Wikidata:Status updates/2022 09 05

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-09-05.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
  • DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #57, Numbers (4/n)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Context is Queen: Documenting Queer history based on LGBT+ models (source)
• Papers
  • Prompting as Probing: Using Language Models for Knowledge Base Construction
• Videos
  • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #88 - YouTube
  • Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
    • Find museums without official website on Wikidata
    • Add coordinates of an institution
    • Different ways to display SPARQL queries
    • How to enter a personal record of a certain person on Wikidata

Tool of the week

• Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries. See also the underlying dataset.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: Gauss notation, crossing number
  • External identifiers: PTS+ season ID, Turkish National Paralympic Committee athlete ID, South African Hockey Association ID, Moroccan Olympic Committee athlete ID, UCI rider ID, Glossary of Astronomical Terms ID-identificatiecode, Garden Plant Finder ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan athlete ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Football 24 article ID Russian, Football 24 article ID, BioNames author ID, Devil's Porridge Worker ID, Czech electoral party ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, LiLa Linking Latin URI, Instagram post ID, Springer Nature journal ID, Arabic Ontology lemma ID, Anime Taizen ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: coordinates of grave, Rekhta Dictionary ID
  • External identifiers: vPlants ID, Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, IGDB game engine ID, Aragonario ID, CRAB ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma'agarim ID, Feb-web IDs, Diskograf artist ID, Diskograf label ID, Diskograf song ID, NSR doctor ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Oculus Store, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Viveport ID, NOC of Belarus champion ID, newslab.ru dossier ID, Undiscovered Scotland ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and around the world that have P625 as a qualifier (source)
  • Age of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends 1997-2002 (source)
  • Education of French prefects (source)
  • Number of substance records in PubChem Compounds (source)
  • Map of rivers longer than 50 km passing through French territory, grouped by watershed (source)
  • Brazilian players in the Fifa World Cup 2022 Sticker Album! (source)

Development

• REST API:
  • We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934)
  • We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523)
  • For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
• Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (phab:T314064, phab:T312633, phab:T312652)
• Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)

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!