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<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div style="column-count:2;"> {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-08-14}} </div><!--Volume 20, Issue 11--> <div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * '''[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|Read this Signpost in full]]''' * [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2024-08-14|Single-page]] * [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe|Unsubscribe]] * [[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]] ([[User talk:MediaWiki message delivery|talk]]) 22:50, 14 August 2024 (UTC) <!-- Sent via script ([[User:JPxG/SPS]]) --></div></div> |
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== Wikidata weekly summary #641 == |
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<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.<br>This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-19.''</div> |
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''' Discussions ''' |
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* Open request for adminship: |
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** [[Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wüstenspringmaus|Wüstenspringmaus]] (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2024 11:07 (UTC)) |
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** [[Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Mohammed_Qays|Mohammed Qays]] (RfP scheduled to end after 19 August 2024 19:11 (UTC)) |
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* New requests for permissions/Bot: [[Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Bot5958_1b|Bot5958 1b]] - Task: Infer {{P|P1712}} of TV series, seasons, and episodes from vertically adjacent levels. |
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''' [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events|Events]] ''' |
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* (Save The Date) |
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** Wikidata Days Bologna - November 8 - 9, 2024. Dario Nobili Library (CNR). A conference dedicated to the Italian-speaking Wikidata community, with a focus on libraries and research. |
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* Ongoing |
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** Like Soccer? Did you know the [[m:Wiki_Soccerthons_2024_in_Uganda|Uganda Wiki Soccerthon 2024]] is still running and aims to create over 300 Wikidata items on Ugandan clubs, players, coaches, leagues, associations and leagues related to Ugandan soccer. |
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* In case you missed it... |
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** Catch up on all the Wikimania 2024 sessions with these [https://www.youtube.com/@TheWikimediaFoundation/videos YouTube replays]. Or check the [https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/schedule/ Eventyay schedule] for recordings of individual sessions linked to each item. |
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''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' |
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* Blogs |
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** [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2024/08/13/unveiling-discrepancies-first-experiences-with-finding-mismatches-on-wikidata-and-how-you-can-too/ (Tech News) Unveiling discrepancies: First experiences with finding mismatches on Wikidata and how you can too] - A team of five Purdue University students partnered with Wikimedia Deutschland for the Purdue Data Mine to find mismatches for the Wikidata Mismatch Finder. |
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** [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2024/08/12/wikidata-power-contributor-an-interview-with-user-bodhisattwa/ (Tech News) Wikidata power contributor: an interview with user Bodhisattwa] - WMDE's Alan Ang talks with long-time editor and pillar of the Bangla Wiki community, Bodhisattwa. |
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** (de) [https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/7526 Whether toolbox, workshop or hardware store: open, community-curated tool Registries with Wikidata] - I. Trilling, T. Grallert and J. Schmitz discuss the tool-directory created “Kompetenzwerkstatt Digital Humanities” (KDH) at the UB and the “Methods Innovation Lab” of the NFDI4Memory and presented at the Chair of Digital History. |
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* Papers |
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** [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-68323-7_35 Discovering Relationships Among Properties in Wikidata Knowledge Graph] - Authors Emetis Niazmand and Maria-Esther Vidal use class-based relationship discovery to study and explore distribution and frequency of predicates across six domains. Pp 388–394 of Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery. |
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* Videos |
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** (pt) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agmjmf3knjg Wikidata Lab XLII: OpenRefine] Éder Porto and Luca Belo host a workshop covering the newest features for loading media and Structured Data (SDC) on Commons, as well as metadata on Wikidata through OpenRefine. |
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** (es) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyzBixV98vE Use of records on Wikipedia using Wikidata] - Mikel Zubimendi shows how to populate Wikipedia articles with Infoboxes populated by data hosted on Wikidata. |
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** [https://youtube.com/watch?v=rFdxAn6Agr0?t=681 Engaging with language diversity via the Wikipedia ecosystem @ PGO24] - [[User:Daniel_Mietchen|User:Daniel Mietchen]] at the Polyglot Gathering hosts a workshop with numerous examples of how the Wiki ecosystem hosts and represents linguistic content. |
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* Notebooks |
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** [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/Olympic-medals-by-continent Medals count by continent] Combining data from the International Olympic Committee and Wikidata, this notebook computes medals count by continent. |
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** [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cycling-stage-race-explorer?race=Q1542952&lang=en&winner=Q20882747 Winners of the Tour de France Femmes] The Tour de France Femmes 2024 just ended on Sunday 18th of August. The cycling stage race explorer notebook shows all stage winners of the Tour de France Femmes. |
