIB Open Science Lab. Register here.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #37, Numbers
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- A formalization of one of the main claims of “Cortex reorganization of Xenopus laevis eggs in strong static magnetic fields” by Mietchen et al. 2005 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
- A formalization of one of the main claims of “Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information” by Hagedorn et al. 2011 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
- Videos
- Wikidata Query Service Tutorial in Tunisian by Houcemeddine Turki (WikiConference RU 2021 - Part 1, Part 2)
- Live Coding - PyORCIDAtor, integrating ORCID with Wikidata - YouTube
- How to add location coordinates to Wikidata Items (in Dagbani) - YouTube
- Bundestag + Wikidata = Open Parliament TV (in German) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata MOOC (online course) has been developed by Wikimedia France, involving several French-speaking Wikidata editors. The first version of the course will start on April 26 (in French only - registration here)
- OpenRefine is running a short survey to learn about user needs and expectations for the new Structured Data on Commons extension for OpenRefine, which is in the process of being developed. If you upload files to Wikimedia Commons and/or edit structured data there, please help by filling in the survey!
- Wikibase cloud update (April): the closed beta of Wikibase.cloud is planned to start in mid-April. If you want to apply for closed beta access, please register with this form.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: APE code, maintains linking to, academic calendar type, taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, P10604, notable role
- External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID, Speleologi del passato ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Intesa Sanpaolo Historical Archive Map ID, Monoskop article ID, IDU foreign theatre ID, IDU theatre building ID, IDU theatrical ensemble ID, Cameroun COG, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, SRSLY person ID, FAOTERM ID, Catalogue of Life ID, Trovo ID, IFPI GTIN, MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: является автором художественной выставки, shoe color, government debt-to-GDP ratio, National Historical Museums of Sweden object ID, class of property value, has group, name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID
- External identifiers: HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, bebyggelseområdeskod i Sverige, Israeli Opera site person id, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus Identifier, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, IRIS Piedmont IDs, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID
- Query examples:
- Most popular Chess openings (by number of sitelinks) (source)
- Random set of popular ("having more than 20 site links") items (source)
- Wikimedia affiliates on social media (source)
- Listed viaducts in the UK (source)
- Pages linked to the University of Clermont according to the number of articles on Wikimedia projects (source)
- Which languages share a word for the same thing (visualized as a tree map). e.g. planet (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on displaying error messages and inferring the spelling variant from the language. We also looked into the non-JavaScript version of the page.
- REST API: Worked on conditional requests (do not return data the client already has) and authorization.
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!
This Month in GLAM: March 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #516
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Pi admin bot (RfP scheduled to end after 20 April 2022 17:58 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Stang (successful)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Stangbot 2. Task/s: Insert electorate (P1831) and keep it updated on Brazilian municipalities and states items
- AmeisenBot. Task/s: Label unsigned comments on talk pages
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call will be on Tuesday, April 19 at 11 AM Eastern US time: Martin Schibel will be speaking on Entitree. Please note this is one hour earlier than the usual meeting time Agenda
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Learn about Wikibase system exploration, data model development, and the road ahead for Digital Scriptorium. When: Thurs. 21 April 2022, 3PM Eastern US (time zone converter). Where: Registration Link
- Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software. Conference date: April 22
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #105, April 24th at 12.00 UTC
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- WeDigBio Transcription workflow "...blogpost...showing how I go from finding the name of a collector when transcribing labels to adding them to Wikidata & then linking them to their collections via Bionomia."
- More Wikidata metrics on the Dashboard
- Videos
- other:
- Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by Whose Knowledge?
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world!
- Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the second quarter (Q2).
- There is a new hub page for the Wikidata Query Service scaling updates, to help you all stay updated.
- Wikidata metrics are now easily accessible on the Dashboard. Here's an example Dashboard including a blog post above detailing the process.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, type of a register in Germany, notable role, athletics program, number of teachers, has certification, choreography for, surrounds the enclave, has surface, per capita income, number of blood donors, official observer status in organisation, web interface software, Martian coordinates, suggested data fields, medical indication, number of conferences, historic insurance number (building), pole positions, place of disappearance, code name, reports to, podium finishes, number of likes, number of dislikes, number of comments, rack system, oeconym
- External identifiers: MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, FID performing arts ID, PLOS Thesaurus ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, Beatport track ID, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, 1905.com star ID, OpaqueNamespace ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, ODOT county code, OpenSanctions ID, CNGAL entry ID, USA Track & Field athlete ID (www.usatf.org), National Associations Register Number Spain, AperTO author ID, IRIS UNIUPO author ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, ARTEINFORMADO person ID, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, Via Rail station code, WikiApiary farm
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID, Unique image of unicode char, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, Thai Romanization, construction start, construction end
- External identifiers: MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID, fanvue creator ID, ACNP library ID, lieferando restaurant ID, Yarus feed ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Personality Database work identifier, Hmoegirlpedia, CNKI Institute ID, Peacock ID, techradar review ID
- Query examples:
- Birthplace of rappers (source)
- Bubble chart of occupation of people linked to University of Clermont (source)
- List of corporate archives, location, and address where available (source)
- French adventure video games (source)
- Women with the citizenship of a country and the most articles in other languages (including English) but without an article in French Wikipedia (source)
- Countries that are bigger (blue) or smaller (red) than all their neighbours (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data: Worked on inferring the spelling variant from the language's Item on the new Special:NewLexeme page and started building a little help box on the special page to explain what lex. data is.
- REST API: Getting closer to having a first version of the REST API that returns Item data.
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!