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Wikidata weekly summary #501

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 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.
      • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
    • Ongoing:
    • Past:
      • Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #502

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder ready for release. Focusing on adding statistics.
    • Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older browser (phab:T298001)
    • Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be ordered consistently across all Lexemes (phab:T232557)
    • Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (phab:T233520)

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.

  • Looking back at 2021
    • Developments rolled out in 2021:
      • New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with the large number of edits on Wikidata
      • Query Builder to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
      • Item Quality Evaluator to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
      • Constraints Violations Checker is a small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
      • Curious Facts finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
      • Wikidata Map to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
      • Current Events to make it easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a lot on Wikidata
    • New entities in 2021:

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)
  • Development
    • Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully dispatched to the clients (phab: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.


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/
  • Tool of the week
    • Comparator compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL
  • Development
    • Enabling usage tracking specifically for statements on Waray, Armenian and Cebuano Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
    • Implementing basic version of mul language code and deploying it to Test Wikidata (phab: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.


Wikidata weekly summary #505

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 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.
  • Development
    • Continuing work on adding the mul language code for labels, descriptions and aliases. (phab:T297393)
    • Enabled statement usage tracking for Cebuano, Armenian and Warai Warai to ensure fine-grained notifications about edits on Wikidata on those Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab: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 (phab:T233520)
    • Continuing work on making sure the Wikidata search box works with the new Vector skin improvements (phab: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.

Wikidata weekly summary #506

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 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:
    • Past:
  • Tool of the week
  • 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.
  • 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.

Wikidata weekly summary #507

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page. Nothing to see yet though.
    • Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get them. (phab:T301247)

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #508

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • 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!
  • Development
    • We started coding on the Wikibase Rest API based on the proposal we published a while ago.
    • We are continuing to work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. The first input fields are in place but not pretty or usable yet.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #509

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: work is continuing on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are working on the basic input fields and permission handling.
    • Mismatch Finder: Released the tool and working through feedback now and getting additional mismatches from organizations using our data.
    • REST API: Starting to build the initial Wikibase REST API. We are starting with the endpoint to read Item data first.
    • Data Reuse Days: Continuing event preparation
    • Published new security release updates for Wikibase suite wmde.6 (1.35)

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.

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
  • 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)
  • 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.

Wikidata weekly summary #511

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • WDQS outage on 06 March: users may have unexpectedly had requests blocked. Incident report here.
  • 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.

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
  • 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.
  • 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.

Wikidata weekly summary #513

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Wikidata weekly summary #514

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4: Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.
  • Tool of the week
    • Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
    • QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it!
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language variant.
    • REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
    • Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense to people who use screen readers.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #515

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Glitter another R package to write SPARQL queries and query Wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints. This package provides a domain specific language to write queries directly from R.
    • Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on displaying error messages and inferring the spelling variant from the language. We also looked into the non-JavaScript version of the page.
    • REST API: Worked on conditional requests (do not return data the client already has) and authorization.

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #516

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Pi admin bot (RfP scheduled to end after 20 April 2022 17:58 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Stang (successful)
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Tool of the week
    • Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world!
    • Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Worked on inferring the spelling variant from the language's Item on the new Special:NewLexeme page and started building a little help box on the special page to explain what lex. data is.
    • REST API: Getting closer to having a first version of the REST API that returns 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.


Wikidata weekly summary #517

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship:
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikitaxa is a software of taxonomy data written in R.
    • User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data.
    • REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #518

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
    • Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
    • REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from 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.


Wikidata weekly summary #519

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
      • PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another (Approved)
  • Development
    • REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
    • Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (phab:T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (phab:T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (phab:T298150).
    • We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (phab:T277836).

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #520

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • 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.

Wikidata weekly summary #521

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • 6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
      • 29 July 2022: The submission deadline for the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
    • Ongoing:
  • Tool of the week
    • LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
    • Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (phab:T307087) completed.
    • First batch of WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket phab:T303852.
    • Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (T302877, T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (T303806, T290733, T305359) and improving validation / error messages (T305854).

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #522

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Want to know more about Abstract Wikipedia & Wikifunctions? You can now subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a friendly reminder every time a new issue is published!
    • Radioactivity map: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (phab:T307087), all statements of an item (phab:T305988), a single statement for a specific item (phab:T307088))
    • Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (phab:T307915, decision)
    • Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (phab:T306008)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #523

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (phab:T290733, phab:T30535).
    • REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (phab:T307031, phab:T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667).

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #524

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
      • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Ongoing
    • Past
  • Tool of the week
    • ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.
  • Development
    • Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (phab:T306214)
    • Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (phab:T307869)
    • REST API: continued work on creating statements (phab:T306667)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #425

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
      • Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T307869)
      • Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T290733)
      • Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T298146)
    • REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to 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.

