User talk:Tom Morris/Archive 106#Always precious

• Events
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bP08VUYC3nPWOay31s7pyZHrykawVQpwlOUxBrkeac8/edit?usp=sharing Agenda], Dec. 14th.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [http://blog.schema.org/2021/12/enriching-claim-reviews-sharing.html Enriching Claim Reviews - Sharing Experience From Factchecking] (schema.org/ Full Fact)
• [https://addshore.com/2021/12/most-liked-wikidata-tweets/ Most liked Wikidata tweets] (addshore)
• [https://addshore.com/2021/12/wikidata-map-in-2021/ Updates on the Wikidata map in 2021] (addshore)
• Papers
• Lukas Schmelzeisen, Corina Dima, Steffen Staab: "Wikidated 1.0: An Evolving Knowledge Graph Dataset of Wikidata's Revision History", https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05003v1
• "ARTchives: a Linked Open Data native catalogue of art historians’ archive" crowdsourcing curated information on notable art historians’ archives (including Wikidata) - [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3019/LinkedArchives_2021_paper_10.pdf paper], [http://artchives.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/about tool]

• Tool of the week
• [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article?collection=@pac02/gender-diversity-in-wikipedia-articles Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article using Wikidata's API and SPARQL]
• embeds.js: This script shows embeds on external identifier statements such as YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Spotify playlists, Genius lyrics, and more!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Blazegraph failure playbook now available
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/SHWAELL327NNOJEELAYPBQCDCCNFLLNS/ Initial version of Lua access to Lexemes to be deployed on Bengali and Basque Wiktionaries]
• When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” (documentation)

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: IMA Mineral Symbol, protective marking, recording date
• External identifiers: Natural History Museum (London) person ID, Indonesian Hospital ID, Music of Armenia ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, World of Shakespeare ID, AllHomes research location ID, Australian Trade Mark Number, Harvard Art Museums ID, BookDepository publisher ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, German Newspaper Portal ID, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Dissernet journal ID, Dissernet person ID, centrasia.org person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, Pandora track ID, Nintendo64EVER ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: alphabetical index, International Standard Content Number ISCN, Number of likes, homophone form, Roovet Sound
• External identifiers: National Library of Ireland ID, Famitsu game ID, JSTOR artwork ID, NYPL Copyright Entries, Kinomania.ru film ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), Irish Times Profile ID, All About Birds ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, f6s id, IRIS Marche IDs, Viber group ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, AAGM Artwork ID, Muz-TV ID, MTV Russia ID

• Query examples:
• [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fdepartement%20%3FdepartementLabel%20%3Fform%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fdepartement%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ6465%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fdepartement%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ22923920%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fdepartement%20wdt%3AP1082%20%3Fpopulation%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP3896%20%3Fform%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP47%20%3Fx%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fdepartement%20wdt%3AP47%20%3Fvoisin%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fvoisin%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ6465%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3Fvoisin%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ22923920%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fvoisin%20wdt%3AP1082%20%3Fpopulation_voisin%20.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(%3Fpopulation_voisin%20%3E%20%3Fpopulation)%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FdepartementLabel French departments with more population than all their neighbour departements] ([https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1468634283824848905?t=wj3SsLQF35joU6e723vjrA&s=19 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4YVG Map of places names after horses] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1470374814972059655 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4YVH Latvian citizens by occupation] ([https://twitter.com/LArtour/status/1470309158503301126 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4YVK Map of the mass graves from the Spanish Civil War] ([https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1469312604418064391 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: Cities

• Development
• Mismatch Finder: Developed a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.
• Preparing for Lexeme Lua access to be enabled on the first wikis. (phab:T294637, phab:T294159)
• Continuing work on migrating the termbox to vue3 (phab:T296202)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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
• Suggested and open tasks!
• 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!

• Discussions
• New request for comments:
• Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories
• Other:
• SPARQL query service (SDC) mandatory authentication considered harmful

• Events
• Upcoming:
• The [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.12.30 next Wikibase live session] is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at [https://semlab.io/ The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute]. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
• Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
• Ongoing:
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #21, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=21 Celebration]
• Past:
• EduWiki Live on the theme of Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbK_-C6Rlc&t=2044s replay])
• Wikidata workshop (in Italian) ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD4Eptg8KxE replay])
• Semantic Web in Libraries: SWIB21 (replay)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CWx4IQyiA8 From string to thing: Wikidata based query expansion]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDjyiYrOWJQ Representing the Luxembourg Shared Authority File based on CIDOC-CRM in Wikibase]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://addshore.com/2021/12/wikidata-user-and-project-talk-page-connections/ Wikidata user and project talk page connection graph]
• [https://stacks.wellcomecollection.org/images-from-wellcome-collection-pass-1-5-billion-views-on-wikipedia-ee9663b62bef Images from Wellcome Collection pass 1.5 billion views on Wikipedia]
• [https://zbw.eu/labs/en/blog/integrating-the-pm20-companies-archive-part-3-of-the-data-donation-to-wikidata Integrating the PM20 companies archive: part 3 of the data donation to Wikidata]
• [https://blog.wikimedia.de/2021/12/20/parlamentsdebatten-werden-mit-wikidata-transparenter-und-besser-zugaenglich/ Parliamentary debates are made more transparent and accessible with Wikidata]
• [https://wikimedia.se/2021/12/15/ett-riksdagsdokument-sager-mer-an-tusen-ord/ A parliamentary document says more than a thousand words] (in Swedish)
• [https://www.datastory.org/blog/the-longest-serving-mp-in-sweden The Longest Serving MP in Sweden]
• [https://news.usc.edu/195978/commonsense-artificial-intelligence-ai/ "With artificial intelligence, common sense is uncommon]. "To help overcome this challenge, researchers use several sources of commonplace knowledge like Wikidata to obtain a “reasoned” AI response."
• Papers
• [https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261130 A botanical demonstration of the potential of linking data using unique identifiers for people]
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.01989.pdf Survey on English Entity Linking on Wikidata]
• Videos
• Tutorial for Wikidata Mix'n'Match tool for database pairing (in Czech) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrzLSrxL7Lc YouTube]
• SPARQL queries on Wikidata - basic level (in Italian) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rLpnydVOpY YouTube]
• Presentation about the Wikidata community (in Italian) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VUCmFdilb0 YouTube]
• Wikidata Advanced Course (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - YouTube
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buZRcYAV3Eg Introduction]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcOyaPYjRB4 Concept of Linked Open Data]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk4pGavI8v0 SPARQL-Queries]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhqwPraCiSc Automatic data import]
• Querying Wikidata: Museums, Volcanoes (in French) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MPbbqFZgnw YouTube]
• Wikidata Fundamentals (in French) by CAPACOA - YouTube
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvVAKXotzYU Triplets, licenses]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvGUadO35oc Item, references and qualifiers, history tab]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c7kEHpU6MM Creation of a user account. Creation of a new items]
• Wikidata Workshop: The basics by CAPACOA - YouTube
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERICpqHH7Nw Wikimedia Foundation licenses, item, semantic triples]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-P2TGnHWYM User creation]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2IarHeJdxc Searching and editing an item]
• Vector Search through Wikidata with Weaviate - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4zlvknSbGc YouTube]
• Creating items on Wikidata using OpenRefine (without sound — subtitles only) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn793UQfaQc YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• NoclaimsBot adds the first statements on items without claims based on templates used on the linked Wikipedia article.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• The 500th Wikidata weekly summary is 2 issues away. We are putting together interesting things related to the number 500 to include in that issue. Do you know any Wikidata facts or queries or anything cool related to 500? Please add them to Wikidata:Status updates/Next#Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
• Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), currently in beta, will soon be in production with a planned General Availability date of 1 Feb 2022. See the Upcoming General Availability release discussion page for more details.
• Seth started an essay to summarize the multiple data-related projects going on between Wikimedia Projects at the moment: User:Lectrician1/The grand mess of data on Wikimedia.
• [https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1468976001413754880 When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” by using “!Sxx” instead of “Sxx” syntax to start a new reference group].
• Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
• [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAR1kj9th1wRZU027zEPJd_xP8nFgj-T29iXrpZ2wuDBeXmg/viewform Wikibase Installation Survey]
• [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-8wDOCDR-uXLecNLzuM3jxc9K81mIKq1EtUhrweEveO8aTQ/formResponse Wikibase Software Updating Survey]
• Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
• [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/14145264/Director-Engineering-m-w-d-/?jobDbPVId=36933089&l=en Engineering Director]
• [https://short.sg/j/4361894 Full-Stack Developer]

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: iTunes genre
• External identifiers: Pandora album ID, Indonesian College Code, Institute of History of Ukraine ID, Academy of Athens authority ID, ThENC@ ID, CDAEM person ID, Famitsu game ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, Levels.fyi company ID, U-PAD author ID, CAMPUS author ID, Original Esperanto Literature author ID, iTunes genre ID, Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: Category for work of subject, Honorary citizens category of entity, Kanobu numeric ID, cadastral district, official shop URL, website, documented files
• External identifiers: street number in Austria, EU Whoiswho ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Österreichische Schulkennzahl, iCSO ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, Lur Encyclopedia ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, KSH code (historical), Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, WikiStrinda ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Film.ru film ID, Film.ru actor ID, Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/4Zgo Shijian (SJ 实践) experimental satellites] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/3DzA Age of living Hawthorn FC players] ([https://twitter.com/FreoPope/status/1472166997513289728 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4Zmj People died on their 50th birthday] ([https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1471923820965646342 Source])
• [https://w.wiki/3Z$7 Relationship between London School of Economics doctoral advisors and students] ([https://twitter.com/HelsKRW/status/1471388444593172481 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4Yo8 Map of twinned towns (or partners) of municipalities of Puy-de-Dôme] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1470782945732538378 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4YTF Map of the places named in reference the horse] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1470374814972059655 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4XWd Map of bridges in Kaliningrad] ([https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1468960428805869579 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4a9v Latvian citizens by occupation] ([https://twitter.com/LArtour/status/1470309158503301126 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4WaA Wikidata items which are the most linked by lexemes using the property “item for this sense”] ([https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1467830070773432326 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4aJw Actors in Christmas movies: by frequency, with film titles and sample film item] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/4aJy Filming locations of Christmas movies, with film titles and sample film item] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/4aK4 Recent Christmas movies lacking filming location] (source)

• Development
• Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment. Happy holidays, everyone :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
• Item #500 is Citrus ×limon; Property #500 is exclave of; and Lexeme #500 is "കുടുംബം" - Malayalam for “family”.
• “Roughly” 500 people were participants at WikidataCon 2021
• Q207742 is about the natural number 500
• Q560388 disambiguates "500" for Wikipedias in 14 languages.
• The Roman numeral for 500 is "D"
• [https://w.wiki/4aS5 Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 500]
• Wikidata was 500 days old on Friday 14 March 2014. It will be 500 weeks old on Tuesday 31 May 2022

• Discussions
• Open request for adminship: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end after 27 December 2021 15:57 UTC)

