Wikidata:Status updates/Next

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-01-29.

Discussions

• Reminder: the period for feedback on the Wikidata Query Service graph split ruleset closes on 15-May-2024.

Events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 took place in Tallinn, Estonia. Wikimedians from all over came together to hack on a huge variety of topics, including Wikidata and Wikibase topics. See the entire Program
• International Museum Day 2024 on Wikimedia: Take part in the translation, media, and data challenges!
• Registration for Wiki Workshop 2024 is now open! The event will be virtually held on *June 20, 12:00-18:30 UTC
• Coordinate Me 2024 is an international Wikidata competition taking place over the month of May. This year, the focus is on enriching or creating Wikidata items with the Property: Coordinate Location (P625). To participate, enroll on the dashboard to ensure your edits are tracked.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• Papers
  • MisgenderMender - A community-informed approach to interventions of misgendering.
• Videos
  • Intro to Wikidata Query Service - hosted by User:Gnoeee, this comprehensive video will equip newcomers to Wikidata with the skills to effectively start querying Wikidata.
  • Siobhan Leachman, NZ Citizen Scientist and Wikipedian - CitSciOz23 Keynote Speaker, this prolific editor discusses her passions and workflows for contributing and enriching Wikidata on topics as diverse as women scientists, scientific illustrators, artworks and citation data, moths and more.
  • WikiSearch from Wikibase Data - Wout Geveart shows how the WikiSearch extension is using Wikibase data to explore and visualise the data in new ways.
  • WikimediaAPIs: a WM Technology Training Session - Mr. Neechalkaran of the WM Indic MediaWiki Developers Usergroup introduces the function and utility of WM projects APIs, including the REST AOI, the Wikidata API and more.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A new UI mode is available for the online validator for entity schemas. The new UI represents validation reports as a table rather than a very long string, and replaces most links with hyperlinks with some of the text behind them. It is currently being tested at https://shex-validator.toolforge.org/packages/shex-webapp/doc/shex-simple-improved.html. For details, check out my user page. We are looking for participants in the evaluation of this tool. Some experience with editing Wikidata is appreciated, but no experience with editing Wikidata or working with Schemas is required. If you are interested, you can sign up at https://datumprikker.nl/pwx27abv4daqq4vr, or check out my user page for details. We hope to begin interviews around the 13th of may. M.alten.tue (talk) 10:36, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • category for this time births (category item for people who born in this time)
    • category for this time deaths (category item for people who died in this time)
    • representation type (Property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items)
    • source of transfer (entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity)
    • destination of transfer (entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process)
  • External identifiers: ‎FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, ‎Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz person ID, RAG ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID (ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it)
    • is ontological root of (forms the root element of the ontology)
  • External identifiers: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, The Law Dictionary entry, urban area census code, Wardah Books ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, The Sounds Resource game ID, Palula dictionary ID, CDC Stacks ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, NLR editions, VideoGameGeek publisher ID, الملف الاستنادي للمؤلفين العراقيين, Dhliz film ID, Dhliz TV series ID, glubinka.by, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, TheLegacy ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Transfermarkt competition ID
• Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • List of lists of ambassadors per host and sending country
• Schema examples:
• Newest WikiProjects:
• WikiProject Highlights:
• Newest database reports:
• Showcase Items:
• Showcase Lexemes:

Development

• We attended the Wikimedia Hackathon.
• REST API: We are finishing the route for creating an Item (phab:T342990) and modify the data of a Property (phab:T347394)
• EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)