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Wikidata weekly summary #542

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

🧵Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
  - DwdsBot
    - Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).
  - RobertgarrigosBOT
    - Task/s: I'm using Openrefine to edit items related to Wikidata:Wikiproject_Lieder, beginning by adding the new subclass lyrico-musical work (Q114586269) to the actual lieder in WD. I hope to gain some experience before going with further edits.
  - Josh404Bot 4
    - Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
  - BorkedBot 8
    - Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate

🎊 Events
- Upcoming
  - The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 18th: session where community members can share their favorite Wikidata gadgets, user scripts, or SPARQL queries Agenda
  - Wikimedia Norge: Wikidata celebrates 10 years, and it is marked both in Oslo and in Bergen. Time: 12:00–16:00 Wikimedia Norway's Oslo office
  - Learn Wikidata and celebrate #WikidataBirthday in Sydney! (An introduction to wikidata: how worlds of wikimedia link). Saturday 22 October from 11am to 2pm. Sign up.
- Ongoing
  - Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
  - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #63, Vehicles

✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
    - 10 Years of Wikidata Part 3
  - Adding Jaxsta - the Australian database of international songwriting credits - to Wikidata (How we're using Mix'n'match to add Jaxsta profiles to Wikidata)
- Papers
  - The disambiguation of people names in biological collections - Wikidata, ORCiD and Bionomia
- Videos
- Dataviz
  - Career of Nobel laureates in literature
  - Actress-singers and actor-singers careers in dataviz
- Twitter threads
  - 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata (Curious about some of the more quirky things around Wikidata? Let's have a look!)
  - 10 Queries that teach you something about the world.
  - 10 great website and apps and built on top of Wikidata

🧰 Tool of the week
- New Wikidata game - match new Wikipedia articles and categories with Wikidata items!

✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Outreachy Round 25–projects finalized & contribution period begins!
- The Welsh Government's new mapping platform Data Map Wales (for publishing public geo data) now has an optional base layer entirely in Welsh. This is largely based on OSM data with additional place names from Wikidata.
- The Wikimania 2023 Organizing Team is looking for your suggestions on the first in-person Wikimania in 4 years or on virtual/hybrid setup next year.
- Job opening
  - Software Engineer (Wikibase Product Platform) (m/f/d) - Wikimedia Deutschland

🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: model image, annotator, alphabetical index, recorded participant
  - External identifiers: Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID, British Athletics ID, IAHR member ID, SR-Archiv person ID, Onestop ID, CMA ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, NASA International Space Station experiment ID, NASA International Space Station facility ID, Illinois Plants ID, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Yarus feed ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number, said to be the same as (lexeme), has reply, Stamp perforation, Kanseki Repository work ID, solved by algorithm
  - External identifiers: Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID, CIViC gene ID, Assomptionnistes ID, identifiant Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne, Cannabis Database ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, IDG IT-ord ID, OMED ID, MMB ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, MSVF ID, UOM ID, Central Library of Volos ID, Voroklini Library ID, Miraheze article ID, Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, Municipal Library of Volos ID, Levadia Library ID
- Query examples:
  - Bands that have had more members than the Sugababes (source)
  - Average age difference from one's spouse, by profession, (for men) and (women) (source)
  - How long has each UK chancellor been in office? (source)
  - Streets of Paris that meet (source)
  - Players in the FIFA World Cup 2022 Sticker Album with most years in the national team (source)

🧑🏿‍💻 Development
- REST API:
  - Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
  - Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
- Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (phab:T302289)
- The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
- Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (phab:T304943)
- Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (phab:T315423)
- Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (phab:T303103)
- Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (phab:T318137)
- Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (phab:T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!

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) 17:36, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #543

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

🧵Discussions
- Closed request for adminship:
  - Welcome onboard, Wd-Ryan!
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
  - AniMangaDBImportBot
    - Task/s: Imports properties include genre (P136), intended public (P2360), publication date (P577). Adds references to new and/or existing values from the databases they are imported from.

🎊 Events
- Upcoming
  - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 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.
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour October 24, 2022: ninth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be batch loading data using QuickStatements to create items for works and editions in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
  - October, 25, 2022 (Tuesday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXV: Modeling Elections
  - Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 25 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  - [LIVE Wikidata editing #96] Wikidata Birthday special of Wikidata live editing with surprise guests, October 29 18.00 UTC YouTube
  - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #126, October 30 at 13.00 UTC
  - Webinar: Exploring Wikidata to Find Good Stories - October 28 at 7:00 PM CEST (in Portuguese)
- Ongoing
  - Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
  - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Vegetables
- Past
  - The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online. It included a session about the role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data, which featured six talks, all of which with strong Wikidata components. Slides and/ or video recordings are already available for some (more to follow):
    - Unpacking IPCC and IPBES Reports
    - Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia

✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
    - The Impact of Wikidata and its Community – Part 1, Part 2
  - Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022
  - What you need to know to kickstart a Wikidata Initiative
  - Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister, reaches 100 million items (in Dutch)
  - Volunteers speaking Turkic languages met at Wikidata Istanbul 2022 (in Turkish)
- Videos
  - Wikimedia Research Showcase - October 2022. A panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #95
  - GND meets Wikibase
  - COVIWD - Lightning Talk @Wikidata Workshop 2022
  - Wikidata 10th Birthday Speaker Series 3 - Sustaining a Wikidata Initiative
  - Wikidata 10 years celebration video by WMTURKIC
  - Wikidata at the museum: lowering thresholds for research with linked data in Sweden
  - Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia (The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference in 2022)
- Papers
- Dataviz
  - Nobel laureates in Economics
- Twitter threads
  - 10 awesome tools and little helpers to help you around Wikidata
  - 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
- Presentations
  - Documenting our languages with Lexeme by Asaf Bartov

🧰 Tool of the week
- spacyfishing is a Wikidata entity disambiguation tool based on entity-fishing.

✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata has crossed the mark of 100,000,000 items
- The Small wiki toolkits team are looking for feedback on the ongoing workshop series around bots and scripts development.
- Job openings
  - Wikimedia Deutschland
    - Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d)
    - Data Analyst Wikidata (m/f/d)

🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: none
  - External identifiers: Viveport ID, Larousse Online French Dictionary ID, RaiPlay ID, Rai Teche person ID, Rai Teche program ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: shortened URL formatter, addresses, model for, e-mail subscription URL, official websites, e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, about, Rotational speed, NIP
  - External identifiers: Piraeus Library ID, note.com ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Mod DB engine ID, Litres author ID, Bureau of Meteorology Location Identifier, OKRB 011-2022 code, Cimetière russe ID, New Cinematografo.it IDs, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID
- Query examples:

🧑🏿‍💻 Development
- Lexicographical data: New Lexeme creation page will be live on Wikidata on November 2nd (phab:T307866)
- Updated the ontology file at https://wikiba.se/ontology (phab:T314360)
- Mismatch Finder: Added a Random mode to make it easier to get mismatches (phab:T302289)
- REST API:
  - Documented the differences in the JSON data format between the REST API and the ActionAPI (phab:T318681)
  - Continued work on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors (phab:T320358)

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) 17:23, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #544

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

🎊 Events
- Upcoming
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 1, 2022: Egon Willighagen (d:User:Egonw) on SARS-CoV-2 queries, a a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to d:Wikidata:Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda.
- Past
  - Wikidata's 10th birthday: see the list of events (some of them are taking place in November), the presents and birthday messages, and the Commons category with photos and videos of the events
  - Some additional materials have been made available from the Wikimedia session at the Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) that took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online:

✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - Make Wikidata also Colorful: Using Media in Wikidata by Jsamwrites
  - Interview of Lydia Pintscher for Wikidata's 10th birthday (English and German)
- Videos
  - Wikidata's 10th birthday collaborative video (Youtube, Commons)
  - Livestream with Jan Ainali, Abbe98, Denny Vrandečić and Sandra Fauconnier for Wikidata's birthday (Youtube)
- Threads

🧰 Tool of the week
- sparklis (source) : query builder in natural language that allows people to explore and query SPARQL endpoints with all the power of SPARQL and without any knowledge of SPARQL, nor of the endpoint vocabulary.

✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.

🤔 Did you know?

🧑🏿‍💻 Development
- Sitelinks to Redirects are now available on Wikidata
- Lexicographical data: We are replacing the existing Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866)
- Mismatch Finder: Working on improving the handling of calendar models and precision in dates (phab:T288511)
- REST API: Continued working on better error handling for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)

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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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 · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19:19, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #545

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

🧵Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: MsynBot 10, Mr Robot
- New request for comments: Create items for property proposals
- Other discussions: State of the Wikidata, thoughts on data quality and structure (on the mailing-list)

🎊 Events
- Upcoming
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour November 7, 2022: tenth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
  - Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, November 8 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1)
  - Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, taking place online on November 9th at 17:00 UTC (more details here)
  - Raising an Artist Profile with Wikidata: Thursday November 10, 2022 at 20:00 UTC (Session A) and 23:00 UTC (Session B). This free, step-by-step Wikidata workshop will focus mainly on Indigenous artists. Participants may choose to attend either Session A or Session B: both will cover the exact same material.
  - Wikidata editathon in Swedish with focus on climate politics and COP27, online and in Stockholm, 11 November 13.00-18.00 UTC
  - A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.

✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - Analysis of City Information on Wikidata by Jsamwrites
  - Exploring government departments by linking Wikidata to the National Archives of Australia by Tim Sherratt
  - Trust in Rust by Magnus Manske
- Papers
  - Leveraging Wikidata's edit history in knowledge graph refinement tasks (Gonzalez-Hevia and Gayo-Avello)
- Videos
  - Practical Linked Open Data for Small Archives (in English)
  - Live Wikidata editing #97 with Jan and Albin

🧰 Tool of the week
- WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox.

🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: collection items at
  - External identifiers: Language of Bindings ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, AUTC herritage object ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Universal Content Identifier, Léonore Web ID, BritBox ID (UK version), OMED ID, Municipal Library of Trikala ID, MMB ID, HiSCoD ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ILAMDIR ID, Cannabis Database ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, island code of Indonesia, SR-Archiv print media ID, SR-Archiv record ID, EuDML work ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: official demo URL, WMOOV movie ID, press information URL, contact page URL, sitemap URL, REGON, Check Digit, impressum URL, from language & to language, object identifies
  - External identifiers: Oblio author ID, Pittori Liguri ID, Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, SciSpace author ID, RomArchive person ID, Webtoon creator ID, Archives West repository ID, npm scope, Team Norway profile ID, identifiant USTC, worldofsam ID, Open Supply Hub organization ID, Kotobank ID, Weblio ID, Haymarket Books Author ID, ILNM ID, BookWalker series ID, IRIS Sicily IDs
- Query examples:

🧑🏿‍💻 Development
- Lexicographical data: Replaced the old Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866) - a few remaining issues will still be fixed
- Vue 3: Almost finished the Vue 3 migration in Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme (phab:T321595 and (phab:T304534) - this is needed for finalizing the migration in MediaWiki overall
- Mismatch Finder: Worked on improving the handling of dates (phab:T288511)
- Search: Working with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093)), especially regarding “load more” behavior
- REST API:
  - Continued improving error reporting for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
  - Ensuring that the API correctly marks bot edits as bot edits and treats them as such in various other places

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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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 · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:59, 7 November 2022 (UTC)