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* [https://observablehq.com/d/b9323741423d2152 Visualisation of location of Japanese Lighthouses] The TU Delft Library queries Wikidata to map the location of Japanese lighthouses designed by Richard Henry Brunton or Léonce Verny. |
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* Tools |
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** (fr) [https://data.cpesr.fr/wikidataesr/ WikidataESR: Tenter d’y voir clair dans l’ESR] : exploring French higher education and research institutional landscape with the help of Wikidata. French higher education and research landscape is highly complex. Wikidata can help to better understand the landscape. |
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''' Tool of the week ''' |
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* [https://github.com/sahajsk21/Anvesha Anvesha] is a drill-down browser for any Wikibase installation (incl. Wikidata). A prominent example of it in use is the [https://wikidatawalkabout.org/ Wikidata Walkabout]. |
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''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' |
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* [[Wikidata:For_developers|Wikidata: For Developers]] - We have a shiny new portal for developers wanting to build applications using Wikidata's data. Visit it for inspiration with showcase examples, resources, information and support. |
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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:P12912|object of action]] (<nowiki>specific object to which an action or class of actions applies</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12913|object class of action]] (<nowiki>class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12919|public funding]] (<nowiki>amount of public funding an organisation receives</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Property:P12933|relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator]] (<nowiki>indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components</nowiki>) |
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** External identifiers: [[:d:Property:P12900|ARABTERM entry ID]], [[:d:Property:P12901|Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID]], [[:d:Property:P12902|Women in Resistance ID]], [[:d:Property:P12903|French-English Dictionary ID]], [[:d:Property:P12904|German-English Dictionary ID]], [[:d:Property:P12905|Emerald Group Publishing journal ID]], [[:d:Property:P12906|Taylor & Francis journal ID]], [[:d:Property:P12907|JTA Sightseeing Database ID]], [[:d:Property:P12908|WorldCyclingStats ID]], [[:d:Property:P12909|The New Mithraeum ID]], [[:d:Property:P12910|Finnish Ministers database ID (new)]], [[:d:Property:P12911|State Historical Museum of Russia person ID]], [[:d:Property:P12914|mandumah ID]], [[:d:Property:P12915|Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID]], [[:d:Property:P12916|Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID]], [[:d:Property:P12917|FoodData Central ID]], [[:d:Property:P12918|French bathing water ID]], [[:d:Property:P12920|Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID]], [[:d:Property:P12921|Political Dictionary ID]], [[:d:Property:P12922|United Nations Digital Library ID]], [[:d:Property:P12923|U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID]], [[:d:Property:P12924|365scores football player ID]], [[:d:Property:P12925|African Music Library artist ID]], [[:d:Property:P12926|Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID]], [[:d:Property:P12927|GamingOnLinux Database ID]], [[:d:Property:P12928|TIPLOC code]], [[:d:Property:P12929|JJM Habitation ID]], [[:d:Property:P12930|IDU play ID]], [[:d:Property:P12931|IDU original ID]], [[:d:Property:P12932|Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID]], [[:d:Property:P12934|The House of Graphs 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 de vote|date de vote]] (<nowiki>vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/schmeckt nach|schmeckt nach]] (<nowiki>taste that a food or drink has</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/has semantic role (2nd proposal)|has semantic role (2nd proposal)]] (<nowiki>item that describes a role in an event/action class</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/growth rate|growth rate]] (<nowiki>growth rate of something over time</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/APPF registration status|APPF registration status]] (<nowiki>status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/exponent of base unit|exponent of base unit]] (<nowiki>a qualifier of {{Q|P12571}} used to describe the exponent of the unit</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Javanese registers|Javanese registers]] (<nowiki>suggest the relationship between similar Javanese lexemes, between its various registers (social variants), mainly {{Q|12500634}} register (plain Javanese), {{Q|12492493}} register (high/polite Javanese), and {{Q|13091955}} register (middle Javanese)</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/objects of action have role|objects of action have role]] (<nowiki>role that objects of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use {{P|12913}} instead.)</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/ConLang Code Registry code|ConLang Code Registry code]] (<nowiki>3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3</nowiki>) |
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***[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/dénomination|dénomination]] (<nowiki>value of a currency or type of currency</nowiki>) |