• Events
• Upcoming:
• The [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.12.30 next Wikibase live session] is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at [https://semlab.io/ The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute]. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
• Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
• Coolest Tools Awards on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC
• Ongoing:
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #22, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=22 New Year]
• Past:
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY-1jcBxbbM Wikidata. Lecture - master class in Russian] is 16:07 GMT on Sunday 26th December 2021 (19:07 Moscow time) in Minsk Hackerspace. For those who are not familiar and want to know what it is.
• WikidataCon 2021 (replay on YouTube)
• Wikidata talks:
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT_-pZ4Fgmw Improving Women's Biographies through Wikidata - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smiths. Inst.]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T9PG7tjFaA A Wikidata university course? Lessons learned from featuring Wikidata in an elective course at TAU.]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZQUn9KjJOc Linking Indian Local Self Government's Structured Data with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VxTlBNkyk Finding new pathways of collaborating for a sustainable Wikidata software development]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RkKc19ozso How can we reimagine Wikidata from the margins? Conversation with Maryana Iskander]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgDkNgAibds Wikidata at Texas A&M University Libraries: Enhancing Discovery for Dissertations]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z6dUiAG_6c Wiki API Connector - Simplifying ETL workflows from open APIs to Wikidata/Commons]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVxV4Y7XSW0 IG WIKIDATA HUB - The Journey towards building a WIKIDATA community in Nigeria]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wp8m_kxlks Integration of Wikidata 4OpenGLAM into data and information science curricula]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjantQX_nvc Description from Wikidata on sister projects and concerns about vandalism]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AIbjmaInNI Knowledge Quality In Wikidata: Vandalism Insights and Data Collaborations]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKIkHxuaR_g Shared Citations - A proposed citation management database for Wikimedia]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpyYvcEXu3o Analyzing, visualizing and improving Wikidata using the Wolfram Language]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZa-57F1h3w Challenges and Lessons from a Pilot Project: Christian Hymns in Wikidata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvgfOtU1CB4 Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9JnKcdDz68 Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7nS78lHQM4 A world in which 99% of Wikidata’s editors never come to Wikidata.org]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g_3GeQC0YY Linking the Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database to Wikidata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRQhuz-OD5w Global templates: Towards a New Age of Cross-wiki Data Collaboration]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20vs7Uj6F_0 From QRPedia to AudioQRPedia : how to improve QRPedia using Wikidata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-tQzj3nouw Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments presentations and discussion]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xLBCMCui9U From Google Scholar to Wikidata: The RIDC NeuroMat Experience]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9efakAhmw Assessing the quality of sources in Wikidata across languages]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p78ZoWZeQ_o IFLA Wikidata Working Group: Updates from the library field]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOUoAB6XKts A process to roundtrip Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6IDREkqUrA Arrange river data in Taiwan by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n312s09k4cQ Look both ways: integrating Wikidata and OpenStreetMap]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyEjo9nPW9o Wikidata in the Classroom: Updates from North America]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMJx0Nzzx6M Learning Wikidata in 8 Weeks as a Smithsonian Intern]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3flyyeWzV8 Wikidata-based Narratives for Research and Education]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5XQmjSUnBs Measuring Political Elite Networks with Wikidata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDRrIO0G84g Sorting out industry classifications in Wikidata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfMeLYDtWY Systematic Review Automation driven by Wikidata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSS5kviMkTM The Lindy Effect in Wikidata User Retention]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIsmFUuGvCw Non-binary Gender Identities in Wikidata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15sSKQPHymY Measuring and monitoring data quality]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfSqxWn0suI Wikidata & Education: A Global Panel]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEg5R7o-Rww Integrating Wikidata into education]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEg5R7o-Rww Integrating Wikidata into education]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfgdzN7nd-8 Wikidata in Australia showcase]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-uYETVjCLE Wikidata and R: a perfect pair]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5cI5p2hSog Writing schemas for Wikidata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AYzuBOkXeI Overview of ontology issues]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3vRSnM3v-w Wikidata and OCCRP]
• Wikibase talks:
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCFLlx4dQvY Open meeting of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group and interactive roadmapping session]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c05_SZiZm9g How can Wikimedia Deutschland enable an ecosystem of developers around Wikibase?]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyBWo-ka9JU Wikibase as an infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs: The EU Knowledge Graph]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPsTEbxZZpQ "A Wikibase for what?" - diverse users at the edge of the graph]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knY30zUmkGI Wikibase lightning talks: data upload and extensions session]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD3Ghiaw8hc How to open Authority Control system - The GND & Wikibase]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Z4hbgpIH8 Wikibase Community User Group meeting and track roundup]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ8rE-7F-zs Pre-launch Announcement and Preview of Wikibase.Cloud]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieuRJz14Sk Wikibase as RDM infrastructure within NFDI4Culture]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k37WvpjqIAw Wikibase lightning talks: inspiration session]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVAnQVabhYs Wikibase for Citations on Wikipedia]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://wikiedu.org/blog/2021/12/21/why-you-need-to-understand-wikidata-no-matter-what-field-youre-in/ Why you need to understand Wikidata, no matter what field you’re in]
• Papers
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.05452.pdf Improving the Question Answering Quality using Answer Candidate Filtering based on Natural-Language Features]
• [https://www.pnas.org/content/119/1/e2025334119 Algorithmic amplification of politics on Twitter]
• Videos
• SPARQL queries on Wikidata - advanced level (in Italian) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWyMMrAFz6k YouTube]
• How to link items to Dagbani Wikipedia articles using databox by Dnshitobu - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXT8Pt9MLa8 YouTube]
• Alias names in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGb30Tu1hAQ YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/articles-created-by-country-of-citizenship?collection=@pac02/pages-created Articles created by country of citizenship] : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• [http://Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS-State-of-the-union-2021-Dec WDQS State of the Union, Dec 2021] now available.
• If you are using the Modern Vector skin on Wikidata then search might break for you near the end of January for a few days. To fix it you can temporarily switch back to the Vector skin. A proper fix is being worked on in phab:T275251.
• Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
• [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAR1kj9th1wRZU027zEPJd_xP8nFgj-T29iXrpZ2wuDBeXmg/viewform Wikibase Installation Survey]
• [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-8wDOCDR-uXLecNLzuM3jxc9K81mIKq1EtUhrweEveO8aTQ/formResponse Wikibase Software Updating Survey]
• Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
• [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/14145264/Director-Engineering-m-w-d-/?jobDbPVId=36933089&l=en Engineering Director]
• [https://short.sg/j/4361894 Full-Stack Developer]

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: type host, CSS code
• External identifiers: Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID, Irkipedia ID, Babesdirectory ID, Numelyo ID, ua-football.com player ID, soccerpunter.com player ID, pfl.uz player ID, PGM author ID, Irish Times profile ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Kinomania.ru film ID, bards.ru person ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, N64-Database ID, Channel One Russia show ID, Kanobu ID, Lambic.Info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, CH district ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie artist ID, Austrian school ID, DFIH business ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, Ruskino actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Joconde use ID, JSTOR artwork ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, MTBdata ID, All About Birds ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), GISAID identifier, oKino.ua actor ID, Library of Congress providers ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: documented files, start and end time in video, is an individual of a taxon, facilitates flow of, LKI ID, service hosted by, service hosted at, everyeye.it ID
• External identifiers: Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Artland fair ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, Regroupement Québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, CNSflora ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, artchive person ID, nzs.si player ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, NLC Bibliography ID, PKULaw CLI Code, LGBT Info Wiki ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/4aUy Places that appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopaedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopaedia and the Store Norske Leksikon], (ordered by country) ([https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1473054945624608769 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4bmy Christmas traditions around the world] (with pictures) ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1474772209482842116 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4bb7 UK parties since 1935 that have only ever been represented by a single MP] ([https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1474414883005415424 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4avE Brazilians with most Wikipedia pages across languages] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1473710122362941449 source])

• Development
• Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• 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 [https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg Wikidata Telegram group].
• SPARQL queries [https://www.twitch.tv/belett live on Twitch] and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
• Ongoing:
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #23, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=23 Residence]
• Past:
• Wikibase live session (December 2021) - [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.12.30 log]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/how-to-get-claims-from-wikidata-api-using-sitelinks How to get Wikidata claims from Wikipedia sitelinks using Wikidata API ?]
• Videos
• Working hour - Wikidata SPARQL querries (in Italian) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzRaxH8Ao3c YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wikidatas-q-item-explorer 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.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
• Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
• Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: number of triples, URL for freedom of information requests, official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy
• External identifiers: Norgeshistorie ID, Numista mint ID, Austrian Street ID, F6S ID, EU Whoiswho ID, DFIH financier ID, Express Gazeta ID, All-Science Journal Classification Codes, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, Numista coin ID, Comparably company ID, Folketinget actor ID, Coub channel ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Index of Middle English Verse ID, Stack Exchange user ID, Listen Notes podcast ID, Casefile ID, ILAB ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database ID, CNSflora ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Artland artist ID, Genie media ID, Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: cantilever sign, yield rate, Stalin Memo ID, Name in Swedish government, reference image
• External identifiers: FID ID, Labyrinth database ID, doollee.com playwright ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, people.su person ID, Biographe.ru ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Hermitage Museum ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, Tretyakov Gallery ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, ARCHER ID, Pipe Organ Database ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/4cFr Map of New Zealand suburbs] ([https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1475673160213172224 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4cHH Graph of influences in the Age of Enlightenment] ([https://twitter.com/kvistgaard/status/1475755951668047877 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4dA5 Family names shared by astronauts (along with how often they occur in Wikidata)] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1476883840467668994 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4cn2 Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures)] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1476575000140423169 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4dNJ People awarded by the French Legion of Honour on Dec 31, 2021] ([https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1477632390478581765 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4dFR Average height of people named Joe] ([https://twitter.com/vrandezo/status/1477423978901753858 Source])
• [https://w.wiki/4dJG Indian writers who died in 1961] ([https://twitter.com/aintgd/status/1477499327551459328 Source])

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Discussions
• Closed request for adminship: Ameisenigel, welcome!
• New request for comments: Automated Manipulation and Calculation

• 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 [https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg Wikidata Telegram group].
• Next [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/5VZUWNMOY52KEIV77BBPWYV4OHDR5FFJ/ Wikidata Bug Triage Hour] on January 13th at 18:00 Central Europe Time (17:00 UTC/GMT), in this [https://meet.jit.si/WikidataBugTriageHour Jitsi room]. This edition will be an open discussion without a specific theme: you can bring 1-2 Phabricator tickets that you really care about, and we will look at them together and see how we can add relevant information and triage them.
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Review Wikimedia Foundation’s Linked Open Data Strategy 2021 and community discussion. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AlxXVpr5OlRChdKnxyoPCIzqwiiIBoEEuClsE8Mbdok/edit?usp=sharing Agenda], January 11th. [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1641920436|convert to local time]!
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/G4JTQNFZZ35GBB3MJ6IROZNBV2II4UWG/ Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours]. Date: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
• SPARQL queries [https://www.twitch.tv/belett live on Twitch] and in French by Vigneron, January 12 at 19:00 CEST (exceptionally on Wednesday)
• The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1642179615 Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC]. This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools! Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.
• LIVE Wikidata editing #66 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8AjBrwsv-k YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3147332458885243/ Facebook], January 15 at 19:00 UTC
• Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #92, January 16 at 13.00 UTC
• Ongoing:
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #24, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=24 Antonyms]
• [https://www.validatingrdf.com/tutorial/swat4hcls22/#schedule Creating, maintaining and updating Shape Expressions as EntitySchemas in the Wikimedia ecosystem]. International SWAT4HCLS Conference. 10 - 13 Jan 2022. [http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/leiden2022/registration/ Register]!

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/an-introduction-to-observable-for-wikidata-users An introduction to Observable for Wikidata users]
• [https://alexasteinbruck.medium.com/10-useful-things-about-wikidata-sparql-that-i-wish-i-knew-earlier-b0e0ef63c598 10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier]
• Videos
• Introduction to the interwiki links between Wikidata and Wikipedia (in French) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XvPGLI5RMI YouTube]
• Exploring Wikipedia infobox from Wikidata (in French) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ErEKEIwBkA YouTube]
• WIkimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021
• Implementing Wikidata in Educational Institutions — CEE Challenges and Opportunities - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ie3Pgs6paM YouTube]
• Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZZ6ShNvJ2U YouTube]
• Wikidata automatization and integration with web resources - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ghEPqo2Yjc YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [https://www.onezoom.org OneZoom] "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• The Celtic Knot Conference (dedicated to underserved languages on the Wikimedia project, with a strong focus on Wikidata and lexicographical data) will take place online in 2022. You can help the organizers with giving input on topics you'd like to see at the conference. Feel free to [https://wolke.wikimedia.de/apps/forms/yrnHWyBZCY4TWjag fill in the survey] before January 17.
• The page Wikidata:WikiProject Duplicates/Wikipedia mergers has been created, in order to facilitate users when they find duplicate articles in a Wikipedia whose language is unfamiliar to them:
• if you want to declare that you are available for merging duplicate articles in one or more given Wikipedias, please add your name to this page
• if you want to find some user able to merge articles in a certain Wikipedia, you can see if there are already available users for that Wikipedia and contact them directly
• New open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikidata/Wikibase teams)
• [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/14652423/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-m-f-d-/?jobDbPVId=38096098&l=en Product Manager Wikibase Suite]
• [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/14686283/Werkstudent-in-International-Software-Collaboration/?jobDbPVId=38177173&l=en Working student in International Software Collaboration]
• Post WikidataCon 2021
• Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
• Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
• Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy, is an individual of taxon, reference image, associated cadastral district
• External identifiers: Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID, WikiStrinda ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, NER portfolio ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, LocalWiki ID, Initiale ID, Joconde representation ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, Arthive person ID, Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, NT Place Names Register ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, MedlinePlus supplement identifier, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, everyeye.it ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: TV3 programme ID, Chief/Naa/Traditional ruler, results in quality, official jobs URL, relative, director of publication, Business valuation, 議案番号
• External identifiers: Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016, New York Flora Atlas ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, NLC FL Sys. No., Senators of Spain (1834-1923), Finnish real property ID, TV3 video ID, OpenAlex ID, IRIS Sardinia IDs, CineCartaz, identifiant Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel, Numista type number, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, SPLC group ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, archive-ouverte Unige ID, Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali work ID, rus.team person ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/4er9 Authors without field of work but with topic-tagged publications]
• [https://w.wiki/4eQL Compound first names starting with "John" (and the number of uses on Wikidata)] ([https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1479195688680497156 Source])
• [https://w.wiki/4ePw Presidents of Brazil with the most awards] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1479181335428218880 Source])
• [https://w.wiki/4eM6 Locations of parishes across Scotland] ([https://twitter.com/MappingScotsRef/status/1479113657866854408 Source])
• [https://w.wiki/4f5a Map of where Roman Catholic Popes were born] ([https://twitter.com/LArtour/status/1478632665465167872 Source])
• [https://w.wiki/4dvS Birth place of people who are described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopedia and the Store Norske Leksikon] ([https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1478434721105428481 Source])
• [https://w.wiki/4dYp Various kinds of New Year's celebrations in the world] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataid/status/1478331625695899650 Source])
• [https://w.wiki/4fKM World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade] (source) select decade on the right side
• [https://w.wiki/4fL9 Non-English labels for a set of objects, with the names of the languages] (source)

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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
• [https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder Query Builder] to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
• [https://item-quality-evaluator.toolforge.org Item Quality Evaluator] to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
• [https://github.com/wmde/wikidata-constraints-violation-checker 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
• [https://wikidata-analytics.wmcloud.org/app/CuriousFacts Curious Facts] finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
• [https://wmde.github.io/wikidata-map/dist/index.html Wikidata Map] to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
• [https://wikidata-analytics.wmcloud.org/app/CurrentEvents 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:
• Items Q104595000 (approx.) to Q110342868
• Properties P9003 to P10223
• Lexemes L400170 (approx.) to L625164

• 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!

