Wikidata:Status updates/2021 09 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-09-27.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: BrokenSegue (RfP scheduled to end after 27 September 2021 14:36 UTC)

Events

• Upcoming:
  • We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
  • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th September 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #55 (with OpenRefine) - YouTube, Facebook, October 2 at 18:00 UTC
  • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #81, October 3
  • COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard, 30 Sep 2021, Time: 13.00-14.00 WIB (join details)
• Past:
  • Data Quality Days: You can find slides, videos and notes for many of the sessions on the event page.
  • Wiki Movimento Brasil. The universe of libraries:
    • Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies (in Portuguese)
    • Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge powers (in Portuguese)
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #54 - YouTube, Facebook

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Connecting Cell Ontology and Wikidata via Mix’n’match
• Papers
  • WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties, OpenSym 2021, 15-17 September 2021 (Slides, source code, Short Video)
• Videos
  • How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube
  • Demo: create Wikidata lexemes from Goethe's "Der Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären" - YouTube
  • Demo of adding a string to Wikidata as a lexeme and linking it to the corresponding Wikidata item - YouTube
  • Wikidata Query Service assistance (in French) - YouTube
  • Experiences of Using WDumper to Create Topical Subsets from Wikidata - YouTube
• Other
  • Chirpanalytica: "Give me your Twitter name and I'll tell you which party you choose". "What if you could automatically determine the political orientation of a person using just a Twitter account? This is exactly what I have been doing for the past two years".
  • That Wikidata Buzz - Siobhan Leachman talks about Wikidata in the The World According to Wikipedia podcast.

Tool of the week

• User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon community awards.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: App Store age rating, music created for, issuing agent of work, FLOSS development policy URL, relevant date for copyright, inscription image, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL
  • External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Materials Project material ID, All.Rugby player ID, swisscovery edition ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, PoetsGate poem ID, NVE reservoir ID, FLORE author ID, USiena air author ID, IRIS IMT author ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, predicate for, eHive ID
  • External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, George Eastman Museum artist ID, All.Rugby club ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, Densho Encyclopedia ID, AsianWiki ID, Channel One Russia show ID, DWDS lemma ID, WDG lemma ID, company code (RICS)
• Query examples:
  • Given name "Filaret" ranked within similar names (source: talk page of item)
  • Start time of open access journals known to Wikidata (Source)
  • Mouths of rivers flowing into the Arctic (Source)
  • What chocolate mousse is called in different languages (Source)
  • Women in Wikidata whose husbands are economists with articles on the English Wikipedia, but they themselves lack articles (adapted from Source)
  • Same with husbands (adapted from Source)
  • People employed by the ZDF with an image on Commons and a link to the German language Wikipedia (Source)
  • Coordinates of the birth places of people named Antoine (Source)
  • Place of birth of people named Antoine, Tony, Antonio, etc
  • UK MPs who had the most identified descendants who were themselves MPs (Source)
• Newest database reports: top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (works again)

Development

• Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (phab:T104750)
• Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (phab:T289473)
• Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (phab:T291377)
• Mismatch Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed
• Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects

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!