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** External identifiers: [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Tretyakov Gallery artist ID|Tretyakov Gallery artist ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID|Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/identifiant FranceTerme|identifiant FranceTerme]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Yediot Books book ID|Yediot Books book ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/xdaforums|xdaforums]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/FolkWiki ID|FolkWiki ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/365scores basketball player ID|365scores basketball player ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/SIMBAD catalog properties (used more than 1 million times)|SIMBAD catalog properties (used more than 1 million times)]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/All Musicals lyrics ID|All Musicals lyrics ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/365scores football team ID|365scores football team ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/365scores basketball team ID|365scores basketball team ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Illinois Center for the Book Author ID|Illinois Center for the Book Author ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Ôlyrix Person ID|Ôlyrix Person ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Ідентифікатор відеогри Gamekombo|Ідентифікатор відеогри Gamekombo]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Slekt og Data grave ID|Slekt og Data grave ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/iasj article ID|iasj article ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/MobyGames critic ID|MobyGames critic ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Grand Comics Database feature ID|Grand Comics Database feature ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Operabook Person ID|Operabook Person ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Retromags game ID|Retromags game ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Retromags magazine ID|Retromags magazine ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/speedrun.com series ID|speedrun.com series ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Madain Project ID|Madain Project ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/GameFAQs genre ID|GameFAQs genre ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Altar of Gaming game ID|Altar of Gaming game ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Altar of Gaming company ID|Altar of Gaming company ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Polygon game ID|Polygon game ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Altar of Gaming franchise ID|Altar of Gaming franchise ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Altar of Gaming character ID|Altar of Gaming character ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Altar of Gaming person ID|Altar of Gaming person ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/FOLDOC ID|FOLDOC ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/WE.League player ID|WE.League player ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/WE.League manager ID|WE.League manager ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Nomes e Voces ID|Nomes e Voces ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/cnkgraph person ID|cnkgraph person ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/cnkgraph poem ID|cnkgraph poem ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/cnkgraph book ID|cnkgraph book ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Identifiant d'un auteur sur Ciel d'oc|Identifiant d'un auteur sur Ciel d'oc]] |
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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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** [https://w.wiki/Av9N Of the official mottos of U.S. states, there are more in Latin than in English] |
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** [https://w.wiki/AxNL Instance/sub-classes of {{Q|115870510}} that have 3 or more non-English Wikipedia site-links] |
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* Newest [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects|WikiProjects]]: [[Wikidata:WikiProject Disambiguation|Disambiguation]] |
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* Newest [[d:Wikidata:Database reports|database reports]]: [[Wikidata:WikiProject_Association_football/Wanted_footballers|Wanted footballers]] |
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* [[d:Wikidata:Showcase items|Showcase Items]]: {{Q|319}} |
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''' Development ''' |
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* [https://wikimedia.pt/limetestbr/index.php/547431 QuickStatements Community Consultation], until August 31st |
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* Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to improve error messages and handling. |
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* Wikipedia and co: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the sidebar ([[phab:T66315]]) |
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* Wikidata Query Service graph split: The WMF Search Platform team is setting up the servers for the split graphs. We hope to have them ready for use soon. We also prepared the constraints checks for this. |
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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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'''Weekly 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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Wikidata weekly summary #634
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-01. Please help Translate.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- DifoolBot 4 Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.
- Bot Bozze Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
- New request for comments: Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.
- Past: The Lexicodays 2024 was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are here c:Category:Lexicodays 2024. More will be added as they become available.
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 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.
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024
- Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe. Register here!
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Querying for audio on Wikidata - This blog post discusses using SPARQL queries on Wikidata to find audio recordings, focusing on musical compositions and their associated genres.
- Stories from the anti-disinformation repository: Why Wikimedia is an antidote to disinformation - The blog post highlights how Wikidata, as a central storage repository, plays a crucial role in countering disinformation by providing reliable, structured data for Wikimedia projects and beyond.
- Diff Blog: Imagining a Wikidata future for librarians together - the sixth and final blog post from the LD42023 conference. Silvia Gutiérrez (WMF) and Giovanna Fontenelle (WMF) document the results of the collaborative session on building a bridge between the Library-Wikidata community and WMF.
- Census IDs are Now Wikidata External Identifiers
- Library Knowledge as Linked Data: A Wikidata Approach: Contributing to a shared data commons. David Erlandson describes the experiences of using Wikidata for the pilot Program for Cooperative Cataloging to "accelerate the movement towards ubiquitous identifier creation and identity management at the network level".