• Discussions
• Open request for adminship: MSGJ (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)

• 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 [https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg Wikidata Telegram group]. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present 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.
• SPARQL queries [https://www.twitch.tv/belett live on Twitch] and in French by Vigneron, January 18 at 19:00 CEST
• LIVE Wikidata editing #67 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8doF7FFwU4 YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3152103715074784/ Facebook], January 22 at 19:00 UTC
• Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #93, January 23 at 13.00 UTC
• Ongoing:
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #25, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=25 Volcano]
• #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
• Past:
• Bug Triage Hour ([https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikidataBugTriageHour log]). The next session will be announced here in the Wikidata Weekly Summary and on the Wikidata mailing-list.
• Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award 2021 ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdnwhDAdrxE replay on YouTube])

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/tour-de-frances-stage-winners Tour de France's stage winners] an Observable notebook to explore Tour de France's data using SPARQL and Observable's Plot library.
• [https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2022/01/wikidata-open-infrastructures.html Wikidata, Open Infrastructures, Recognition & Rewards]
• [https://blog.sperrobjekt.de/content/1000545-EqualStreetNames-Wiesbaden.html Equal Street Names Wiesbaden]
• Videos
• Using Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata to mport a book into Wikisource -[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPTepM7_Ghc YouTube]
• Musicbrainz.org and wikidata.org - What can we learn from the designs and how to use the API's to extract information - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1QgXqOD5S0 YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ Wiki History Game] is a game based on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened.
• [https://wikicite-graphql.herokuapp.com/ GraphQL demo for WikiCite] is a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• [https://twitter.com/QUTDataScience/status/1481141478940639232 Do you have an idea you want to explore & want to investigate it using Wikidata? Apply for a WMAU fellowship grant].

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: reference image, associated cadastral district, admission yield rate
• External identifiers: Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, oKino.ua film ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Pipe Organ Database organ ID, UNICA IRIS author ID, IRIS UNISS author ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: Business valuation, 議案番号, podcast image url, list of TV show episode, XJustiz registration court ID, LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community
• External identifiers: Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID, Amazon podcast ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Football Federation of Armenia ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, Habr company ID, Douban book Works ID, German Lobbyregister-ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID2, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, IRIS national research institutes IDs

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/4gSt Things that turned 20 years old today] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1481713498023501824 source])
• [http://w.wiki/4fu9 Irish artists and their relationships] ([https://twitter.com/restlesscurator/status/1481276819554852866 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4gT3 Eating or drinking establishments near you (1.5 radius)] ([https://twitter.com/SPARQLCRMSUPPE/status/1481180146421936129 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4hGr Most common day for UK by-elections since 1880] ([https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1482822129427132417 source])

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Discussions
• Closed request for adminship: MSGJ (Successful). Welcome onboard \o/

• Events
• Upcoming:
• The [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.01.27 next Wikibase live session] is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th January 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
• Editing with OpenRefine [https://www.twitch.tv/belett live on Twitch] and in French by Vigneron, January 25 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Pascal Martinolli speaking on tabletop role-playing game citations practices and Wikidata, [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PF2DVZXEx5Z1Mxwl0N2JOqe2RwpopDJMTMaCd3PVuSw/edit# January 25th].
• LIVE Wikidata editing #68 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_FPieB6So4 YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3157394024545753/ Facebook], January 29 at 19:00 UTC
• Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #94, January 30 at 13.00 UTC
• Online workshop in French about Breton lexicographical data, by Envlh and Vigneron, January 30 at 15:00 CET (UTC+1)
• On Tuesday, February 22, the OpenRefine team hosts a community meetup to present current and future work on Structured Data on Commons support in OpenRefine.
• Ongoing:
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #26, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=26 Bees]
• #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
• Past:
• Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-01-19)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://www.opensanctions.org/articles/2022-01-18-peppercat/ The CIA lost track of who runs the UK, so I picked up the slack] featured on [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29976576 Hacker News]
• [https://www.lehir.net/solving-wordle-sutom-and-al-with-sparql-queries-on-wikidata/ Solving Wordle, Sutom, and al. with SPARQL queries on Wikidata]
• [https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2022/1/17/22888461/wikitrivia-web-game-timeline-wikidata-events-fixing-data Wikitrivia is a web game that challenges your knowledge of historical dates]
• [https://www.infobae.com/america/tecno/2022/01/19/wikitrivia-el-juego-viral-que-pone-a-prueba-cuanto-sabe-de-historia/ Wikitrivia, the viral game that tests how much you know about history] (in Spanish)
• [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-libraries-and-archives/2022/01/18/100-women-in-science-in-smithsonian-history/ 100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History]
• Papers
• [https://www.jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/439 Wikidata: a new perspective towards universal bibliographic control]
• [https://www.dpconline.org/news/twgn-wikidata-gen Wikidata for Digital Preservationists: New DPC Technology Watch Guidance Note now available on general release]
• Videos
• [WORKSHOP] Wikidata and libraries: tools for information managers (in Spanish) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hobjhuWDOAY YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/comparator-compare-named-entities-cited-in-two-wikipedia-a Comparator] compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Wikidata Lexemes forms:
• [https://twitter.com/LucasWerkmeistr/status/1482780512712335360 Now supports the Odia language]
• [https://lexeme-forms.toolforge.org/template/spanish-verb/ Substantially expanded template for Spanish verbs]
• How many triples are added when certain edits are made? ... User:Mahir256/Triples

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: admission yield rate, Corruption Perceptions Index, category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast image url
• External identifiers: AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, ARCHER ID, Senators of Spain (1834-1923) ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Hermitage Museum work ID, Engineer's Line Reference, Archive ouverte UNIGE ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, AsianWiki ID, ENEA-IRIS Open Archive author ID, METRICA author ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community, subpopulation 3, type of register, identifier in a register, phrase in hiero markup
• External identifiers: Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, XJustiz registration court ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania Encyclopedia ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Index to Organism Names ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, LastDodo-area-id, SberZvuk ID, North Data company ID, Gardens Navigator ID, SAHRA heritage objects ID, ezeri.lv ID, SAHA player ID, norsk fangeregister fangeleir ID, Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/4j6Z Map of tramways in France]
• [https://w.wiki/4j5D Map of categories for honorary citizens] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/4hr5 Map of the Medieval universities and its founding date] ([https://twitter.com/larswillighagen/status/1483586097166888964 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4jKL Camps/subcamps within a 20km radius of your location] ([https://twitter.com/SPARQLCRMSUPPE/status/1485529805676240900 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4iin Taxa found at Fazenda Tamanduá] (Sertão of Paraíba - Brazil) ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1484630713722937346 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4hwA Birthplace of Rabbis] ([https://twitter.com/sharozwa/status/1483731259985694722 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4haR Italian parliamentarians and ministers aged between 50 and 80] ([https://twitter.com/nemobis/status/1483217197858279429 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4hZB Female Irish scientists in Wikidata without a Wikipedia article] ([https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1483168128632827910 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4hoz Places in the Hautes-Alpes that are the subject of an article on Wikipedia in at least 10 languages] ([https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1483533204090990599 source])

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Discussions
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
• GretaHeng18bot
• Pi bot 24
• SchoolBot
• companyBot

• Events
• Upcoming:
• Talk to the Search Platform Team about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.! February 2nd, 2022. [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Etherpad].
• LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbltj1x8L2E YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3162728574012298/ Facebook], February 5 at 19:00 UTC
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/R3UTAWBHZ74SPCOPVR57U6MEQCXWP64R/ Wikimedia Research February Office Hours] [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1643760056 Wednesday, 2022-02-02 at 00:00-1:00 UTC (16:00 PT 02-01 /19:00 ET 02-01 / 1:00 CET 02-02]).
• Data Reuse Days will take place on March 14-24, highlighing applications and tools using Wikidata's data. You can already propose a session.
• Ongoing:
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #27, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=27 Numbers (1/n)]
• Past:
• Editing with OpenRefine [https://www.twitch.tv/belett live on Twitch] and in French by Vigneron
• Wikibase Live Session ([https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.01.27 2022.01.27])

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Press
• "[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00138-y Massive open index of scholarly papers launches]" - called OpenAlex, it draws its data from sources including Wikidata
• Blogs
• OpenSanctions is [https://www.opensanctions.org/articles/2022-01-25-wikidata/ integrating persons of interest from Wikidata]
• [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/celebrating-the-2-000-featured-articles-milestone-in-wikip Celebrating the 2,000 featured articles milestone in Wikipedia in French]: Using the Wikipedia Categorymembers API through a SPARQL query to get all articles featured in category "Article de qualité" and compute statistics.
• [https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2022/01/19/smithsonian-libraries-and-archives-wikidata-using-linked-open-data-to-connect-smithsonian-information/#.Yfbd4lvMKV6 Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Using Linked Open Data to Connect Smithsonian Information]
• [https://voxeu.org/article/origin-gender-gap The origin of the gender gap]
• Videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PqgTtnciyg Wikidata as a Modality for Accessible Clinical Research]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDppa_5RfwI Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase]

• Tool of the week
• Basque version of Wordle using Wikidata's lexicographic data. [https://wordle.talaios.coop 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.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast logo URL, hotel rating, dpi for original size, director of publication, official jobs URL
• External identifiers: TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, Muz-TV ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, Tretyakov Gallery work ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania encyclopedia ID, Amazon podcast ID, Habr company ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, German Lobbyregister ID, Film.ru actor ID, Film.ru film ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID, StarHit ID, North Data ID, CYT/CCS, LKI ID, Unified book number

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: has member, register in Germany, dailytelefrag.ru ID, time in the pouch, semantic gender, Game World Navigator ID
• External identifiers: Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, CHY Number, OpenSanctions ID, identifiant Les Archives du spectacle (organisme), Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, histrf.ru person ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, Chgk person ID, Latvijas ūdenstilpju klasifikatora kods, RCN (Irish Registered Charity Number), RBC company ID, OpenStates ID, NetEase Music Artist ID, QQ Music Singer ID, Euro NCAP ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/4jbt US states with the most punk bands] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1485908042436726790 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4jSi List of Ghanaian scientists by citation count] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataGhana/status/1485657254305148928 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4krb Actresses who have played Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, with type of production] ([https://twitter.com/lirazelf/status/1487037560006320129 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4mEx MPs with identified mythical ancestors]
• [https://w.wiki/4mE$ Items with "language of work or name = Toki Pona" as qualifier]
• [https://w.wiki/4mG8 Timeline of 1st women practising a given sports discipline ] ([https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1487549749830078471 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4mFy Water boards in the Netherlands] ([https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1487538209932328967 source])
• Birthplaces of [https://w.wiki/4mWE US Presidents], [https://w.wiki/4mWH Russian emperors], [https://w.wiki/4mWJ Roman emperors] ([https://twitter.com/LArtour/status/1487342003696328704 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4ksg Age of the actress when she played "Elizabeth Bennet"] [https://twitter.com/belett/status/1487052603129278467 (source)]
• [https://w.wiki/4mWd People with dates of birth and death on January 1st (day precision dates)] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/4mXQ More than 500 lexemes in Breton now have at least one sense] ([https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1487909849652514824 source])

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Discussions
• New requests for permissions/Bot: MystBot
• Other: Discussion about replacing values with a new format or scheme for "SBN author ID" (P396), an identifier for National Library Service (SBN) of Italy

