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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #457

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber (unsussesful)
- New request for comments: P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as main statements

Events
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 2 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube, Facebook, March 6
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #52, March 7
- Upcoming: Wikidata bug triage hour about Lexemes, March 22nd
- Upcoming: Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New Brunswick. One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogpost: Wikidata and Correspondence Archives (Enriching basic metadata with a knowledge graph)
- Blogpost: The promise of Wikidata - How journalists can use the crowdsourced open knowledge base as a data source (at DataJournalism.com)
- Video: Accra Archive Wikidata and Wikipedia Workshop (GLAMS Campaign Ghana) - YouTube
- Video: COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Identify and describe items of bibliographic interest (articles, monographs, authors) on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
- Video: Visualizing the global research ecosystem via Wikidata and Scholia - YouTube
- Video: Demo: How to upload new bibliography and create dashboards on Wikidata - YouTube
- Video: Reconciliation Open Refine Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
- Video: Reconciling researchers to Wikidata via Google Sheets - YouTube
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) - YouTube
- Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) - YouTube

Tool of the week
- EditSum, a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js, is a userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's Babel box).
- User:Lucas Werkmeister/addStatementCountsToCategories.js, is a userscript that shows the number of statements of the linked item for all pages in a category.
- Shared Citations, a proposal arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
- Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite women.
- Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata dumps containing Items and Properties. phab:T264883
- We found a way to improve the performance of scrolling on the Item page by changing how we move the Property labels as you scroll through the page. You should see the effect after the next deployment.
- BBC Things includes links to Wikidata to provide a single reference for the growing collection of entities that matter to the BBC and their audiences.

Did you know?

Development
- Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in the batch so it's easier to improve them.
- Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to Lexemes later this year.
- Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
- Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain and what should come later.
- Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
- Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them not showing up was very confusing (phab:T124758)
- Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (phab:T271126)
- Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
- Continuing to build out the Query Builder and focusing on input for quantity and date queries (phab:T268942 and phab:T272697)
- Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress here.

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fifteenth newsletter, covering February 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 12, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

Online user group meeting March 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting March 21 (SDG all) [1]
Past: Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [5]
Past: Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [6]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
Upcoming: Wikigap - many events over the entire month of March (SDG 5) [12]
Upcoming: Mozilla festival: What has the Wikimedia movement to do with sustainability? March 10 (SDG all) [22]
Wikimeet India lightning talk: An update from the Sustainability Initiative (video recording) (SDG 13) [9]

News

Building a sustainable Wikipedia (podcast) (SDG all) [3]
Wikipedia-samarbete mellan klimatforskare och gymnasieelever (in Swedish. English title: Wikipedia collaboration between climate scientists and college students) (SDG 13) [4]
Wikipedia’s Sprawling, Awe-Inspiring Coverage of the Pandemic (SDG 3) [10]
Podcast: Sustainababble #205 Wikipedia (SDG all) [21]

Grant proposals
Help by discussing and reviewing these proposals

Expanding the Wikimedia movement in Peru with a focus on ecology, culture and gender (SDG 5 and 15) [8]
Wiki’s global goals (SDG all) [18]
Wiki meets Sustainable Fashion (SDG 12) [19]

Videos

Wikipedia Weekly Network - Live editing Wikipedia: Biodiversity edition #1 (SDG 15) [11]
COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata (SDG 3) [20]

New WikiProjects

Wikiproyecto:Cambio climático (SDG 13) [7]
WikiProject Brazilian Laws (SDG 16) [15]

Featured content

Featured article: Smooth newt (SDG 15) [23]

New Wikidata properties

number of vaccinations (SDG 3) [13]
Open Tree of Life ID (SDG 15) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Endemic birds in a place located in France (SDG 15) [14]
Most specific taxon that includes two given species (SDG 15) [16]

Links

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

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Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #458

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Events
- Past: SORSE - Wikidata as a research tool for data modelling and integration in the humanities (replay on YouTube)
- Past: Open Data Day Taiwan 2021 2021-03-06 , Taipei (Q1867), Taichung (Q245023), Tainan (Q140631) and online stream (FB and Youtube)
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-03-08 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.[1]
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook, March 13
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #53, March 14

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - "Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
- Papers
  - Open Natural Products Research: Curation and Dissemination of Biological Occurrences of Chemical Structures through Wikidata
  - A paper describing COVIWD: COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard
- Videos
  - Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
  - Working hour on items of bibliographic interest in Wikidata (in Italian) -YouTube
  - Open Data Day Taiwan 2021 -Youtube Live
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #34 Open Data Day - YouTube, Facebook

Tool of the week
- Panoviewer.js inserts an iframe from the Panoviewer tool to photosphere image (P4640) statements.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata has now items about nine million people: 99,991,000,000 to do (project chat)
- A new browser for Wikidata is available: the SLING knowledge base browser by User:Mringgaard. It is lightning fast and entirely based on modern Web components.
- Help choose focus languages for improvements to the lexicographic extension of Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia. Nominations should be submitted by April 7, and the decision will be made by April 14 by the teams taking your comments into account.
- Help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting ends before Monday March 15th 23:59 UTC.
- PetScan can now generate KML map overlay data. E.g. University towns in Germany. (Map view)

Did you know?

Development
- Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
- Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (phab:T199896)
- Continuing to work on the Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
- Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:00, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #459

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Minorax (RfP scheduled to end after 19 March 2021 11:23 UTC)

Events
- Upcoming: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, from March 15th to April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
  - March 15: Kickstart and open discussion about lexicographical data
  - March 16: SPARQL queries about Lexemes (in French) with Vigneron
  - March 17: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
  - March 20: Live editing on Lexemes with Ainali and Abbe98
  - March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #54, March 21
- Upcoming: Wikidata - The Linked Open Data Platform Everyone Can Contribute To (Public talk) - Registration link

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
  - OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taiwan Meetup Record - Odysee
  - RDF data model of Wikidata - YouTube
  - OpenRefine / SPARQL editing session with Saint-Raymond Museum in Toulouse. By VIGNERON - YouTube
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook
  - An initial look at the TopicTagger tool for Wikidata - YouTube

Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/LexemeToggleSections.js script allows to expand/collapse the sections on lexeme pages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Plant Humanities Lab is a website you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
- DX Lab Art Index is an interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over 10 years.
- The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a pre-production test server for feedback. Available at https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details here.
- Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than 2021-03-22.

Did you know?

