Wikidata:Status updates/2023 09 25

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-09-25.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: AytekUstundag-RoyalMapperBot (Task: Add missing historical figures from royalmapper database)

Events

• Upcoming
  • WikidataCon 2023, the conference dedicated to the Wikidata community, is taking place on October 28-29, online all around the world and onsite in Taipei. You can now register for the conference.
  • WikiIndaba 2023 Microgrants available for community events!
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 29. This event is part of a series where you can gain hands-on experience with Wikidata by working on a diverse library and information science (LIS) dataset. In this fourth session, we'll introduce the Wikimedia PAWS environment for data gathering and processing in your Wikidata projects. We'll focus on web scraping for article data using Python and the Beautiful Soup package for parsing. You'll learn about data models for making your data accessible to both machines and humans. This session will be recorded and shared on the event page. Event page.
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Mass-importing games from Steam into Wikidata by User:Nicereddy
• Papers
  • Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to Support Life on a Sustainable Planet (A Wikimedia Projects White Paper from the Biodiversity Heritage Library). Jacqueline J. Dearborn
  • "Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives" Numerical perspectives help people understand extreme and unfamiliar numbers. (Cao et al, 2023)
  • Response to Marcin Roszkowski 2023: Modelling doctoral dissertations in Wikidata knowledge graph: Selected issues. Tamsin L. Braisher
• Press
  • They call it the Barassi Line, defining our footy codes - how fitting that seems today - The Barassi Line has been a focus of my research and has recently been plotted and visualised by Brett Tweedie as part of his Wikidata fellowship.
• Videos
  • The mess with Wikidata death location and the instance of a location - salgo60
  • Developing a linked data workflow using Wikidata - Will Kent
  • Entity linking historical document OCR by combining Wikidata and Wikipedia - Kai Labusch
  • From EAD to MARC to Wikidata and back again - Crystal Yragui, Adam Schiff
  • Adventures in Korean Wikidata - Margaret Donald
  • Getting started on Wikidata - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
  • Wiki(su)data #2: Wikidata live editing in Italian - Wikidata in italiano
  • Wikibase as an institutional repository authority file - Michael Lindsey

Tool of the week

• User:Luca.favorido/linkypop.js is a script that can be used to search an identifier on an external site. It provides a button to search for an identifier as soon as you type it in the property input field. For example, if you type “ORCID”, an icon with a lens will appear, and when you click it, a new tab will open with the ORCID site looking for the name of the researcher. You can then copy the URL and paste it to Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Want to play a game? Wikidata:Games has some Wikidata-related ones for you.
• Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC - Project submission deadline.
• Citation.js Toolforge is a service to export citations from Wikidata items in various formats (BibTeX, RIS) and various citations formats (Vancouver, APA, etc)
• As a next step in the deprecation process of ORES the WMF Machine Learning team will switch the backend of ores.wikimedia.org to ores-legacy so users that have not yet migrated to Lift Wing will be transparently migrated. This change is planned to take place on Monday 25th of September.
• Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech (d/f/m)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • type of musical notation (system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition)
    • ‎chronological designation (stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: source cited in support of a particular statement may not be the same as the publication date or volume)
  • External identifiers: J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, Diktyon ID, RAWG tag ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Demo (video game or software that this trial version is based on)
    • ETCS level (ETCS level of implementation)
    • adoption variant (variant of this loanword with the same origin)
    • Temaportalen ID ()
  • External identifiers: Metacritic game ID, BAN ID, handlingar.se ID, identifiant Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, South African NPO number
• Query examples:
  • Subclass of blogger (source)
  • List of taxon name as first having been described by Dennis P. Gordon (source)
  • Gallery of wood cuts made before 1600, including file description and the link to the Wikimedia Commons file (source)
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 38, 2023) (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Chopin Thematic Catalog Concordance - an effort by members of the Music Library Association (MLA) Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) to create and enhance Wikidata items for Frédéric Chopin's musical works.
  • WikiProject Museum AI projects - aims to map AI projects (including events, datasets) from museums into Wikidata and create a data model for it.

Development

• Lexemes: We are fixing an issue that made edit links and styles disappear (phab:T344362)
• Mismatch Finder:
  • We made improvements to the store part of the tool (phab:T335864) and fixed small issues (phab:T344336,, phab:T343344)
  • We worked on making it possible to upload mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)
• We are continuing to migrate tools from ORES to Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
• We've added Wikifunktions as a new wiki for sitelinks (phab:T342857)
• Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get labels, descriptions and aliases from a Property as well as modify the description of an Item

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!