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Wikidata weekly summary #505

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

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Talk to the Search Platform Team about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.! February 2nd, 2022. Etherpad.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube, Facebook, February 5 at 19:00 UTC
    • Wikimedia Research February Office Hours Wednesday, 2022-02-02 at 00:00-1:00 UTC (16:00 PT 02-01 /19:00 ET 02-01 / 1:00 CET 02-02).
    • Data Reuse Days will take place on March 14-24, highlighing applications and tools using Wikidata's data. You can already propose a session.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #27, Numbers (1/n)
  • Past:
    • Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron
    • Wikibase Live Session (2022.01.27)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Press
    • "Massive open index of scholarly papers launches" - called OpenAlex, it draws its data from sources including Wikidata
  • Blogs
    • OpenSanctions is integrating persons of interest from Wikidata
    • Celebrating the 2,000 featured articles milestone in Wikipedia in French: Using the Wikipedia Categorymembers API through a SPARQL query to get all articles featured in category "Article de qualité" and compute statistics.
    • Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Using Linked Open Data to Connect Smithsonian Information
    • The origin of the gender gap
  • Videos
    • Wikidata as a Modality for Accessible Clinical Research
    • Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase

• Tool of the week
  • Basque version of Wordle using Wikidata's lexicographic data. Check it out!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS scaling update for Jan 2022 available here. We will be trying to do monthly updates starting this month.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast logo URL, hotel rating, dpi for original size, director of publication, official jobs URL
    • External identifiers: TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, Muz-TV ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, Tretyakov Gallery work ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania encyclopedia ID, Amazon podcast ID, Habr company ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, German Lobbyregister ID, Film.ru actor ID, Film.ru film ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID, StarHit ID, North Data ID, CYT/CCS, LKI ID, Unified book number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: has member, register in Germany, dailytelefrag.ru ID, time in the pouch, semantic gender, Game World Navigator ID
    • External identifiers: Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, CHY Number, OpenSanctions ID, identifiant Les Archives du spectacle (organisme), Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, histrf.ru person ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, Chgk person ID, Latvijas ūdenstilpju klasifikatora kods, RCN (Irish Registered Charity Number), RBC company ID, OpenStates ID, NetEase Music Artist ID, QQ Music Singer ID, Euro NCAP ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2
  • Query examples:
    • US states with the most punk bands (source)
    • List of Ghanaian scientists by citation count (source)
    • Actresses who have played Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, with type of production (source)
    • MPs with identified mythical ancestors
    • Items with "language of work or name = Toki Pona" as qualifier
    • Timeline of 1st women practising a given sports discipline (source)
    • Water boards in the Netherlands (source)
    • Birthplaces of US Presidents, Russian emperors, Roman emperors (source)
    • Age of the actress when she played "Elizabeth Bennet" (source)
    • People with dates of birth and death on January 1st (day precision dates) (source)
    • More than 500 lexemes in Breton now have at least one sense (source)

• Development
  • Continuing work on adding the mul language code for labels, descriptions and aliases. (phab:T297393)
  • Enabled statement usage tracking for Cebuano, Armenian and Warai Warai to ensure fine-grained notifications about edits on Wikidata on those Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
  • Continuing work on fixing a bug where Wikidata changes do not get sent to Wikipedia and co for the first sitelink adding leading to missing information in the page_props table (phab:T233520)
  • Continuing work on making sure the Wikidata search box works with the new Vector skin improvements (phab:T296202)
  • Mismatch Finder: Debugging some issues with the first files we got with mismatches that we can load into the Mismatch Finder

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:44, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #506

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

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andy Mabbett on the "Cite Q" template that uses data from Wikidata in Wikipedia citations and Crystal Clements on setting the framework for a future discussion on addressing ethical concerns surrounding representation of gender for living persons in Wikidata, February 8th. Agenda
    • Wikidata Query Service scaling: You can join 2 calls and provide feedback at the 2 WDQS scaling community meetings on Thursday, 17 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC, and Monday 21 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC. Full details here.
    • Live on Twitch and in French about Academic bibliographical data and Scholia by Vigneron and Jsamwrites, February 8 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #70 - YouTube, Facebook, February 12 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #95, February 13 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Black History Edit-A-Thon (February 2022)
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #28, Computer
  • Past:
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #69 - YouTube
    • Jan Ainali, GovDirectory. Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government - Civic Hacker Summit, November 2021

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How-to: Matching multilingual thesaurus concepts with OpenRefine
    • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2021 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
    • Importing a Breton dictionary from Wikisource into Wikidata lexicographical data, by Envlh
    • Profiling a Wikibase item creation on test.wikidata.org by Addshore
    • Fast Bulk Import Into Wikibase
  • Papers
    • XAlign: Cross-lingual Fact-to-Text Alignment and Generation for Low-Resource Languages
  • Videos
    • Wikidata: A knowledge graph for the earth sciences? - YouTube
    • Activate Faktamall biografi WD gadget (see Wikidata info in Wikipedia) - YouTube
    • Wikidata workshop: interwiki links (Questions) - 1, 2 & 3 (YouTube)
    • Wikidata Tutorial (in German): create a user account on Wikidata, add an institution's website to Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata edit map by Denny puts a dot on the map whenever an Item with a geocoordinate is edited.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • January 1st as date
  • Wikidata has 2,540,891 items for people with both date of birth and date of death. There are 9 redirects for every 100 such items. (source). 2000 people share dates of birth and death with another person.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: dpi for A4 printing, time in the pouch, semantic gender
    • External identifiers: AAGM artwork ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Artland fair ID, Artland gallery ID, Douban book series ID, Douban book works ID, Les Archives du spectacle organization ID, Urban Electric Transit city ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, Ezeri.lv lake ID, Japanese Canadian Artists Directory ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Bugs! music video ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID, New York Flora Atlas ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: HSK ID, sports in region, Computational complexity, YouTube video
    • External identifiers: Viki ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs 2, podchaser episode ID, IFPI UPC/EAN, Weltfussball-Spiel-ID, GoodGame.ru ID, USgamer ID, Riot Pixels game ID, HaBima Archive play id, HaBima Archive person id, NLI topic id, 100Y Hebrew Theatre Guide person id, Old-Games.RU ID, iXBT Games ID, Students of Turin University ID, Tagoo video game ID, AusGamers ID, GameGuru ID, LMHL author ID, VGTimes ID, ULI id, GameMAG ID, SBN new authority IDs, Prosopographia Imperii Romani Online ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, Gesher Theater Archive person id, Gesher Theater Archive play id, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist static ID, A9VG game ID, Qichaha firm ID, Chinese School Identifier, GoHa.ru ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, CiteSeerX ID of a person, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2
  • Deleted properties:
    • "Scoresway soccer person ID" (P3043)
    • "SSR WrittenForm ID" (P1849)
    • "FFF female player ID" (P4886)
    • "FFF male player ID" (P4883)
  • Query examples:
    • Events by number of video games announced (source)
    • Three-Michelin Stars restaurants with a female chef (source)
    • Wikidata Properties specific to German Lexemes and number of times they are used (source)
    • Countries with count of same Wikidata labels in different languages (source)
    • Team and positions played by National Women's Football League players (source)
    • Location of the graves of personalities in Père Lachaise Cemetery who died between 1800 and 1849 (50 year ranges) (source)
    • Location of statues of women in Italy (source)
    • Count of Lexeme pairs between different languages (source)
    • Birthplaces of General secretaries of USSR (source)
    • Items related to Abdülmecid I, their collections, and their types (source)
    • Objects related in some way to Aurangzeb (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Archaeology

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Tracking down one last issue with the upload of mismatch files. Once that is fixed we are ready to release the tool.
  • Lexicographical data: Started coding on the rewrite of Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand and use.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:26, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #507

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

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 15 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata February 17, 5:00 PM
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #71 - YouTube, Facebook, February 19 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #96, February 20 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #29, Love
  • Past: LIVE Wikidata editing #70 #Beijing2022 - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration
    • Wikidata in Stardog
    • Does your birthplace affect your probability to have your Wikipedia biography ? some evidence from people born in France.
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Tutorial (in German): add qualifiers, coordinates & address
    • PADE Workshop: Wikidata – Linked, Open Data - YouTube
    • OpenGLAM Valentine's Day School: Intro to Wikidata (in Finish) - YouTube
    • Workshop on adding intangible heritage community data and images on Wikidata/Wikimedia - YouTube
    • Hands On: SPARQL Query Dbpedia Wikidata Python - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Equal Street Names is a map visualizing the streetnames of a city by gender.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New development plan for Wikidata and Wikibase for Q1 2022
  • Krbot's constraint reports are now generally updated daily, after code optimizations and hardware upgrades.
  • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
  • Wikidata ESR is a tool to visualize evolutions of universities and schools, such as creations, mergers, deletions and relations. Feedback and help to develop this project further is requested.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: semantic gender, original catalog description
    • External identifiers: doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, Viki ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, World Economic Forum ID, USgamer ID, Podvig Naroda ID, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Turin University student ID, Naver TV ID, AusGamers ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Maritimt Magasin ship ID, TV3 show ID, TV3 video ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, nzs.si player ID, UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Computational complexity, audio contains, identifies, Cadastral areas, video depicts, YouTube video, cadastral plot reference, Finisher, trainiert von, identifier values as, YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date
    • External identifiers: Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Transilien ID, Cybersport.ru ID, JeuxActu ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Name Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Classification Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, ICQ user ID, previous property definition, State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, VK Music ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, BelTA dossier ID, Spotify user ID, NTSF ID, BritBox ID, KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID
  • Query examples:
    • Tram bridges in France
    • Polish Righteous Among the Nations
    • Launch date, logo of social media services (source)
    • Oscar winners from 1929 (source)
    • Images of biologists by height (source)
    • Biggest coins outside the U.S. (source)

• Development
  • Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page. Nothing to see yet though.
  • Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get them. (phab:T301247)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:41, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #508

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

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th February 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Huda Khan and Astrid Usong on their Linked Data for Production 3 (LD4P3) grant work to use Wikidata in knowledge panels in Cornell’s library catalog Agenda - 2022-02-22 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter)
    • Hands-on introduction to Wikidata with The Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library's Edit-a-Thon! Theme: Boston public art and artists. February 23, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Eastern time
    • OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons: community meetup - Tuesday, February 22, at 15:00-17:00 UTC (check the time in your timezone).
    • Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 22 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #30, Trains
  • Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #71 #MelFest - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Plans Become Projects
  • Papers: "COVID-19 Claim Radar: A Structured Claim Extraction and Tracking System" using Wikidata
  • Videos: Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of lanes, computational complexity
    • External identifiers: UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID, Gardens Navigator ID, Tagoo video game ID, Lingua Libre ID, Labyrinth database ID, A9VG game ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, RCN, CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date, quality has state, beforehand-afterward owned by, Number of units, created during, award recipient, medical indication
    • External identifiers: KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, YouTube Topic channel ID, YouTube Official Artist Channel ID, GoFood restaurant ID, traveloka restaurant ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, HiSCoD, Databazeknih.cz Book ID, Databazeknih.cz Author ID, Renacyt ID, CBDB.cz Book ID, CBDB.cz Author ID, Gab ID, Drammen byleksikon ID, NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, MakeMyTrip Hotel ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID
  • Query examples:
    • Frequency of letters in five-letter words in Wikidata lexeme forms (source)
    • Visualization of the Prime/Ulam Spiral using natural numbers and primes stored in Wikidata (source)
    • Monuments that are named after somebody without being connected to them by any other property (source)
    • Places named after Valentine's Day (Saint Valentine) (source)
    • Gold medal winners in the Olympic Games by age (source)
    • Top 20 languages in number of lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of lexemes with at least one external id (source)
    • Count of PropertyLabels for lakes in the UK (source)
    • Moons of solar system planets and what they are names for (source)
    • Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID (source)

• Development
  • We started coding on the Wikibase Rest API based on the proposal we published a while ago.
  • We are continuing to work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. The first input fields are in place but not pretty or usable yet.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:42, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #509

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

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 1st at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 2nd, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #73 - YouTube, Facebook, March 5th at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #98, March 6th at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #31, War
  • Past:
    • Wikibase Live session, February 2022 - log
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #72 - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Wikidata as a Tool for Mapping Investment in Open Infrastructure: An Exploratory Study
  • Videos
    • Mismatch Finder tool: Quick introduction to and demo of how the tool works
    • Using a Custom Wikibase as a File Format Registry with Siegfried
    • Create a Wikidata Query - example using Shipwrecks data
    • Map Wikidata in an R Shiny App - example
    • Bring Wikidata into Power BI using a simple R script - example
    • Using QuickStatements to load tabular data and the Wikidata Edit Framework (in Italian)

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mismatch Finder, the tool that lets you review mismatches between the data in Wikidata and other databases, is now ready to be used for checking potential mismatches and uploading lists of new potential mismatches.
  • February 2022 WDQS scaling update now available: SPARQL query service/WDQS scaling update feb 2022
  • Job opening: The Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop WDQS. Apply here!
  • Job opening: Natural History Museum, Berlin (Q233098) is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: computational complexity
    • External identifiers: Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, Irish Registered Charity Number (RCN), CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID, VerbaAlpina ID, Prosopographia Imperii Romani online ID, Game World Navigator ID, Bugs! track ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Databazeknih.cz book ID, Databazeknih.cz author ID, MakeMyTrip hotel ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, GameGuru ID, 100-Year Guide to Hebrew Theatre person ID, INPA park ID, Riot Pixels game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: created during, award recipient, medical indication, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, eingesetzter Sportler
    • External identifiers: NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID, reddoorz hotel ID, symogih.org ID, CNKI Author ID, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, Spanish National Associations Register Number, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, RODI-DB player ID, Historische Topographie des Kulturerbes ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, MovieMeter series ID, Kayak Hotel ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Discover Moscow ID, Game Informer ID, Vedomosti company ID, USP Production Repository ID, Dansk Navneleksikon, Femiwiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of edits by user on French lexemes (source)
    • Languages in Indonesia with their status according to UNESCO (source)
    • Successful coups and attempts in Africa (source)
    • New York Times journalists that are alive (source)
    • Ukrainian coins and banknotes (source)
    • Types of quartz (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Chemistry/Natural products

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: work is continuing on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are working on the basic input fields and permission handling.
  • Mismatch Finder: Released the tool and working through feedback now and getting additional mismatches from organizations using our data.
  • REST API: Starting to build the initial Wikibase REST API. We are starting with the endpoint to read Item data first.
  • Data Reuse Days: Continuing event preparation
  • Published new security release updates for Wikibase suite wmde.6 (1.35)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #510

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3. Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: IndoBot (Approved). Task/s: I would like to import all Indonesian schools, more than 100000. The data includes school type, location, and coordinates as well as external identifiers

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the 35 presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #99, March 13th at 13.00 UTC
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #74 - YouTube, Facebook, March 12th at 19:00 UTC
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Presentation and discussion: "Introduction to Linked Open Data Strategy with Lea Voget, Head, Product Management WMDE". Lea is not only the team lead of product, project and program managers at WMDE, she is also one of the main thinkers behind the Linked Open Data strategy. When: 11 March 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter). Registration: Registration link
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Associate Librarian Stacy Allison-Cassin and her students on Wikidata in the classroom. Agenda
    • Art+Feminism editathon at the University Library Center of the University of Salerno. 8 March 2022
    • Wikidata workshop, held in collaboration with IPTC and explores the use of Wikidata concepts when dealing with metadata in media applications. Timing: from 10:00 to 18:00 CET. With presentations from: Yle, RAI, France TV, IPTC, Gruppo RES, Media Press, Perfect Memory, New York Times, NTB, Imatrics.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Ukraine
  • Past:
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #73 #opendataday - YouTube
    • NFDI InfraTalk: Wikibase - knowledge graphs for RDM in NFDI4Culture - YouTube (March 7, 4:00 PM CEST)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Creating a new item on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Connecting Wikidata with OpenStreetMap (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (in French) - YouTube: 1, 2, 3.

• Tool of the week
  • Wikxhibit is a tool that allows anyone, even non-programmers, to create cool presentations of Wikidata, and other sources of data on the web, only using HTML and without any additional programming. Are you interested in creating presentations of Wikidata? We would like to understand your experience with Wikidata to better improve our tool. It would help if you can fill out our survey https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvZKKlRu2S7C9Fk

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata dumps: Due to technical issues the JSON and RDF dumps for the week of March 1st couldn't be properly generated (phab:T300255#7746418). The situation is expected to get back to normal this week.
  • Item with QID 111,111,111 was created
  • Job openings:
    • The development team at WMDE is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop and improve the software behind the Wikidata project. Apply here!
    • The WMF Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop Wikidata Query Service. Apply here!
    • Natural History Museum, Berlin (Q233098) is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: created during, Ghana Place Names URL, trained by
    • External identifiers: Old-Games.RU ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, SBN work ID, SBN place ID, Kanobu numeric game ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, CBDB.cz author ID, CBDB.cz book ID, ULI ID, NLC Bibliography ID, LMHL author ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Latvia water body classification code, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, QQ Music singer ID, PubCRIS product number, PKULaw CLI Code, NVE glacier ID, iXBT Games ID, TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Агрегатируется с, Observer
    • External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, tiket to-do ID, TEIS ID, OBD Memorial ID, Hrono.ru article ID, db.narb.by ID, Shopee Shop ID, Grab Food ID, US trademark serial number, Scottish Built Ships ID, trivago hotel ID, skyscanner hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, pravo.gov.ru ID, NGO Darpan ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID
  • Query examples:
    • Use of free software license for describing software (source)
    • Count of latest available Twitter follower count for different programming languages (source)
    • Timeline of programming languages and their paradigms (source)
    • Most popular programming language on Wikipedia with multilingual articles (source)
    • Russian TV channels from and about Russia (source)
    • Places of birth of people named "Désirée" (source)
    • People in the Père-Lachaise cemetery who were born in a city that is or was in Ukraine (source)
    • Properties linking between a church and its saint (source)

• Development
  • Data Reuse Days: Preparing for the upcoming Data Reuse Days. Join us! A lot of exciting sessions are coming together.
  • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are getting close to the point where it can create a Lexeme.
  • REST API: Continuing to work on the first endpoint to read Item data.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:22, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #511

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. You can also look at a selection of sessions based on your areas of interest.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #75 - YouTube, Facebook, March 19th at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #100(!), March 20th at 13.00 UTC
    • Bug Triage Hour focused on data reuse, March 23rd
    • Wikidata 101 workshop (in Albanian language) March 15th at 10 o'clock at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana
    • Ontotext Webinar - GraphDB as Company Data Central - "How GraphDB can help you create a graph model of your data and enrich it with reference data". March 17th
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Furniture

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • History of the Tour de France: a notebook to explore the history of the tour de France in three charts.
    • A dataset of scholarly journals in wikidata : (selected) external identifiers
    • Getting all the government agencies of the world structured in Wikidata
  • Papers
    • ParaNames: A Massively Multilingual Entity Name Corpus (built using Wikidata)
  • Videos
    • Breton Lexicographic data SPARQL queries (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata SPARQL session (in French) - YouTube
    • moreIdentifiers UseAsRef gadget (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata working hour - QuickStatements (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Graph data formats: Common RDF vocabularies (in Czech) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LexemeTranslations.js is a userscript that shows translations for a lexeme. The translations are inferred from statements on senses, such as item for this sense (P5137).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS outage on 06 March: users may have unexpectedly had requests blocked. Incident report here.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Ghana Place Names URL, trained by, KLADR ID, identifies
    • External identifiers: TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, Change.org decision maker ID, Podchaser episode ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, Dansk Navneleksikon ID, CiteSeerX person ID, CNKI author ID, naturkartan.se ID, HaBima Archive play ID, HaBima Archive person ID, Vedomosti company ID, Grab Food restaurant ID, Chinese School Identifier, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, svpressa.ru person ID, GameMAG ID, ICQ user ID, Scottish Built Ships ID, histrf.ru person ID, symogih.org ID, Mapping Manuscript Migrations manuscript ID, US trademark serial number, NLC Bibliography ID (foreign-language), GoFood restaurant ID, Official Internet Portal of Legal Information ID, Bavarian Monument Map Object-ID (building ensemble), skyscanner hotel ID, NGO Darpan ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Observer, identifiant spectacle Les Archives du spectacle, Supports qualifier 2, franchisor, Exhibited Creator, colocated with
    • External identifiers: trivago hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), MovieMeter TV season ID, MangaDex title ID, 1905.com film ID, 1905.com star ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Italian Women Writers ID, Championat.com ID, Arachne entity ID, IRIS Friuli-Venezia Giulia IDs, Sport24.ru team ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Virginia Burgesses and Delegates Database ID, Arizona Legislators Then and Now ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, ubereats store ID, FamousFix topic ID, FAOTERM ID, RSPA Ancient authors ID, RSPA Modern authors ID, ImagesDéfense ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, ILO code, Culture.ru institutes ID, Proza.ru author ID, Stihi.ru author ID, TV Maze season ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, Boobpedia ID, Leafsnap ID, neftegaz.ru person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Properties describing Art UK artworks (source)
    • Timeline of victims of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Population of countries that share a border with Russia (source)
    • Audio pronunciation of places in Wales (source)
    • Things with a national gallery of Scotland ID where the artist was or is a woman (source)
    • Software with gender information of developer, designer and the person named after source

• Development
  • Getting ready for Data Reuse Days
  • Mismatch Finder: Discussing the next batches of potential mismatches with MusicBrainz data and some remaining Freebase data
  • Lexicographical data: Continuing work on the basic version of the new Special:NewLexeme page, focusing on putting in the base data about the new Lexeme
  • REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:42, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #512

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description)
    • AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Tuesday, March 22 at 9AM UTC: first online OpenRefine office hour for Wikimedians. Find the Zoom link and dates/times for next office hours here!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Christian Boulanger on extracting open citation data for legal theory graph project. Agenda with call link, March 22.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #34, Geometry
    • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. For a recap of the event so far:
      • a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
      • speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
      • all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • MediaWiki Lua for non-Lua programmers by Lucas Werkmeister
    • Kohesio.eu: European Commission goes Open Source
  • Videos
    • Ongoing DataReuseDays 2022 - YouTube
      • Lightning talks
      • Wikidata for performing and visual arts
      • Wikxhibit
      • How to retrieve Wikidata’s data?
      • Best practices for reusing Wikidata’s data
      • Building a simple web app using Wikidata data
      • Biohackathon: report on reviewing Wikidata subsetting method
      • GeneWiki: The Wikidata Integrator
    • Cartographier des données de Wikidata avec Umap (in French) - YouTube
    • Mapping Einstein Researchers on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
  • Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There are Rapid Grants available for local meetups during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 from May 20-May 22. Apply to host a social for your local community. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2022.
  • Magnus made a recent Mix’n’match improvement: List of Wikidata properties (incomplete) that could have a MnM catalog, to help create one, or tag as difficult etc.
  • Andrew put together a guide to writing SPARQL queries for the Wikidata MPs project. Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/Building Queries
  • The proposed config change to remove the changetags right from users – so that they can apply change tags to their own actions as they are made, but not change the tags of other actions after the fact anymore – has been deployed.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID
    • External identifiers: LDT @ Library Name Authority ID, LDT @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, LDT @ Library Classification Authority ID, USP Production Repository ID, Transilien ID, United Russia member ID, MovieMeter TV season ID, Joshua Project people group ID, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, vc.ru company ID, Repetti on-line ID, Cybersport.ru ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Discover Moscow ID, ArTS author ID, IRIS UNIUD author ID, Game Informer ID, Ligue 2 player ID, Femiwiki ID, Arachne entity ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, Oregon State Parks ID, Washington State Parks ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Bhashakosha pp., local education level, hours per week, education level, time allocation, grading system, grade, ISCED-ALevel, ISCED category orientation, ISCED Broad Field, ISCED Narrow Field, ISCED Detailed Field, competency, sessions per week, applies to work, rack system, maintains consistent linking to
    • External identifiers: Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, USA Track & Field (www.usatf.org) athlete ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, DACS ID (2022), marriott hotel ID, identifiant Epigraphie, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, CPNI ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, eSbírky institution ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria cultural place ID, Zotero ID, World of Waterfalls ID
  • Query examples:
    • Signature images from Wikidata (change the view to “map” to see the signatures arranged by the person’s place of birth! (source)
    • Count of UK lake items with a 'UK Lakes Portal ID' (P7548) property statement (source)
    • Travel reports by Alfred Brehm as timeline (source)
    • Timeline for the Apple "M" series of Systems on a Chip (SoC)
    • Religion of men named “Maria” (as one of their given names) (source)
    • Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (passing through Finland and Kazakhstan)
    • Map of institutions where "where people who studied there" have created written works whose main subject is knowledge graph (Q33002955), knowledge base (Q515701) and (Q33002955)
    • Colonies of Africa with their or their “main state”’s official language and ISO code

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them.
  • Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above).
  • REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:15, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #513

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 31st March 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Live Wikidata editing on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 29 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • ArtandFeminism 2022 editathon by Achiri Bitamsimli. Theme: Add Dagbani labels and descriptions of female lawyers in West Africa. Date: April 1st, 2022 - March 8th, 2022. Location: Tamale College of Education, Ghana. Time: 9:00am — 9:00pm UTC. Register.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #77 - YouTube, Facebook, April 2nd at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #102, April 3rd at 12.00 UTC
    • Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. This online editing event is organized by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, LaCogency and many partners, with support from Wikimedia Foundation Alliances Fund. Guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French.
    • The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects, with a focus on Wikidata, will take place online and onsite on July 1-2, 2022.
  • Ongoing:
    • Wikimedia Indonesia's Datathon program under 2022 Wiki Women's Month started on March 18th 18:00 UTC+7 and will last until March 25th 23:59 UTC+7. 70+ users enrollled. Page.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #35, Water
  • Past:
    • Two Wikidata Training (Kelas Wikidata) on 2022 Wiki Women's Month were held online on March 12th and 13th.
    • Data Reuse Days. For a recap of the event:
      • a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
      • speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
      • all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe
    • Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia
    • Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest
    • Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors? fact checking an intuition using Wikidata
    • Building a Web of Knowledge Through Wikidata
  • Presentations
    • LOTUS, Beyond drug discovery: Breaking the boundaries of natural products information, at the American Chemical Society (Q247556) Spring 2022 meeting
  • Papers
    • "Exploratory Methods for Relation Discovery in Archival Data" - a holistic approach to discover relations in art historical communities and enrich historians’ biographies and archival descriptions, based on Wikidata
  • Videos
    • DataReuseDays 2022 concluded. (see past events above for a full list of the recorded sessions)
    • A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - YouTube
    • FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
    • Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - YouTube
    • A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
  • WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Status update about what was achieved for each of the Wikibase related 2021 development goals has been published: Wikidata:Development plan/archive2021/status updates
  • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
  • Wikidata now has over 1,600,000,000 edits! The milestone edit was made by Ruky Wunpini.
  • The Dutch National Library has a new website with more info on their use of the Wikimedia Projects including their work with Wikidata.
  • 2 months paid internship vacancy is available for Wikimedia Indonesia technology division. Registration is open until March 27th. Announcement.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: documentation files at
    • External identifiers: SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID, Rekhta book ID, ILO code, reddoorz hotel ID, Naver VIBE video ID, SberZvuk artist ID, Italian Women Writers ID, RBC company ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia person ID, Booking.com numeric ID, Agoda hotel numeric ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maintains consistent linking to, ocupante de / occupant of
    • External identifiers: World of Waterfalls ID, New IDU properties, My World@Mail.Ru ID, BillionGraves grave ID, Archivio Storico Intesa Sanpaolo, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Trovo ID, Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata knowledge graph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln (source)
    • Women who served as defense ministers in various countries (source)
    • UK MPs who had paired names (e.g. Owen Thomas / Thomas Owen) (source)
    • List of properties associated with items that are class/subclass of File Format (source)
    • Table frequency of properties used in instances of public libraries

• Development
  • [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
  • Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
  • Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (phab:T104344)
  • Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
  • REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:00, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #514

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4: Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adam Schiff (University of Washington), Tyler Rogers (San Diego State University), Julia Gilmore (University of Toronto) on documenting buildings on academic campuses. Agenda with call link, April 5.
    • Wikimedia Research Office Hours April 5, 2022
    • Wikidata items about theatre and dance productions, April 6 (in French). The same workshop will be offered in English on May 4.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 6th, 2022. Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST Etherpad
    • Art+Feminism Community Hours. Theme: Add your Event Data to Wikidata. April 9 at 2pm UTC!
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #36, Family
  • Past: Wikibase live session (March 2022) log

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

• Tool of the week
  • Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
  • QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it!

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

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: cantilever sign, supports qualifier, APE code
    • External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, Arizona State Legislators: Then & Now ID, db.narb.by ID, Kayak hotel ID, Melon music video ID, Evil Angel movie ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, World of Waterfalls ID, IxTheo authority ID, BillionGraves grave ID, eSbírky institution ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Zotero ID, My World@Mail.Ru ID, KSH code (historical), traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: oeconym, ISCED Attainment, Per capita income
    • External identifiers: Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, AccessScience ID, IPU Chamber ID, COL taxon ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, C-SPAN Person Numeric ID, SRSLY person ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature Bio ID, Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, Beatport track ID, EIA plant ID, EIA utility ID, Speleologi del passato ID, HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID
  • Query examples:
    • Long swedish / german nouns in Wikidata (source)
    • Texts which have Wikisource links in English and French (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language variant.
  • REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
  • Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense to people who use screen readers.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 12:33, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #515

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

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #104, April 17th at 12.00 UTC
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • April 26, Ghent, Belgium: public OpenRefine data cleaning workshop and meet&greet with the OpenRefine team, including preview of Structured Data on Commons functionalities. Physical event, free, sign up via this link.
    • Wiki Workshop 2022 - Registration open! The event is virtually held on April 25, 12:00-18:30 UTC
    • April 22nd - 24th, from Wiki Mentor Africa, A three days workshop on Linking biodiversity data through wikidata using Webaps and jupyter notebooks to attend, register here
    • May 5th: Wikidata Bug Triage Hour, open discussion. Come with your favorite Phabricator task and we will improve its description together.
    • DigAMus goes Wikidata workshop: make digital projects in museums visible and findable. April 29, 3-5 p.m. TIB Open Science Lab. Register here.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #37, Numbers

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Chinese Ancestor Portrait Project
    • Browsing FactGrid with the FactGrid Viewer
  • Papers
    • A formalization of one of the main claims of “Cortex reorganization of Xenopus laevis eggs in strong static magnetic fields” by Mietchen et al. 2005 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
    • A formalization of one of the main claims of “Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information” by Hagedorn et al. 2011 (uses Wikidata identifiers for statements)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Query Service Tutorial in Tunisian by Houcemeddine Turki (WikiConference RU 2021 - Part 1, Part 2)
    • Live Coding - PyORCIDAtor, integrating ORCID with Wikidata - YouTube
    • How to add location coordinates to Wikidata Items (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Bundestag + Wikidata = Open Parliament TV (in German) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Glitter another R package to write SPARQL queries and query Wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints. This package provides a domain specific language to write queries directly from R.
  • Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata MOOC (online course) has been developed by Wikimedia France, involving several French-speaking Wikidata editors. The first version of the course will start on April 26 (in French only - registration here)
  • OpenRefine is running a short survey to learn about user needs and expectations for the new Structured Data on Commons extension for OpenRefine, which is in the process of being developed. If you upload files to Wikimedia Commons and/or edit structured data there, please help by filling in the survey!
  • Wikibase cloud update (April): the closed beta of Wikibase.cloud is planned to start in mid-April. If you want to apply for closed beta access, please register with this form.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: APE code, maintains linking to, academic calendar type, taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, P10604, notable role
    • External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, SPLC group ID, GuideStar India Organisations ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), tiket to-do ID, Speleologi del passato ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Intesa Sanpaolo Historical Archive Map ID, Monoskop article ID, IDU foreign theatre ID, IDU theatre building ID, IDU theatrical ensemble ID, Cameroun COG, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, SRSLY person ID, FAOTERM ID, Catalogue of Life ID, Trovo ID, IFPI GTIN, MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: является автором художественной выставки, shoe color, government debt-to-GDP ratio, National Historical Museums of Sweden object ID, class of property value, has group, name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID
    • External identifiers: HuijiWiki article ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, bebyggelseområdeskod i Sverige, Israeli Opera site person id, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus Identifier, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, IRIS Piedmont IDs, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most popular Chess openings (by number of sitelinks) (source)
    • Random set of popular ("having more than 20 site links") items (source)
    • Wikimedia affiliates on social media (source)
    • Listed viaducts in the UK (source)
    • Pages linked to the University of Clermont according to the number of articles on Wikimedia projects (source)
    • Which languages share a word for the same thing (visualized as a tree map). e.g. planet (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on displaying error messages and inferring the spelling variant from the language. We also looked into the non-JavaScript version of the page.
  • REST API: Worked on conditional requests (do not return data the client already has) and authorization.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:55, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #516

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Pi admin bot (RfP scheduled to end after 20 April 2022 17:58 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Stang (successful)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Stangbot 2. Task/s: Insert electorate (P1831) and keep it updated on Brazilian municipalities and states items
    • AmeisenBot. Task/s: Label unsigned comments on talk pages

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call will be on Tuesday, April 19 at 11 AM Eastern US time: Martin Schibel will be speaking on Entitree. Please note this is one hour earlier than the usual meeting time Agenda
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Learn about Wikibase system exploration, data model development, and the road ahead for Digital Scriptorium. When: Thurs. 21 April 2022, 3PM Eastern US (time zone converter). Where: Registration Link
    • Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software. Conference date: April 22
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #105, April 24th at 12.00 UTC

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WeDigBio Transcription workflow "...blogpost...showing how I go from finding the name of a collector when transcribing labels to adding them to Wikidata & then linking them to their collections via Bionomia."
    • More Wikidata metrics on the Dashboard
  • Videos
    • Transfer bibliographic data from Zotero to Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Art+Feminism community Hours: Add your event data to Wikidata! - YouTube (En, Fr)
  • other:
    • Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by Whose Knowledge?

• Tool of the week
  • Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world!
  • Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries.