Development
- Continued working on the Query Builder and focused on querying for quantity values (phab:T268942), handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (phab:T274634) adding tooltips (phab:T275542) and sharing a visual query (phab:T272887)
- Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make more pages accessible through interwiki links (phab:T165061)
- Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (phab:T275999)
- Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity API module (phab:T199896)

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:11, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #460

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Discussions
- New request for comments: Signed Statements (T138708)

Events
- Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
  - March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
  - March 23: SPARQL querying for Lexemes with Vigneron
  - March 24: Open discussion in French about Lexemes
  - March 25: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
  - March 27: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata, with Poslovitch
- Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 25 March 2021 (Add to calendar). This month we will have a team member from Enslaved.org talk to us briefly about how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) with the help of Wikibase (due of technical challenges they couldn't join us last time). Everyone is welcome to attend the call.
- Upcoming: The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is taking place remotely on June 24-25, and focusing on indigenous and underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects. The call for submissions is now open until April 15th, if you want to present something related to Wikidata and languages, feel free to apply.
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Members of the EthicsLD Group will be leading a discussion on ethics in linked data, Tuesday, March 23rd.[2]
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook, March 27
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #55, March 28

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
  - Intercessory Rote Prayer, Life Longevity and the Mortality of Roman Catholic Bishops: An Exploratory Study (Using Wikidata to study whether prayers have an effect)
- Videos
  - Wikidata Taiwan @ g0v tw hackath43n - Youtube
  - Live editing lexemes YouTube, Facebook
  - Live editing lexemes (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
  - Wikidata international women's rights day SPARQL queries (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
  - Introduction to Wikidata by Peteforsyth - YouTube

Tool of the week
- Sparql_rc is a recent changes feed that only shows you changes in an area of Wikidata you care about. It now also supports Lexemes.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Portuguese nouns
  - masculine
  - feminine
- erinnerungshort.de/kap/ is a data and photo research project and map visualization tool with federated license query from Structured Commons, by Raymond and Elya.
- ~7500 person items have been enriched with the new property GEPRIS person ID (P4872), imported from a high quality dataset from the Q707283.

Did you know?

Development
- Work on the first version of the Query Builder is nearing its end. Doing remaining work on querying for quantities, dates and ranges as well as polishing and bug fixing.
- Made Cognate work correctly for redirects on Wiktionary (phab:T165061)
- Fixed an issue where the termbox on Item pages used the wrong list of languages on the mobile version (phab:T275611)
- Cleaned up deleted Items from the term store database table (phab:T263730)
- Got feedback on the initial click-dummies for checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find mismatches

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:15, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

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The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #461

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Minorax, welcome onboard!

Events
- Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
  - March 30: Live SPARQL queries about Lexemes in French by Vigneron
  - March 30: Abstract Wikipedia & Lexemes Q&A with Denny Vrandečić
  - April 1: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
  - April 5-11: Climate Lexeme Week
  - April 5: Abstract Wikipedia & Lexemes Q&A with Denny Vrandečić
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #38 - YouTube, Facebook, April 3
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #56, April 4
- Upcoming: WikiCommons metadata analysis tool is intended to be developed at the online hackathon at hack.glam.opendata.ch, 16-17 April 2021

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - Dataroundtripping Wikidata - Wikicommons - Runestones pictures
- Papers
  - FAIR and open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata and Wikipedia
  - Painel de informação sobre a COVID-19: consultas SPARQL na Wikidata (Portuguese)
- Videos
  - Live Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook
  - Live SPARQL queries on Lexemes by Vigneron (in English): on Youtube

Tool of the week
- d:User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js userscript is a proper entity suggester that gives a fixed set of properties for various languages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Sitelinks links for two new Wikipedias can be entered: Atayal Wikipedia (Q105723660) and Seediq Wikipedia (Q105975521)

Did you know?

Development
- The dev team spent the last week prototyping a few things to learn if some things would be feasible/a good idea. Among other things we tried building a small tool to connect Senses to Items, looked into the different types of ontology issues that can be found on Wikidata and checked what using a document store for data storage would look like.
- Note: from March 29th until April 12th, Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) is not available to answer messages. If you have any requests for the development team, please ask on Contact the development team. For any emergency, you can contact Lea Lacroix (WMDE). Because of Easter holidays in Germany, the upcoming newsletter will be issued one day later, on April 6th.

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:49, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our sixteenth newsletter, covering March 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 11, 13 and 15. This month we handed in our first annual activity report. [7]

Meetings

Online user group meeting April 4 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting April 18 (SDG all) [1]
Past: Online user group meeting March 7 (SDG all) [5]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
Upcoming: Climate Lexeme Week 5-11 April (SDG 13) [4]
Upcoming: #WikiForHumanRights 2021: Right to a healthy environment (SDG all) [20]

News

Podcast on the Wikimedia Sustainability Initiative (SDG 13) [8]

Research

Global biodiversity awareness tracked with Wikipedia page views (SDG 15) [3]
COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard (SDG 3) [10]
Painel de informação sobre a COVID-19: consultas SPARQL na Wikidata (Portuguese) (SDG 3) [15]

Videos

What has the Wikimedia movement to do with sustainability? (SDG 13) [6]
COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata (SDG 3) [9]

New Wikidata properties

NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID (SDG 15) [11]
Cephalopod Ontology ID (SDG 15) [12]
Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID (SDG 11) [16]
Ministry of Education New Zealand school ID (SDG 4) [17]
Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology ID (SDG 15) [18]

New Wikidata query examples

COVID-19 external Identifier URLs in Wikidata (SDG 3) [13]
Map of places in iNaturalist (SDG 15) [14]
Listed buildings in Wales that would be lost if the sea level rose by 70 metres (SDG 11) [19]

Links

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March 2021 Newsletter

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This is our sixteenth newsletter, covering March 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 11, 13 and 15. This month we handed in our first annual activity report. [7]

Meetings

Online user group meeting April 4 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting April 18 (SDG all) [1]
Past: Online user group meeting March 7 (SDG all) [5]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
Upcoming: Climate Lexeme Week 5-11 April (SDG 13) [4]
Upcoming: #WikiForHumanRights 2021: Right to a healthy environment (SDG all) [20]

News

Podcast on the Wikimedia Sustainability Initiative (SDG 13) [8]

Research

Global biodiversity awareness tracked with Wikipedia page views (SDG 15) [3]
COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard (SDG 3) [10]
Painel de informação sobre a COVID-19: consultas SPARQL na Wikidata (Portuguese) (SDG 3) [15]

Videos

What has the Wikimedia movement to do with sustainability? (SDG 13) [6]
COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata (SDG 3) [9]

New Wikidata properties

NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID (SDG 15) [11]
Cephalopod Ontology ID (SDG 15) [12]
Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID (SDG 11) [16]
Ministry of Education New Zealand school ID (SDG 4) [17]
Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology ID (SDG 15) [18]

New Wikidata query examples

COVID-19 external Identifier URLs in Wikidata (SDG 3) [13]
Map of places in iNaturalist (SDG 15) [14]
Listed buildings in Wales that would be lost if the sea level rose by 70 metres (SDG 11) [19]

Links

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

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The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #462

