Wikidata:Status updates/2022 08 08

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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2022-08-08.

Discussions

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  • Upcoming
    • Wikimania 2022, August 11 to 14, online event. (The Hackathon will take place August 12-14). On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 12-14! There are still lots of spots in the schedule to add your Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image data from Wikidata. Agenda.
  • Ongoing
    • Wikimedia Indonesia's Wikidata edit-a-thon (datathon) for the 77th anniversary of the Indnesian Independence Day started on 5th August and will be held until 12th August. Participants are instructed to edit items containing the statement country of origin (P495): Indonesia (Q252).
    • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #53, Sheep
  • Past
    • First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited items on Indonesian ethnic groups.

Tool of the week

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  • Wiki tools - adds dozens of Wikipedia and Wikidata functions to your Google sheets.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Did you know?

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Development

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  • Lexicographical data:
    • Continuing to address feedback from the testing (e.g. phab:T312292, phab:T313113, phab:T313466)
    • We have pushed back replacing Special:NewLexeme with the new Special:NewLexemeAlpha a bit to address more of the testing feedback.
  • Continuing to tackle allowing sitelinks to redirects under some circumstances (phab:T278962)
  • REST API:
    • Finishing up the endpoints for removing and replacing statements and adding authentication and authorization to them
    • Looking into feedback from first testing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help out, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks

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