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

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: taxonomic treatment, co-applicant, applicant, type of a register in Germany, notable role, athletics program, number of teachers, has certification, choreography for, surrounds the enclave, has surface, per capita income, number of blood donors, official observer status in organisation, web interface software, Martian coordinates, suggested data fields, medical indication, number of conferences, historic insurance number (building), pole positions, place of disappearance, code name, reports to, podium finishes, number of likes, number of dislikes, number of comments, rack system, oeconym
    • External identifiers: MangaDex title ID, All.Rugby club ID, traveloka restaurant ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, Kinowiki ID, marriott hotel ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia person ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia place ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia topic ID, HarperCollins product ID, Atlas of Cultural Heritage Calabria cultural place ID, XJustiz registration court ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, FID performing arts ID, PLOS Thesaurus ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, Beatport track ID, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, 1905.com star ID, OpaqueNamespace ID, deckenmalerei.eu ID, ODOT county code, OpenSanctions ID, CNGAL entry ID, USA Track & Field athlete ID (www.usatf.org), National Associations Register Number Spain, AperTO author ID, IRIS UNIUPO author ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, ARTEINFORMADO person ID, Slovak Olympic athlete ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID, Via Rail station code, WikiApiary farm
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: name of victim, Tracks featured in work, smb.museum digital ID, Unique image of unicode char, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, Thai Romanization, construction start, construction end
    • External identifiers: MINEDEX, Library of the Haskala ID, fanvue creator ID, ACNP library ID, lieferando restaurant ID, Yarus feed ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Personality Database work identifier, Hmoegirlpedia, CNKI Institute ID, Peacock ID, techradar review ID
  • Query examples:
    • Birthplace of rappers (source)
    • Bubble chart of occupation of people linked to University of Clermont (source)
    • List of corporate archives, location, and address where available (source)
    • French adventure video games (source)
    • Women with the citizenship of a country and the most articles in other languages (including English) but without an article in French Wikipedia (source)
    • Countries that are bigger (blue) or smaller (red) than all their neighbours (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Worked on inferring the spelling variant from the language's Item on the new Special:NewLexeme page and started building a little help box on the special page to explain what lex. data is.
  • REST API: Getting closer to having a first version of the REST API that returns Item data.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:42, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #517

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

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 28th April 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. The aim of this online editing event is to increase the quantity and quality of performing arts building/venue items.
      • Daily guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French between April 25 and April 29.
      • Wikidata Coffee Breaks From April 25 - April 29, 2022 to fill in missing information on Swiss Performing Arts Institutions and venues.
      • Faut-il un nouvel élément Wikidata pour décrire une « salle de spectacle » ?, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 26, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
      • How to disentangle a Wikidata item describing both a building and an organization, supplementary Cultural Venues Datathon activity, April 27, 13:00-13:45 UTC.
      • The full schedule of official and supplementary activities of the Cultural Venues Datathon is availabe in the Google Calendar.
    • Third Pywikibot workshop on Friday, April 29th, 16:00 UTC. "This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the Pywikibot framework."
    • From May 4 to 18 there will be the International Museum Day - Wikidata competition. The aim is to improve data about museums in the countries and regions participating. Contributors from anywhere can take part.
    • The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule#The Wikidata and Wikibase Room.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #39, Agriculture
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-04-20)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • WeDigBio: A Wikidata empowered workflow (diff version)
    • Wikidata as a tool for biodiversity informatics
  • Papers
    • Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata Contributors' Motivations (closed access)
    • Beyond Open Data: The Only Good License Is No License
    • WikiProject Clinical Trials for Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Synchronizing a matched Mix'n'Match set to Wikidata - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata Items (in French) - YouTube [1, 2, 3, 4]
    • Recently uploaded WikidataCon 2022 YouTube videos
      • Creating subsets of Wikidata
      • Wikidata birthday presents lightning talks
      • Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata
      • Reimagining Wikidata from the margins: listening session

• Tool of the week
  • Wikitaxa is a software of taxonomy data written in R.
  • User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS update lag SLO has been lowered from update lag <10 min 99% of the time, to update lag <10 min 95% of the time.
  • Wikidata now has over 9,900 Properties! (71.16% Identifiers)
  • Job opening: Product Manager (PM) for Wikifunctions

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: amount of medals, exhibited creator, applies to work, featured track(s), raw material processed, debut date, OSM object, number of references, franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius
    • External identifiers: DTB artistic gymnast ID, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, C-SPAN person numeric ID, IndexCat ID, lieferando restaurant ID, IPU chamber ID, ACNP library ID, HuijiWiki article ID, TV Maze season ID, Musik und Gender im Internet ID, MINEDEX project ID, FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID, Winterthur Glossar ID, 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature bio ID, Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: CXSMILES, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959
    • External identifiers: Reflora ID, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, Biografiskt lexikon för Finland URN.FI, Galaxy Store app ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, Identifiant Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique (1802-1914), NSR quay ID, NSR stopplace ID, Heiligen.net ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID
  • Deleted properties:
    • GS1 Global Product Classification brick code
  • Query examples:
    • Most common classes for values of "depicts" (P180) on Commons (source)
    • Scottish river drainage basins (source)
    • The earliest road accident victims (source)
    • Country of nationality of people linked to the Ghana's top 3 traditional universities (source)
    • Count of Wikidata property types (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data.
  • REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:04, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #518

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

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on May 5th at 16:00 UTC, online. Open discussion - you can bring a Phabricator ticket that you care about or that needs to be improved.
    • Conclusion du Cultural Venues Datathon (in French), May 2, 16:00-16:30 UTC.
    • Cultural Venues Datathon wrap-up, May 2, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
    • Live editing session on Twitch about structured data on Wikimedia Commons, in French, by Vigneron, May 3 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours May 3, 2022
    • May 3rd. Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: The call will include presentations on two projects using Wikidata to enhance discoverability of archival and museum collections. Sharon Garewal (JSTOR) will present “Adding Wikidata QIDs to JSTOR Images,” and Daniela Rovida and Jennifer Brcka (University of Notre Dame) will present “‘Archives At’: An opportunity to leverage MARC to create Linked Open Data.” [1]
    • Wikidata Workshop: Wikidata items for dance and theatre productions, May 4, 19:30-21:00 UTC
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—May 4th, 2022
    • Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh, May 8 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #40, International Workers' Day

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Queries to explore a dataset. Even a schemaless one
  • Papers
    • Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by WhoseKnowledge
  • Videos
    • Workshop "Wikidata, Zotero and Cita": tools to understand the construction of knowledge (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Georeferencing cultural heritage on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Theory of Machine Learning on Open Data: The Wikidata Case by Goran S. Milovanovic - YouTube
    • Introduction to SPARQL (Wikidata Query Service (in Czech) - YouTube
    • Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences - YouTube

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenRefine is running its two-yearly user survey! Do you use OpenRefine? Then fill in the survey to tell us how and why you use OpenRefine. Results and outcomes will inform future decisions about the tool.
  • The April update for the Wikidata Query Service scaling project is now available.
  • Wikidata now contains all major integrated library systems listed at Library Technology Guides.
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms has a new template for Norwegian Bokmål passive verbs
  • Job opening: PR Manager in Digital Technologies, software development department - Wikimedia Deutschland

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius, Thai romanization, introduced in, image set, Bill Number
    • External identifiers: Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID, OpenStreetMap object, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, DBLP event ID, CNKI institute ID, Woolworths product ID, TEİS ID, FamousFix topic ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, Reflora ID, Hrono.ru article ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, DACS ID (2022), AccessScience ID, settlement area code in Sweden, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, Galaxy Store app ID, Invasive.org species ID, EIA utility ID, Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland (urn.fi) ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: probability distribution related properties, Ladungszahl, Koordinationszahl, danse, Median household income, background of death, Number of housing units, number of reblogs, IBAN banking code, contraindication, incorporated
    • External identifiers: PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID, Encyclopedia of ideas, Personality Database person identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, TIME.com author ID, Investopedia term ID, GeoSciML, GeolISS, National Archives of Sweden persistent identifier, Linz DB ID, belfercenter person ID, Data Commons ID, sextpanther person ID, Tüik number, ERR project, MCCP ID
  • Query examples:
    • Languages and dialects with number of first language speakers (preferred rank) (source)
    • Graph of influences in the age of Enlightenment (source)
    • Countries which are named after a person (source)
    • Number of musical works (compositions) in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)

• Development
  • The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
  • Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
  • REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:10, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #519

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

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Live editing session on Twitch about International Museum Day 2022, in French, by Vigneron, May 10 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #79 - YouTube, Facebook, May 14 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #106, May 15 at 12.00 UTC
    • The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #41, Music
    • International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
  • Past:
    • Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh: video (French), slides: French, English

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Automating Values in Wikibase (new extension)
  • Papers
    • Building a Knowledge Graph of Events and Consequences Using Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Working with the Automated Values extension in Wikibase - YouTube
    • Bringing IIIF Manifests to life in Wikidata - YouTube
    • Fun with lexemes. By Mahir256 - Twitch

• Tool of the week
  • MapComplete is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees!
  • User:Nikki/flag-emoji.css is a userscript that adds emoji flags before items for flags supported by either Noto Color Emoji or BabelStone Flags.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, CXSMILES, class of property value, finisher, support of a function, probability mass function, probability generating function, Fisher information, characteristic function, cumulative distribution function
    • External identifiers: Investopedia term ID, fanvue creator ID, Encyclopedia of Ideas ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, WhoSampled track ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, French Inspector General for Education (1802-1914) identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, Hmoegirl ID, English Everipedia ID, GeoSciML ID, Présent author ID, Data Commons ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: beteiligte Parteien, ligament insertion, proper motion components, distributed from, IBAN banking code, contains statistical territorial entity
    • External identifiers: The Israeli Directors Guild id, Twitter moment ID, Muziekweb composition ID, TOBuilt ID, Afisha.ru movie ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Baidu Scholar paper ID, ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, Chocolatey Community Package, IRIS Emilia-Romagna IDs, Kubbealti Lugati term ID, Kinokolo.ua film ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Twitter list ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of French public administrations with an open data portal, a siren number (P1616) and a servicepublic id (P6671) (source)
    • Largest cities with a female mayor (source)
    • Reach of Twitter accounts on Wikidata (source)
    • Which works published in the 1970s have been most cited from works on archaeology? (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Slovakia

• Development
  • REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
  • Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (phab:T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (phab:T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (phab:T298150).
  • We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (phab:T277836).

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:12, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #520

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." Agenda
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - YouTube, Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108, May 22 at 12.00 UTC
    • 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, Constitution Day, Norway
    • International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Regional newspaper map with datawrapper and Wikidata
  • Papers
    • CAS Common Chemistry in 2021: Expanding Access to Trusted Chemical Information for the Scientific Community (Q111987319)
    • OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts (tool)
  • Videos
    • How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Guesser allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
  • The Wikidata community onboarding documentation by Wiki Education.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: quantile function, mean of a probability distribution, median of a probability distribution, mode of a probability distribution, dance, variance of a probability distribution, skewness, excess kurtosis, information entropy, moment-generating function
    • External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID, GeolISSTerm ID, TIME.com author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Similar web ranking
    • External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID, TamTam chat ID, PM20 ware ID, ANR project ID, HeHaCham HaYomi id, Delaware Department of State file number, JBIS horse ID, Camp Wild
  • Query examples:
    • List of oldest cryptocurrencies
    • Scottish rivers that merge to make a river with a new name (source)
    • List of candidates in the French legislative elections (source)
    • List of people with Elisabeth, Élisabeth or Elizabeth as first name (source)
    • Wikimedians with a Twitch channel (source)

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

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:38, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #521

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

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • 6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
    • 29 July 2022: The submission deadline for the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #43, Towel Day

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
  • Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Similarweb ranking
    • External identifiers: Chocolatey Community package ID, Twitter moment ID, Kino-kolo film ID, netkeiba horse ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: has vector, ECLI court code, Mirror image, Norges Nasjonalmuseum Creator ID
    • External identifiers: Radio France person ID, ORKG ID, Authority control/Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici id, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, TVG Programme Identifier, CPRF person ID, New Mexico Digital Collections identifier, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, Lithuania Minor encyclopedia ID
  • Query examples:
    • Relationships of Roman deities (source)
    • Ingrediants of dishes on Wikidata (source)
    • Food names after a place in the UK (source)
    • French heads of government classified by tenure (source)
    • Places in Antarctica over 3000km away from the South Pole
    • Topics that members of the Swedish Parliament motioned about 2020/21 (source)
    • Albums with more than one language statement where none has preferred rank (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (phab:T307087) completed.
  • First batch of WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket phab:T303852.
  • Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (T302877, T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (T303806, T290733, T305359) and improving validation / error messages (T305854).

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:55, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #522

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project Agenda
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #110, June 5 at 12.00 UTC

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The evolution of a Wikidata SPARQL query for taxon names, by Tiago Lubiana
  • Papers
    • The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research (Q112143478)
    • Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles in The Signpost. The article using Wikidata's SPARQL queries to measure gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.
    • Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles? in The Signpost (February 2022)
  • Videos
    • Replay of the livestream "Even more fun with Lexemes" by Mahir256

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Want to know more about Abstract Wikipedia & Wikifunctions? You can now subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a friendly reminder every time a new issue is published!
  • Radioactivity map: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: candidate position
    • External identifiers: Lithuanian company code, Afisha.ru movie ID, art is next artist ID, Gun Violence Archive ID, HeHaCham HaYomi ID, CPNI ID, Collection Hermann Göring DB ID, Radio France person ID, ANR project ID, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Umanity horse ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: number of versions, voting age (reproposed), code dans la Classification centrale des produits, identificador WikiBurgos, orchestrator
    • External identifiers: HaBama person id, Odnoklassniki album ID, WorldCat Entities ID, BRUZZ topic ID, BRUZZ place ID, CBC Gem ID, MAYA site company id, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Plex GUID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Liquipedia ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID, Ozon person identifier
  • Query examples:
    • List of candidates for the next French legislative elections (source)
    • Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Élisabeth or Elisabeth in Wikidata (source)
    • Percentage of films passing the Bechdel test by genre / percentage of films passing the reverse Bechdel test by genre
    • Timeline of the start of pride parades from 1970 (source)
    • Top 100 genes with most genetic associations on Wikidata (source)
    • Biennales that aren’t biennial (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (phab:T307087), all statements of an item (phab:T305988), a single statement for a specific item (phab:T307088))
  • Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (phab:T307915, decision)
  • Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (phab:T306008)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:22, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #523

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

• Events
  • June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
  • June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons
  • July 8-10: Data Quality Days, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics until June 19th.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Travailler avec les épigraphes littéraires dans Wikidata
    • Were more plant genera really named for nymphs than women who actually lived?
  • Papers
    • "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models": Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022)
  • Videos
    • Live Wikidata editing #82 by Ainali and Abbe98

• Tool of the week
  • Article's wikilinks inspector takes all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The May 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
  • There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update on Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC (link to the meeting).
  • Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss and PangolinMexico, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata, and LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator!
  • A new Mix'n'match page to query entries across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: date of incorporation, in operation on service, coordination number
    • External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, JBIS horse ID, FactGrid property ID, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Macaulay Library taxon ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID, Midi libre journalist ID, Heiligen.net ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1, embargoed until, electric charge capacity, COR form ID, level 1, феноритмотип, type of artefact(s)
    • External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID, AdoroCinema series ID, FirstCycling (riderID), snookerscores.net player ID, OVO-code, CEU author ID, Chaoxing Journal ID, Springer Nature Person ID, Springer Nature Article ID, Springer Nature Journal ID, MUI Icon, UK Beetles ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query examples:
    • Which are the most popular natural products based on the number of statements on their corresponding QID? (from the Telegram Wikidata group)
    • Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Elisabeth or Élisabeth (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (phab:T290733, phab:T30535).
  • REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (phab:T307031, phab:T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667).

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:25, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #524

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 6. Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID
    • Crystal-bot. Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier.
    • William Avery Bot 5. References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) that use reference URL (P854) will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109), as requested at d:Wikidata:Bot requests#reference URL (P854) → Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109) (2021-02-05)
    • OJSOptimetaCitationsBot. Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems.

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, Cartography
  • Past
    • 'Mind Your Manors' Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval Studies), June 11-12. Included some useful Wikidata linkage.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikibase.cloud: a new project at Wikimedia Deutschland
    • 50,000 video games on Wikidata by Jean-Frédéric
    • The Current Version of Popular Browsers API (powered by Wikidata)
    • Wikidata, a free collaborative knowledge database (in Basque)
  • Papers
    • A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD
    • WikidataComplete – An easy-to-use method for rapid validation of text-extracted new facts applied to the Wikidata knowledge graph
  • Videos
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - YouTube
    • Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally developed to run on Wikipedia - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons - YouTube
    • Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata - Part 2 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Demographic profiling in Wikipedia Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia - YouTube
    • DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata - YouTube
    • How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? - YouTube
    • Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube (En, [De)
    • FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
    • The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Wikidata Testimonials
      • Giovanna Fontenelle (Wikimedia Foundation)
      • Frédéric Julien (Director of Research and Development CAPACOA)) (in French)
      • Nathalie Thibault (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)) (in French)
      • Michael Gasser (ETH Bibliothek Zürich) (in German)

• Tool of the week
  • ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created!
  • Qichwabase is a Wikibase instance curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata
  • Using Wikidata search API in Observable by PAC2
  • Explore Wikidata using Observable, a collection of notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2.
  • Programming languages on Wikidata in Observable by Jsamwrites, based on examples by PAC2 (see above)
  • New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: orchestrator
    • External identifiers: Championat ID, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Twitter list ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: inker, penciller, KFCB classification (Kenya), Miljørapporter File ID, plural forms
    • External identifiers: ifwizz ID, IRIS Abruzzo IDs, Great Plant Picks ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Kultboy, Atom Package Manager name, ZineWiki ID, Broadway World person ID, Yamaha Artists ID
  • Query examples:
    • Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings, according to wikidata statements (source)
    • Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for Commons categories (useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) (source)
    • items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata, with a sample language and lexeme in that language.
    • Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games (source)
    • A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges (source)
    • Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations (source)
    • Articles studying chemicals from the oceans (source)
    • Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude (source)
    • In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later) (source)
    • Actors who played the same real politician the most times (source)
    • Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks) (source)

• Development
  • Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (phab:T306214)
  • Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (phab:T307869)
  • REST API: continued work on creating statements (phab:T306667)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:28, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Integration of POTD template
  • Closed request for comments:
    • How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ? has been closed. Property labels in French should now includes both male and female or a verbal form if relevant (see P50).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. Where: Zoom (Registration link). When: 30 June 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter)
    • Data Quality Days (July 8-10): you can propose discussion topics or sessions until June 19th.
    • Small wiki toolkits: Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC "This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access to Toolforge via ssh, and run bots and scripts on Toolforge and in background mode."
    • (Tutorial) OpenRefine - A fundamental tool for every librarian's toolbox. Thursday 23 June - 17: 00-19: 30. Write to laz-corsiaib.it to book and receive the link of the event.
    • Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa 3rd edition - Creating tools on Wikimedia Toolforge using Python and Flask. Friday 24th June and Sunday 26th June 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00 (UTC)
    • Collect, archive and provide games - a "panel about video game metadata". Fri. 24.6.2022 – Sat. June 25, 2022
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #47, Numbers (3/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts
    • Using Wikidata Identifiers to Enhance Agent Discovery
  • Videos
    • Wikidata editing tools (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 6: Creating Wikidata items from scratch (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Fun with lexemes in some language! by Mahir256 - Twitch

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Card Game Generator: generate card games from Wikidata!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: UX Researcher - Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Wikimedia Deutschland welcomes new Wikibase.cloud Product Manager, Evelien Zandbergen
  • Developer Portal is launched! Discover Wikimedia’s technical areas and how to contribute
  • Starting on June 21, all Wikimedia wikis can use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua (discussions welcome on the project talk page)
  • Deutschland looking for a partner affiliate to organize the WikidataCon 2023

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: preceding halt on service, following station on service, number of housing units, last entry, homophone form, fastest laps
    • External identifiers: HaBama person ID, Shopee shop ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Proza.ru author ID, neftegaz.ru person ID, National Union Catalog ID, MAYA site company ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Ethereum token address, BelTA dossier ID, Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: opus number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, U.S. vaccine status, theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer
    • External identifiers: Theatrical Index person ID, National Archives of Australia Entity ID, Mozilla Hacks author ID, CVX vaccine code, BVMC Corporate Body, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID, Teresianum authority ID, GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID
  • Query examples:
    • Islands with at least 1 spring or freshwater body (source)
    • Notable people who you share a birthday with (find the string "1966-08-25" and replace it with your date of birth) (source)
    • List of filmmakers with whom Jean-Louis Trintignant has played (source)
    • Cemeteries in France near churches (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
    • Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T307869)
    • Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T290733)
    • Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T298146)
  • REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to an Item

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:57, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #426

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 7. Task/s: Merge multiple references on the same claim citing Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 30th June 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 28, 2022: Andrew McAllister will introduce us to Scribe, an app that provides keyboards for second-language learners, and its use of Wikidata. This presentation should appeal to anyone who has worked on or is interested in learning more about the applications of lexicographical data in Wikidata as well as anyone who has an interest in language, open information, data and programming. Agenda
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 28 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
    • July 8-10: Data Quality Days (see the first version of the program and the list of participants)
    • The Third Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: Friday, 29 July 2022
    • Celtic Knot Conference 2022: presentations from 12 projects communities working on minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects - YouTube
  • Past:
    • 21 June: Presentation Wikidata as a data collaboration across multiple boundaries at SciDataCon

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata
    • Practices of Linked Open Data in Archaeology and Their Realisation in Wikidata
    • What Can Tweets and Knowledge Graphs Tell Us About Eating Disorders?
  • Videos
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 7: Adding references and qualifiers to Wikidata items (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
    • The Joys of Connecting Your Collections to Wikidata - YouTube
    • Using Wikidata to Enhance Discovery & Faculty Interest in Rapid Publishing - YouTube
  • Podcasts
    • Data Quality Days Discussion With Lydia Pintscher & Lèa Lacroix
  • Other
    • Documented queries: a proposal, feedback is welcome here

• Tool of the week
  • IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This is an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record, Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: inker, penciller
    • External identifiers: Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID, Great Plant Picks ID, BVMC organization ID, UK Beetles ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer, foliage type
    • External identifiers: GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID, Copains d'avant ID, P. League+ ID, WO2 Thesaurus ID, Super Basketball League ID, DeSmog ID, Met Constituent ID, IRFA ID, Adequat agency person ID, Israeli Company Registration Number, UKAT term ID, TGbus game ID, TGbus franchise ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, VocaDB Artist ID, VocaDB Album ID, VocaDB Song ID, Moepedia ID
  • Query examples:
    • "Queries of the week" archive (sources)
    • Graph of fictional wars and their participants (source)
    • The 100 most common species as subjects of publications known to Wikidata (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of ASM Clermont Auvergne players (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and rolll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (phab:T307869)
  • REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (phab:T306667)
  • Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (phab:T309445)
  • Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of Wikidata.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:08, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #522

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. [2] should have a wiki commons link to [3] since they both refer to [4].

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Wikidata Data Quality Days, online, on July 8-10
    • Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, Human rights
  • Past
    • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Making Wiki work for Wales - YouTube
    • Session on Wikibase - Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikipedians of Goa User Group (WGUG) - YouTube
    • Scribe: Wikidata-powered keyboard app for second language learners - YouTube
    • Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata A semi automated, user assisted editing tool - YouTube
    • Wikidata MOOC (in French) by Wikimedia France - 19 videos on YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - 7 videos on YouTube
  • Report
    • User:LennardHofmann/GSoC 2022/Report 2 - rewriting the WikiCommons and Wikidata Infobox in Lua

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js is a userscript that can add values to properties that already exist on an item and new statements.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata. The goal of this collaboration is "to make our software more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and speakers of minority languages".
  • Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
    • Junior Product Manager Wikidata - "In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest knowledge base of free and open data in the world."
    • Product Manager Wikibase Suite - In this role "you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of stakeholders in the Wikibase Ecosystem."

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, Russia.travel object ID, Yamaha Artists ID, ifwizz ID, IRFA ID, DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Gitee username, Punjabi tone, spoken by, recordist, part of molecular family, official definition
    • External identifiers: Anghami artist ID, Boomplay artist ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, MUSE publisher ID, EU Knowledge Graph ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, identifiant organisation Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of albums in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)
    • Occupation about musicians in Wales (source)
    • Map of tram depots in France
    • Mountains higher than 2,500 meters in France (source)
    • List of all Tour de France's stage winners by nationality from 1903 to 2022 (source)
    • French rugby teams according to the year of creation (source)
    • French members of parliament that were on the same legislature and are or have been married (source)
    • Number of countries on Wikidata where at least one pride parade has been held (source)
    • Football players whose birthday is today (different every day) (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • We have finished most of the development on the new Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on July 14th.
    • We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (phab:T307869)
  • REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
  • We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (phab:T303317)
  • We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:22, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #528

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on Sched at Agenda
    • 7/30 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata @ COSCUP 2022
    • 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. July 11th through July 15th, 2022
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #49, Bastille day
  • Past:
    • Presentation Integrating Wikibase into research workflows at the monthly Wikibase Stakeholders Group meeting on July 7
    • Data Quality Days 2022 see outcomes. The recorded sessions will be published soon!
    • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • New quality checks in the Osmose QA tool for links from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata
    • Wikidata used extensively in medieval hack weekend at the University of York (UK National Archives)
    • Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts (British Library)
    • Wikidata at the Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Papers
    • Wikidata and the bibliography of life (Q112959127)
  • Videos
    • Live editing: create a Lua template using Lexemes on Wiktionary, with Mahir256 (on Youtube)
    • Adding wikidata to plaques on OpenStreetMap - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lectrician1/discographies.js: Shows chronological data about artist's discographies on music albums and provides functions to add new items.
  • User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal is a userscript that is used to combat cross-wiki spam or vandalism.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata now has more than 10 million items about humans.
  • Q113000000 was created.
  • Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for architects and Template:Generic queries for transport network
  • Due to summer vacations and our current workloads the response times from the Wikidata communications team (Léa and Mohammed) to requests and queries may be delayed. We will resume full capacity by October.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: opus number
    • External identifiers: DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID, Kultboy platform ID, Kultboy controller ID, Kultboy magazine ID, Kultboy company ID, National Archives of Australia entity ID, snookerscores.net player ID, Truth Social username, Material UI icon, Yarkipedia ID, Springer Nature person ID, Komoot ID, Springer Nature article ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official definition, ce module ou cette infobox utilise la propriété, release artist, Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail
    • External identifiers: Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, Match TV people ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID, Applied Ecology Resources Document ID, Prophy author ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Liquipedia ID, Instagram post ID, Mapping Museums ID
  • Query examples:
    • Current list of French departments (documentation)
    • Prime ministers of Japan whose manner of death is homicide (source)
    • 1st level administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
    • List of globes and how many times they've been used

• Development
  • Data Quality Days!
  • Making plans for improving EntitySchemas and integrate them more into editing and maintenance workflows
  • Implemented word-level diffs of labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks (phab:T303317)
  • Continuing the investigation about labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Continuing work on making it easier to pick the right language for a new Lexeme (phab:T298140)
    • Fixing a bug where `[object Object]` was shown in the gramatical feature field (phab:T239208)
    • Fixing a number of places where labels for redirected Items were not shown even though the redirect target had labels (phab:T305032)
  • REST API:
    • Finished the first version of the API route for creating statements on an Item (excluding autosummaries so far)
    • Started work on the API route for removing a statement from an Item

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:30, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #529

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Working Hour July 18, 2022: Working with diverse children's book metadata. The second Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover reconciliation in OpenRefine, so we can identify which authors from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata already exist and/or need to be created in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. Event page
    • Assessing the Quality of Sources in Wikidata Across Languages - Wikimedia Research Showcase, Wednesday, July 20, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC
    • Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #50, Lexical categories
  • Past
    • 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. (replay on YouTube)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The Barassi Line: a globally unique divider splitting Australia’s footy fans
    • Words Matter: Reconciling museum metadata with Wikidata
    • Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia
    • My GLAMorous introduction into the Wikiverse
  • Papers
    • Enriching Wikidata with Linked Open Data
  • Videos
    • Lexemes in Wikidata structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher) - YouTube
    • Want a not-scary and low-key introduction to some of the more advanced behind-the-scenes topics around Wikidata? Check out the videos from the Wikidata Live Editing sessions by Jan Ainali, Albin Larsson.
    • The videos of the Data Quality Days 2022 have been published and you can find them in this playlist or linked from the schedule.
    • Placing a scientific article on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Threads
    • OpenSexism has created the Wednesday Index: each wednesday, it show gender diversity in Wikipedia articles. Gender diversity is computed using a SPARQL query.

• Tool of the week
  • EntitySchema Generator - is a GUI to help create simple EntitySchemas for Wikidata.
  • User:Jean-Frédéric/ExLudo.js - is a userscript that adds links expansions and mods on item pages for video games.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job openings:
    • AFLIA: Wikidata Course Manager/Facilitator
    • WMF: Senior Program Officer, Libraries at Wikimedia Foundation
  • There is a new Telegram group for OpenRefine users.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Springer Nature article ID, Bibale ID, WW2 Thesaurus Camp List ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, MUSE publisher ID, France bleu journalist ID, HATVP organisation ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail, grade separated roadways at junction, Gauss notation, Crossing number, URL for presentation/slide, Dictionnaire Favereau, Depicts lexeme form
    • External identifiers: Mapping Museums ID, GIE gas storage id, Microsoft KLID, PTS+ season ID, RailScot company ID, RailScot location ID, SABRE wiki ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, PBDB ID, Pad.ma video ID, Pad.ma person ID, Naturbasen species ID, kód dílu části obce, Base Budé person ID, Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of recent heatwaves (source)
    • Most recent information leaks according to Wikidata (source)
    • Cause and mode of death of ex-prime ministers (source)
    • Brazilian writers born in a city with less than 20000 inhabitants (source)
    • Lexical categories sorted by number of languages using them in Wikidata lexemes (source)
    • People playing rugby union by number of Wikipages (source)
  • Newest database reports:
    • Albums ranked by number of sitelinks

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • The new Lexeme creation page is available for testing
    • Fixed an issue where the grammatical form of a Lexeme was rendered as `[object Object]` (phab:T239208) This also solves similar issues in other places.
  • REST API: Continued working on the API route to replace or remove a statement of an Item
  • We are making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in a lot more places; notably, this includes the wbsearchentities API. (phab:T312223)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are discussing options for how to improve its handling of dates, specifically calendar model and precision.
  • EntitySchemas: We are trying to figure out how to best technically go about implementing some of the most-needed features for version 2.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:41, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #530

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PangolinBot 1. Task/s: Automatically adds author information to Wikidata scholarly articles (items where instance of (P31) = scholarly article (Q13442814)) that have missing author information. Currently works for articles with the following references: PubMed ID (P698), PMCID (P932), Dimensions Publication ID (P6179), ADS bibcode (P819). Part of Outreachy Round 24.
    • BboberBot. Task/s: The "robot" will browse the latest VIAF Dump, select the lines with a Idref (P269) and a Qitem, and add a P269 when it doesn't already exist in Wikidata.
    • ADSBot English Paper. Task/s: Importing scholarly articles from ADS database to Wikidata, by creating Wikidata Item of a scholarly article (optionally author items) and adding statements and statements-related properties to the item. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
    • ADSBot English Statement. Task/s: Adding missing statements and statement-related properties to existing scholarly articles on Wikidata from the ADS database. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
  • New request for comments:
    • Documented and featured SPARQL queries

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
    • [Small wiki toolkits] [Upcoming bots & scripts workshop. "How to maintain bots" is coming up on Friday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 26, 2022: Clair Kronk, Crystal Clements, and Alex Jung will be providing an update to Wikidata/gender discussions from the February 8 call with a focus on pronouns. Clair will introduce us to LGBTdb, a Wikibase instance created for and by LGBTQIA+ people from which we draw insight in Wikidata-related discussions. We also hope to discuss current pain points and share action items for future collaboration. Input from community members who are familiar with lexicographical data would be greatly appreciated. Agenda
    • Wikimedia Indonesia Wikidata meetup. 1300 WIB, July 30, 2022.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #51, Plants

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • The Lay of the Land: Data Visualizations of the Language Data and Domains of Wikidata (Q113181609)
  • Videos
    • Wikibase Ecosystem taking Wikidata further, by Lydia Pintscher - YouTube
    • Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices II (in Chinese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/referee.js - is a userscript that automatically checks external IDs and URLs of a Wikidata item as potential references, and adds them with a single click.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the third quarter (Q3).
  • Fellowship: Wikipedian-in-Residence (WiR) fellowships to improve climate info in African languages on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • T66503: It is now possible to import dates from templates to Wikidata using Pywikibot's harvest_template.py script.
  • Number of wikidata-powered infoboxes on Commons now exceeds 4 million
  • OpenRefine 3.6.0 was released. It adds support for editing structured data on Wikimedia Commons, features more configurable statement deduplication during upload, as well as the ability to delete statements. Head to the release page for a changelog and download links.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, Delaware Division of Corporations file number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for
    • External identifiers: Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn Artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of driverless rapid transit railway lines worldwide
    • An example of finding problematic references
    • Papers by University of Leeds researchers that might have figures suitable for Wikimedia Commons (with a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licence, with full text online)
    • People born on rivers (source)
    • Humans with "native language" "German"

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We went over all the feedback we received for teh testing of the new Special:NewLexeme page and started addressing it and fixing the uncovered issues. One issue already fixed is a bug that prevented it from working on mobile view. (phab:T313116)
  • Mismatch Finder: investigated how we can make it work for mismatches in qualifiers instead of the main statement (phab:T313467)
  • REST API: Continued working on making it possible to replace and remove a statement of an Item
  • We enabled the profile parameter to the wbsearchentities API on Test Wikidata (phab:T307869)
  • We continued making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in more places (phab:T312223)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:24, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #531

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 8. Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names|Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17).
    • EnvlhBot 4. Task/s: import forms for French verbs on lexemes.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team. Date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST
    • Wikidata Birthday is taking place in October 2022, and together we are celebrating 10 amazing years of Wikidata with decentralized community events! Discover more Wikidata:Tenth Birthday -- organize an event and get funding
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #52, Software
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hours logs (2022-07-27)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Insights about good articles in Wikipedia in French This Observable's notebook uses SPARQL queries to get insights about good articles.
    • Tour de France Femmes : Notebook exploring data from Tour de France Femmes using Wikidata.
    • Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Smithsonian Research Online
    • Populating Wikipedia: New tool integrating Australian Census data
    • Quickstatements User Evaluation of Statements and Terms, or QUEST
    • Place of birth and death of people with Peruvian citizenship (source)
    • This interactive map highlights the most notable person from your hometown
    • Map of notable people based on A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD which is based on Wikidata. Made by Topi Tjukanov
    • Wikidata insights from a handy little tool in The Signpost
  • Videos
    • The process of standardizing OpenStreetMap and Wikidata data - an example in the village of Xiliu (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • Wikidata – An attempt to analyse Wikidata Query - YouTube
    • Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata: why and how? - YouTube
    • WikiProject Scholia - Brazilian Bioinformatics (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Connecting an academic organization to Wikidata (Python script) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • SPARQL queries on trains (stations and lines), cartography (in French) by VIGNERON and Auregann - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Gender diversity inspector is a new tool to inspect gender diversity in Wikipedia articles based on SPARQL and Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template:Generic queries for authors has now generic queries about narrative locations (P840) of works written by an author.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contains the statistical territorial entity, recordist, spoken by
    • External identifiers: Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met Constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Gitee username, Anghami artist ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Base Budé person ID, Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for, Matrix space, Tribe, Prisoner's camp number, field of this item, Linkinfo ID, Zhihu question ID, Baidu Tieba name
    • External identifiers: IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID, Galleria Recta author ID, Business Online ID, Real Time IDs, The Devil's Porridge Museum Worker Database, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Scinapse Author ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan ID, National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID
  • Query examples:
    • Grammatical features used on forms of French lexemes (source)
    • Most notable people (by sitelinks) (source)
    • List of draughts (source)
    • Map of NZ graduates based on coordinates of employer (source)

• Development
  • [Significant change] New search profile parameter in Wikidata’s wbsearchentities API module
  • REST API:
    • You can now check out the current development state of the upcoming REST API
    • We are continuing work on the API route to remove and replace statements, focusing on error handling and corner cases.
  • Lexicographical data: We are addressing the feedback from the first release of the new Special:NewLexeme page.
  • Continuing work on allowing redirects and the target article as independent sitelinks if a redirect badge is used (phab:T313896)

