User talk:MargaretRDonald/Archive 12

Wikidata weekly summary #507
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 2
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dexbot 15
 * New request for comments: Population data model


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 15 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata February 17, 5:00 PM
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #71 - YouTube, Facebook, February 19 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #96, February 20 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #29, Love
 * Past: LIVE Wikidata editing #70 #Beijing2022 - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration
 * Wikidata in Stardog
 * Does your birthplace affect your probability to have your Wikipedia biography ? some evidence from people born in France.
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Tutorial (in German): add qualifiers, coordinates & address
 * PADE Workshop: Wikidata – Linked, Open Data - YouTube
 * OpenGLAM Valentine's Day School: Intro to Wikidata (in Finish) - YouTube
 * Workshop on adding intangible heritage community data and images on Wikidata/Wikimedia - YouTube
 * Hands On: SPARQL Query Dbpedia Wikidata Python - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Equal Street Names is a map visualizing the streetnames of a city by gender.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New development plan for Wikidata and Wikibase for Q1 2022
 * Krbot's constraint reports are now generally updated daily, after code optimizations and hardware upgrades.
 * Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this  page!
 * Wikidata ESR is a tool to visualize evolutions of universities and schools, such as creations, mergers, deletions and relations. Feedback and help to develop this project further is requested.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: semantic gender, original catalog description
 * External identifiers: doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, Viki ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, World Economic Forum ID, USgamer ID, Podvig Naroda ID, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Turin University student ID, Naver TV ID, AusGamers ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Maritimt Magasin ship ID, TV3 show ID, TV3 video ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, nzs.si player ID, UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Computational complexity, audio contains, identifies, Cadastral areas, video depicts, YouTube video, cadastral plot reference, Finisher, trainiert von, identifier values as, YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date
 * External identifiers: Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Transilien ID, Cybersport.ru ID, JeuxActu ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Name Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Classification Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, ICQ user ID, previous property definition, State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, VK Music ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, BelTA dossier ID, Spotify user ID, NTSF ID, BritBox ID, KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID


 * Query examples:
 * Tram bridges in France
 * Polish Righteous Among the Nations
 * Launch date, logo of social media services (source)
 * Oscar winners from 1929 (source)
 * Images of biologists by height (source)
 * Biggest coins outside the U.S. (source)


 * Development
 * Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page. Nothing to see yet though.
 * Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get them. (T301247)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:41, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #508
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * ChineseWikiClubBot, 1
 * Auto Prod Bot


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th February 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Huda Khan and Astrid Usong on their Linked Data for Production 3 (LD4P3) grant work to use Wikidata in knowledge panels in Cornell’s library catalog Agenda - 2022-02-22 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter)
 * Hands-on introduction to Wikidata with The Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library's Edit-a-Thon! Theme: Boston public art and artists. February 23, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Eastern time
 * OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons: community meetup - Tuesday, February 22, at 15:00-17:00 UTC (check the time in your timezone).
 * Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 22 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #30, Trains
 * Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #71 #MelFest - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Plans Become Projects
 * Papers: "COVID-19 Claim Radar: A Structured Claim Extraction and Tracking System" using Wikidata
 * Videos: Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata:Tools/asseeibot - is a tool made by User:So9q to improve the scientific articles in Wikidata. Source code on GitHub under GPLv3+
 * Coinherbarium.com - coins depicting plants; powered by Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this  page!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of lanes, computational complexity
 * External identifiers: UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID, Gardens Navigator ID, Tagoo video game ID, Lingua Libre ID, Labyrinth database ID, A9VG game ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, RCN, CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date, quality has state, beforehand-afterward owned by, Number of units, created during, award recipient, medical indication
 * External identifiers: KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, YouTube Topic channel ID, YouTube Official Artist Channel ID, GoFood restaurant ID, traveloka restaurant ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, HiSCoD, Databazeknih.cz Book ID, Databazeknih.cz Author ID, Renacyt ID, CBDB.cz Book ID, CBDB.cz Author ID, Gab ID, Drammen byleksikon ID, NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, MakeMyTrip Hotel ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID