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Events
- Past NIH Virtual Workshop on InChI (Q106114408): "InChI and InChIKey in Wikidata and Scholia", https://zenodo.org/record/4633789
- Ongoing: 30 Lexic-o-days, events and projects around lexicographical data, continues until April 14th. (full schedule, details and links here)
  - April 5-11: Climate Lexeme Week
  - April 7: Data import for Lexemes: how to add a lot of content in your language
  - April 8: Documentation Q&A
  - April 8: Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data
  - April 10: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Cliff Landis (Digital Initiatives Librarian, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library) on “GaNCH: Using Wikidata for Georgia's Natural, Cultural, and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response.” April 6th.[3]
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook, April 10
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #57, April 11
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-04-12 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws (English), supported by WikiCite, April 13
- Upcoming: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas / shape expressions, April 19
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Aplicativos de metadados (Portuguese), on metadata apps, April 29

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - Adicionando cientistas ao sistema Wikidata/Scholia (Portuguese)
- Papers
  - Mining Wikidata for Name Resources for African Languages "fostering development of technology for the languages of Africa with a Wikidata-derived resource of lists of 1.9M names across 28 African languages".
- Videos
  - SPARQL queries around lexemes, words, lexicography (in French) by VIGNERON - YouTube
  - Editing lexemes on Wikidata (in Swedish) by Ainali - YouTube
  - WikiActivate sessions introduction to Wikidata - YouTube 1, 2
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #38 - YouTube, Facebook
  - Launch of Climate Lexeme Week (Youtube, Facebook)

Tool of the week
- QRank is a tool providing a rank for Wikidata entities based on page view statistics from several Wikimedia projects.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The final version of the Wikibase Yearly Summary 2020 has been published.
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports additional Breton templates (Source)
- User:Nikki/LexemeAddIPA.js userscript adds a link in the header for forms on lexeme pages which opens a dialog for adding IPA statements to forms that do not have any yet.
- LexSAOB adds Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) identifiers to Swedish lexemes in Wikidata.

Did you know?

Development
- We continued to make improvements to the Query builder. We worked on adding a footer to the Query Builder (phab:T268643) and showing all relevant columns in the query result (phab:T277646) as well as querying for dates (phab:T272697)
- Fixed a bug where Item pages scrolls back to "In more languages" block after every change of DOM (phab:T277999, being deployed to Wikidata later this week)
- Continued working on a new grafana graph to track editor numbers split by namespace (phab:T275999)
- Finished a small tool to get the ORES quality score for a list of Items. Waiting for deployment to toolforge for broader use now.
- Defined remaining work for redirect sitelink exceptions (phab:T278962)

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

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:21, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #463

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Discussions
- New request for comments: Is it worth to import labels from interlanguage links of other wikipedia projects to wikidata

Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXVII - Gathering and modelling of metadata pertaining to all Brazilian laws. April 13, 14-18 (UTC-3). register
- Upcoming: closing of d:Wikidata:Events/30 lexic-o-days 2021, April 14. If you participated in the contribution month, please drop a line about your work on the outcomes page.
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #40 - YouTube, Facebook, April 17
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #58, April 18
- Upcoming: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas / shape expressions, April 19

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
  - Much more than a mere technology: A systematic review of Wikidata in libraries, by Karim Tharani
- Videos
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook
  - Data imports for Wikidata Lexemes (panel discussion 30 Lexicodays) (Youtube, Commons)
  - Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data (30 Lexicodays) (Youtube, Commons)
  - Wiki2Prop: A Multi-Modal Approach for Predicting Wikidata Properties from Wikipedia - YouTube
  - Wiki World Heritage User Group: Capacity Building Wikidata Training - YouTube

Tool of the week
- EditSum, a user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A simple portal of women that study metabolomics powered by Wikidata
- Do you have any cool Wikidata tips and tricks that you use? Share them with everyone on Twitter under the hashtag #WikidataTips
- Entitree is a graph generator that can display family trees, but also other graphs like taxa or company subsidiaries.
- Royal Trees, powered by Wikidata is an interactive website that shows royal family trees, for all royal families worldwide. See an example of Philip Duke of Edinburgh.

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: personal library at
  - External identifiers: ScoreStorybook company ID, Camptocamp ID, Biblio.com ID, CNN contributor ID, IFVPF ID, Musikasten ID, OregonFlora taxon ID, Demozoo group ID, Image Comics creator ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Commons-Kategorie für Portraits, pH, taxonomic treatment, Degrees day, NBM identifier, size of unit under command, Archdiocese of Liverpool identifier
  - External identifiers: HistoryLink essay number, National Provider Identifier, Singers.com ID, Oregon State Parks ID, Washington State Parks ID, Wikiroute ID, ID v Databázi periodického tisku pro veřejnost, GLEI RAL, OpenCorporates register id, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, hPSCreg ID, Den Danske Ordbog article ID, Den Danske Ordbog idiom ID, Biographia Benedictina ID, Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID, Trap Danmark ID
- Query examples:

Development
- Started research and collecting material for the work on improvements to the Lexeme UI and prepared the first interviews
- Finishing up the work on the first version of the Query Builder. We still need to get the security review before we can deploy it properly. Current state can be tested on the test system.
- Finalized the dashboard to see the number of (active/very active) editors split by namespace. See the graphs at the bottom of this dashboard.
- Continued working on the remaining pieces needed to fully support editing statements on Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199896)

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:57, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #464

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Events
- Past: Wikidata - HackaLOD Online sessions (replay in Dutch)
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, April 20 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alexandra Wong on experiences and workflows for linking archival collections to Wikidata. There will also be a recap of insights from the recent Canadian archivists’ panel on Wikidata by the University and College Archives Special Interest Section (UCASIS) of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA). Agenda, April 20
- Upcoming: Wikipedia Weekley Network - Biodiversity edition: iNaturalist place ID YouTube, Facebook, April 23
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook, April 24
- Upcoming: 25 April - WikidataDays Sessions II, an online editing session dedicated to democracy and political parties, coinciding with the celebration of Freedom Day.
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #59, April 25

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - Wikibase: the Software for Open Data projects
- Videos
  - Structured Data on Commons explained, with Andrew Lih, John Cummings and Pharos (Youtube)
  - Discovering history's notable people (audio). Using Wikidata and Wikipedia as the backbone, this project "construct[s] a new dataset of more than seven million notable individuals across recorded human history".
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #40 - YouTube, Facebook
  - Adding information through EntitySchemas to Wikidata Andra Waagmeester and Jose Labra
  - SPARQL query requests around lexicography mapping] by VIGNERON - YouTube
  - Fast Linking of Mathematical Wikidata Entities in Wikipedia Articles Using Annotation Recommendation - YouTube
  - Wiki2Prop: A Multimodal Approach for Predicting Wikidata Properties from Wikipedia - YouTube
  - Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws - YouTube
  - Librarians and Wikidata. A short tour - YouTube

Tool of the week
- User:So9q/Gadget-CreateNewEntity.js is a userscript to add a "create new item" link in the dropdown menu for when you want to * add an item to a property, but the item does not exist. (recently modified to support lexemes).