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.
  • Remove the billionaire (Q1062083) value for property {{{}}}. See the list and the discussion in the project chat Should billionaire (Q1062083) be used as a value of instance of (P31)?
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:43, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #532

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Pi bot 26 Task/s: Auto-correct coordinates set to the wrong globe
    • Pi bot 27 Task/s: Auto-copy coordinate globe to located on astronomical body (P376) (except for Q2)
    • William Avery Bot 9 Task/s: Remove tracking parameters from reference URLs, as suggested at Wikidata:Bot requests § Tracking parameters in reference URLs. I would like to run this as a recurring task, after clearing the c. 2800 current instances.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 8 (approved) Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names § Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at WD:RBOT § Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Wikimania 2022, August 11 to 14, online event. The Hackathon will take place August 12-14. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image data from Wikidata. Agenda.
    • The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 16-22! There are still lots of spots in the schedule to add your Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
  • Ongoing
    • Wikimedia Indonesia's Wikidata edit-a-thon (datathon) for the 77th anniversary of the Indnesian Independence Day started on 5th August and will be held until 12th August. Participants are instructed to edit items containing the statement country of origin (P495): Indonesia (Q252).
    • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #53, Sheep
  • Past
    • First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited items on Indonesian ethnic groups.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Books
    • Wikidata for Scholarly Communication Librarianship
  • Blogs
    • Most notable person, everywhere in the world
    • Wikidata now escapes SMILES and CXSMILES!
    • Bringing the whole zoo to Wikidata - User:MargaretRDonald
    • Using tfsl to clean grammatical features on Wikidata lexemes
    • Using Machine Learning, IIIF and Wikidata to find female scientists in historical Newspaper and Journals
  • Papers
    • Embracing Wikidata: How to Increase Discoverability for Musicians Online - Tweet
  • Videos
    • New Zealand Thesis Project July 2022 - User:DrThneed
    • Wikidata academic bibliographic data and Scholia (in French) by VIGNERON and Jsamwrites
    • Wikidata: Just Three Steps to Turn Books into Data Collections (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • KB Wikibase.cloud Unboxing Experience, Netherlands Wikibase Knowlegde Group

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's 10th birthday: you can contribute to the collaborative celebration video by sending a "happy birthday video" before September 18th, more information here

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: recordist, spoken by, foliage type
    • External identifiers: Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID, Super Basketball League ID, Sport24.ru team ID, P. League+ ID, Paleobiology Database ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Theatrical Index person ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Zhihu question ID, counts instances of, holds diplomatic passport of, Identifier of Czechoslovak books
    • External identifiers: Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Baidu Tieba name, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID, identifiant BD oubliées d'un auteur, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, Onestop ID, Federation Council reference ID, athletics.by person ID, AFC player ID, izsambo.ru person ID, Rugby Union of Russia athlete ID, Online Torwali Dictionary ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, USK ID, BiatlonMag profile ID, motocross.ru profile ID, Football 24 article ID, abART book series ID, Turkish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933–1945 ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most recent date not used as a date of birth (P569) or date of death (P570)
    • Map of war memorials, showing EN Wikipedia article if it exists (source)
    • Most frequent occupations of people born in Épinal (source)
    • Species named after places in the state of Espírito Santo (source)
    • Places named after Lenin (source)

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

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:37, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #533

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Estopedist1 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2022 12:36 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour August 15, 2022: Fourth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be covering manually creating publisher items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
  • Ongoing:
    • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
    • Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, August 18th at 15:00 UTC
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #54, Fire

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Turns out most famous people aren’t that famous at all
    • An introduction to Wikidata: How worlds of Wikimedia link
  • Papers
    • An Analysis of Content Gaps versus User Needs in the Wikidata Knowledge Graph
    • The Democratization of Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement
  • Videos
    • Wikimania 2022 happened. Highlights around Wikidata and Wikibase:
      • Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata
      • Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata - Overtime Discussion
      • Wikimania Hackathon: Let us play with PubMed to enrich Wikidata with medical information
      • When Quechua meets Wikibase - QICHWABASE
    • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences
    • Power BI project - Create image grids - Images from Wikidata brought in using a simple R script
    • Some reflections on wikidata and color biology
    • Uploading bibliographical items using Quickstatements
    • Wikidata tutorials:
      • Add the official street address of an institution
      • Add visitor numbers to an institution
    • Wikidata tutorials (in French):
      • Adding an institution's official website
      • Create a Wikimedia Account
      • Adding a webpage

• Tool of the week
  • KnolCase is a case-based knowledge management tool for gathering information about subjects of interest and organizing these into case files.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata integration in OpenRefine: could this be your project? OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.
  • Wikimedia integration in OpenRefine: looking for developers

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
    • External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
    • External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most common numbers of statements per item (source)
    • Locations and depicts statements for images in Commons category Mosques in Dubai (source)
    • Art people who died in Nazi camps (source)
    • Count of items in Wikidata by number of statements in the item (source)
    • Fungi with image, ordered by number of languages it has an article (source)
    • Longest natural watercourses in France (source)
    • Multiple forms of a Lexeme with the same grammatical features and where no of these forms have any other statement
    • Bengali Lexemes all of whose parts are derived from Sanskrit words, but which themselves aren't derived from Sanskrit words yet

• Development
  • Took part in Wikimania and the Wikimania hackathon
  • Continuing work on making it possible to add sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)
  • Lexicographical data: continuing to address the feedback from testing
  • REST API:
    • Finished off validation in the endpoint for replacing a statement on an Item (phab:T314790)
    • Doing research around PATCH and JSON Patch

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:45, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #534

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Estopedist1 (successful)
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French
    • Alternate disclosure policy

• Events
  • Past events:
    • Clutch sprint August 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Automatic word relatedness evaluation
  • Videos
    • Datavisualisation in Wikidata (in French)
    • Highlights from Wikimania 2022
      • Ninai-Udiron: Using Wikidata Items and Lexemes for Abstract Wikipedia-Like Text Generation By Mahir Morshed
      • Partner Up for Wikidata!
      • Wikidata for everyone: a methodology to teach different communities
      • Wikifunctions: A new Wikimedia project
  • Tutorial
    • Wikimania 2022 UK Festival: SPARQL tutorial (Wikidata for Wizards) & Wikidata SPARQL Tips and Tricks

• Tool of the week
  • List of created Wikidata items - a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Outreachy Round 25–call for projects and mentors now open!
  • Template:Documented queries skeleton
  • Wikidata's tenth birthday: you can organize a distributed event and get funding, create your own swag, attend the next organizers call on August 23, and participate in the collaborative video until September 18th.
  • OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contraindication, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s)
    • External identifiers: ZOBODAT publication ID, abART book series ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: fog signal characteristic, Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL
    • External identifiers: Planeta Belarus sigh ID, Flemish Heritage designation object ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Longest tram line in the world with 68 stops Map of Coast Tram (Q1510414)¹
    • Most frequent .uk domains for P973 "described at URL" (source)
    • Online accounts used by people that were born in People's Republic of China (Source)
    • Journals with the most retractions (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: continuing to address feedback from testing. We are almost done now.
  • REST API: continued investigating the use of PATCH and JSON Patch and worked on a proof-of-concept
  • Birthday planning and prepping is in full swing

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:39, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #535

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Small wiki toolkits/Workshops#Writing Wikidata queries using the WDQS tool
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #56, Mystery theme (guess the theme)
  • Past:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #55, Wiki Loves Monuments

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Interoperable USP Bioinformatics Theses Catalog with Wikidata (in Portuguese)
    • Growing the representation of Australian Women in Religion through Wikidata
    • Working with Wikidata: (1) Introduction and Terminology
    • Mapping the Brazilian Association for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to Wikidata
  • Papers
    • DrNote: An open medical annotation service
  • Videos
    • [Wiki Mentor Africa] Introduction to using OpenRefine for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons Editing (part 1, part 2)
    • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences (in Spanish)
    • Relations on wikidata and color biology (in Spanish)
    • Wikidata Tutorial: Different ways to display SPARQL queries (in German)

• Tool of the week
  • SenseForThisItem.js: Adds a button on items to show what senses are linked to it.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Upgrade of the Search clusters to Elasticsearch 7.10.2 will start on August 29 2022 for 3-weeks.
  • The latest round of Outreachy internships wrapped up on 26 August. Two interns worked on improving author-name data; their bots have made over 340,000 edits. Their project description, documentation, blog posts and code are available.
  • The August 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
  • Open vacancy:
    • Wikimedia Indonesia - Technology internships in the GLAM and Wikidata fields

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contraindicated in case of, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s), power series expansion, KFCB classification (Kenya), website title match pattern
    • External identifiers: IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee athlete ID, Federation Council reference ID, Russian Football Union player ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, motocross.ru rider ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, athletics.by person ID, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Anghami album ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, Olympic Committee of Serbia athlete ID (new), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, Swedish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Field Hockey Canada person ID, Real Time person ID, Real Time organization ID, Communist Party of the Russian Federation person ID, Rugby Federation of Russia athlete ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, RailScot location ID, GIE gas storage ID, RailScot line or company ID, YAPPY profile ID, Business Online ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, izsambo.ru person ID, national-football-teams.com, TGbus ID, TGbus franchise ID, AFC player ID, SABRE wiki ID, Moepedia ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Scinapse author ID, Hockey New Zealand person ID, Artsy artwork ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, European Hockey Federation ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, EU Knowledge Graph item ID, Cultural Property in Liechtenstein ID, Belarus in persons and events ID, Planeta Belarus sight ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL, Indicator, Curriculum Reference Number, Content standards
    • External identifiers: Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID, Garden Plant Finder ID, Archaeology Data Service ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, Tanzania administrator ID, Digital Foundry game ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, King County Parcel Number, Anime Taizen ID, Betrail runner ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, A Utah Flora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Occupations as classified by ISCO/ESCO (source)
    • Occupation of people in the New Zealand Thesis Project (source)
    • Average weights and heights of sportsmen (source)
    • Letters by numbers of alphabet where they are found (source)

• Development
  • REST API: working on the ability to change existing statements on an Item (phab:T306934)
  • Lexicographical data: Finishing up the remaining pieces of the new Special:NewLexeme page based on the testing feedback (subtickets of phab:T307866)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:47, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #536

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
    • DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #57, Numbers (4/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Context is Queen: Documenting Queer history based on LGBT+ models (source)
  • Papers
    • Prompting as Probing: Using Language Models for Knowledge Base Construction
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #88 - YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
      • Find museums without official website on Wikidata
      • Add coordinates of an institution
      • Different ways to display SPARQL queries
      • How to enter a personal record of a certain person on Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries. See also the underlying dataset.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Gauss notation, crossing number
    • External identifiers: PTS+ season ID, Turkish National Paralympic Committee athlete ID, South African Hockey Association ID, Moroccan Olympic Committee athlete ID, UCI rider ID, Glossary of Astronomical Terms ID-identificatiecode, Garden Plant Finder ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan athlete ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Football 24 article ID Russian, Football 24 article ID, BioNames author ID, Devil's Porridge Worker ID, Czech electoral party ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, LiLa Linking Latin URI, Instagram post ID, Springer Nature journal ID, Arabic Ontology lemma ID, Anime Taizen ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: coordinates of grave, Rekhta Dictionary ID
    • External identifiers: vPlants ID, Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, IGDB game engine ID, Aragonario ID, CRAB ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma'agarim ID, Feb-web IDs, Diskograf artist ID, Diskograf label ID, Diskograf song ID, NSR doctor ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Oculus Store, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Viveport ID, NOC of Belarus champion ID, newslab.ru dossier ID, Undiscovered Scotland ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and around the world that have P625 as a qualifier (source)
    • Age of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends 1997-2002 (source)
    • Education of French prefects (source)
    • Number of substance records in PubChem Compounds (source)
    • Map of rivers longer than 50 km passing through French territory, grouped by watershed (source)
    • Brazilian players in the Fifa World Cup 2022 Sticker Album! (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934)
    • We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523)
    • For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
  • Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (phab:T314064, phab:T312633, phab:T312652)
  • Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:52, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #537

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
    • Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World. Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Introducing Knowledge Graphs featuring Elena Simperl - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #89 - YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
      • Adding the address of an institution (in French) - YouTube
  • Dataviz
    • All Tour de France's stage winners from 1903 to today
    • All Vuelta's stage winners by country of citizenship

• Tool of the week
  • View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can send a contribution to Wikidata's 10th birthday celebration video until Sunday, September 18th.
  • Job opening:
    • Community Relations Specialist (contractor) at Wikimedia Foundation // Commons and Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, Hesperomys taxon ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, Digital Foundry game ID, IGDB game engine ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, ZineWiki ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, Odnoklassniki album ID, Mindat.org Glossary of Mineralogical Terms ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Transcribed by, annotator, SHAARD-ID, associated locality, cadastral municipality name, NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, reduces
    • External identifiers: National Library of Indonesia Control Headings, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, MTV Germany music video ID, fedpress.ru persons ID, epsd2 identifier, Naver game lounge ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, SR-Archiv record ID, SR-Archiv person ID, SR-Archiv print media ID, BIBFRAME Hub ID, eGardenGo plant ID, IAHR member ID, FrameNet frame ID, FrameNet Lexical Unit ID, IRIS Calabria IDs, legislation.govt.nz ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, Chess.com player ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID
  • Query examples:
    • Language Wikipedias having biographies on recent UK Prime Ministers - (source)
    • Has Wikidata been updated to show replacement UK ministers post the Great Boris Resignation of July 2022? - (source)
    • Map of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) with links to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) datasets (source)
    • Places of birth of heads of the city of Riga 1890-2022 (source)
    • Things named after Queen Elizabeth II (source)
    • Essential Open-Source Software funded by CZI Science (source)

• Development
  • REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (phab:T306934)
  • Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (phab:T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (phab:T307866)
  • Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (phab:T278962)
  • Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:32, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #538

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • بوٹ دا عثمان
      • Task/s:
        • Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
        • Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
    • The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #59, Election
• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Vue le vue, by Magnus Manske
    • Using Wikidata to check votes of the Wikimedia Foundation board election
  • Papers
    • Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
    • Hidden Author Bias in Book Recommendation
    • WikiGOA: Gene set enrichment analysis based on Wikipedia and the Gene Ontology (uses Wikidata prominently)
    • Scholia for Software by Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #90 #softwarefreedomday
    • Using Wikidata to explore depictions of nature in the fine arts
    • Wikidata and GLAM 2021 (in French)
      • Wikidata, Mix'N'Match and the Wikibase Ecosystems
      • Wikibase project "Resistants" at the State Archives in Belgium
    • ContribuLing 2021
      • Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties
      • Wikidata Lexemes, Where to Find Them and How to Use Them
      • Wikidata tutorial: How to get a Twitter user's numeric ID by "Report an issue" method
  • Dataviz
    • A tribute to Jean-Luc Godard
  • Presentation
    • New Zealand Thesis Project - Institutional Repository Day 2022

• Tool of the week
  • WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Govdirectory recognized as Digital Public Goods

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: grammatical person, grammatical number
    • External identifiers: DiACL lexeme ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Naver game lounge ID, IRIS UNIRC author ID, IRIS UNICZ author ID, IRIS UNICAL author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, river system's length, National Olympic Committee, autosuggest value, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
    • External identifiers: Código de Identificação do Aeródromo, identifiant Championnat de France de basket-ball (nouveau format), JCDb ID, UniChem compound ID, Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures ID, BindingDB ID, Drugcentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, VMH (compound) ID, ID for IFUW members database, Rowing Australia ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, British Athletics ID, AustralasiaTour player ID, England Hockey ID, Athletics Canada ID (New), Golfdata ID, Latindex 2022 ID, British Swimming IDs, Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of movies directed by Jean Luc Godard (source)
    • Map of narrative locations of movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard (source)
    • List of actors and actresses who have worked with Jean-Luc Godard by number of movies (source)
    • Route of the Aberdeenshire Canal, as indicated by its remains (source)
    • People born in Rennes classified according to the number of links pointing to them (source)
    • French heads of state and government who were not born on current French territory (and after 1789) (source)
    • Where were the players in the FIFA 2022 Sticker Album born? (source)
    • World Cup Qatar 2022: The heaviest team is Ghana, averaging 87 kilos, and the lightest is Qatar, averaging 70 kilos (source)
    • Streets of Milan, Italy named after males (blue) vs. females (orange) (source)
    • Map of Roman theaters and amphitheaters (source)
    • Chart of English monarch names by cause of death
    • Cause of death of US presidents by party

• Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
    • Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
    • Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
    • Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
    • Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
  • Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
  • Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (phab:T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
  • Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (phab:T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
  • Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (phab:T306932)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:20, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #539

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

• 🧵 Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • JhsBot 6
      • Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • 2022 September status on Danish lexemes in Wikidata
  • Papers
    • The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #91 - YouTube
    • How donations to Wikidata work (in English with French subtitles) - YouTube
    • BridgeDB & Wikidata. A powerful combination that generates interoperable open research (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Presentations
    • Climate knowledge and the Wikimedia ecosystem

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Fork of QuickPresets userscript. Simple/minor updates were made to the script
  • The Elasticsearch 7.10.2 upgrade is now completed.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ePSD2 identifier, USK ID, Match TV person ID, Chess.com player ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: membership number, increased by, badge image, historical information sign, is mentioned in, sponsor
    • External identifiers: Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, Twitter community ID, Linktree ID, Préfets 3, Observation.org place ID, expertes ID, OpenML dataset ID, identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, MEXT school code, USGS Thesaurus ID, NicoNico ID, Asian Tour player ID, AIBA ID, Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID
  • Query examples:
    • Smallest cities with at least two metro lines (source)
    • Chart of occupation of people born in New Zealander (source)
    • Capoeira practitioners through time! (birthdates) (source)
    • Gallery of mid-seventeenth-century bishops (source)
    • Song titles that match female given names (source)
    • Songs about Elizabeth II (source)
    • Student-advisor graph (Stanford University) (source)
    • Official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean! (size proportional to the population of the countries) (source)
    • People in the 2022–2026 parliamentary term of the Swedish Riksdag (source)
    • Software license, by year (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Hiking trails

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
  • Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (phab:T300770)
  • Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (phab:T317863)
  • REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:23, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #540

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Wd-Ryan (RfP scheduled to end after 10 October 2022 17:38 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • EuropeanCommissionBot 1
      • Task/s: The objective is to link Wikidata with the 'Eu Knowledge Graph'. We introduced this property in order to do this.
    • William Avery Bot 10
      • Task/s: Fix instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143)-->Minor Planet Center (Q522039) to stated in (P248)-->Minor Planet Center Database (Q106600690) as requested at Request to fix certain instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143) (2022-09-25)

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
      • October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
      • Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
    • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
    • Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
  • Ongoing
    • Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Introducing Wikidata to the City of Sydney
    • Linking Portuguese culture to Wikidata
    • Wiki Loves…. Wikidata!
    • More Picasso paintings in one year than all the Vermeer paintings? (Answering an art history question SPARQL).
  • Papers
    • LOD4Culture: Easy Exploration of Cultural Heritage Linked Open Data
    • Using logical constraints to validate statistical information about disease outbreaks in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of COVID-19 epidemiology in Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Tutorial on how to build SPARQL queries on Wikidata - YouTube
    • 2022: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: Case study of Taiwan's villages and rivers dataset - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata: Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #92 - YouTube
    • Wikibase: Build a professional cultural knowledge base with open source and free tools (in Chinese) - YouTube

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/smiles gadget.js: This tool displays SMILES renderings for chemical compounds, where the item contains statements for P233 and/or P2017.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Valerie Wollinger joins Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager for Wikibase
  • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
  • Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund. You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022.
  • View it! is now multilingual! Please help us by submitting translations.
  • 11 interns successfully completed a project via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24. Many thanks to the participants who worked on Wikidata-related projects.
  • It is now possible to create Kartographer maps on Wikimedia wikis which use live SPARQL queries showing individual point features on the map.
  • Job openings
    • Open call for a WiR at The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
    • Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Senior Software Engineer (Wikibase.Cloud)
      • Software Engineer (Wikibase Suite)

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: won sets
    • External identifiers: UConn Plant Database ID, Breton Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, French Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID, Aragonario ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, vPlants ID, Kubbealti Lugati lexeme ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, VocaDB artist ID, Naturbasen species ID, Linktree ID, Dictionnaire biographique des préfets depuis 1982 ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, Three Decks ship ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: type code, RAM, Universal Content Identifier, PIM publication ID, hlavní spolek, Merriam-Webster entry
    • External identifiers: Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID, Dams in Japan number, Disused stations ID, National Institute of Korean Language IDs, utas.hu ID, Language of Bindings ID, EuDML id, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Förvaltningshistorisk ordbok, Pennsylvania State Park Hiking Trails ID, Matrix channel, Beyond Notability ID, MaDada ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, IHF profile ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • UK railway stations with coordinates sourced to English Wikipedia that have different coordinates on English Wikipedia (1/10) (source)
    • Graph visualisation of 12 British monarchs and their 56 British prime ministers (source)
    • British Monarchs vs. US Presidents (source)
    • Children of Nobel laureates have themselves been awarded the prize (source)
    • Profession and gender of people whose works are kept in the Musée de Bretagne (source)
    • Map the type locality of New Zealand endemic species (source)
    • Map visualization of Wikidata items located in Ukraine (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of women in Finistère (with and without photo) (source)
    • People in the British Museum's person-institution thesaurus by gender and occupation (source)
    • Films with "it" in the title (source)
    • Buildings most depicted on paintings (source)
    • Emblems depicting birds! (source)
    • Number and percent of lexemes with an external ID for top 20 languages in Wikidata (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Improved handling of localized language names (phab:T261851/phab:T275781)
  • REST API:
    • Continued work on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
    • We now require clients to send a User-Agent header (phab:T318151)
    • Started work on conditional HTTP request headers (phab:T318221)
  • Continued work on the mul language code (phab:T285156)
  • Wrapped up Codex work supporting the new design system (phab:T313477)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:38, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #541

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

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 11 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Live editing session on Twitch as part of the DACH Culture Contest, in English (or French, depending on the audience), by Jean-Frédéric, October 12 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • 12 November 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Mini Wikimedia Hackathon for experienced Wikimedians. Includes a farewell ceremony to the GLAMwiki Toolset.
    • UM Data Science Research Seminar. Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Speaker: Egon Willighagen. Title: Making research output FAIR with Wikidata
  • Ongoing
    • DACH Culture Contest to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland − until October 16th.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #62, Cereals
  • Past
    • The European Citizen Science Association's 2022 conference was held from 5-8 October in Berlin. It included a presentation on Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia.

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 1 (en, de)
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 2 (en, de)
    • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #93
    • DCMI Webinar: Querying Wikidata - All the Knowledge in the World
    • Merging data from a remote SPARQL End Point (Wikidata) with locally stored Data using Apache Fuseki and Jena
  • Dataviz
    • All Nobel laureates by year and gender
    • Tribute to Annie Ernaux, Literature Nobel lauréate in 2022

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/author strings.js will automatically run on any item with author name string (P2093). It allows to "create new author" for the selected entries, and change the string author properties for authors (P50)

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
  • The September 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: model image
    • External identifiers: eGardenGo plant ID, Oculus Store ID, UniChem compound ID, Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number
    • External identifiers: Online French Dictionary Larousse ID, C64-Wiki, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata has more than 200 Klingon lexemes. qapla'!
    • Map of historic Welsh parishes (source)
    • "Controversies” articles with the most sitelinks (language versions) (source)
    • Are you cited by Nobel Prize winners? (Replace with your ORCID id in query to check) (source)
    • Current members of UK Parliament and their PhD theses (source)
    • Map of Rennes, each dot is a thoroughfare, in blue if there is an image of their name sign on Wikimedia Commons, red otherwise (source)
    • Count of all external identifiers for people with ADB identifier (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
    • Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
  • REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
  • Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
  • Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
  • Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:22, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #542

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DwdsBot
      • Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).
    • RobertgarrigosBOT
      • Task/s: I'm using Openrefine to edit items related to Wikidata:Wikiproject_Lieder, beginning by adding the new subclass lyrico-musical work (Q114586269) to the actual lieder in WD. I hope to gain some experience before going with further edits.
    • Josh404Bot 4
      • Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
    • BorkedBot 8
      • Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 18th: session where community members can share their favorite Wikidata gadgets, user scripts, or SPARQL queries Agenda
    • Wikimedia Norge: Wikidata celebrates 10 years, and it is marked both in Oslo and in Bergen. Time: 12:00–16:00 Wikimedia Norway's Oslo office
    • Learn Wikidata and celebrate #WikidataBirthday in Sydney! (An introduction to wikidata: how worlds of wikimedia link). Saturday 22 October from 11am to 2pm. Sign up.
  • Ongoing
    • Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #63, Vehicles

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 3
    • Adding Jaxsta - the Australian database of international songwriting credits - to Wikidata (How we're using Mix'n'match to add Jaxsta profiles to Wikidata)
  • Papers
    • The disambiguation of people names in biological collections - Wikidata, ORCiD and Bionomia
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #94
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 10: Adding references to Wikidata items
    • Qichwabase as a Wikibase instance - Wikibase as a core technology to support a harmonization process of the Quechua language and knowledge.
  • Dataviz
    • Career of Nobel laureates in literature
    • Actress-singers and actor-singers careers in dataviz
  • Twitter threads
    • 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata (Curious about some of the more quirky things around Wikidata? Let's have a look!)
    • 10 Queries that teach you something about the world.
    • 10 great website and apps and built on top of Wikidata

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • New Wikidata game - match new Wikipedia articles and categories with Wikidata items!

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Outreachy Round 25–projects finalized & contribution period begins!
  • The Welsh Government's new mapping platform Data Map Wales (for publishing public geo data) now has an optional base layer entirely in Welsh. This is largely based on OSM data with additional place names from Wikidata.
  • The Wikimania 2023 Organizing Team is looking for your suggestions on the first in-person Wikimania in 4 years or on virtual/hybrid setup next year.
  • Job opening
    • Software Engineer (Wikibase Product Platform) (m/f/d) - Wikimedia Deutschland

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: model image, annotator, alphabetical index, recorded participant
    • External identifiers: Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID, British Athletics ID, IAHR member ID, SR-Archiv person ID, Onestop ID, CMA ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, NASA International Space Station experiment ID, NASA International Space Station facility ID, Illinois Plants ID, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Yarus feed ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number, said to be the same as (lexeme), has reply, Stamp perforation, Kanseki Repository work ID, solved by algorithm
    • External identifiers: Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID, CIViC gene ID, Assomptionnistes ID, identifiant Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne, Cannabis Database ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, IDG IT-ord ID, OMED ID, MMB ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, MSVF ID, UOM ID, Central Library of Volos ID, Voroklini Library ID, Miraheze article ID, Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, Municipal Library of Volos ID, Levadia Library ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bands that have had more members than the Sugababes (source)
    • Average age difference from one's spouse, by profession, (for men) and (women) (source)
    • How long has each UK chancellor been in office? (source)
    • Streets of Paris that meet (source)
    • Players in the FIFA World Cup 2022 Sticker Album with most years in the national team (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
    • Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
  • Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (phab:T302289)
  • The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
  • Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (phab:T304943)
  • Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (phab:T315423)
  • Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (phab:T303103)
  • Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (phab:T318137)
  • Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (phab:T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:36, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #543

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Welcome onboard, Wd-Ryan!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • AniMangaDBImportBot
      • Task/s: Imports properties include genre (P136), intended public (P2360), publication date (P577). Adds references to new and/or existing values from the databases they are imported from.

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour October 24, 2022: ninth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be batch loading data using QuickStatements to create items for works and editions in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
    • October, 25, 2022 (Tuesday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXV: Modeling Elections
    • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 25 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • [LIVE Wikidata editing #96] Wikidata Birthday special of Wikidata live editing with surprise guests, October 29 18.00 UTC YouTube
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #126, October 30 at 13.00 UTC
    • Webinar: Exploring Wikidata to Find Good Stories - October 28 at 7:00 PM CEST (in Portuguese)
  • Ongoing
    • Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Vegetables
  • Past
    • The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online. It included a session about the role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data, which featured six talks, all of which with strong Wikidata components. Slides and/ or video recordings are already available for some (more to follow):
      • Unpacking IPCC and IPBES Reports
      • Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • The Impact of Wikidata and its Community – Part 1, Part 2
    • Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022
    • What you need to know to kickstart a Wikidata Initiative
    • Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister, reaches 100 million items (in Dutch)
    • Volunteers speaking Turkic languages ​​met at Wikidata Istanbul 2022 (in Turkish)
  • Videos
    • Wikimedia Research Showcase - October 2022. A panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #95
    • GND meets Wikibase
    • COVIWD - Lightning Talk @Wikidata Workshop 2022
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday Speaker Series 3 - Sustaining a Wikidata Initiative
    • Wikidata 10 years celebration video by WMTURKIC
    • Wikidata at the museum: lowering thresholds for research with linked data in Sweden
    • Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia (The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference in 2022)
  • Papers
    • Towards improving Wikidata reuse with emerging patterns
    • The disambiguation of people names in biological collections
    • Empirical Study of Elite Networks with Wikidata
    • Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research data management services for cultural heritage data
  • Dataviz
    • Nobel laureates in Economics
  • Twitter threads
    • 10 awesome tools and little helpers to help you around Wikidata
    • 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
  • Presentations
    • Documenting our languages with Lexeme by Asaf Bartov

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • spacyfishing is a Wikidata entity disambiguation tool based on entity-fishing.

Wikidata passed another milestone on October 19.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata has crossed the mark of 100,000,000 items
  • The Small wiki toolkits team are looking for feedback on the ongoing workshop series around bots and scripts development.
  • Job openings
    • Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d)
      • Data Analyst Wikidata (m/f/d)

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Viveport ID, Larousse Online French Dictionary ID, RaiPlay ID, Rai Teche person ID, Rai Teche program ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: shortened URL formatter, addresses, model for, e-mail subscription URL, official websites, e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, about, Rotational speed, NIP
    • External identifiers: Piraeus Library ID, note.com ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Mod DB engine ID, Litres author ID, Bureau of Meteorology Location Identifier, OKRB 011-2022 code, Cimetière russe ID, New Cinematografo.it IDs, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of French lexemes per number of dictionaries they are linked to (source)
    • People born in Split or Šibenik for whom there is a statement that they wrote or spoke Latin (source)
    • Locations of employers/affiliations of first authors of articles in the Journal of Cheminformatics (source)
    • Birthplaces of the presidents of the American Medical Association (source)
    • Flags containing the colors white and yellow (source)
    • AI models (source)
    • Swedes accused for churel (source)
    • Lunar craters and gender of their namesakes (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Lexicographical data: New Lexeme creation page will be live on Wikidata on November 2nd (phab:T307866)
  • Updated the ontology file at https://wikiba.se/ontology (phab:T314360)
  • Mismatch Finder: Added a Random mode to make it easier to get mismatches (phab:T302289)
  • REST API:
    • Documented the differences in the JSON data format between the REST API and the ActionAPI (phab:T318681)
    • Continued work on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors (phab:T320358)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:23, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #544

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

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 1, 2022: Egon Willighagen (d:User:Egonw) on SARS-CoV-2 queries, a a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to d:Wikidata:Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda.
  • Past
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday: see the list of events (some of them are taking place in November), the presents and birthday messages, and the Commons category with photos and videos of the events
    • Some additional materials have been made available from the Wikimedia session at the Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) that took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online:
      • Transforming Closed Silos into Shared Resources: Opening up data on historical collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
      • Community Data Mobilization in Wikidata: A paleontology perspective
      • Connecting IndExs Editors and exsiccata IDs with Wikidata for Disambiguation of People Names and Work in Botanical and Mycological Collections

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Make Wikidata also Colorful: Using Media in Wikidata by Jsamwrites
    • Interview of Lydia Pintscher for Wikidata's 10th birthday (English and German)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday collaborative video (Youtube, Commons)
    • Livestream with Jan Ainali, Abbe98, Denny Vrandečić and Sandra Fauconnier for Wikidata's birthday (Youtube)
  • Threads
    • History of Wikidata by Denny Vrandečić
    • 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
    • 10 WikiProjects you should join
    • 10 tools and helpers to help you around Wikidata
    • 10 websites and apps built on top of Wikidata
    • 10 queries that teach you something about the world
    • 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • sparklis (source) : query builder in natural language that allows people to explore and query SPARQL endpoints with all the power of SPARQL and without any knowledge of SPARQL, nor of the endpoint vocabulary.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: embargoed until
    • External identifiers: HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID, C64-Wiki ID, Merriam-Webster online dictionary entry, Undiscovered Scotland ID, Mod DB engine ID, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Inventory identifier, CCB ID, Project Identification Code (Dams), shortened URL formatter, Reddit topic ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma Dada organisation ID, Asian Tour player ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: about, Rotational speed, NIP, Imagem da platibanda, tiratge, Dictionary.com entry, software feature, Base Units, processes to, build system, one of class, Mac OS creator code
    • External identifiers: Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID, RISM siglum, Cinemaazi ID, Hypothèses notebook ID, SMA ID, KBR Catalogue ID for writers, Aathavanitli Gani song ID, Aathavanitli Gani film ID, Identificador Musicsperlacobla de sardana, Identificador musicsperlacobla de compositor, Identificador boig sardanista de sardana, travelweekly hotel ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, Cinemaazi people ID
  • Query examples:
    • Collaborative map of events taking place for Wikidata's 10th birthday
    • Birth year of winning candidate of the last eight U.S. presidential elections (source)
    • Number of music albums by language in descending order (source)
    • French préfets with their signature on Commons (source)
    • Graph of filmi music composers (source)
    • Map of the highest points of Spain provinces (source)
    • Twitter usernames and associated mastodon adresses

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Sitelinks to Redirects are now available on Wikidata
  • Lexicographical data: We are replacing the existing Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866)
  • Mismatch Finder: Working on improving the handling of calendar models and precision in dates (phab:T288511)
  • REST API: Continued working on better error handling for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19:19, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #545

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: MsynBot 10, Mr Robot
  • New request for comments: Create items for property proposals
  • Other discussions: State of the Wikidata, thoughts on data quality and structure (on the mailing-list)

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour November 7, 2022: tenth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
    • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, November 8 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, taking place online on November 9th at 17:00 UTC (more details here)
    • Raising an Artist Profile with Wikidata: Thursday November 10, 2022 at 20:00 UTC (Session A) and 23:00 UTC (Session B). This free, step-by-step Wikidata workshop will focus mainly on Indigenous artists. Participants may choose to attend either Session A or Session B: both will cover the exact same material.
    • Wikidata editathon in Swedish with focus on climate politics and COP27, online and in Stockholm, 11 November 13.00-18.00 UTC
    • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Analysis of City Information on Wikidata by Jsamwrites
    • Exploring government departments by linking Wikidata to the National Archives of Australia by Tim Sherratt
    • Trust in Rust by Magnus Manske
  • Papers
    • Leveraging Wikidata's edit history in knowledge graph refinement tasks (Gonzalez-Hevia and Gayo-Avello)
  • Videos
    • Practical Linked Open Data for Small Archives (in English)
    • Live Wikidata editing #97 with Jan and Albin

