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Wikidata weekly summary #515

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• 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

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Chinese Ancestor Portrait Project
    • Browsing FactGrid with the FactGrid Viewer
  • 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
  • Glitter another R package to write SPARQL queries and query Wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints. This package provides a domain specific language to write queries directly from R.
  • Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources.

• 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)

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:55, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue III, March 2022 Headlines Argentina report: Visual culture, human rights and digitization Australia report: Australia grows gender equity for International Women's Day Belgium report: Collaboration with GLAM institutes in Belgium Brazil report: Pills of GLAM Croatia report: ...starting bottom-up in indie archive! Estonia report: Glass, Books and Paintings France report: Mooc Wikidata India report: Wikimedian-in-Residence program initiated at the Research Institute of World's Ancient Traditions, Cultures and Heritage in Arunachal Pradesh Italy report: The growth of sharing on Wikimedia projects Netherlands report: Letters from Sierra Leone: the Sjoerd Hofstra photo collection in a new light New Zealand report: Forming Wikimedia Aotearoa and the Aotearoa New Zealand Theses Project Serbia report: News in Wikipedian in residence projects Spain report: WikiToro Sweden report: The Unique Historical Kalmar County project continues ...; WikiGap x 3; Students writing articles UK report: Khalili Collections Uruguay report: GLAM Activities by Wikimedia Uruguay USA report: Women's History Month Content Partnerships Hub report: UN Environment Programme sharing their knowledge on Wikipedia. Logo competition Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine: survey for Structured Data on Commons features WMF GLAM report: Commons APP calls, Bophana documentaries, and Image Description Week Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #516

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• 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

• 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
    • Transfer bibliographic data from Zotero to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Art+Feminism community Hours: Add your event data to Wikidata! - YouTube (En, Fr)
  • other:
    • Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by Whose Knowledge?

• 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)

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:41, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: April 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 4 • April 2022

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• Audio-Educational Seminar of Wikimedia Mexico
• Dagbani Wikimedians using digital TV broadcast to train Wikipedia contributors in Ghana
• Digital Education & The Open Space With Herbert Acheampong
• HerStory walks as a part of edit-a-thons
• Join us for Wiki Workshop 2022
• The youngest member of Tartu Wikiclub is 15-year-old student

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Wikidata weekly summary #517

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Pi admin bot (successful)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • BgeeDB-bot. Task/s: inserting gene expression data from the Bgee database into Wikidata.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 28th April 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. The aim of this online editing event is to increase the quantity and quality of performing arts building/venue items.
      • Daily guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French between April 25 and April 29.
      • Wikidata Coffee Breaks From April 25 - April 29, 2022 to fill in missing information on Swiss Performing Arts Institutions and venues.
      • Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ?, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 26, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
      • How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 27, 13:00-13:45 UTC.
      • The full schedule of official and supplementary activities of the Cultural Venues Datathon is availabe in the Google Calendar.
    • Third Pywikibot workshop on Friday, April 29th, 16:00 UTC. "This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the Pywikibot framework."
    • From May 4 to 18 there will be the International Museum Day - Wikidata competition. The aim is to improve data about museums in the countries and regions participating. Contributors from anywhere can take part.
    • The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule#The Wikidata and Wikibase Room.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #39, Agriculture
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-04-20)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WeDigBio: A Wikidata empowered workflow (diff version)
    • Wikidata as a tool for biodiversity informatics
  • Papers
    • Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata Contributors' Motivations (closed access)
    • Beyond Open Data: The Only Good License Is No License
    • WikiProject Clinical Trials for Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Synchronizing a matched Mix'n'Match set to Wikidata - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata Items (in French) - YouTube [1, 2, 3, 4]
    • Recently uploaded WikidataCon 2022 YouTube videos
      • Creating subsets of Wikidata
      • Wikidata birthday presents lightning talks
      • Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata
      • Reimagining Wikidata from the margins: listening session

• Tool of the week
  • Wikitaxa is a software of taxonomy data written in R.
  • User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS update lag SLO has been lowered from update lag <10 min 99% of the time, to update lag <10 min 95% of the time.
  • Wikidata now has over 9,900 Properties! (71.16% Identifiers)
  • Job opening: Product Manager (PM) for Wikifunctions