 * Query examples:
 * Frequency of letters in five-letter words in Wikidata lexeme forms (source)
 * Visualization of the Prime/Ulam Spiral using natural numbers and primes stored in Wikidata (source)
 * Monuments that are named after somebody without being connected to them by any other property (source)
 * Places named after Valentine's Day (Saint Valentine) (source)
 * Gold medal winners in the Olympic Games by age (source)
 * Top 20 languages in number of lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of lexemes with at least one external id (source)
 * Count of PropertyLabels for lakes in the UK (source)
 * Moons of solar system planets and what they are names for (source)
 * Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID (source)


 * Development
 * We started coding on the Wikibase Rest API based on the proposal we published a while ago.
 * We are continuing to work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. The first input fields are in place but not pretty or usable yet.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:42, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Taxonomy/' 'Eutrombicula


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that the page you created, Template:Taxonomy/' 'Eutrombicula, was tagged as a test page under section G2 of the criteria for speedy deletion and has been or soon may be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:45, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, . I'd have put it up myself, but putting up a page for deletion is not a process I have ever used. So thank you again. MargaretRDonald (talk) 18:45, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

March editathons
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Wikidata weekly summary #509
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Ikkingjinnammebetinke (RfP scheduled to end after 7 March 2022 13:33 UTC)
 * New request for comments: Creating items for videos at online video platforms that are representation of notable items
 * Other: Qualifiers for given names and surnames


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 1st at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 2nd, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #73 - YouTube, Facebook, March 5th at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #98, March 6th at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #31, War
 * Past:
 * Wikibase Live session, February 2022 - log
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #72 - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers: Wikidata as a Tool for Mapping Investment in Open Infrastructure: An Exploratory Study
 * Videos
 * Mismatch Finder tool: Quick introduction to and demo of how the tool works
 * Using a Custom Wikibase as a File Format Registry with Siegfried
 * Create a Wikidata Query - example using Shipwrecks data
 * Map Wikidata in an R Shiny App - example
 * Bring Wikidata into Power BI using a simple R script - example
 * Using QuickStatements to load tabular data and the Wikidata Edit Framework (in Italian)


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Guergana Tzatchkova (WMDE)/MismatchFinderWidget.js is a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Mismatch Finder, the tool that lets you review mismatches between the data in Wikidata and other databases, is now ready to be used for checking potential mismatches and uploading lists of new potential mismatches.
 * February 2022 WDQS scaling update now available: SPARQL query service/WDQS scaling update feb 2022
 * Job opening: The Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop WDQS. Apply here!
 * Job opening: is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: computational complexity
 * External identifiers: Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, Irish Registered Charity Number (RCN), CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID, VerbaAlpina ID, Prosopographia Imperii Romani online ID, Game World Navigator ID, Bugs! track ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Databazeknih.cz book ID, Databazeknih.cz author ID, MakeMyTrip hotel ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, GameGuru ID, 100-Year Guide to Hebrew Theatre person ID, INPA park ID, Riot Pixels game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: created during, award recipient, medical indication, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, eingesetzter Sportler
 * External identifiers: NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID, reddoorz hotel ID, symogih.org ID, CNKI Author ID, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, Spanish National Associations Register Number, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, RODI-DB player ID, Historische Topographie des Kulturerbes ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, MovieMeter series ID, Kayak Hotel ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Discover Moscow ID, Game Informer ID, Vedomosti company ID, USP Production Repository ID, Dansk Navneleksikon, Femiwiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of edits by user on French lexemes (source)
 * Languages in Indonesia with their status according to UNESCO (source)
 * Successful coups and attempts in Africa (source)
 * New York Times journalists that are alive (source)
 * Ukrainian coins and banknotes (source)
 * Types of quartz (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Chemistry/Natural products


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: work is continuing on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are working on the basic input fields and permission handling.
 * Mismatch Finder: Released the tool and working through feedback now and getting additional mismatches from organizations using our data.
 * REST API: Starting to build the initial Wikibase REST API. We are starting with the endpoint to read Item data first.
 * Data Reuse Days: Continuing event preparation
 * Published new security release updates for Wikibase suite wmde.6 (1.35)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Taxonomy/Bryobia graminum
Template:Taxonomy/Bryobia graminum has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:31, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Taxonomy/Bollmaniulus catalinae
Template:Taxonomy/Bollmaniulus catalinae has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:31, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
 * , Thank you very much. (I'd have done it myself but have not yet learned how. MargaretRDonald (talk) 23:45, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #510
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3. Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: IndoBot (Approved). Task/s: I would like to import all Indonesian schools, more than 100000. The data includes school type, location, and coordinates as well as external identifiers


