Wikidata:Status updates/2023 01 16

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-01-16.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • RenmBot 2. Task/s: The bot adds/edits labels/descriptions of Wikidata items in Ukrainian. At the beginning, the bot will correct "проект" to "проєкт" in descriptions. These changes are caused by Ukrainian orthography of 2019 (Q56368731) (see en:Ukrainian orthography of 2019#Major changes to the 1993 orthography).
  • Bean49Bot 3. Task/s: Add parent astronomical body to asteroid belt asteroids, required by multiple constraints.
  • JhsBot 7. Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) statements.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Heinmabot. Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places. (approved)
• Closed request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy (implemented)

Events

• Upcoming
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 2023 (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.
  • Wikimedia Research Showcase on January 18. Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors.
  • Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour on Tuesday 17th January: Update on wikibase.cloud by Evelien Zandbergen, product manager for Wikibase.cloud at Wikimedia Deutschland.
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #76, Wikipedia
• Past
  • LD4-Wikidata Group Call: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic, 10th January.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikimedia Israel and the Israel Film Archive bring Short films from Israel’s History to Wikidata
  • Deploying Wikidata to different graph databases and what works best: Blazegraph, QLever, QEndpoint, Amazon Neptune
• Papers
  • Gender equality in library science and book history Italian journals: a focus on boards, authors and peer-reviewers
• Videos/Audios
  • Mémoires minoritaires, mémoires LGBTI (French): Documenting Queer (LGBTIQ+) history on Wikipedia and Wikidata (Radio/Podcast) (source)
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #102 - YouTube
  • Wikispore, Wikidata, and Small Wikis with Sam Wilson - YouTube
  • Introduction to Wikidata with Alex Lum (2022) - YouTube
  • iPres 2022 - Long Paper 153: A Digital Preservation Wikibase - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Auhority Control data to Wikidata item - helps to create Wikidata Items based on authority control records.
• A new Wikidata distributed game that populates instance of statements using a neural network.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• You can apply for a scholarship for Wikimania.
• Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 is ongoing!
• The upcoming steward elections are open for nominations.
• Wikibase Suite: wmde.10 (Mediawiki 1.38) compatible release updates
• Applications are open now for Wikidata Fellowship by Wikimedia Australia

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: does not use: item or concept not used by the subject but that could have been expected, member of Roman tribe: Roman tribe in which one was inscribed
  • External identifiers: Infopédia entry, 1001Tracklists track ID, 1001Tracklists DJ ID, 1001Tracklists source ID, MyAnimeList company ID, MQWW work ID, Biblissima Authority File, Kitsu manga ID, Kitsu anime ID, CiNii Research ID, Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID, United States House of Representatives ID, ComicWalker content ID, The Numbers franchise ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: heir or beneficiary: people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title, disinherited: someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary, Northstar Travel’s 10-Tier Classification System: [none], 神奇宝贝百科页面标识符: article name on 52Poké Wiki, a Pokémon encyclopedia, value contains sense: qualifier to indicate the sense of a lexeme part of a monolingual text value, form applies to sense: this form is only or mainly applicable this sense, clan: [none]
  • External identifiers: Landgate Object ID, IRIS Trentino-South Tyrol IDs, IRIS Venice IDs, Sinta affiliation ID, Knowledge portal ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, MangaSeek IDs, Dicionário Priberam ID, Michaelis ID, Dicionário Aulete ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Léxico ID, Dicio ID, GamesRadar+ ID, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, norsk fangeregister soningsinstitusjon ID, Dictionary of the Russian Language (Ozhegov) ID, Great Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, AllMovie genre ID, Artlog person ID, Artlog institution ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of sub-categories of a Commons category (source)
  • Number of sitelinks to redirects by wiki (source)
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
  • Airports named after poets (source)

Development

• Vector 2020 skin: the search that works properly with Wikidata has been deployed
• Entity Schemas: Making progress on the proof of concept that will help us figure out the technical way forward
• REST API: getting ready to deploy the first version to test.wikidata.org on February 17th
• Lexicographical data: When linking to a Sense in a statement the language of the Lexeme for that Sense is now also shown. This makes it easier to understand translation statements for example (phab:T207392)
• Constraints: Constraint violations are now also shown to logged out users (phab:T272132)
• Fixing a regression where Wikipedia and co are no longer notified about a disconnected sitelink when the Item that contains the sitelink is deleted (phab:T326082)

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!