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Humaniki March Update: Public Launch of Alpha Release
- Another history of Denelezh
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms no longer automatically redirects you to login, so you can now use edit mode to view the forms of a lexeme in the “right” order. Here is an example.

Did you know?

Development
- Finished work on the support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via the API (phab:T199896)
- Got all feature work done on the first version of the Query Builder. It is now awaiting security review.
- Statements linking to deleted Lexemes now indicate this similar to statements linking to deleted Items (phab:T277089)
- Fixing a bug with misaligned grammatical features after an OOUI update (phab:T278522)
- Finished work on the small tools to get the number of constraints violations and ORES scores for a list of Items. Will publish soon.
- Did interviews with a few people about how they work around lexicographical data
- Selected focus languages for continued work on lexicographical data and Abstract Wikipedia together with Abstract Wikipedia team. The selected ones are Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam and Dagbani. You can read more about it in the Abstract Wikipedia newsletter.
- Gave input to WMF search platform team for a survey draft around the query service in order to better understand how to move forward with improvements

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:30, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
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Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #465

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Discussions
- Other: Scientific papers' labels in other languages than English
Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 28th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel.
- Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
- Upcoming: OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-05-10
- COSCUP 2021 CFP is now open
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 1
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #60, May 2

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- User:Lucas Werkmeister/P642 considered harmful
- New extension: Wikibase EDTF by Professional.Wiki (Demo video)
- Videos
  - OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Meetup #27 - Wikidata Lexeme Teaching - LBRY, Odysee
  - (Workshop) Introduction to Wikidata by Lucie Aimée Kaffee
  - Graphic Possibilities Comics Wikidata Tutorial
  - SPARQL tutorial (in Portuguese)
  - An Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam)
  - Wikidata tutorials in Albanian (1, 2, 3, 4)
  - SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French)
  - (Workshop) #1Lib1Ref on Wikidata
  - Adding an article to Wikidata by DOI (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook
  - Working with Zotero on WiKidata (in Italian) - YouTube

Tool of the week
- User:So9q/AddNewLexemeMenu.js is a userscript that adds a section to the sidebar with links for creating new lexemes.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WMDE built two tools to help editors get a better understanding of the quality of Wikidata's data in a specific area of interest. Try them out and let us know what you think.
  - Item Quality Evaluator
  - Constraint Violation Checker
- Collaborative translation of Cita is now available on translatewiki.net. Cita is a Wikidata addon that adds citations metadata support to Zotero, using cites work (P2860) information from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data. Cita is currently under development with a WikiCite grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and presentation workshops will be held on May 27th (Spanish) and May 31st (English). More info and pre-registration here.
- RaiseWikibase is a tool for speeding up multilingual knowledge graph construction with Wikibase. Among other features, it can be utilized to create a mini Wikibase instance with Wikidata properties in a few minutes.
- SPARQL-Blockly is a tool to visualise and construct SPARQL queries as visual blocks (Wikidata example)
- Wikibase/FAQ is a living document of a list of frequently asked questions about Wikibase. Community members are welcome to contribute to it.
- RIP Liz Marley
Did you know?

Development
- wbeditentity now supports editing statements on Senses (phab:T199896)
- We added syntax highlighting for viewing Entity Schema pages. There is not syntax highlighting for editing of Entity Schemas yet. (phab:T238831)
- Improved the way Lua deals with redirects (phab:T238831)
- Worked on making it possible to add a title to the top of a query visualization via a comment in the SPARQL code (phab:T225883)
- Discussed how to get persistent storage of constraint violations unstuck as this is a prerequisite to making it easier to analyze and query constraint violations (phab:T214362)
- Discussed a high-level plan for how to move forward with checking Wikidata's data against 3rd-party databases
- Finished work on version 1 of the Query Builder. Not it is awaiting security review before we can deploy it.

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

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.
- Take a list of cities in your country, add {{Item documentation}} in the talk page and have fun looking at people born in this place ordered by number of sitelinks. You may have some surprises!
- Help write the next summary!

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #466

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Events
- Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on April 28th. See notes here (English).
- Upcoming: International Museum Day, May 3-18, including a Wikidata competition
- Upcoming: Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 4 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Scholia - Open Bibliometrics for Researchers webinar on Zoom, May 5 at 10h30 UTC (free, but registration needed)
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 8
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #61, May 9
- Upcoming: the next Wikidata bug triage hour will take place on May 17th on the topic of quality constraints
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon, May 22-23. The call for proposals for the program is now open until May 9th for the main track (May 19th for the open rooms) More information

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - WBStack Infrastructure - current deployment and architecture of wbstack.com
- Videos
  - Mix'n'match workshop in (Italian) - YouTube
  - SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French) - YouTube
  - Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Metadata applications (a technical training on the process of metadata applications development) - YouTube
  - Upload workshop (in Dutch) - datacleaning, reconciliation, upload, embed metadata with exiftool & Upload images with Pattypan and link with Wikidata.
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook
  - Overview of all LIVE Wikidata editing episodes including topics and tools used to make search easier

Tool of the week
- Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
- TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
- Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225)

Did you know?

Development
- Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
- Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
- Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
- Worked on/fixed small remaining bugs in the Query Builder (phab:T280505, phab:T279928, phab:T279945)
- Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
- Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
- Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:45, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #466

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Events
- Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on April 28th. See notes here (English).
- Upcoming: International Museum Day, May 3-18, including a Wikidata competition
- Upcoming: Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 4 at 18:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Scholia - Open Bibliometrics for Researchers webinar on Zoom, May 5 at 10h30 UTC (free, but registration needed)
- Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook, May 8
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #61, May 9
- Upcoming: the next Wikidata bug triage hour will take place on May 17th on the topic of quality constraints
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon, May 22-23. The call for proposals for the program is now open until May 9th for the main track (May 19th for the open rooms) More information

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - WBStack Infrastructure - current deployment and architecture of wbstack.com
- Videos
  - Mix'n'match workshop in (Italian) - YouTube
  - SPARQL #Wikidata back to basics (in French) - YouTube
  - Wikidata Lab XXVIII: Metadata applications (a technical training on the process of metadata applications development) - YouTube
  - Upload workshop (in Dutch) - datacleaning, reconciliation, upload, embed metadata with exiftool & Upload images with Pattypan and link with Wikidata.
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook
  - Overview of all LIVE Wikidata editing episodes including topics and tools used to make search easier

Tool of the week
- Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
- TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
- Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225)

Did you know?