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: amount of medals, exhibited creator, applies to work, featured track(s), raw material processed, debut date, OSM object, number of references, franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius
    • External identifiers: DTB artistic gymnast ID, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, C-SPAN person numeric ID, IndexCat ID, lieferando restaurant ID, IPU chamber ID, ACNP library ID, HuijiWiki article ID, TV Maze season ID, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, MINEDEX project ID, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature bio ID, Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: CXSMILES, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959
    • External identifiers: Reflora ID, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, Biografiskt lexikon för Finland URN.FI, Galaxy Store app ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, Identifiant Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique (1802-1914), NSR quay ID, NSR stopplace ID, Heiligen.net ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID
  • Deleted properties:
    • GS1 Global Product Classification brick code
  • Query examples:
    • Most common classes for values of "depicts" (P180) on Commons (source)
    • Scottish river drainage basins (source)
    • The earliest road accident victims (source)
    • Country of nationality of people linked to the Ghana's top 3 traditional universities (source)
    • Count of Wikidata property types (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data.
  • REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:04, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #518

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another
    • TolBot 14. Archives Wikidata:Requests for deletions

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on May 5th at 16:00 UTC, online. Open discussion - you can bring a Phabricator ticket that you care about or that needs to be improved.
    • Conclusion du Cultural Venues Datathon (in French), May 2, 16:00-16:30 UTC.
    • Cultural Venues Datathon wrap-up, May 2, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
    • Live editing session on Twitch about structured data on Wikimedia Commons, in French, by Vigneron, May 3 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours May 3, 2022
    • May 3rd. Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: The call will include presentations on two projects using Wikidata to enhance discoverability of archival and museum collections. Sharon Garewal (JSTOR) will present “Adding Wikidata QIDs to JSTOR Images,” and Daniela Rovida and Jennifer Brcka (University of Notre Dame) will present “‘Archives At’: An opportunity to leverage MARC to create Linked Open Data.” [1]
    • Wikidata Workshop: Wikidata items for dance and theatre productions, May 4, 19:30-21:00 UTC
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—May 4th, 2022
    • Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh, May 8 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #40, International Workers' Day

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Queries to explore a dataset. Even a schemaless one
  • Papers
    • Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by WhoseKnowledge
  • Videos
    • Workshop "Wikidata, Zotero and Cita": tools to understand the construction of knowledge (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Georeferencing cultural heritage on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Theory of Machine Learning on Open Data: The Wikidata Case by Goran S. Milovanovic - YouTube
    • Introduction to SPARQL (Wikidata Query Service (in Czech) - YouTube
    • Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js - is a userscript that adds a button when editing labels to change the text to lowercase.
  • EqualStreetNames - is a tool that maps the inequality of name attributions.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenRefine is running its two-yearly user survey! Do you use OpenRefine? Then fill in the survey to tell us how and why you use OpenRefine. Results and outcomes will inform future decisions about the tool.
  • The April update for the Wikidata Query Service scaling project is now available.
  • Wikidata now contains all major integrated library systems listed at Library Technology Guides.
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms has a new template for Norwegian Bokmål passive verbs
  • Job opening: PR Manager in Digital Technologies, software development department - Wikimedia Deutschland

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius, Thai romanization, introduced in, image set, Bill Number
    • External identifiers: Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID, OpenStreetMap object, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, DBLP event ID, CNKI institute ID, Woolworths product ID, TEİS ID, FamousFix topic ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, Reflora ID, Hrono.ru article ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, DACS ID (2022), AccessScience ID, settlement area code in Sweden, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, Galaxy Store app ID, Invasive.org species ID, EIA utility ID, Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland (urn.fi) ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: probability distribution related properties, Ladungszahl, Koordinationszahl, danse, Median household income, background of death, Number of housing units, number of reblogs, IBAN banking code, contraindication, incorporated
    • External identifiers: PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID, Encyclopedia of ideas, Personality Database person identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, TIME.com author ID, Investopedia term ID, GeoSciML, GeolISS, National Archives of Sweden persistent identifier, Linz DB ID, belfercenter person ID, Data Commons ID, sextpanther person ID, Tüik number, ERR project, MCCP ID
  • Query examples:
    • Languages and dialects with number of first language speakers (preferred rank) (source)
    • Graph of influences in the age of Enlightenment (source)
    • Countries which are named after a person (source)
    • Number of musical works (compositions) in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)

• Development
  • The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
  • Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
  • REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:10, 2 May 2022 (UTC)