- Papers
- Mapping the Past: Geographically Linking an Early 20th Century Swedish Encyclopedia with Wikidata - This paper describes the extraction of location entries from a prominent Swedish encyclopedia and sheds light on selection and representation of geographic information in the Nordisk Familjebok. By A. Ahlin, A. Myrne & P. Nugues.
- Papers from the just-ended Wiki Workshop 2024
- Do LOD Conventions Impede the Representation of Diversity? The Case of Disabled Actors in DBpedia and Wikidata?
- SPARQL for LIS Analytics: Exploring Gender Representation amongst PCC Wikidata Pilot Participant
- Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph-Linguistic Fusion
- Wikidata Quality Toolkit: Entity Schema Generator Demonstration (tool demonstration)
- Videos
- Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Enable Equitable and Validated Generative AI - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan Fraine and Lydia Pintscher show how Wikidata can be used to provide well-cited information and how semantic search can augment generative AI inference. Presented at the Open Source GenAI & ML Summit.
- Wikidata Editing LIVE at Lexico Days 2024 - User:Abbe98 and User:JanAinali are back for another session of live-editing, focused on lexicographical data, during the Lexico Days 2024 event that took place this last weekend, June 28 - June 30.
- Get more out of Wikidata with Resonator - Rachel Hendrick and Gary Price of LibTech Tools walk through Resonator and point out the best ways to use it. Resonator is available on ToolForge.
- Knowledge Integrity: Reliability- Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph Linguistic Fusion - Diego (WMF) and Mykola Trokhmovych showcase their work on building a model to help Wikidata editors identify edits that require patrolling, as part of the [Wiki Workshop 2024.
- Inclusion of Communities: Using Wikibase to Leverage Community Sourced Data Initiatives - Erin Yunes talks about their work in using Wikibase Cloud as part of the Compel project (COmputer Music Preservation Electronic Library).
- (es) ¿Cómo fortalecer el dominio público con Wikidata? - This Wikitools Workshop hosted by Jorge Gemetto is on Paulina, a tool for exploring and accessing public domain information on authors and their works.
Tool of the week
- Automatic Structuring of text for Wikidata - User:BrokenSegue introduces their new tool.
- User:Zvpunry/CreateNewItem - This is a User script to easily add a new Item while editing a Statement and noticing that the desired Item is missing.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course has begun. Class will continue until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
- music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
- coin edge (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
- ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
- Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia article ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, filmas.lv person ID, filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, Burgenwelt ID, Irish-English Dictionary ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, Canadian Great War Project person ID, English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, Avibase person ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Cineuropa production company ID, OpenCitations Meta ID, IGN franchise ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID, Devri ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
- KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
- Tüik mahalle id (Identifier of neighborhoods <small>({{q|Q17051044}})</small> in Turkey in TÜİK <small>({{q|Q1375058}})</small> database)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, Overcast episode ID, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, FEI horse ID, Google Play author ID, identifiant d'une personne sur Archelec, Standard Ebooks ID, Lojas com História ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, milononline.net entry ID, KANAL identifier, LAGL author ID, Alle Burgen, FC Krasnodar player id, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, GOArt databas, ArchWiki article, Star Wars.com, identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb)
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- Newest WikiProjects: Inuktitut - This is the space to organize work to assure that the sum of all knowledge and the supporting infrastructure for necessary services are available in Inuktitut (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, Inuktitut).
- Newest database reports: Merge candidates based on same pattern
- Showcase Items: Montblanc (Q761735) - town in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia
- Showcase Lexemes: gbuɣi (L725113) - Dagbanli verb, translates to "vomiting" and "sprouting"
Development
- EntitySchemas:
- We worked around an issue where EntitySchema pages were no longer considered “content” and had become unsearchable (phab:T368010)
- We prepared for the release of the new datatype on July 2nd.
- mul language code: We are working on the last remaining blocker before rolling out the first stage to Wikidata (phab:T362917)
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to rework API errors (phab:T366911, phab:T366239)
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- 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:
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Argentina
- 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 #640
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-12. Please help Translate.
- Wikimania 2024 took place in Katowice, Poland. You can watch replays of the sessions on YouTube. Additionally, recordings of individual sessions are linked to each item on the Eventyay schedule.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Scholarly discussions through they eyes of CiTO (and Wikidata) - The post emphasizes how Wikidata can serve as a central hub for linking various scholarly resources, enabling better data interoperability and discoverability.
- Papers
- Talking Wikidata: Communication patterns and their impact on community engagement in collaborative knowledge graphs - a study of Wikidata's collaboration patterns reveals that a small group of highly engaged members drives most contributions, and improving discussions and engagement strategies could enhance long-term participation in the community.
