Wikidata:Status updates/2021 12 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-12-27.

Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!

• Item #500 is Citrus ×limon; Property #500 is exclave of; and Lexeme #500 is "കുടുംബം" - Malayalam for “family”.
• “Roughly” 500 people were participants at WikidataCon 2021
• Q207742 is about the natural number 500
• Q560388 disambiguates "500" for Wikipedias in 14 languages.
• The Roman numeral for 500 is "D"
• Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 500
• Wikidata was 500 days old on Friday 14 March 2014. It will be 500 weeks old on Tuesday 31 May 2022

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end after 27 December 2021 15:57 UTC)

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
  • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
  • Coolest Tools Awards on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #22, New Year
• Past:
  • Wikidata. Lecture - master class in Russian is 16:07 GMT on Sunday 26th December 2021 (19:07 Moscow time) in Minsk Hackerspace. For those who are not familiar and want to know what it is.
  • WikidataCon 2021 (replay on YouTube)
    • Wikidata talks:
      • Improving Women's Biographies through Wikidata - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smiths. Inst.
      • A Wikidata university course? Lessons learned from featuring Wikidata in an elective course at TAU.
      • Linking Indian Local Self Government's Structured Data with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
      • Finding new pathways of collaborating for a sustainable Wikidata software development
      • How can we reimagine Wikidata from the margins? Conversation with Maryana Iskander
      • Wikidata at Texas A&M University Libraries: Enhancing Discovery for Dissertations
      • Wiki API Connector - Simplifying ETL workflows from open APIs to Wikidata/Commons
      • IG WIKIDATA HUB - The Journey towards building a WIKIDATA community in Nigeria
      • Integration of Wikidata 4OpenGLAM into data and information science curricula
      • Description from Wikidata on sister projects and concerns about vandalism
      • Knowledge Quality In Wikidata: Vandalism Insights and Data Collaborations
      • Shared Citations - A proposed citation management database for Wikimedia
      • Analyzing, visualizing and improving Wikidata using the Wolfram Language
      • Challenges and Lessons from a Pilot Project: Christian Hymns in Wikidata
      • Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world
      • Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry
      • A world in which 99% of Wikidata’s editors never come to Wikidata.org
      • Linking the Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database to Wikidata
      • Global templates: Towards a New Age of Cross-wiki Data Collaboration
      • From QRPedia to AudioQRPedia : how to improve QRPedia using Wikidata
      • Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments presentations and discussion
      • From Google Scholar to Wikidata: The RIDC NeuroMat Experience
      • Assessing the quality of sources in Wikidata across languages
      • IFLA Wikidata Working Group: Updates from the library field
      • A process to roundtrip Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine
      • Arrange river data in Taiwan by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
      • Look both ways: integrating Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
      • Wikidata in the Classroom: Updates from North America
      • Learning Wikidata in 8 Weeks as a Smithsonian Intern
      • Wikidata-based Narratives for Research and Education
      • Measuring Political Elite Networks with Wikidata
      • Sorting out industry classifications in Wikidata
      • Systematic Review Automation driven by Wikidata
      • The Lindy Effect in Wikidata User Retention
      • Non-binary Gender Identities in Wikidata
      • Measuring and monitoring data quality
      • Wikidata & Education: A Global Panel
      • Integrating Wikidata into education
      • Wikidata in Australia showcase
      • Wikidata and R: a perfect pair
      • Writing schemas for Wikidata
      • Overview of ontology issues
      • Wikidata and OCCRP
    • Wikibase talks:
      • Open meeting of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group and interactive roadmapping session
      • How can Wikimedia Deutschland enable an ecosystem of developers around Wikibase?
      • Wikibase as an infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs: The EU Knowledge Graph
      • "A Wikibase for what?" - diverse users at the edge of the graph
      • Wikibase lightning talks: data upload and extensions session
      • How to open Authority Control system - The GND & Wikibase
      • Wikibase Community User Group meeting and track roundup
      • Pre-launch Announcement and Preview of Wikibase.Cloud
      • Wikibase as RDM infrastructure within NFDI4Culture
      • Wikibase lightning talks: inspiration session
      • Wikibase for Citations on Wikipedia

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Why you need to understand Wikidata, no matter what field you’re in
• Papers
  • Improving the Question Answering Quality using Answer Candidate Filtering based on Natural-Language Features
  • Algorithmic amplification of politics on Twitter
• Videos
  • SPARQL queries on Wikidata - advanced level (in Italian) - YouTube
  • How to link items to Dagbani Wikipedia articles using databox by Dnshitobu - YouTube
  • Alias names in Wikidata - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WDQS State of the Union, Dec 2021 now available.
• If you are using the Modern Vector skin on Wikidata then search might break for you near the end of January for a few days. To fix it you can temporarily switch back to the Vector skin. A proper fix is being worked on in phab:T275251.
• Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
  • Wikibase Installation Survey
  • Wikibase Software Updating Survey
• Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
  • Engineering Director
  • Full-Stack Developer

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: type host, CSS code
  • External identifiers: Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID, Irkipedia ID, Babesdirectory ID, Numelyo ID, ua-football.com player ID, soccerpunter.com player ID, pfl.uz player ID, PGM author ID, Irish Times profile ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Kinomania.ru film ID, bards.ru person ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, N64-Database ID, Channel One Russia show ID, Kanobu ID, Lambic.Info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, CH district ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie artist ID, Austrian school ID, DFIH business ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, Ruskino actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Joconde use ID, JSTOR artwork ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, MTBdata ID, All About Birds ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), GISAID identifier, oKino.ua actor ID, Library of Congress providers ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: documented files, start and end time in video, is an individual of a taxon, facilitates flow of, LKI ID, service hosted by, service hosted at, everyeye.it ID
  • External identifiers: Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Artland fair ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, Regroupement Québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, CNSflora ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, artchive person ID, nzs.si player ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, NLC Bibliography ID, PKULaw CLI Code, LGBT Info Wiki ID
• Query examples:
  • Places that appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopaedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopaedia and the Store Norske Leksikon, (ordered by country) (source)
  • Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
  • UK parties since 1935 that have only ever been represented by a single MP (source)
  • Brazilians with most Wikipedia pages across languages (source)

Development

• Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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!