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: collection items at
    • External identifiers: Language of Bindings ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, AUTC herritage object ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Universal Content Identifier, Léonore Web ID, BritBox ID (UK version), OMED ID, Municipal Library of Trikala ID, MMB ID, HiSCoD ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ILAMDIR ID, Cannabis Database ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, island code of Indonesia, SR-Archiv print media ID, SR-Archiv record ID, EuDML work ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official demo URL, WMOOV movie ID, press information URL, contact page URL, sitemap URL, REGON, Check Digit, impressum URL, from language & to language, object identifies
    • External identifiers: Oblio author ID, Pittori Liguri ID, Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, SciSpace author ID, RomArchive person ID, Webtoon creator ID, Archives West repository ID, npm scope, Team Norway profile ID, identifiant USTC, worldofsam ID, Open Supply Hub organization ID, Kotobank ID, Weblio ID, Haymarket Books Author ID, ILNM ID, BookWalker series ID, IRIS Sicily IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Intangible cultural heritage (source)
    • Wikimedians with Mastodon accounts
    • Politicians with Mastodon accounts (source)
    • Graph of the characters of the book "We Are Here" (source)
    • Map of birth places of women mentioned in the book "Femmes de lettres en Bretagne" (source)
    • Participants in the 1955 Bandung Conference (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Lexicographical data: Replaced the old Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866) - a few remaining issues will still be fixed
  • Vue 3: Almost finished the Vue 3 migration in Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme (phab:T321595 and (phab:T304534) - this is needed for finalizing the migration in MediaWiki overall
  • Mismatch Finder: Worked on improving the handling of dates (phab:T288511)
  • Search: Working with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093)), especially regarding “load more” behavior
  • REST API:
    • Continued improving error reporting for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
    • Ensuring that the API correctly marks bot edits as bot edits and treats them as such in various other places

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:59, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #546

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 11
      • Task: update Wikidata:Main Page/Popular daily
    • VojtěchDostálBot 1
      • Task/s: Import of field of work (P101) from Czech National Authority Database (Q13550863)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 10
      • Task/s: manage badges in sitelinks to redirects
    • Josh404Bot 4
      • Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
    • BorkedBot 8
      • Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate
    • DwdsBot
      • Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 15, 2022: We will be discussing the first Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour series, which ran from July to early November of this year. We will offer visualizations based on our data, listen to some of our volunteers talk about their experience helping to build the series, and discuss the results of our participant survey. We want to hear your questions and suggestions for future series! Agenda
    • Enrichissement des données sur la danse: Wednesday 16 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session A) and Thursday 17 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session B). Join the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) and the Linked Digital Future Initiative (LDFI) for two dynamic sessions focusing on dance data. Session A will focus on artists, while Session B will focus on organizations and dance companies. Note: These sessions are offered in French only.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Numbers (5/n)
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase Telegram office hours log (2022-11-09)

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Awesome Wikidata: Curated list of Wikidata Projects and information
    • The Wednesday index, evolution of gender diversity in a selection of Wikipedia articles. The data are collected from Wikidata using @pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article
    • The Enduring Allure of the Library of Alexandria
    • Cultural AI team wins special award at the Heritage Hackathon
    • Checking lexical forms - Abstract Wikipedia Updates
  • Papers
    • Building the European Social Innovation Database with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
    • WDBench: A Wikidata Graph Query Benchmark
  • Videos
    • Get to know Wikidata Lexemes (in Indonesian) - YouTube
    • Live Wikidata editing #98 - YouTube - The theme is music! with User:Moebus as guest.
    • David Lindemann: LOD-infication of Bibliographical Data Using Free Software: CLB Wikibase - YouTube
    • Experience in Integrating Wikidata and Government Open Data, By Wikidata Taiwan (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • The Greek Wikidata community celebrated the Wikidata 10th birthday (in Greek) - YouTube
    • 10 Years of Wikidata: Wikidata for Open Access to Cultural Heritage, by Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM) (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • QLever - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries.
  • Discuss.js - Adds a link to a diff when clicked will open a new topic on the talk page that mentions the revision and the user.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, JioSaavn artist ID, England Hockey ID, UWIND ID, NCUA Charter ID, FDIC Certificate ID, Niconico ID, Camp Wild ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, MSVF ID, Central Library of Volos authority ID, Aerodrome identification Code, UOM ID, Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, Levadia Library ID, IHF profile ID, ihg Hotel ID, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Louisiana Plant ID, WMOOV movie ID, PGA of Australia Player Profile ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (A) ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (B) ID, Famous Birthdays ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: subfunction, mastodon URL, unique name, user input & output, Cuneiform character in this lexeme, fruit color, headline, chapter or section
    • External identifiers: BestWestern hotel ID, Wyndham Hotel ID, Hilton Hotel ID, DML-CZ publication ID, Accor Hotel ID, article ID in Alex Författarlexikon, Hlídač státu, Kirjasampo ID, Boksampo ID, UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID, KOBIS people ID, RISM siglum, Infopédia ID, ResearchGate journal ID, Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Collins Online English Dictionary entry, Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
  • Query examples:
    • Biggest Mastodon instances according to Wikidata
    • Mastodon accounts of researchers (source)
    • Most annotated servers according to Wikidata (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of people with known mastodon address (source)
    • European islands culminating at more than 1,000 m of altitude (source)
    • Map of water bodies in France (source)
    • Other awards won by winners of the Booker Prize (source)
    • Timeline of Libre and Open Source videogames (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished work on improved error reporting of the PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
    • Finished work on properly handling bot user right and marking bot edits as such
    • Adjusting statement data structure in Wikibase REST API responses and requests (phab:T321459)
  • Mismatch Finder: continuing work om improving the handling of dates in the Mismatch Finder (phab:T288511)
  • New Vector skin: continuing work with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093, phab:T317682)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:02, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #547

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Cewbot 5
      • Task/s: Add sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) for sitelinks to redirects without intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130, November 27 at 13.00 UTC
    • Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto Arts, workshop by Yamen Bousrih.
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #68, SI base units

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Apple Podcasts is auto-tagging episodes with topics
  • Papers
    • Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing — covers a range of identifiers (including Wikidata ones) for taxa, people, institutions and other entities relevant to biodiversity studies
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #99 - YouTube
    • The Greek Wikidata community celebrates their 10th birthday (Part 2) (in Greek) - YouTube
    • Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
    • Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata - YouTube
    • Import Wikidata into an RDF based Ontology using Apache Jena - YouTube
    • SMWCon 2022 - Day 3 - Wikidata Synchronization for the CEUR-WS publishing platform - Tim Holzheim - YouTube
    • Sitelinks wikibase cloud - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js is a userscrip that links Labels to Lexemes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts is a model that tries to predict the instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279) of unlabeled items. You can play with it and leave Daniel some feedback.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: build system, tiratge, official demo URL, pinout, sitemap URL
    • External identifiers: Annales des mines person ID, Baidu Tieba name, DrugCentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, Musicsperlacobla sardana ID, Musicsperlacobla composer ID, Boig Sardanista sardana ID, npm scope, IRIS UNICT author ID, IRIS UNIME author ID, IRIS UNIPA author ID, IRIS UNIKORE author ID, Hlídač státu person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: has visual representation, chapter and verse in the Bible, commit hash, official server list URL, translation management URL
    • External identifiers: Datastory Glossary ID, SNE publisher ID, Livres Hebdo ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, AniList staff ID, ECOF saint ID, DFK Paris person ID, Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) ID, Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions ID
  • Query examples:
    • Finding the first revision and original creator of items with mwapi
    • Mastodon accounts (with Twitter equivalents) (source)
    • Gender balances of winners of literary awards (source)
  • Newest templates:
    • Template:Quickquery can be used to quickly write and link SPARQL queries on the Wikidata wiki

• Development
  • REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response format (phab:T321459)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Added separation between identifiers and other statements on Lexemes (phab:T318310)
    • Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (phab:T322687)
    • Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field (phab:T315161)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Finished work on better handling of dates (phab:T288511)
    • Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing data (phab:T313468)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:02, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #548

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • ChristianKl 2 (RfP scheduled to end after 4 December 2022 17:22 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Identifier sync bot
      • Task: Add database identifiers to items, mainly journal article items.
    • BorkedBot 9
      • Task: Import values of YouTube handle based on YouTube channel ID (P2397) and vice versa.
    • Botcrux 11
      • Task/s: Replace stated in (P248) to publisher (P123) where the value is World Athletics (Q1158).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on d:Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023
    • Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 29, 2022: We will be discussing openly managed data gathering and management with Holly Little (Smithsonian), Sabine von Mering (Museum für Naturkunde), Erica Krimmel (Florida State University), and Debra Paul (University of Illinois)! Agenda
    • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #131, December 4 at 13.00 UTC
  • Past:
    • Wikibase live session (November 2022) log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • When information expands, ronnabytes and quettabytes come to the rescue.
    • Understanding the Knowledge Graph: Examples, Uses and More
    • Plotting the age of parliament with Livebook
    • Programming Languages Influence Ranking
  • Papers
    • Mapping Process for the Task: Wikidata Statements to Text as Wikipedia Sentences
    • KnowGL: Knowledge Generation and Linking from Text
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #99
    • WikiMentorAfrica - Displaying Wikidata DataViz on external web pages day - YouTube (part1, part 2)
    • Wikidata Workshop (Digital Humanities on Wikipedia - Archiving of COVID-19 under debate) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Creating a Wikidata item (in Estonian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2022 (in Chinese) - YouTube
      • The past and future of Wikidata in Taiwan
      • An Attempt to Connect Wikidata with OpenStreetMap
      • Wikidata teaching experience in National Cheng Kung University's "Integrating Wiki into History Teaching"
      • Is it composition or construction? Talking about the System Thinking of "Data Translation" Opening up in Data Dictionary
  • Other
    • Summary of the tabular style data discussion at Wikidata 10th Birthday in Utrecht, the Netherlands

• Tool of the week
  • The user script User:Ainali/common-properties.js shows the most common properties using a specific value (video (YouTube))

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenCheck is a new effort to build an open community-powered identity verification system, among other things with the help of Wikidata.
  • The Digital Benin website is linking to Wikidata identifiers, making more exploration and understanding possible beyond what the site itself has: https://mastodon.art/@openartdata/109380697777661025
  • Wikidata is on Mastodon: wikis.world/@wikidata. Remember to toot using the #Wikidata hashtag so people can find related topics.
  • New product managers have joined the Wikimedia Deutschland development team:
    • Arian Bozorg, Junior Product Manager for Wikidata
    • Jon Amar, Wikibase Suite Product Manager

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ‎fedpress.ru person ID, ‎UNIMARC: Medium of Performance ID, ‎OVO ID, ‎Best Western hotel ID, ‎Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, ‎New Zealand Legislation ID, ‎Travel Weekly hotel ID, ‎fruit color, ‎e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, ‎Accor hotel ID, ‎OpenCritic outlet ID, ‎Aathavanitli Gani film ID, ‎ID of část obce díl, ‎Livres Hebdo ID, ‎AniList staff ID, ‎Dictionary.com entry, ‎Golfdata ID, ‎Collins Online English Dictionary entry
  • New property proposals to review: Verbalization by lexeme, Cultural Good of Croatia ID, access via, Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, image of feces, image of fauna tracks, hackage package, Packagist package, supports authentication method, package registry usernames, Go package path, Dongqiudi.com player ID, Plazi reference ID, Kanjipedia ID, kino1tv.ru ID, EuDML journal ID, Jiten Online kanji ID, lexeme of other gender, serves resource, YouTube handle, Wikimedia Phabricator project, ISFDB award ID, Trismegistos author ID, Africultures Structure-ID, African American Visual Artists Database ID, Lighthouse Directory page, UniProt Disease ID, Google Product Taxonomy ID, object pertains to, negates property, GCD issue ID, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, Nîmes cemetieres person ID, LMÍ id, kód adresního místa podle RÚIAN, IdnaMapping, экологическая группа растений, International Computer Game Collection work ID, JLect entry ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Au Senate ID, manchu.work lexeme ID, Israeli Opera site (English) person id, of instances of, subclass of with uncertain existance, vazn, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Sense relationships connected to semantic roles, TV Maze episode ID
  • Query examples:
    • Translated Wikidata property labels (top 100 languages) (source)
    • Dentists who are notable footballers (source)
    • Map of obelisks over 40 m high (source)
    • Notable doctoral student/advisor pairs where at least one of them is within the Wikidata:WikiProject NZThesisProject (source)
    • Wikimedia affiliates on Mastodon (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished the adjusted statement data structure (phab:T321459)
    • Simplifying the structure of sitelinks in Item data (phab:T321483)
    • Simplifying the value format for entity ID, time and globecoordinate value types (phab:T322734)
    • Investigating the way forward for rate limiting (phab:T322746)
  • Ontology issues: Preparing a survey for re-users of Wikidata's data about the different types of ontology issues and which ones are causing the most issues for application builders
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Finishing the work on making it possible to provide mismatches with an empty Wikidata value so the tool can also be used to suggest new data (phab:T313468)
    • Finishing the work on better handling of calendar models and precision for dates (phab:T288511)
  • Lexicographical data: Fixing bugs:
    • Improved the markers that indicate the field is required input (phab:T322683)
    • Improved a help link (phab:T315161)

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
  • Go through the list of pages with sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) and update them either to intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304) or remove the sitelink. We have worklists for many languages.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:07, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #549

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • ChristianKl 2 (successful) Welcome on board \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • TaxonomyBot
  • New request for comments:
    • Remove watchlist summary

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour on December 5. We will be working on Structured Data on Commons with a WINTER FUN theme, adding depicts statements to images and playing with some tools. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. This will be our last scheduled Working Hour for 2022. Please join us for a relaxing and enjoyable session to wrap up a year of excellent work together. Event page
    • Bug Triage Hour on December 6 at 17:00 UTC, on the topic of Entity Schemas (other topics also welcome). Come with your favorite Phabricator ticket so we can improve its description together!
    • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on the WikidataCon 2023 page.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #69, Cycles

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Museology, Myosotis, and metadata oh my! Sharing sustainably in Wikipedia - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
    • The Archaeology Data Service and Wikidata
    • Animals to Play H-O-R-S-E With
    • Mini hackathon in Utrecht, by Jan Ainali
  • Papers
    • Structural Quality Metrics to Evaluate Knowledge Graphs
    • Using the W3C Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web recommendation to manage small Wikidata datasets
  • Videos
    • How to edit a Wikidata item to appear in an Infobox on Wikipedia (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Library data on Wikidata: a case study of the National Library of Latvia - YouTube
    • Wikidata / National Archives of Australia Project with Tim Sherratt - YouTube
    • How WMDE can support partnerships with GLAM institutions for Wikibase and Wikidata projects - YouTube
    • 2022 edition: Timelapse of railway stations in Denmark (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 14: How To Add References To Wikidata Articles (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday celebration events, By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
    • Wikidata Istanbul 2022
      • Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (I-II) by Asaf Bartov (Day 1: English, Turkish)
      • Modeling Our Languages ​​with Lexeme (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
      • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata Querying with SPARQL (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
      • Wikidata and GLAM: Museums of Turkey (Day 3: Turkish, English)
      • Potential Benefits of Wikidata to the Health System, Nevit Dilmen (Day 3, Turkish)
      • Useful Wikipedia Tools, Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, Turkish)
      • Handy Wikidata Gadgets by Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, English)
      • Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and Beyond, Lydia Pintscher (Day 1: Turkish, English)
      • Structured Data Across Wikimedia by Luca Martinelli (Day 2, English)
      • Getting Inspiration from Projects Using Wikidata, Neslihan Turan (Day 1: Turkish, English)
  • Podcasts
    • WikiProject Biography, a podcast episode presenting Wikidata:WikiProject Biography
  • Thread
    • The advent of Wikiviz, 24 dataviz about Wikipedia and Wikidata until Christmas
  • Other
    • A rap battle between Wikipedia and Wikidata as envisaged by ChatGPT

• Tool of the week
  • How many edits does Wikidata get per second? listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata is a tool that allows you to listen to the sound of Wikidata's recent changes feed.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opportunities: Post-doc in Natural Language Processing (1.0 FTE), University of Groningen

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: has biological vector, EuDML journal ID, SciSpace author ID, Oblio author ID, Dams in Japan number, SNE publisher ID, KOBIS people ID, OpenML dataset ID, DFK Paris person ID, PIM publication ID, Pittori Liguri ID, USTC identifier, EPA ID, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959 ID, YouTube handle, hackage package, Observation.org place ID, Diskograf artist ID, KBR person ID, Miraheze article ID, ILNM ID, Trismegistos author ID, Packagist package, translation contribution URL, Cinemaazi people ID, Cinemaazi film ID, MAK Collection Online person ID, MAK Collection Online object ID, BookWalker series ID (JP version), list item, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, alt text
  • New property proposals to review: Amazon Browse Node, Beatport release ID, Bandcamp release ID, subject of qualifier, has part part of, property metamodelling, MangaUpdates IDs, man page, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, MyAnimeList magazine ID, OpenPlaques place ID, is a number of, source of action & destination of action, CSD Refcode, Ès lettres ID, is the change of, removed in version (2), PodLink ID, KOBIS film festival ID, KOBIS film company ID, DBpia journal ID, DBpia publisher ID, tuxDB game ID, Crunchyroll series ID, US-DMF ID, Dehkhoda ID, CocoaPods pod, Appsight app, Appsight SDK, Maven groupID and Maven artifactID, Pixiv Encyclopedia ID, Game Boy hardware database ID, Bane NOR Network Statement station ID, Olympedia-Veranstaltungsort-ID, has duplicate Wikimedia page, GBDB ID, Lygaeoidea Species File ID
  • Query examples:
    • Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
    • Researchers with a Mastodon account and a known field of work (source)
    • Count per each language of unique language codes used in lemmas for Lexemes in that language

• Development
  • Improved the error message for sitelinks to redirects (phab:T320490)
  • Made the Property namespace a content namespace (phab:T321282)
  • Lexicographical data: Added a better link for a help message (phab:T315161)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Linked the header to make it easier to get back to the main page (phab:T323680)
    • Made the layout more compact (phab:T323678)
    • Fixed an issue where the whole header of a mismatch results table was a link instead of just the Item ID (phab:T323823)
    • Improved the text on a button (phab:T323682)
    • Finished better support for dates with calendar model and precision (phab:T288511)
    • Ordered the columns in the results page better so they make more sense (phab:T323819)
  • Fixed a bug where a large horizontal scrollbar appeared on RTL interface languages (phab:T321441)
  • Fixed a bug in the search in the new Vector skin (phab:T324148)
  • Query Service:
    • Making the popup less intrusive that leads to the Query Builder (phab:T296135)
    • Adding tooltips for Lexemes (phab:T255245)
    • Unifying the way to get a link to a query (phab:T324218)
  • mul language code: continuing investigation for language fallbacks on mobile that is currently blocking it (phab:T323098)
  • REST API:
    • Finalized json format for sitelinks and data values (phab:T321483, phab:T322734)
    • Investigating rate limiting (phab:T322746)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:26, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #550

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DL2204bot 2
      • Task/s: Correct messy entries for scholarly articles of Uztaro. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Q12268801) and Aldiri. Arkitektura eta abar (Q12253132) journals, add 2020-2022 articles.
    • Kalliope 7.3
      • Task/s: Update User:Kalliope 7.3/List of bots every hour.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 2
      • Task/s: For all items that have an enwiki page that starts with Template:Taxonomy/, set instance of (P31) taxonomy template (Q115595777).

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 13, 2022: Wikimedia Search Platform Team will be sharing updates on Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and Blazegraph. For background, see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS backend update. Agenda.
    • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live streamed on Youtube in the MediaWiki channel.
    • Next Wikimedia Research Showcase - December 14. "A year in review from the WMF Research team: Tying our work to the research community".
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #71, Qatar 2022
  • Past
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 7, 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • MatchID enriched with Wiki links
    • Another successful Wikidata Project with UVA
  • Papers
    • The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2023 EU welcomes papers...Abstract Submission Deadline: May 09, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
    • Computational Metabolomics: From Spectra to Knowledge (Dagstuhl Seminar 22181) (Q115647969), with:
      • 3.7 Wikidata: empowering metabolomics research
      • 3.14 CxSMILES: computation ready representation for compound classes (about CXSMILES (P10718))
  • Videos
    • Wikidata as a tool to connect researchers, By Daniel Mietchen - short, full talk
    • Using and Editing Wikidata - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata and Wikibase for Libraries and Librarians (in Greek) - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #100 - YouTube
    • Tutorial for adding OSM data with the Wikidata tag and adding Wikidata items (in Indonesian) - YouTube
    • BNElab, contribution and reuse in Wikidata (in Guaani) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • qualifier-constraint-usage.js: Shows what properties this qualifier is a required and allowed qualifier on at the bottom of the qualifier page

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations. Submit your nominations by February 6, 2023.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ‎contact page URL, ‎Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers ID, ‎press information URL, ‎changeset, ‎RomArchive person ID, ‎African American Visual Artists Database ID, ‎Bureau of Meteorology location ID, ‎Epigraphic Database Heidelberg ID, ‎Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, ‎manchu.work lexeme ID, ‎Professional Referee Organization ID, ‎CIViC gene ID, ‎Athletics Canada ID, ‎is a number of, ‎Ma'agarim ID, ‎Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate ID, ‎Tanzania Parliament member ID, ‎JCDb ID, ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (1st edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (2nd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (3rd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (4th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (5th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (6th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (7th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (8th edition), ‎man page, ‎Amazon.com browse node, ‎TV Maze episode ID, ‎International Computer Game Collection work ID, ‎Cultural Good of Croatia ID, ‎JLect entry ID, ‎Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, ‎Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Inscriptions ID
  • New property proposals to review: number of penalty kicks scored, Play:Right series ID, OWID identifiers, Wikidata property example statement ID, Mangadex IDs, WSJ article ID, maturity level, official list URL, thumbnail sharpness, Play:Right company ID, IRIS Apulia IDs, Geograph Germany image ID, Spiritains ID, Play:Right class ID, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, INKR title ID, Kitsu IDs, Game-Rave ID, Anime-Planet IDs, has value, ComicWalker content ID, STEDT ID, Middle English Dictionary ID, Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID, Adventure's Planet ID, value of property identifies, not, frame rate, Copernicus EMS ID, Sega-Saturn.net ID, PLDB ID, ArchWiki ID, has right, (not) officially recognized by, Famicom World ID, property describes
  • Query examples:
    • Person(s) after whom both a warship and a microarchitecture are named (source)
    • Institutions that have contributed to all #vBIB conferences so far (source)
    • Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
    • Mountains in Iceland with no Cebuano Wikipedia sitelink (source)
    • Universities that have an associated Mastodon account (source)
    • Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We would love to have some feedback on the JSON format for the REST API
    • Planning the final pieces that still need doing before the first release
  • Vektor 2022: Finished work on making Vector’s new Search work with Wikidata. The changes roll out for testing on test.wikidata.org next week (phab:T275251)
  • Query Service:
    • Getting a link to the query is now possible in the same place as getting a link to the result of the query (phab:T324218)
    • Removed the gif that showed on hover over the button that advertises the Query Builder to make it less annoying (phab:T296135)
    • Added wikibase:identifiers to the autocomplete feature (phab:T302057)
    • Adjusted the layout of the Query Builder header to be more in line with other application (phab:T288939)
  • Constraint violations: When a language name is mentioned in the constraint it will now show the name of the language in the interface language instead of the language itself to make it easier to understand (phab:T316936)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:29, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #551

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Bean49Bot
      • Task/s: Update population of Hungarian municipalities.
    • BjoeBot
      • Task/s: Make sure all map data modules have an item and instance of (P31) of map data module (Q18711811).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th. More information: Wikimedia Hackathon 2023/Participate
    • digital@IANLS: online Wikidata workshop for Neo-Latinists in February 2023
    • Call for Papers on Linked Open Data on Journal BiD: Deadline: Sun, 04/09/2023. Some of the ideas and issues to be included in this issue: Creation and exploitation of knowledge graphs, Information services based on linked open data and knowledge graphs, Artificial intelligence and linked open data, Textual corpora and linked open data, Textual corpora and knowledge graphs, Application of bots in linked open data, Application of bots in knowledge graphs, Linked open data and diversity of genres, Graphs of knowledge and diversity of genres, FAIR and linked open data, FAIR and knowledge graphs, Ontologies and linked open data, Ontologies and knowledge graphs, Application of ontologies in information services.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #72, Rooms 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Fork of User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia
    • Reconciling a Mix’n’Match catalog to Wikidata via Google Sheets
    • Celebrating the Wikipedia and Wikidata Birthday in school
  • Papers
    • Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #101 - YouTube
    • LOD as a way of thinking in the era of digital humanities - a preliminary study on Wikidata/Wikibase practice (in Chinease) - YouTube
    • ESEAP 2022 - Wikidata workshop: Intro to Wikidata, Identifiers & Entity Explosion, OpenRefine & Biota - YouTube
    • What is the Wikidata database, how to contribute, how to write queries in SPARQL by Valerio Bozzolan (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap by Edward Betts - YouTube
    • How to create a wikidata entry for a journalist - YouTube
    • LOD is the future - Wikibase application of Rhizome, an independent digital art agency in New York (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • Coolest Tool Award 2022 - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Atlas is a system allows the user to search for different types of entities (with geo-coordinates) on Wikidata and visualize them on a world map. (Feedback is very welcome to help evaluate and improve the tool.)
  • Check out a similar tool: wiki-atlas

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata:Wwwyzzerdd got an update where it now will try to predict good statements to add to Wikidata from Wikipedia articles.
  • Writing SPARQL queries can be very challenging. You can find inspiration by browsing and searching in this dataset of 2,400 queries collected from Wikidata. (source)
  • The French Wikipedia now uses a Wikidata-based list for the pages on specific dates, without relying on ListeriaBot. Who was born on a December 19th and has an article in French? You now can have the answer thanks to a Wikidata query by going to the page 1er décembre on frwiki and clicking on the infobox link "Naissances du jour". This is a link to a Wikidata list provided by the query service. The query is generated by the template fr:Modèle:Naissances un jour du mois. This follows another such template used to find all persons with a certain surname on frwiki, used on all surnames pages and on some disambiguation pages, fr:Modèle:Liste des personnes ou_personnages par prénom. For the surname Victor (Q539581) (view with Reasonator, SQID) this generates on the page w:fr:Victor_(prénom) a query such as this one.
  • Wikidata now has more than 100,000,000 items! Exactly which item was the 100 millionth is unknown as of writing, but there are some clues for anyone who wants to dig into it.
  • Survey: What are your most important Wikimedia content partnerships tools in 2022? Closes on January 8, 2023.
  • Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January until Monday, Feb 6, 2023
  • There is a new website to collect contact information for heritage organizations in Georgia for the purpose of disaster response with the data coming from Wikidata.
  • Wikibase 1.38 release is delayed until January 2023
  • Job opportunities
    • Postdoc, PhDs, and technician opportunities related to Wikibase project at University of Groningen

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: This section is currently empty due to technical issues with the bot responsible for filling it. If you are interested in keeping track of new properties on Wikidata, you can check the property proposal page for updates.
  • New property proposals to review: RPG Site game ID,member of tribe, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Macmillan Dictionary entry, Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Panjab Digital Library ID, Oh!FM-7 ID, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, model lexeme, format string, travel advisory category, location URL match pattern, Tabelog restaurant ID, service options, RetroAchievements ID, statut administratif, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, relative statement frequency, Mertens-Pack Number (MP3), Nintendo-Online ID, does not use, is not part of, object is, Nintendo World Report ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, ntower ID, Anadolu Agency infographic ID, digital equivalent of, property describes, Computer Science Ontology topic, BookWalker series ID (global version), Le Grenier du Mac ID, Fascist Latin Texts author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Football skills! (source)
    • Concepts with more individuals having Mastodon IDs (source)
    • Mastodon follower/subscriber figures (source)
    • Lexeme senses which are described in Jaehoon Yeon and Lucien Brown's Comprehensive Grammar of Korean (source)

• Development
  • REST API: We are getting ready for a release in January and would really love more people to test the current state on beta. You can find details for testing at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
  • Vector 2022 search: We have worked on making the new search in the Vector 2022 skin work for Wikidata. You can now test it on test.wikidata.org and soon on Wikidata.
  • Query Service:
    • Removed the SVG download options for result views where SVG downloads are not supported, such as Map (phab:T311594)
    • Fixed the indentation of autocompletion suggestions (phab:T291695)
    • Fixed downloading query results in the Query Builder (phab:T323451)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Working on showing the Lexeme lemmas when you look at a Lexeme’s history (phab:T312660)
    • Fixing a keyboard navigation issue in the lookups on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
  • mul language code:
    • Continuing to investigate how to implement language fallbacks on mobile termbox (phab:T323098)
    • Investigating how to disallow `mul` descriptions (phab:T313027)
  • Improving and harmonizing the footers in the Query Builder (phab:T324356) and Mismatch Finder (phab:T324366)
  • Preparing for showing constraint violations to visitors who aren’t logged in (phab:T272132)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:21, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #552

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to and read the newsletter this year. If you have a moment, please let us know what you would like to see changed in the newsletter in 2023. Thank you again for your support and have a happy new year!

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 3
      • Task/s: Automatically adds qualifiers number of records (P4876) and point in time (P585) to claims of Mix'n'match catalog ID (P2264).
    • Dexbot 16
      • Task: Delete empty items
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • BjoeBot (approved)
      • Task: Make sure all map data modules have an item and instance of (P31) of map data module (Q18711811).

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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 Lexemes Challenge #73, Mystery theme #2

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How the "open world hypothesis" of knowledge graph affects model evaluation (in Chinese)
  • Papers
    • Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
  • Videos
    • Early demo of the Wikibase Export extension

• Tool of the week
  • Fediscope (source)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • 2022 proof of concept of a Wikibase "fast import" API. Outcomes of this workshop have been published, along with the recorded video.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • prior to last week's status update: ‎MyAnimeList magazine ID, ‎Online Torwali Dictionary ID, ‎Google Product Taxonomy ID, ‎IRIS UNIBA author ID, ‎IRIS UNIFG author ID, ‎IRIS LUM author ID, ‎IRIS UNISALENTO author ID, ‎tuxDB game ID, ‎GCD issue ID, ‎Geograph Deutschland image ID, ‎ResearchGate journal ID, ‎Lygaeoidea Species File ID, ‎Beatport release ID, ‎Diskograf song ID, ‎Diskograf label ID, ‎INKR title ID, ‎BRUZZ topic ID, ‎negates property, ‎Kanjipedia kanji ID
    • since last week's status update: Adventure's Planet ID, Play:Right class ID, GBDB ID, MangaUpdates publisher ID, MangaUpdates author ID, grading system, KOBIS film festival ID, Bandcamp release ID, Anime-Planet people ID, Anime-Planet character ID, ‎Czech structural object ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Anime-Planet anime ID, Anime-Planet manga ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Cinematografo.it film ID (new), Cinematografo.it name or company ID (new), identifier French basketball championship (new schema), The Israeli Opera person ID (heb), Indiana State Historical Marker Program numeric ID, OpenStates person ID, ntower ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, ‎worldofsam ID, Twitter community ID, Fascist Latin Texts author ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, CSO topic ID, Expertes ID, MTV Germany music video ID, CCFr document ID, Crunchyroll series ID, Game-Rave ID, Dehkhoda ID, ‎membership number, impressum URL, Parliamentary Office number in United Kingdom, Parliamentary Archives ID in United Kingdom, Mac OS creator code, 18th Century Russian Dictionary ID, Play:Right company ID, Play:Right series ID, Little Academic Dictionary ID
  • New property proposals to review: Garuda journal ID, Sinta Journal ID, pixiv comic IDs, British Music Collection score ID, VideoGameGeek series-franchise ID, Autori sardi ID, ComingSoon.it person ID, UVL source ID, British Music Collection composer ID Rugby League Record Keepers Club player ID, Intercontinental Dictionary Series unit ID, Concepticon ID, Image stabilitzer, Strazha ID, N-Anime ID, Pocket Gamer ID, Image processor, Minimum focusing distance, Museo Egizio in Turin ID, amstrad.es ID, superclass of, Dark Patterns Games ID, Life stage, Tribal Council number, Objective, eBookJapan books ID, VG-lista song ID, VG-lista album ID, microtransaction.zone ID, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online entry, use with article, Cambridge Dictionary entry, Cambridge Dictionary entry (American English), Digital Hanja Dictionary ID, MQWW poetID, record of, Classic Adventures Solution Archive game ID, MQWW workID, Macmillan Dictionary entry, Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID, Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary ID, Jeju's culture and language ID, Strong's number, World Loanword Database word ID, World Loanword Database meaning ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of nonprofit organizations / NGOs on the fediverse that Wikidata knows about (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Dec. 24th) (source)
    • Alpha-3 codes for countries in Europe (source)
    • Location of paintings in the Paintings Department of the Louvre made by women source
    • Most frequent birth places for Italian SBN authors (source)

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

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:18, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #553

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RKBot. Task/s: Create Wikidata items for "Kulturdenkmal in Hamburg" (heritage monument in Hamburg - Q28661501) from the official list "Denkmalliste Hamburg" (P1822 is the identifier for this list) published as http://static.hamburg.de/fhh/opendata/kb/DenkmallisteHamburg.xml.
    • Andriy.vBot. Task/s: I need to connect a lot of pages (more than 10 thousand) about russian villages that were created with interwiki links in ukwiki.
    • Heinmabot. Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places.
  • New request for comments:
    • Improving the performance of retrieving labels, descriptions and aliases

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th 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 Lexemes Challenge #74, Urology

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Connecting Preprints to Peer-reviewed Articles on Wikidata
    • The 10 best-known Catalans in the world
  • Papers
    • Fetching Automatic Authority Data in ILS from Wikidata via OpenRefine
  • Videos
    • Add Wikidata/Wikipedia Template to WikiTree Profile

• Tool of the week
  • OWL Map - a tool to help in linking Wikidata items with the matching object on OpenStreetMap.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase.Cloud has a new logo!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ‎NIP, ‎NSR doctor ID, ‎NSR stopplace ID, ‎Nintendo World Report ID, ‎Nintendo-Online ID, ‎Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID, ‎Oh!FM-7 ID, ‎Olympedia venue ID, ‎Ozon person ID, ‎Pixiv Encyclopedia ID, ‎Plazi reference ID, ‎Pocket Gamer ID, ‎Programming Language Database ID, ‎RPG Site game ID, ‎RetroAchievements ID, ‎Rugby League Record Keepers Club player ID, ‎Sega-Saturn.net ID, ‎Strong's number, ‎Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary ID, ‎UVL source ID, ‎UniProt Disease ID, ‎amstrad.es ID, ‎camera lens, ‎image processor, ‎image stabilitzer, ‎microtransaction.zone ID, ‎minimum focusing distance, ‎note.com user ID, ‎sampling rate, ‎service options
  • New property proposals to review: Podbay show ID, Biblissima Authority File, Walt Disney movie ID, NTV program ID, National Grid Balancing Mechanism Unit ID, InfluenceWatch influencer, Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Case Search person ID, Hungarian Football Federation player ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, United States House of Representatives ID, PR Times company ID, NPB umpire ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry, ZAMP.hr ID, Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID, CiNii Research ID, Identificador del Catàleg de Patrimoni de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona, Green's Dictionary of Slang ID, SysTraitementEauxUsees, WikiRate company ID, The Numbers franchise ID, J.League referee ID, Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID, Military Historical Archive exile army member ID, 1001Tracklists IDs, Ivi IDs, TV Maze person ID, MyAnimeList company ID, VideoGameGeek series-franchise ID, Afisha person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Finnish hockey players whose child is also a hockey player (source)
    • Map of the birthplaces of Italian authors who died in 1952 (source)

• Development
  • The development team took a break during the winter holidays and as a result, no development occurred.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:30, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #554

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Bean49Bot 2. Task/s: Adding statements to plwikisource items with no statements.
    • RPI2026F1Bot 4. Task/s: Reconstruct npm dependencies.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • RKBot (approved). Task/s: Create Wikidata items for "Kulturdenkmal in Hamburg" (heritage monument in Hamburg - Q28661501) from the official list "Denkmalliste Hamburg" (P1822 is the identifier for this list) published as http://static.hamburg.de/fhh/opendata/kb/DenkmallisteHamburg.xml.
    • Andriy.vBot (approved). Task/s: I need to connect a lot of pages (more than 10 thousand) about russian villages that were created with interwiki links in ukwiki.

