Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another (Approved)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Live editing session on Twitch about International Museum Day 2022, in French, by Vigneron, May 10 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- LIVE Wikidata editing #79 - YouTube, Facebook, May 14 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #106, May 15 at 12.00 UTC
- The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #41, Music
- International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
- Past:
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- MapComplete is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees!
- User:Nikki/flag-emoji.css is a userscript that adds emoji flags before items for flags supported by either Noto Color Emoji or BabelStone Flags.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, CXSMILES, class of property value, finisher, support of a function, probability mass function, probability generating function, Fisher information, characteristic function, cumulative distribution function
- External identifiers: Investopedia term ID, fanvue creator ID, Encyclopedia of Ideas ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, WhoSampled track ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, French Inspector General for Education (1802-1914) identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, Hmoegirl ID, English Everipedia ID, GeoSciML ID, Présent author ID, Data Commons ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: beteiligte Parteien, ligament insertion, proper motion components, distributed from, IBAN banking code, contains statistical territorial entity
- External identifiers: The Israeli Directors Guild id, Twitter moment ID, Muziekweb composition ID, TOBuilt ID, Afisha.ru movie ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Baidu Scholar paper ID, ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, Chocolatey Community Package, IRIS Emilia-Romagna IDs, Kubbealti Lugati term ID, Kinokolo.ua film ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Twitter list ID
- Query examples:
- List of French public administrations with an open data portal, a siren number (P1616) and a servicepublic id (P6671) (source)
- Largest cities with a female mayor (source)
- Reach of Twitter accounts on Wikidata (source)
- Which works published in the 1970s have been most cited from works on archaeology? (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
- Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (phab:T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (phab:T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (phab:T298150).
- We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (phab:T277836).
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!