Wikidata:Status updates/2023 07 24

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-07-24.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Yahya (RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC)

Events

• Upcoming
  • Missed the initial office hour sessions for preparing a WikidataCon 2023 submission? Join the next sessions on 20th, 22nd, and 26th and bring all your questions. Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023#Office hours (available in both Mandarin and English)
  • Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on YouTube
• Ongoing
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Abstract Wikipedia gains new support from The Rockefeller Foundation
  • Wikibase and reconciliation, by Adshore
  • Wikidata: why we contribute to the robot epistemology
• Papers
  • Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata
• Videos
  • Wikidata data set of the Sediq language (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - YouTube
  • WikiConference India 2023 - Linking Wikidata with Wikivoyage - YouTube
  • WikiConference India 2023 — Structured Data in Wikidata and Commons - YouTube
• Dataviz
  • Wikicommunes (See also the thread on Mastodon)

Tool of the week

• Images near items - helps to find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can load a category tree of Commons images with coordinates, and then find Wikidata items of a certain P31 with coordinates but without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs. (example link for UK red phone booths)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Update on the collaboration between Wikimedia Deutschland, Igbo Wikimedia Usergroup and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • median household income (median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country)
    • login URL (URL of a webpage used to log into a service)
    • registration page URL (URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service)
  • External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Threads username, Dutch word ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Top scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
  • External identifiers: BDFutbol referee ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, identifiant d'un défunt sur le site Dans nos cœurs, IbsenStage ID, TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID
• Query examples:
  • Bubble graph of the first letter of the word for "one" for languages where Wikidata has a Lexeme (source)
  • Searches for trying to replace broken Art UK external IDs (source)
  • People linked in the English Wikipedia page "List of current United States governors" (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Henrik Ibsen is a project for users interested in the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Q36661).
  • WikiProject Getty Library Wikidata Pilot - is a WikiProject in the Getty Library at the Getty Research Institute (part of the J. Paul Getty Trust) to create and enhance Wikidata items related to information in materials from the library’s Whitney and Lee Kaplan Collection of African American Visual Culture.

Development

• EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when available (phab:T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (phab:T214885).
• mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (phab:T340644)
• Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (phab:T328149)
• Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST API:
  • Retrieve all statements from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements
  • Retrieve a single statement from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id}
  • You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the existing /statements/{statement_id} endpoint

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!