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== Wikidata weekly summary #618 == |
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* '''Discussions''' |
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** Open request for adminship: [[Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Mike_Peel_2|Mike Peel]] (scheduled to end after 9 March 2024 13:08 (UTC)) |
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** Closed request for adminship: [[Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Madamebiblio|Madamebiblio]] requested for admintool to fight against vandalism, and the request was closed as successful. |
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** New requests for permissions/Bot: |
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*** [[d:Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Mfchris84-Bot|Mfchris84-Bot]] - Task: Will run scripts on toolforge to automate and schedule edits on bibliographic items. Starting with Swiss online magazine ''Syntopia Alpina'' (Q112206291), then continuing by adding ''swisscovery edition ID'' (P9907) to version/edition items. |
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*** [[d:Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BorkedBot_12|BorkedBot_12]] - Task: Update number of ''viewers/listeners'' (P5436) with the qualifier ''YouTube channel ID'' (P2397) for YouTuber content creators and influencers. |
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*** [[d:Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/LocodeBot|LocodeBot]] - Task: Match ''UN/LOCODE'' (Q499348) to Wikidata entries by ISO 3166-2 region code, name and distance (if defined), important for UN organisations. |
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* '''[[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events|Events]]''' |
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** [https://www.aib.it/corsi/wiki-in-action-laboratori-su-wikidata-e-wikimedia-commons-alle-stelline/ Wiki-in-action: Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons at the Stars] (Italian) - WM Italy, AIB Lombardia & GWMAB host a practical workshop on Wikidata Thursday, March 21, 16 - 18:00 CET in the Valvassori Peroni Library, Milan. Further details on the Wiki Event page: [[d:Wikidata:Gruppo_Wikidata_per_Musei,_Archivi_e_Biblioteche/Stelline/2024|GWMAB/Stelline/2024]] |
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** [https://volunteer.queenslibrary.org/opportunity/a0CRQ00000joHlg/join-the-edit-a-thon-at-queensbridge-tech-lab Join the Queensbridge Tech Lab edit-a-thon] - create and enrich local diverse heroes in Queens, NYC as part of the NYC Open Data Week. March 16, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC -5). |
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** [https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrfu-tqTkpHdJVTppB0mlkDVKQ3WZfSQf2#/registration Wikidata, Open Education Resources and Curriculum alignment discussion] - hosted by Creative Commons during the OEWeek event. Takes place 5th March 15:00 CET, register in the link! |
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* '''Press, articles, blog posts, videos''' |
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** Blogs |
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*** [https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2024/02/advancing-data-excellence-new-era-for-bhl-cataloging-metadata-committee.html Empowering BHL Staff with Wiki Education’s Wikidata Certificate Course] - The Biodiversity Heritage Library blog celebrates committee members completing a Wikidata Certification course led by Will Kent, as part of the Wiki Education. Participants levelled up SPARQL queries, visualisations, federation, modelling and bulk loading and editing. |
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*** [[:w:fr:Wikipédia:RAW/2024-03-01#Tuto du mois|Observable tutorial for Wikidata users]] (French) published in the last issue of RAW in Wikipedia in French |
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** Papers: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.11541.pdf LLMs Can Better Understand Knowledge Graphs Than We Thought] - This paper employs CQA, complex question answering, to assess LLMs ability to comprehend knowledge graphs. Xinbang, D. et al. |
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** Videos |
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*** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohEVe_ceeg OpenRefine - extract tables from Wikipedia for Wikidata] (French) - Part 6 of the Wiki Wake Up Afrique, this shot tutorial will show a simple and advanced method of converting tabulated data to enrich Wikidata. |
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*** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Q4ZNTmIJM Breathing life into the women's archive through Wikidata] - speaker Brodie Hoare advocates for adding data and information about women from historical archives to Wikidata at the National Digital Forum '23. |
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*** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCP8_OFvb30 Application development using open knowledge graph, Wikidata] (Japanese) speaker Koji Furusaki hosts an open data study session and showcases examples of app development using Wikidata. |
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* '''Tool of the week''' |
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** [https://vuejsexamples.com/wiquizz-a-game-generator-powered-by-nuxt-content-and-sparql-queries-from-wikidata/ WiQuizz - from Nuxt and SPARQL] WiQuizz allows you to create or play quiz games where content is generated from Wikidata. It could be a fun way to get people interacting with Wikidata! |
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* '''Other Noteworthy Stuff''' |
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** [https://observablehq.com/collection/@pac02/claim-analysis-toolkit Claim Analysis Toolkit], collection of Observable notebooks to visualize simple Wikidata claims |
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* '''Newest [[d:Special:ListProperties|properties]] and [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property proposal|property proposals]] to review''' |
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* Newest [[d:Special:ListProperties|properties]]: |
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** General datatypes: |
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***[[:d:Property:P12475|top scorer]] (<nowiki>best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or the best ever scorer of the history of a competition</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12476|filial church]] (<nowiki>church which acts as the less important temple of a parish</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12484|television judge]] (<nowiki>person who participates in a television show as a competition judge or mentor</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12490|Papers with Code URL]] (<nowiki>URL for subject in Papers with Code system</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12491|SMIRKS]] (<nowiki>line notation that represents generic chemical reactions</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12503|thesaurus's main topic]] (<nowiki>primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12504|thesaurus combines topics]] (<nowiki>this theasurus combines (intersects) these two or more topics</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12505|topic's main thesaurus]] (<nowiki>main Wikimedia theasurus</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12506|latest end date]] (<nowiki>latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12516|rug style]] (<nowiki>classification of an individual textile floor covering based on geographic or cultural origin, structure, or pattern</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12526|performing organization]] (<nowiki>organization that received funding to create this entity</nowiki>) |
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** External identifiers: [[:d:Property:P12477|AniSearch anime ID]], [[:d:Property:P12478|Brazzers ID]], [[:d:Property:P12479|Tekściory artist ID]], [[:d:Property:P12480|Hong Kong Cinema ID]], [[:d:Property:P12481|PlaymakerStats.com sports executive ID]], [[:d:Property:P12482|Műemlékem.hu identifier]], [[:d:Property:P12483|PMB – Personen der Moderne Basis person ID]], [[:d:Property:P12485|British Listed Buildings ID]], [[:d:Property:P12486|GNM ID]], [[:d:Property:P12487|2GIS place-ID]], [[:d:Property:P12488|2GIS route-ID]], [[:d:Property:P12489|livechart.me anime ID]], [[:d:Property:P12492|Trakt.tv film ID]], [[:d:Property:P12494|NACSIS-CAT library ID]], [[:d:Property:P12495|Epigraphic Database Roma ID]], [[:d:Property:P12496|WhatPub pub ID]], [[:d:Property:P12498|JAHIS Law Database ID]], [[:d:Property:P12499|literatura.kg person ID]], [[:d:Property:P12500|nagrada.srs.kg person ID]], [[:d:Property:P12501|who.ca-news.org person ID]], [[:d:Property:P12502|UCA authority ID]], [[:d:Property:P12507|European Union trademark number]], [[:d:Property:P12508|ONIX codelist ID]], [[:d:Property:P12509|GCatholic episcopal conference ID]], [[:d:Property:P12510|Oxford English Dictionary object ID]], [[:d:Property:P12511|2nd German Basketball Bundesliga ID]], [[:d:Property:P12512|Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary ID]], [[:d:Property:P12513|nimi.li ID]], [[:d:Property:P12514|Nye ord i dansk ID]], [[:d:Property:P12515|OHDSI ID]], [[:d:Property:P12517|Consortium of Midwest Herbaria taxon ID]], [[:d:Property:P12518|Encyclopedia Astronautica ID]], [[:d:Property:P12519|Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID]], [[:d:Property:P12520|Italian Senate (1848-1943) ID]], [[:d:Property:P12521|ICANNWiki page ID]], [[:d:Property:P12522|Dictionary of Gandhari ID]], [[:d:Property:P12523|FSA Food Hygiene Rating System ID]], [[:d:Property:P12524|Finnish Service Catalogue organization ID]], [[:d:Property:P12525|Köztérkép creator ID]] |
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* New [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property proposal|property proposals]] to review: |
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** General datatypes: |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/date popularized|date popularized]] (<nowiki>point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Bild der Person bei der Tätigkeit|Bild der Person bei der Tätigkeit]] (<nowiki>picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Hindawi Foundation book ID|Hindawi Foundation book ID]] (<nowiki>A property for IDs of books published by [[Q20397014|Hindawi Foundation]]</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/A New Nation Votes ID|A New Nation Votes ID]] (<nowiki>ID of a person in A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/form decomposition|form decomposition]] (<nowiki>form decomposition</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Ludzie Nauki ID|Ludzie Nauki ID]] (<nowiki>identifier in the Ludzie Nauki, the new official database of Polish scientists</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Nanopublication identifier|Nanopublication identifier]] (<nowiki>Nanopublications are small RDF-based publications, quite similar to Wikidata Statements with references and history.</nowiki>) |
