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Wikidata weekly summary #503
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: MSGJ (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 18 at 19:00 CEST
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #67 - YouTube, Facebook, January 22 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #93, January 23 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #25, Volcano
 * #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
 * Past:
 * Bug Triage Hour (log). The next session will be announced here in the Wikidata Weekly Summary and on the Wikidata mailing-list.
 * Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award 2021 (replay on YouTube)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Tour de France's stage winners an Observable notebook to explore Tour de France's data using SPARQL and Observable's Plot library.
 * Wikidata, Open Infrastructures, Recognition & Rewards
 * Equal Street Names Wiesbaden
 * Videos
 * Using Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata to mport a book into Wikisource -YouTube
 * Musicbrainz.org and wikidata.org - What can we learn from the designs and how to use the API's to extract information - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wiki History Game is a game based on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened.
 * GraphQL demo for WikiCite is a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Do you have an idea you want to explore & want to investigate it using Wikidata? Apply for a WMAU fellowship grant.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: reference image, associated cadastral district, admission yield rate
 * External identifiers: Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, oKino.ua film ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Pipe Organ Database organ ID, UNICA IRIS author ID, IRIS UNISS author ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Business valuation, 議案番号, podcast image url, list of TV show episode, XJustiz registration court ID, LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community
 * External identifiers: Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID, Amazon podcast ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Football Federation of Armenia ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, Habr company ID, Douban book Works ID, German Lobbyregister-ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID2, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, IRIS national research institutes IDs


 * Query examples:
 * Things that turned 20 years old today (source)
 * Irish artists and their relationships (source)
 * Eating or drinking establishments near you (1.5 radius) (source)
 * Most common day for UK by-elections since 1880 (source)


 * Development
 * Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully dispatched to the clients (T233520)
 * Mismatch Finder: Improved the texts in the tool to be more understandable after testing
 * Mismatch Finder: added a way to get statistics about all the reviews that have been done in the tool and what is still awaiting review
 * Special:NewLexeme: kicked off the development work to improve the page in order to make it more understandable

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:25, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #504
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: MSGJ (Successful). Welcome onboard \o/


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th January 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 25 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Pascal Martinolli speaking on tabletop role-playing game citations practices and Wikidata, January 25th.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #68 - YouTube, Facebook, January 29 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #94, January 30 at 13.00 UTC
 * Online workshop in French about Breton lexicographical data, by Envlh and Vigneron, January 30 at 15:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * On Tuesday, February 22, the OpenRefine team hosts a community meetup to present current and future work on Structured Data on Commons support in OpenRefine.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #26, Bees
 * #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
 * Past:
 * Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-01-19)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The CIA lost track of who runs the UK, so I picked up the slack featured on Hacker News
 * Solving Wordle, Sutom, and al. with SPARQL queries on Wikidata
 * Wikitrivia is a web game that challenges your knowledge of historical dates
 * Wikitrivia, the viral game that tests how much you know about history (in Spanish)
 * 100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History
 * Papers
 * Wikidata: a new perspective towards universal bibliographic control
 * Wikidata for Digital Preservationists: New DPC Technology Watch Guidance Note now available on general release
 * Videos
 * [WORKSHOP] Wikidata and libraries: tools for information managers (in Spanish) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Comparator compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Lexemes forms:
 * Now supports the Odia language
 * Substantially expanded template for Spanish verbs
 * How many triples are added when certain edits are made? ... User:Mahir256/Triples


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: admission yield rate, Corruption Perceptions Index, category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast image url
 * External identifiers: AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, ARCHER ID, Senators of Spain (1834-1923) ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Hermitage Museum work ID, Engineer's Line Reference, Archive ouverte UNIGE ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, AsianWiki ID, ENEA-IRIS Open Archive author ID, METRICA author ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community, subpopulation 3, type of register, identifier in a register, phrase in hiero markup
 * External identifiers: Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, XJustiz registration court ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania Encyclopedia ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Index to Organism Names ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, LastDodo-area-id, SberZvuk ID, North Data company ID, Gardens Navigator ID, SAHRA heritage objects ID, ezeri.lv ID, SAHA player ID, norsk fangeregister fangeleir ID, Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of tramways in France
 * Map of categories for honorary citizens (source)
 * Map of the Medieval universities and its founding date (source)
 * Camps/subcamps within a 20km radius of your location (source)
 * Taxa found at Fazenda Tamanduá (Sertão of Paraíba - Brazil) (source)
 * Birthplace of Rabbis (source)
 * Italian parliamentarians and ministers aged between 50 and 80 (source)
 * Female Irish scientists in Wikidata without a Wikipedia article (source)
 * Places in the Hautes-Alpes that are the subject of an article on Wikipedia in at least 10 languages (source)


 * Development
 * Enabling usage tracking specifically for statements on Waray, Armenian and Cebuano Wikipedias (T296383, T296382, T296384)
 * Implementing basic version of mul language code and deploying it to Test Wikidata (T297393)
 * Preparing an event centered on reusing Wikidata's data
 * Mismatch Finder: Been in touch with people who can potentially provide the first mismatches to load into the new tool for the launch. Finalized the statistics part.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * 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 #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)

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)