Development
- Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
- Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
- Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
- Worked on/fixed small remaining bugs in the Query Builder (phab:T280505, phab:T279928, phab:T279945)
- Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
- Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
- Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12:57, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

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The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

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The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our seventeenth newsletter, covering April 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

Online user group meeting May 2 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting May 16 (SDG all) [1]
Past: Online user group meeting April 4 (SDG all) [9]
Past: Online user group meeting April 18 (SDG all) [10]

Activities

Ongoing: #WikiForHumanRights 2021: Right to a healthy environment, April 15 - May 15 (SDG all) [2]
Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15) Starts in May, check your local end date[8]
Upcoming: Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia, May 8 (SDG all) [21]
Past: LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: “GaNCH: Using Wikidata for Georgia's Natural, Cultural, and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response.” (SDG 11) [3]

News

Interview with Anastasia Petrova, project manager for Wiki Loves Earth international (SDG 15) [11]
Humaniki March Update: Public Launch of Alpha Release (SDG 5) [13]

Videos

Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws (SDG 16) [4]

New Wikidata properties

law digest (SDG 16) [5]
trade union membership rate (SDG 8) [6]
NHS Organisation Data Service ID (SDG 3) [7]
OregonFlora taxon ID (SDG 15) [12]
Indigenous Lands in Brazil ID (SDG 10) [14]
National Database of Laws and Regulations ID (SDG 16) [15]
National Inventory of Dams ID (SDG 7) [16]
Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID (SDG 15) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Coal-fired power plants in Germany (SDG 13) [18]
The number of natural disasters in various countries since 1970 (SDG 11) [19]
Map of about one third of the ancient trees in Bulgaria (SDG 15) [20]

Links

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #467

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Events
- Ongoing
  - Wikidata contest for International Museum from May 3-18 2021
- Upcoming
  - OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-05-10
  - Basics about SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 11 at 18:00 CEST
  - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #62, May 16
  - Wikidata Bug triage hour about constraints, May 17
  - COSCUP 2021 Call For Papers now open
  - Wikimedia Taiwan x NCKUHis Digital humanities Wikidata Workshop National Cheng Kung University (Q706708), 2021-05-29 ~ 2021-05-31

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - WBStack setting changes, Federated properties, Wikidata entity mapping & more (covering some of the recent UI and setting changes that happened on WBStack in the past months by Addshore
  - Academic ancestor graphs from Wikidata
- Papers
  - Roderic D. M. Page, Wikidata and the Bibliography of Life, doi:10.1101/2021.05.04.442638
  - Friederike Ehrhart, et al. Aresource to explore the discovery of rare diseases and their causative genes (Q106708178), doi:10.1038/S41597-021-00905-Y
- Videos
  - SPARQL #Wikidata retour aux bases #3 - YouTube
  - Wikidata, Linked Data… all the data! Knowledge representation for everybody - YouTube
  - Wikidata Nigeria tutorials on YouTube - How to contribute to Wikidata, add statements for streets named after a person
  - SPARQL Wikidata tutorial (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #42 - YouTube, Facebook

Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/Ranker.js adds a link to the Ranker tool next to every property on an entity page.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikibase spring release is now available! This new release is compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 and it contains new features: Federated Properties, WikibaseManifest & Wikibase Pingback.
- May 2021 Query Builder updates: We finished usability testing of new features and incorporated feedback from users including people with visual impairments and RTL languages. It is now possible to query for dates and we're also looking into making the Query Builder discoverable from the Wikidata Query Service.
- Template:Generic queries for filmmakers is a new wikidata template which defines generic SPARQL queries specific for filmmakers.
- Template:Generic queries for occupations is a new wikidata template with generic queries for items of items such as occupations or professions
- Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
Did you know?

Development
- Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (phab:T265296)
- Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (phab:T257494)
- Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (phab:T170401)
- Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (phab:T241422)
- Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (phab:T280627)
- Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (phab:T280779)

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:21, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

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The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

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Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
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Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

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This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #468

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Discussions
- New request for comments:
  - Separating "citations" from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata
  - IP Masking Engagement
- Closed request for comments:
  - Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion). Outcome --> no change to WD:N
  - Inverse constraint on cause-and-effect properties. Outcome --> constraints were removed

Events
- Ongoing:
  - Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to info berd-bw.de
- Upcoming
  - SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mahir Morshed will be discussing Lexemes in Wikidata; Agenda, May 18th.
  - May 21-22, 2021 [4] Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
  - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #63, May 23
  - OpenStreetMap Taiwan x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-06-07 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
  - Hiba Arnaout et al, Negative Knowledge for Open-world Wikidata (full text link)
- Videos
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #44 - YouTube
    - Link to all the Wikipedia Weekly Network/Live Wikidata Editing sessions by Ainali and Abbe98
  - Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons und Wikipedia bearbeiten 2021/001 (in German) - YouTube
  - SPARQL #Wikidata retour aux bases #4 - YouTube
  - How to use Wikidata to list nearby tourist places on a web page (in French) - YouTube
  - How to add lexemes to Wikidata (in Swedish) - YouTube
  - How to edit library data in Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
  - Editing the drawings in the Gambara Bovardi collection at the Levi Foundation in Venice on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube

Tool of the week
- User:Lucas Werkmeister/hyphenation-point.js is a user script that replaces any | characters with U+2027 HYPHENATION POINT when editing hyphenation snaks.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 20k+ DOIs of Chinese language scientific journal articles have now been added to WD, thanks to scraping->validation->matching->quickstatements workflow built by Stevenliuyi (via a WikiCite eScholarship)
- Template:Annotate QID (currently on en. & de.Wikisource) allows names and other terms in texts to be semantically annotated with the equivalent QIDs. sv.Wikisource has a similar template.
- Template:Item documentation displays Template:Generic queries for occupations for items of class occupation (Q12737077) and Template:Generic queries for filmmakers for items with occupation (P106) filmmaker (Q2526255)
- Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.

Did you know?

Development
- Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (phab:T279762)
- Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (phab:T280779)
- Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (phab:T280627)
- Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (phab:T279945)
- Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (phab:T281356)
- Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (phab:T281587)
- Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (phab:T280650)

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Near 6,100 items have the Template:Item documentation in their talk page. Help deploy this template.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:17, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #469

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Events
- Past
  - HackaLOD Online: Estimating the interest of art relationships with Wikidata - YouTube
- Ongoing
  - #1Lib1Ref Campaign by IFLA Wikidata Working Group (May 15 - June 5)
    - #1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy, as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 - June 5); more than 10k references have already been added (see the dashboard for more details)
- Upcoming
  - The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th May 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). Everyone is welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
  - 27/05 (17h UTC): Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process with Ederporto, Pharos e Susannaanas (in English), on YouTube
  - SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 25 at 18:00 CEST
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook, May 29 at 18:00 UTC
  - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #64, May 30
  - LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: The history, present and future of WBStack & WBaas (Wikibase as a service) 27 May 2021, 1PM Eastern US. Please fill in this form to register!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - KELM: Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Language Model Pre-training Corpora. Wikidata was used to generate sentences to train a language model.
  - An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
- Videos

Tool of the week
- User:Jon Harald Søby/compact items.css is a stylesheet that shrinks the vertical space items take up on your screen, reducing the need to scroll to get an overview of an item. (screenshot)

