Wikidata:Status updates/2021 12 13

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-12-13.

Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. Agenda, Dec. 14th.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Enriching Claim Reviews - Sharing Experience From Factchecking (schema.org/ Full Fact)
  • Most liked Wikidata tweets (addshore)
  • Updates on the Wikidata map in 2021 (addshore)
• Papers
  • Lukas Schmelzeisen, Corina Dima, Steffen Staab: "Wikidated 1.0: An Evolving Knowledge Graph Dataset of Wikidata's Revision History", https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05003v1
  • "ARTchives: a Linked Open Data native catalogue of art historians’ archive" crowdsourcing curated information on notable art historians’ archives (including Wikidata) - paper, tool

Tool of the week

• Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article using Wikidata's API and SPARQL
• embeds.js: This script shows embeds on external identifier statements such as YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Spotify playlists, Genius lyrics, and more!

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Blazegraph failure playbook now available
• Initial version of Lua access to Lexemes to be deployed on Bengali and Basque Wiktionaries
• When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” (documentation)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: IMA Mineral Symbol, protective marking, recording date
  • External identifiers: Natural History Museum (London) person ID, Indonesian Hospital ID, Music of Armenia ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, World of Shakespeare ID, AllHomes research location ID, Australian Trade Mark Number, Harvard Art Museums ID, BookDepository publisher ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, German Newspaper Portal ID, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Dissernet journal ID, Dissernet person ID, centrasia.org person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, Pandora track ID, Nintendo64EVER ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: alphabetical index, International Standard Content Number ISCN, Number of likes, homophone form, Roovet Sound
  • External identifiers: National Library of Ireland ID, Famitsu game ID, JSTOR artwork ID, NYPL Copyright Entries, Kinomania.ru film ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), Irish Times Profile ID, All About Birds ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, f6s id, IRIS Marche IDs, Viber group ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, AAGM Artwork ID, Muz-TV ID, MTV Russia ID
• Query examples:
  • French departments with more population than all their neighbour departements (source)
  • Map of places names after horses (source)
  • Latvian citizens by occupation (source)
  • Map of the mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Cities

Development

• Mismatch Finder: Developed a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.
• Preparing for Lexeme Lua access to be enabled on the first wikis. (phab:T294637, phab:T294159)
• Continuing work on migrating the termbox to vue3 (phab:T296202)

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!