• 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. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n4FkfAUUHIMC7BO10ACVLhVWbvu4-2ztrbKWXltIVOE/edit?usp=sharing 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. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KPA3CTQG2HCJO55EFZVNINGVFQJAHT4W/ Full details here].
• [https://www.twitch.tv/belett 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 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUJjCnL72ak YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3168371536781335/ Facebook], February 12 at 19:00 UTC
• Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #95, February 13 at 13.00 UTC
• Ongoing:
• Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2022)
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #28, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=28 Computer]
• Past:
• LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lNOxhazTwI YouTube]
• Jan Ainali, GovDirectory. Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government - [https://www.conferencecast.tv/talk-44689-using-wikidata-to-connect-constituents-with-their-government?utm_campaign=44689&utm_source=youtube&utm_content=talk Civic Hacker Summit, November 2021]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://zbw.eu/labs/en/blog/how-to-matching-multilingual-thesaurus-concepts-with-openrefine How-to: Matching multilingual thesaurus concepts with OpenRefine]
• [https://commonists.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-%e2%88%92-2021-edition/ Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2021 edition], by Jean-Frédéric
• [https://www.lehir.net/importing-a-breton-dictionary-from-wikisource-into-wikidata-lexicographical-data/ Importing a Breton dictionary from Wikisource into Wikidata lexicographical data], by Envlh
• [https://addshore.com/2022/02/profiling-a-wikibase-item-creation-on-test-wikidata-org/ Profiling a Wikibase item creation on test.wikidata.org] by Addshore
• [https://wikibase.consulting/fast-bulk-import-into-wikibase/ Fast Bulk Import Into Wikibase]
• Papers
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.00291.pdf XAlign: Cross-lingual Fact-to-Text Alignment and Generation for Low-Resource Languages]
• Videos
• Wikidata: A knowledge graph for the earth sciences? - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oN67CfirDI YouTube]
• Activate Faktamall biografi WD gadget (see Wikidata info in Wikipedia) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0CU9eaIh04 YouTube]
• Wikidata workshop: interwiki links (Questions) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHI59WavSNk 1], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRnu9pSlcoQ 2] & [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bl4yQcBwOg 3] (YouTube)
• Wikidata Tutorial (in German): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNm2TYOcMco create a user account on Wikidata], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWzJueFZnCw add an institution's website to Wikidata]

• Tool of the week
• [https://vrandezo.github.io/wikidata-edit-map/ Wikidata edit map] by Denny puts a dot on the map whenever an Item with a geocoordinate is edited.

• 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.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: dpi for A4 printing, time in the pouch, semantic gender
• External identifiers: AAGM artwork ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Artland fair ID, Artland gallery ID, Douban book series ID, Douban book works ID, Les Archives du spectacle organization ID, Urban Electric Transit city ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, Ezeri.lv lake ID, Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Bugs! music video ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, New York Flora Atlas ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: HSK ID, sports in region, Computational complexity, YouTube video
• External identifiers: Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2, podchaser episode ID, IFPI UPC/EAN, Weltfussball-Spiel-ID, GoodGame.ru ID, USgamer ID, Riot Pixels game ID, HaBima Archive play id, HaBima Archive person id, NLI topic id, 100Y Hebrew Theatre Guide person id, Old-Games.RU ID, iXBT Games ID, Students of Turin University ID, Tagoo video game ID, AusGamers ID, GameGuru ID, LMHL author ID, VGTimes ID, ULI id, GameMAG ID, SBN new authority IDs, Prosopographia Imperii Romani Online ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, Gesher Theater Archive person id, Gesher Theater Archive play id, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist static ID, A9VG game ID, Qichaha firm ID, Chinese School Identifier, GoHa.ru ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, CiteSeerX ID of a person, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2

• Deleted properties:
• "Scoresway soccer person ID" (P3043)
• "SSR WrittenForm ID" (P1849)
• "FFF female player ID" (P4886)
• "FFF male player ID" (P4883)
• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/4ncM Events by number of video games announced] ([https://commonists.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-%e2%88%92-2021-edition/ source])
• [https://w.wiki/4ncV Three-Michelin Stars restaurants with a female chef] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/4n$u Wikidata Properties specific to German Lexemes and number of times they are used] ([https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1489921667707068419 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4oEG Countries with count of same Wikidata labels in different languages] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1489774243617378305 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4ncu Team and positions played by National Women's Football League players] ([https://twitter.com/antholo/status/1489362535518199817 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4nXu Location of the graves of personalities in Père Lachaise Cemetery who died between 1800 and 1849 (50 year ranges)] ([https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1489224972409180162 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4oEa Location of statues of women in Italy] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1488853768972259329 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4n6g Count of Lexeme pairs between different languages] ([https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/1488602739433218049 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4oEg Birthplaces of General secretaries of USSR] ([https://twitter.com/LArtour/status/1488525141281751045 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4oVf Items related to Abdülmecid I, their collections, and their types] ([https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1490656031340335107 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4oVj Objects related in some way to Aurangzeb] ([https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1490656566462328832 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: Archaeology

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Discussions
• New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 2
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dexbot 15
• New request for comments: Population data model

• Events
• Upcoming:
• [https://www.twitch.tv/belett Live on Twitch] and in French by Vigneron, February 15 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYz61-_gWko Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata] February 17, 5:00 PM
• LIVE Wikidata editing #71 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0wjjHjsPeI YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3173143136304175/ Facebook], February 19 at 19:00 UTC
• Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #96, February 20 at 13.00 UTC
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #29, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=29 Love]
• Past: LIVE Wikidata editing #70 #Beijing2022 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUJjCnL72ak YouTube]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://medium.com/wiki-playtime/historical-people-and-modern-collections-a-wikidata-exploration-8f361b4ead78 Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration]
• [https://www.stardog.com/labs/blog/wikidata-in-stardog/ Wikidata in Stardog]
• [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/births-department-wikipedia Does your birthplace affect your probability to have your Wikipedia biography ? some evidence from people born in France.]
• Videos
• Wikidata Tutorial (in German): add [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6NMqyuq7bE qualifiers], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUv3k_hFNqE coordinates] & [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbwYTdDjgEk address]
• PADE Workshop: Wikidata – Linked, Open Data - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxjpn9wtLPg YouTube]
• OpenGLAM Valentine's Day School: Intro to Wikidata (in Finish) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5oTOCKfDsA YouTube]
• Workshop on adding intangible heritage community data and images on Wikidata/Wikimedia - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4UOGnm123k YouTube]
• Hands On: SPARQL Query Dbpedia Wikidata Python - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAqlDLCU1Gg YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [https://equalstreetnames.org/ Equal Street Names] is a map visualizing the streetnames of a city by gender.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ZXIBB4X4I2H4YFMZLX4AD6CPDAO6QPLU/ New development plan for Wikidata and Wikibase for Q1 2022]
• Krbot's constraint reports are now generally updated daily, after code optimizations and hardware upgrades.
• 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!
• [https://github.com/cpesr/WikidataESR Wikidata ESR] is a tool to visualize evolutions of universities and schools, such as creations, mergers, deletions and relations. Feedback and help to develop this project further is requested.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: semantic gender, original catalog description
• External identifiers: doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, Viki ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, World Economic Forum ID, USgamer ID, Podvig Naroda ID, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Turin University student ID, Naver TV ID, AusGamers ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Maritimt Magasin ship ID, TV3 show ID, TV3 video ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, nzs.si player ID, UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: Computational complexity, audio contains, identifies, Cadastral areas, video depicts, YouTube video, cadastral plot reference, Finisher, trainiert von, identifier values as, YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date
• External identifiers: Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Transilien ID, Cybersport.ru ID, JeuxActu ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Name Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Classification Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, ICQ user ID, previous property definition, State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, VK Music ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, BelTA dossier ID, Spotify user ID, NTSF ID, BritBox ID, KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/4oc3 Tram bridges in France]
• [https://w.wiki/4ovS Polish Righteous Among the Nations]
• [https://w.wiki/4oxe Launch date, logo of social media services] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataid/status/1491366263880355841 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4p35 Oscar winners from 1929] ([https://twitter.com/Mcx83/status/1491068804704923656 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4pKw Images of biologists by height] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1491852186036449280 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4p6w Biggest coins outside the U.S.] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1491510965388599300 source])

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Discussions
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
• ChineseWikiClubBot, 1
• Auto Prod Bot

• 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!
• The [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.02.24 next Wikibase live session] is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th February 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Huda Khan and Astrid Usong on their Linked Data for Production 3 (LD4P3) grant work to use Wikidata in knowledge panels in Cornell’s library catalog [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GxDv9U-TUZgHkOF6I2yAEtdq3REqq90DvakAw-rs25Y/edit?usp=sharing Agenda] - 2022-02-22 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1645549233 Time zone converter])
• [https://twitter.com/NortheasternLib/status/1493955687570984963 Hands-on introduction to Wikidata with The Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library's Edit-a-Thon!] Theme: Boston public art and artists. February 23, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Eastern time
• OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons: community meetup - Tuesday, February 22, at 15:00-17:00 UTC ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1645542013 check the time in your timezone]).
• [https://www.twitch.tv/belett Live on Twitch] and in French by Vigneron, February 22 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #30, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=30 Trains]
• Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #71 #MelFest - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0wjjHjsPeI YouTube]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs: [https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2022/02/17/wikidata-projects/ Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Plans Become Projects]
• Papers: "[https://gangiswag.github.io/data/ACL2022_Demo__COVID_Claim_Radar.pdf COVID-19 Claim Radar: A Structured Claim Extraction and Tracking System]" using Wikidata
• Videos: Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata (in Spanish) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYz61-_gWko YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• Wikidata:Tools/asseeibot - is a tool made by User:So9q to improve the scientific articles in Wikidata. [https://github.com/dpriskorn/asseeibot Source code on GitHub under GPLv3+]
• [https://coinherbarium.com/ Coinherbarium.com] - coins depicting plants; powered by Wikidata

• 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!

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: number of lanes, computational complexity
• External identifiers: UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID, Gardens Navigator ID, Tagoo video game ID, Lingua Libre ID, Labyrinth database ID, A9VG game ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, RCN, CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date, quality has state, beforehand-afterward owned by, Number of units, created during, award recipient, medical indication
• External identifiers: KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, YouTube Topic channel ID, YouTube Official Artist Channel ID, GoFood restaurant ID, traveloka restaurant ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, HiSCoD, Databazeknih.cz Book ID, Databazeknih.cz Author ID, Renacyt ID, CBDB.cz Book ID, CBDB.cz Author ID, Gab ID, Drammen byleksikon ID, NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, MakeMyTrip Hotel ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/4rJJ Frequency of letters in five-letter words in Wikidata lexeme forms ] ([https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1494252101517647873 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4qRG Visualization of the Prime/Ulam Spiral using natural numbers and primes stored in Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1493569346068787202 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4rCE Monuments that are named after somebody without being connected to them by any other property] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1493311947554623496 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4q9Y Places named after Valentine's Day (Saint Valentine)] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1493200775706730501 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4pnQ Gold medal winners in the Olympic Games by age] ([https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1492628927919099912 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4rGf Top 20 languages in number of lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of lexemes with at least one external id] ([https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1494696941145497601 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4rXn Count of PropertyLabels for lakes in the UK] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1495026569533964288 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4rdW Moons of solar system planets and what they are names for] ([https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1495147418555502597 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4rGf Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID] ([https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1494696941145497601 source])

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Discussions
• Open request for adminship: Ikkingjinnammebetinke (RfP scheduled to end after 7 March 2022 13:33 UTC)
• New request for comments: Creating items for videos at online video platforms that are representation of notable items
• Other: Qualifiers for given names and surnames

• Events
• Upcoming:
• [https://www.twitch.tv/belett Live on Twitch] and in French by Vigneron, March 1st at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/E24DSO4EWQ7623P2K5LFCMPZBX4H4P7Z/ Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 2nd, 2022]. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
• LIVE Wikidata editing #73 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJwelcuaT0 YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3184194285199060/ Facebook], March 5th at 19:00 UTC
• Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #98, March 6th at 13.00 UTC
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #31, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=31 War]
• Past:
• Wikibase Live session, February 2022 - log
• LIVE Wikidata editing #72 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ih66iICrU YouTube]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Papers: [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6036284 Wikidata as a Tool for Mapping Investment in Open Infrastructure: An Exploratory Study]
• Videos
• Mismatch Finder tool: Quick introduction to and demo of how the tool works
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNaiTDH5wXc Using a Custom Wikibase as a File Format Registry with Siegfried]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua5tUfZUDuY Create a Wikidata Query - example using Shipwrecks data]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pasM4WkfM4A Map Wikidata in an R Shiny App - example]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY28hpjWvhc Bring Wikidata into Power BI using a simple R script - example]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMijtlyGGO4 Using QuickStatements to load tabular data and the Wikidata Edit Framework] (in Italian)

