Wikidata:Status updates/2021 07 12

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-07-12.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Emu (RfP scheduled to end after 13 July 2021 11:49 UTC)
  • -akko (RfP scheduled to end after 16 July 2021 06:31 UTC)
• Closed request for adminship:
  • Allenwang6212a (unsuccessful)

Events

• Past:
  • LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
  • SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
  • SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; [1], July 13th.
  • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—July 14th, 2021. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #71, July 18

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Improving Wikidata-Wikisource Integration, July 7, 2021 by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
  • A first look at Wikidata through Github Copilot by Addshore
• Papers
  • d:Q107425133, by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
• Videos
  • Introduction to OpenRefine for batch Wikidata editing (YouTube, ca. 1 hr 40 min) by Spinster. Recording of a training for the Wiki World Heritage User Group.
  • Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (Global Open Initiative Foundation workshop) - YouTube
  • Editing Lexicographical data in Dagbani (ʒiɛɣu) (Dagbani Wikimedians User Group workshop) - YouTube
  • Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata now has over 9,000 Properties! You can see the development over the past 5 years and which datatype is represented the most here.
• Wikimedia Deutschland to receive a grant from Arcadia to work on minority languages
• The Wikidata development has a new space to receive bug reports and feature requests: d:Wikidata:Report a technical problem. You may also continue to report issues to d:Wikidata:Contact the development team but until the end of July when the page will be permanently protected and archived.
• OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
  1. Junior Developer - Wikimedia Development (6 months, from September 2021 till February 2022)
  2. Junior Developer - OpenRefine Development (8 months, from November 2021 till June 2022)
• For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: taxon range, image of entrance, replacement value, announced at
  • External identifiers: Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, cIMeC.Ro museum ID, Research Resource Identifier, Swedish National Archive agent ID, Room of Names ID, Native Land territory ID, Native Land language ID, eishockey.info player ID, HockeyLive player ID, fotoCH photographer ID, UFC ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, FightMatrix ID, EBIDAT ID, Bellator ID, WTA-Trainer-ID, Tapology ID, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state, edition-version, Città e Cattedrali ID, release of, translation of, match event, Igromania series ID, alternative title, Classification of the Functions of Government
  • External identifiers: WMO code, Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, FINA Athlete ID 2021, IFPNI author ID, Steam Greenlight ID, Adventure Corner ID, Pladias ID, código centro docente CEICE, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, abART term ID, US-Ski-&-Snowboard-Athleten-ID, Freeview Australia show ID, Kartridge game ID
• Query examples:
  • Subclasses of Q732577 'publication' found by the Gather, Apply & Scatter service (source)
  • Places more or less on Papa Stour (using P1332-P1335 to constrain a wikibase:around search)
  • Map of Sweden's outdoor gyms (Source)
• Newest database reports: language names in Dutch (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)

Development

• Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
• Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
• We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
• We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
• Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
• Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
• Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
• Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2): We investigated How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities. You can read the ADR here

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!