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February with Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wikidata weekly summary #505
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * GretaHeng18bot
 * Pi bot 24
 * SchoolBot
 * companyBot


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Talk to the Search Platform Team about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.! February 2nd, 2022. Etherpad.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube, Facebook, February 5 at 19:00 UTC
 * Wikimedia Research February Office Hours Wednesday, 2022-02-02 at 00:00-1:00 UTC (16:00 PT 02-01 /19:00 ET 02-01 / 1:00 CET 02-02).
 * Data Reuse Days will take place on March 14-24, highlighing applications and tools using Wikidata's data. You can already propose a session.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #27, Numbers (1/n)
 * Past:
 * Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron
 * Wikibase Live Session (2022.01.27)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Press
 * "Massive open index of scholarly papers launches" - called OpenAlex, it draws its data from sources including Wikidata
 * Blogs
 * OpenSanctions is integrating persons of interest from Wikidata
 * Celebrating the 2,000 featured articles milestone in Wikipedia in French: Using the Wikipedia Categorymembers API through a SPARQL query to get all articles featured in category "Article de qualité" and compute statistics.
 * Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Using Linked Open Data to Connect Smithsonian Information
 * The origin of the gender gap
 * Videos
 * Wikidata as a Modality for Accessible Clinical Research
 * Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase


 * Tool of the week
 * Basque version of Wordle using Wikidata's lexicographic data. Check it out!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS scaling update for Jan 2022 available here. We will be trying to do monthly updates starting this month.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast logo URL, hotel rating, dpi for original size, director of publication, official jobs URL
 * External identifiers: TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, Muz-TV ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, Tretyakov Gallery work ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania encyclopedia ID, Amazon podcast ID, Habr company ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, German Lobbyregister ID, Film.ru actor ID, Film.ru film ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID, StarHit ID, North Data ID, CYT/CCS, LKI ID, Unified book number


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: has member, register in Germany, dailytelefrag.ru ID, time in the pouch, semantic gender, Game World Navigator ID
 * External identifiers: Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, CHY Number, OpenSanctions ID, identifiant Les Archives du spectacle (organisme), Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, histrf.ru person ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, Chgk person ID, Latvijas ūdenstilpju klasifikatora kods, RCN (Irish Registered Charity Number), RBC company ID, OpenStates ID, NetEase Music Artist ID, QQ Music Singer ID, Euro NCAP ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2


 * Query examples:
 * US states with the most punk bands (source)
 * List of Ghanaian scientists by citation count (source)
 * Actresses who have played Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, with type of production (source)
 * MPs with identified mythical ancestors
 * Items with "language of work or name = Toki Pona" as qualifier
 * Timeline of 1st women practising a given sports discipline (source)
 * Water boards in the Netherlands (source)
 * Birthplaces of US Presidents, Russian emperors, Roman emperors (source)
 * Age of the actress when she played "Elizabeth Bennet" (source)
 * People with dates of birth and death on January 1st (day precision dates) (source)
 * More than 500 lexemes in Breton now have at least one sense (source)


 * Development
 * Continuing work on adding the mul language code for labels, descriptions and aliases. (T297393)
 * Enabled statement usage tracking for Cebuano, Armenian and Warai Warai to ensure fine-grained notifications about edits on Wikidata on those Wikipedias (T296383, T296382, T296384)
 * Continuing work on fixing a bug where Wikidata changes do not get sent to Wikipedia and co for the first sitelink adding leading to missing information in the page_props table (T233520)
 * Continuing work on making sure the Wikidata search box works with the new Vector skin improvements (T296202)
 * Mismatch Finder: Debugging some issues with the first files we got with mismatches that we can load into the Mismatch Finder

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) 15:44, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 48
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 48, November – December 2021 
 * 1Lib1Ref 2022
 * Wikipedia Library notifications deployed

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Wikidata weekly summary #506
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: MystBot
 * Other: Discussion about replacing values with a new format or scheme for "SBN author ID" (P396), an identifier for National Library Service (SBN) of Italy


