Wikidata:Status updates/Next

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-12-16.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
• Closed request for adminship:
• New requests for permissions/Bot: PWSBot - Task(s): Is a selfmade chatbot to answer factual questions as part of a final research project for educational purposes.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: CarbonBot - Withdrawn by submitter
• New request for comments:
• Closed request for comments:

Events

Upcoming events:

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 17 December, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 December, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1734454800 (Time zone converter) Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series Etherpad https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/LD4-WDAG_Lexicographical_Data_Series to help us prepare relevant materials for you. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024 at our regular time of 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls/Second_Project_Series

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
• Papers
  • Are Wikipedia articles representative of Western or world knowledge?, December 12, 2024, The Signpost
• Videos
  • AWS re:Invent 2024 - Bring AI to life with DataStax, NVIDIA, and Wikimedia (AIM219) - Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata portfolio lead, Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) joins a panel to talk about Wikidata's role in reducing AI development time.

Tool of the week

• CAT🐈: Overview if references: looking at references for a set of Wikidata items

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID, PUG authority ID, Three Decks class ID, Vidas author ID, Usito ID, ZSL Authority ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • About box (Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software))
    • nonprofit tax status (country specific tax status of non-profit organisations)
    • Рахимов, Гафур Рахимович (Gʻafur Rahimov)
  • External identifiers: Three Decks conflict ID, Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), JudaicaLink person ID, Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID, Norsk oversettterleksikon ID, footballdatabase.eu match ID, Kamus Pelajar Edisi Kedua ID, Berlinische Galerie object ID, Singapore Unique Entity Number, Lyricfind artist ID, HonestGamers game ID, identifiant MACM d'un artisite

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
• Schema examples:
• Newest WikiProjects:
• WikiProject Highlights:
• Newest database reports:
• Showcase Items:
• Showcase Lexemes:

Development

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.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• 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! :)