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the 35 presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule.
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #99, March 13th at 13.00 UTC
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #74 - YouTube, Facebook, March 12th at 19:00 UTC
 * LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Presentation and discussion: "Introduction to Linked Open Data Strategy with Lea Voget, Head, Product Management WMDE". Lea is not only the team lead of product, project and program managers at WMDE, she is also one of the main thinkers behind the Linked Open Data strategy. When: 11 March 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter). Registration: Registration link
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Associate Librarian Stacy Allison-Cassin and her students on Wikidata in the classroom. Agenda
 * Art+Feminism editathon at the University Library Center of the University of Salerno. 8 March 2022
 * Wikidata workshop, held in collaboration with IPTC and explores the use of Wikidata concepts when dealing with metadata in media applications. Timing: from 10:00 to 18:00 CET. With presentations from: Yle, RAI, France TV, IPTC, Gruppo RES, Media Press, Perfect Memory, New York Times, NTB, Imatrics.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Ukraine
 * Past:
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #73 #opendataday - YouTube
 * NFDI InfraTalk: Wikibase - knowledge graphs for RDM in NFDI4Culture - YouTube (March 7, 4:00 PM CEST)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * Creating a new item on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Connecting Wikidata with OpenStreetMap (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (in French) - YouTube: 1, 2, 3.


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikxhibit is a tool that allows anyone, even non-programmers, to create cool presentations of Wikidata, and other sources of data on the web, only using HTML and without any additional programming. Are you interested in creating presentations of Wikidata? We would like to understand your experience with Wikidata to better improve our tool. It would help if you can fill out our survey https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvZKKlRu2S7C9Fk


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata dumps: Due to technical issues the JSON and RDF dumps for the week of March 1st couldn't be properly generated (T300255). The situation is expected to get back to normal this week.
 * Item with QID 111,111,111 was created
 * Job openings:
 * The development team at WMDE is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop and improve the software behind the Wikidata project. Apply here!
 * The WMF Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop Wikidata Query Service. Apply here!
 * is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: created during, Ghana Place Names URL, trained by
 * External identifiers: Old-Games.RU ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, SBN work ID, SBN place ID, Kanobu numeric game ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, CBDB.cz author ID, CBDB.cz book ID, ULI ID, NLC Bibliography ID, LMHL author ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Latvia water body classification code, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, QQ Music singer ID, PubCRIS product number, PKULaw CLI Code, NVE glacier ID, iXBT Games ID, TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Агрегатируется с, Observer
 * External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, tiket to-do ID, TEIS ID, OBD Memorial ID, Hrono.ru article ID, db.narb.by ID, Shopee Shop ID, Grab Food ID, US trademark serial number, Scottish Built Ships ID, trivago hotel ID, skyscanner hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, pravo.gov.ru ID, NGO Darpan ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID


 * Query examples:
 * Use of free software license for describing software (source)
 * Count of latest available Twitter follower count for different programming languages (source)
 * Timeline of programming languages and their paradigms (source)
 * Most popular programming language on Wikipedia with multilingual articles (source)
 * Russian TV channels from and about Russia (source)
 * Places of birth of people named "Désirée" (source)
 * People in the Père-Lachaise cemetery who were born in a city that is or was in Ukraine (source)
 * Properties linking between a church and its saint (source)


 * Development
 * Data Reuse Days: Preparing for the upcoming Data Reuse Days. Join us! A lot of exciting sessions are coming together.
 * Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are getting close to the point where it can create a Lexeme.
 * REST API: Continuing to work on the first endpoint to read Item data.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:22, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #511
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. You can also look at a selection of sessions based on your areas of interest.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #75 - YouTube, Facebook, March 19th at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #100(!), March 20th at 13.00 UTC
 * Bug Triage Hour focused on data reuse, March 23rd
 * Wikidata 101 workshop (in Albanian language) March 15th at 10 o'clock at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana
 * Ontotext Webinar - GraphDB as Company Data Central - "How GraphDB can help you create a graph model of your data and enrich it with reference data". March 17th
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Furniture


