Wikidata:Status updates/2022 07 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-07-11.

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 LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on Sched at Agenda
  • 7/30 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata @ COSCUP 2022
  • 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. July 11th through July 15th, 2022
• Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #49, Bastille day

• Past:
  • Presentation Integrating Wikibase into research workflows at the monthly Wikibase Stakeholders Group meeting on July 7
  • Data Quality Days 2022 see outcomes. The recorded sessions will be published soon!
  • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • New quality checks in the Osmose QA tool for links from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata
  • Wikidata used extensively in medieval hack weekend at the University of York (UK National Archives)
  • Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts (British Library)
  • Wikidata at the Detroit Institute of Arts
• Papers
  • Wikidata and the bibliography of life (Q112959127)
• Videos
  • Live editing: create a Lua template using Lexemes on Wiktionary, with Mahir256 (on Youtube)
  • Adding wikidata to plaques on OpenStreetMap - YouTube

Tool of the week

• User:Lectrician1/discographies.js: Shows chronological data about artist's discographies on music albums and provides functions to add new items.
• User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal is a userscript that is used to combat cross-wiki spam or vandalism.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata now has more than 10 million items about humans.
• Q113000000 was created.
• Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for architects and Template:Generic queries for transport network
• Due to summer vacations and our current workloads the response times from the Wikidata communications team (Léa and Mohammed) to requests and queries may be a bit longer. We will resume full capacity by October.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: opus number
  • External identifiers: DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID, Kultboy platform ID, Kultboy controller ID, Kultboy magazine ID, Kultboy company ID, National Archives of Australia entity ID, snookerscores.net player ID, Truth Social username, Material UI icon, Yarkipedia ID, Springer Nature person ID, Komoot ID, Springer Nature article ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: official definition, ce module ou cette infobox utilise la propriété, release artist, Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail
  • External identifiers: Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, Match TV people ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID, Applied Ecology Resources Document ID, Prophy author ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Liquipedia ID, Instagram post ID, Mapping Museums ID
• Query examples:
  • Current list of French departments (documentation)
  • Prime ministers of Japan whose manner of death is homicide (source)
  • 1st level administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
  • List of globes and how many times they've been used

Development

• Data Quality Days!
• Making plans for improving EntitySchemas and integrate them more into editing and maintenance workflows
• Implemented word-level diffs of labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks (phab:T303317)
• Continuing the investigation about labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)
• Lexicographical data:
  • Continuing work on making it easier to pick the right language for a new Lexeme (phab:T298140)
  • Fixing a bug where `[object Object]` was shown in the gramatical feature field (phab:T239208)
  • Fixing a number of places where labels for redirected Items were not shown even though the redirect target had labels (phab:T305032)
• REST API:
  • Finished the first version of the API route for creating statements on an Item (excluding autosummaries so far)
  • Started work on the API route for removing a statement from an Item

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

• Update the the description of the "of" property in your language.

• 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!