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Wikidata weekly summary #500
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
- 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
- Wikidata talks:
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- 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
- Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
The Signpost: 28 December 2021
- From the editor: Here is the news
- News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
- Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?
- In the media: The past is not even past
- Arbitration report: A new crew for '22
- By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers
- Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
- Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021
- Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed
- Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all
- Humour: Buying Wikipedia
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Wikidata weekly summary #501
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
- SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #23, Residence
- Past:
- Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- Working hour - Wikidata SPARQL querries (in Italian) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
- Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
- Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: number of triples, URL for freedom of information requests, official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy
- External identifiers: Norgeshistorie ID, Numista mint ID, Austrian Street ID, F6S ID, EU Whoiswho ID, DFIH financier ID, Express Gazeta ID, All-Science Journal Classification Codes, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, Numista coin ID, Comparably company ID, Folketinget actor ID, Coub channel ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Index of Middle English Verse ID, Stack Exchange user ID, Listen Notes podcast ID, Casefile ID, ILAB ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database ID, CNSflora ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Artland artist ID, Genie media ID, Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: cantilever sign, yield rate, Stalin Memo ID, Name in Swedish government, reference image
- External identifiers: FID ID, Labyrinth database ID, doollee.com playwright ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, people.su person ID, Biographe.ru ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Hermitage Museum ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, Tretyakov Gallery ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, ARCHER ID, Pipe Organ Database ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016
- Query examples:
- Map of New Zealand suburbs (source)
- Graph of influences in the Age of Enlightenment (source)
- Family names shared by astronauts (along with how often they occur in Wikidata) (source)
- Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures) (source)
- People awarded by the French Legion of Honour on Dec 31, 2021 (source)
- Average height of people named Joe (Source)
- Indian writers who died in 1961 (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #502
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Ameisenigel, welcome!
- New request for comments: Automated Manipulation and Calculation
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
- Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on January 13th at 18:00 Central Europe Time (17:00 UTC/GMT), in this Jitsi room. This edition will be an open discussion without a specific theme: you can bring 1-2 Phabricator tickets that you really care about, and we will look at them together and see how we can add relevant information and triage them.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Review Wikimedia Foundation’s Linked Open Data Strategy 2021 and community discussion. Agenda, January 11th. to local time!
- Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours. Date: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
- SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 12 at 19:00 CEST (exceptionally on Wednesday)
- The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC. This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools! Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #66 - YouTube, Facebook, January 15 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #92, January 16 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #24, Antonyms
- Creating, maintaining and updating Shape Expressions as EntitySchemas in the Wikimedia ecosystem. International SWAT4HCLS Conference. 10 - 13 Jan 2022. Register!
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tool of the week
- OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Celtic Knot Conference (dedicated to underserved languages on the Wikimedia project, with a strong focus on Wikidata and lexicographical data) will take place online in 2022. You can help the organizers with giving input on topics you'd like to see at the conference. Feel free to fill in the survey before January 17.
- The page Wikidata:WikiProject Duplicates/Wikipedia mergers has been created, in order to facilitate users when they find duplicate articles in a Wikipedia whose language is unfamiliar to them:
- if you want to declare that you are available for merging duplicate articles in one or more given Wikipedias, please add your name to this page
- if you want to find some user able to merge articles in a certain Wikipedia, you can see if there are already available users for that Wikipedia and contact them directly
- New open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikidata/Wikibase teams)
- Post WikidataCon 2021
- Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
- Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
- Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy, is an individual of taxon, reference image, associated cadastral district
- External identifiers: Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID, WikiStrinda ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, NER portfolio ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, LocalWiki ID, Initiale ID, Joconde representation ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, Arthive person ID, Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, NT Place Names Register ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, MedlinePlus supplement identifier, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, everyeye.it ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: TV3 programme ID, Chief/Naa/Traditional ruler, results in quality, official jobs URL, relative, director of publication, Business valuation, 議案番号
- External identifiers: Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016, New York Flora Atlas ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, NLC FL Sys. No., Senators of Spain (1834-1923), Finnish real property ID, TV3 video ID, OpenAlex ID, IRIS Sardinia IDs, CineCartaz, identifiant Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel, Numista type number, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, SPLC group ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, archive-ouverte Unige ID, Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali work ID, rus.team person ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID
- Query examples:
- Authors without field of work but with topic-tagged publications
- Compound first names starting with "John" (and the number of uses on Wikidata) (Source)
- Presidents of Brazil with the most awards (Source)
- Locations of parishes across Scotland (Source)
- Map of where Roman Catholic Popes were born (Source)
- Birth place of people who are described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopedia and the Store Norske Leksikon (Source)
- Various kinds of New Year's celebrations in the world (Source)
- World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade (source) select decade on the right side
- Non-English labels for a set of objects, with the names of the languages (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder ready for release. Focusing on adding statistics.
- Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older browser (phab:T298001)
- Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be ordered consistently across all Lexemes (phab:T232557)
- Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (phab:T233520)
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.
- Looking back at 2021
- Developments rolled out in 2021:
- New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with the large number of edits on Wikidata
- Query Builder to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
- Item Quality Evaluator to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
- Constraints Violations Checker is a small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
- Curious Facts finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
- Wikidata Map to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
- Current Events to make it easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a lot on Wikidata
- New entities in 2021:
- Items Q104595000 (approx.) to Q110342868
- Properties P9003 to P10223
- Lexemes L400170 (approx.) to L625164
- Developments rolled out in 2021:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #503
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: MSGJ (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 18 at 19:00 CEST
- LIVE Wikidata editing #67 - YouTube, Facebook, January 22 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #93, January 23 at 13.00 UTC
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #25, Volcano
- #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
- Past:
- Bug Triage Hour (log). The next session will be announced here in the Wikidata Weekly Summary and on the Wikidata mailing-list.
- Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award 2021 (replay on YouTube)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Tour de France's stage winners an Observable notebook to explore Tour de France's data using SPARQL and Observable's Plot library.
- Wikidata, Open Infrastructures, Recognition & Rewards
- Equal Street Names Wiesbaden
- Videos
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Wiki History Game is a game based on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened.
- GraphQL demo for WikiCite is a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: reference image, associated cadastral district, admission yield rate
- External identifiers: Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, oKino.ua film ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Pipe Organ Database organ ID, UNICA IRIS author ID, IRIS UNISS author ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Business valuation, 議案番号, podcast image url, list of TV show episode, XJustiz registration court ID, LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community
- External identifiers: Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID, Amazon podcast ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Football Federation of Armenia ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, Habr company ID, Douban book Works ID, German Lobbyregister-ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID2, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, IRIS national research institutes IDs
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully dispatched to the clients (phab:T233520)
- Mismatch Finder: Improved the texts in the tool to be more understandable after testing
- Mismatch Finder: added a way to get statistics about all the reviews that have been done in the tool and what is still awaiting review
- Special:NewLexeme: kicked off the development work to improve the page in order to make it more understandable
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #504
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: MSGJ (Successful). Welcome onboard \o/
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th January 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
- Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 25 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Pascal Martinolli speaking on tabletop role-playing game citations practices and Wikidata, January 25th.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #68 - YouTube, Facebook, January 29 at 19:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #94, January 30 at 13.00 UTC
- Online workshop in French about Breton lexicographical data, by Envlh and Vigneron, January 30 at 15:00 CET (UTC+1)
- On Tuesday, February 22, the OpenRefine team hosts a community meetup to present current and future work on Structured Data on Commons support in OpenRefine.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #26, Bees
- #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
- Past:
- Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-01-19)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- The CIA lost track of who runs the UK, so I picked up the slack featured on Hacker News
- Solving Wordle, Sutom, and al. with SPARQL queries on Wikidata
- Wikitrivia is a web game that challenges your knowledge of historical dates
- Wikitrivia, the viral game that tests how much you know about history (in Spanish)
- 100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History
- Papers
- Videos
- [WORKSHOP] Wikidata and libraries: tools for information managers (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Comparator compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Lexemes forms:
- How many triples are added when certain edits are made? ... User:Mahir256/Triples
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: admission yield rate, Corruption Perceptions Index, category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast image url
- External identifiers: AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, ARCHER ID, Senators of Spain (1834-1923) ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Hermitage Museum work ID, Engineer's Line Reference, Archive ouverte UNIGE ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, AsianWiki ID, ENEA-IRIS Open Archive author ID, METRICA author ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community, subpopulation 3, type of register, identifier in a register, phrase in hiero markup
- External identifiers: Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, XJustiz registration court ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania Encyclopedia ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Index to Organism Names ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, LastDodo-area-id, SberZvuk ID, North Data company ID, Gardens Navigator ID, SAHRA heritage objects ID, ezeri.lv ID, SAHA player ID, norsk fangeregister fangeleir ID, Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID
- Query examples:
- Map of tramways in France
- Map of categories for honorary citizens (source)
- Map of the Medieval universities and its founding date (source)
- Camps/subcamps within a 20km radius of your location (source)
- Taxa found at Fazenda Tamanduá (Sertão of Paraíba - Brazil) (source)
- Birthplace of Rabbis (source)
- Italian parliamentarians and ministers aged between 50 and 80 (source)
- Female Irish scientists in Wikidata without a Wikipedia article (source)
- Places in the Hautes-Alpes that are the subject of an article on Wikipedia in at least 10 languages (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Enabling usage tracking specifically for statements on Waray, Armenian and Cebuano Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
- Implementing basic version of mul language code and deploying it to Test Wikidata (phab:T297393)
- Preparing an event centered on reusing Wikidata's data
- Mismatch Finder: Been in touch with people who can potentially provide the first mismatches to load into the new tool for the launch. Finalized the statistics part.
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.
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- 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!
The Signpost: 30 January 2022
- Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
- News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election
- Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
- Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?
- Deletion report: Ringing in the new year: Subject notability guideline under discussion
- WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured
- Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021
- Gallery: No Spanish municipality without a photograph
- Obituary: Twofingered Typist
- Op-Ed: Identifying and rooting out climate change denial
- Essay: The prime directive
- Opinion: Should the Wikimedia Foundation continue to accept cryptocurrency donations?
- In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing
- Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
- Serendipity: Pooh entered the Public Domain – but Tigger has to wait two more years
- Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword
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The Signpost: 27 February 2022
- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
- News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
- In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
- Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results
- WikiProject report: 10 years of tea
- Featured content: Featured Content returns
- Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February
- Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
- Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate
- Gallery: The vintage exhibit
- Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix
- News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
- Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles
- Humour: Notability of mailboxes
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The Signpost: 27 March 2022
- From the team: We stand in solidarity with Ukraine
- News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
- Eyewitness Wikimedian – Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
- Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
- Eyewitness Wikimedian – Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
- Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
- In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
- Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
- Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
- Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
- Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
- Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
- Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
- From the archives: Burn, baby burn
- Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
- Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
- On the bright side: The bright side of news
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