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * History of the Tour de France: a notebook to explore the history of the tour de France in three charts.
 * A dataset of scholarly journals in wikidata : (selected) external identifiers
 * Getting all the government agencies of the world structured in Wikidata
 * Papers
 * ParaNames: A Massively Multilingual Entity Name Corpus (built using Wikidata)
 * Videos
 * Breton Lexicographic data SPARQL queries (in French) - YouTube
 * Wikidata SPARQL session (in French) - YouTube
 * moreIdentifiers UseAsRef gadget (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Wikidata working hour - QuickStatements (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Graph data formats: Common RDF vocabularies (in Czech) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/LexemeTranslations.js is a userscript that shows translations for a lexeme. The translations are inferred from statements on senses, such as item for this sense (P5137).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS outage on 06 March: users may have unexpectedly had requests blocked. Incident report here.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Ghana Place Names URL, trained by, KLADR ID, identifies
 * External identifiers: TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, Change.org decision maker ID, Podchaser episode ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, Dansk Navneleksikon ID, CiteSeerX person ID, CNKI author ID, naturkartan.se ID, HaBima Archive play ID, HaBima Archive person ID, Vedomosti company ID, Grab Food restaurant ID, Chinese School Identifier, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, svpressa.ru person ID, GameMAG ID, ICQ user ID, Scottish Built Ships ID, histrf.ru person ID, symogih.org ID, Mapping Manuscript Migrations manuscript ID, US trademark serial number, NLC Bibliography ID (foreign-language), GoFood restaurant ID, Official Internet Portal of Legal Information ID, Bavarian Monument Map Object-ID (building ensemble), skyscanner hotel ID, NGO Darpan ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Observer, identifiant spectacle Les Archives du spectacle, Supports qualifier 2, franchisor, Exhibited Creator, colocated with
 * External identifiers: trivago hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), MovieMeter TV season ID, MangaDex title ID, 1905.com film ID, 1905.com star ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Italian Women Writers ID, Championat.com ID, Arachne entity ID, IRIS Friuli-Venezia Giulia IDs, Sport24.ru team ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Virginia Burgesses and Delegates Database ID, Arizona Legislators Then and Now ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, ubereats store ID, FamousFix topic ID, FAOTERM ID, RSPA Ancient authors ID, RSPA Modern authors ID, ImagesDéfense ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, ILO code, Culture.ru institutes ID, Proza.ru author ID, Stihi.ru author ID, TV Maze season ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, Boobpedia ID, Leafsnap ID, neftegaz.ru person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Properties describing Art UK artworks (source)
 * Timeline of victims of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * Population of countries that share a border with Russia (source)
 * Audio pronunciation of places in Wales (source)
 * Things with a national gallery of Scotland ID where the artist was or is a woman (source)
 * Software with gender information of developer, designer and the person named after source


 * Development
 * Getting ready for Data Reuse Days
 * Mismatch Finder: Discussing the next batches of potential mismatches with MusicBrainz data and some remaining Freebase data
 * Lexicographical data: Continuing work on the basic version of the new Special:NewLexeme page, focusing on putting in the base data about the new Lexeme
 * REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #512
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description)
 * AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Tuesday, March 22 at 9AM UTC: first online OpenRefine office hour for Wikimedians. Find the Zoom link and dates/times for next office hours here!
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Christian Boulanger on extracting open citation data for legal theory graph project. Agenda with call link, March 22.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #34, Geometry
 * Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. For a recap of the event so far:
 * a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
 * speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
 * all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * MediaWiki Lua for non-Lua programmers by Lucas Werkmeister
 * Kohesio.eu: European Commission goes Open Source
 * Videos
 * Ongoing DataReuseDays 2022 - YouTube
 * Lightning talks
 * Wikidata for performing and visual arts
 * Wikxhibit
 * How to retrieve Wikidata’s data?
 * Best practices for reusing Wikidata’s data
 * Building a simple web app using Wikidata data
 * Biohackathon: report on reviewing Wikidata subsetting method
 * GeneWiki: The Wikidata Integrator
 * Cartographier des données de Wikidata avec Umap (in French) - YouTube
 * Mapping Einstein Researchers on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
 * Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There are Rapid Grants available for local meetups during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 from May 20-May 22. Apply to host a social for your local community. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2022.
 * Magnus made a recent Mix’n’match improvement: List of Wikidata properties (incomplete) that could have a MnM catalog, to help create one, or tag as difficult etc.
 * Andrew put together a guide to writing SPARQL queries for the Wikidata MPs project. Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/Building Queries
 * The proposed config change to remove the  right from users – so that they can apply change tags to their own actions as they are made, but not change the tags of other actions after the fact anymore – has been deployed.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID
 * External identifiers: LDT @ Library Name Authority ID, LDT @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, LDT @ Library Classification Authority ID, USP Production Repository ID, Transilien ID, United Russia member ID, MovieMeter TV season ID, Joshua Project people group ID, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, vc.ru company ID, Repetti on-line ID, Cybersport.ru ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Discover Moscow ID, ArTS author ID, IRIS UNIUD author ID, Game Informer ID, Ligue 2 player ID, Femiwiki ID, Arachne entity ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, Oregon State Parks ID, Washington State Parks ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Bhashakosha pp., local education level, hours per week, education level, time allocation, grading system, grade, ISCED-ALevel, ISCED category orientation, ISCED Broad Field, ISCED Narrow Field, ISCED Detailed Field, competency, sessions per week, applies to work, rack system, maintains consistent linking to
 * External identifiers: Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, USA Track & Field (www.usatf.org) athlete ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, DACS ID (2022), marriott hotel ID, identifiant Epigraphie, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, CPNI ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, eSbírky institution ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria cultural place ID, Zotero ID, World of Waterfalls ID