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** External identifiers: [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/TNHR&CE Temple ID|TNHR&CE Temple ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID|Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Saudipedia ID|Saudipedia ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/DLE entry ID|DLE entry ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Singapore Infopedia ID (new scheme)|Singapore Infopedia ID (new scheme)]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/COBISS ID|COBISS ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/DWDS sense ID|DWDS sense ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/museum-digital tag ID|museum-digital tag ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Gematsu event ID|Gematsu event ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/RERO+ ID|RERO+ ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Premier League player ID|Premier League player ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/StatMuse Premier League player ID|StatMuse Premier League player ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/11v11 player ID|11v11 player ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/OSL ID|OSL ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/EJ Atlas ID|EJ Atlas ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Statbunker player ID|Statbunker player ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/BFO class ID|BFO class ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Combine OverWiki ID|Combine OverWiki ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Autores Galegos na BUSC|Autores Galegos na BUSC]] |
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* [[d:Wikidata:Properties for deletion|Deleted properties]]: |
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You can comment on [[d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Overview|all open property proposals]]! |
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* '''Did you know?''' |
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** Query examples: |
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*** [http://w.wiki/9MYF 28 Female Biographies that exist in 50 Wikipedias, but not Catalan] - a good example for finding knowledge gaps. |
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*** [http://w.wiki/Cx6 Explore data about Wikimedia Residencies] - see start and end dates, organisation employer, average duration and associated project. |
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** Newest [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects|WikiProjects]]: [[d:Wikidata:WikiProject_Te_Papa_Research_Expeditions|Te Papa Research Expeditions]] - create and enrich metadata and trial research expeditions schema for Te Papa, Dominion and Colonial Museums. |
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** Newest [[d:Wikidata:Database reports|database reports]]: [[d:Wikidata:Database_reports/Unauthorized_bots|Unauthorized Bots (active in last 30 days without Bot flag)]] |
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** [[d:Wikidata:Showcase items|Showcase Items]]: [[D:Q15270647|Zootopia]] - the 2016 animated Disney film about anthropomorphic Police officers. |
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** [[d:Wikidata:Showcase lexemes|Showcase Lexemes]]: [[d:Lexeme:L2781|bezczelny (L2781)]] (Polish) To be shameless, uncaring of others, arrogant, over-confident. |
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* '''Development''' |
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** IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to no longer show IPs for non-logged in users. |
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** Wikibase REST API: We are almost done with the routes for adding/editing/removing a sitelink. |
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** Entity Schemas: We prototyped another approach to making it possible to link to Entity Schemas in statements. |
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[[phab:maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R|You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here]]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer]. |
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* '''Monthly Tasks''' |
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** Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. |
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** Comment on property proposals: [[d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Overview|all open proposals]] |
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** [[d:Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested and open tasks|Suggested and open tasks]]! |
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** Contribute to a [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase items|Showcase item]]. |
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** Help [[d:Special:LanguageStats|translate]] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! |
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** [[d:User:Pasleim/projectmerge|Help merge identical items]] across Wikimedia projects. |
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** Help [[d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next|write the next summary!]] |
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Ausrufer – 45. Woche
Adminkandidaten: Helenopel
Wiederwahlen: Amberg
Schiedsgericht: Kandidatensuche
Umfragen: „Wissen“ im Bezug zur Wikipedia, Welches Urheberrecht?
Kurier – linke Spalte: Noch eine Welt zu gewinnen: Wikimedia Conferentie in Utrecht, Liebst du es, ..., Call for GLAM, Hurricanes für den Cup, Admins u. a. gesucht, Wikipedia hat ja doch einen Redaktionsschluss
Kurier – rechte Spalte: 5 Jahre Portal:Jazz, Sue Gardner in Hannover / Workshops (war: WMDE-Mitgliederversammlung), Herausforderung für alle Naturwissenschaftler, Neu auf Wikisource im Oktober, Persönliche Filter sind gut gegen Wissen, Wiki Loves Monuments: Österreichische Preisträger, Kurzer Test für Herbstkampagne
Projektneuheiten:
- (pywikibot) Das Pywikipediabot-Framework wurde für die neue Sprachversion Sesotho sa Leboa eingerichtet (pyrev:9704 bis pyrev:9712).
- (Softwareneuheit) API: Introduce cmstartsortkeyprefix and cmendsortkeyprefix parameters so categorized pages can be looked up using a category+sortkey combination (rev:101306, live mit rev:101448).
Herzlichen Glückwunsch
@Werner von Basil: Danke! Viele Grüße --vy 73 de Ptolusque AFu • ☑
Diskussion zu "Paid Mentoring"
Liebe Mentoren,
euch zur Kenntnis: ausgelöst durch die Ergänzungen eines Mentors in seiner Kurzvorstellung, die neben anderen die Einfügung "Marketing- und Kommunikationsagenturen, die im Kundenauftrag auf Rechnung tätig sind, erhalten von mir für meine Dienste als Mentor ebenfalls eine." beinhaltete, läuft gerade unter Wikipedia Diskussion:Mentorenprogramm#Paid Mentoring eine Diskussion, die das grundsätzliche Konzept und Selbstverständnis des Mentorenprogramms sowie die WP-Regelkonformität betrifft. Gruß, Alraunenstern۞
Nous avons organisé un Edit-A-Thon, qui aura lieu dans le cadre de la Foire du Livre de Francfort. La France est au centre de la Foire du Livre de Francfort cette année (Gastland). Nous organisons la rédaction et la traduction d'articles sur les auteurs entre Wikipédia germanophone et francophone.
Les frais de transport et d'hébergement sont pris en charge par WMDE. La Foire du Livre aura lieu du 11 au 15 octobre (deux jours de participation minimum)
Si vous êtes intéressé, vous pouvez me contacter via Wiki-Email. Plus d'informations et la possibilité de s'inscrire ici (français, anglais, allemand): Wiki-Projet Foire du livre de Francfort
Merci et je serais heureux de vous rencontrer à Francfort. :) --Jens Best (Diskussion) 13:45, 16. Sep. 2017 (CEST)
Info: Ne répondez pas ici, mais écrivez-nousHallo Ptolusque,
Wir haben ein Edit-A-Thon organisiert, das im Rahmen der Frankfurter Buchmesse stattfinden wird. Frankreich steht im Mittelpunkt der diesjährigen Frankfurter Buchmesse (Gastland). Wir organisieren das Verfassen und Übersetzen von Artikeln über Autoren Und Literaturthemen zwischen der deutsch- und französischsprachigen Wikipedia.
Die Kosten für An/Abreise und Unterkunft trägt WMDE. Die Buchmesse findet vom 11. bis 15. Oktober statt. Mindestdauer für Teilnahme (wenn Anreise und Hotel organisiert via WMDE) ist zwei Tage.
Bei Interesse kannst Du mich auch über WikiMail kontaktieren. Mehr Infos und die Möglichkeit sich bei Interesse einzutragen hier (Französisch, Englisch, Deutsch): WikiProjekt Frankfurter Buchmesse 2017
Vielen Dank und ich würde mich freuen, Dich in Frankfurt begrüßen zu dürfen. --Jens Best (Diskussion) 13:45, 16. Sep. 2017 (CEST)----
Info: Bitte antwortet nicht hier, sondern schreibt uns auf der Projektseite.
Mentorenprogramm - Paid Mentoring
Liebe Mentorinnen und Mentoren,
im Nachgang zu der umfänglichen Diskussion, startete heute, wie auf Wikipedia Diskussion:Mentorenprogramm angekündigt, um 12:00 Uhr die Abstimmung zur Frage des Paid Mentoring.
Die Abstimmung läuft eine Woche, bis zum 5. Oktober 2017, 12:00 Uhr. Schon jetzt ein Danke für Eure rege Teilnahme.
Beste Grüße WvB
20. (Jubiläums-)Wikipedia-Treffen / +WAFtreff in Innsbruck am 12. Jänner 2018
Hallo Ptolusque!
OMG!!! Wir haben ein Jubiläum! Der kommende ist bereits der 20. Tiroler Stammtisch in Innsbruck und wird als +WAFtreff stattfinden, und zwar am 12. Jänner 2018 ab 10 Uhr. Wir planen eine geführte Krippen- und Museumstour 🎭, einen Besuch der Brauerei des Tiroler Bier inklusive Führung, einer anschließenden Bierverkostung 🍺 mit Brezenessen und einem Abendessen im Kulturgasthaus Bierstindl 🍴 (auf OpenStreetMap). Es ist auch möglich, erst um 15 Uhr dazuzustoßen oder sich nur dem Abendessen gegen voraussichtlich 19 Uhr anzuschließen.
Schau dir dazu die Planungsseite an!
Natürlich sind wie immer alle willkommen, die Wikipedia lesen, schreiben oder vielleicht auch noch nicht kennen ! Die Teilnahme am +WAFtreff wird von den 4 WM-Chaptern WMAT, WMDE, WMCH, WMIT gefördert.
Wir freuen uns auf Deine Teilnahme und bitten um Anmeldung bis 8. Jänner 2018. Bis dahin: Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr 2018!
