Wikidata:Status updates/2022 12 12

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-12-12.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • DL2204bot 2
    • Task/s: Correct messy entries for scholarly articles of Uztaro. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Q12268801) and Aldiri. Arkitektura eta abar (Q12253132) journals, add 2020-2022 articles.
  • Kalliope 7.3
    • Task/s: Update User:Kalliope 7.3/List of bots every hour.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • RPI2026F1Bot 2
    • Task/s: For all items that have an enwiki page that starts with Template:Taxonomy/, set instance of (P31) taxonomy template (Q115595777).

Events

• Upcoming
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 13, 2022: Wikimedia Search Platform Team will be sharing updates on Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and Blazegraph. For background, see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS backend update. Agenda.
  • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live streamed on Youtube in the MediaWiki channel.
  • Next Wikimedia Research Showcase - December 14. "A year in review from the WMF Research team: Tying our work to the research community".
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #71, Qatar 2022
• Past
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 7, 2022

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • MatchID enriched with Wiki links
  • Another successful Wikidata Project with UVA
• Papers
  • The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2023 EU welcomes papers...Abstract Submission Deadline: May 09, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
  • Computational Metabolomics: From Spectra to Knowledge (Dagstuhl Seminar 22181) (Q115647969), with:
    • 3.7 Wikidata: empowering metabolomics research
    • 3.14 CxSMILES: computation ready representation for compound classes (about CXSMILES (P10718))
• Videos
  • Wikidata as a tool to connect researchers, By Daniel Mietchen - short, full talk
  • Using and Editing Wikidata - YouTube
  • Introduction to Wikidata and Wikibase for Libraries and Librarians (in Greek) - YouTube
  • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #100 - YouTube
  • Tutorial for adding OSM data with the Wikidata tag and adding Wikidata items (in Indonesian) - YouTube
  • BNElab, contribution and reuse in Wikidata (in Guaani) - YouTube

Tool of the week

• qualifier-constraint-usage.js: Shows what properties this qualifier is a required and allowed qualifier on at the bottom of the qualifier page

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations. Submit your nominations by February 6, 2023.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: ‎contact page URL, ‎Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers ID, ‎press information URL, ‎changeset, ‎RomArchive person ID, ‎African American Visual Artists Database ID, ‎Bureau of Meteorology location ID, ‎Epigraphic Database Heidelberg ID, ‎Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, ‎manchu.work lexeme ID, ‎Professional Referee Organization ID, ‎CIViC gene ID, ‎Athletics Canada ID, ‎is a number of, ‎Ma'agarim ID, ‎Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate ID, ‎Tanzania Parliament member ID, ‎JCDb ID, ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (1st edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (2nd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (3rd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (4th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (5th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (6th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (7th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (8th edition), ‎man page, ‎Amazon.com browse node, ‎TV Maze episode ID, ‎International Computer Game Collection work ID, ‎Cultural Good of Croatia ID, ‎JLect entry ID, ‎Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, ‎Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Inscriptions ID
• New property proposals to review: number of penalty kicks scored, Play:Right series ID, OWID identifiers, Wikidata property example statement ID, Mangadex IDs, WSJ article ID, maturity level, official list URL, thumbnail sharpness, Play:Right company ID, IRIS Apulia IDs, Geograph Germany image ID, Spiritains ID, Play:Right class ID, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, INKR title ID, Kitsu IDs, Game-Rave ID, Anime-Planet IDs, has value, ComicWalker content ID, STEDT ID, Middle English Dictionary ID, Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID, Adventure's Planet ID, value of property identifies, not, frame rate, Copernicus EMS ID, Sega-Saturn.net ID, PLDB ID, ArchWiki ID, has right, (not) officially recognized by, Famicom World ID, property describes
• Query examples:
  • Person(s) after whom both a warship and a microarchitecture are named (source)
  • Institutions that have contributed to all #vBIB conferences so far (source)
  • Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
  • Mountains in Iceland with no Cebuano Wikipedia sitelink (source)
  • Universities that have an associated Mastodon account (source)
  • Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (source)

Development

• REST API:
  • We would love to have some feedback on the JSON format for the REST API
  • Planning the final pieces that still need doing before the first release
• Vektor 2022: Finished work on making Vector’s new Search work with Wikidata. The changes roll out for testing on test.wikidata.org next week (phab:T275251)
• Query Service:
  • Getting a link to the query is now possible in the same place as getting a link to the result of the query (phab:T324218)
  • Removed the gif that showed on hover over the button that advertises the Query Builder to make it less annoying (phab:T296135)
  • Added wikibase:identifiers to the autocomplete feature (phab:T302057)
  • Adjusted the layout of the Query Builder header to be more in line with other application (phab:T288939)
• Constraint violations: When a language name is mentioned in the constraint it will now show the name of the language in the interface language instead of the language itself to make it easier to understand (phab:T316936)

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!