Wikidata:Status updates/2023 03 13

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-03-13.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • BorkedBot 10 (Import values of subject named as (P1810), start time (P580), number of subscribers (P3744), point in time (P585), has quality (P1552) (You must be 18+ to view this community (Q83807365), private subreddit (Q72970624), restricted subreddit (Q99518895), quarantined subreddit (Q66364374)) (if applicable), end time (P582) (if applicable), based on subreddit (P3984)).
  • Bitbotje 2 (Task/s: remove redundant item aliases)
  • HubaishanBot (The Bot will import some data from GeoNames (Q830106), Geographic Names Server (Q1194038), OpenStreetMap (Q936) and Yemen General Census of Population, Housing and Establishments 2004 (Q12202700) for only Yemen places these data includes: location, refs, names, population, sub administrative territorial, shared borders. all data imported with me in local database and checked.)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
• New request for comments:
  • Wikidata as fans resources

Events

• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #84, Server
• Past
  • Open Data Day 2023 edit-a-thon by Wikidata:WikiProject Kerala - March 10-11th 2023

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Public Domain Day Belgium 2023
  • The Biodiversity Heritage Library is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
  • Named Entity Recognition for Placenames in Welsh Language Texts
  • The messy data sources behind “Mapping diversity

• Papers
  • How can the social sciences benefit from knowledge graphs? A case study on using Wikidata and Wikipedia to examine the world’s billionaires
• Videos
  • Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - YouTube
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #107 - Twitter
• Podcasts
  • WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia. The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.

Tool of the week

• Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Modrinth project ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Wattpad username, The Counted person ID, L’Équipe team ID, Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, La grammatica italiana ID, CurseForge project ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: University of Barcelona authority ID, IRIS private universities (2) IDs, Deutsche Synchronkartei Person-ID, IRIS Lazio IDs, Napster album ID, AIBA ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID, Epson Tour player ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Litres author ID, Artist Directory ID
• Query examples:
  • Notable milkmaids
  • Places of birth or death of female painters in Brittany (source)
  • What profession do women in Basque Wikipedia biographies have? (source)
  • World map according to shared borders (source)
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 10, 2023) (source)

Development

• Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (phab:T328764)
• EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
• REST API:
  • We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (phab:T330252)
  • We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

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!