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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter – 018
- February 2022—Issue 018
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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:
- Upcoming:
- 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 (phab:T300255#7746418). 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!
- Natural History Museum, Berlin (Q233098) 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
This Month in GLAM: February 2022
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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
- Upcoming
- 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
- Blogs
- 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
- Newest properties:
- 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!
DYK for Gertrude Hart
On 15 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gertrude Hart, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Australian writer Gertrude Hart (pictured) was a co-founder of the Old Derelicts' Club, which later became the Society of Australian Authors? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gertrude Hart. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Gertrude Hart), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Precious
women in Australian literature
Thank you for quality articles about women creating literature in Australia and New Zealand, such as Gertrude Hart, Vera Dwyer, Babette Smith and Janet McCalman, for Indigenous Literacy Foundation, for the Years in Australian literature, for "we can!" - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2714 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:50, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Thank you. I am honoured to receive this award and join this very special group of editors. I promise to continue bringing women, especially but not excusively those of a literary bent, to the pages of Wikiipedia.--Oronsay (talk) 18:49, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #512
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 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
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- 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
changetagsright 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
- Newest properties:
- 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!
April Editathons from Women in Red
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:45, 22 March 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Books & Bytes – Issue 49
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 49, January – February 2022
- New library collections
- Blog post published detailing technical improvements
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:06, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 March 2022
- From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
- Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
- In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
- Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
- Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
- Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
- Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
- Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
- Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
- From the archives: Burn, baby burn
- Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
- Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
- On the bright side: The bright side of news
Wikidata weekly summary #513
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
- Upcoming
- 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
- 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
- Blogs
- 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 [email protected] 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
- Newest properties:
- 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 (phab: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!