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 10, 2023: Egon Willighagen will be introducing us to SARS-CoV-2 queries, a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—January 11, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
    • The full version of View it! Tool is out! The new user script uses structured data to display related media in any Wikimedia content pages—including Wikidata items—in an on-wiki image panel or gallery view. Please join the public launch and demo of the full version of this new tool on Thursday, January 12th, 5:00 UTC via Zoom (Meeting ID: 160 454 5329) to learn more and discuss forthcoming editing features.
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th 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.
    • About 2 months left to register for the first digital@IANLS workshop: Learn the basics of Wikidata and how to use it in your Neo-Latin research. Event is online, free, and open to all. More info on event and registration.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #75, Tools

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Editor uses Wikidata to find new uses for existing drugs and speed up approval process for new treatments.
    • Early Demo of Wikibase Export by Renat Shigapov and Professional Wiki
  • Papers
    • "Is GPT-3 a Good Data Annotator?" with experiments based on Wikidata - guided generation of labeled data.
  • Slides
    • Elena Simperl's keynote summary on Wikidata and knowledge engineering research.

• Tool of the week
  • Web Hub allows users to navigate between origin and destination on the web using information from Wikidata, primarily on Wikimedia sites.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Digital Dictionary of the German Language completed their first iteration of Lexicographical data donation to Wikidata. The number of German lexemes increased accordingly by 185000.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: travel advisory category, model lexeme, does not use
    • External identifiers: NIP, UniProt disease ID, DBpia journal ID, Garuda journal ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, ComingSoon.it person ID, DBpia publisher ID, Disused stations ID, MQWW poet ID, Nîmes cemeteries ID, REGON ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Sinta journal ID, Sinta author ID, SMA ID, Spiritains ID, Strazha ID, Tabelog restaurant ID, TV Maze person ID, utas.hu ID, VG-lista album ID, Afisha person ID, Catalogo storico ragionato degli scrittori sardi dal IV al XXI secolo ID, Macmillan Dictionary entry (British English), Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Wyndham hotel ID, VideoGameGeek series/franchise ID, Plex GUID, Digital Hanja Dictionary ID, Africultures structure ID, Military Historical Archive exile army member ID, The Israeli Opera (English) person ID, J.League referee ID, PodLink ID, VG-lista song ID, Webtoon creator ID, WikiRate company ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Concepticon ID, Ès lettres ID, Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID, eBookJapan books ID, STEDT ID, Matrix room, British Music Collection score ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Green's Dictionary of Slang ID, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online entry, Anadolu Agency infographic ID, Infopédia entry
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: change of, salary level, applies to property, protected entity, Wikidata property example for qualifiers
    • External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database character ID, A Comparative Study of Modern Chinese and Cantonese ID, J-STAGE journal ID, Sens critique contributor ID, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, The Homicide Report person ID, Film.ru serial ID, identifiant SFMTA, California Birth Index person ID, esid, The Counted person ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Roblox experience ID
  • Query examples:
    • Pairs of opposites (source)
    • Ratio of paintings at the Museum of Brittany (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (2023.01.08) (source)
    • Cheeses named after towns (source)

• Development
  • REST API: Preparing the first release to test.wikidata.org on January 17th and to Wikidata on January 24th
  • Entity Schemas: Continuing to investigate and prototype technical approaches for version 2
  • Mismatch Finder: Working on giving mismatch providers access to the reviews of the mismatches they uploaded (phab:T304794)
  • Investigated how to best do language switching for the Query Builder and Mismatch Finder. So far they only support it by specifying the language via a URL parameter and not yet via the UI (phab:T324653)
  • Query Service:
    • Lexeme IDs now have tooltips so you can see the Lemma in the SPARQL code, similar as for Items and Properties (phab:T255245)
    • Fixed a bug where the y-axis label on a graph were misaligned and hard to read (phab:T325808)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Statements linking to a Sense now also show the language of the Lexeme to make it easier to see for example which language a translation statement refers to (phab:T207392)
    • Fixed a bug in the language dropdown on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
    • The Lemma of a Lexeme is now shown in the title of the revision history of the Lexeme as well (phab:T312660)
  • Vector 2022 theme: worked on making the search on Wikidata work in this new theme. You can test it on test.wikidata.org now and next week on Wikidata. (phab:T316093)
  • mul language code:
    • Continued investigation around how to handle language fallbacks on mobile, which is a blocker for adding this language code (phab:T323098)
    • Preventing the addition of descriptions for mul (phab:T313027)
  • Constraint violations: Working on also showing them to non-logged in users (phab:T272132)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:34, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #555

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RenmBot 2. Task/s: The bot adds/edits labels/descriptions of Wikidata items in Ukrainian. At the beginning, the bot will correct "проект" to "проєкт" in descriptions. These changes are caused by Ukrainian orthography of 2019 (Q56368731) (see en:Ukrainian orthography of 2019#Major changes to the 1993 orthography).
    • Bean49Bot 3. Task/s: Add parent astronomical body to asteroid belt asteroids, required by multiple constraints.
    • JhsBot 7. Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) statements.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: Heinmabot. Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places. (approved)
  • Closed request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy (implemented)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th 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.
    • Wikimedia Research Showcase on January 18. Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors.
    • Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour on Tuesday 17th January: Update on wikibase.cloud by Evelien Zandbergen, product manager for Wikibase.cloud at Wikimedia Deutschland.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #76, Wikipedia
  • Past
    • LD4-Wikidata Group Call: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic, 10th January.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikimedia Israel and the Israel Film Archive bring Short films from Israel’s History to Wikidata
    • Deploying Wikidata to different graph databases and what works best: Blazegraph, QLever, QEndpoint, Amazon Neptune
  • Papers
    • Gender equality in library science and book history Italian journals: a focus on boards, authors and peer-reviewers
  • Videos/Audios
    • Mémoires minoritaires, mémoires LGBTI (French): Documenting Queer (LGBTIQ+) history on Wikipedia and Wikidata (Radio/Podcast) (source)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #102 - YouTube
    • Wikispore, Wikidata, and Small Wikis with Sam Wilson - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata with Alex Lum (2022) - YouTube
    • iPres 2022 - Long Paper 153: A Digital Preservation Wikibase - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Auhority Control data to Wikidata item - helps to create Wikidata Items based on authority control records.
  • A new Wikidata distributed game that populates instance of statements using a neural network.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can apply for a scholarship for Wikimania.
  • Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 is ongoing!
  • The upcoming steward elections are open for nominations.
  • Wikibase Suite: wmde.10 (Mediawiki 1.38) compatible release updates
  • Applications are open now for Wikidata Fellowship by Wikimedia Australia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: does not use: item or concept not used by the subject but that could have been expected, member of Roman tribe: Roman tribe in which one was inscribed
    • External identifiers: Infopédia entry, 1001Tracklists track ID, 1001Tracklists DJ ID, 1001Tracklists source ID, MyAnimeList company ID, MQWW work ID, Biblissima Authority File, Kitsu manga ID, Kitsu anime ID, CiNii Research ID, Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID, United States House of Representatives ID, ComicWalker content ID, The Numbers franchise ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: heir or beneficiary: people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title, disinherited: someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary, Northstar Travel’s 10-Tier Classification System: [none], 神奇宝贝百科页面标识符: article name on 52Poké Wiki, a Pokémon encyclopedia, value contains sense: qualifier to indicate the sense of a lexeme part of a monolingual text value, form applies to sense: this form is only or mainly applicable this sense, clan: [none]
    • External identifiers: Landgate Object ID, IRIS Trentino-South Tyrol IDs, IRIS Venice IDs, Sinta affiliation ID, Knowledge portal ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, MangaSeek IDs, Dicionário Priberam ID, Michaelis ID, Dicionário Aulete ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Léxico ID, Dicio ID, GamesRadar+ ID, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, norsk fangeregister soningsinstitusjon ID, Dictionary of the Russian Language (Ozhegov) ID, Great Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, AllMovie genre ID, Artlog person ID, Artlog institution ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of sub-categories of a Commons category (source)
    • Number of sitelinks to redirects by wiki (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Airports named after poets (source)

• Development
  • Vector 2020 skin: the search that works properly with Wikidata has been deployed
  • Entity Schemas: Making progress on the proof of concept that will help us figure out the technical way forward
  • REST API: getting ready to deploy the first version to test.wikidata.org on February 17th
  • Lexicographical data: When linking to a Sense in a statement the language of the Lexeme for that Sense is now also shown. This makes it easier to understand translation statements for example (phab:T207392)
  • Constraints: Constraint violations are now also shown to logged out users (phab:T272132)
  • Fixing a regression where Wikipedia and co are no longer notified about a disconnected sitelink when the Item that contains the sitelink is deleted (phab:T326082)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:36, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #556

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

• Events
  • Past
    • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-01-18
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 24, 2023: We will be discussing plans for 2023, and requesting feedback and ideas for future programming. Based on a previous recommendation to host a discussion on advocacy for Wikidata within libraries, we will introduce and provide time to complete a short survey to foster conversation in a future Group Call. Please come ready to share your thoughts Agenda
    • Introductions to Wikidata, online meetings organized by Wikimedia Australia on January 25, 26 and 31

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Is there something better than Blazegraph for Wikidata?
  • Videos
    • [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors.
  • Podcasts
    • Civic Hacker Podcast: Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government

• Tool of the week
  • Romain de Bossoreille has generated a map named Space Industry around the World using data from The Space Devs, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [WMDE Survey for Wikidata data Reusers] Help us Improve Wikidata by Sharing Your Experience on Ontology Issues and Data Reuse Impact.
  • Second round of Research Fund proposals are under review. They include Wikidata related proposals. Your input is welcome!
  • Wikimedia Foundation's Community Survey: The proposals submission and discussion phase is open until February 6th.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Jeju's culture and language ID, J-STAGE journal ID, Film.ru serial ID, IRIS UNITN author ID, IRIS FBK author ID, IRIS-OpenPub author ID, Muse Open Archive author ID, ARCA author ID, Air Iuav author ID, Intercontinental Dictionary Series unit ID, Hungarian Football Federation player ID, Knowledge portal ID, MangaSeek work ID, MangaSeek magazine ID, MangaSeek award ID, Oroklini Library ID, elexiko ID, Neologismenwörterbuch ID, Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch ID, Sprichwörterbuch ID, Kommunikationsverben ID, Kleines Wörterbuch der Verlaufsformen im Deutschen ID, PR TIMES company ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: attracts (organisms attracted by this taxon), salary level (level of someone's salary), change of (property this process changes), database contains records about (indicate the types of items that the database has records about)
    • External identifiers: Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Norwegian prisoner register detentioncamps ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Glitchwave character ID, WW1 fallen/missing soldier ID (MHA), Glitchwave platform ID, Spotify user ID (Jan 2023), Livres Hebdo author ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID, TikTok place ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, identifiant SFMTA, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database character ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Tribal Council number, Aragonario ID (6th version), Rate Your Music venue ID, Rate Your Music concert ID, Dicionário inFormal ID, Qobuz artist numeric ID, TOOI identifier, Fonts In Use ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, Spreaker show ID, Sjøfolk Ship ID, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry
  • Query examples:
    • Map of places that places in Rennes are named after (source)
    • Map of places named after a place in Rennes, color coded by distance of the place from Rennes (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: The new API is now available for testing on Test.Wikidata
  • Ontology issues: We finalized and published the survey to better understand which types of ontology issues are most problematic for reusers of our data.
  • Wikipedia and co: Fixing a regression where there is no entry in recent changes and watchlist when an Item is deleted that was connected to an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:34, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #557

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

• Events
  • A citation hunt program was organized for secondary school students at IIS School in Dubai as part of the 74th Republic Day celebration of India. 16 students participated, with different mother tongues and from different states of India living as expatriates in Dubai. The goal was to increase references for Wikidata statements based on research. The students were introduced to the importance of protecting India's history on the internet, and were taught how to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata. They were given a special event page on Wikidata with instructions and a list of Wikidata items to add citations to, and they searched for references in their textbooks and search engines to add to the Wikidata items.More details are given here.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour January 30, 2023: The #1Lib1Ref campaign is afoot, so we will be working on adding references to Wikidata statements. We'll have some data for you to work with, but you're welcome to bring your own. We'll be mainly working with adding webpages as sources, but if you want to get experience using books or articles as sources, we recommend bringing some to the session to use as references for Wikidata items you have identified. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Building a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (uses Wikidata as a main source)
  • Papers
    • Systematic review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects
  • Videos
    • Interoperable Europe: First workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase

• Tool of the week
  • theyrule.net is a website that helps to explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • AfLIA's online course Wikidata is open. Participation is free for all librarians, museums, archives and other information professionals in Africa. Call is open until 7th February 2023 (12 midnight GMT).
  • LetsQuiz is a new website generating quizzes using data from Wikidata.
  • from WMF Wishathon: The Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article Wish is complete and the work merged. It is available for testing in Beta, and will be deployed to users with the first train of 2023 scheduled for this week. Learn more about the gadget created at meta
  • Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
  • Status update on the 2022 Wikidata and Wikibase development plan
  • Development plan and activities for 2023 for Wikidata as a platform and the Wikibase ecosystem

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: applies to use with property (qualifier that specifies that the statement refers to usage with the property)
    • External identifiers: Dicionário Priberam ID, NPB umpire ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, addons.mozilla.org user, Packagist username, Hackage username, RubyGems username, PyPI username, Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Glitchwave platform ID, Glitchwave character ID, Artlog artist ID, pixiv comic work ID, pixiv comic product ID, British Music Collection composer ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: place of resident registration at death (the place or administrative unit where the deceased person was registered as having his or her residence at the time of their death), has instance (thing(s) which this subject describes or encompasses, inverse property of P31), Norwegian media rating (In short, the Norwegian version of Denmark's Medierådet rating (P5970), an age rating system for motion pictures, video, internet and tv content), iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject), number of penalty kicks scored, precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
    • External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary entry, Professional shogi player number, Women's professional shogi player number, LPSA professional shogi player number, esid, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, authors.gr ID, GLANSIS ID, literatura.lv ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Enciclopedia dell'Italiano ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno e Avellino place ID, World Loanword Database word ID, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, Podbay show ID, Walt Disney movie ID, The Counted person ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, World Sailing sailor ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Mosfilm IDs, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID, DOSBox Compatibility ID, HAA member ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Modern descendants of the Achaemenes (Achaemenid dynasty of rulers of Persia, 7th century BCE)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: The first version of the new API is released on Wikidata now \o/ We'd love to hear your feedback on what to improve next in the API.
  • Property Suggester: We updated the data for the Property Suggester so suggestions for new statements to add to an Item should be more in line with current Property usage on other similar Items again.
  • Fixed an issue with Item deletions not showing up on Wikipedia and co if they affect an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)
  • Vector 2022: Made it possible to add a new sitelink on Wikipedia and co in the new Vector 2022 language selector (phab:T310259)
  • Lua: Working on two new Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19:13, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #558

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • BiodiversityBot 3 Task/s: TreatmentBank (Q54857867) is a CC0 resource that contains data on taxonomic treatments, treatment citations, figures, tables, material citations and bibliographic reference. It contains valuables links mapping scholarly articles, taxa and taxonomic treatments. This bot task involves linking research papers on taxa to taxa and related taxonomic treatments.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • Bean49Bot 4 Task/s: Add Springer Nature person ID and Springer Nature article ID by moving from exact match property.
    • Cmtqwikibot Task/s: Adds country of origin (P495) Canada (Q16), with qualifier located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) Quebec (Q176) and reference stated in (P248) CineTV (Q41001657) to works in Quebec.
    • SakuraBot Task/s: interwiki maintenance
    • JhsBot 7 Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) statements.

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 7, 2023: We thought we'd try something different next week, in honor of Valentine's Day month: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project or just what you like to edit when you have time. We'd love to have 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 and share your screen, with no need for formal 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
    • Wiki for Refugees Editathons on the 4th and 11th of February 2023 (Wikimedia Uganda)
    • Black History Month 2023: University of Toronto (February 8th)
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #79, Archaeology (see previous challenges: Random concepts #2, Spices)
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live Sessions (2023.01.26)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Diff blog: Summary of the results of a recent survey on Wikimedia content partnerships tools by WMSE. The detailed report is available on meta.wikimedia.org and as a PDF on Wikimedia Commons.
    • A Game of Data
    • 'wikishootme' Is Like a Real World Version of Pokémon Go
    • Turn the AC on, by Magnus Manske
  • Papers
    • Unsupervised Entity Linking with Guided Summarization and Multiple-Choice Selection (Uses GPT-3 and Wikidata)
    • Visibility Matters: Giving Credit Where It's Due in Natural History Collections, Siobhan Leachman, The Linnean, December 2022
    • Falcon 2.0: An Entity and Relation Linking Tool over Wikidata
    • The URW-KG: a Resource for Tackling the Underrepresentation of non-Western Writers
    • From unstructured texts to semantic story maps
  • Videos
    • Wikimentor Africa - Creating a website based on Wikidata, without development skills day two (in French) - Part1, Part 2
    • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, FOSDEM 2023 - YouTube
    • Etymology and Wikidata on OpenStreetMap -YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing: #103, #104
    • Working with ISBNs (in Italian) - 3 part YouTube playlist
    • Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
    • Managing Wikimedia Projects through Wikidata: Geert Van Pamel- Wikimedia Belgium - YouTube
    • SEMIC Talks: Wikibase with Dennis Diefenbach - YouTube
  • observablehq
    • Garden Phylogeny - NCBI breakdown of common garden foods with photographs by Phytotheca
  • other
    • One way to design a system to be a good external identifier in Wikidata by Salgo60

• Tool of the week
  • Let's Quiz is a game that generates random quizzes to test your knowledge & learn something new every day.
  • User:Nikki/AddTermboxLanguage.js - makes it easier to add/edit labels to an item in a language other than the ones shown by default.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
  • Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey 2023, open until Fri, 17 Feb 2023.
  • Maintenance on ElasticSearch. As part of this, some Wikibase.Cloud functionality might be disrupted.
  • Reminder that the deadline for the Semantic Web Journal Special Issue on Wikidata is approaching (but extended)! Get your journal papers ready for the 14.02.23
  • Wikidata surpassed 1 million Lexemes with the addition of etymologi (L1000000)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Happy Planet Index score (The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in 2006), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), digital equivalent of (the subject is the digital equivalent of what?)
    • External identifiers: Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Case Search person ID, Roblox experience ID, WW1 fallen/missing soldier ID (MHA), RISM siglum, N-Anime anime ID, N-Anime seiyū ID, Livres Hebdo author ID, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database ID, Artlog institution ID, Barcelona City Council Heritage Catalog identifier, TikTok place ID, Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, AllMovie genre ID, authors.gr ID, Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature), footnote (for use in the references section of statements: to state which footnote of the source material supports the claim in question), agent of action (thing that does the action), natural enemy (One of the causes of death of this living creatures referred to in this item, which is eaten by that creature), change of (property this process changes), object of action (thing an action is done to), variety of sense (dialect, variety or register of language that the sense applies to), bust/waist/hip measurements (chest measurement; aliases: bust measurement), usage label (list of sets of context label property (Q116547761) (language style (P6191), field of usage (P9488), has quality (P1552), variety of form (P7481), location of sense usage (P6084)). Other individual context label property (Q116547761) statement will be treated as and with this statement.), thesaurus' properties (primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus)
    • External identifiers: Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, The Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, Iowa legislator ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Museu Paulista objects ID, Facebook numeric ID, Qobuz album ID (Feb 2023), Patreon user numeric ID, Kulturenvanteri.com, beniculturali.it place ID, Russian Second League player ID, TVer IDs, NPD field-ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of disasters by type (source)
    • Maps of museums in Malaysia (source)
    • Map with place names that gave names to places in Riga (source)
    • Area of sovereign states without a river (source)
    • Wikidata properties whose URL format matches some format (source)
    • People born in the Vatican (https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1613861217440866306 source)
    • Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (source)
    • Memes (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 4, 2023) (source)

• Development
  • REST API: adding a new GET /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions endpoint (phab:T327881)
  • Lua: added two Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378) that make it easier to get this data on Wikipedia and co
  • Lexicographical data: added documentation for the WikibaseLexeme JSON structure (phab:T201489)
  • Action API: fixed a bug that prevented the wblistentityusage API module from being used as a generator (phab:T254334)
  • Dates: working together with Matěj Suchánek to fix date parsing issues in Czech (phab:T221097)
  • Constraints: working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand why a constraint violation is happening and how to fix it (phab:T219037)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 20:05, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #559

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • CJMbot (CJMbot lets users upload a CSV file in a certain format. The data inside this file is then validated and processed. New items wil be created based on the data in the CSV file and existing items wil updated by adding statements and references).
    • RPI2026F1Bot 5 Task/s: Import dependency and version data from PyPi

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikibase Working Hour February 13, 2023. The February Working Hour will feature a presentation by Steve Baskauf on using VanderBot with Wikibase: The Wikibase API provides a mechanism for programmatic control of uploads, and its behavior is consistent across instances (Wikidata, Structured Data in Commons, and those that are established privately). In this session, Steve will discuss basic interactions with the API and demonstrate using the VanderBot Python application to rapidly upload tabular data to a wikibase.cloud instance. After performing a mass deletion, Steve will conclude by describing how he's used the Wikibase API to facilitate addition of structured data to Commons. Registration link
    • Strategically Using Production Photos to Increase Your Online Discoverability, February 22 and 24, 2023. This two-part workshop presented by CAPACOA will explain how to upload performing arts production photos to Wikimedia Commons and how to document credits in Wikidata.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #80, Work

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata: Observable notebook which explores social reproduction by occupation in France.
    • Data analytics for your list of created articles in The Signpost, February 4, 2023
    • DigAMus goes Wikidata
    • Papers
  • Transformer Based Geocoding
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #105 - YouTube
    • Demo of the Wikibase Export extension - YouTube
    • FOSDEM 2023
      • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap (Software for adding links between open data projects)
      • Public Transport Data in KDE Itinerary (Querying realtime journey data and dissecting ticket barcodes)
  • observablehq
    • Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata
  • other
    • Wikipedias in the languages of Russia/Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • User:So9q/openalex-search-link-on-lexemes.js is a userscript that adds a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Graph Builder released a major update, introducing new layouts and visualization ideas. You can read the full changelog here.
  • The new Service Level Objective for the Wikidata Query Service has been implemented: the current aim is to maintain a 95% uptime based on a 90 day rolling window. You can read the full announcement here.
  • Observablehq.com recently introduced a system of tags. Anyone authoring a notebook using data from Wikidata can add the #Wikidata tag: https://observablehq.com/tag/wikidata?filter=recent.
  • a.gup.pe provides group features for Mastodon. @wikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata in general. @querywikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata queries. Anyone can join those groups simply by following them in Mastodon. Anyone can share a message with all members of those groups by mentioning them in a publication in Mastodon or any other application of the Fediverse.
  • The hashtag #Wikidata can be used to tag all publications related to Wikidata in Mastodon. Anyone can find recent publications using this tag using the search feature: https://wikis.world/tags/Wikidata.
  • @wikidata@wikis.world is the official Mastodon account of the Wikidata project.
  • You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata. The voting phase is open until February 24th.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: said to be the same as (lexeme) (some source considers this lexeme to be the same lexeme or a spelling variant of another lexeme)
    • External identifiers: Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID (identifier for each Brazilian educational institution), federal identifier of street, DOSBox Compatibility ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Professional shogi player number, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID, Norwegian war prisoner detention camp ID, Qobuz artist numeric ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID, Dicio ID, Dicionário Aulete ID, GLANSIS ID, Léxico ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Zoning symbol (planing zone of the municipality/region/state that applies to the subject), INEP ID, CulturaEduca ID (identifier for each Brazilian educational institution), Manantiales y Fuentes de Andalucia (id for Springs and Fountains of Andalucía)
    • External identifiers: Hultschiner Soldaten ID, STS program ID, SACEM ID, IATE entry ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, IRIS UNIPD author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of literary works (Q7725634) by language (P407) in descending order (source)
    • Humans that have a 'relationship' with University of Leeds (source)
    • Railway stations named after literary works (source)
    • Week 6, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Free software grouped by programming language and instance of (source)

• Development
  • [Significant change] Heads-up: Upcoming fixes for date parsing - Thank you Matej for moving this forward!
  • REST API:
    • Went over the feedback on the first release and deciding on the next routes to add
    • Added a new endpoint for getting descriptions (phab:T327881)
    • Worked on throwing exceptions when something goes wrong (validation failed, Item not found, etc.) instead of returning an error response object (phab:T327527)
  • Entity Schemas: Finished the technical exploration that will unblock the next steps for actual development
  • Query Service: Changed URLs with URL-encoded characters to be shown un-encoded for better line-breaks and readability (phab:T327514)
    • Query Builder:
    • Adding support for a few additional datatypes (phab:T328528)
    • Adding a basic language selector to make it easier to switch the language of the page (phab:T328764)
  • Constraint checks: Working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand how to fix a violation on a statement (phab:T219037)
  • Search: Exploring design options for how to make it easier to search for entities other than Items (phab:T327507)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:43, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #561

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))
    • ScikingBot (Task/s: The bot is going to fix interwiki links for the Lombard Wikipedia)
    • fromCrossrefBot (Task/s: Importing licenses for 1.45 million CC licensed papers from the Crossref April 2022 dump.)
  • Closed requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
    • MsynBot 12 (Task/s: import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 1st, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
    • Eager to discover the potential of Wikidata and Wikibase for semantics? SEMIC is organising a series of workshops that are very much hands-on. Join the first workshop online on 24 January 2023 from 14:00 to 16:00 (CET) via Webex. Register for the first event via this link!
    • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 March 3rd - 4th
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #82, Restaurant
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live Session: February 2023 log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #106 - YouTube
    • CALA Speaker Series "Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections" Session 1 - YouTube
    • TWed Talk (21 Feb 2023): Sola Shirai on "Working with Wikidata" - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • AutosuggestSitelink is a gadget that suggests Wikidata items for possible linking with a Wikimedia site page, using interwiki linking.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Inconsistencies on WDQS data - data reload on WDQS
  • Survey Results: Wikibase.Cloud user research. The goal of the research was to uncover usergroups and usecases.
  • Wikibase Suite Survey is now open! The goal is to understand what role Wikibase plays in your organization and identify what you need from Wikibase based on how you currently make use of it.
  • Wikibase.Cloud logo is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
    • Senior Product Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • Product Manager Wikibase Product Platform

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • Norwegian media rating (age rating system for motion pictures, video and tv content used in Norway)
    • External identifiers: National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID, SACEM Museum artist ID, WSJ article ID, InfluenceWatch influencer, World Sailing sailor ID, WiKirby ID, SFMTA ID, Full Fact ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID (new), Hungarian National Namespace person ID (new), Rate Your Music concert ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • rebuilt (year or date when the structure was reconstructed, rebuilt, repurposed or replaced by similar one (if the new and old structures have separate items, use P167/P1398 links instead))
    • External identifiers: Faber Music composer ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Wise Music Classical catalogue ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, L’Équipe team ID, encyclopedia.com.ua ID, L’Équipe coach ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of lighthouses in South America (source)
    • List of countries sorted by life expectancy (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We added a way to get all statements on an Item for a given Property ID via a filter (phab:T309021)
    • We made it possible to configure the server for the "Try it out" button on the OpenAPI spec (phab:T329606)
  • Query Builder:
    • We added support for additional datatypes. Lexeme (phab:T329204), Sense (phab:T329206) and URL (phab:T329824) are already available now. Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207) are in progress.
    • We continued the work on making it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T329487)
  • Constraints: We added support for showing constraint clarifications in constraint violation pop-up (phab:T219037)
  • We finished restricting unit/calendar/globe URIs to sensible values (phab:T102840)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:53, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #562

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Mbchbot 3 (Task/s: Adding missing YouTube channel ID (P2397) statements to YouTube handle (P11245) claims that are missing that mandatory qualifier)
    • MidleadingBot 4 (Task/s: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))
    • Biondibot (Task/s: Import us patent from a csv file)
    • bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 7, 2023: Lydia Pintscher and Silvan Heintze will tell us about the new Wikidata REST API and Silvan will demonstrate some of its aspects. Agenda
    • Do you want to present at Wikimania 2023? Program submissions are open now until the end of day Tuesday 28 March.
    • Wiki Workshop 2023 Call for Papers. The call is for extended abstracts (2 pages) of ongoing or completed work. The deadline is March 23.
    • Wikimedia Hackathon 2023: Call for projects & sessions is now open! The deadline to submit sessions is April 4th. The final schedule will be made public on April 15th.
    • Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
    • Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - 8 March 2023, on YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • This app places on a world map all the places that have their Wikipedia page
    • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2022 edition
    • WikiData on Video Games
    • Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!
  • Papers
    • Two years of explicit CiTO annotations (Q116676168), include how Wikidata and Scholia visualize citation typing annotations explain why research is cited
  • Videos
    • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 recorded livestreams: Day 1; Day 2
    • Wikidata for History of Science projects, by Martin Poulter - YouTube
    • How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia via categories - YouTube
    • How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia 2 - YouTube
    • LD4P3 - Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata - YouTube
    • Extracting political data & relations from Wikidata - YouTube
    • Operation of Wikidata and its centralized management of metadata linked to multiple databases (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata and higher education and research libraries (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • wikidata-todo is a tool that helps you find Commons categories with files, where none of the files are used on Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The WMDE Wikibase.Cloud team is currently seeking individuals who are interested in participating in interviews regarding the pressing issue of data modeling. Please reach out if you'd like to participate.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • Lighthouse Directory page (group string for the item in The Lighthouse Directory)
      • colocated with (event sharing location, facility or organization with another, typically larger event)
    • External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary ID, HAA member ID, Spotify user ID, Vintage Fashion Guild label, Biographical Dictionary of Emigrants of Georgia ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, Swiss Games Garden game ID, ERA ID, Sky News topic ID, Russian Second League player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: FLOW ID, Electrodoc person ID, electrocd artist ID, Wattpad username, Virksomme ord ID, Identifier for an item in the norwegian database for political adresses ID, Kinoglaz film ID, DBpia article ID
  • Query examples:
    • Railway bridges in Germany and Austria (source)
    • Number of deaths in train wrecks per country (source)
    • Pairs of people who both have an English #Wikipedia article and are married to one another (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • The statements endpoint now supports filtering by Property ID like ?property=P123 (phab:T309021)
    • We started working on GET /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T327882)
    • We started working on including sitelink URLs in GET /entities/items/{item_id} (phab:T330252)
  • Community Wishlist Survey: We reviewed the results and what we can do to address some of the wishes.
  • Query Builder:
    • We continued work on the language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T328764)
    • We have added support for the datatypes for Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207)
  • Search: We are looking deeper into how we can make it possible to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas in the search box, not just Items (phab:T321543)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:52, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #563

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • BorkedBot 10 (Import values of subject named as (P1810), start time (P580), number of subscribers (P3744), point in time (P585), has quality (P1552) (You must be 18+ to view this community (Q83807365), private subreddit (Q72970624), restricted subreddit (Q99518895), quarantined subreddit (Q66364374)) (if applicable), end time (P582) (if applicable), based on subreddit (P3984)).
    • Bitbotje 2 (Task/s: remove redundant item aliases)
    • HubaishanBot (The Bot will import some data from GeoNames (Q830106), Geographic Names Server (Q1194038), OpenStreetMap (Q936) and Yemen General Census of Population, Housing and Establishments 2004 (Q12202700) for only Yemen places these data includes: location, refs, names, population, sub administrative territorial, shared borders. all data imported with me in local database and checked.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
  • New request for comments:
    • Wikidata as fans resources

• Events
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #84, Carnival
  • Past
    • Open Data Day 2023 edit-a-thon by Wikidata:WikiProject Kerala - March 10-11th 2023

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Public Domain Day Belgium 2023
    • The Biodiversity Heritage Library is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
    • Named Entity Recognition for Placenames in Welsh Language Texts
    • The messy data sources behind “Mapping diversity
  • Papers
    • How can the social sciences benefit from knowledge graphs? A case study on using Wikidata and Wikipedia to examine the world’s billionaires
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #107 - Twitter
  • Podcasts
    • WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia. The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.

• Tool of the week
  • Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Modrinth project ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Wattpad username, The Counted person ID, L’Équipe team ID, Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, La grammatica italiana ID, CurseForge project ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: University of Barcelona authority ID, IRIS private universities (2) IDs, Deutsche Synchronkartei Person-ID, IRIS Lazio IDs, Napster album ID, AIBA ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID, Epson Tour player ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Litres author ID, Artist Directory ID
  • Query examples:
    • Notable milkmaids
    • Places of birth or death of female painters in Brittany (source)
    • What profession do women in Basque Wikipedia biographies have? (source)
    • World map according to shared borders (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 10, 2023) (source)

• Development
  • Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (phab:T328764)
  • EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
  • REST API:
    • We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (phab:T330252)
    • We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:09, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #564

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • In this week's update by the Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions team, they are asking where the right place to store and maintain Abstract Wikipedia should be. All of the options involve Wikidata to some extent, some more, some less. If the content of Abstract Wikipedia is hosted on Wikidata, that would lead to an increased scope for the Wikidata community (and likely more contributors joining). But that is a decision the Wikidata community needs to be involved in as well. (Also, if you are interested, the Abstract Wikipedia updates might be worth to follow.)
  • Papers
    • Investigating the potential of the semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform
  • Videos
  • Notebooks
    • Country diversity of external links domain names in Wikipedia in French an analysis of all domain names in Wikipedia in French by country associated to the website.