• Tool of the week
• User:Guergana Tzatchkova (WMDE)/MismatchFinderWidget.js is a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/EFBUVNLUSX7V5ZOQZD5SWKDWSWJU23ER/ Mismatch Finder], the tool that lets you review mismatches between the data in Wikidata and other databases, is now ready to be used for checking potential mismatches and uploading lists of new potential mismatches.
• February 2022 WDQS scaling update now available: SPARQL query service/WDQS scaling update feb 2022
• Job opening: The Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop WDQS. [https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3975337 Apply here]!
• Job opening: {{Q|233098}} is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections [https://jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/17300b246428c9403602628eb5937f770c4c29a2 Job Description (German)]

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: computational complexity
• External identifiers: Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, Irish Registered Charity Number (RCN), CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID, VerbaAlpina ID, Prosopographia Imperii Romani online ID, Game World Navigator ID, Bugs! track ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Databazeknih.cz book ID, Databazeknih.cz author ID, MakeMyTrip hotel ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, GameGuru ID, 100-Year Guide to Hebrew Theatre person ID, INPA park ID, Riot Pixels game ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: created during, award recipient, medical indication, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, eingesetzter Sportler
• External identifiers: NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID, reddoorz hotel ID, symogih.org ID, CNKI Author ID, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, Spanish National Associations Register Number, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, RODI-DB player ID, Historische Topographie des Kulturerbes ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, MovieMeter series ID, Kayak Hotel ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Discover Moscow ID, Game Informer ID, Vedomosti company ID, USP Production Repository ID, Dansk Navneleksikon, Femiwiki ID

• Query examples:
• [https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/62645 Number of edits by user on French lexemes] (source)
• [http://w.wiki/4sFe Languages in Indonesia with their status according to UNESCO] ([https://twitter.com/wikimediaid/status/1496081428894961668 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4top Successful coups and attempts in Africa] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/4tot New York Times journalists that are alive] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/4tJB Ukrainian coins and banknotes] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1497556158080589824 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4sPi Types of quartz] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1496170519670005767 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Chemistry/Natural products

• 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
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AAGRA4FQQQK7T63AU3VE62NADSGQVUGH/ 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• 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 [https://diff.wikimedia.org/calendar/month/2022-03/?tribe_tags%5B0%5D=13446 in the schedule].
• Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #99, March 13th at 13.00 UTC
• LIVE Wikidata editing #74 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYJg7RVCamY YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3190202094598279/ 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 ([https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220311T160000&p1=179&p2=64&p3=75&p4=224&p5=136&p6=tz_cet Time zone converter]). Registration: [https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcoc-mqpzssE9RT2GTDHFgGkEpW5nJ7i3ki 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. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Tl0ox1wh4T9dXagcidt9EspR8am29n9DamGggxczF0/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
• [https://www.salernonotizie.it/2022/03/02/unisa-centro-bibliotecario-in-prima-linea-contro-il-divario-di-genere/ Art+Feminism editathon at the University Library Center of the University of Salerno]. 8 March 2022
• [https://tech.ebu.ch/events/2022/wikidata-workshop 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, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=32 Ukraine]
• Past:
• LIVE Wikidata editing #73 #opendataday - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJwelcuaT0 YouTube]
• NFDI InfraTalk: Wikibase - knowledge graphs for RDM in NFDI4Culture - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPMkuDxHJtI YouTube] (March 7, 4:00 PM CEST)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Videos
• Creating a new item on Wikidata (in Italian) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PfmVx4ai9c YouTube]
• Connecting Wikidata with OpenStreetMap (in Italian) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMvSo_gmsA4 YouTube]
• Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (in French) - YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10D7GrFAYAc 1], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY2XUh-8EG4 2], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjZ8iNSPiJo 3].

• Tool of the week
• [https://wikxhibit.org 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. [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/4361894/Senior-Software-Engineer-Wikidata-m-f-d-/?jobDbPVId=41562318&l=en Apply here]!
• The WMF Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop Wikidata Query Service. [https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3975337 Apply here]!
• {{Q|233098}} is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections [https://jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/17300b246428c9403602628eb5937f770c4c29a2 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:
• [https://w.wiki/4uRW Use of free software license for describing software] ([https://twitter.com/imakefoss/status/1499320677035356161 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4uH4 Count of latest available Twitter follower count for different programming languages] ([https://twitter.com/imakefoss/status/1499040164324294661 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4uDw Timeline of programming languages and their paradigms] ([https://twitter.com/imakefoss/status/1499000390456684545 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4uyY Most popular programming language on Wikipedia with multilingual articles] ([https://twitter.com/imakefoss/status/1500077433567027200 source])
• Russian TV channels from and about Russia ([https://twitter.com/trtram/status/1498561371595804673 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4uvo Places of birth of people named "Désirée"] ([https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Q919943&uselang=en source])
• [https://w.wiki/4vAW People in the Père-Lachaise cemetery who were born in a city that is or was in Ukraine] ([https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1500405994723188736 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4uTb Properties linking between a church and its saint] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1499370059466256392 source])

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• 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 [https://diff.wikimedia.org/calendar/month/2022-03/?tribe_tags%5B0%5D=13446 in the schedule]. You can also look at a selection of sessions based on your areas of interest.
• LIVE Wikidata editing #75 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y8YKy-RA-E YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3195074454111043/ 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
• [https://www.facebook.com/SQWikimediansUG/posts/1353788765045262 Wikidata 101 workshop] (in Albanian language) March 15th at 10 o'clock at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana
• [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ontotext-webinar---graphdb-as-company-data-central-301499365.html 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, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=33 Furniture]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/tour-de-frances-history-at-a-glance History of the Tour de France]: a notebook to explore the history of the tour de France in three charts.
• [https://zenodo.org/record/6347127#.Yi0CNn_MKV4 A dataset of scholarly journals in wikidata : (selected) external identifiers]
• [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/06/getting-all-the-government-agencies-of-the-world-structured-in-wikidata/ Getting all the government agencies of the world structured in Wikidata]
• Papers
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.14035.pdf ParaNames: A Massively Multilingual Entity Name Corpus] (built using Wikidata)
• Videos
• Breton Lexicographic data SPARQL queries (in French) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_w-ldZRDGU YouTube]
• Wikidata SPARQL session (in French) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Pttug3DL0 YouTube]
• moreIdentifiers UseAsRef gadget (in Italian) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMOaziJdGHo YouTube]
• Wikidata working hour - QuickStatements (in Italian) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQKy-z9RXNI YouTube]
• Graph data formats: Common RDF vocabularies (in Czech) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcAFlv2cyBY YouTube]

• 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 [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2022-03-06_wdqs-categories 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:
• [https://w.wiki/4wUf Properties describing Art UK artworks] ([https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1502315047573495808 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4wu3 Timeline of victims of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]
• [https://w.wiki/4wPm Population of countries that share a border with Russia] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1502208355263201284 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4wGt Audio pronunciation of places in Wales] ([https://twitter.com/WIKI_NLW/status/1501955765782732800 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4wDu Things with a national gallery of Scotland ID where the artist was or is a woman] ([https://twitter.com/lirazelf/status/1501915958289567745 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4vm9 Software with gender information of developer, designer and the person named after] [https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1501160556736172034 source]

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• 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

• 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 [https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/2514927/03-boulanger-legal-theory-graph legal theory graph project]. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CD0DidHKOEP1uIw9xX8x2buualVRjYQmHu1oSMAwxVw/edit Agenda with call link], March 22.
• Ongoing:
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #34, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=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 [https://diff.wikimedia.org/calendar/month/2022-03/?tribe_tags%5B0%5D=13446 in the schedule]. For a recap of the event so far:
• a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm 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

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/2022/03/20/mw-lua-for-non-lua-programmers/ MediaWiki Lua for non-Lua programmers] by Lucas Werkmeister
• [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2022/03/17/kohesio-eu-european-commission-goes-open-source/ Kohesio.eu: European Commission goes Open Source]
• Videos
• Ongoing DataReuseDays 2022 - YouTube
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx1LXCqfD60&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=2 Lightning talks]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqQwC70Kyd8&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=3 Wikidata for performing and visual arts]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZXDdA5V0xE&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=4 Wikxhibit]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6KrBraWgdw&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=5 How to retrieve Wikidata’s data?]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqrEfvRo1iU&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=6 Best practices for reusing Wikidata’s data]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ChC1pplik&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=7 Building a simple web app using Wikidata data]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNDkajxN_mc&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=8 Biohackathon: report on reviewing Wikidata subsetting method]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBgFeTIHgQ&list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm&index=9 GeneWiki: The Wikidata Integrator]
• Cartographier des données de Wikidata avec Umap (in French) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbm4b1-XBmU YouTube]
• Mapping Einstein Researchers on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYCKLQRQmzQ YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [http://linkedpeople.net Linked People project] let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
• [https://lubianat.github.io/gene-wordle/ 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.
• [https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1504079153246703618 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 [https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1503477948057333767 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 changetags right 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:
• [https://w.wiki/4yCg Signature images from Wikidata (change the view to “map” to see the signatures arranged by the person’s place of birth!] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1504249791643013124 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4x8g Count of UK lake items with a 'UK Lakes Portal ID' (P7548) property statement] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1503581042812362754 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4w$k Travel reports by Alfred Brehm as timeline] ([https://twitter.com/diedatenlaube/status/1503383657989517315 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4yHx Timeline for the Apple "M" series of Systems on a Chip (SoC)]
• [https://w.wiki/4yCU Religion of men named “Maria” (as one of their given names)] ([https://twitter.com/sandpapier/status/1505611447048544256 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4xyY Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (passing through Finland and Kazakhstan])
• [https://w.wiki/4yPA 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)]
• [https://w.wiki/4x75 Colonies of Africa with their or their “main state”’s official language and ISO code]

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Events
• Upcoming
• The [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.03.31 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.
• [https://www.twitch.tv/belett 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. [https://artandfeminism.org/edit_a_thon/artandfeminism-2022-in-ghana-notable-female-lawyers-in-west-africa/ Register].
• LIVE Wikidata editing #77 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9CqmS9jzEo YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3206229169662238/ 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 [https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/cultural-venues-datathon/ in English] and [https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/fr/datathon-des-lieux-culturels/ 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, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=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 [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm 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

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2022/03/18/lexicographical-data-for-language-learners-the-wikidata-based-app-scribe/ Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe]
• [https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Inaugural_Wikidata_Fellows_announced Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia]
• [https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/03/22/wikidatas-lexemes-sparked-this-librarians-interest/ Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest]
• [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/actress-singers-and-actor-singers-do-actresses-become-sing Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors?] fact checking an intuition using Wikidata
• [https://americanart.si.edu/blog/wikidata-artists Building a Web of Knowledge Through Wikidata]
• Presentations
• [https://www.bjonnh.net/share/20220320_acs/ LOTUS, Beyond drug discovery: Breaking the boundaries of natural products information], at the {{Q|247556}} Spring 2022 meeting
• Papers
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.11361.pdf "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 [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm full list of the recorded sessions])
• A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgCgEje-kiM YouTube]
• FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yRhCENeezQ YouTube]
• Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ53x5GcfmE YouTube]
• A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqDgZJaVj20 YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [https://apps.apple.com/app/scribe-language-keyboards/id1596613886 Scribe] is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
• [https://worldleh.talaios.coop/ 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.
• [https://www.kb.nl/over-ons/projecten/wikipedia-wikimedia 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. [https://twitter.com/wikidataid/status/1506113550460530691 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 World@Mail.Ru 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:
• [https://w.wiki/4JHa Wikidata knowledge graph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln] ([https://twitter.com/fuzheado/status/1506380715985887241 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4yJM Women who served as defense ministers in various countries] ([https://twitter.com/wikimediaid/status/1506212109381644292 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4zVn UK MPs who had paired names (e.g. Owen Thomas / Thomas Owen)] ([https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1507443437200678918 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4yr2 List of properties associated with items that are class/subclass of File Format] ([https://twitter.com/beet_keeper/status/1506625658490871819 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4zGb Table frequency of properties used in instances of public libraries]

• Development
• [Significant Change]: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/3LA6FDOZGSK6HSQY73XCFNT4BTYWOY64/ 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• 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.