 * Query examples:
 * Signature images from Wikidata (change the view to “map” to see the signatures arranged by the person’s place of birth! (source)
 * Count of UK lake items with a 'UK Lakes Portal ID' (P7548) property statement (source)
 * Travel reports by Alfred Brehm as timeline (source)
 * Timeline for the Apple "M" series of Systems on a Chip (SoC)
 * Religion of men named “Maria” (as one of their given names) (source)
 * Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (passing through Finland and Kazakhstan)
 * Map of institutions where "where people who studied there" have created written works whose main subject is knowledge graph (Q33002955), knowledge base (Q515701) and (Q33002955)
 * Colonies of Africa with their or their “main state”’s official language and ISO code


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them.
 * Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above).
 * REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.

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!

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April Editathons from Women in Red
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Books & Bytes – Issue 49
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 49, January – February 2022 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * New library collections
 * Blog post published detailing technical improvements

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Wikidata weekly summary #513
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 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 31st March 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Live Wikidata editing on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 29 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * ArtandFeminism 2022 editathon by Achiri Bitamsimli. Theme: Add Dagbani labels and descriptions of female lawyers in West Africa. Date: April 1st, 2022 - March 8th, 2022. Location: Tamale College of Education, Ghana. Time: 9:00am — 9:00pm UTC. Register.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #77 - YouTube, Facebook, April 2nd at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #102, April 3rd at 12.00 UTC
 * Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. This online editing event is organized by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, LaCogency and many partners, with support from Wikimedia Foundation Alliances Fund. Guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French.
 * The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects, with a focus on Wikidata, will take place online and onsite on July 1-2, 2022.
 * Ongoing:
 * Wikimedia Indonesia's Datathon program under 2022 Wiki Women's Month started on March 18th 18:00 UTC+7 and will last until March 25th 23:59 UTC+7. 70+ users enrollled. Page.
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #35, Water
 * Past:
 * Two Wikidata Training (Kelas Wikidata) on 2022 Wiki Women's Month were held online on March 12th and 13th.
 * Data Reuse Days. For a recap of the event:
 * a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
 * speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
 * all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe
 * Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia
 * Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest
 * Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors? fact checking an intuition using Wikidata
 * Building a Web of Knowledge Through Wikidata
 * Presentations
 * LOTUS, Beyond drug discovery: Breaking the boundaries of natural products information, at the Spring 2022 meeting
 * Papers
 * "Exploratory Methods for Relation Discovery in Archival Data" - a holistic approach to discover relations in art historical communities and enrich historians’ biographies and archival descriptions, based on Wikidata
 * Videos
 * DataReuseDays 2022 concluded. (see past events above for a full list of the recorded sessions)
 * A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - YouTube
 * FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
 * Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - YouTube
 * A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
 * WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Status update about what was achieved for each of the Wikibase related 2021 development goals has been published: Wikidata:Development plan/archive2021/status updates
 * Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this  page!
 * Wikidata now has over 1,600,000,000 edits! The milestone edit was made by Ruky Wunpini.
 * The Dutch National Library has a new website with more info on their use of the Wikimedia Projects including their work with Wikidata.
 * 2 months paid internship vacancy is available for Wikimedia Indonesia technology division. Registration is open until March 27th. Announcement.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: documentation files at
 * External identifiers: SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID, Rekhta book ID, ILO code, reddoorz hotel ID, Naver VIBE video ID, SberZvuk artist ID, Italian Women Writers ID, RBC company ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia person ID, Booking.com numeric ID, Agoda hotel numeric ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: maintains consistent linking to, ocupante de / occupant of
 * External identifiers: World of Waterfalls ID, New IDU properties, My World@Mail.Ru ID, BillionGraves grave ID, Archivio Storico Intesa Sanpaolo, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Trovo ID, Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID


 * Query examples:
 * Wikidata knowledge graph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln (source)
 * Women who served as defense ministers in various countries (source)
 * UK MPs who had paired names (e.g. Owen Thomas / Thomas Owen) (source)
 * List of properties associated with items that are class/subclass of File Format (source)
 * Table frequency of properties used in instances of public libraries


 * Development
 * [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
 * Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
 * Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (T104344)
 * Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
 * REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication

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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #514
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4: Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adam Schiff (University of Washington), Tyler Rogers (San Diego State University), Julia Gilmore (University of Toronto) on documenting buildings on academic campuses. Agenda with call link, April 5.
 * Wikimedia Research Office Hours April 5, 2022
 * Wikidata items about theatre and dance productions, April 6 (in French). The same workshop will be offered in English on May 4.
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 6th, 2022. Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad
 * Art+Feminism Community Hours. Theme: Add your Event Data to Wikidata. April 9 at 2pm UTC!
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #36, Family
 * Past: Wikibase live session (March 2022) log


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Property exploration: How do I learn more about properties on Wikidata?
 * UCSC Ph.D. students dive deep into engineering open-domain dialogue AI with the support of industry partners. "...aims to develop a better system for entity linking, the connection of entities like “Lebron James” or “the Earth” to their various meanings in an existing database of knowledge – in this case, Wikidata..."
 * Highlighting linked data projects. "...Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries, and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa are engaging in the grant-funded Linked Data for Production project. Broadly, the project uses linked data to show patrons information from outside sources (such as Wikidata) and build longer, more nuanced links between resources".
 * Videos
 * The Share-VDE project and its relationship with Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Create a Wikidata page from scratch (in French) - YouTube
 * Clinical Trials, Wikidata and Systems Biology (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * New WikidataCon 2021 videos uploaded on YouTube
 * Your favorite interface gadgets on Wikidata
 * Wikidata Query Service scaling challenges
 * Decolonizing Wikidata: Q&A session
 * Wikidata et l’écosystème de données ouvertes liées pour les arts de la scène (in French)
 * Respectfully representing Indigenous knowledge in Wikidata
 * Other
 * FAIR cookbook's recipe "How to Register a Dataset with Wikidata"
 * OpenRefine will soon hold its two-yearly survey again. Who wants to help translate the survey to their language? It will take around 45 minutes. There are already translations underway in Spanish and Dutch. Contact User:SFauconnier if you want to help!


 * Tool of the week
 * Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
 * QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Query Service scaling update, March 2022 is now available.
 * WDQS backend alternatives paper with shortlist of options have been published.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: cantilever sign, supports qualifier, APE code
 * External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, Arizona State Legislators: Then & Now ID, db.narb.by ID, Kayak hotel ID, Melon music video ID, Evil Angel movie ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, World of Waterfalls ID, IxTheo authority ID, BillionGraves grave ID, eSbírky institution ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Zotero ID, My World@Mail.Ru ID, KSH code (historical), traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: oeconym, ISCED Attainment, Per capita income
 * External identifiers: Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, AccessScience ID, IPU Chamber ID, COL taxon ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, C-SPAN Person Numeric ID, SRSLY person ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature Bio ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, Beatport track ID, EIA plant ID, EIA utility ID, Speleologi del passato ID, HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID


 * Query examples:
 * Long swedish / german nouns in Wikidata (source)
 * Texts which have Wikisource links in English and French (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language variant.
 * REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
 * Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense to people who use screen readers.

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!

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