• Tool of the week
  • User:BrokenSegue/shorten.js makes statements boxes for a particular property scrollable if it is too tall.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the WDQS current state and summarizes the suggestions with the most impact we’re exploring now, with a few in-progress.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: STS program ID, Electronic library encyclopedia.com.ua, Deutsche Synchronkartei person ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, Syoboi Calendar series ID, Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, Moscow University Herbarium ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, IRIS UNICAMPUS author ID, IRIS UNIECAMPUS author ID, IRISanRaf author ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, NTV program ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, Wise Music Classical work ID, IATE ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Rate Your Music work ID, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate field ID, Epson Tour player ID, Digital Bhashakosha page number, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, Electrodoc person ID, Archivarta ID, CassiOpeA author ID, IRIS UNIROMA2 author ID, IRIS UNIROMA3 author ID, Sjøhistorie ship ID, electrocd artist ID, köztérkép ID, ForPost person ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Ivi title ID, Ivi person ID, Saint Petersburg Conservatory person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • system requirements (system requirements for video game or software)
    • External identifiers: Brazzers ID, Universo del corpo ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Tekstowo.pl artist ID, Tekściory artist ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, BSDB player ID, The Athletic team ID, The Athletic player ID, GSAFD ID, Feminae ID, IFTTT service ID, stock keeping unit, Federiciana ID, LIBRA Unine ID
  • Query examples:
    • Lexeme with a Sense related to a geolocated Item (source)
    • Highest TV seasons numbers (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are preparing for adding a new datatype and other changes by improving tests, documentation, etc.
  • Date input: We did a bug triage hour around issues with date parsing and improved it for Japanese dates (phab:T214002)
  • Ontology issues: We started evaluating the survey responses for the survey about different types of ontology issues reusers are facing. More work is needed before we have results.
  • REST API: We finished work on including the URL of an article in sitelink data (phab:T330252) as well as providing all aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:55, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #565

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.Event page
    • WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes
    • Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on Jitsi on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad)
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata by Bob DuCharme
    • Musings on the Wikidata backend by Magnus Manske
    • Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows by Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
    • Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor by Magnus Manske
    • How linked data can help with anonymization by Sri Kalidindi
  • Notebooks
    • Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata. See the csv file and the parquet file.

• Tool of the week
  • Declarator.org is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets (mentioned by OpenSanctions)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new), University of Barcelona authority ID, Kinoglaz film ID, MobyGames game ID, MobyGames company ID, MobyGames group ID, Feminae record ID, Alexandria UniSG person ID, OpenStreetMap node ID, literatura.lv ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • ISCED Attainment (ISCED attainment is the UNESCO main classification of educational level, it is used to map each level to the global classification used by UNESCO. This is useful because the same local level can mean different things in different countries. It identifies the specific levels of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) Attainment model. Has two sub qualifiers - code and label.)
      • first performance by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work)
    • External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, Boomplay album ID, Ticino Scienza ID, AML ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, NHF club ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Sinta affiliation ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata items which have both a UK Parliament Thesaurus ID and a subreddit (source)
    • Number of books written in Basque grouped by the birth place of their authors (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Emoji

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
  • Query Builder: We finished the work on the language selector so you can swithc the interface language of the tool (phab:T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days.
  • Wikibase REST API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (phab:T323173)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17:56, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #566

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)
    • IngeniousBot 3 (Task: Adding identifiers to album items, based on existing identifiers)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • Bitbotje 2 (Task: remove redundant item aliases)
    • MidleadingBot 4 (Task: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))

• Events
  • Past
    • Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings (Etherpads: Meeting #1, Meeting #2)
    • WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata picture (notes, slides)
    • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge (previous challenge: #84, Bones)
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate in Wikidata. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The Whelming - Musings on the backend, by Magnus Manske
    • Boosting interoperability: towards an increasingly reusable bioinformatics knowledge base
  • Papers
    • In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries (French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023, INSA Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on documenting queer history on Wikidata
    • Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python
    • A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata
    • Can you trust Wikidata?
  • Videos
    • Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
    • Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - YouTube
    • WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and Gilliane Kern (in French) - YouTube
    • A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - YouTube
    • Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - YouTube
    • Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) - YouTube
    • Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked Open Data - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Statistics on Wikidata property scopes

• Tool of the week
  • User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
    • Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • student retention rate (Proportion of first-year students at the educational institution who return for their second year)
    • External identifiers: Newguineaworld ID, Ticino Scienza IBSA Foundation ID, China movable cultural relic ID, JMdict sequence number, TASVideos game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, IRIS private universities (3) IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Authors from Latin America born today (source)
    • Businesses who's official websites use the ".biz" top-level domain (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
  • Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (phab:T321543)
  • REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:25, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #567

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 7 (Add start time (P580) as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984))
    • BotFunast (Task: The bot is already operational in the Tachelhit Wikipedia. One of its main tasks is editing template tags and categories, and creating new ones when necessary, based on a csv database (that you can find in github) . When adding new pages though, a common problem is to link those to Wikidata. This can be unfeasible by hand in a reasonable amount of time, when hundreds of pages, e.g. categories, are added at once. The idea is to have the bot approved for Wikidata, so it can link the pages to their counterparts in other languages automatically.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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.
    • Registration for Wiki Workshop 2023 on May 11, 2023 has started.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #87, Beach

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Celebrating the impacts of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community on Wikidata
    • How Open Data can help you out in more diverse situations!
    • Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment
    • Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items
    • The Whelming - Cram as cram can, by Magnus Manske
    • Finding Impossible Witches: Part One The Search Begins
    • Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons as Linked Data Hubs: Dissemination of KU Leuven Libraries’ digitized collections
  • Papers
    • Knowledge Graphs and their Role in the Knowledge Engineering of the 21st Century
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
    • Bootstrap a News Signals Dataset using Wikidata SPARQL Query Service - YouTube
    • SEMIC community: Third workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase - YouTube
    • Wikidata The Making Of trailer Web Conference 2023 - YouTube
    • [Open Data Day Taiwan 2023] Wikidata Community Workshop Day 1 (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Fork of Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Pauken! ("to cram" in German) - is a tool lets you learn words in different languages, based on images.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mozilla launched the Responsible AI Challenge, in case someone wants to apply with a great Wikidata-supported project.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
    • Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • information sign (property for the image of a (historical or other) information sign or board)
      • location URL match pattern (regex pattern of URL that individual shops/amenity within a chain can be matched against)
    • External identifiers: INEP ID, Facebook numeric ID, Aligulac player ID, U.S. Epigraphy Project ID, Artist Directory ID, LIBRA Unine ID, Litres author ID, NHF club ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • orchestration (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement in notated form)
      • part of other combined lexeme (qualifier on P5238 to indicate that a component appearing in a compound lexeme actually comes from the appearance of another compound lexeme)
    • External identifiers: MEL residence ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID, IRIS Lombardy IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Superheroes with a degree in the humanities (source)
    • Places of discovery of objects held in the Musée de Bretagne (colored according to the period of the object) (source)
    • People with far apart reported death dates (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Articles in a specific venue citing retracted articles (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Minecraft: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft, along with items for user-generated content (like mods).

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We continued the work on creating a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T332139)
  • Query Builder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the language of the UI (phab:T328148)
  • REST API:
    • We continued the work on making it possible to create or replace, a label or a description in a given language" (phab:T323813)
    • The new endpoints for getting labels, descriptions and aliases respectively are now online. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/entities/items/Q10998/labels/en

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:19, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #568

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call, Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch and discussion. Agenda.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #88, Mountain

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • First grants announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to support technical innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
  • Papers
    • Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations Report; English-language edition, Édition en langue française
    • Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness, Michael Mandiberg, Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
  • Videos
    • Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Basic Lexeme with Asaf Bartov - YouTube
    • "Wikidata as a Seed for Web Extraction"presentation at the WWW 2023 conference - YouTube
    • IFLA SCITECH Webinar: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items - YouTube
    • Wikidata Workshop (adding books) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Wikidata + Books Workshop (how to add books to Wikidata) - YouTube
    • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (Wikidata workshop Day 2 (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Notebook
    • Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain
  • Twitter thread
    • How to reconcile data in another dataset with Wikidata and import additional data from there

• Tool of the week
  • Query Chest is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten it.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The visual of the upcoming WikidataCon is out (announcement and details)
  • Christos started a Wikibase to collect and organise existing research-related resources about Wikibase. Feel free to add to it. researchwb.wikibase.cloud

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Patreon user numeric ID, Team Fortress Wiki ID, Federiciana ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Aisberg author ID, OPENBS author ID, Bicocca Open Archive author ID, IRInSubria author ID, cybersport.ru player ID, Boomplay album ID, IRIS HUNIMED author ID, IRIS UNISR author ID, PubliCatt author ID, FantLab dictor ID, Portráidí ID, Kulturenvanteri.com ID, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Atlante Geopolitico ID, Musée Fabre ID, Musées Grand Est ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Shipbucket drawing ID
  • Query examples:
    • ATMs around Munich belonging to the Bankcard-Servicenetz interbank network (federated query)
    • Population growth in Ghana from 1960 onward
  • Newest database reports:
    • Deleted properties - Deleted properties that were used in items.

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on test systems next. (phab:T332139)
  • QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. (phab:T328764)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven language. (phab:T323813)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:00, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #569

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)
  • New request for comments:
    • Creating properties which link to an archived website

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour April 24, 2023: Would you like to know how to join and use Telegram? Two regular Wikidata Telegram users will provide an introduction to Telegram and its available Wikidata channels. They will discuss how they use it, how it can provide help with Wikidata work, and how it can facilitate connections with other Wikidata users Event page
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #89, Ear
  • Past
    • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-04-19

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How to put an end to best book lists once and for all
  • Papers
    • Documenter l'histoire queer sur Wikidata (Documenting Queer History on Wikidata - French), John Samuel, Panel: Queer Data : les plateformes numériques d'archives, Collectif Archives LGBTQI+, Paris, 23 April 2023
    • Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base
  • Videos
    • Using PetScan and Wikidata Terminator, Mooré Wikimedia Community (in Mooré)
    • Wikidata Atlas: Putting Wikidata on the Map
  • Notebooks
    • Probability of having notable parents by occupation and gender
    • Living with Machines: Toponym recognition and resolution — input and output exploration
  • Twitter thread
    • Average number of words in Wall Street Journal articles by author gender

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/colour icons.css - is a Userscript to add colour to the editing icons. It uses green for add/save, yellow for edit, red for remove, orange for cancel and blue for help.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikibase newbie docs are here (to help to onboard new Wikibase users easier).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • handled, mitigated, or managed by (approach or method that can be used to address an issue or problem)
      • holds diplomatic passport of (country of the diplomatic passport held by the person)
    • External identifiers: Dailymotion video ID, Databáze sérií ID, Universo del corpo ID, Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, AML ID, AniList character ID, Amarkosh ID, Moly.hu author ID, Podcast Index ID, SINTA affiliation ID, Hall of Light developer ID, Hall of Light publisher ID, Hall of Light artist ID, Kinoglaz person ID, Michaelis ID, Kino1TV ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: KPU Plant Database ID, SoccerPunter team ID, HAL non-registered author ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Dizionario dei prodotti DOP e IGP ID
  • Query examples:
    • Administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
    • Rivers in France over 50 km long (source)
    • List of mental disorders (source)
    • Paintings once owned by Red Flag Names (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 16, 2023) (source)
    • Place of birth of humans with Github username (source)

• Development
  • REST API: We continued work on making it possible to create or replace a label, or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)
  • EntitySchemas: We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas. It is now available on beta in a very bare-bones version but not ready for wider testing yet. (phab:T332139)
  • Ontology issues: We are evaluating the results of the survey we ran earlier this year.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:26, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #570

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • ForgesBot (Task: Add licensing information to software forges entries in accordance to what is found in the corresponding Wikipedia page. It is used as a helper in the context of the Forges project)
    • BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))

• Events
  • Upcoming events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 2, 2023: Fudie Zhao will be presenting on Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects. Agenda
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #90, Sewing
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session (April 2023)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Creating Map Visualizations with Wikidata and Python, 24 April 2023, Jelle Vankerkvoorde
  • Videos
    • Open data and Wikidata: revolutionizing scientific research (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #109 - YouTube
    • Using MixandMatch gadget - YouTube
    • Back having fun with lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch
    • EMWCon Spring 2023 -YouTube
      • Synchronizing your own MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki content with Wikidata
      • Reasons not to use Wikibase (and reasons to do so)
  • Workshops
    • Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata Workshop at 16th Annual International Biocuration Conference (2023) (Q111430238)
    • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
    • Wikimentor Africa workshop - Learn how to report bugs, make feature requests and manage your tasks

• Tool of the week
  • Twitter Wikipedia Badge - is a Chrome extension for verifying a Twitter username using Wikidata. (code, Tweet)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WeChangEd is an ERC-funded research project and online database by Ghent University, about women editors in Europe. The database shows stories about women editors and their publications, and is powered by Wikidata and Sciencestories.io.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Channel One Russia Worldwide program ID, LSJ Wiki ID, Wastewater treatment plant in France ID, Musées Grand Est ID, INSPIRE-HEP literature ID, Musée Fabre ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Technic Platform modpack ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus root id
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Akadem organization ID, mosff.ru player ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Diritto on line ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, BSWW player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of where the presidents of BCALA were educated (source)
    • Number of Wikipedia sitelinks for Art Looting Investigation (source)
    • Family relationships of New Zealand MPs (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Piano Rolls

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are still working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Wikibase REST API: We're fixing several smaller issues like phab:T335578 and phab:T335581.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:49, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #571

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming: October 09 - 11, 2023, Leipzig, Germany - workshop on handling and modelling mathematical research data — Wikidata, Wikibase and Scholia are all in scope
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #91, Family (2/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog: VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available
  • Papers
    • Wikidata: The Making Of (by Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher and Markus Krötzsch)
    • The SciQA Scientific Question Answering Benchmark for Scholarly Knowledge
  • Videos: Back having more fun with Lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch

• Tool of the week

Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, TOOI identifier, Chess Programming Wiki ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • character in this lexeme (character(s) this lexeme consists of)
    • External identifiers: none
  • Query examples:
    • Mapping birthplace and place of death of female Dutch Resistance Fighters on a line (source)
    • Countries that have site links to French Wikipedia with a parenthesis in the title (source)
    • Map of libraries from Austria with ISIL-code or twitter-handle (source)

• Development
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Changes to the wblistentityusage API module
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Entity Labels Added to Parsed Edit Summaries in API Requests
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Inconsistencies in the response of `list=wbsubscribers` API Query module
  • Query Builder: The Query Builder now has a language selector so you can change the interface language.
  • Date parsing: Input of dates in notations common in Asia, especially Japan, is now improved. (phab:T214002)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on the endpoint for replacing a label of description of an Item. (phab:T323813)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:57, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #572

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • WikiRankBot (Task: Use Alexa rank (P1661). "...track the monthly ranking of websites based on Similarweb Ranking")
    • TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Cultural Institutions and Linked Open Data Networks: Create Your Own Database with Wikibase! Friday, 05.26.2023 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (On-line)
    • Conversation on open data and digital innovation in education. Carlos Blin Auditorium of the Central University of Chile, Av. Santa Isabel #1278, Santiago. Thursday May 25 – 10:00 a.m.
    • Towards a new national bibliographic processing policy with linked data. Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 May 2023

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Deliberative Quality in Wikimedia Projects: Comparing Requests for Comments on Meta, Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Wikidata The Making Of (The history of Wikidata, from its inception to its creation and the first ten years of operation, up to 2022) - YouTube
    • ETD Wikidata Conversion Project, University of Washington - YouTube
    • Back having even more fun with Lexemes! - Twitch
  • Notebooks: Where did the Women Artists within The Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection Go To School?

• Tool of the week
  • tidywikidatar is an R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 candidates announced, with Wikidata-related projects
  • re•shape – A Wikimedia program to support knowledge equity - Applications are open between May 11 and June 18 to apply for a grant to create more space and visibility for marginalized knowledge.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme)
    • External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Humanities Commons member ID, Shipbucket ID, MEL residence ID, JMA weather station ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, GamesRadar+ ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Qualigeo ID, Ut ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Israel Composers' League composer ID
  • Query examples:
    • Name of languages ​​containing the words "old" or "ancient" (source)
    • Birthplaces of humans called "Antoine" (source)
    • Who took the most pictures on WikiCommons around a Wikidata item? (source)
    • Graph of art (and other things) owned by Art Looting Red Flag Names or members of the Nazi Party at any time (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 19, 2023) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Personal Pronouns (Goal: Model and assign pronouns ethically in Wikidata)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (phab:T334450)
  • mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (phab:T330193, phab:T329626)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (phab:T332739).

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 10:18, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #573

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

• Discussions
  • CEUR-WS (Task: CEUR-WS Semantification bot to be used on publishing Workshop proceedings via http://ceur-ws.org)
  • AcmiBot (Task: Sync links with ACMI API)

• Events
  • Past: The Wikimedia Hackathon took place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. Several Wikidata-related projects were presented during the showcase (notes, replay). You can also find more documentation on this page.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Melanie Conroy, Quantifying the Gap: The Gender Gap in French Writers’ Wikidata; Journal of Cultural Analytics Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2023May 11, 2023.
  • Videos
    • Queering Wikidata: Early Insights from the Wikidata Gender Diversity Project, Presentation by Daniele Metilli, Beatrice Melis, Marta Fioravanti, Chiara Paolini on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
    • Making Queer Faces and Voices Visible and Audible Online: The role of Wikipedia and Wikidata, Presentation by John Samuel on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
    • Ethical and Inclusive Data Modeling for Gender Representation in Wikidata: Lessons and Recommendations from the Personal Pronouns Project, Presentation by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui, Alex Jung on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023
  • “But what about representation?”: Finding Ethical Solutions and Best Practices for Gender Information in Wikidata, Discussion by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)

• Tool of the week
  • CreateNewEntity.js got improved to support up to 11 languages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is launching a laptop donation program to support Wikidata contributors with limited access to technology. If you've been actively contributing to Wikidata for at least a year, you can request a free laptop to support your work. WMDE Hardware Donation Program#Applying
  • Wikibase.Cloud data modeling research has been published. It shows user flows and pain points in the Data Modelling experience of Wikibase Cloud users in Q1/2023.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID, ‎Xbox Games Store ID (Xbox 360), Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Global Smash Roster fighter ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Qualigeo ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • population by ethnic group (Part of a larger population isolated for statistical analysis)
      • points of bonus (point of bonus in a tournament, given according some conditions (such as minimum number of goals...))
    • External identifiers: Israel Composers' League composer ID, Stage 32 profile ID, kaino.kotus.fi identifiers, Radiomuseum.org company ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry
  • Query example: Scottish waterbodies & how they're linked (source)

• Development
  • We continue working on modify data of labels of an Item in the Wikibase REST API. (phab:T332739)
  • We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas.
  • We are continuing to prepare various special pages for the mul language code.
  • We fixed a bug on Wikipedia and co where the "add interlanguage link dialog threw an error (phab:T337081)
  • We attended the Wikimedia hackathon.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:52, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #578

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

• Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 30, 2023: We will discuss results from our community survey on advocacy for Wikidata in libraries and hear from community members Mary Aycock, Steve Baskauf and Eric Willey about their experiences with advocacy and gaining support for Wikidata work within their respective libraries. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Mike Peel shares his experience mentoring Wikimedia projects through FOSS outreach programs

• Tool of the week
  • TalkPageHeader.js shows the talk page header for languages other than English.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The libraries of the London School of Economics and the University of York have collaborated to produce a toolkit for uploading research theses metadata to Wikidata. Full announcement and access to the toolkit
  • The contents of most Wikimedia Cloud Services Wiki Replicas are out-of-date owing to large & increasing replication lag; see https://replag.toolforge.org/ & Phab T337446. Exercise caution using data from any tools that have a dependency on these databases.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • time of periapsis (the time at which the orbit of an object in space, typically a planet or a satellite, goes through its periapsis)
      • matched by identifier from (this external ID was added because the following link was presented in both the external database and the Wikidata item)
    • External identifiers: Diritto on line ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • ISCED Attainment (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
      • ISCED category orientation (International Standard Classification of Education category (based on focus/orientation) applicable to an educational program)
      • Learning outcome (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program)
    • External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, BFM.ru persons ID, Open Yearbook org id
  • Query examples:
    • Count comparison of England, Scotland and Wales items claiming to be a human settlement as well as a parish (source)
    • Twins at Eurovision (source)

• Development
  • Ontology issues: We are finishing the evaluation of the survey about which types of ontology issues are hindering reuse of Wikidata's data the most.
  • Otherwise mostly a slow week because of the Wikimedia hackathon.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:49, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #579

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

• Events
  • Introduction workshop about Wikidata for employees of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands), to make them more familiar and self-reliant with Wikidata - 6 June 2023, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands - Slides (in Dutch) on Commons.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 5, 2023: In collaboration with the Black Bibliography Project, we will be adding metadata for undescribed or under-described African-American women authors listed in The Pen Is Ours: a Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910, compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond.Event page
  • Registration has opened for the workshop on mathematical research data taking place on 9-11 October 2023 in Leipzig. Talks, demos and lightning talks can be suggested, including Wikidata-related ones.

• Tool of the week
  • IdentifierInput makes it easier to add identifier properties by letting you put in the full url and then stripping it down to just the identifier for you.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject)
      • visited by (organisms attracted by this plant taxon and reported to visit it)
      • Mastodon instance URL (the mastodon instance of/about the subject)
      • beforehand owned by (person or institution that owned the subject just before stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
      • afterward owned by (person or institution that owned the subject after stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
      • solubility product constant (equilibrium constant for a sparingly soluble solid chemical substance dissolved in an aqueous solution)
      • funded by grant (title or name of the grant funding this item)
    • External identifiers: stats.fm artist ID, Zeno.org ID, World Arachnid Catalog ID, Springs and Fountains of Andalucía ID, TMDb collection ID, TMDB company ID, WGA work ID, Peacock ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Type of musical notation (system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition)
    • External identifiers: Identifiant "Politique pappers", Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID, Holarse, wiki.ubuntuusers.de article ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Kialo ID, PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), PesticideInfo chemical ID, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage ID, Image Duplicator ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Musées Occitanie ID
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Aikido
  • Newest database reports:
    • External identifier completeness - External identifier property use completeness.

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the new endpoint for patching labels (phab:T332739). We also started work on the new endpoint for retrieving Property data (phab:T337720)
  • Client wikis: We drastically reduced the size of a ResourceLoader module that’s loaded on most Wikipedia page views (phab:334682)
  • Language code: With awesome help from Nikki, we improved documentation for how to add language codes to Wikibase/Wikidata (phab:T335857)
  • EntitySchemas: We are getting the new datatype ready for testing.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 07:12, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #580

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

• Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda
  • Wikidata Workshop 2023 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Modeling and Querying Awards in Wikidata
  • Creating Bengali Freebase Using Wikidata
  • Probability of having notable parents by country of citizenship

• Tool of the week
  • narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • quality is the result of process (quality that this process/activity directly correlates to and produces)
    • External identifiers: theCrag ID, ‎SEC Kerala code, Modern History Database person ID, Netflix person ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, PM20 film section ID, The Homicide Report person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • ISCED field (mapping of a particular course's local fields according to the International Standard Classification of Education)
      • Romanian river code (River codes from ApeleRomâne)
    • External identifiers: Artmajeur artist ID, UETK ID, Trésors de Nice ID, German University Collections PersonID
  • Query examples:
    • Terminus stations of the Transilien railroad network (source)
    • List of children of Johann Sebastian Bach (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We finished work on accessing data for Properties (phab:T337720)
    • We started work on supporting conditional HTTP headers for accessing Property data (phab:T338138)
  • You can now add sitelinks to outreach wiki (phab:T171140)
  • Query Builder: Fixed an issue with missing icons in the language selector (phab:T335754)
  • EntitySchemas: Final polishing on the new datatype before wider testing.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12:59, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #581

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Vargenau (RfP scheduled to end after 25 June 2023 07:51 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Infrastruktur (closed on May 12th without prior mention)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.) (closed on 22 May without prior mention)
    • TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings) (closed on 21 May without prior mention)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • WikidataCon is happening later this year in Taipei and online. The call for proposals is now open.
    • The role of Wikidata within the research lifecycle, Wednesday 21 June, 10am BST (UTC+1), online event hosted by the University of York, UK. International participation is welcome, despite "available to White Rose institutions only" on the booking page.
    • The Fourth Wikidata Workshop is now accepting paper submissions until Thursday, 20 July 2023.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 23, 2023: Returning to Podcasts, we will be working on creating podcast episode pages. We will discuss how this episodic content can be transferred to other serialized items. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page
    • Webinar: Common European Data Space for cultural heritage (The ontology of Wikidata, how to interact with it for a better quality). Tuesday 20th June 2023, from 3.00 p,.m. to 5.00 p.m. CET. Register
    • GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 scholarship application now open. Deadline is June 30, 2023.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #97, Poetry (started on 2023-06-19 12:01:21)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Using Wikidata Lexemes and Items to Generate Text from Abstract Representations
    • The Wikipedia Republic of Literary Characters
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Lexeme Malayalam training (in Malayam) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Lab XXXVII: Uploading images to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine - YouTube
    • Intro to Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian) - YouTube
    • Setting up a Wikidata account (in Urdu) - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata Items for Parliament of Ghana Contest (Kusaal Wikimedia Community). See also: Introduction to Wikidata, How to Create a Wikidata Item, How to Add Labels and Description to Wikidata Items
    • Africa Environment WikiFocus: Wikidata Training by Yamen Bousrih (in English and French) - YouTube
    • Social Studies Campaign for Wikidata for Education project - YouTube
    • Followup to the OBO Academy's Introduction to Wikidata (BioMed Orientation) - YouTube
    • Wiki Workshop 2023: Session 1: Diversity and Bias in DBpedia and Wikidata, Session 5: How does Wikidata shape gender identities?, Session 11: Wikidata to Bootstrap an Enterprise Knowledge Graph, Session 11: Synia: Displaying data from Wikibases
    • OpenRefine for Wikidata & WikimediaCommons - YouTube
    • Wikidata SPARQL session for the Data Reuse Days - YouTube
    • Documentation for Wikibase Cloud at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 – Athens, Greece - YouTube
    • KGC 2023 Talk — The EU Knowledge Graph by Dennis Diefenbach, The QA Company - YouTube
    • SS 2023 - Session 3: Wikidata for Classicists. The Example of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Analysing the profile of people invited to France Inter's Matinale using Wikidata
    • Wikidata Queries
    • Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article
    • Charleroi Streets Gender Inequality
    • Citation Factory
  • Slides: Reuse in the Wiki World empowers engagement with Natural History Collections

• Tool of the week
  • Mapping Diversity is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [GLAM] Volunteer Opportunity: 2023 LD4 Wikidata Working Hour Summer/Fall Series
  • Want to make knowledge about #NaturalProducts accessible to everyone in more languages? Help us translate our project page.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • satellite view (image of the subject taken from outer space)
    • External identifiers: The Homicide Report person ID, KPU Plant Database ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Media Library for Dance and Theatre person ID, documenta archiv ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Israel Composers' League composer ID, Alabama Authors ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • HyperTextAPI
      • Gottstein code (Gottstein code as a representation of a cuneiform sign variant)
      • altesdresden.de object (altesdresden.de object)
      • Moroccan administrative geographical coding - الترميز الجغرافي الإداري المغربي
      • Moroccan administrative geographical coding
    • External identifiers: COSL profile ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, NBC Olympics Athlete ID, European Bridge League ID, research.com ID, ComingSoon.it TV IDs, Team France profile ID, FIGC player ID, Theapolis theater ID, Theapolis actor ID, AVP player ID, Volleyball Canada ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, Korean Tour player ID, Austadiums ID, DEL player ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID
  • Query examples:
    • Which mountaineers died on Mount Everest ordered by their death date? (source)
    • Gallery of people born in Brittany and named Jeanne, Jean or Yann (source)
    • List of botanical collectors who have a death date but don't have a Bionomia ID (source)
    • British MPs who resigned from the Commons mid-parliament on two separate occasions (source)
    • Dutch members of parliament with a Mastodon account (source)
    • [Data quality] [ Inside a given instance of (P31) inside same country, find possibles duplicates if they share same date : same kind of event same date in same country might be a candidate for review and merge
    • [Calendars] What is the equivalent in Iranian Hijri of March 5, 1902?

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We finished the endpoint for getting data from Properties and it is now available on Wikidata.
    • We started expanding that endpoint with filter options and conditional http headers.
  • EntitySchemas: The new datatype is now available for testing and feedback.
  • mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T329655, phab:T316767)
  • Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (phab:T327510)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:24, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #582

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Wolverène (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 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.
    • Wikiconvention francophone: Opening of calls for communication and scholarship applications until July 14th.
    • WikiIndaba 2023 Call for Submissions and Scholarship Applications. Deadline: June 30, 2023.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #98, Shoes (started on 2023-06-26 12:01:20)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Dude, where are my pictures?
    • BiCIKL is linking people unambiguously and efficiently to their work
    • Understanding Knowledge Graphs: A Beginner’s Guide
  • Videos
    • re:publica 2023 - Peer learning methods and Open Educational Resources (OER) on Wikidata for a viable digital culture of remembrance (in German) - YouTube
    • Workshop - Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata - YouTube
    • Managing conflations and duplications of personal items in Wikidata, National Library of Greece - YouTube
    • Why Wikidata in Linked Data and Libraries (in Greek)- YouTube
    • Adding metadata utilities in the Koha staff interface based on Wikidata - YouTube
    • From authority control to identity management - YouTube
    • DSI Webinar - The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality - YouTube
    • Wikidata as a tool for biocuration of cell types, Biocuration Conference 2023 - YouTube
    • Webinar: Wikidata, a useful knowledge base for any study - YouTube
    • KGC '23 Talk — The Error Is The Message: Extracting Insights From Deceptive Data for Nazi-Looted Art - YouTube
  • Surveys
    • Results of the WMDE survey on ontology issues reusers are facing
  • Notebooks
    • Explore people having notable parents

• Tool of the week

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), Professor at Cologne univ. ID, Numista ruling authority ID, Suomen etymologinen sanakirja ID, Suomen murteiden sanakirja ID, Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • 諱 ()
      • Date of declaration as a town (The date when a settlement is declared a town)
      • Loss of town status (Date of loss of town rank)
    • External identifiers: Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Alienor.org ID, The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, XWord Info author ID, WKF ranking ID, Composer's Union of Ukraine person ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, etymologiebank.nl ID
  • Query examples:
    • Last words of authors (adapted from a query generated by ChatGPT) (source)
    • List of American actors and actresses having a wikipedia page with parents having a wikipedia page
    • (history) Where were the borders crossing between German Democratic Republic (Q16957) and West Germany (Q713750) ?
    • Week 25, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject University of Washington Libraries - projects which individuals at the UW Libraries have done in collaboration with the Wikidata community.
    • WikiProject New York Public Library - work underway at the New York Public Library (Q219555) to connect library data with Wikidata.

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get statements from a Property. (phab:T338383)
  • EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the testing of the new datatype.
  • Ontology issues: We have released the survey results. The next step is looking into solutions.
  • mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make it ready for the new special language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T339103, phab:T329655, phab:T329655)
  • Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (phab:T327510)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:33, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #583

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: koavf 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 8 July 2023 13:16 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Wolverène Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: UrbanBot (Task: UrbanBot's task is to mass-add English descriptions to items that don't have one)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The third iteration of the WikiWomenCamp will be hosted in New Delhi, India, from the 20th to the 22nd of October 2023.

Scholarship applications are now open.

• • • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour July 7, 2023: Let's collaborate to upgrade our community infrastructure! We'll transfer notes and content from Google Docs to our WikiProject subpages. We'll be practicing our Wiki markup skills and learning to manage Wikidata Project pages Event page
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #99, Breast milk (Challenge started on 2023-07-03 12:01:21)
  • Past: The “Games & Literature” conference took place June 28th-30th at German Literature Archive Marbach (Q1205813), several sessions mentioned Wikidata (see for example Why we thought it was a good idea to build a DACH games database).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • EduWiki 2023 Wikidata for Education - YouTube
    • EduWiki 2023 Wikidata in Secondary School Classrooms - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Visualizing all Tour de France's yellow jersey wearers. See also, all notebooks about the Tour de France.

• Tool of the week
  • m:User:Base/Scripts/HaveWikibaseLabelLowercased.js - is a Userscript that adds an arrow next to the main label (page title) which upon double click (a tap and a confirmation on touch devices) automatically makes the label's first letter lowercase for the current interface language. If there was already a matching alias it gets removed.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The WikidataCon 2023 call for proposals is running until July 31st. If you have questions or need advice before sending a program proposal, join the program team during one of the office hour sessions (online or in Taiwan, in Chinese or in English). More information
  • Scholia has a new aspect dedicated to profiling WikiProjects, e.g. toolforge:scholia/wikiproject/Q56241615 for WikiProject Invasion biology. Using it revealed inconsistencies across WikiProjects in terms of which properties they use (and how) to associate a page with a WikiProject, as discussed here.
  • Introducing Wikibase World. The Wikibase registry has moved. Add an entry for your Wikibase if it's accessible over the open internet.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • first performance by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work)
      • record of (signal over time this object is a physical representation of)
      • orchestration (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement described using score notation)
      • type of document(s) held (used to specify the type of document(s) contained in an archival collection or documentation file)
    • External identifiers: French sports venue number, Challenges billionaire ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, mosff.ru player ID, Austadiums ID, Akadem organization ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia.com ID, QLIT ID, Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Kartvelologists of Georgia ID, Politique pappers identifier, altesdresden.de object ID, BFM.ru person ID, beachsoccer.com player ID, National Science Foundation award, BIBFRAME Hub ID, elibrary.ru article ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris work ID, Radiomuseum company ID, BSDB player ID, NBC Olympics athlete ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • elected on (Date when a person was elected to a {{P|P39}}, in difference to {{P|P580}} (= {{Q|Q28530236}}). {{P|P2715}} cannot always be applied.)
      • collage combines images (collage composed of images)
      • Nigerian registered company (RC) id (RC number (Registration Number), identifier assigned to a business by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Nigeria)
      • Cent cols (A property to link Wikidata entries to the dedicated pages of each pass by the Cent Cols)
      • Phonographic copyright (identifier for phonographic copyright)
    • External identifiers: myjewishitaly.it ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Lemmy community identifier, Mythoskop ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara settlement ID, LFG player ID, Flashpoint database ID, Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, Wikibase World identifier, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, National Library of Colombia authority ID, CNR ExploRA author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Subject areas of journals that have published papers about the replication crisis (by User:Zeromonk and User:MartinPoulter)
    • Count of games published in ROM format per platform per year, 1995-1997 (source)
    • Countries with similar populations
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Conflation aims to identify and untangle conflated items.
    • WikiProject Scotland's Accused Witches aims at producing structured data documenting witchhunts, and prosecuted Scotland's accused witches on Wikidata using the University of Edinburgh's landmark Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (1563 to 1736).