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The prefix [[lexemes:]] allows to link to a search for lexemes on any Wikimedia wiki. Sample: lexemes:describe (project chat announcement).
- The wikidata-lang JS module got a major update, and now makes accessible pre-generated mappings between Wikidata ids, Wikimedia language code (P424), ISO 639-1 code (P218), ISO 639-2 code (P219), ISO 639-3 code (P220), and ISO 639-6 code (P221), that can also be used by non-JS programs by fetching the desired JSON. Examples:
  - mapping of Wikimedia language codes to Wikidata ids
  - mapping of ISO 639-2 to Wikimedia language codes
- Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2021:
  - User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker - Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool, allowing users to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons in bulk
  - Wikidata Lexeme Forms: Portuguese modal adverb - Deployed support for Portuguese modal adverbs in the Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool
  - User:Jon Harald Søby/addSenseImage.js - User script to add images to sense statements on lexemes
  - Wikidata:Tools/Enhance user interface#identifierInput.js - fixing a bug in IdentifierInput.js gadget for Wikidata to better handle when a property has no format restraints

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: type of lens, oral history at, official map URL
  - External identifiers: The Criterion Collection film ID, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Apple TV movie ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, causesanti.va ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, North Carolina session law, #SOSBrutalism ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, Museums in Styria ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts person ID, SOR bird ID, ToateAnimalele ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca entity ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca author ID, OSDN project, Scholasticon person ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: music for work, in sense, academic calendar type
  - External identifiers: Romanistenlexikon ID, Buzer.de law identification, senato.archivioluce.it person ID, Apple TV show ID, Apple TV episode ID, Australian Music Centre work ID, fondoambiente.it ID, Unified book number, GLEI ELF, RBF event ID, Poetsgate poet ID, Badkartan.se ID, Book Owners Online person ID, ifixit device ID, Price One Penny Author ID, Price One Penny Publisher ID, Price One Penny Work ID, Medical Institution Code, AlternativeTo software ID, RoBasketballFed IDs, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Enciclopedia della Matematica ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Doctor Who episodes (new series)

Development
- Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need fixing
- Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (phab:T281468)
- Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (phab:T281272)
- Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that Property's constraint (phab:T280650)
- Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items where they shouldn't be (phab:T281587)

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
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Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #470

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Discussions
- Closed request for comments:
  - Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous. Outcome: New model adopted, documentation updated.

Events
- Past
  - Wikibase Community User Group monthly meetings- May 2021
  - How to add references on Wikidata (# 1Lib1Ref 2021) - working hour (2)
  - SPARQL #Wikidata divers
    - Session du mardi 18 mai
    - Session du mardi 25 mai
- Upcoming
  - SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 1 at 18:00 CEST
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Affinity Group Co-facilitators will recap the last year, introduce plans for the coming year, and receive suggestions from the community for future sessions.; [5], June 1st.
  - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #65, June 6
  - Meta meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group, to solve issues related to its affilation to the Wikimedia Foundation, June 9
  - Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about quality constraints, June 17

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
  - Mapping of ImageNet and Wikidata for Knowledge Graphs Enabled Computer Vision
- Videos
  - Wikidata Lab XXIX: Roundtripping process
  - Use of VanderBot Wikidata API writing script (testing)
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #45 - YouTube, Facebook

Tool of the week
- User:So9q/ordia-link.js - is a script to add a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call to participation in interview study to building a recommender system that can help improve the editing experience in Wikidata: Researchers at King's College London develop a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. The researchers are inviting volunteers to interview them about their current ways to choose the items you work on in order to understand the factors that might influence such a decision.
- dewiki considered, but rejected the introduction of local short descriptions to replace those from Wikidata
- User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js was improved to now
  - automatically suggests the existing senses/forms when using demonstrates sense/form
  - automatically suggests items (based on the lemma matching the label or an alias) when using item for this sense
  - and searches for lemmas exactly matching the input when using synonym, antonym, hyperonym or pertainym

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: district heating grid
  - External identifiers: DiVA authority-person, CDep.Ro NGO ID, WUA author ID, hush.am person ID, Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID, What Works Clearinghouse study ID, PoetsGate poet ID, Repositório da Produção da USP person ID, ctext data entity ID, Australian Music Centre work ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Martian coordinates, gobbledygook
  - External identifiers: Nevada Women's History Project ID, AADFI member ID, Bod-Inc Online author ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Price One Penny Periodical ID, Price One Penny Library ID, composers.am person ID, armradioarchive.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, AZGS Document Repository ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, PAS member ID, ℒoviℱm Top Songs ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800-2000) ID, BIU Santé image bank ID, cadastral plot in France, Internet Game Database developer ID, allabolag.se person ID, Olschki author ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Fresnel lenses of lighthouses

Development
- Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240)
- Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356)
- Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689)
- Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
- Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
- Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (phab:T283576)

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
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Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

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The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our eighteenth newsletter, covering May 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 9, 13 and 15. This month we especially saw a lot of new identifiers for different species in Wikidata, making it easier to use Wikidata as a hub and look up and compare species in different databases.

Meetings

Online user group meeting June 6 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting June 20 (SDG all) [1]
Past: Online user group meeting May 16 (SDG all) []

Activities

Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15) [2]
Past: Sharing lessons & results from the Spanish Wikiproject Climate change first edit-a-thon for Earth Day (SDG 13) [3]
Past: Sustainable Development Goals: Edit-a-thon for the Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia (20 years of Portuguese Wikipedia cellebrations) (SDG all) [4]

News

Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225) (SDG 15) [6]

New Wikidata properties

degrees day (SDG 13) [5]
Oregon Flora Image Project ID (SDG 15) [7]
MyBIS species ID (SDG 15) [8]
IUCN Green List ID (SDG 15 [9]
OpenCorporates register ID (SDG 9) [10]
MyBIS protected area ID (SDG 15) [11]
Danish 2010 redlist identifier (SDG 15) [12]
Microlepidoptera.nl ID (SDG 15) [13]
North Carolina session law (SDG 16) [15]
SOR bird ID (SDG 15) [16]
ToateAnimalele ID (SDG 15) [17]
Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID (SDG 15) [21]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation categories (SDG 15) [14]
Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020 (SDG 3) [18]
Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title (SDG 3) [19]
Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle (SDG 15) [20]

Links

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Wikidata weekly summary #471

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

Events
- Past:
  - Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 (replay) "Wikidata Live Querying" by Lucas Werkmeister
  - SPARQL #Wikidata Préfixes 1/2 (in French) - YouTube
- Upcoming:
  - Meta meeting of the Wikibase Community User Group, Wednesday, June 9, 16:00 UTC
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #46 - YouTube, Facebook, June 12 at 18:00 UTC
  - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #66, June 13
  - (Dutch) 16 june 2021, 15.00-16.30 CEST, "Universiteitsbibliotheek: Bijzondere Collecties zichtbaar en vindbaar maken in Wikidata", during "Digitaal Erfgoed @UM | zichtbaar, bruikbaar, houdbaar"