• Events
• Upcoming:
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adam Schiff (University of Washington), Tyler Rogers (San Diego State University), Julia Gilmore (University of Toronto) on documenting buildings on academic campuses. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hSlr8GTlk_Q-bE5n1oCxXBncuCPHnqESWMR0oQcuGYA/edit Agenda with call link], April 5.
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AWS4SV3TQUS4CZMOB6YH3ML5AIZ6WOEZ/ Wikimedia Research Office Hours April 5, 2022]
• [https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/event/atelier-pratique-wikidata-produire-un-element-wikidata-relie-aux-productions-en-danse-ou-en-theatre/ Wikidata items about theatre and dance productions], April 6 (in French). The same workshop will be offered [https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/wikidata-workshops-season-2/ in English] on May 4.
• Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 6th, 2022. Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Etherpad]
• Art+Feminism Community Hours. Theme: [https://artandfeminism.org/panel/community-hours-af-event-metrics/ Add your Event Data to Wikidata]. April 9 at 2pm UTC!
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #36, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=36 Family]
• Past: Wikibase live session (March 2022) [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.03.31 log]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/03/30/property-exploration-how-do-i-learn-more-about-properties-on-wikidata/ Property exploration: How do I learn more about properties on Wikidata?]
• [https://news.ucsc.edu/2022/03/nlp-liveperson-fellowships.html UCSC Ph.D. students dive deep into engineering open-domain dialogue AI with the support of industry partners]. "...aims to develop a better system for entity linking, the connection of entities like “Lebron James” or “the Earth” to their various meanings in an existing database of knowledge – in this case, Wikidata..."
• [https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2022/03/highlighting-linked-data-projects/ Highlighting linked data projects]. "...Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries, and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa are engaging in the grant-funded Linked Data for Production project. Broadly, the project uses linked data to show patrons information from outside sources (such as Wikidata) and build longer, more nuanced links between resources".
• Videos
• The Share-VDE project and its relationship with Wikidata (in Italian) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVpHdphLvCU YouTube]
• Create a Wikidata page from scratch (in French) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHed6VZBVFI YouTube]
• Clinical Trials, Wikidata and Systems Biology (in Portuguese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsYr0PGCW0M YouTube]
• New WikidataCon 2021 videos uploaded on YouTube
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK5rwhvDj_8 Your favorite interface gadgets on Wikidata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nZxY4r5KQs Wikidata Query Service scaling challenges]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlUfGhPblGo Decolonizing Wikidata: Q&A session]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDZpdfbFVpk Wikidata et l’écosystème de données ouvertes liées pour les arts de la scène] (in French)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaPEb_LMHKk Respectfully representing Indigenous knowledge in Wikidata]
• Other
• FAIR cookbook's recipe "[https://faircookbook.elixir-europe.org/content/recipes/findability/registeringDatasets How to Register a Dataset with Wikidata]"
• OpenRefine will soon hold its two-yearly survey again. [https://groups.google.com/g/openrefine/c/cBO2EWsCkME Who wants to help translate the survey to their language]? It will take around 45 minutes. There are already translations underway in Spanish and Dutch. Contact User:SFauconnier if you want to help!

• Tool of the week
• [http://Kyrksok.se Kyrksok.se] is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
• [https://wikimedia.qanswer.ai/ QAnswer] is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? [https://wikimedia.qanswer.ai/qa/full?question=who+was+the+first+to+create+liquid+helium&lang=en&kb=wikidata%2Cwikipedia&user=open Try it!]

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Wikidata Query Service scaling update, March 2022 is now available.
• WDQS backend alternatives paper with shortlist of options have been published.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: cantilever sign, supports qualifier, APE code
• External identifiers: 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, Arizona State Legislators: Then & Now ID, db.narb.by ID, Kayak hotel ID, Melon music video ID, Evil Angel movie ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, World of Waterfalls ID, IxTheo authority ID, BillionGraves grave ID, eSbírky institution ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Zotero ID, My World@Mail.Ru ID, KSH code (historical), traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: oeconym, ISCED Attainment, Per capita income
• External identifiers: 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, AccessScience ID, IPU Chamber ID, COL taxon ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, C-SPAN Person Numeric ID, SRSLY person ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature Bio ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, Beatport track ID, EIA plant ID, EIA utility ID, Speleologi del passato ID, HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/4zhs Long swedish / german nouns in Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/salgo60/status/1508444534216310786 source])
• [https://w.wiki/4$Gg Texts which have Wikisource links in English and French] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1509547358366883841 source])

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Discussions
• Open request for adminship: Stang (RfP scheduled to end after 14 April 2022 12:18 UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
• Botcrux 10. Task/s: Change publication date (P577) of scientific articles from "1 January YYYY" to just "YYYY".
• Pi bot 25. Task/s: Wikidata:Properties for deletion maintenance

• Events
• Upcoming:
• Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #104, April 17th at 12.00 UTC
• The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the [https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg 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.
• April 26, Ghent, Belgium: [https://meemoo.be/nl/vormingen-en-events/openrefine-community-workshop-datacleaning-andere-functionaliteiten-en-meet-the-team public OpenRefine data cleaning workshop and meet&greet with the OpenRefine team], including preview of Structured Data on Commons functionalities. Physical event, free, [https://meemoo.be/nl/vormingen-en-events/openrefine-community-workshop-datacleaning-andere-functionaliteiten-en-meet-the-team sign up via this link].
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/MPQZ4EZW6FXZVZAX6QO7BAVJVDUGOT2N/ Wiki Workshop 2022 - Registration open!] The event is virtually held on April 25, 12:00-18:30 UTC
• April 22nd - 24th, from Wiki Mentor Africa, A three days workshop on Linking biodiversity data through wikidata using Webaps and jupyter notebooks to attend, [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddFNRkARWa12ICRBuel9zbYMQsL4fUsiNA7ndMwcJSVp8xJg/viewform?usp=sf_link| register here]
• May 5th: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour, open discussion. Come with your favorite Phabricator task and we will improve its description together.
• DigAMus goes Wikidata workshop: make digital projects in museums visible and findable. April 29, 3-5 p.m. TIB Open Science Lab. [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Zv_SEwAM0EV760fTRr7PYT5y5kscnhC_yQZ2mvABG5Q/edit Register here].
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #37, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=37 Numbers]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2022/03/30/smithsonian-libraries-and-archives-wikidata-chinese-ancestor-portrait-project/#.YksQHXVByV5 Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Chinese Ancestor Portrait Project]
• [https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2684 Browsing FactGrid with the FactGrid Viewer]
• Papers
• [https://content.iospress.com/articles/data-science/ds210040 A formalization of one of the main claims of “Cortex reorganization of Xenopus laevis eggs in strong static magnetic fields” by Mietchen et al. 2005] (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
• A formalization of one of the main claims of “Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information” by Hagedorn et al. 2011 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
• Videos
• Wikidata Query Service Tutorial in Tunisian by Houcemeddine Turki (WikiConference RU 2021 - Part 1, Part 2)
• Live Coding - PyORCIDAtor, integrating ORCID with Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc6jQnp4gZg YouTube]
• How to add location coordinates to Wikidata Items (in Dagbani) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohtVF4Et7-g YouTube]
• Bundestag + Wikidata = Open Parliament TV (in German) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkdyr6N5E2E YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [https://lvaudor.github.io/glitter/articles/glitter_for_Wikidata.html 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.
• [https://conze.pt/explore?l=en# Conzept] is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• The Wikidata MOOC (online course) has been developed by Wikimedia France, involving several French-speaking Wikidata editors. The first version of the course will start on April 26 (in French only - [https://www.wikimedia.fr/les-inscriptions-au-mooc-wikidata-sont-ouvertes/ registration here])
• OpenRefine is running [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAfFLkcehxcbvWpjb5xPywOGsT1Djmp82k4wh81q14NDKVGA/viewform a short survey] to learn about user needs and expectations for the new Structured Data on Commons extension for OpenRefine, which is in the process of being developed. If you upload files to Wikimedia Commons and/or edit structured data there, please help by [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAfFLkcehxcbvWpjb5xPywOGsT1Djmp82k4wh81q14NDKVGA/viewform filling in the survey]!
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/3M2TXQYQTC5IODN6NO2G6UWE7DMGNCJT/ Wikibase cloud update (April)]: the closed beta of Wikibase.cloud is planned to start in mid-April. If you want to apply for closed beta access, please register with [https://lime.wikimedia.de/index.php/717538 this form].

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: APE code, maintains linking to, academic calendar type, taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, P10604, notable role
• External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID, Speleologi del passato ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Intesa Sanpaolo Historical Archive Map ID, Monoskop article ID, IDU foreign theatre ID, IDU theatre building ID, IDU theatrical ensemble ID, Cameroun COG, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, SRSLY person ID, FAOTERM ID, Catalogue of Life ID, Trovo ID, IFPI GTIN, MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: является автором художественной выставки, shoe color, government debt-to-GDP ratio, National Historical Museums of Sweden object ID, class of property value, has group, name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID
• External identifiers: HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, bebyggelseområdeskod i Sverige, Israeli Opera site person id, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus Identifier, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, IRIS Piedmont IDs, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/522E Most popular Chess openings (by number of sitelinks)] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1510726581362245632 source])
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Fsitelinks%0AWITH%0A%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fsitelinks%0A%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23Minimum%20sitelinks%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fsitelinks.%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3ArangeSafe%20true.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fsitelinks%20%3E%2020%20%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%23Random%20stuff%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20BIND%28RAND%28%29%20AS%20%3Frandom%29%20.%20%23%20Using%20this%20makes%20it%20not%20random%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28SHA512%28CONCAT%28STR%28RAND%28%29%29%2C%20STR%28%3Fitem%29%29%29%20AS%20%3Frandom%29%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Frandom%0A%20%20LIMIT%201000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25subquery1%0AWITH%0A%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fsitelinks%0A%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25subquery1%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%23Filters%20to%20remove%20undesired%20entries%20%28templates%2C%20categories%2C%20...%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11266439%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ97950663%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4167836%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ59541917%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ14204246%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ19842659%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP373%20%3FcommonsCategory%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP301%20%3FcategoryMainTopic%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15184295%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1423%20%3FtemplateHasTopic%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP910%20%3FtopicMainCategory%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ20010800%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP360%20%3FisAListOf%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ108783631%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11753321%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP4224%20%3FcategoryContains%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP971%20%3FcategoryCombinesTopics%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ97303168%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ59259626%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ110010043%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1474116%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15647814%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ19887878%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ107344376%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ36330215%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ14296%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ42032%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2370%20%3FconversionToSIUnit%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4167410%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%23FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3Aaaa%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20LIMIT%20100%0A%7D%20AS%20%25subquery2%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25subquery2%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D Random set of popular ("having more than 20 site links") items] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/53Ac Wikimedia affiliates on social media] ([https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1513117317982474243 source])
• [https://w.wiki/534V Listed viaducts in the UK] ([https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1512909616421777420 source])
• [https://w.wiki/53LW Pages linked to the University of Clermont according to the number of articles on Wikimedia projects] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1513493874257313796 source])
• [https://w.wiki/53M4 Which languages share a word for the same thing (visualized as a tree map). e.g. planet] ([https://twitter.com/vrandezo/status/1513194921183772672 source])

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• 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:
• Stangbot 2. Task/s: Insert electorate (P1831) and keep it updated on Brazilian municipalities and states items
• AmeisenBot. Task/s: Label unsigned comments on talk pages

• Events
• Upcoming:
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call will be on Tuesday, [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1650380457 April 19 at 11 AM Eastern US time]: Martin Schibel will be speaking on [https://www.entitree.com/ Entitree]. Please note this is one hour earlier than the usual meeting time [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1goa4wnVoUizfFguyVAlLCZzJkb544ecHSLWQA9uYw5k/edit# Agenda]
• The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the [https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg 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.
• LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Learn about Wikibase system exploration, data model development, and the road ahead for Digital Scriptorium. When: Thurs. 21 April 2022, 3PM Eastern US ([https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220421T190000&p1=tz_et&p2=tz_ct&p3=tz_mt&p4=tz_pt&p5=tz_bst&p6=tz_cest&p7=tz_gmt time zone converter]). Where: [https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/nZRNbBy5RUyarmbXZEMRDQ,epCg_cl65k2w-KRqtDjQ6g,XaPSpNIe7kuPXqShLIu5Rw,2QcpRvBH60eIij192oVSZw,Cp8Hf52ENUW_wkyHubx_rw,8Mrm5Hwrqkuu0Ki34-GDFA?mode=read&tenantId=6c4d949d-b91c-4c45-9aae-66d76443110d Registration Link]
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/YXJJYCMFEJWJAOR2A5IYDXTSQLKJ7X2F/ Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software]. Conference date: April 22
• Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #105, April 24th at 12.00 UTC

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQOi_12npwKgeDDUGllFyybNjvONfY5hdRJwnpvWBbVHWgBLIeFTbyv54KTqoAGC0UQ75-YLrA57tt3/pub WeDigBio Transcription workflow] "...blogpost...showing how I go from finding the name of a collector when transcribing labels to adding them to Wikidata & then linking them to their collections via Bionomia."
• [https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/04/07/more-wikidata-metrics-on-the-dashboard/ More Wikidata metrics on the Dashboard]
• Videos
• Transfer bibliographic data from Zotero to Wikidata (in Italian) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snc0ifX9V7I YouTube]
• Art+Feminism community Hours: Add your event data to Wikidata! - YouTube ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMCpZtaEsWQ En], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5BwnzP-C9I Fr])
• other:
• [https://whoseknowledge.org/resource/dti-structured-data-report/ Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report] by Whose Knowledge?