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We finished the GetProperty endpoint with fields filter and Conditional headers (phab:T338141, phab:T338138)
    • We started working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356), phab:T338383)
  • Ontology issue survey: We put together an overview of solutions for the various types of issues and will share them this week.
  • mul language code: We are continuing to work through the language fallback issues that were uncovered.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:00, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #584

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: koavf 3 Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates (Task/s: Using information from Crossref: 1 - Add publication date to items where they are not present in Wikidata 2 - Fix publication dates where they are erroneous)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 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.
    • LD4 conference (YouTube)
      • Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog- Tuesday, July 11, 2:30pm EST
      • Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas - Tuesday, July 11, 11:30am EST
      • Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) - Tuesday, July 11, 11am EST
      • WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration - Wednesday, July 12, 11:00 am - 11:30 am
      • Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
      • How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base Wednesday, July 12, 10:00 am - 10:30 am ET
  • Ongoing
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #100, Ants (Challenge started on 2023-07-10 12:01:24)
  • Past
    • Sailesh Patnaik presents Wikidata for Education at the July session of the Network of Open Orgs - YouTube
      • Wikidata Online Course - Cohort 1 graduation - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • A volunteer-based initiative is flourishing in Arabic Wikipedia: Reliability enhanced with +10k citations added
    • Wikidata Map in 2023
  • Videos
    • How to create a Wikidata Lexeme with ease - Beginner's Guide (in Twi and English) YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Duplicity is a tool on Toolforge that helps find articles on Wikipedia that do not have a Wikidata Item, and match them to an existing Item, or create a new one. (example for English Wikipedia)
  • HasProperty.js displays presence/absence of specific properties (configurable) after the Statements heading. Clicking a property name will jump to that properties section. For absent property, clicking property name will jump to the end of the page.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Overview of potential solutions regarding survey on ontology issues reusers are facing have been published. Are there important pieces missing? Is there something you disagree with? Generally sounds sensible? Do add your thoughts.
  • Wikidata development plan for Q3 has been updated. Wikidata:Development_plan

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, ComingSoon.it TV series ID, ComingSoon.it TV program ID, ‎parliament.bg MP ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, Flashpoint database ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • excavated by (person who has conducted an archaeological excavation of a historic site)
      • verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
      • Founder of ()
      • underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
      • timetable ()
    • External identifiers: Antenna Structure Registration Number, BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, Gameswelt ID, DigiListan artist ID, FSHF player ID, WWGR player ID, Threads username, ProQuest publication ID, Lift Up profile ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID
  • Query examples:
    • Week 26, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Portraits of queer men people
    • World Universities on Mastodon (source)

• Development
  • Ontology issues: We published the overview of solutions and are looking for input on them now.
  • mul language code: We continued work on it focusing on showing it in the right place in the desktop termbox (phab:T316767)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356, phab:T338383)
  • Vector 2022 skin: We continued work on improving the search display (phab:T327510)
  • WMF Governance wiki is now connected to Wikidata so can be linked to in the sitelink section under multilingual sites (phab:T321967)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:06, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #584

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Peuc bot 3 (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works)
    • MajavahBot (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from PyPI)

• Events
  • Upcoming: The 4th Wikidata Workshop. (Extended deadline)! Papers are due on Thursday, 27 July 2023
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #101, Archives (Challenge started on 2023-07-17 12:01:18
  • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase Q3 office hour session log: Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2023-07-12

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Issue 01: Who Builds The Internet?
    • Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema? in The Signpost, July 17, 2023
    • The humble guide to building an asset library
  • Papers
    • OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction
    • "Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata completion using Wikipedia" (browser extension to import information from Wikipedia, assisted by a DistilBERT-based ML model to predict Wikidata statements for instance and subclass)
    • A universal literary canon based on multilingual encyclopedic data: proposal for a measurement method of literary works using quantitative data obtained from Wikidata and Wikipedia
  • Videos
    • Live Q & A with Denny Vrandečić - on Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia and GenAi - YouTube
    • Constructing ethnic language links to open data? Status of Sediq usage on Wikidata (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • LD4 conference (YouTube)
      • Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog
      • Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas
      • Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
      • WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration
      • Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
      • How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Recent Changes API (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • autosuggest value (qualifier for P1963 that suggests which values should be autosuggested to the user that uses the property for items that are instances of the subject)
    • External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, ComingSoon.it TV series ID, ComingSoon.it TV program ID, ‎parliament.bg MP ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, Flashpoint database ID, Choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr organization ID, Gameswelt ID, Vélo'v station ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Alienor.org ID, Musées Occitanie ID, Trésors de Nice ID, Image Duplicator ID, CNR ExploRA author ID, ECLI court code, Romanian river code, ‎German University Collections person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
      • Founder of ()
      • underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
      • timetable ()
      • Canadian Archival Information Network authority record ()
    • External identifiers: BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, DigiListan artist ID, FSHF player ID, WWGR player ID, Threads username, ProQuest publication ID, Lift Up profile ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, FantLab translator ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, Acclaimed Music album ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, Friedländer ID, IMDb keyword
  • Query examples:
    • List of data journals at Wikidata (source)
    • Week 28, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Antiquity (aims to gather all contributors working in an aspect or another of Antiquity)
    • WikiProject Lodging (aims at creating, improving, and organizing Wikidata items related to lodging, such as hotels, motels, inns, guest houses and lodging-related topics)

• Development
  • Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (phab:T327510)
  • EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (phab:T339924)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
  • mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (phab:T340832)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:54, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #585

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Yahya (RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (successful) Welcome on board \o/

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Missed the initial office hour sessions for preparing a WikidataCon 2023 submission? Join the next sessions on 20th, 22nd, and 26th and bring all your questions. Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023#Office hours (available in both Mandarin and English)
    • Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on YouTube
  • Ongoing
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Abstract Wikipedia gains new support from The Rockefeller Foundation
    • Wikibase and reconciliation, by Adshore
    • Wikidata: why we contribute to the robot epistemology
  • Papers
    • Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Wikidata data set of the Sediq language (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - YouTube
    • WikiConference India 2023 - Linking Wikidata with Wikivoyage - YouTube
    • WikiConference India 2023 — Structured Data in Wikidata and Commons - YouTube
  • Dataviz
    • Wikicommunes (See also the thread on Mastodon)

• Tool of the week
  • Images near items - helps to find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can load a category tree of Commons images with coodrinates, and then find Wikidata items of a certain P31 with coordinates but without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs. (example link for UK red phone booths)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Update on the collaboration between Wikimedia Deutschland, Igbo Wikimedia Usergroup and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • median household income (median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country)
      • login URL (URL of a webpage used to log into a service)
      • registration page URL (URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service)
    • External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Threads username, Dutch word ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Top scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
    • External identifiers: BDFutbol referee ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, identifiant d'un défunt sur le site Dans nos cœurs, IbsenStage ID, TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bubble graph of the first letter of the word for "one" for languages where Wikidata has a Lexeme (source)
    • Searches for trying to replace broken Art UK external IDs (source)
    • People linked in the English Wikipedia page "List of current United States governors" (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Henrik Ibsen is a project for users interested in the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Q36661).
    • WikiProject Getty Library Wikidata Pilot - is a WikiProject in the Getty Library at the Getty Research Institute (part of the J. Paul Getty Trust) to create and enhance Wikidata items related to information in materials from the library’s Whitney and Lee Kaplan Collection of African American Visual Culture.

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when available (phab:T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (phab:T214885).
  • mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (phab:T340644)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (phab:T328149)
  • Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST API:
    • Retrieve all statements from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements
    • Retrieve a single statement from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id}
    • You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the existing /statements/{statement_id} endpoint

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat(WMDE) 15:41, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #587

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

• Discussions
  • Welcome to our new admin Yahya! (see the closed request)

• Events
  • The deadline for submitting your proposals for WikidataCon 2023 is July 31st (23:59) anywhere in the world. Submit your proposals at https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • An analysis of discussions in collaborative knowledge engineering through the lens of Wikidata, Elisavet Koutsiana et. al.

• Tool of the week
  • osm.js will add a link to the navigation for items that have a Wikidata mapping on the OSM side.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • median household income (median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country)
      • login URL (URL of a webpage used to log into a service)
      • registration page URL (URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service)
      • shortcode (string of text replaced by an emoji or other character on a platform (e.g. :heart_eyes:))
      • verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
    • External identifiers: Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, Spotlight PIN ID, myjewishitaly.it ID, Minerba One Data Indonesia ID, Wikibase World ID, Open Yearbook org id, ProQuest publication ID, Friedländer ID, FIGC player ID, hitparade.ch song ID, Theapolis theatre ID, IbsenStage ID, IMDb keyword
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Top scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
      • Project partner (property to list the partners of a project or an event, when different from the organizing body.)
    • External identifiers: TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID, BHL item ID, GamerProfiles Game ID, identifiant Pouët d'un groupe de démo, identifiant Pouët d'une démo, identifiant Pouët d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Kastelenlexicon ID, SEVIS school ID, Xiaohongshu User ID, Musée d'Arts de Nantes ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of people in the NZThesisProject with no assigned gender (source)
    • Cultural institutions having a Mastodon handle (source)
    • Maps of places in Rennes with an article on French Wikipedia, color-coded by number of pages on the Wikimedia Projects (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
      • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements (phab:T339356) (new route)
      • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id} (phab:T338383) (new route)
      • GET /statements/{statement_id} (now supports statements on Properties)
    • We started work on a new route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)
  • EntitySchemas:
    • We worked on improving the termbox (the table of labels, descriptions and aliases) on EntitySchema pages to bring it more in line with the one on Items and Properties
    • We made sure that EntitySchemas are shown by their label instead of ID when available in Recent Changes and similar lists (phab:T339924)
  • Mismatch Finder: We added a language selector so you can switch the interface language (phab:T328149)
  • mul language code: We are working on showing more labels from fallback languags in the termbox (phab:T340832, phab:T338330)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:44, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #588

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Submit your proposal for GLAM Wiki Conference 2023. Deadline has been extended to August 20, 23:59 anywhere in the world.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog: Creating Interactive Map Visualizations of Settlements with Wikidata and Python
  • Videos: Wiki Workshop 2023 recording YouTube playlist

• Tool of the week
  • WikiShootMe expanded to make it possible to find the Items close to pictures you took so you can upload and add them to them (source)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template:Synia is a new template which makes it easy to create links to Synia from Wikidata. Template:Synia+ guesses the relevant configuration pages for each entity depending on the values of P31 and P106.
  • Wikifunctions, Wikidata's newest sibling project, had a soft launch. Welcome to the Wikimedia wikiverse, functioneers!
  • The ORES service will be decommissioned and replaced by Lift Wing. If you have a tool that relies on ORES scores to judge edits or the quality of an Item please read the migration announcement. We are collecting affected community tools in phab:T343419.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National Union of Composers of Ukraine person ID, Encyclopaedia Islamica ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Virksomme ord ID, ‎Swetrails route ID, European Bridge League ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, IMVDb artist numeric ID, Team France athlete ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • disinherited (someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of [[Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary]])
      • conference schedule (Conference schedule in Pentabarf XML format)
      • state of transmission
    • External identifiers: Works Diamond Catalogue ID, Editions Diamond Catalogue ID, NFSA ID, Identifiant Médiathèque Numérique CVS, DCB Number, wadoku id, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Mémoire déposé sur DUMAS, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, BG EGN, Google Scholar Organization ID, fiba.basketball player ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query example: Entry dates and discovery dates of the objects of the museum of Brittany (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas:
    • We continued the work on giving them the same termbox as Items and Properties (phab:T324235)
    • We finished the work on showing the labels for EntitySchemas in Recent changes, All Pages, Watchlist and edit summaries (phab:T339924, phab:T339921, phab:T339925, phab:T343231)
    • We added missing messages related to IP editing and license notes (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on the route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:05, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #589

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • MangadexBot (Task: add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID)
    • WingUCTBOT (Task: Batch Upload of Niger-Congo B Lexemes, including Senses and Forms)
  • New request for comments: Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks (Regarding the need to block IPv6 addresses and networks by a minimum /64 range )

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikimania 2023 (16–19 August, Singapore and Online) program is out: wikimania:2023:Program
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 18, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
  • Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #104, Police

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe
    • Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux
    • The Power of Shared Value Partnership: CIS-A2K & ACPR- GLAM Project
    • Blog planets: blogging about Debian, GNOME, Wikimedia, FSFE, and many more
  • Papers
    • Semantification of CEUR-WS with Wikidata as a target Knowledge Graph
    • The World Literature Knowledge Graph
    • Building a French Revolution Narrative from Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Adding Wikidata To Openstreetmap
    • Recording mass paths on Wikimedia and Wikidata
    • FOSS4G 2023 - Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Edward Betts
    • SPARQLE session - Sport, rugby and units - Nicolas VIGNERON
    • Virtual Inauguration: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course for Cohort 2
    • Live Wikidata editing (in Italian)
    • KGC 2023 Masterclass: Wikibase and Question-Answering by The QA Company's CEO, Dennis Diefenbach
  • Notebooks
    • SEmantic Graphs (SEG) - Cautiously nudging RDF towards more expressivity (paper)
    • Movie settings and population (What is the relation between how big a city is and how many movies are set in that city?)
    • Wikidata study day
    • SPARQL Queries for Cross-referencing and Data Cleanup
  • Presentations: Chemistry in Wikidata visualized with Scholia, Egon Willighagen et al.

• Tool of the week
  • Everything is connected - is a knowledge-based puzzle game where players must fit square pieces representing entities in the world together based on their known connections.
  • WMF is moving from ORES to Lift Wing, an open-source machine learning infrastructure. Your input is vital to train the model for more accurate bad edits detection on Wikidata. Join us in enhancing edits detection by using the Annotation tool: https://annotool.toolforge.org/

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Danny Benjafield and Ifeatu Nnaobi are joining the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • wikifunctions.org is gradually rolling out (with caveats)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Tolkien Gateway ID, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, FSHF player ID, Mandarin-Cantonese Comparative Study ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara place ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, GSAFD ID, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Nantes Museum of Arts ID, Mythoskop ID, Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Steam Deck compatibility rating (official rating used to determine which games, as a result of the review process, are compatible with Steam Deck and which are not)
      • name version for other gender (use for when names that are not given name or surnames are gendered (since those two have their own properties), would also be helpful for many noble titles and honorifics as well as affixes)
      • Curator of (has curated a collection or (art) exhibition)
      • Philippine middle name ()
    • External identifiers: Rumble channel, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web), archINFORM Awards ID, RCS number, NFDI4Culture ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Steam curator ID, Футзал.рус player ID, alyga.lt player ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Höhlenkataster ID (Österreich), Sitios ID, FNAC ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of places located in Rennes with an article on the French Wikipedia (and colored according to the number of pages in all Wikimedia projects)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weapon types, and primary colors (source)
    • Number of albums in Wikidata by year of release (source)
    • Objects in Dresden with significant event (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Svenska Grillplatser (WikiProject Swedish Grill Places) - The idea is to see what Wikidata and OSM can contribute when it comes to barbecue sites and connections to municipalities, grillplatser.nu, naturkartan.
    • WikiProject Nollywood - This is a WikiProject for adding and enhancing items in Wikidata for Nollywood (Nigerian films) held as VHS at the Northwestern University Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. These films were primarily produced and collected from 1990-2000. Items will be added with information from the catalog record (MARC).

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding and replacing statements on Properties (phab:T339363, phab:T340006)
  • EntitySchemas:
    • We continued working on making the mobile termbox from Items and Properties work on EntitySchemas
    • We fixed a missing warning for non-logged-in editors and license note (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
  • IP Masking: We are investigating what implications the upcoming IP Masking changes in MediaWiki have for Wikibase (phab:T328454)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 11:27, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #590

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)

• Events
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #106, Sleep
  • Past:
    • Wikimania happened over the weekend. You can find a playlist of the events on YouTube here
    • Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #105, Wikimania Singapore

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Celebrating the 2023 Wikimedian of the Year Winners. Congratulations Tofeiku and Siobhan Leachman for your dedication to Wikidata \o/
  • Videos
    • Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap (relation (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Promoting GLAM Institution in Indonesia through OSM-Wikidata Mapping - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Psychiq, a Distributed Wikidata Game system, suggests statements to add to Items based on Wikipedia English articles content.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • appears before phonological feature (this lexeme form appears only when another lexeme form with this phonological feature comes after it)
      • appears after phonological feature (this lexeme form appears only when it comes after another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
      • appears before lexeme form (this lexeme form appears only when this other specific lexeme form comes after it)
      • appears after lexeme form (this lexeme form appears only when it comes after this other specific lexeme form)
      • Gottstein code (code representing a variant of the cuneiform sign according to the Gottstein system)
      • tournament type (significance or status of a sports competition for a league, tour, association, etc.)
    • External identifiers: Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, UMLS Semantic Network ID, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, Moroccan geographic code (2015), BHL item ID, TVING ID, Google Scholar organization ID, Rumble channel, GSA player ID, Roku Channel Store ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Antenna Structure Registration Number, Korean Tour player ID, Kastelenlexicon ID, NFDI4Culture ID, Pouët group ID, Pouët group member ID, Pouët demo ID, Steam curator ID, Podbay ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, Diamond Catalogue work ID, Diamond Catalogue edition ID, Frankfurt University Library Digital Collection ID, Nurnet ID, DUMAS thesis ID, Syok podcast ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • patron deity ()
      • WHO Aware Classification (The World Health Organization currently classifies 258 antibiotics into "Access", "Watch", and "Reserve" based partly on the risk of resistance developing as a result of such use and critical nature of the antibiotic in question.)
      • nombre de niveaux (number of levels in a video game or number of stages in a particular sport)
      • URL du plan du jeu vidéo (URL of the video game detailed map in subject provided by the site CPC-Power)
      • Positioning (A list of all the satellite navigation system (ex. GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS, NavIC etc. ) a mobile device, or a smartphone supports. [https://w.wiki/7HE9 List of all the Satellite Navigation System].)
      • place on the route (object, station, facility, city, natural formation or other place on a road, track, route, line, watercourse, utility line or other linear route)
      • simule (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
    • External identifiers: ANPI person ID (2), J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, ID ve Slovníku české literatury po roce 1945, Vazhaju Word ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, Visiongame.cz game ID, Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges Numeric ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Anikore anime ID, wiki.gg wiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • Count of items with an article on fr.wikivoyage.org by country (source)
    • Count of items with an article on fr.wikiquote.org by instance of (source)
    • Count of items that have X amount of statements. A simple showcase of Blazegraph optimizations.
    • Week 33, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We investigated ways to help you search for EntitySchemas by their Labels, Aliases and Descriptions (phab:T341969)
  • Mismatch Finder: We have added the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
  • Improved language fallback: We are testing to clearly show the fallback Label in the placeholders for empty Labels (phab:T338330, phab:T340832)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 14:55, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #591

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)

• Events
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #107, Teeth (Challenge started on 2023-08-28 12:01:31)
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 28, 2023. We will cover adding the articles from our bibliography of diverse LIS resources that we created in our last session to Wikidata! We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements. To get a sneak preview of what we will be doing, you can learn more about the Wikidata & Zotero link here: Wikidata:Zotero. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Keynote about Wikidata for the Chinese Confernence on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing 2023, by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
    • How to fill an Infobox on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Wikipedia For Beginners - YouTube
    • The impact of Wikidata-powered inboxes on minority and low-resourced language Wikipedias in Africa (Wikimania 2023) - YouTube
    • How to create item in Wikidata about a village (in Malayalam) - YouTube
    • Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap relation (in Guarani) - YouTube
    • WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikitrivia is a web-based game that challenges your knowledge of historical events, people, and places. The game is a combination of Sudoku and Scrabble, and all the data used in the game is sourced from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The objective of the game is to place the cards on the timeline in the correct order.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Biyanto Rebin is joining the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland for 2.5 months as an intern. Welcome!
  • Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! Project submission deadline - September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC.
  • Postdoctoral researcher (position) in NLP, Digital Humanities, and Semantic Web (0.8 FTE), University of Groningen

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • has heir or beneficiary (people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title)
    • External identifiers: Austrian Cave Register ID, ‎research.com ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, wiki.gg article ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, ‎Visiongame.cz game ID, ‎Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, wiki.gg wiki ID, Audio+ show ID, Cent cols ID, Lift Up profile ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Dictionary of Czech literature after 1945 ID, ‎Biographical Directory of Federal Judges numeric ID, GamerProfiles game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • simule (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
      • sexe ou genre du protagoniste (regarding the work in question, For human: male, female, non-binary, intersex, transgender female, transgender male, agender. For animal: male organism, female organism. Groups of same gender use subclass of (P279))
      • unofficial name (name which is widely or rarely used, but not official (for nicknames use P1449, for pseudonymes P742))
    • External identifiers: VocalEyes Heritage Access 2022, WikiChip article ID, identifiant Demozoo d'une démo, identifiant Demozoo d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Czech geological location ID, Moviefone person ID, Moviefone movie ID, Les Petits M'O ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Minerals.net mineral ID, Minerals.net gemstone ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of birthplaces of German women writers (source)
    • Week 34, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Where were people who went to space born? (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Research expeditions - documents the activities of an international working group on Research expeditions.

• Development
  • We started looking at ways to make the Mismatch Finder more powerful and capture more mismatches.
  • We updated bootstrap-table library on Wikidata Query Service (phab:T328281)
  • We fixed Lexeme header overlaps page toolbar in Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
  • We fixed lookup component scrollbar problem (phab:T325822)
  • We added telnet as a valid protocol for URL data types (phab:T344417)
  • We added language fallback support for EntitySchemas on Special pages (phab:T338798)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 15:01, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #592

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: FlyingAce (RfP scheduled to end after 8 September 2023 23:32 UTC)
  • New request for comments: Must 'Serious' WikiData sources be selective? (The disagreement regards the interpretation of WD:N rule number two, which states an item is acceptable if: "It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.")

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 6, 2023. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
    • Registration for 2nd edition of Wikidata MOOC is scheduled for Saturday September 23. [[https://actualitte.com/article/113238/ressources/wikimedia-2e-edition-du-mooc-wikidata. Link (in French)
    • Wikidata Days 2023, 28-30* Sept. '23 | 10h00-18h00 | Auditorium and Training Room. Registration (in Portuguess)
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #108, Roof (Challenge started on 2023-09-04 12:01:27)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikipedia Will Survive A.I. (including comments from Selena Deckelmann (WMF) and User:Jsamwrites)
    • Wikidata query service Blazegraph JNL file on Cloudflare R2 and Internet Archive
    • Improving equity on Wikipedia using Wikidata
  • Papers
    • Wikidata Research Articles Dataset
    • Handling Wikidata Qualifiers in Reasoning
    • Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives
    • SemOpenAlex: The Scientific Landscape in 26 Billion RDF Triples
  • Videos
    • #SPARQL #Wikidata: first name, occupation and Academy, by VIGNERON - YouTube (in French)
  • Newsletters
    • Wikidata and the epistemology of robots in RAW ((in French)
    • Explore Wikidata differently with Synia in RAW (in French)

• Tool of the week
  • User:Sanqui/referenceurl.js - is a userscript that adds a button to add a reference which immediately suggests reference URL (P854).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d). For our Team Wikidata, based in Berlin, we are looking for a permanent Software Engineer (m/f/d), full-time or part-time (min. 32h/week), as soon as possible.
  • Wikidata's eleventh birthday is around the corner! One of our traditions is to prepare birthday presents to the community. Now is a great time to start preparing yours!
  • Developer account signup from Wikitech removed. Now directing new users towards https://idm.wikimedia.org instead.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • has heir or beneficiary (people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title)
      • towing capacity (the maximum sustainable force with which this vehicle can pull or push another object. Alternatively for road- or track-vehicles, the maximum weight of an object on wheels that this vehicle can reliably and safely pull given usual slopes)
      • learning outcome (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program)
      • tribe (recognised membership in a society, mainly denoted by shared cultural heritage; for ethnicity use P172)
    • External identifiers: ANPI person ID, Anikore anime ID, Substack profile ID, Artmajeur artist ID, FantLab translator ID, ‎wadoku ID, identifier in a register in Germany, Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • when used with property (when used with property)
      • Wikimedia Commons campaign (name of a Wikimedia Commons campaign)
      • near (for geo-objects which are located ''near'' some other geo-object)
    • External identifiers: animecons.com event id, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, BioGRID Publication, iNaturalist user ID, MyShows, NHK News topic ID, Museoitalia ID, DBpia author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Old Greek personalities with entries in Prosopographia attica (source)
    • Largest heist by damage (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We added language fallbacks to the statements linking to EntitySchemas (phab:T338797)
  • We fixed the issue with overlapping Lexeme headers in the Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on PATCHing for statements on Properties (phab:T342238)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 13:52, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #593

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

• Events
  • First Wikibase Lexical Data Workshop (wikibase-lex). September 13, 14:00 to 18:00, at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna.
  • German-speaking Wikipedia community meets in Linz (in German). September 29 - October 1, 2023.
  • OpenRefine for beginners (in German). October 25-26, 2023.
  • The second Mini Hackathon at Wikimedia Nederland, for experienced Wikimedians, will take place on Saturday, November 4. There is room for 30 participants; you can apply here.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Starting fresh: the Wikibase REST API
  • Press
    • Pamitouch Foundation pilots TTAG Goes Digital initiative at Accra College of Education. The Open Foundation West Africa provided an introduction to Wikipedia and its sister tools. The teacher trainees were guided on topics such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wikiversity.
  • Papers
    • Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years - Daria Tisch and Emma Ischinsky
    • Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data Labor, and Truth in a More-Than-Technical Project - Heather Ford and Andrew Iliadis
    • KGConv, a Conversational Corpus grounded in Wikidata - Quentin Brabant, Gwenole Lecorve, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, and Claire Gardent
  • Videos
    • Interoperability among the digital repository Tainacan and the information networks Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: A case study of FILE ARCHIVE - Paula Perissinotto & Dalton Martins
    • Link data from local index to Wikidata - Josef Moravec, Moravian Library in Brno
    • Improving knowledge dissemination with Wikidata: potentialities of structured data in hearing health - Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos

• Tool of the week
  • Peppercat is a website listing government ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking data from Wikidata. More information

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Open call: train-the-trainer course for candidate OpenRefine-Wikimedia trainers, with a focus on (structured data on) Wikimedia Commons. More info and application form here. Application deadline is September 15.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • state of transmission (state of transmission of a work (as a concept, not as a physical item; for that, use P5816))
      • describes actor of (predicate sense whose actor (an agent or a cause—basically the instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense)
      • describes undergoer of (predicate sense whose undergoer (a patient, a theme, or a recipient—basically a non-instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense)
    • External identifiers: Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID, ‎animecons.com event ID, Museo Italia ID, Dans nos cœurs ID, WWGR player ID, futzal.rus player ID, iNaturalist user ID, alyga.lt player ID, UETK ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, SEVIS school ID, WikiChip article ID, Mageia package ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Red List of South African Plants conservation status (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the [[w:South African National Biodiversity Institute]])
      • Educational level (school level in which the subject of the item is taught)
      • FragDenStaat tag (tag in FragDenStaat.de)
      • Plate (the plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
    • External identifiers: Fansly ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, BookBrainz series ID, BookBrainz edition ID, ManyVids ID, LoverFans ID, IGI Global affiliate ID, Aparat channel ID, Pandit Project work ID, RKDexcerpts
  • Query examples:
    • Territories claimed by irredentism
    • Map of tram stop all over the world (source)
    • Map of public archives in Germany (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Patagonian Archaeology - The project works on the creation and improvement of items on Patagonian Archaeology in Wikidata (archeology of the argentine patagonian coast).
    • WikiProject Archive of National Debt Redemption Movement - The purpose of this project is to promote the use of records related to the National Debt Repayment Movement (국채보상운동) by integrating data from the National Debt Repayment Movement digital archive into Wikidata.

• Development
  • Machine learning: We are migrating some tools that currently use ORES to the new Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work around the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements
  • Query Builder: We fixed some issues in the Query Builder language selector (phab:T344231)
  • We’re making the warning for anonymous editors more useful by letting them return to the page they came from after logging in (phab:T330550); we’re also working on showing those warnings in the first place in WikibaseLexeme (phab:T343979)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on the ability to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and get the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:23, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #594

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-09-18.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, FlyingAce! (see the closed request)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 4 (Task: Import commune of France contact data from french official directory, french official directory
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: JoRobot 8 (Task: Removing good list badge from articles in the Catalan Wikipedia)

• Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 15, 2023. We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements.More information on the event page

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Paper: Documenting Biodiversity in Underrepresented Languages using Crowdsourcing - Mohammed Kamal-Deen Dnshitobu Fuseini, Agnes Ajuma Abah, Andra Waagmeester
  • Press: Statement by Alliance F5 on the German Government's data strategy (in German)
  • Videos
    • List of free software in le socle interministériel de logiciels libres (SILL/the interministerial base of free software) recommended by the French Government in Wikidata - Nicolas Vigneron
    • Georeferencing using OSM and Wikidata - Oficina Wiki Apoia
    • Members of Riksdag (Sweden's parlement) - Magnus Sälgö
    • Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments with Content Partnerships Hub - Wikimedia Sweden
    • From self-documentation to federated querying using Wikibase: a new topology to Media Art Archiving? - Raphael Tsz Kin Chau

• Tool of the week
  • LowercaseDescription.js is a script that adds a link to automatically lower the first letter of an item's description in the user's language.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now browse all the Wikibase instances hosted on Wikibase.Cloud: https://www.wikibase.cloud/discovery
  • Wikibase resources, a collection of resources, overviews, links and knowlegde related to Wikibase, collected and curated by KB, national library of the Netherlands

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: RBC person ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Médiathèque Numérique CVS ID, MyShows show ID, NHK News topic ID, ‎Sitios ID, Xiaohongshu user ID, Fansly ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • chronological designation (as a typical instance, the stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
      • Flora of New Jersey Project atlas URL (URL for a plant species in the Flora of New Jersey Project atlas)
    • External identifiers: British Pathé ID, ProductReview ID, BISAC Subject Heading, EDItEUR Thema id, ONIX Subject Scheme id, MiMoText ID, ADVN ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, Diktyon, Codeberg username, RAWG tag ID, National Library of Albania ID, DfE Group UID, AARoads Wiki article ID, Armasanicana person ID, FloraVeg.EU species ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID
  • Query examples:
    • Google Scholar Organization IDs to Wikidata (source)
    • Power stations of this world (source)
    • Usage state of the nuclear power plant (source)

• Development
  • We are planning the migration of some of our existing components from the Wikit to the Codex design system in Query Builder, Mismatch Finder and the Special:NewLexeme page.
  • Warnings about not being logged-in will now have a returnto= parameter attached to their links, so that you can don’t use your flow from logging in (phab:T330550)
  • We fixed an issue with the LanguageSwitcher in Query Builder where it would open out of the viewport on some tablet screen widths (phab:T344231)
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on making it possible to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and getting the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:04, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #595

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: AytekUstundag-RoyalMapperBot (Task: Add missing historical figures from royalmapper database)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • WikidataCon 2023, the conference dedicated to the Wikidata community, is taking place on October 28-29, online all around the world and onsite in Taipei. You can now register for the conference.
    • WikiIndaba 2023 Microgrants available for community events!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 29. This event is part of a series where you can gain hands-on experience with Wikidata by working on a diverse library and information science (LIS) dataset. In this fourth session, we'll introduce the Wikimedia PAWS environment for data gathering and processing in your Wikidata projects. We'll focus on web scraping for article data using Python and the Beautiful Soup package for parsing. You'll learn about data models for making your data accessible to both machines and humans. This session will be recorded and shared on the event page. Event page.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Mass-importing games from Steam into Wikidata by User:Nicereddy
  • Papers
    • Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to Support Life on a Sustainable Planet (A Wikimedia Projects White Paper from the Biodiversity Heritage Library). Jacqueline J. Dearborn
    • "Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives" Numerical perspectives help people understand extreme and unfamiliar numbers. (Cao et al, 2023)
    • Response to Marcin Roszkowski 2023: Modelling doctoral dissertations in Wikidata knowledge graph: Selected issues. Tamsin L. Braisher
  • Press
    • They call it the Barassi Line, defining our footy codes - how fitting that seems today - The Barassi Line has been a focus of my research and has recently been plotted and visualised by Brett Tweedie as part of his Wikidata fellowship.
  • Videos
    • The mess with Wikidata death location and the instance of a location - salgo60
    • Developing a linked data workflow using Wikidata - Will Kent
    • Entity linking historical document OCR by combining Wikidata and Wikipedia - Kai Labusch
    • From EAD to MARC to Wikidata and back again - Crystal Yragui, Adam Schiff
    • Adventures in Korean Wikidata - Margaret Donald
    • Getting started on Wikidata - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
    • Wiki(su)data #2: Wikidata live editing in Italian - Wikidata in italiano
    • Wikibase as an institutional repository authority file - Michael Lindsey

• Tool of the week
  • User:Luca.favorido/linkypop.js is a script that can be used to search an identifier on an external site. It provides a button to search for an identifier as soon as you type it in the property input field. For example, if you type “ORCID”, an icon with a lens will appear, and when you click it, a new tab will open with the ORCID site looking for the name of the researcher. You can then copy the URL and paste it to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Want to play a game? Wikidata:Games has some Wikidata-related ones for you.
  • Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC - Project submission deadline.
  • Citation.js Toolforge is a service to export citations from Wikidata items in various formats (BibTeX, RIS) and various citations formats (Vancouver, APA, etc)
  • As a next step in the deprecation process of ORES the WMF Machine Learning team will switch the backend of ores.wikimedia.org to ores-legacy so users that have not yet migrated to Lift Wing will be transparently migrated. This change is planned to take place on Monday 25th of September.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech (d/f/m)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • type of musical notation (system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition)
      • ‎chronological designation (stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: source cited in support of a particular statement may not be the same as the publication date or volume)
    • External identifiers: J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, Diktyon ID, RAWG tag ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Demo (video game or software that this trial version is based on)
      • ETCS level (ETCS level of implementation)
      • adoption variant (variant of this loanword with the same origin)
      • Temaportalen ID ()
    • External identifiers: Metacritic game ID, BAN ID, handlingar.se ID, identifiant Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, South African NPO number
  • Query examples:
    • Subclass of blogger (source)
    • List of taxon name as first having been described by Dennis P. Gordon (source)
    • Gallery of wood cuts made before 1600, including file description and the link to the Wikimedia Commons file (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 38, 2023) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Chopin Thematic Catalog Concordance - an effort by members of the Music Library Association (MLA) Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) to create and enhance Wikidata items for Frédéric Chopin's musical works.
    • WikiProject Museum AI projects - aims to map AI projects (including events, datasets) from museums into Wikidata and create a data model for it.