Liebe Grüße von TheTokl (Diskussion), Simon04 (Diskussion), Braveheart (Diskussion) und Pimpinellus (Diskussion)
23:08, 21. Dez. 2017 (CET)
Jugend-Foto-Workshop im Juni
Hallo,
ich schreibe dich an, weil ich dich als unter 25-jährige Person auf der Geburtstagsliste der Wikipedia gefunden habe und wir (Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.) Anfang Juni einen Foto-Workshop für unter 25-Jährige anbieten.
Dieser wird als Beitrag zum Europäischen Jahr des Kulturerbes „Sharing Heritage“ veranstaltet. WMDE bietet – neben anderen Workshops zum Denkmalschutz – einen Workshop an, der sich explizit an junge Menschen richtet (unter 25 Jahren). In diesem Workshop kannst du mit anderen interessierten jungen Wikipedianern und manchen, die es erst noch werden wollen, von professionellen Referenten lernen, wie du super Fotos von denkmalgeschützten Objekten machen kannst und diese auch gleich für den Fotowettbewerb Wiki Loves Monuments in Deutschland (WLM) einsetzen kannst. Bring einfach deine eigenes Equipment mit: Von der kleinen Digi-Knipse über das Smartphone bis hin zur Spiegelreflexkamera, mit allen können gute Fotos für Wikimedia Commons gemacht werden.
Dir hat das Spaß gemacht und du willst mit anderen zusammen ebenfalls auf Fototour gehen? Dafür besprechen wir zum Schluss des Workshops gemeinsam miteinander, wie solch eine Veranstaltung auch bei dir um die Ecke einfach organisiert werden kann.
Wenn das was für dich ist oder du Freunde im Umkreis hast, für die die Veranstaltung spannend sein könnten, trage dich gerne auf der Projektseite ein.
Wir freuen uns!
Auf nach Südtirol
Vom 11. bis 13. Mai 2018 lädt das WikiAlpenforum zu einem +WAFtreff in Südtirol ein. Und zwar ins schöne Pustertal, wo die öffentliche Bibliothek Toblach Gastgeber eines deutsch-italienischen Wikipedia-Editathons ist. Wir haben darüber hinaus noch etliche andere Programmpunkte vorbereitet. Geplant ist u. a. am Sonntag, den 13. Mai, eine Besichtigung des ältesten Kreuzwegs Tirols. Die Details legen wir in den nächsten Tagen fest. Das Treffen und die Teilnahme werden von WMDE gefördert. Wir laden dich herzlich ein zum ersten Südtiroler +WAFtreff, hier nochmal verlinkt auf Meta-Wiki, wo du dich gerne eintragen magst. Bitte gleich anmelden, damit wir uns zusammen mit WMDE um die Unterbringung kümmern können. Du kannst dich auch gerne erst am Samstag in das Programm einfädeln. Die Münchner fahren am Freitag, den 11. Mai um 11:34 Uhr mit EC und REX über Franzensfeste nach Toblach, Ankunft 16:05 Uhr. Herzlich willkommen bei „Natur und Kultur“ in Südtirol! // X, Pi, Bo
Drei Wünsche Frei: Wonnemonat-Wünsche-Wechsel-Wochen im Mai 2018
Liebe Mitspielende bei Drei Wünsche frei. Um unserem Spiel neuen Schwung zu geben, haben wir für das Spiel die Wonnemonat-Wünsche-Wechsel-Wochen im Mai 2018 ausgerufen.
Bei dieser am 1. Mai 2018 beginnenden Aktion dürfen alle Mitspieler bei den eigenen Wünschen beliebig viele Wünsche, die bisher nicht reserviert worden sind, gegen neue Wünsche austauschen. Auch Jokerwünsche, die sich in der eigenen Liste angesammelt haben, dürfen gegen eigene Wünsche ausgewechselt werden. (Am besten in Absprache.)
Ausgetauscht werden dürfen außerdem reservierte Wünsche, deren Reservierung mehr als ein Jahr zurückliegt. Dies bitte in Absprache mit dem, der reserviert hat. (Vielleicht ist er/sie ja gerade fast fertig.)
Wer einen alt gewordenen Wunsch selbst aufgeben möchte, aber keinen neuen in Anspruch nehmen möchte, darf natürlich auch einen neuen Joker schaffen.
Dieser Frühjahrsputz darf sich auf den Zeitraum vom 1. bis 31. Mai 2018 erstrecken.
Viel Spaß!
Mirkur 22:19, 30. Apr. 2018 (CEST)
anlässlich der Night of Science 2018, einer seit 2006 studentisch organisierten Veranstaltung an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, möchten wir neben einem naturwissenschaftlichen Vortrag mit Bezug zu Wikidata auch die Möglichkeit zum Dialog mit interessierten Besuchern und Gewinnung potentieller Neuautoren an einem Community-Stand nutzen. Die zu erwartenden ca. 7.000–10.000 Besuchenden sind sowohl interessierte Schüler, vor allem Abiturienten, Studierende und Wissenschaftler aller Fachbereiche sowie interessierte Anwohner und Bürger. Es gibt ebenfalls die Möglichkeit, Artikel zu anwesenden Wissenschaftlern und Instituten am Campus zu vervollständigen und zu bebildern, dazu gibt es Arbeitslisten.
Es wird ca. 70 Vorträge aus den Fachrichtungen Biochemie, Biophysik, Biowissenschaften, Chemie, Geowissenschaften/Meteorologie, Neurowissenschaften, Immunologie, Informatik, Mathematik, Medizin, Pharmazie, Physik und Psychologie geben.
Die Night of Science findet über die Nacht vom 08. Juni 17 Uhr – 09. Juni 5 Uhr statt.
Mehr Infos und die Möglichkeit sich bei Interesse einzutragen findet sich unter: Wikipedia:Night of Science 2018
Vielen Dank und ich würde mich freuen, Dich in Frankfurt am Campus Riedberg begrüßen zu dürfen. --Πτολυσϙυε .-- .. -.- .. 15:56, 11. Mai 2018 (CEST)
Info: Bitte antwortet nicht hier, sondern schreibt uns auf der Projektseite. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine einmalige Einladung dieses Projektes und du wirst keine weiteren Benachrichtigungen durch dieses Projekt von uns erhalten.WikiDACH 2018 – das Wikipedia-Barcamp: 22. bis 23. September 2018
- WikiDACH vom 22. bis 23. September 2018 in Heidelberg
Hallo, wir möchten dich herzlich zur WikiDACH 2018 in Heidelberg einladen und freuen uns sehr, wenn du den Weg zu uns findest.
- Was ist die WikiDACH?
WikiDACH ist ein Barcamp für die Aktiven der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia-Projekte in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, ihrer Schwesterprojekte und aller, die sich für Freies Wissen interessieren. Was ist ein Barcamp? Es gibt kein festgelegtes Programm, sondern alle Teilnehmer haben die Möglichkeit, sich mit einem Themenvorschlag (oder praktischer Hilfe vor Ort) einzubringen. Über das endgültige Programm stimmen alle Teilnehmer vor Ort ab. Weitere Infos findest du auf der Projektseite.
Es wird ein vielfältiges und originelles Programm geben - und weil es ein Barcamp ist, kannst du die Auswahl der Themen beeinflussen. In den letzten Jahren waren einige Highlights z.B. offene Naturführer, Wikipedia und Urheberrecht, Regiowikis, Mehrsprachigkeit in der Wikipedia, und und und... Neben der WikiDACH hast Du außerdem die Möglichkeit, am parallel stattfindenden Barcamp Rhein-Neckar teilzunehmen - zwei Veranstaltungen für ein Ticket!
Melde dich an! – Bei anfallenden Fahrt- und Übernachtungskosten kann dich Wikimedia Deutschland unterstützen.
Viele Grüße, für das WikiDACH-Orga-Team: Emmy Sophie
Info: Bitte antworte nicht hier, sondern schreibe uns auf der Projektseite.