• Tool of the week
• [https://bird-oclock.glitch.me 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!
• [https://coinherbarium.com Tiago's Coin Herbarium] is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the second quarter (Q2).
• There is a new hub page for the Wikidata Query Service scaling updates, to help you all stay updated.
• Wikidata metrics are now easily accessible on the Dashboard. Here's an [https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Yale_University/Dura-Europos_WD_edit-a-thon example Dashboard] including a blog post above detailing the process.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, type of a register in Germany, notable role, athletics program, number of teachers, has certification, choreography for, surrounds the enclave, has surface, per capita income, number of blood donors, official observer status in organisation, web interface software, Martian coordinates, suggested data fields, medical indication, number of conferences, historic insurance number (building), pole positions, place of disappearance, code name, reports to, podium finishes, number of likes, number of dislikes, number of comments, rack system, oeconym
• External identifiers: MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, FID performing arts ID, PLOS Thesaurus ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, Beatport track ID, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, 1905.com star ID, OpaqueNamespace ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, ODOT county code, OpenSanctions ID, CNGAL entry ID, USA Track & Field athlete ID (www.usatf.org), National Associations Register Number Spain, AperTO author ID, IRIS UNIUPO author ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, ARTEINFORMADO person ID, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, Via Rail station code, WikiApiary farm

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID, Unique image of unicode char, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, Thai Romanization, construction start, construction end
• External identifiers: MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID, fanvue creator ID, ACNP library ID, lieferando restaurant ID, Yarus feed ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Personality Database work identifier, Hmoegirlpedia, CNKI Institute ID, Peacock ID, techradar review ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/549e Birthplace of rappers] ([https://twitter.com/giorgiouboldi/status/1515007330106159110 source])
• [https://w.wiki/53iz Bubble chart of occupation of people linked to University of Clermont] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1514207848598847493 source])
• [https://w.wiki/53gv List of corporate archives, location, and address where available] ([https://twitter.com/beet_keeper/status/1514171569593106434 source])
• [https://w.wiki/53c9 French adventure video games] ([https://twitter.com/JeanFred/status/1513955436269125635 source])
• [https://w.wiki/53UB Women with the citizenship of a country and the most articles in other languages (including English) but without an article in French Wikipedia] ([https://twitter.com/symac/status/1513771911330869249 source])
• [https://ls.toolforge.org/p/106573325 Countries that are bigger (blue) or smaller (red) than all their neighbours] ([https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1515774960966541325 source])

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Discussions
• Closed request for adminship:
• Pi admin bot (successful)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
• BgeeDB-bot. Task/s: inserting gene expression data from the [https://bgee.org/ Bgee database] into Wikidata.

• Events
• Upcoming:
• The [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.04.28 next Wikibase live session] is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 28th April 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
• Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. The aim of this online editing event is to increase the quantity and quality of performing arts building/venue items.
• Daily guided editing sessions will be facilitated [https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/cultural-venues-datathon/ in English] and [https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/fr/datathon-des-lieux-culturels/ in French] between April 25 and April 29.
• [https://glam.opendata.ch/coffee-break/ Wikidata Coffee Breaks] From April 25 - April 29, 2022 to fill in missing information on Swiss Performing Arts Institutions and venues.
• [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscumsrD0jHtf8C8X6osnoMywoziJMeEjw Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ?], supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 26, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
• [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcldumvpj0rH9SZpQdaE9xS7ofNoJKSaNWl How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization], supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 27, 13:00-13:45 UTC.
• The full schedule of official and supplementary activities of the Cultural Venues Datathon is availabe in the [https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/2?cid=Y19rOHJiMzNoZGEwbTl0c2JwZG0zOHVrbG9xOEBncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t Google Calendar].
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/DVHYCRRMJO4OUZW5BHXZ7RFHVZSAJD2B/ Third Pywikibot workshop on Friday, April 29th, 16:00 UTC]. "This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the Pywikibot framework."
• From May 4 to 18 there will be the International Museum Day - Wikidata competition. The aim is to improve data about museums in the countries and regions participating. Contributors from anywhere can take part.
• The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule#The Wikidata and Wikibase Room.
• Ongoing:
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #39, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=39 Agriculture]
• Past:
• Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-04-20)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/04/20/wedigbio-a-wikidata-empowered-workflow/ WeDigBio: A Wikidata empowered workflow] (diff version)
• [https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/04/19/wikidata-as-a-tool-for-biodiversity-informatics/ Wikidata as a tool for biodiversity informatics]
• Papers
• [https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3512982?casa_token=YOTCjk8m7hgAAAAA:_YII1fxdG0Oo2NF4WV00PSmrRNsgSFcBtruOHz_PQ6sjt5vNIEmDqWgfWQtFMMQhZ5zuavjaOQA Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata Contributors' Motivations] (closed access)
• [https://plus.pli.edu/Details/Details?fq=id:(352066-ATL2) Beyond Open Data: The Only Good License Is No License]
• [https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.01.22273328v1.full-text WikiProject Clinical Trials for Wikidata]
• Videos
• Synchronizing a matched Mix'n'Match set to Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm8LYUWKmdI YouTube]
• Editing Wikidata Items (in French) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgD38xG9azA 1], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8RDYu4dcJo 2], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9AzVfxkzsE 3], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIOg6moQOig 4
• Recently uploaded WikidataCon 2022 YouTube videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0XqwDHZ-O0 Creating subsets of Wikidata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZuLuXFXaoM Wikidata birthday presents lightning talks]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc0NsrCp1MQ Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abyK_k7uXfE Reimagining Wikidata from the margins: listening session]

• Tool of the week
• [https://docs.ropensci.org/wikitaxa/ 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.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• WDQS update lag SLO has been lowered from update lag <10 min 99% of the time, to update lag <10 min 95% of the time.
• [https://twitter.com/WikidataMeter/status/1516342210115125251 Wikidata now has over 9,900 Properties!] ([https://w.wiki/564U 71.16% Identifiers])
• Job opening: [https://twitter.com/vrandezo/status/1516914803788328960 Product Manager (PM) for Wikifunctions]

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: amount of medals, exhibited creator, applies to work, featured track(s), raw material processed, debut date, OSM object, number of references, franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius
• External identifiers: DTB artistic gymnast ID, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, C-SPAN person numeric ID, IndexCat ID, lieferando restaurant ID, IPU chamber ID, ACNP library ID, HuijiWiki article ID, TV Maze season ID, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, MINEDEX project ID, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature bio ID, Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: CXSMILES, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959
• External identifiers: Reflora ID, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, Biografiskt lexikon för Finland URN.FI, Galaxy Store app ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, Identifiant Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique (1802-1914), NSR quay ID, NSR stopplace ID, Heiligen.net ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID

• Deleted properties:
• GS1 Global Product Classification brick code
• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/55p4 Most common classes for values of "depicts" (P180) on Commons] ([https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Request_a_query&oldid=1623274376#Federation_question source])
• [https://w.wiki/55oy Scottish river drainage basins] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1513885089284993035 source])
• [https://w.wiki/562y The earliest road accident victims] ([https://twitter.com/spas_kolev/status/1517841680736653312 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5646 Country of nationality of people linked to the Ghana's top 3 traditional universities] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataGhana/status/1517872485785653248 source])
• [https://w.wiki/55EE Count of Wikidata property types] ([https://twitter.com/andrawaag/status/1516659933969797122 source])

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Discussions
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
• PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another
• TolBot 14. Archives Wikidata:Requests for deletions

• Events
• Upcoming:
• Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on May 5th at 16:00 UTC, online. Open discussion - you can bring a Phabricator ticket that you care about or that needs to be improved.
• Conclusion du Cultural Venues Datathon (in French), [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lcu6uqTMuGtBi7O0Avn_sjoIlW1y5Ixnn May 2, 16:00-16:30 UTC].
• Cultural Venues Datathon wrap-up, [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlcuCorjIoHN2-DWtO6_YNTfWtQol0Lo5W May 2, 19:00-19:30 UTC].
• [https://www.twitch.tv/belett Live editing session on Twitch] about structured data on Wikimedia Commons, in French, by Vigneron, May 3 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/4Z36WIDMBEAV7X4X3OO32BXY4RZX4DRW/ Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours May 3, 2022]
• May 3rd. Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: The call will include presentations on two projects using Wikidata to enhance discoverability of archival and museum collections. Sharon Garewal (JSTOR) will present “Adding Wikidata QIDs to JSTOR Images,” and Daniela Rovida and Jennifer Brcka (University of Notre Dame) will present “‘Archives At’: An opportunity to leverage MARC to create Linked Open Data.” [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ji6eTubixBWrAPv7UUV0gxxW7y_lzyZTf4vvzo5Iwiw/edit?usp=sharing]
• [https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/event/wikidata-workshop-production-items/ Wikidata Workshop: Wikidata items for dance and theatre productions], May 4, 19:30-21:00 UTC
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/5ARWH7WLDUPNLTWPJCGOGVHW64GVIVOI/ Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—May 4th, 2022]
• [https://www.twitch.tv/envlh Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data], on Twitch, in French, by Envlh, May 8 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #40, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=40 International Workers' Day]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://www.bobdc.com/blog/exploringadataset/ Queries to explore a dataset. Even a schemaless one]
• Papers
• [https://whoseknowledge.org/resource/dti-structured-data-report/ Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report] by WhoseKnowledge
• Videos
• Workshop "Wikidata, Zotero and Cita": tools to understand the construction of knowledge (in Spanish) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYlqIkzu608 YouTube]
• Georeferencing cultural heritage on Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urhUMcQm7g8 YouTube]
• Theory of Machine Learning on Open Data: The Wikidata Case by Goran S. Milovanovic - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg8cjXwg9SM YouTube]
• Introduction to SPARQL (Wikidata Query Service (in Czech) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7LwaJwW1_A YouTube]
• Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdZBB9Zz5fE YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js - is a userscript that adds a button when editing labels to change the text to lowercase.
• [https://equalstreetnames.org/ EqualStreetNames] - is a tool that maps the inequality of name attributions.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• OpenRefine is running its [https://openrefine.limesurvey.net/155968 two-yearly user survey]! Do you use OpenRefine? Then [https://openrefine.limesurvey.net/155968 fill in the survey] to tell us how and why you use OpenRefine. Results and outcomes will inform future decisions about the tool.
• The April update for the Wikidata Query Service scaling project is now available.
• [https://twitter.com/nichtich/status/1519687758780014597 Wikidata now contains all major integrated library systems listed at Library Technology Guides].
• [https://lexeme-forms.toolforge.org/template/bokm%C3%A5l-verb-passive/ Wikidata Lexeme Forms has a new template for Norwegian Bokmål passive verbs]
• Job opening: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/17915169/PR-Manager-in-Digitale-Technologien?jobDbPVId=45768964&l=en PR Manager in Digital Technologies], software development department - Wikimedia Deutschland

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius, Thai romanization, introduced in, image set, Bill Number
• External identifiers: Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID, OpenStreetMap object, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, DBLP event ID, CNKI institute ID, Woolworths product ID, TEİS ID, FamousFix topic ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, Reflora ID, Hrono.ru article ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, DACS ID (2022), AccessScience ID, settlement area code in Sweden, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, Galaxy Store app ID, Invasive.org species ID, EIA utility ID, Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland (urn.fi) ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: probability distribution related properties, Ladungszahl, Koordinationszahl, danse, Median household income, background of death, Number of housing units, number of reblogs, IBAN banking code, contraindication, incorporated
• External identifiers: PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID, Encyclopedia of ideas, Personality Database person identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, TIME.com author ID, Investopedia term ID, GeoSciML, GeolISS, National Archives of Sweden persistent identifier, Linz DB ID, belfercenter person ID, Data Commons ID, sextpanther person ID, Tüik number, ERR project, MCCP ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/56ye Languages and dialects with number of first language speakers (preferred rank)] ([https://twitter.com/exmusica/status/1519451096531582982 source])
• [https://w.wiki/57XU Graph of influences in the age of Enlightenment] ([https://twitter.com/kvistgaard/status/1520528095589150721 source])
• [https://w.wiki/57dj Countries which are named after a person] ([https://twitter.com/kanedr/status/1520048548745822208 source])
• [https://w.wiki/57XN Number of musical works (compositions) in Wikidata by language, in descending order] ([https://twitter.com/exmusica/status/1520521925906382853 source])

• Development
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/IIEZFOF2F7JUKGM7HSAOC4KXQYMJWWOB/ 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Discussions
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:
• PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another (Approved)