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - "Wikidata and R: a perfect pair" by Evolution and evolvability and Canley. A WikiCite eScholarship.
  - "Brazil’s Laws: Modeling the Brazilian legislation in Wikidata", by Ederporto. A WikiCite project grant project.
- Papers
  - (Preprint) KGPool: Dynamic Knowledge Graph Context Selection for Relation Extraction (Wikidata dataset used in evaluation)
  - (Article) “Wikidata Projects in Times of COVID-19: IUPUI Libraries’ Engagement in Open Knowledge”
  - (Presentation) Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties by User:Jsamwrites at Contribuling
- Videos
  - Understanding data import into Wikidata via Quickstatements (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  - Workshop for "Cita": a Wikidata addon for Zotero, hosted by Diegodlh - English & en español. A WikiCite grant project.
  - Wikidata: Municipalities of Romania + a map of places in Kuopio - YouTube
  - Wikidata Editing training (in Tamil) - YouTube
  - Excursus: Wikidata Knowledge Graph - YouTube

Tool of the week
- Wikidata Image Positions is a tool to show and add relative position within image (P2677) qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata items as areas on the item’s image (P18).

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: none
  - External identifiers: Badkartan.se ID, Eionet bathingWaterIdentifier, ifixit device ID, AlternativeTo software ID, Price One Penny author ID, Nevada Women's History Project ID, Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica ID, Price One Penny work ID, Price One Penny library ID, Price One Penny publisher ID, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800–2000) ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, Romanistenlexikon ID, composers.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, armradioarchive.am person ID, PANGO lineage code, AZGS Document Repository ID, AADFI member ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Romanian diplomatic mission ID, Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID, PAS member ID, fondoambiente.it ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: Range, not found in, LdiF person ID, board game mechanism, Date of resignation
  - External identifiers: DIP-ID, Castforward ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID, EBAF ID, FCCOS ID, Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID, TBDB ID, cirkev.cz bohoslužby ID, Ropiky.net pillbox ID, GCD creator ID
- Query examples:

Development
- You can now add a title to a query visualisation by adding #title:YourTitle to your SPARQL code (phab:T225883, example query with a title)
- Added a new constraints type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes of a certain language (phab:T200689)
- Working on not checking the format constraints via SPARQL to take that load off the SPARQL endpoint and make it technically better (phab:T176312)
- Working on making the API-Sandbox not suggest edits to real Items (phab:T219215)

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #472

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Events
- Past
  - SPARQL #Wikidata Préfixes 2/2 (session 8) - YouTube
  - Open Repositories 2021: Wikidata Integration with Repository Contents - YouTube
  - Information Service Engineering 2021
    - SPARQL complex queries, SPARQL aggregation and variable assignment, Wikidata SPARQL examples
    - SPARQL Federated Queries, DBpedia and Wikidata, SPARQL query aggregation and variable assignment
- Upcoming
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Diego de la Hera on Cita, a Wikidata add-on for Zotero. Agenda, June 15
  - Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about quality constraints, June 17
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, June 19 at 18:00 UTC
  - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #67, June 20
  - OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-07-05

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
  - Gateway into Linked Data: Breaking silos with Wikidata - YouTube
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #46 - YouTube, Facebook

Tool of the week
- SPARQL Jupyter notebooks in PAWS: PAWS is a wikitech services which allows to run Jupyter notebooks. There is a SPARQL kernel which makes it possible to run SPARQL queries. See this example notebook.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future.
- WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata. Information about "the conference theme, its three-day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself".
- The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: personality trait of fictional character
  - External identifiers: Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800–2000) ID, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID, Romanistenlexikon ID, composers.am person ID, Armeniapedia ID, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction, armradioarchive.am person ID, PANGO lineage code, AZGS Document Repository ID, AADFI member ID, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID, Erfgoedkaart ID, Romanian diplomatic mission ID, Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID, PAS member ID, fondoambiente.it ID, Olschki author ID, French Etalab parcel visualization code, Geneanet family name ID, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID, senato.archivioluce.it person ID, DIP ID, Newspaper Genre List ID, Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID, Internet Game Database developer ID, Book Owners Online person ID, Bod-Inc Online author ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID, Ropiky.net pillbox ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: LdiF person ID, board game mechanism, Date of resignation, sex or gender of the position, regime, earliest known OpenTimestamps, Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros, named after lexeme
  - External identifiers: TBDB ID, cirkev.cz bohoslužby ID, GCD creator ID, Memobase ID, Central records of collections ID, Musica Baltica person ID, Standard Citation Forms ID, Montana Field Guide species ID, PRISM Break project ID, Idaho Species ID, Room of Names ID, ZKM person ID, fotodok ID, IFFR film director ID, EUIPO OoC-name id, Gutenberg Biographics ID, EUIPO OoC-work id, Games@Mail.ru ID, museumPASSmusées ID, Handlingar.se, NAD agent ID, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID, OlympicsIL ID
- Query examples:
  - Lakes within 10 km of Berlin
  - Old bath pictures from Swedish Digitalmuseum
  - Bath water in Sweden with distance to the center of the lake it is connected to
  - Bath water in Sweden located in Nature reserves (protected area, geojson)
  - Map of the standard English and Welsh spellings of all places in the database (Source)
  - Films directed by Agnès Varda and their publication date (Source)
  - List of women who hold or have held the position of rector at a university (Source)
- Schema examples:
  - EntitySchema:E319 - European bath waters
- Newest WikiProjects:
  - Wikidata:WikiProject European Bath Waters - Europe is open up and its summer - lets add bath waters to Wikidata

Development
- Working on no longer using the Query Service to evaluate Constraints Checks regular expressions (this should make our checks faster and allow for further improvements) (phab:T176312)
- Changing the rate limits for assigning Item IDs further, which should result in even fewer Q-IDs being skipped in the future (phab:T284538)
- Finalizing the concepts for a tool to help work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/...

