Wikidata:Status updates/2023 08 14

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-08-14.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • MangadexBot (Task: add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID)
  • WingUCTBOT (Task: Batch Upload of Niger-Congo B Lexemes, including Senses and Forms)
• New request for comments: Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks (Regarding the need to block IPv6 addresses and networks by a minimum /64 range )

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Wikimania 2023 (16–19 August, Singapore and Online) program is out: wikimania:2023:Program
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 18, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
• Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #104, Police

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe
  • Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux
  • The Power of Shared Value Partnership: CIS-A2K & ACPR- GLAM Project
  • Blog planets: blogging about Debian, GNOME, Wikimedia, FSFE, and many more
• Papers
  • Semantification of CEUR-WS with Wikidata as a target Knowledge Graph
  • The World Literature Knowledge Graph
  • Building a French Revolution Narrative from Wikidata
• Videos
  • Adding Wikidata To Openstreetmap
  • Recording mass paths on Wikimedia and Wikidata
  • FOSS4G 2023 - Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Edward Betts
  • SPARQLE session - Sport, rugby and units - Nicolas VIGNERON
  • Virtual Inauguration: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course for Cohort 2
  • Live Wikidata editing (in Italian)
  • KGC 2023 Masterclass: Wikibase and Question-Answering by The QA Company's CEO, Dennis Diefenbach
• Notebooks
  • SEmantic Graphs (SEG) - Cautiously nudging RDF towards more expressivity (paper)
  • Movie settings and population (What is the relation between how big a city is and how many movies are set in that city?)
  • Wikidata study day
  • SPARQL Queries for Cross-referencing and Data Cleanup
• Presentations: Chemistry in Wikidata visualized with Scholia, Egon Willighagen et al.

Tool of the week

• Everything is connected - is a knowledge-based puzzle game where players must fit square pieces representing entities in the world together based on their known connections.
• WMF is moving from ORES to Lift Wing, an open-source machine learning infrastructure. Your input is vital to train the model for more accurate bad edits detection on Wikidata. Join us in enhancing edits detection by using the Annotation tool: https://annotool.toolforge.org/

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Danny Benjafield and Ifeatu Nnaobi are joining the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland
• wikifunctions.org is gradually rolling out (with caveats)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Tolkien Gateway ID, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, FSHF player ID, Mandarin-Cantonese Comparative Study ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara place ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, GSAFD ID, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Nantes Museum of Arts ID, Mythoskop ID, Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Steam Deck compatibility rating (official rating used to determine which games, as a result of the review process, are compatible with Steam Deck and which are not)
    • name version for other gender (use for when names that are not given name or surnames are gendered (since those two have their own properties), would also be helpful for many noble titles and honorifics as well as affixes)
    • Curator of (has curated a collection or (art) exhibition)
    • Philippine middle name ()
  • External identifiers: Rumble channel, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web), archINFORM Awards ID, RCS number, NFDI4Culture ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Steam curator ID, Футзал.рус player ID, alyga.lt player ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Höhlenkataster ID (Österreich), Sitios ID, FNAC ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of places located in Rennes with an article on the French Wikipedia (and colored according to the number of pages in all Wikimedia projects)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weapon types, and primary colors (source)
  • Number of albums in Wikidata by year of release (source)
  • Objects in Dresden with significant event (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Svenska Grillplatser (WikiProject Swedish Grill Places) - The idea is to see what Wikidata and OSM can contribute when it comes to barbecue sites and connections to municipalities, grillplatser.nu, naturkartan.
  • WikiProject Nollywood - This is a WikiProject for adding and enhancing items in Wikidata for Nollywood (Nigerian films) held as VHS at the Northwestern University Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. These films were primarily produced and collected from 1990-2000. Items will be added with information from the catalog record (MARC).

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding and replacing statements on Properties (phab:T339363, phab:T340006)
• EntitySchemas:
  • We continued working on making the mobile termbox from Items and Properties work on EntitySchemas
  • We fixed a missing warning for non-logged-in editors and license note (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
• IP Masking: We are investigating what implications the upcoming IP Masking changes in MediaWiki have for Wikibase (phab:T328454)

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!