- Videos
- FOSS4GE 2024 | Bridging Worlds: Integration of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Discover the synergy between Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, two monumental open data repositories. This talk unveils innovative web-based tools facilitating the linking of these platforms, enhancing the richness and accuracy of geospatial data.
- Setting up a Wikibase reconciliation service - Wikibase Working Hours by OlafJanssen
- Notebooks: List of countries by continent in Wikidata
Tool of the week
- New Q5 - is a form that quickly sets up a Wikidata Item for an individual by generating a QuickStatement with the basic parameters such as name and age.
- User:Nikki/SDCInfo.js - is a Userscript that shows some Wikimedia Commons statements on pronunciation audio statements on Lexeme forms.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
- object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
- object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
- public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
- relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
- Newest External identifiers: Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, mandumah ID, Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID, FoodData Central ID, French bathing water ID, Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID, Political Dictionary ID, United Nations Digital Library ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, 365scores football player ID, African Music Library artist ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID, GamingOnLinux Database ID, TIPLOC code, JJM Habitation ID, IDU play ID, IDU original ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
- schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
- has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
- growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
- lifespan (duration of a person's known or recorded lifespan)
- APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
- exponent of base unit (a qualifier of {{Q|P12571}} used to describe the exponent of the unit)
- Javanese registers (suggest the relationship between similar Javanese lexemes, between its various registers (social variants), mainly {{Q|12500634}} register (plain Javanese), {{Q|12492493}} register (high/polite Javanese), and {{Q|13091955}} register (middle Javanese))
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, xdaforums, FolkWiki ID, 365scores basketball player ID, The House of Graphs ID, SIMBAD catalog properties (used more than 1 million times), All Musicals lyrics ID, 365scores football team ID, 365scores basketball team ID, Illinois Center for the Book Author ID, Ôlyrix Person ID, Ідентифікатор відеогри Gamekombo, Slekt og Data grave ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
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- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Redundancy - The primary aim of WikiProject Redundancy is to reduce the amount of Wikidata's data—without reducing the amount of information in Wikidata!—for the well-being of Wikidata, its community, and its downstream users.
- Newest database reports: Items with instance of (P31) human (Q5) and date of birth (P569) > date of death (P570)
- Showcase Items: Cambridge (Q350): city in Cambridgeshire, England
- Showcase Lexemes: kpanjɔɣu (L651052) - A Dagbani noun described in English as hampers, baskets, or similar containers made from woven materials like reeds, grasses, or wicker, traditionally used for carrying or storing clothing.
Development
- Not much happened this past week because the team was attending Wikimania.
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.
- 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!
Tech News: 2024-33
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [1]
- Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
Project updates
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (
w:bdr:
) [2]
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The Signpost: 14 August 2024
- In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse
- In focus: Twitter marks the spot
- News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded.
- Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?
- Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing
- Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird
- Humour: I'm proud to be a template
Wikidata weekly summary #641
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-19.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Wüstenspringmaus (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2024 11:07 (UTC))
- Mohammed Qays (RfP scheduled to end after 19 August 2024 19:11 (UTC))
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - Task: Infer of TV series, seasons, and episodes from vertically adjacent levels.
- (Save The Date)
- Wikidata Days Bologna - November 8 - 9, 2024. Dario Nobili Library (CNR). A conference dedicated to the Italian-speaking Wikidata community, with a focus on libraries and research.
- Ongoing
- Like Soccer? Did you know the Uganda Wiki Soccerthon 2024 is still running and aims to create over 300 Wikidata items on Ugandan clubs, players, coaches, leagues, associations and leagues related to Ugandan soccer.
- In case you missed it...
- Catch up on all the Wikimania 2024 sessions with these YouTube replays. Or check the Eventyay schedule for recordings of individual sessions linked to each item.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- (Tech News) Unveiling discrepancies: First experiences with finding mismatches on Wikidata and how you can too - A team of five Purdue University students partnered with Wikimedia Deutschland for the Purdue Data Mine to find mismatches for the Wikidata Mismatch Finder.
- (Tech News) Wikidata power contributor: an interview with user Bodhisattwa - WMDE's Alan Ang talks with long-time editor and pillar of the Bangla Wiki community, Bodhisattwa.
