Wikidata:Status updates/2022 07 18

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-07-18.

Discussions

• New request for comments:
  • Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French

Events

• Upcoming
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 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 Wikidata Working Hour July 18, 2022: Working with diverse children's book metadata. The second Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover reconciliation in OpenRefine, so we can identify which authors from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata already exist and/or need to be created in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. Event page
  • Assessing the Quality of Sources in Wikidata Across Languages - Wikimedia Research Showcase, Wednesday, July 20, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC
  • Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #50, Lexical categories
• Past
  • 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. (replay on YouTube)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • The Barassi Line: a globally unique divider splitting Australia’s footy fans
  • Words Matter: Reconciling museum metadata with Wikidata
  • Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia
  • My GLAMorous introduction into the Wikiverse
• Papers
  • Enriching Wikidata with Linked Open Data
• Videos
  • Lexemes in Wikidata structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher) - YouTube
  • Want a not-scary and low-key introduction to some of the more advanced behind-the-scenes topics around Wikidata? Check out the videos from the Wikidata Live Editing sessions by Jan Ainali, Albin Larsson.
  • The videos of the Data Quality Days 2022 have been published and you can find them in this playlist or linked from the schedule.
  • Placing a scientific article on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices (in Chinese) - YouTube
• Threads
  • OpenSexism has created the Wednesday Index: each wednesday, it show gender diversity in Wikipedia articles. Gender diversity is computed using a SPARQL query.

Tool of the week

• EntitySchema Generator - is a GUI to help create simple EntitySchemas for Wikidata.
• User:Jean-Frédéric/ExLudo.js - is a userscript that adds links expansions and mods on item pages for video games.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Job openings:
  • AFLIA: Wikidata Course Manager/Facilitator
  • WMF: Senior Program Officer, Libraries at Wikimedia Foundation
• There is a new Telegram group for OpenRefine users.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Springer Nature article ID, Bibale ID, WW2 Thesaurus Camp List ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, MUSE publisher ID, France bleu journalist ID, HATVP organisation ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail, grade separated roadways at junction, Gauss notation, Crossing number, URL for presentation/slide, Dictionnaire Favereau, Depicts lexeme form
  • External identifiers: Mapping Museums ID, GIE gas storage id, Microsoft KLID, PTS+ season ID, RailScot company ID, RailScot location ID, SABRE wiki ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, PBDB ID, Pad.ma video ID, Pad.ma person ID, Naturbasen species ID, kód dílu části obce, Base Budé person ID, Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID
• Query examples:
  • List of recent heatwaves (source)
  • Most recent information leaks according to Wikidata (source)
  • Cause and mode of death of ex-prime ministers (source)
  • Brazilian writers born in a city with less than 20000 inhabitants (source)
  • Lexical categories sorted by number of languages using them in Wikidata lexemes (source)
  • People playing rugby union by number of Wikipages (source)
• Newest database reports:
  • Albums ranked by number of sitelinks

Development

• Lexicographical data:
  • The new Lexeme creation page is available for testing
  • Fixed an issue where the grammatical form of a Lexeme was rendered as `[object Object]` (phab:T239208) This also solves similar issues in other places.
• REST API: Continued working on the API route to replace or remove a statement of an Item
• We are making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in a lot more places; notably, this includes the wbsearchentities API. (phab:T312223)
• Mismatch Finder: We are discussing options for how to improve its handling of dates, specifically calendar model and precision.
• EntitySchemas: We are trying to figure out how to best technically go about implementing some of the most-needed features for version 2.

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!