Wikidata:Status updates/2023 02 06

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-02-06.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • BiodiversityBot 3 Task/s: TreatmentBank (Q54857867) is a CC0 resource that contains data on taxonomic treatments, treatment citations, figures, tables, material citations and bibliographic reference. It contains valuables links mapping scholarly articles, taxa and taxonomic treatments. This bot task involves linking research papers on taxa to taxa and related taxonomic treatments.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • Bean49Bot 4 Task/s: Add Springer Nature person ID and Springer Nature article ID by moving from exact match property.
  • Cmtqwikibot Task/s: Adds country of origin (P495) Canada (Q16), with qualifier located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) Quebec (Q176) and reference stated in (P248) CineTV (Q41001657) to works in Quebec.
  • SakuraBot Task/s: interwiki maintenance
  • JhsBot 7 Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) statements.

Events

• Upcoming
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 7, 2023: We thought we'd try something different next week, in honor of Valentine's Day month: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project or just what you like to edit when you have time. We'd love to have an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so and share your screen, with no need for formal slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda
  • Wiki for Refugees Editathons on the 4th and 11th of February 2023 (Wikimedia Uganda)
  • Black History Month 2023: University of Toronto (February 8th)
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #79, Archaeology (see previous challenges: Random concepts #2, Spices)
• Past
  • Wikibase Live Sessions (2023.01.26)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Diff blog: Summary of the results of a recent survey on Wikimedia content partnerships tools by WMSE. The detailed report is available on meta.wikimedia.org and as a PDF on Wikimedia Commons.
  • A Game of Data
  • 'wikishootme' Is Like a Real World Version of Pokémon Go
  • Turn the AC on, by Magnus Manske
  • Wikimedia Israel and the Israel Film Archive bring Short films from Israel’s History to Wikidata

• Papers
  • Unsupervised Entity Linking with Guided Summarization and Multiple-Choice Selection (Uses GPT-3 and Wikidata)
  • Visibility Matters: Giving Credit Where It's Due in Natural History Collections, Siobhan Leachman, The Linnean, December 2022
  • Falcon 2.0: An Entity and Relation Linking Tool over Wikidata
  • The URW-KG: a Resource for Tackling the Underrepresentation of non-Western Writers
  • From unstructured texts to semantic story maps
• Videos
  • Wikimentor Africa - Creating a website based on Wikidata, without development skills day two (in French) - Part1, Part 2
  • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, FOSDEM 2023 - YouTube
  • Etymology and Wikidata on OpenStreetMap -YouTube
  • LIVE Wikidata editing: #103, #104
  • Working with SBN (Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale) authority IDs (in Italian) - 3 part YouTube playlist
  • Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
  • Managing Wikimedia Projects through Wikidata: Geert Van Pamel- Wikimedia Belgium - YouTube
  • SEMIC Talks: Wikibase with Dennis Diefenbach - YouTube
• observablehq
  • Garden Phylogeny - NCBI breakdown of common garden foods with photographs by Phytotheca
• other
  • One way to design a system to be a good external identifier in Wikidata by Salgo60

Tool of the week

• Let's Quiz is a game that generates random quizzes to test your knowledge & learn something new every day.
• User:Nikki/AddTermboxLanguage.js - makes it easier to add/edit labels to an item in a language other than the ones shown by default.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
• Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey 2023, open until Fri, 17 Feb 2023.
• Maintenance on ElasticSearch. As part of this, some Wikibase.Cloud functionality might be disrupted.
• Reminder that the deadline for the Semantic Web Journal Special Issue on Wikidata is approaching (but extended)! Get your journal papers ready for the 14.02.23
• Wikidata surpassed 1 million Lexemes with the addition of etymologi (L1000000)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: Happy Planet Index score (The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in 2006), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), digital equivalent of (the subject is the digital equivalent of what?)
  • External identifiers: Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Case Search person ID, Roblox experience ID, WW1 fallen/missing soldier ID (MHA), RISM siglum, N-Anime anime ID, N-Anime seiyū ID, Livres Hebdo author ID, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database ID, Artlog institution ID, Barcelona City Council Heritage Catalog identifier, TikTok place ID, Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, AllMovie genre ID, authors.gr ID, Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature), footnote (for use in the references section of statements: to state which footnote of the source material supports the claim in question), agent of action (thing that does the action), natural enemy (One of the causes of death of this living creatures referred to in this item, which is eaten by that creature), change of (property this process changes), object of action (thing an action is done to), variety of sense (dialect, variety or register of language that the sense applies to), bust/waist/hip measurements (chest measurement; aliases: bust measurement), usage label (list of sets of context label property (Q116547761) (language style (P6191), field of usage (P9488), has quality (P1552), variety of form (P7481), location of sense usage (P6084)). Other individual context label property (Q116547761) statement will be treated as and with this statement.), thesaurus' properties (primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus)
  • External identifiers: Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, The Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, Iowa legislator ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Museu Paulista objects ID, Facebook numeric ID, Qobuz album ID (Feb 2023), Patreon user numeric ID, Kulturenvanteri.com, beniculturali.it place ID, Russian Second League player ID, TVer IDs, NPD field-ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of disasters by type (source)
  • Maps of museums in Malaysia (source)
  • Map with place names that gave names to places in Riga (source)
  • Area of sovereign states without a river (source)
  • Wikidata properties whose URL format matches some format (source)
  • People born in the Vatican (https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1613861217440866306 source)
  • Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (source)
  • Memes (source)
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 4, 2023) (source)

Development

• REST API: adding a new GET /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions endpoint (phab:T327881)
• Lua: added two Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378) that make it easier to get this data on Wikipedia and co
• Lexicographical data: added documentation for the WikibaseLexeme JSON structure (phab:T201489)
• Action API: fixed a bug that prevented the wblistentityusage API module from being used as a generator (phab:T254334)
• Dates: working together with Matěj Suchánek to fix date parsing issues in Czech (phab:T221097)
• Constraints: working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand why a constraint violation is happening and how to fix it (phab:T219037)

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!