• Events
• Upcoming:
• [https://www.twitch.tv/belett Live editing session on Twitch] about International Museum Day 2022, in French, by Vigneron, May 10 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
• LIVE Wikidata editing #79 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYjML2j2SJE YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3239886972963124/ Facebook], May 14 at 18:00 UTC
• Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #106, May 15 at 12.00 UTC
• The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
• Ongoing:
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #41, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=41 Music]
• [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/International_Museum_Day_2022 International Museum Day Wikidata Competition], 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
• Past:
• Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh: [https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1478281197 video] (French), slides: French, English

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://wikibase.consulting/automating-values-in-wikibase/ Automating Values in Wikibase (new extension)]
• Papers
• [https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/papers/WikiWorkshop2022_paper_29.pdf Building a Knowledge Graph of Events and Consequences Using Wikipedia and Wikidata]
• Videos
• Working with the Automated Values extension in Wikibase - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO58wulCFVU YouTube]
• Bringing IIIF Manifests to life in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c358_5IolXw YouTube]
• Fun with lexemes. By Mahir256 - [https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1476729630 Twitch]

• Tool of the week
• [https://mapcomplete.osm.be/artwork.html?z=17&lat=-39.8424&lon=-73.23&language=en#node/9702109212 MapComplete] is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees!
• User:Nikki/flag-emoji.css is a userscript that adds emoji flags before items for flags supported by either Noto Color Emoji or BabelStone Flags.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Job opening: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/18061438?l=en Community Communications Manager - Wikibase] at Wikimedia Deutschland.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, CXSMILES, class of property value, finisher, support of a function, probability mass function, probability generating function, Fisher information, characteristic function, cumulative distribution function
• External identifiers: Investopedia term ID, fanvue creator ID, Encyclopedia of Ideas ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, WhoSampled track ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, French Inspector General for Education (1802-1914) identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, Hmoegirl ID, English Everipedia ID, GeoSciML ID, Présent author ID, Data Commons ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: beteiligte Parteien, ligament insertion, proper motion components, distributed from, IBAN banking code, contains statistical territorial entity
• External identifiers: The Israeli Directors Guild id, Twitter moment ID, Muziekweb composition ID, TOBuilt ID, Afisha.ru movie ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Baidu Scholar paper ID, ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, Chocolatey Community Package, IRIS Emilia-Romagna IDs, Kubbealti Lugati term ID, Kinokolo.ua film ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Twitter list ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/58H4 List of French public administrations with an open data portal, a siren number (P1616) and a servicepublic id (P6671)] ([https://teamopendata.org/t/identifiant-unique-de-portails-de-donnees/3647/21 source])
• [https://w.wiki/58zt Largest cities with a female mayor] ([https://twitter.com/kvistgaard/status/1523523388064604164 source])
• [https://w.wiki/597c Reach of Twitter accounts on Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/GereonKalkuhl/status/1523236263662612481 source])
• [https://w.wiki/589z Which works published in the 1970s have been most cited from works on archaeology?] ([https://twitter.com/RichardNevell/status/1521862536932597761 source])
• Newest WikiProjects:
• Wikidata:WikiProject Slovakia

• 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Events
• Upcoming:
• The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c_6b0IEsCXqh6nMgct4VHsJQFyT_wrb3L1N5cea3J2s/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
• LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LO_JwNUZNw YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3244367102515111/ Facebook], May 21 at 18:00 UTC
• Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108, May 22 at 12.00 UTC
• 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a [https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2022/session-list/#int19%20the%20role%20of%20the%20wikimedia%20ecosystem%20in%20linking%20biodiversity%20data session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"]
• Ongoing:
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=42 Constitution Day, Norway]
• [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/International_Museum_Day_2022 International Museum Day Wikidata Competition], 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://datengraben.com/posts/2022-05-05-wikidata-datawrapper-regionalzeitungen/ Regional newspaper map with datawrapper and Wikidata]
• Papers
• CAS Common Chemistry in 2021: Expanding Access to Trusted Chemical Information for the Scientific Community (Q111987319)
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.01833.pdf OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts] ([https://openalex.org/ tool])
• Videos
• How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8nh03wu4Cg YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [https://guessr.blinry.org/?Q117 Wikidata Guesser] allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Job opening: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/18061438?l=en Community Communications Manager - Wikibase] at Wikimedia Deutschland.
• The [https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/wikidata/wikidata-community Wikidata community onboarding] documentation by [https://wikiedu.org/ Wiki Education].

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: quantile function, mean of a probability distribution, median of a probability distribution, mode of a probability distribution, dance, variance of a probability distribution, skewness, excess kurtosis, information entropy, moment-generating function
• External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID, GeolISSTerm ID, TIME.com author ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: Similar web ranking
• External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID, TamTam chat ID, PM20 ware ID, ANR project ID, HeHaCham HaYomi id, Delaware Department of State file number, JBIS horse ID, Camp Wild

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/59dS List of oldest cryptocurrencies]
• [https://w.wiki/59tq Scottish rivers that merge to make a river with a new name] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1524799946280652800 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5ASw List of candidates in the French legislative elections] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/5ATF List of people with Elisabeth, Élisabeth or Elizabeth as first name] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/5AFE Wikimedians with a Twitch channel] ([https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1525382998006308873 source])

• Development
• REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Discussions
• New request for comments: Use of dates in the descriptions of items regarding humans

• Events
• Upcoming:
• 6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
• 29 July 2022: The submission deadline for [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1emcO2v29TmwCFQ_6h9MAwPiKDmq--GZR-ilfwJMEMKo/edit?usp=sharing the Wikidata Workshop 2022] that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
• Ongoing:
• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #43, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=43 Towel Day]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Videos
• Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUoOpeUhRc YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [https://lod4culture.gsic.uva.es LOD4Culture] is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• [https://www.wikimedia.de/unlock/application/ 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: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/18061438?l=en Community Communications Manager - Wikibase] at Wikimedia Deutschland.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: Similarweb ranking
• External identifiers: Chocolatey Community package ID, Twitter moment ID, Kino-kolo film ID, netkeiba horse ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: has vector, ECLI court code, Mirror image, Norges Nasjonalmuseum Creator ID
• External identifiers: Radio France person ID, ORKG ID, Authority control/Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici id, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, TVG Programme Identifier, CPRF person ID, New Mexico Digital Collections identifier, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, Lithuania Minor encyclopedia ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/5BLV Relationships of Roman deities] ([https://twitter.com/kvistgaard/status/1527046255326683136 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5Asb Ingrediants of dishes on Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/larswillighagen/status/1526290242092814340 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5BmR Food names after a place in the UK] ([https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1527781394650476544 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5AsG French heads of government classified by tenure] ([https://twitter.com/daieuxdailleurs/status/1526283304479215621 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5BhM Places in Antarctica over 3000km away from the South Pole]
• [https://w.wiki/5C6b Topics that members of the Swedish Parliament motioned about 2020/21] ([https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1528426250737528835 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5BvV Albums with more than one language statement where none has preferred rank] ([https://twitter.com/exmusica/status/1528121917802151936 source])

• 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 [http://WBstack.com WBstack.com] accounts successfully migrated to [http://Wikibase.cloud 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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!

• Events
• Upcoming:
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pjuabqUARaxr2kaRodikVx0zBznyZ0kicvcajDPpy98/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
• Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #110, June 5 at 12.00 UTC

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://pointstodots.wordpress.com/2022/05/25/the-evolution-of-a-wikidata-sparql-query-for-taxon-names/ The evolution of a Wikidata SPARQL query for taxon names], by Tiago Lubiana
• Papers
• The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research (Q112143478)
• Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles in The Signpost. The article using Wikidata's SPARQL queries to measure gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.
• Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles? in The Signpost (February 2022)
• Videos
• [https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1310601000 Replay of the livestream "Even more fun with Lexemes" by Mahir256]

• Tool of the week
• Template Item documentation is now automatically displayed in the header of each item's talk page via MediaWiki:Talkpageheader.

• 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!
• [https://inforapid.org/webapp/webapp.php?shareddb=PulDm8q7r4LSkXKeE0zXR47udr6DrhGY4lHDP22rKccZoupt6mBESe9ZU9qWg6GTtilsS1CS8ri6IT2dTLGYlnSROrukLvuK Radioactivity map]: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: candidate position
• External identifiers: Lithuanian company code, Afisha.ru movie ID, art is next artist ID, Gun Violence Archive ID, HeHaCham HaYomi ID, CPNI ID, Collection Hermann Göring DB ID, Radio France person ID, ANR project ID, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Umanity horse ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes: number of versions, voting age (reproposed), code dans la Classification centrale des produits, identificador WikiBurgos, orchestrator
• External identifiers: HaBama person id, Odnoklassniki album ID, WorldCat Entities ID, BRUZZ topic ID, BRUZZ place ID, CBC Gem ID, MAYA site company id, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Plex GUID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Liquipedia ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID, Ozon person identifier

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/5DLD List of candidates for the next French legislative elections] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1530563510840741888?t=l0De456aqy2DLnYnd6c7QA&s=19 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5DYV Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Élisabeth or Elisabeth in Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1531140106366623745?t=EnqYfU_9NfSq4zkve5_5tg&s=19 source])
• [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABarChart%0A%23Percentage%20of%20films%20passing%20the%20Bechdel%20test%20by%20genre.%20Including%20films%20that%20pass%20dubiously%2C%20rarely%20or%20contentiously%0A%23Some%20items%20have%20more%20than%20one%20test%20result%20%28e.g.%20in%20contentious%20cases%29%0A%23To%20pass%20the%20Bechdel%20test%20a%20film%20must%20fulfill%20all%20of%20three%20criteria%3A%201%29%20feature%20two%20women%202%29%20who%20talk%20to%20each%20other%203%29%20about%20something%20else%20than%20a%20man%0ASELECT%20%3FgenreLabel%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%2F%20%3Fitem_count%20AS%20%3Fshare%29%20%28xsd%3Astring%28%3Fitem_count%29%20AS%20%3Fnumber_of_films_with_test_data%29%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%3Fitem%20%3Fbechdel_result%20WHERE%7B%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fgenre%20%7Bwd%3AQ1762165%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21802675%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ40831%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5937792%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21010853%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ132311%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ1196408%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ16575965%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ842256%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ6585139%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ19765983%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ24925%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ182015%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ111956902%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21590660%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20ps%3AP5021%20wd%3AQ4165246%3B%20pq%3AP9259%20%3Fbechdel_result.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP5021%20%3Fst%3B%20wdt%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fgenre%3B%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%20AS%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0AWITH%20%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fitem_count%29%20WHERE%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%0A%7D%20AS%20%25item_count_by_genre%0AWHERE%20%7B%0AINCLUDE%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0AINCLUDE%20%25item_count_by_genre%0AFILTER%28%3Fbechdel_result%20IN%20%28wd%3AQ105773168%29%29%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FgenreLabel%20%3Fitem_count%0A Percentage of films passing the Bechdel test by genre] / [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABarChart%0A%23Percentage%20of%20films%20passing%20the%20%22reverse%20Bechdel%20Test%22%20by%20genre.%20Including%20films%20that%20pass%20dubiously%2C%20rarely%20or%20contentiously%0A%23Some%20items%20have%20more%20than%20one%20test%20result%20%28e.g.%20in%20contentious%20cases%29%0A%23To%20pass%20the%20reverse%20Bechdel%20test%20a%20film%20must%20fulfill%20all%20of%20three%20criteria%3A%201%29%20feature%20two%20men%202%29%20who%20talk%20to%20each%20other%203%29%20about%20something%20else%20than%20a%20woman%0ASELECT%20%3FgenreLabel%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%2F%20%3Fitem_count%20AS%20%3Fshare%29%20%28xsd%3Astring%28%3Fitem_count%29%20AS%20%3Fnumber_of_films_with_test_data%29%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%3Fitem%20%3Fr_bechdel_result%20WHERE%7B%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fgenre%20%7Bwd%3AQ1762165%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21802675%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ40831%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5937792%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21010853%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ132311%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ1196408%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ16575965%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ842256%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ6585139%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ19765983%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ24925%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ182015%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ111956902%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21590660%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20ps%3AP5021%20wd%3AQ105776216%3B%20pq%3AP9259%20%3Fr_bechdel_result.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP5021%20%3Fst%3B%20wdt%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fgenre%3B%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%20AS%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0AWITH%20%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fitem_count%29%20WHERE%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%0A%7D%20AS%20%25item_count_by_genre%0AWHERE%20%7B%0AINCLUDE%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0AINCLUDE%20%25item_count_by_genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fr_bechdel_result%20IN%20%28wd%3AQ105773168%29%29%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FgenreLabel%20%3Fitem_count%0A percentage of films passing the reverse Bechdel test by genre]
• [https://w.wiki/5Ddo Timeline of the start of pride parades from 1970] ([https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1530480013648199683 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5CyT Top 100 genes with most genetic associations on Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1529825153214914564 source])
• [https://w.wiki/5Ddr Biennales that aren’t biennial] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1528878945923473409 source])

• 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, [https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/rest_adr_0003.html 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 [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority 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
• Suggested and open tasks!
• 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!