Wikidata weekly summary #426

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • William Avery Bot 7. Task/s: Merge multiple references on the same claim citing Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.
  • Tool of the week
    • IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Template Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This is an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record, Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and rolll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (phab:T307869)
    • REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (phab:T306667)
    • Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (phab:T309445)
    • Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of Wikidata.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #522

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. [2] should have a wiki commons link to [3] since they both refer to [4].
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data:
      • We have finished most of the development on the new Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on July 14th.
      • We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (phab:T307869)
    • REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
    • We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (phab:T303317)
    • We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #528

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 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 presents 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.
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on Sched at Agenda
      • 7/30 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata @ COSCUP 2022
      • 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. July 11th through July 15th, 2022
    • Ongoing
    • Past:
  • Development
    • Data Quality Days!
    • Making plans for improving EntitySchemas and integrate them more into editing and maintenance workflows
    • Implemented word-level diffs of labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks (phab:T303317)
    • Continuing the investigation about labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Continuing work on making it easier to pick the right language for a new Lexeme (phab:T298140)
      • Fixing a bug where `[object Object]` was shown in the gramatical feature field (phab:T239208)
      • Fixing a number of places where labels for redirected Items were not shown even though the redirect target had labels (phab:T305032)
    • REST API:
      • Finished the first version of the API route for creating statements on an Item (excluding autosummaries so far)
      • Started work on the API route for removing a statement from 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.


Wikidata weekly summary #529

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 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 presents 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.
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Working Hour July 18, 2022: Working with diverse children's book metadata. The second Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover reconciliation in OpenRefine, so we can identify which authors from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata already exist and/or need to be created in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. Event page
      • Assessing the Quality of Sources in Wikidata Across Languages - Wikimedia Research Showcase, Wednesday, July 20, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC
      • Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
    • Ongoing
    • Past
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data:
    • REST API: Continued working on the API route to replace or remove a statement of an Item
    • We are making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in a lot more places; notably, this includes the wbsearchentities API. (phab:T312223)
    • Mismatch Finder: We are discussing options for how to improve its handling of dates, specifically calendar model and precision.
    • EntitySchemas: We are trying to figure out how to best technically go about implementing some of the most-needed features for version 2.

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Wikidata weekly summary #530

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 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 presents 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.
      • [Small wiki toolkits] [Upcoming bots & scripts workshop. "How to maintain bots" is coming up on Friday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 26, 2022: Clair Kronk, Crystal Clements, and Alex Jung will be providing an update to Wikidata/gender discussions from the February 8 call with a focus on pronouns. Clair will introduce us to LGBTdb, a Wikibase instance created for and by LGBTQIA+ people from which we draw insight in Wikidata-related discussions. We also hope to discuss current pain points and share action items for future collaboration. Input from community members who are familiar with lexicographical data would be greatly appreciated. Agenda
      • Wikimedia Indonesia Wikidata meetup. 1300 WIB, July 30, 2022.
    • Ongoing:
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #51, Plants
  • Tool of the week
    • User:Magnus Manske/referee.js - is a userscript that automatically checks external IDs and URLs of a Wikidata item as potential references, and adds them with a single click.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: We went over all the feedback we received for teh testing of the new Special:NewLexeme page and started addressing it and fixing the uncovered issues. One issue already fixed is a bug that prevented it from working on mobile view. (phab:T313116)
    • Mismatch Finder: investigated how we can make it work for mismatches in qualifiers instead of the main statement (phab:T313467)
    • REST API: Continued working on making it possible to replace and remove a statement of an Item
    • We enabled the profile parameter to the wbsearchentities API on Test Wikidata (phab:T307869)
    • We continued making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in more places (phab:T312223)

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Wikidata weekly summary #531

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #532

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Wikimania 2022, August 11 to 14, online event. The Hackathon will take place August 12-14. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image data from Wikidata. Agenda.
      • The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 16-22! There are still lots of spots in the schedule to add your Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
    • Ongoing
      • Wikimedia Indonesia's Wikidata edit-a-thon (datathon) for the 77th anniversary of the Indnesian Independence Day started on 5th August and will be held until 12th August. Participants are instructed to edit items containing the statement country of origin (P495): Indonesia (Q252).
      • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #53, Sheep
    • Past
      • First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited items on Indonesian ethnic groups.
  • Tool of the week
    • Wiki tools - adds dozens of Wikipedia and Wikidata functions to your Google sheets.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Continuing to address feedback from the testing (e.g. phab:T312292, phab:T313113, phab:T313466)
      • We have pushed back replacing Special:NewLexeme with the new Special:NewLexemeAlpha a bit to address more of the testing feedback.
    • Continuing to tackle allowing sitelinks to redirects under some circumstances (phab:T278962)
    • REST API:
      • Finishing up the endpoints for removing and replacing statements and adding authentication and authorization to them
      • Looking into feedback from first testing

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Wikidata weekly summary #533