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
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Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #473

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Events
- Upcoming
  - The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th June 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month we'll have a team member from Wikibase Stakeholders Group talk briefly about their work, and then we'll welcome people to share out about their work around Wikibase. We'll leave some space in the agenda to discuss meta issues related to the Wikibase Community Usergroup.
  - SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in English by Vigneron, June 22 at 18:00 CEST
  - 24/06 (17:30 UTC): Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for tainacan with Ederporto and Dalton Lopes Martins (https://tainacan.org/en/ Tainacan) (in English), on YouTube
  - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #68, June 27
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, June 26 at 18:00 UTC

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
  - Beyond VIAF. Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries (with detailed statistics on VIAF and Wikidata)
- Videos
  - Using OpenRefine and creating wikidata schema - YouTube
  - Query SPARQL Wikidata around genealogy (in French) - YouTube
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook
  - Global Open Initiative Foundation editing session - Adding statements about Ghanaian Members of Parliament using OpenRefine - YouTube

Tool of the week
- Template:PositionHolderHistory displays the full list of position holders for a given position.
- Template:Generic queries for positions new template with generic queries for positions.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Interlanguage links now work for multilingual Wikisource. phab:T275958
- User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js now supports searching for senses for the translation property.
- The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
- Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, phab:T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and phab:T284276 determine turn-around times. phab:T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: not found in, named place on map
  - External identifiers: Ropiky.net pillbox ID, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID, Memobase ID, Standard Citation Forms for Rare Materials Cataloging ID, Skipsrevyen ID, EBAF authority ID, LdiF person ID, Musica Baltica person ID, EGID, RBF event ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: named after lexeme, replacement value, Qualis rank, role of component, table of contents available at URL, DICOM modality page, Flemish Heritage Themes ID
  - External identifiers: OlympicsIL ID, EBIDAT ID, Crosscut author ID, identifier BNM, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID, Handzone player ID, BES-Net user ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Research Resource Identifier, VK artist ID, MonumentalTrees.com, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, E-Flora BC species ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
  - Wikidata:WikiProject Outdoor Gyms

Development
- Fixed a bug that broke the "Add sitelink" popup on Commons (phab:T284854)
- Working on a fix for suggesters popping up unexpectedly when tabbing quickly (phab:284219)
- Reviewing code for a new Property Suggester by a student (phab:T284820)
- Mismatch Finder: Working on a tool to work through mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases. Your feedback is welcome on Wikidata talk:Mismatch Finder
- Curious Facts: We developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata. Try it and give us your feedback on Wikidata talk:Curious Facts
- Kicked off our continued work on Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2) with preparatory work, including:
  - Testing infrastructure investigation and decision
  - Investigation: How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
(on behalf of WikiProject India)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Altmetric

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #474

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Discussions
- New request for comments: Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference)

Events
- Past:
  - log of Wikibase Live session 2021-06-24
- Upcoming:
  - SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.; [6], June 29th.
  - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #69, July 4

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - A Journey Into Wikidata with Five Indigenous Artists
  - Adding Data to Wikidata is Efficient with QuickStatements
- Papers
  - Which methods are the most effective in enabling novice users to participate in ontology creation? A usability study (compares Wikidata to other knowledge modelling tools)
- Videos
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, for the #ArcticKnot.
  - SPARQL queries live on Twitch about lexicography and lexemes by Vigneron, for the #ArcticKnot.
  - Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for Tainacan - YouTube
  - Creating a new faculty item in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu68LM5NicM YouTube
  - Writing data to Wikidata, Wikidata Sandbox items

Tool of the week
- Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for positions. It can be used for every position item in the talk page. See example with head of the United Nations Secretariat.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page.
- Call for candidates for the 2021 election to the position of primary contact for the Wikibase Community User Group. Applicants should present themselves on this page before 2021-07-08 17:00 (UTC), after which voting will commence.
- Bodh is a new tool to edit Lexemes by hand on a larger scale.
- Wikidata Vertical Analysis by AKhatun (WMF)
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Igbo nouns
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Malayalam proper nouns
- A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it!

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: date of resignation, curid, consequence of text
  - External identifiers: RBF event ID, cirkev.cz Catholic services ID, Olympic Committee of Israel athlete ID, ZKM person ID, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID, Fotodok ID, museumPASSmusées ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID, Vindskyddskartan.se ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: delta of, Astrological sign, announced at, contact point (2)
  - External identifiers: WTA-Trainer-ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID, Classical Archives composer ID, UFC ID, Tapology ID, Bellator ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, FightMatrix ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, Ethereum token address, Legie 100 legionary ID, PsycNET ID, Index Theologicus ID, MK ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, African Film Database ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, Native-Land.ca Territory ID, Native-Land.ca Language ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius ID, HockeyLive player ID, eishockey.info player ID
- Query examples:

Development
- Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
- Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
- Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958)
- Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689)
- Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219)
- Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131)
- Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (phab:T284538)
- Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (phab:T219215)
- Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669)
- Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040)
- Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (phab:T262922, phab:T252198, phab:T283364, phab:T265297)
- The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350, phab:T281702)
- Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (phab:T282512, phab:T279557)
- It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
- Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786)
- A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (phab:T245927)
- "en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149).
- There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313)

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

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

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WikiProject India Newsletter #6

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Hi Daniel Mietchen/Archive,

Happy New Year 2021!

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter. You can find our sixth issue of the quarterly newsletter here, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India over the last 3 months. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (CIS-A2K) and Mahir256
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Altmetric

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Hi Daniel,

I am currently working on a project to create the links between the 26 million Wikidata element with a DOI and their Altmetric DOI (P5530). I am about to contact Altmetric to get their approval (their API is limited to 1 request per second and does not allow extraction like I want to perform), and since you've imported most of the scientific papers on Wikidata, I was wondering if you would have any comment or suggestion about this initiative.

Thanks, Dirac (talk) 19:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dirac: Thanks for working on this, and your notes are great. I would certainly like to see closer integration with Altmetric, but not sure what their take on this is. In terms of suggestions, a simple one would be to use Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future (Q105082215) as an example. More complex ones would require some more digging on my end — not sure when that may happen. There are also questions I would have for them, e.g. I would be interested in whether and how they are using Wikidata, how many Wikipedia languages they are covering now (I think they had a time with English only, then about a dozen languages, but I haven't looked into this lately, so there may well be more) and whether they pick up anything from Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

@Daniel Mietchen: I received an answer from Altmetric that might change the way we use this metric. I've posted the answer, and my proposal to fix this, on the Almetric ID talk page. Feel free to jump in and give your opinion. And now that I have a contact that is answering my emails, I will ask them your questions about the usage the do of Wikipedia/Wikidata. Thanks, Dirac (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

L2927

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You created چلتن/Chiltan/Чилтан (L2927). I pinged you on its talk page, but I see that you do not respond to pings. What is that lexeme supposed to mean (if you added a sense, what would it be)? Mahir256 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

@Mahir256: I see this as a spelling variant of "چلتن". I have seen both (across several languages) in reference to the story of the fourty beings that has been told in the region in many variants and who have quite a few things named after them, e.g. Koh-i-Chiltan (Q6425850). The best published description I am aware of is here, transliterated into چل‌تن/Чилтан (L226820), which is the spelling most familiar to me, since my exposure to variants of this story has been mostly through Tadjik, Uzbek and Russian sources. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2021 Newsletter

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This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

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[WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats] Meetings with the Wikidata community

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The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to collect feedback from the Wikidata community. Two rounds are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome to participate in both as well!

Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC
Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC
Sign-up and meeting details: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Wikidata

Also, please share this with other volunteers who might be interested in this. Let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), 14:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)