Wikidata:Status updates/2022 03 21

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-03-21.

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

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • MediaWiki Lua for non-Lua programmers by Lucas Werkmeister
  • Kohesio.eu: European Commission goes Open Source
• Videos
  • Ongoing DataReuseDays 2022 - YouTube
    • Lightning talks
    • Wikidata for performing and visual arts
    • Wikxhibit
    • How to retrieve Wikidata’s data?
    • Best practices for reusing Wikidata’s data
    • Building a simple web app using Wikidata data
    • Biohackathon: report on reviewing Wikidata subsetting method
    • GeneWiki: The Wikidata Integrator
  • Cartographier des données de Wikidata avec Umap (in French) - YouTube
  • Mapping Einstein Researchers on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube

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

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!