- (de) Whether toolbox, workshop or hardware store: open, community-curated tool Registries with Wikidata - I. Trilling, T. Grallert and J. Schmitz discuss the tool-directory created “Kompetenzwerkstatt Digital Humanities” (KDH) at the UB and the “Methods Innovation Lab” of the NFDI4Memory and presented at the Chair of Digital History.
- Papers
- Discovering Relationships Among Properties in Wikidata Knowledge Graph - Authors Emetis Niazmand and Maria-Esther Vidal use class-based relationship discovery to study and explore distribution and frequency of predicates across six domains. Pp 388–394 of Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery.
- Videos
- (pt) Wikidata Lab XLII: OpenRefine Éder Porto and Luca Belo host a workshop covering the newest features for loading media and Structured Data (SDC) on Commons, as well as metadata on Wikidata through OpenRefine.
- (es) Use of records on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Mikel Zubimendi shows how to populate Wikipedia articles with Infoboxes populated by data hosted on Wikidata.
- Engaging with language diversity via the Wikipedia ecosystem @ PGO24 - User:Daniel Mietchen at the Polyglot Gathering hosts a workshop with numerous examples of how the Wiki ecosystem hosts and represents linguistic content.
- Notebooks
- Medals count by continent Combining data from the International Olympic Committee and Wikidata, this notebook computes medals count by continent.
- Winners of the Tour de France Femmes The Tour de France Femmes 2024 just ended on Sunday 18th of August. The cycling stage race explorer notebook shows all stage winners of the Tour de France Femmes.
- Visualisation of location of Japanese Lighthouses The TU Delft Library queries Wikidata to map the location of Japanese lighthouses designed by Richard Henry Brunton or Léonce Verny.
- Tools
- (fr) WikidataESR: Tenter d’y voir clair dans l’ESR : exploring French higher education and research institutional landscape with the help of Wikidata. French higher education and research landscape is highly complex. Wikidata can help to better understand the landscape.
Tool of the week
- Anvesha is a drill-down browser for any Wikibase installation (incl. Wikidata). A prominent example of it in use is the Wikidata Walkabout.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata: For Developers - We have a shiny new portal for developers wanting to build applications using Wikidata's data. Visit it for inspiration with showcase examples, resources, information and support.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions applies)
- object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
- public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
- relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
- External identifiers: ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, mandumah ID, Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID, FoodData Central ID, French bathing water ID, Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID, Political Dictionary ID, United Nations Digital Library ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, 365scores football player ID, African Music Library artist ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID, GamingOnLinux Database ID, TIPLOC code, JJM Habitation ID, IDU play ID, IDU original ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, The House of Graphs ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
- schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
- has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
- growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
- APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
- exponent of base unit (a qualifier of {{Q|P12571}} used to describe the exponent of the unit)
- Javanese registers (suggest the relationship between similar Javanese lexemes, between its various registers (social variants), mainly {{Q|12500634}} register (plain Javanese), {{Q|12492493}} register (high/polite Javanese), and {{Q|13091955}} register (middle Javanese))
- objects of action have role (role that objects of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use {{P|12913}} instead.))
- ConLang Code Registry code (3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3)
- dénomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
- External identifiers: Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, xdaforums, FolkWiki ID, 365scores basketball player ID, SIMBAD catalog properties (used more than 1 million times), All Musicals lyrics ID, 365scores football team ID, 365scores basketball team ID, Illinois Center for the Book Author ID, Ôlyrix Person ID, Ідентифікатор відеогри Gamekombo, Slekt og Data grave ID, iasj article ID, MobyGames critic ID, Grand Comics Database feature ID, Operabook Person ID, Retromags game ID, Retromags magazine ID, speedrun.com series ID, Madain Project ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Polygon game ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming character ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, FOLDOC ID, WE.League player ID, WE.League manager ID, Nomes e Voces ID, cnkgraph person ID, cnkgraph poem ID, cnkgraph book ID, Identifiant d'un auteur sur Ciel d'oc
- General datatypes:
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- Query examples:
- Of the official mottos of U.S. states, there are more in Latin than in English
- Instance/sub-classes of LGBT+ identity (Q115870510) that have 3 or more non-English Wikipedia site-links
- Newest WikiProjects: Disambiguation
- Newest database reports: Wanted footballers
- Showcase Items: Jupiter (Q319)
Development
- QuickStatements Community Consultation, until August 31st
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to improve error messages and handling.
- Wikipedia and co: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
- Wikidata Query Service graph split: The WMF Search Platform team is setting up the servers for the split graphs. We hope to have them ready for use soon. We also prepared the constraints checks for this.
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
- 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!