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship:
      • Estopedist1 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2022 12:36 UTC)
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour August 15, 2022: Fourth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be covering manually creating publisher items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
    • Ongoing:
  • Tool of the week
    • KnolCase is a case-based knowledge management tool for gathering information about subjects of interest and organizing these into case files.
  • Development
    • Took part in Wikimania and the Wikimania hackathon
    • Continuing work on making it possible to add sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)
    • Lexicographical data: continuing to address the feedback from testing
    • REST API:

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Wikidata weekly summary #534

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • List of created Wikidata items - a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: continuing to address feedback from testing. We are almost done now.
    • REST API: continued investigating the use of PATCH and JSON Patch and worked on a proof-of-concept
    • Birthday planning and prepping is in full swing

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Wikidata weekly summary #535

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • REST API: working on the ability to change existing statements on an Item (phab:T306934)
    • Lexicographical data: Finishing up the remaining pieces of the new Special:NewLexeme page based on the testing feedback (subtickets of phab:T307866)

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Wikidata weekly summary #536

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
      • DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
      • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
    • Ongoing:
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934)
      • We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523)
      • For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
    • Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (phab:T314064, phab:T312633, phab:T312652)
    • Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #537

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
      • Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World. Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
    • Ongoing:
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City
  • Tool of the week
    • View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia.
  • Development
    • REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (phab:T306934)
    • Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (phab:T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (phab:T307866)
    • Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (phab:T278962)
    • Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership

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Wikidata weekly summary #538

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • بوٹ دا عثمان
        • Task/s:
          • Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
          • Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).
  • Tool of the week
    • WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
      • Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
      • Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
      • Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
      • Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
    • Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
    • Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (phab:T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
    • Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (phab:T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
    • Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (phab:T306932)

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Wikidata weekly summary #539

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🧵 Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • JhsBot 6
        • Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.
  • 🎊 Events
    • Upcoming
      • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
    • Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (phab:T300770)
    • Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (phab:T317863)
    • REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)

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Wikidata weekly summary #540

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🎊 Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
        • October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
        • Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
      • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
      • [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
      • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
      • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
      • Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
    • Ongoing
      • Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development


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Wikidata weekly summary #541

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
    • The September 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
      • Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
    • REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
    • Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
    • Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
    • Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!

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Wikidata weekly summary #542

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
      • Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
    • Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (phab:T302289)
    • The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
    • Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (phab:T304943)
    • Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (phab:T315423)
    • Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (phab:T303103)
    • Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (phab:T318137)
    • Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (phab:T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!

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Wikidata weekly summary #543

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
 
Wikidata passed another milestone on October 19.

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Wikidata weekly summary #544

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • sparklis (source) : query builder in natural language that allows people to explore and query SPARQL endpoints with all the power of SPARQL and without any knowledge of SPARQL, nor of the endpoint vocabulary.
  • ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.

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Wikidata weekly summary #545

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🎊 Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour November 7, 2022: tenth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
      • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, November 8 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1)
      • Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, taking place online on November 9th at 17:00 UTC (more details here)
      • Raising an Artist Profile with Wikidata: Thursday November 10, 2022 at 20:00 UTC (Session A) and 23:00 UTC (Session B). This free, step-by-step Wikidata workshop will focus mainly on Indigenous artists. Participants may choose to attend either Session A or Session B: both will cover the exact same material.
      • Wikidata editathon in Swedish with focus on climate politics and COP27, online and in Stockholm, 11 November 13.00-18.00 UTC
      • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • Lexicographical data: Replaced the old Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866) - a few remaining issues will still be fixed
    • Vue 3: Almost finished the Vue 3 migration in Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme (phab:T321595 and (phab:T304534) - this is needed for finalizing the migration in MediaWiki overall
    • Mismatch Finder: Worked on improving the handling of dates (phab:T288511)
    • Search: Working with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093)), especially regarding “load more” behavior
    • REST API:
      • Continued improving error reporting for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
      • Ensuring that the API correctly marks bot edits as bot edits and treats them as such in various other places

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #546

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🎊 Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 15, 2022: We will be discussing the first Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour series, which ran from July to early November of this year. We will offer visualizations based on our data, listen to some of our volunteers talk about their experience helping to build the series, and discuss the results of our participant survey. We want to hear your questions and suggestions for future series! Agenda
      • Enrichissement des données sur la danse: Wednesday 16 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session A) and Thursday 17 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session B). Join the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) and the Linked Digital Future Initiative (LDFI) for two dynamic sessions focusing on dance data. Session A will focus on artists, while Session B will focus on organizations and dance companies. Note: These sessions are offered in French only.
    • Ongoing:
    • Past:
      • Wikidata/Wikibase Telegram office hours log (2022-11-09)
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • QLever - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries.
    • Discuss.js - Adds a link to a diff when clicked will open a new topic on the talk page that mentions the revision and the user.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished work on improved error reporting of the PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
      • Finished work on properly handling bot user right and marking bot edits as such
      • Adjusting statement data structure in Wikibase REST API responses and requests (phab:T321459)
    • Mismatch Finder: continuing work om improving the handling of dates in the Mismatch Finder (phab:T288511)
    • New Vector skin: continuing work with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093, phab:T317682)

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