WAF-Jubiläum in Salzburg
Am 29. Jänner 2016 hatten einige von uns die Idee zu einem die Alpenländer umfassenden Wikipediaprojekt, dem WikiAlpenforum Es war eine gute Idee, wie sich an den 24 WAF-Veranstaltungen zeigt, die es seither gab. Das wollen wir mit einem Jubiläumsstammtisch mitsamt ausgedehntem Programm in Salzburg feiern. Wir steigen tief in die Geschichte und in die musikalische Vergangenheit und Gegenwart Salzburgs ein. Der Kollege Schmeissnerro und ich laden Dich im Namen des WikiAlpenforums ein zu einer Exkursion mit etlichen Highligts, zum Novemberstammtisch der Salzburger Wikpedia-Community, erstmals zusammen mit den Freunden vom Salzburgwiki. Das Programm geht vom 03. - 04. November 2018. Die Teilnehmerzahl für Übernachtungen und das Rahmenprogramm ist auf 15 beschränkt, deshalb diese Vorabmitteilung. Die Anmeldung erfolgt demnächst hier. Wir bemühen uns um Förderung seitens der WM-Chapter, haben aber, sollte es damit Probleme geben, alternativ eine Deckung Deiner Reise- und Aufenthaltskosten sichergestellt. Sei herzlich gegrüßt von --Pimpinellus((D)) • WikiMUC • 07:04, 7. Sep. 2018 (CEST)
Wikidata weekly summary #333
- Events
- 5-7 October, St.Gallen (Switzerland): WikiCon 2018 of the German-speaking Wikimedia community, with keynote Wikidata as a Semantic Web game changer
- 5-7 October, Grenoble (France): WikiConvention francophone 2018, with keynote:
- 16 October, online: Using Wikibase as a platform for library linked data management and discovery
- 29 October, São Paulo: Wikidata Lab XI: Structuring wikiprojects
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata: «Das spannendste Projekt, das ich je gesehen habe» (German) in the Swiss newspaper Tagblatt
- SPNHC & TDWG Conference 2018 — blog post on a talk (slides, speaker notes) about using Wikimedia projects and materials from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources to collect information regarding New Zealand's biodiversity
- Wikidata Map October 2018 by Addshore
- Our man in Havana (or, Q56761118) by Andrew Gray
Weihnachts-Wünsche-Wechsel-Wochen 2018
Liebe Mitspielende bei dem Spiel „Drei Wünsche frei“!
Zu Weihnachten beschenkt euch die Weihnachtsfee: Ihr dürft beginnend mit dem 24. Dezember 2018 bis zum 6. Januar 2019 beliebig viele eigene Wünsche, die bisher nicht reserviert worden sind, gegen neue Wünsche austauschen. Auch nicht reservierte Jokerwünsche, die sich in eurer Wunschliste angesammelt haben, dürft ihr gegen eigene Wünsche auswechseln.
Reservierte Wünsche, deren Reservierung mehr als ein Jahr zurückliegt, dürfen ausgetauscht werden, aber nur in Absprache mit der Person, die den Wunsch reserviert hat (Vielleicht ist er/sie ja gerade fast fertig). Wer einen alten Wunsch aufgeben, aber keinen neuen in Anspruch nehmen möchte, darf natürlich auch einen neuen Joker einsetzen, für den andere sich etwas wünschen können.
Viel Freude und frohe Weihnachten!
Weihnachts-Wünsche-Wechsel-Wochen 2019
Liebe Mitspielende bei dem Spiel „Drei Wünsche frei“!
Zu Weihnachten beschenkt euch die Weihnachtsfee: Ihr dürft vom 24. Dezember 2019 bis zum 6. Januar 2020 beliebig viele Wünsche in der eigenen Wunschliste oder eigene Jokerwünsche in der Wunschliste anderer, die bisher nicht reserviert worden sind, gegen neue Wünsche austauschen. Auch nicht reservierte Jokerwünsche, die sich in eurer Wunschliste angesammelt haben, dürft ihr gegen eigene Wünsche auswechseln. Bereits erfüllte Wünsche bleiben als erfüllt stehen.
Reservierte Wünsche dürfen nur in Absprache mit der Person ausgetauscht werden, die den Wunsch reserviert hat (Vielleicht ist er/sie ja gerade fast fertig). Wer einen alten Wunsch aufgeben, aber keinen neuen in Anspruch nehmen möchte, darf natürlich auch einen Joker einsetzen, für den andere sich etwas wünschen können.
Viel Freude und frohe Weihnachten! --Weihnachtsfee, Heiligabend 2019.
17. WP:Unterfranken-Stammtisch in Aschaffenburg am 7. März 2020
Hallo Ptolusque,
am Samstag, den 7. März 2020 trifft sich der WP-Unterfranken-Stammtisch in Aschaffenburg im Rahmen des 10. bundesweiten Tages der Archive:
Datenbank Jüdisches Unterfranken trifft Wikipedia Unterfranken - Meinungs- und Erfahrungsaustausch.
Wir starten um 10:00 Uhr im Stadt- und Stiftsarchiv Aschaffenburg im Schönborner Hof (Aschaffenburg) (s. Google, Zugang über den Haupteingang zum Schönborner Hof am Kreisel) zu einem diesmal eher speziellen Topic mit dem Ziel, eine mögliche Zusammenarbeit zu jüdischen Themen Unterfranken betreffend zu besprechen und hoffentlich auch zu erreichen. (Details siehe: Programm des Treffens)
Wir werden den interessanten Vormittag mit einem zwanglosen Nachmittag in "unserer WP-Bar" ausklingen lassen.
Für alle, die bisher noch nicht dabei waren: Neben dem diesmal eher speziellen Thema, geht es bei dem Treffen immer auch darum andere Autoren kennenzulernen und sich über Wikipedia auszutauschen, durch das Programm Anregungen und Ideen für neue Artikel zu bekommen und immer auch ein wenig Gemeinsamkeiten und Spaß zu haben.
Bitte melde dich auf unserer Teilnahmeliste an, ob du kommst, damit wir besser planen können. Du kannst natürlich gern aber auch immer unangemeldet mitmachen.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen --commander-pirx (disk beiträge) 16:38, 26. Feb. 2020 (CET)
P.S.: Wenn du keine Einladung mehr bekommen möchtest, trage dich bitte aus dieser Liste aus.
Alte Importartikel
Hallo Ptolusque, ich arbeite aktuell die Wartungskategorie Importartikel ab. Du hast in Deinem Benutzernamensraum noch den Importartikel Benutzer:Ptolusque/Baustelle/Network Caller ID aus dem Jahr 2015, der aufgrund seines Alters gelöscht werden sollte. Besteht noch Bedarf an diesem Artikel? Gruß --Frank, the Tank (sprich mit mir) 18:55, 1. Apr. 2020 (CEST)
Vorgeschlagene Werte für Vorlagenparameter
Hallo, du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil du den Newsletter Technische Wünsche abonniert hast. In Kürze wird ein weiteres Projekt aus dem Themenschwerpunkt „Leichter mit Vorlagen arbeiten“ umgesetzt:
Mit der neuen Parametereigenschaft suggestedvalues
können alle, die Vorlagen erstellen oder pflegen, nun eine Liste von Vorschlagswerten für einen Parameter definieren. Diese Werte erscheinen dann im Vorlagendialog des Visual Editors in Form einer Dropdown-Liste zur einfachen Auswahl. Auf diese Weise ersetzt die Funktion das zusätzliche Forschen nach Parameterwerten auf den entsprechenden Dokumentationsseiten der Vorlage bzw. erspart den Editierenden, die zugelassenen Werte raten zu müssen.
Die Funktion wird voraussichtlich am 29. April in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia aktiviert. Wie das Erstellen der Vorschlagswerte-Liste im Einzelnen geht, ist auf der Projektseite beschrieben. Rückmeldung und Fragen sind auf der Diskussionsseite des Wunsches sehr willkommen. --Timur Vorkul (WMDE)
Wikidata weekly summary #608
- Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here: What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"
- Discussions
- Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
- Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.
- Events
- Upcoming: Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122: Rock-forming minerals
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
- Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
- Videos
- Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
- Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
- Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
- No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
- Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
- Notebooks
- Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
- Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
- The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
- Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
- State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
- An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
- Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: WHDLoad database ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, PCSX2 Wiki ID, KRS number, Twitch numeric channel ID, RPCS3 Wiki ID, Black Games Archive ID, Citra compatibility database ID, DraCor ID, ORBi article ID, IGN wiki article ID, AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, RPGFan game ID, Arcade Hub ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
- production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
- External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, GamesMeter ID, Walk Score ID, Malaysia company new number, Am Faclair Beag ID, xemu compatibility database ID, Sofascore player ID, GameGear.jp ID, RPGWatch IDs, Team England ID, TORCH taxon ID, ScummVM ID, Abandonware France IDs
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
- Newest database reports: children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
- Showcase Items: Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
- Showcase Lexemes: L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #609
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.
- Events
- Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
- Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.
- Tool of the week
- WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Shamela book edition ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Schnittberichte.com title ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, Xemu compatibility database ID, GamesMeter game ID, GameGear.jp ID, Walmart product ID, Swissubase person ID, RPGWatch game ID, RPGWatch company ID, RPGWatch press ID, Indie DB company ID, NIWA article ID, turismoroma.it place ID, ScummVM ID, ORBi author ID, Abandonware-France video game series ID, Abandonware-France video game compilation ID, Abandonware-France person ID, Abandonware-France company ID, Abandonware-France magazine ID, Abandonware-France award ID, Kanjipedia word ID, Moviefone movie ID, South African NPO number, Nigerian registered company ID, Abandonware-France video game ID, AFJV directory ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
- International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ({{Q|2976602}} for {{Q|163740}} created by the {{Q|193727}} and adapted by the {{Q|1065}}.)
- creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
- television judge ()
- External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, nebula channel id, Deutsche Bahn station number, ISzDb series ID, BG localisation unit ID, Cathopedia article ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, Penstemon Database ID, Wikisage ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates
- Showcase Items: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
- Showcase Lexemes: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #610
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024
- Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
- Papers
- Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) "scientific article published in 2023" (paper in Italian) - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.
- Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model
- LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
- Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
- Videos
- Map Kerala Initiative is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
- This video on Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.
- Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.
Tool of the week Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).
Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
- (Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
- plate(s) (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
- Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID, MilliBase taxon ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, The Criterion Collection spine number
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Water bottle volume (Volume of the water bottle)
- Is it metric? (To check if it's a metric.)
- Anti-Cheat software used (anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Team Scotland ID, Globoplay ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, TouchArcade game ID, Mod.io ID, The Models Resource game ID, The Models Resource entity ID, tourist information point number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID, Bandcamp track ID
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu according to Appel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture (source)
- Map of running/out of service railway stations in France|fr=Carte des gares ferroviaires en France métropolitaine selon leur état d'usage
- Bridges in the UK with photos (source)
- Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly) (source)
- Newest WikiProject: Podcast Episodes 2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.
- Newest database report: children of unborn parents
- Showcase Item: Helsinki (Q1757) - capital and most populous city of Finland
- Showcase Lexeme: Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish for 'God forbid'
Development
- IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
- Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
- Wikibase REST API:
- We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
- We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Ologies
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #612
Discussions
- New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)
- Past
- Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-01-17
- PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
- Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register for the Workshop.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023
- Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective --> interview with Epìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.
- Papers
- The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023)) (paper in Italian) - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata
- The evolution of authority work in SBN. From origins to Alphabetica and future prospects (Q124289388) (Italian title: L’evoluzione dell’authority work in SBN. Dalle origini ad Alphabetica e prospettive future) (paper in Italian) - deals with the evolution of the authority work in the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN), with many references to Wikidata
- Biological Pathway Abstractions: From 2D drawings to Multidimensional Linked Data > this thesis by Andra Sachinder Waagmeester discusses the utility of using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for Life Sciences.
- Videos
- "From Wiki to Digital Humanities - Establishing a Literature Index Network" Symposium(Taiwanese) from Wang Shiqing. A scholar of Taiwanese history, this symposium explores linking their historical and academic research with Wikidata.
- Semantic MediaWiki Con 2023
- AskWikidata: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. Want to try? (Google Colab)
- Fixing Wikidata: by viewing it as a series of tables by Yaron Koren, who challenges that Wikidata can become more useful with more structured editing and querying practices.
Tool of the week
- Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
- working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
- production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
- simulate (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
- Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
- Newest External identifiers: ISzDb series ID, IFTTT service ID, National-Football-Teams.com team ID, Moviefone person ID, Commonwealth Games Australia athlete ID, Team Scotland athlete ID, Kicker team ID, goalzz.com team ID, vesti.kz team ID, Am Faclair Beag ID, tourist information point number, Alexandria.dk person ID, Babelio serial ID, Moviebuff ID, RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju Word ID, Stage, Qué series ver ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- If non-metric ()
- civil rank (non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: PhoneScoop phone ID, TopKar ID, IFOPT stop identifier, Flashback lexicon ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, HbVar ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, HistoryMakers Digital Archive Maker ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, Code de la collectivité territoriale ayant les compétences départementales, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Media art - to work together with initiatives archiving media art and find common best practices.
- Newest database reports: Count of Senseless Lexemes per language
- Showcase Items: Mona Lisa (Q12418) - oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
- Showcase Lexemes: grilldress (L1131949) - track suit for grilling in Bokmål
Development
- IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807, phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
- Wikibase REST API:
- We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
- We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
- We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
- mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Cinematography
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #614
Discussions
- New request for permissions/Bot:
- SamoasambiaBot - Adding coordinate values from fiwiki articles, and 2.) adding location statements based on the coordinates.
- MidleadingBot 5 - Create items for books in National Diet Library (Q477675).
- Closed request for comments:
- Closure reason listed as "Not an RfC discussion":
Moto GP Riders Links, Improve performance of label, description and alias retrieval, Create massive changes in one property for specific categories/properties, Auto analysis and breakdown of links (for social account reference), Separating citations from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata, Items for external links - Closure reason listed as "No Consensus":
Remove watchlist summary, Unify GO articles and enzyme articles - Closure reason listed as "Stale":
Potd, Population data model, Handling of data objects for pages in project namespace, Shouldn't there be a feature adding Qualifiers inside Qualifiers?, Auto sorting according to weight assigned, Should we create new properties for beaches, Should previously linked Wikipedia articles be separated?, A meta item namespace (Mxxx) for structured data about Wikidata, Structured path for property definition changes, Improved instructions for translation admin
- Closure reason listed as "Not an RfC discussion":
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 6, 2024: Wikimedia user Dnshitobu will discuss Wikidata for Education, the Dagbani NLP project, and the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group/sister communities. In the last part of the meeting, Dnshitobu will lead a discussion of your ideas for Wikidata Affinity Group activities in 2024 using Jamboard. Agenda
- Kick-Off Panel Discussion: Black Histories Wikipedia & Wikidata Edit-a-thon February 6, 17:00 - 18:00 CET. Toronto Metropolitan University. Edit-A-Thon's are also being hosted on Feb. 8th 16:00 CET and Feb. 15th 18:00 CET.
- Wikidata 101 is a clinic, part of the #LoveDataWeek hosted at Toronto Metropolitan University; February 13th 11:00 - 12:30 EST in LIB 387 - Library Collaboratory building.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Wikidata Challenges in the Semantic Web Community by Andrea Westerinen. This presentation was given at the Data Modelling Days conference.
- Comparative Study on the Approaches of Name Authority Control and Wikidata Identity Management pages 63 - 74 of the Proceedings of the 18th International ISKO Conference (2024). Authored by Chen C. & Yuxuan Z.
- Videos
- Connecting People, Connecting Archives Project (CACP) – Wikidata Workshop (Arabic). Archivists and scholars collaborated to align objectives and methods for the Connecting Archives Connecting People (CACP) Project. The aim of the workshop was to understand biographical data in archives.
- Wikibase SPARQL Demo A live demo of the SPARQL MediaWiki extension during the February 2024 Wikibase Stakeholder Group meetup.
- Podcasts: Between the Brackets, Episode 155 - Alan Ang and Kris Litson discuss Wikidata partnerships and outreach.
- Notebooks
- Mapping of a director's work a tool which explores the narrative locations of works directed by a filmmaker.
- Mapping of a writer's work : a tool which explores the narrative locations of works written by an author.
Tool of the week
- A Query and UI for exploring works of Venezuelan authors, artists, scientists and creators in the Public Domain.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata development goals for 2024 Q1 has been updated: Wikidata:Development plan
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- official list URL (URL of a website listing instances of the subject, maintained by the authority on the subject)
- Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
- semantic derivation (links a lexeme sense to a particular sense it is derived from)
- date of application (date of a application/request that lead to a membership in an organisation, an employment or issuance of an identifier)
- Newest External identifiers: VMH ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web version), Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, LoverFans ID, DigiListan artist ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID, Qantas hotel ID, Veterans Legacy Memorial ID, China Animal Scientific Database dbb ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, IFOPT stop ID, Jinji Koshinjyo ID (1st edition), Jinji Koshinjyo ID (4th edition), Jinji Koshinjyo ID (8th edition), TheTVDB season ID, TheTVDB company ID, TheTVDB award ID, Kialo ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Myths on Maps identifier, Plants of Hawaiʻi ID, Kalliope.org author ID, PteridoPortal taxon ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, XWord Info author ID, Bluesky DID, Unified Saudi Occupational Classification, Lobbypedia ID, ru.hayazg.info ID, VD 17 ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- smells of ()
- moment of onset of sexual maturity (the point in time after which an individual attains the ability to reproduce sexually)
- url namespace (URL prefix behind which values of this property can be found using a search engine)
- ultima verba (last words spoken by a subject)
- Performing organization (organization that received funding to create this entity)
- filial church (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant Mémoire des lieux d'un bâtiment, PlaymakerStats.com executive ID, Identifiant du Référentiel national des bâtiments, Dictionary of American Regional English ID, Dictionary of Old English ID, Encyclopedia Mythica ID, Shamela Author ID, Oxford English Dictionary object identifier, Daryab Pashto Glossary ID, Great Plains Herbaria taxon ID, PROSPEROPatches game ID, ORBISPatches game ID, Quake Wiki ID, Hong Kong Cinema ID, Műemlékem.hu identifier, Trakt-Film-ID, Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, Personen der Moderne Basis person ID, Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Popular Items without claims (Items with the most links but without statements)
- Showcase Items: Airbus (Q67) - European aircraft manufacturer
- Showcase Lexemes: sala (L578377) - translates to "human" or "charcoal" in Dagbanli
Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- We are finishing the endpoint for adding/replacing a sitelink on an Item for a given wiki (phab:T342987) and have finished the ones for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (phab:T344039, phab:T344685)
- We have documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (phab:T355659)
- We fixed the bug where sitelink data was not including badges even when available (phab:T355293)
- IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase so we don't show IP addresses for non-logged-in users.