 * 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!
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andy Mabbett on the "Cite Q" template that uses data from Wikidata in Wikipedia citations and Crystal Clements on setting the framework for a future discussion on addressing ethical concerns surrounding representation of gender for living persons in Wikidata, February 8th. Agenda
 * Wikidata Query Service scaling: You can join 2 calls and provide feedback at the 2 WDQS scaling community meetings on Thursday, 17 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC, and Monday 21 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC. Full details here.
 * Live on Twitch and in French about Academic bibliographical data and Scholia by Vigneron and Jsamwrites, February 8 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #70 - YouTube, Facebook, February 12 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #95, February 13 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2022)
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #28, Computer
 * Past:
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube
 * Jan Ainali, GovDirectory. Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government - Civic Hacker Summit, November 2021


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * How-to: Matching multilingual thesaurus concepts with OpenRefine
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2021 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
 * Importing a Breton dictionary from Wikisource into Wikidata lexicographical data, by Envlh
 * Profiling a Wikibase item creation on test.wikidata.org by Addshore
 * Fast Bulk Import Into Wikibase
 * Papers
 * XAlign: Cross-lingual Fact-to-Text Alignment and Generation for Low-Resource Languages
 * Videos
 * Wikidata: A knowledge graph for the earth sciences? - YouTube
 * Activate Faktamall biografi WD gadget (see Wikidata info in Wikipedia) - YouTube
 * Wikidata workshop: interwiki links (Questions) - 1, 2 & 3 (YouTube)
 * Wikidata Tutorial (in German): create a user account on Wikidata, add an institution's website to Wikidata


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata edit map by Denny puts a dot on the map whenever an Item with a geocoordinate is edited.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * January 1st as date
 * Wikidata has 2,540,891 items for people with both date of birth and date of death. There are 9 redirects for every 100 such items. (source). 2000 people share dates of birth and death with another person.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: dpi for A4 printing, time in the pouch, semantic gender
 * External identifiers: AAGM artwork ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Artland fair ID, Artland gallery ID, Douban book series ID, Douban book works ID, Les Archives du spectacle organization ID, Urban Electric Transit city ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, Ezeri.lv lake ID, Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Bugs! music video ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, New York Flora Atlas ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, 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


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: HSK ID, sports in region, Computational complexity, YouTube video
 * External identifiers: Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2, podchaser episode ID, IFPI UPC/EAN, Weltfussball-Spiel-ID, GoodGame.ru ID, USgamer ID, Riot Pixels game ID, HaBima Archive play id, HaBima Archive person id, NLI topic id, 100Y Hebrew Theatre Guide person id, Old-Games.RU ID, iXBT Games ID, Students of Turin University ID, Tagoo video game ID, AusGamers ID, GameGuru ID, LMHL author ID, VGTimes ID, ULI id, GameMAG ID, SBN new authority IDs, Prosopographia Imperii Romani Online ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, Gesher Theater Archive person id, Gesher Theater Archive play id, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist static ID, A9VG game ID, Qichaha firm ID, Chinese School Identifier, GoHa.ru ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, CiteSeerX ID of a person, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, 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


 * Deleted properties:
 * "Scoresway soccer person ID" (P3043)
 * "SSR WrittenForm ID" (P1849)
 * "FFF female player ID" (P4886)
 * "FFF male player ID" (P4883)
 * Query examples:
 * Events by number of video games announced (source)
 * Three-Michelin Stars restaurants with a female chef (source)
 * Wikidata Properties specific to German Lexemes and number of times they are used (source)
 * Countries with count of same Wikidata labels in different languages (source)
 * Team and positions played by National Women's Football League players (source)
 * Location of the graves of personalities in Père Lachaise Cemetery who died between 1800 and 1849 (50 year ranges) (source)
 * Location of statues of women in Italy (source)
 * Count of Lexeme pairs between different languages (source)
 * Birthplaces of General secretaries of USSR (source)
 * Items related to Abdülmecid I, their collections, and their types (source)
 * Objects related in some way to Aurangzeb (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Archaeology


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: Tracking down one last issue with the upload of mismatch files. Once that is fixed we are ready to release the tool.
 * Lexicographical data: Started coding on the rewrite of Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand and use.

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) 15:26, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Question from Patmastelotto (02:35, 11 February 2022)
still trying to change photo,, I uploaded this but not sure how to place. --Patmastelotto (talk) 02:35, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2022
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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)

March editathons
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The Signpost: 27 February 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #509
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 * 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!
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<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, 28 February 2022 (UTC)