- mul: We finished the user testing and will now work on the remaining blockers for the first release.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Technische Neuigkeiten: 2024-06
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
- Die Versionsgeschichten in der mobilen Ansicht nutzen nun das gleiche HTML wie die Desktop-Versionsgeschichten. Wenn du von Problemen mit Bezug zur Nutzung der Versionsgeschichte in der mobilen Ansicht hörst, verweise bitte auf den Phabricator-Task.
- In den meisten Wikis können Admins Benutzer nun für bestimmte Aktionen sperren. Diese Aktionen sind: Dateien hochladen, neue Seiten erstellen, Seiten verschieben (umbenennen) und sich bedanken. Das Ziel dieser Funktion ist, es Admins zu ermöglichen, Sperren anzuwenden, die für die Aktivitäten des gesperrten Benutzers angemessen sind. Erfahre mehr über "Aktions-Sperren". [1][2]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
- Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 6 Februar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 7 Februar. Auf allen Wikis ab 8 Februar (Kalender). [3][4]
- Permalinks auf Diskussionsseiten, die diakritische Zeichen und nicht-lateinische Buchstaben enthalten, haben nicht richtig funktioniert. Dieses Problem ist nun behoben. [5]
Zukünftige Änderungen
- 24 Wikipedias mit Einzelnachweis-Tooltips als Standard-Helferlein wird empfohlen, die Standard-Konfiguration zu entfernen. Dadurch würde die Einzelnachweis-Vorschau zum neuen Standard für Einzelnachweis-Popups werden, was zu einer konsistenteren Erfahrung über Wikis hinweg führen würde. Für 46 Wikipedias mit weniger als 4 Benutzeroberflächenadministratoren ist die Änderung bereits für Mitte Februar geplant, sofern es keine Bedenken gibt. Das ältere Helferlein Einzelnachweis-Tooltips wird weiterhin nutzbar bleiben und diese Funktion überschreiben, wenn es in deinem Wiki verfügbar ist und du es in deinen Einstellungen aktiviert hast. [6][7]
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This Month in Education: January 2024
This Month in Education
Volume 13 • Issue 1 • January 2024
- Cross-Continental Wikimedia Activities: A Dialogue between Malaysia and Estonia
- Czech programme SWW in 2023 – how have we managed to engage students
- Extending Updates on Wikipedia in Education – Elbasan, Albania
- Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Teacher’s guide – now available in Bulgarian language
- Summer students at Auckland Museum
- WikiDunong: EduWiki Initiatives in the Philippines Project
- Wikimedia Armenia's Educational Workshops
- Wikimedia Foundation publishes its first Child Rights Impact Assessment
Wikidata weekly summary #615
Discussions
- New request for permissions/Bot:
- CJMBot - let users upload a CSV file in a certain format. The data inside is validated and processed, creating new items or updating existing items by adding statements and references.
- MidLeadingBot_5 - create items for books in National Diet Library (Q477675).
- Closed request for comments: Revamping Birth related properties the use of P1545-Series ordinal was recommended.
- Knowledge Graphs and large Language Models (KALLM) workshop in Bangkok, Thailand. Call for Papers (details) has begun (deadline May 10th)
- WMF Community Wishathon is coming next month: March 15th-17th, 2024! Sign up by Wednesday, March 15th.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- What does it take to become a Spotify artist? - Skoove blog uses Wikidata and other databases to put together an infographic.
- WiLMa Updates, OpenRefine training, Biodiversity, and Librarians (GLAM newsletter)
- Love Data Week - My Kind of Data by Ali Smith. Shared relevant links to learn about data equity and inclusion, disciplinary communities, and creating a kinder world through data.
- Papers
- Paying it forward: Crowdsourcing the harmonisation and linking of taxon names and biodiversity identifiers - with detailed discussion of curation of taxon-related information in Wikidata
- Wikidata for Teaching Biology: Coloration in Felines (Spanish) - a paper that showcases Wikidata as a learning tool for students through the use of properties and statements applied to biological entities can enhance students computational and informational skills, by Marín1 D. & Michán L.
- LIS Journals' Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Willey, E. & Radovsky S., Vol. 7 No.1 (2024) of the Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies.
- Videos
- GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 - Uruguay
- Wikisource and Wikidata - when 2 cool kids play together. Session given by Bodhisattwa.
- Wikidata + Education + Heritage - hosted by Sailesh Patnaik (WMF) & Nat Hernández Clavijo (WMU)
- Using Wikidata integration on Wikimedia projects to enhance GLAM-Wiki content sharing - hosted by Mike Peel (WMB/WMF volunteer) & João Peschanski (WMB)
- Advancing Drinking Water Justice at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Conference discusses how Wikidata and Wikibase Cloud can help address differences in data quality (at the 55:00 minute mark)
- Mapping Graiguenamanagh Heritage Trail 2 - shows how to create a Heritage walking trail and add subject:wikidata to plaques to OpenStreetMap
- GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 - Uruguay
- Notebooks
- Au bord de l'eau Mapping Wikidata's items next to a body of water using P206 property.
Tool of the week
- MediaWiki:Gadget-dataDrainer.js - this userscript allows you to delete the data of an item. You can choose what you want to delete: labels and/or descriptions and/or aliases and or sitelinks.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A project page for the experiment has also been published.
- WMDE is currently conducting a research on Knowledge Equity in Linked Open Data. The goal is to try to better understand how the use of Wikidata, Wikibase Suite, and Wikibase Cloud both support knowledge equity and create barriers to knowledge equity when people are contributing historically and structurally marginalized knowledge and perspectives. If you are interested in participating in this project, please fill out this survey!
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- Environmental Performance Index (measure of understanding environmental performance and sustainability for 180 countries)
- age of onset of sexual maturity (the point in time after which an individual attains the ability to reproduce sexually)
- Beta Code (representation of Ancient Greek as ASCII characters)
- phonetic value (phonetic value of signs/characters)
- civil rank (non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire)
- Newest External identifiers: Dongqiudi.com team ID, Nintendo eShop (Europe) ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Il Nuovo De Mauro ID, Sundance Institute Archive film ID, Sundance Institute Archive event ID, Sundance Institute Archive person ID, notify.moe anime ID, Swetrails POI-ID, UT.no ID, The StoryGraph author ID, X place ID, nixpkgs path, Shamela author ID, PROSPEROPatches game ID, ORBISPatches game ID, Quake Wiki ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- is invariant under (subject is preserved by this process / function / group of transformation)
- formatter URL for IIIF manifest (URL to generate IIIF manifest from specific ID)
- location information URL (URL of a web page providing information on the locations of stores or other physical locations of a brand or operator)
- SMIRKS (A superset of "reaction SMILES" and a subset of "reaction SMARTS", is a line notation for specifying reaction transforms.)
- appeals to (court or other body that hears appeals from subject's decisions)
- in service of (qualifier, which must be used when a person is in the service of a settlement or institution through his position)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID, government.ru person ID, Kremlin.ru glossary ID, British Listed Buildings Online ID, Parsifal cluster ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Souls Grown Deep ID, OHDSI ID, identifiant Trismegistos d'une divinité, Encyclopedia Sindhiana entry, Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) ID, GNM ID, AniSearch anime ID, livechat.me anime ID, NACSIS-CAT library ID, JAHIS Law Database ID, Texas Legislator ID, Company ID number (Slovenia), Weird Gloop article ID, nagrada.srs.kg person ID, who.ca-news.org person ID, literatura.kg person ID, 2nd German Basketball Bundesliga ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Library and Information Science - this new Wikiproject aims to identify and fill gaps in LIS-related content. If you are interested in the areas of librarianship, information studies, metadata and indexing; then please consider joining!
- Political murders in the Weimar Republic - Collect historic political murders in the Weimar Republic e.g. through historic newspaper articles or scientific articles.
- Newest database reports: Humans with missing claims
- Showcase Items: Cactaceae (Q14560) - family of mostly succulent plants, adapted to dry environments
- Showcase Lexemes: ग़रीब को कौड़ी अशरफ़ी है/غریب کو کوڑی اشرفی ہے (L656971) Hindustani proverb that translates to "a farthing is a pound to one who is poor"
Development
- The new mul language code is now ready for beta testing. You can find out more at Help talk:Default values for labels and aliases.
- The graph split testing for the Wikidata Query Service has started. Please find more details in the "Other Noteworthy Stuff" section above.
- IP Masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP Masking feature, so that IP addresses for non-logged-in users are no longer published.
- Wikibase REST API:
- We finished the route for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (phab:T344039, phab:T344685) and we continue work on the one for adding/ replacing and modifying a sitelink on an Item (phab:T342987, phab:T342988)
- We now handle of case sensitive statement IDs in GET, PUT, PATCH and DELETE requests as HTTP redirect (phab:T354261)
- We documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (phab:T355659)
- We fixed the bug where sitelink data did not include badges (phab:T355293)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 13 February 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
- Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?
- Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
- Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
- Crossword: Our crossword to bear
- Comix: Strongly
Technische Neuigkeiten: 2024-07
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
- Das Aufteilungsexperiment des WDQS-Graphen funktioniert und wird auf 3 Testservern geladen. Das verantwortliche Team testet die Auswirkungen der Aufteilung und benötigt Rückmeldungen von WDQS-Benutzern über die Benutzeroberfläche oder programmatisch über verschiedene Kanäle. [8][9][10] Die Rückmeldungen der Benutzer werden die Auswirkungen verschiedener Anwendungsfälle und Arbeitsabläufe rund um den Wikidata-Abfragedienst validieren. [11][12]
Probleme
- Es gab einen Fehler, der sich auf die Darstellung besuchter Links ausgewirkt hat, wenn mit einem mobilen Gerät auf Wiki-Seiten zugegriffen wurde. Dadurch erschienen die Links schwarz; dieses Problem wurde behoben.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
- Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 13 Februar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 14 Februar. Auf allen Wikis ab 15 Februar (Kalender). [13][14]
- Da die Arbeiten an der Abschaltung der Grid-Engine fortgesetzt werden,[15] werden Werkzeuge auf der Grid-Engine ab dem 14. Februar 2024 eingestellt. Wenn du Werkzeuge aktiv migrierst, kannst du nach einer Fristverlängerung fragen, damit sie nicht gestoppt werden. [16]
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MediaWiki message delivery 06:46, 13. Feb. 2024 (CET)
Technische Neuigkeiten: 2024-08
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
- Wenn du die Option "Bei Änderungen an beobachteten Seiten oder Dateien E-Mails senden" aktiviert hast, werden Bearbeitungen von Bots keine Benachrichtigungs-E-Mails mehr auslösen. Zuvor wurde nur bei kleinen Änderungen keine Benachrichtigungs-E-Mail ausgelöst. [17]
- Es gibt Änderungen daran, wie Benutzerskripte und seitenweite Skripte für Vector 2022 in bestimmten Wikis geladen werden. Die Änderungen betreffen folgende Wikis: alle Projekte mit der alten Vector-Version als Standard-Skin, Wikivoyage und Wikibooks. Andere Wikis werden im Laufe der nächsten drei Monate betroffen sein. Helferleins sind nicht betroffen. Wenn du betroffen bist oder die Auswirkungen in deinem Projekt minimieren möchtest, sieh dir bitte dieses Ticket an. Bitte koordiniere dich und ergreife proaktiv Maßnahmen.
- Automatisch neu erstellte Konten (die Konten, die erstellt werden, wenn du ein neues Wiki besuchst) haben jetzt die gleichen Benachrichtigungseinstellungen wie Benutzer, die sich in diesem Wiki neu registriert haben. Dies betrifft vier Benachrichtigungsarten, die in der Beschreibung der Aufgabe aufgelistet sind.
- Die maximale Dateigröße für den Hochladeassistenten liegt nun bei 5 GiB. [18]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
- Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 20 Februar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 21 Februar. Auf allen Wikis ab 22 Februar (Kalender). [19][20]
- Ausgewählte Werkzeuge auf der Grid-Engine wurden gestoppt, da wir die Abschaltung der Grid am 14. März 2024 vorbereiten. Der Code und die Daten der Werkzeuge wurden nicht gelöscht. Wenn du ein Entwickler bist und dein Werkzeug wieder aktivieren möchtest, kontaktieren bitte das Team. Nur Werkzeuge, die um eine Verlängerung gebeten haben, laufen noch auf der Grid.
- Die CSS-Eigenschaft
filter
kann nun in HTML-style
-Attributen im Wikitext genutzt werden. [21]
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MediaWiki message delivery 16:34, 19. Feb. 2024 (CET)
Wikidata weekly summary #617
<translate> Discussions
- Open request for adminship: WT2O_2 - (RfP deadline: February 22, 2024 17:46 UTC)
- Other: Project chat: PI Bot is an interesting conversation about the function of PI Bot in creating Stub articles and evolves into discussing ways of matching articles, categories and templates in sibling projects with their Wikidata items. Contribute to the discussion or even better, use one of the many tools posted and get linking!
</translate> <translate> Events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 20, 2024: In honor of Valentine's Day month, we are bringing back the popular program from last February: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project, even if you’re just beginning to think about it, or just what you like to edit when you have time. This is a great way to share your ideas, solicit community input and ask questions about resources or tools. This will be an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so. You can share your screen if you like, but there’s no need for slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda
- Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and LLMs (KaLLM) at ACL 2024. Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE
- Wiki Workshop 2024 ― Research Track Papers - Call for contributions. Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
</translate> <translate> Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 2023 Year Review by ADDSHORE, a prominent contributor and community member for WBStack and Wikibase.Cloud.
- Wikidata Literary Influencers by Paul Matthews shows step-by-step how to get to an interactive network visualization based on Wikidata data
- Papers: Language models for extracting Wikidata statements and generating Wikipedia content - is a Wikimedia Research proposal to improve Wikidata and English Wikipedia content using machine-learning power of AI and LL Models; by Thang, T.
- Videos
- Kairntech Demo Entity Extraction using Wikidata - is an example of how Wikidata is being used as a knowledge base to populate AI companions and LLM's with relevant content for profit.
- Dancing Digital Project with Rebecca Salzer is a Wikibase instance sharing LOD between itself, video archives and Commons.
- WikiPod AI - try listening to last week's Status Updates with AI-generated speaking, an experiment by Tiago Lubiana.
- Notebooks: TTTTRPG - Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games queried using SPARQL from Wikidata.
</translate> <translate> Tool of the week
- User:Yair rand/DiffLists.js - this userscript changes the appearance of Recent Changes, Watchlist, Contributions, History pages, and Related Changes. It also adds filter options.
- Wikidata Topic Curator (a rewrite of ItemSubjector into a webapp) help wikimedians add relevant topics to items. Based on a given topic QID it fetches articles matching the label, aliases or a custom user-provided term of that QID that is currently missing the main subject property.
- Author Disambiguator - is a tool for editing the authors of works recorded in Wikidata, e.g. for finding Wikidata Items for the authors (P50 instead of 'author name string').
</translate> <translate> Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- has cabinet (value is the advisory committee to the item's head of state)
- ISCED field (mapping of a particular course or curriculum to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED))
- appeals to (court or other body that hears appeals from subject's decisions)
- location information URL (URL of a web page providing information on the locations of stores or other physical locations of a brand or operator)
- phonographic copyright (person or organization that holds the phonographic copyright)
- is invariant under (subject is unchanged by this process / function / group of transformation)
- formatter URL for IIIF manifest (URL to generate IIIF manifest from specific ID)
- PyPI trove classifier (standardized classification system for software, used and maintained by the Python Package Index)
- graduation rate (proportion of students who graduate from the institution in the given timeframe)
- normal graduation time (expected or typical duration of an educational program from matriculation to graduation)
- multiplier of normal graduation time (how much longer than "normal" someone took to graduate; used as a qualifier for the "graduation rate (P12469)")
- top scorer (best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or the best ever scorer of the history of a competition)
- Newest External identifiers: Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry, TopKar ID, Mindat taxon ID, China Animal Scientific Database taxon ID, Daryab Pashto Glossary ID, Dictionary of American Regional English ID, Dictionary of Old English ID, Encyclopedia Mythica ID, Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID, Great Plains Herbaria taxon ID, FrameNet frame ID, Parsifal cluster ID, Archives départementales de Vaucluse fonds ID, Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) ID, National Buildings Repository identifier, Location Memory building ID, JSTOR Global Plants type specimen ID, EDIT16 catalogue title ID, EDIT16 catalogue place ID, Trismegistos god ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, Weird Gloop article ID, Kremlin.ru glossary ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Hindawi Foundation book ID (A property for IDs of books published by [[Q20397014|Hindawi Foundation]])
- Castradenumber (number for a registred subject in a Castrade)
- latest end date ((qualifier) latest date on which the statement could have ceased to be true (i.e., latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true))
- anthesis start (time of the year when a plant normally starts flowering)
- leaf morphology (characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Oyez Project ID, GARAE, WhatPub pub ID, Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary ID, Dictionary of Gandhari ID, UCA authority ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, Epigraphic Database Roma ID, European Union trade mark number, GCatholic Episcopal Conference ID, Consortium of Midwest Herbaria taxon ID
</translate> <translate> You can comment on all open property proposals! </translate> <translate>
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Graph of ancient philosophers master/student relationships
- Properties for UK lakes (contains a report-within-a-report allowing to look at Items having the Property) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Looted heritage - aims to use Wikidata to document looted cultural heritage. Its primary focus is on the colonial era, but it also encompasses other relevant historical periods. It's scope includes artworks, sacred items, human remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be considered a part of a people's heritage.
- WikiProject Highlights: Staedel Museum Wikidata Clean-up The Staedul Museum comprises 24,000+ works of art spanning more than 700 years. They have generously opened up digital surrogates of their collection to the Wikimedia community. This project improves the metadata quality and create Wikidata items for works of art.
- Newest database reports: Genderless people with Facebook ID
- Showcase Items: Varanus komodoensis (Q4504) - species of reptile
- Showcase Lexemes: scala (L683571) - "stairs" in Italian
</translate> <translate> Development
- IP Masking: We added redirect-related parameters to most Wikibase API modules (phab:T357024; an announcement is in the works)
- We migrated Termbox SSR from Node 16 to 18 (phab:T355685)
- We made the (legacy) termbox remember its expanded/collapsed state for anonymous visitors and temporary users (phab:T351976)
- We deployed and backported several security fixes to Wikibase release branches (phab:T345064, phab:T356764)
</translate> <translate> 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. </translate> <translate> Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: #128 Languages
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
</translate>
Technische Neuigkeiten: 2024-09
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
- Der mobile Visual Editor ist in einer kleinen Anzahl von Wikis nun der Standard-Editor für Benutzer, die zuvor noch nie editiert haben. Forschungsergebnisse haben gezeigt, dass Benutzer, die diesen Editor verwenden, etwas erfolgreicher die begonnenen Bearbeitungen veröffentlichen und etwas weniger erfolgreich nicht zurückgesetzte Bearbeitungen veröffentlichen. Benutzer, die den Wikitext-Editor als Standard auf dem Desktop definieren, werden für ihre erste mobile Bearbeitung den mobilen Wikitext-Editor erhalten. [22]
- Der mw.config-Wert
wgGlobalGroups
enthält nun nur Gruppen, die in dem Wiki aktiv sind. Skripte müssen nicht mehr über eine API-Abfrage prüfen, ob die Gruppe in dem Wiki aktiv ist. Ein Code-Beispiel dafür ist:if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups")))
. [23]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
- Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 27 Februar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 28 Februar. Auf allen Wikis ab 29 Februar (Kalender). [24][25]
Zukünftige Änderungen
- Das Recht zur Änderung von Bearbeitungsmarkierungen (
changetags
) wird auf Wikimedia-Seiten von Benutzern entfernt und standardmäßig nur für Administratoren und Bots beibehalten. Deine Community kann darum bitten, die alte Konfiguration in deinem Wiki beizubehalten, bevor die Änderung erfolgt. Bitte gib in diesem Ticket bis Ende März 2024 an, wenn die Einstellungen für deine Community beibehalten werden sollen.
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:21, 26. Feb. 2024 (CET)
The Signpost: 2 March 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
- Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
- In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
- Obituary: Vami_IV
- Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday
- WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
Wikidata weekly summary #618
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Mike Peel (scheduled to end after 9 March 2024 13:08 (UTC))
- Closed request for adminship: Madamebiblio requested for admintool to fight against vandalism, and the request was closed as successful.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Mfchris84-Bot - Task: Will run scripts on toolforge to automate and schedule edits on bibliographic items. Starting with Swiss online magazine Syntopia Alpina (Q112206291), then continuing by adding swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to version/edition items.
- BorkedBot_12 - Task: Update number of viewers/listeners (P5436) with the qualifier YouTube channel ID (P2397) for YouTuber content creators and influencers.
- LocodeBot - Task: Match UN/LOCODE (Q499348) to Wikidata entries by ISO 3166-2 region code, name and distance (if defined), important for UN organisations.
- Events
- Wiki-in-action: Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons at the Stars (Italian) - WM Italy, AIB Lombardia & GWMAB host a practical workshop on Wikidata Thursday, March 21, 16 - 18:00 CET in the Valvassori Peroni Library, Milan. Further details on the Wiki Event page: GWMAB/Stelline/2024
- Join the Queensbridge Tech Lab edit-a-thon - create and enrich local diverse heroes in Queens, NYC as part of the NYC Open Data Week. March 16, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC -5).
- Wikidata, Open Education Resources and Curriculum alignment discussion - hosted by Creative Commons during the OEWeek event. Takes place 5th March 15:00 CET, register in the link!
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Empowering BHL Staff with Wiki Education’s Wikidata Certificate Course - The Biodiversity Heritage Library blog celebrates committee members completing a Wikidata Certification course led by Will Kent, as part of the Wiki Education. Participants levelled up SPARQL queries, visualisations, federation, modelling and bulk loading and editing.
- Observable tutorial for Wikidata users (French) published in the last issue of RAW in Wikipedia in French
- Papers: LLMs Can Better Understand Knowledge Graphs Than We Thought - This paper employs CQA, complex question answering, to assess LLMs ability to comprehend knowledge graphs. Xinbang, D. et al.
- Videos
- OpenRefine - extract tables from Wikipedia for Wikidata (French) - Part 6 of the Wiki Wake Up Afrique, this shot tutorial will show a simple and advanced method of converting tabulated data to enrich Wikidata.
- Breathing life into the women's archive through Wikidata - speaker Brodie Hoare advocates for adding data and information about women from historical archives to Wikidata at the National Digital Forum '23.
- Application development using open knowledge graph, Wikidata (Japanese) speaker Koji Furusaki hosts an open data study session and showcases examples of app development using Wikidata.
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- WiQuizz - from Nuxt and SPARQL WiQuizz allows you to create or play quiz games where content is generated from Wikidata. It could be a fun way to get people interacting with Wikidata!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Claim Analysis Toolkit, collection of Observable notebooks to visualize simple Wikidata claims
- Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- top scorer (best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or the best ever scorer of the history of a competition)
- filial church (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish)
- television judge (person who participates in a television show as a competition judge or mentor)
- Papers with Code URL (URL for subject in Papers with Code system)
- SMIRKS (line notation that represents generic chemical reactions)
- thesaurus's main topic (primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus)
- thesaurus combines topics (this theasurus combines (intersects) these two or more topics)
- topic's main thesaurus (main Wikimedia theasurus)
- latest end date (latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true)
- rug style (classification of an individual textile floor covering based on geographic or cultural origin, structure, or pattern)
- performing organization (organization that received funding to create this entity)
- External identifiers: AniSearch anime ID, Brazzers ID, Tekściory artist ID, Hong Kong Cinema ID, PlaymakerStats.com sports executive ID, Műemlékem.hu identifier, PMB – Personen der Moderne Basis person ID, British Listed Buildings ID, GNM ID, 2GIS place-ID, 2GIS route-ID, livechart.me anime ID, Trakt.tv film ID, NACSIS-CAT library ID, Epigraphic Database Roma ID, WhatPub pub ID, JAHIS Law Database ID, literatura.kg person ID, nagrada.srs.kg person ID, who.ca-news.org person ID, UCA authority ID, European Union trademark number, ONIX codelist ID, GCatholic episcopal conference ID, Oxford English Dictionary object ID, 2nd German Basketball Bundesliga ID, Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary ID, nimi.li ID, Nye ord i dansk ID, OHDSI ID, Consortium of Midwest Herbaria taxon ID, Encyclopedia Astronautica ID, Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID, Italian Senate (1848-1943) ID, ICANNWiki page ID, Dictionary of Gandhari ID, FSA Food Hygiene Rating System ID, Finnish Service Catalogue organization ID, Köztérkép creator ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- date popularized (point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception)
- Bild der Person bei der Tätigkeit (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits)
- Hindawi Foundation book ID (A property for IDs of books published by [[Q20397014|Hindawi Foundation]])
- A New Nation Votes ID (ID of a person in A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825)
- form decomposition (form decomposition)
- Ludzie Nauki ID (identifier in the Ludzie Nauki, the new official database of Polish scientists)
- Nanopublication identifier (Nanopublications are small RDF-based publications, quite similar to Wikidata Statements with references and history.)
- External identifiers: TNHR&CE Temple ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Saudipedia ID, DLE entry ID, Singapore Infopedia ID (new scheme), COBISS ID, DWDS sense ID, museum-digital tag ID, Gematsu event ID, RERO+ ID, Premier League player ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, 11v11 player ID, OSL ID, EJ Atlas ID, Statbunker player ID, BFO class ID, Combine OverWiki ID, Autores Galegos na BUSC
- General datatypes:
- Deleted properties:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
- Did you know?
- Query examples:
- 28 Female Biographies that exist in 50 Wikipedias, but not Catalan - a good example for finding knowledge gaps.
- Explore data about Wikimedia Residencies - see start and end dates, organisation employer, average duration and associated project.
- Newest WikiProjects: Te Papa Research Expeditions - create and enrich metadata and trial research expeditions schema for Te Papa, Dominion and Colonial Museums.
- Newest database reports: Unauthorized Bots (active in last 30 days without Bot flag)
- Showcase Items: Zootopia - the 2016 animated Disney film about anthropomorphic Police officers.
- Showcase Lexemes: bezczelny (L2781) (Polish) To be shameless, uncaring of others, arrogant, over-confident.
- Query examples:
- Development
- IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to no longer show IPs for non-logged in users.
- Wikibase REST API: We are almost done with the routes for adding/editing/removing a sitelink.
- Entity Schemas: We prototyped another approach to making it possible to link to Entity Schemas in statements.
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!