• Development
  • Lexemes: We are fixing an issue that made edit links and styles disappear (phab:T344362)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • We made improvements to the store part of the tool (phab:T335864) and fixed small issues (phab:T344336,, phab:T343344)
    • We worked on making it possible to upload mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)
  • We are continuing to migrate tools from ORES to Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
  • We've added Wikifunktions as a new wiki for sitelinks (phab:T342857)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get labels, descriptions and aliases from a Property as well as modify the description of an Item

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:57, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #596

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Saroj (RfP scheduled to end after 8 October 2023 12:01 (UTC))
  • New request for comments: MotoGP riders' links (Update the broken links of MotoGP racer ID (P3928))

• Events
  • November 7, 2023, Hannover, Germany - WikiRemembrance: researching and remembering National Socialism - Wikipedia and Wikidata's role in documenting memorial sites.
  • January 12 - 14, 2024, Berlin, Germany (and online) - CFP: Provenance Loves Wiki - A workshop on art history, art science and provenance research in Wikidata/Wikipedia & Wikibase

Ongoing

• • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)

This Week

• • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 3, 2023: Lars Willighagen will discuss on citation.js.org, Wikidata, and plans for more linked data. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The State of Wikimedia Research 2022 - 2023
  • Papers
    • Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Wikidata Case Study - Zhang et al, 2023
    • Chain-of-Verification reduces hallucination in Large Language Models across a variety of tasks, including list-based questions from Wikidata - Dhuliawala et al, 2023
  • Videos
    • Intro about WikiPathways< showing bits of Wikidata and Scholia
    • Wikidata for Better Health (in French) - Houcemeddine Turki, Faculty of Sciences SFAX < closing session of "Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning"
  • Notebooks
    • Implementing a parser for a sample Wiki article
    • Artist selection (in French)

• Tool of the week
  • Swiss Archives is an interactive overview map of the Swiss archives present in Wikidata have corresponding Wikipedia articles and in which language (FR, DE, IT), allowing interested Wikimedians to know where they can contribute or expand. - Michael Gasser (X post)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WikidataCon 2023: first version of the program is out - find out more about the format, registration and scheduled program.
  • The Search Platform / Query Service Team monthly Open Meeting is coming up. Got any Wikidata Query Service questions? Feel free to join!
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is still looking for an Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • demo of (video game or software that this trial version is based on)
    • External identifiers: ‎Codeberg username, ADVN ID, ‎MiMoText ID, BookBrainz series ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, ‎National Library of Albania ID, AARoads Wiki article ID, BAN ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • self-identified name (the name used by an ethnic group to refer to itself)
      • non-self-identified name (name used to identify an ethnic group against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts)
      • exception to constraint (lexeme) (lexeme that is an exception to the constraint, qualifier to define a property constraint in combination with P2302)
    • External identifiers: Metacritic numeric game ID, DBIL ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Gematsu game ID, Matilda paper ID, Basketball Bundesliga Teams UUID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, Pinakes IDs, WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most frequent birth places for PTBNP authors (source)
    • University's museum in France (source)
    • 52,153 French words which have both masculine and feminine forms (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject African Literary Metadata - a project dedicated to create and improve Wikidata's coverage of African informal literatures.
    • WikiProject GLAM-BW - a project to connect major collections held by museums in Baden-Württemberg by uploading information on collectors, former collection locations, collecting histories, and objects

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We are finalizing the work on getting the labels, descriptions and aliases of a Property.
    • We are finishing work on modifying the descriptions of an Item.
  • You can now add sitelinks to Wikifunctions (phab:T342857)
  • We dug into what the upcoming IP-masking changes mean for the Wikidata-related extensions and where code changes are needed
  • Lexicographical data:
    • We improved the “required” marker on Special:NewLexeme, hopefully making its meaning clearer (phab:T322683)
    • If you are not logged-in, you’ll also get the yellow warning when editing Lexeme’s Lemmas, Forms, and Senses (phab:T343979)
  • We added the tlh-latn and tlh-piqd codes for monolingual text, so that now you can add the titles to Shakepear’s works in the original Klingon (phab:T286239)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Failed uploads now no longer offer to download review results (phab:T335864)
    • We are working on the ability to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)
    • The Mismatch Finder will show a clarifying message when Java Script is disabled (phab:T343344)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:08, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #597

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Saroj! (see the closed request)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Tildebot (Task: Upload about 16,000 AARoads Wiki article ID statements based on reconciliation in OpenRefine)
    • GamerProfilesBot (Task: Regularly update existing video games with the GamerProfiles game ID sourced from GamerProfiles.com)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 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.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 13, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The fifth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover manually adding authors and publishers from our bibliography into Wikidata. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
    • Wikidata's 11th birthday is around the corner, on October 29th! Discover how you can prepare and present a gift to the community and organize a local birthday celebration.
    • New round open HDI course on Knowledge Graphs. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Sign up enrol here.
    • Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. An online event dedicated to our data modelling challenges. You can already submit a session or ideas.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #112, Dogs (Challenge started on 2023-10-09 12:01:19)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Connecting They Work For You to Wikidata by Chris Hanretty
    • Public sculpture photo trail: documenting Auckland sculptures in Wikidata; Aotearoa's Wikimedia Laureate by Prosperosity & Giantflightlessbirds
    • These are the top 10 most famous musicians of all time, according to MIT, by Hannah Murdock
    • COVID-19 Wikipedia pageview spikes, 2019-2022 < Wikipedia pageviews spikes using Wikidata as a source for determining page titles for topics across languages. By Addshore
  • Papers
    • Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization by Jonathan Gabel Christiansen, Mathias Lykke Gammelgaard, and Anders Søgaard
  • Press
    • Is AI lying to us? These researchers built an LLM lie detector of sorts to find out - Tiernan Ray, ZDNET ("Step one is to come up with a list of over 20,000 questions and known answers, drawn from sources such as Wikidata, for which the large language model, in this case, OpenAI's GPT-3.5, can be reliably expected to provide the correct answer.")
  • Videos
    • Graphic Possibilities 50 States of Comics Wikidata Tutorial < discusses data modeling, notability, cultural importance of Comic books and how to add them to Wikidata. By Kate Topham
    • Linking cultural heritage data in practice < discusses interlinking diverse museum data between Sweden’s National Museum and National Historical Museums and Wikidata.
    • Data Scraping, Gathering & Annotation (in Ukrainian VO, English text) < lecture on data gathering, Wikidata, SPARQL and structured data from Ukrainian Catholic University
    • Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) < adding a link in Wikidata between work and the edition, and beyond.
    • Proposal and creation of properties (in French) by VIGNERON < Exploring the property creation process on Wikidata.
    • Wikidata: first pragmatic approach - Ismael Olea - OpenSouthCode 2023 < an introduction to Wikidata - the objective of this talk is for the public to leave amazed and addicted to Wikidata.

• Tool of the week
  • https://aletheiafact.org <- is a new fact-checking website using Wikidata for people/concept identification. The website allows users to contribute to fact-checking claims made by public figures, such as politicians, celebrities, and influencers.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: BAN ID, Metacritic game ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, ‎Gematsu game ID, Encyclociné ID, DBIL ID, Pinakes country ID, Pinakes city ID, Pinakes institution ID, Pinakes fonds ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux object ID, Aparat channel ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • self-identified name (the name by which a group of humans refers to itself)
      • non-self-identified name (name used to identify a group of humans against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts)
      • fonds ()
    • External identifiers: WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID, SBL player ID, identificador Qué series ver, Steam Workshop file ID, Find my School ID, Fichier des ecclésiastiques ID, Walmart product ID, Open Library publisher ID, kihondōshi handbook ID, OzBargain tag, OzBargain brand, ELSST Thesaurus ID, Gematsu company ID, Valve Developer Community article ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, Illinois State Parks ID, Flixy.dk emne ID
  • Query examples:
    • Accused witches in Scotland accused of shapeshifting(source)
    • Argentinian national team football players that participating in 3 matches or bellow (source)
    • List of people who are in Art Looting Investigation Unit red flag list (source)
    • Main Subject bubble chart of Articles in Journals with AJOL ID, published in Ghana, about diseases (source: @espejolento)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We worked on the new routes for PATCHing Property and Item aliases as well as PUTing Property labels and descriptions (phab:T342982, phab:T337371, phab:T337371, phab:T348150)
  • We are continuing to work on fixing an issue with Lexeme pages missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
  • We’re adding some missing license notes to some javascript UI interfaces (phab:343998, phab:T343999)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on supporting mismatches for data that is stored in qualifiers (phab:T313467)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 16:33, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #598

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 17, 2023: Our scheduled speaker had to unexpectedly cancel, so please join us to transfer group call notes from the Google Drive to the wiki project page (see instructions link in agenda document!) Agenda
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 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.
    • WikidataCon 2023 on October 28-29: don't forget to register for the online or the onsite event! You can also check the program, prepare a present for the Wikidata birthday, and join or organize a satellite event with your local community.
    • Wikidata Day NYC '23 Join fellow Wikidata-enthusiasts on October 29th at the Butler Library, 114th Street West, NYC for a free Wikidata-celebration with a selection of engaging workshops and presentations to attend.
    • State of the Map EU 2023 has a session on OSM-Wikidata Map Framework on Sunday, 12th Nov., taking place in Antwerp, Belgium.
    • Wikidata Days: WM-Peru (in Spanish) attend a 2-day event, with sessions devoted to Wikidata, OpenRefine, QuickStatements and SPARQL.
    • Wikimedia Chile: Wikidata Training Course Staying in South America, Chilean and all Spanish-speakers can attend a 4-day Course and earn a participation Certificate. Online event - 17 to 20th October.
    • Igbo Wikimedians User Group invites you to a Wikidata event tagged "One Item, One Image". October 17th at 5pm WAT on Google Meet.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #113: Apple (Challenge started on 2023-10-16 12:01:41)
  • Past Week:
    • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #112: Dogs has ended. Did you contribute?
    • Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies International Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata by Vogel & Binnig.
  • Press: Indexing news with AI via BroadCast Pro ME ("We are able to create a rich multilingual archive, leveraging translations based on the Wikidata knowledge graph.")
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Properties: Proposal & Creation (in French), by Nicolas VIGNERON.
    • Drag'n'Drop Gadget <-- This handy gadget allows you to click and drag information from a Wikipedia article and add it to a Wikidata-item as a Statement. By Magnus Sälgö.
    • Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) <-- a comprehensive guide through linking Wikisource entries to their Wikidata-items.
    • Introduction & Overview of Wikidata (in Spanish), by Ismail Olea.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #110 <-- Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what we are doing and why we do it.
  • Notebooks
    • Analysis of Wikidata reconciliation results (in French)
    • What's nearby, Wikidata? will generate a list of nearby places that have a Wikipedia article close to your current location.
  • Reports: Report on the Biodiversity Information Standards Conference 2023 (TDWG2023) by Ambrosia10

• Tool of the week
  • Map Kerala (https://wikiproject-kerala.github.io/Panchayat/) uses Wikidata to distinguish Panchayats of Kerala at a glance based on three distinct identifier codes (LGD code, LSG code, SEC code).
  • User:Nikki/ChecksumCheck.js <-- This script displays a symbol after external identifiers which contain checksums, to indicate whether the checksum in the identifier is correct. Currently only supporting a small number of Identifiers.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • ‎WHO Aware Classification (antibiotic classification according to the World Health Organization)
      • ‎self-identified name (name by which a group of humans refers to itself (endonym))
      • non-self-identified name (name used to identify a group of humans as opposed to their self-determination)
    • External identifiers: FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID, Minerals.net mineral and gemstone ID, MUSE book ID, ‎Game Jolt ID, Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français ID, ‎ProductReview ID, ‎Acclaimed Music album ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, SlackBuilds package, Metacritic numeric game ID, Metacritic publication ID, Metacritic company ID, StopGame series ID, Steam Workshop mod ID, California State Park ID, ‎Find my School ID, WikiKids ID, SBL player ID, Open Library publisher ID, DBpia article ID, ‎Gematsu company ID, ‎Valve Developer Community article ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • parent form of an active substance (parent form of a chemical entity used as an active substance in the form of a salt)
      • FAO WIEWS Institution ID ()
    • External identifiers: numéro de licence d'un joueur de la FFTT, Rahlfs Number, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID, Minnesota State Forests ID, Kinobox ID, GNU Savannah project, Indie DB company ID, Mod DB company ID, Catenae Catalogue, GameBrew ID, JLPGA player ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of lighthouses in France (source)
    • Which academic journals publish the most International Space Station Research? (graph) (source)
    • Tamil Lexemes missing Item for this sense statements (source)
    • People with no country of citizenship having Norwegian names (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Catalan creators - a project for documenting creators born or active in the Catalan speaking territories
    • WikiProject BeyondNotability - a project for improving content on Wikidata women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in the UK circa 1870-1950
    • WikiProject Manuscripts

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • Working on the ability to modify the aliases of an Item or Property (phab:T342982, phab:T337371)
    • Working on the ability to add or replace a label in a given language on a Property (phab:T342979)
    • Working on the ability to add or replace a description in a given language on a Property (phab:T348150)
  • Lexicographical data: We (mostly) fixed an issue where Lexeme pages where missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
  • Mismatch Finder: We continued work on making it possible to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 17:04, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #599

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Hjart (RfP scheduled to end after 26 October 2023 11:20 UTC)

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour, Q4 2023
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #114: Cars (Challenge started on 2023-10-23 12:01:27)
  • Upcoming:
    • How cultural institutions use Wikidata to share their data with the world < organised by WikiEdu, happening today, Oct. 23.
    • Edit-A-Thon for LGBTQ+ History Month < Binghamton University Library, New York, Oct. 25th. Help make visible the important contributions of queer figures.
    • Bridging Art Archive to the Wikidata Ecosystem < a guest lecture from Joyce Chen at the Fall Symposium on Digital Scholarship '23, Oct. 27, via Zoom.
    • Wikidata Birthday Edit-A-Thon (Albanian) < Albanian language Wikimedians celebrate Wikidata's Birthday with a 2-day event (Oct. 28 - 29, 2023) near the "Aleksandër Xhuvani" University, Elbasan.
    • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 23, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The sixth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover batch creating items using OpenRefine.This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the Event page
    • 4th Wikidata Workshop as part of the International Semantic Web Conference. 7th Nov., Athens, Greece.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Final Report of the Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning Project funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund.
  • Videos
    • Let's Connect Learning Clinic #2: Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments < Learn how to run SPARQL queries, create Listeria lists, and structure data on commons for Wiki Loves Monuments and other WikiLoves campaigns, provided by Wikimedia Sweden. Missed Clinic #1? Find it here.
    • Live Editing #110 < Develop your SPARQL query-building skills in this follow-along session.
    • Tutorial on Wikidata for or WikiConnect course (in Portuguese) <-- Explaining the Wiki Movimento Brasil's WikiConecta Wikidata course. The course entails Understanding what Wikidata is and its operating logic, Learning the basics of editing and recovering data, and Understanding why and how to use Wikidata with your students.
    • Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit:
      • MedCYN as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
      • MeSH2Wikidata as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.

• Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/annas archive.js is a userscript that automatically links to Anna's Archive from Wikidata items for books and research articles, for title, DOI, ISBN, etc. so that people can easily get access to them.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is a new update relative to the Wikidata Query Service scaling of the backend, that explains how the team will experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph and use federation for the queries that need access to all subgraphs.
  • Mismatch Finder tool improvements: In the next deployment scheduled for November 1, the tool will let you report mismatches on qualifiers in addition to the main part of a statement.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • ‎fonds (archival fonds (part of a collection) which an item belongs to)
      • parent form of an active substance (parent form of a chemical entity (e.g. a salt) used as an active substance in pharmaceutical products)
      • ‎Red List of South African Plants conservation status (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the South African National Biodiversity Institute)
      • Parpulov group (class of similar manuscripts with Catenae as assigned by Georgi Parpulov)
    • External identifiers: ‎DfE group UID, Kinobox film ID, Kinobox person ID, FloraVeg.EU taxon ID, DBpia author ID, ‎Mod DB company ID, ‎GameBrew ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, ‎RKDexcerpts ID, ELSST Thesaurus ID (Version 4 - 2023), JLPSA player ID, ‎Catenae Catalogue ID, ‎IGI Global author ID, ‎Pandit Project work ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID, Flora of New Jersey Project atlas ID, ‎GNU Savannah project ID, ‎Rahlfs number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • used by practitioners of (item used by a practitioner of another item)
      • Plant Illustrations taxon ID (URL for a taxon on the Plant Illustrations website)
      • Art Platform Japan ID (identifier in {{Q|123139107}} (Japanese & English))
    • External identifiers: IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code, Flickr Photo ID, North Rhine-Westphalian school ID, identifiant d'un membre de l'Académie de Stanislas, Bantumen Powerlist 100, identifiant Repairs, Legends Tour ID, Radio Paradise song ID, Archivio storico artisti lucchesi ID, Cycling Archives race ID, Gale ACID, ID osoby Medvik, HBL topic ID, National Humanities Center Fellow ID
  • Query examples:
    • Birthplace of recipients of the Nazi Germany Iron Cross
    • Burial place of Swedish Prime Ministers
    • List of cathedrals around the world with its height (source)
    • Population of Check villages with rivers flowing through them (source)
    • Ships with multiple operators that do not have multiple official names (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects
    • WikiProject Photography in Finland - a project for photography in Finland, including photographers, studios and other related items
    • WikiProject Celtic Music - a project for collecting Celtic tunes

• Development
  • We are preparing for WikidataCon and the Data Modelling Days.
  • We are looking more into where Wikibase needs to be adapted to the upcoming IP Masking changes.
  • We added a notification about the license to all edits to labels, descriptions and aliases that was missing still (phab:T343998) The same for Lexemes is coming next (phab:T343999)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:07, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to the 600th Wikidata Weekly Summary!

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

• Welcome to the 600th Weekly Summary!

Lydia initiated the weekly newsletter at the start of the Wikidata project, before it even went live, to keep the community in the loop about the developments, the new projects and tools. Léa carried on the newsletter in 2016 and then it was my turn in 2020. The newsletter has been going strong for eleven years, with its content powered by the community, and delivered every week without fail. Thank you to everyone who helped fill in the different sections of the Weekly Summary thus far ❤️ --Mohammed

• Item #600 Ichiro Suzuki; Property #600 is Wine AppDB ID; and Lexeme #600 is the Japanese conjugation だから
  • 600 in the multiverse: as a year (another year), a number, a category, a track gauge, a jet, an asteroid, an auto race, a genetic element, a death, a birth, a TV serie, a car, a galaxy, a sport discipline, a radio telescope, an engine, a polygon, a film, a GPU, a photolithography, and many more…
• Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 600
• Map of things at an altitude of 600 m
• List of items with an external ID equal to 600
  • Wikidata was 600 days old on Wednesday 11 June 2014. It will be 600 weeks old on Monday 9 August 2027
• WikidataCon happened over the weekend
  • Birthday wishes from the community, and a special note from the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland below:

Today it is time to celebrate Wikidata’s 11th birthday. Let’s take a look back at the past year and what’s coming.

Wikidata’s world - map of Wikidata Items with a geocoordinate

There are now over 12.200 amazing people who are actively editing on Wikidata - 3000 of them even making more than 100 edits a month ♥️ Thank you! Without you Wikidata wouldn’t be what it is today. Thank you for helping give more people more access to more knowledge every single day. This year also marks the year we can welcome a new sister to the Wikimedia projects: Wikifunctions is live, letting us all geek out on functions in anticipation of Abstract Wikipedia. Another big milestone was Wikibase Cloud coming out of private beta. Now you can more easily run your own Wikibase and collect and maintain data that doesn’t fit into Wikidata. 2023 was also the year when the efforts of Wikidata editors were recognized across the Wikimedia movement with the awarding of the Wikimedian of the Year award to Taufik Rosman and the Wikimedia Laureate award to Siobhan Leachman. Over the coming year I want us to find ways how we can bring more people, who are already editing a bit here and there, closer to the community and help them find their place in our community. If you are one of them and have not found your place yet, check out a WikiProject related to your interests. Wikidata has something for everyone 😉

Wikidata now has over 106 Million Items and nearly 1.2 Million Lexemes. We are closing in on 2 Billion edits, making about 20 Million edits per month. All this content is used to create useful, quirky, educational or just fun applications that wouldn’t be possible without Wikidata and all the work you put into it. Check out Notable People for example. Over the coming year we want to make that even easier by building better APIs, lessening the strain on the Query Service, doing more outreach to developers as well as making our data more usable by ironing out ontology issues. In addition there will be increased focus on improving how the other Wikimedia projects integrate Wikidata. With the opening up of Wikibase Cloud we will hopefully also see many new Wikibases pop up that cover more specialized data or be used as playgrounds to prepare data for Wikidata. I am looking forward to a growing Wikibase Ecosystem and excited about more Linked Open Data becoming available to the world, with Wikidata being an entryway to it all.

And last but not least: if you want to learn a bit more about the history and backstory of Wikidata, then you might like Wikidata: The Making Of by Denny, Markus and me.

Lydia for the development team

• Documentation of the sessions is currently ongoing with the slides getting uploaded on Wikimedia Commons here. The Livestream and replay of the conference per day are already available on YouTube. The individual sections are here.
• List of presents gathered by the community for Wikidata's eleventh birthday
  • Luthor is a multi-lingual tool for adding usage examples to lexemes on Wikidata, from sentences found on Wikisource in the same language. (by Asaf Bartov)
  • সংকলক একটি সরঞ্জাম যেটা দিয়ে উইকিসংকলনের লেখাগুলির উইকিউপাত্ত আইটেম অনুসারে সে লেখাগুলিকে উন্নত ভাবে অনুসন্ধান করা যায়। - Sangkalak is a tool with which Wikisource works can be searched more readily, using the Wikidata items for those works. (present from Mahir256) (by মাহির২৫৬-এর উপহার)
  • File:Wikidata 11th Birthday Card.jpg (by Almaddy2022)
  • Quonter Vandal - is a tool powered by AI to help identify vandalism to Wikidata. For more details and to leave comments see Wikidata:Quonter_Vandal. Developed by BrokenSegue (talk)
  • Creating new Lexemes? For a lot more languages you now no longer need to provide a spelling variant when creating a new Lexeme, making it even easier to contribute data about words in your language. (present from the development team)
  • The Mismatch Finder, the tool to help review mismatches between Wikidata and other data sources now also has support for mismatches on qualifiers. This allows it to be useful also for issues that are in the data in qualifiers. (present from the development team)
  • inteGraality service pack update from d:User:Jean-Frédéric
    • support for grouping by predicates, particularly useful for Lexemes (example by wikibase:lexicalCategory, example by dct:language) ; other example by badge
    • new column type: sitelinks (example 1, example 2)
    • Automatic support for grouping by datetime properties (example)
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms experimental Wikifunctions support (details TBA) --Lucas Werkmeister (talk)
  • The projects WiseWoman briefly presented of students editing obscure corners of Wikidata are on her Wikidata user page.
  • Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit (by Houcemeddine Turki):
    • MedCYN as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
    • MeSH2Wikidata as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Hjart! (see the closed request)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DifoolBot (Task: Update pages containing an ECARTICO person ID (P2915) statement, currently 5709 pages)
    • MsynBot 13 (Task: Remove unnecessary use of preferred rank)

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 31, 2023: We will hear from Darnelle Melvin, Cory Lampert, and Andre Hulet, University of Nevada-Las Vegas Libraries, on WireframeVG: A Search and Discovery Application for Wikidata Projects. Agenda
  • Ongoing:
    • WikiProject India/Events/Wikidata Eleventh Birthday online Datathon, Oct 26 - Nov 5th 2023
    • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #115: Orchestra (Challenge started on 2023-10-30 12:01:26)
  • Past: Wikidata Eleventh Birthday Distributed events

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • From MeSH Keywords to Biomedical Knowledge in Wikidata: The giant move
    • Linking ACMI & Wikidata, by Paul Duchesne
    • Enhanced Wikibase, by Wikiworks MediaWiki consulting
    • Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes, by Yamen
    • 10,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects, By Dario Crespi (WMIT) & Ilaria Diterlizzi (WMIT)
    • The 11th Birthday of Wikidata was celebrated in Bhubaneswar by the Odia Wikimedians User Group
  • Papers
    • Relevant Entity Selection: Knowledge Graph Bootstrapping via Zero-Shot Analogical Pruning (Jarnac et al)
  • Press
    • The 11th Birthday Of Wikidata Was Celebrated In Bhubaneswar By The Odia Wikimedians User Group via OrissaDiary.com
    • Find the most famous person in your city using this interactive map (in German) by Kay Nordenbrock via t3n.de ("The database contains data on people from 3,500 BC to 2018 AD. It consists largely of data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.")
  • Videos
    • How cultural institutions use Wikidata (How cultural heritage institutions sharing their collection data, including implementing Wikidata projects, batch uploading datasets to Wikidata, and how to share successes to a broader audience) - Jackie Rubashkin, Metadata Technician, Barack Obama Presidential Library; Michelle van Lanschot, Project Coordinator at Wikimedia-Netherlands; William Blueher, Associate Museum Librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Will Kent, Wiki Education
    • (in Chinese) Wikidata基礎編輯教學 (Wikidata basic editor) - Conference for Open Source Coders, Users & Promoters (COSCUP) 2023
    • How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - Yucheng Lin (COSCUP 2023)
    • Wikidata merge-gadget (in Swedish) by Magnus Sälgö
    • Wikidata Live editing session - NASA, inteGraality, dates and qualifiers (in French) by Nicolas VIGNERON
    • Pairing SBN with Wikidata via WikiLinker (in Portuguese)
    • Introduction to Wikibase Cloud (in Italian)

• Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/author sort.js is a user script to automatically sort the authors of a paper in the order they appear on the paper, ie. by sorting author (P50) and author name string (P2093) statements by series ordinal (P1545). Example: One Hundred and Seventeen Clades of Euagarics (Q28209168).
  • Notable People is a map project by Topi Tjukanov that showing birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world. It uses the combined data of Wikipedia and Wikidata from the paper's "a cross-verified database of notable people, 3500 BC-2018 AD" by Morgane Laouenan, Palaash Bhargava, Jean-Benoît Eyméoud, Olivier Gergaud, Guillaume Plique & Etienne Wasmer. The data shows only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members.
  • Wikimedia Research Fund Update update. "You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 15, 2023. While all research proposals related to Wikimedia projects are welcome, we particularly encourage research studies on medium to small size languages and communities, as well as in low resourced languages and projects."
  • The Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is investigating the different ways Wikidata is used in the sister projects. We would like to speak with you about your experiences integrating or connecting Wikidata, if you'd like to tell us, please sign up for an interview on our project page or on our Registration Form.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Illinois State Parks ID, Minnesota State Forests ID, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID, ‎Flickr photo ID, ‎IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code, ManyVids ID, ‎North Rhine-Westphalian school ID, Repairs ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • nixpkgs path (other operating systems have their package manages as id properties)
      • Cultural Heritage Online ID (identifier for heritage assets and related institutions on Cultural Heritage Online)
    • External identifiers: Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego author ID, Emerald network site ID, Playdate Catalog ID, Rowing Canada ID, Radio Paradise song ID, Tennessee-Kentucky Plant Atlas ID, old-games id, TheTVDB movie ID, Indiana Plant Atlas ID, cagb manuscript ID, la Repubblica TV series ID, Filmweb ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Gale document ID
  • Query examples:
    • Property completeness dashboard for manuscripts
    • Map of narrative locations of romantic comedies (source)
    • Tunisian scientists are cited by Nobel Prize winners (source)
    • Which cathedrals are the tallest in the world? (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Source Reliability - an project to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher - a project to display open access shares (among others based on publishers) at the Austrian Datahub for Open Access Negotiations and Monitoring

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on making it possible to remove a description in a given language from an Item, modify the label of an Item and add aliases to an Item (phab:T342986, phab:T342980, phab:T335842)
  • Lexicographical data: We switched the Property that is used to pre-select the spelling variant on the Special:NewLexeme page from P218 (ISO 639-1 code) to P305 (IETF language tag) to make use of the latter’s larger coverage. (phab:T348923)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on addressing the feedback from the testing of the new datatype in the test system.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 15:04, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #601

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

• Discussions
  • AramBot (Task: adding site links, especially from ckbwiki and kuwiki pages to Wikidata).

• Events
  • Past: Search Platform / Query Service Team office hour log — November 1, 2023
  • This Week:
    • Wikidata for Digital Humanities workshop hosted by Brown University Library, Nov. 6th 19:00 - 20:00 CEST.
    • Wiki Loves Monuments: Learning Clinic #3 hosted by WM Sweden in partnership with WM Uganda, Nov. 9th
  • Upcoming: Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. You can propose a session until November 19. If you are running another event or meetup and would like to connect it to the Data Modelling Days, you can add it to the satellite events section.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikidata Arabic Community.
    • ULTRA: Foundation Models for Knowledge Graph Reasoning.
  • Papers
    • PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept A White Paper released from Charles Faulhaber
    • Using Pregel to Create Knowledge Graphs Subsets Described by Non-recursive Shape Expressions by Á. Préstamo & J. Gayo
    • Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web is a collection of preceedings from the 5th Iberoamerican Conference and 4th Indo-American Conference, KGSWC 2023, Nov. 13–15. By F. Ortiz-Rodriguez, B. Villazón-Terrazas, S. Tiwari & C. Bobed.

• • Videos
    • OpenHPI Querying Wikidata with SPARQL
    • OpenHPI Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph
    • Wikidata 11th Birthday Celebrations(YouTube shorts) are celebrated by the Community
    • Live Editing with Wikidata in Italiano (Italian)
    • Intro to Wikibase Cloud (Italian)

• Tool of the week
  • subclass of, new Observable tool to test which item is a subclass of another.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • SMWCon 2023 Call for Contributions on the topic 'MediaWiki in the age of AI'
  • The Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool was upgraded to autogenerate the different forms of a regular word with functions from Wikifunctions
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ‎Playdate Catalog ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • linguistic family of place name (Relates directly a placename to its original language family. It's not the language in which the toponym is written, but the language from which the word (place name) comes from.)
      • according to (to be used together with P248 if the statement is taken from an aggregator rather than directly from the source)
      • counterexample (qualifier for deprecated P279 statements; example instance or subclass of the item class for which a "subclass of" statement does not hold (alias: "item belonging to the subject class but not the value class"))
      • Book ordinal in a publication series (This property describes the order of the book within a book series.)
      • Comitato Italiano Paralimpico ID (Athlete ID in the Italian Paralympi Committee website (comitatoparalimpico.it))
      • tax base (This property describes the calculation basis for the item of Taxation.)
      • tax objects (This property describes certain objects, acts, or other facts that are the basis for calculating taxes.)
      • taxpayer (This property describes someone who owes money.)
    • External identifiers: Pallaalcentro player ID, Propylaeum-VITAE id, Linked Open Data Comune Firenze ID, Alexandria.dk person, Identifiant One Earth d'une écorégion, CECC Political Prisoner ID, shukach.com ID, Carte d'autore online ID, Fondazione Fiera ID, Il Sole 24 Ore cinema IDs, Dongqiudi.com team ID, Moviepilot.de person ID, IDVT, National-Football-Teams.com national team ID, Kicker team ID, FilmAffinity person ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of phobias in French
    • Interviewees who were part of the Suffragette Movement and
    • Interviewees who had a relative or friend in the Suffragette Movement as part of the LSE Suffrage Interviews Project

• • Newest WikiProjects: Source Reliability "is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources".

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We have implemented the endpoints for PATCH /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T337371), PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/aliases (phab:T342982) and PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/labels (phab:T342980)
    • We started working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} (phab:T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} (phab:T342986)
  • Language codes:
    • We made Special:NewLexeme more likely to guess the spelling variant for you by changing the Property we use to get the language code. Now you will see the spelling variant input pop up less often. (phab:T349652)
    • We started work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (phab:T341409)
  • Query Service UI: We’ve fixed a small issue in the Query Service UI that was introduced when updating CSS variables. Content of selected cells in the query result should be readable again. (phab:T350153)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 16:51, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #602

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: S8321414 (RfP scheduled to end after 13 November 2023 14:50 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DiFoolBot 2 (Task: import VIAF ID based on Union List of Artist Names ID)
    • KizuleBot (Task: Adding sitelinks to Serbian Wikipedia for maintenance categories (see contributions of account) based on items for English Wikipedia's ones)
    • KormiSKbot (Task: Linking newly created pages on SKWiki to the appropriate Wikidata items.)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 14, 2023: We will hear from Diego Saez-Trumper on Wikidata Revert Risk and Annotool. Agenda
    • Latin America in Wikidata Challenge (Spanish) < Nov. 14 - Dec. 14. Play the game and help highlight the region hosting the GLAM Wiki conference! (Prizes available).
    • Edit-a-thon "Women in sciences" < 17 Nov. 12:00 - 18 Nov. 03:00 (UTC). A live edit-a-thon to improve the quality and variety of articles of women who have won the prestigious L'Oréal-UNESCO National Award "For Women in Science". (Prizes available).
    • Language community meetings: A new initiative by WMF language team to organize quarterly gatherings to encourage collaboration among individuals and communities interested in language-related technical topics. First meeting: Friday, November 17, 2023, 16:00 to 17:00 (UTC)
    • Glam Wiki Program - 16 - 18 November, Montevideo, Uruguay. Want to attend in person? - Register here. Wikidata Related Sessions:
      • Wikidata For Cultural Heritage
      • WADE: Add artwork depiction information on Wikidata
      • Workshopping Metadata Interoperability for Small Museums
      • Wikisource and Wikidata: when two cool kids play together!
      • Using Wikidata integration on the Wikimedia projects to enhance GLAM-WIKI content sharing
      • Wikidata + Education + Heritage
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #117: School (Challenge started on 2023-11-13 12:01:25). Did you participate in last week's Challenge #116 : Storm?
    • Knowledge Graphs - Foundations and Applications course by Prof. Dr. Harald Sack. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Enrol here if you have not done so yet.
  • Past: WikiWitch: mapping witches from Switzerland and elsewhere Nov. 4th

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Investigating the “formatter URI for RDF resource” (P1921) property and its uses in the Wikidata infrastructure <-- It discusses how this property enables unique identification of resources, its usage in federated queries, and its role in the Wikidata Query Service.
    • Switzerland Witch hunt: over 2,000 victims, but no monument (Italian) WikiWitches project is using Wikidata to track execution sites of persecuted persons. Read about the project here.
    • Open Access Week and Wikidata; Opening Culture and Heritage training (Colombia GLAM report) <-- details the Open Access Week and Wikidata event in Colombia, which included discussions on the use of Wikidata for academic journals and the use of Wikidata for open science.
    • Wikipedia for all of Sweden; Museums and Wikidata – why and how?; Photo memories from Stockholm and Rome; Negotiating Knowledge on Wikipedia (Sweden GLAM report) <-- discusses the “Wikipedia for all of Sweden” project, which includes the use of Wikidata for authority control in museums.
    • Wikiwitches: giving back a soul to the victims of the witch-hunt <-- The Wikiwitches project, initiated by the association Les sans pagEs in collaboration with Wikimedia CH, aims to map the victims of witch-hunts on Wikidata.
    • GSOC ‘23: Automating Area Management in MusicBrainz <-- Prathamesh, in their Google Summer of Code project, developed a data pipeline to automate the synchronization of area metadata between MusicBrainz and Wikidata.
  • Papers
    • Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world <-- The project “Usable Authorities for Data-driven Cultural Heritage Research” aims to link museum authority data to Wikidata, enhancing the visibility, accessibility, and relevance of information across different museum collections, and encouraging cultural heritage institutions in Sweden to contribute to and utilize the Wikimedia platforms.
    • The 4th Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community happened on 07 November 2023. You can find a full list of presented papers here
  • Videos
    • Connecting Entomological Collectors ECN2023 <-- A presentation for the Entomological Collections Network 2023 conference by Siobhan Leachman, this presentation explains how Wikidata can be used to create an identifier for entomological collectors, empowering the collation & linking of biographical data as well as the ability to link to other databases & catalogs relating to those collectors.
    • Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments w/ Content Partnerships Hub Wikimedia Sweden & Wikimedia Uganda <-- The Learning Series offers practical guidance on using Wikidata for Wiki Loves campaigns, with hands-on experience and follow-up mentoring.
    • Wikidata projects in Wikimedia Spain <-- part of the online sessions organized by Wikimedia España to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Wikidata. In this session, Ángel Obregón, a member of Wikimedia España, presents some of the projects driven by Wikidata by the members of WMES.
  • Notebooks:
    • Subclass of... <-- Wikidata's ontology is complex. This tool aims at finding if an item is a subclass of another one.
    • The Wednesday Index <-- A longitudinal analysis of gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.

• Tool of the week
  • OpenFlights.org is now getting some of its airline data from Wikidata. It is a free open-source tool that allows you to log, map, calculate, and share your flights and trips.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.39.5 – minor changes (security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.5)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • stated in source according to (to be used together with P248 if the statement is taken from an aggregator rather than directly from the source)
    • External identifiers: HBL topic ID, Art Platform Japan ID, Archivio storico artisti lucchesi ID, Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego author ID, Aves de Chile ID, cagb manuscript ID, Italian Paralympic Committee ID, ‎old-games.org ID, Carte d'autore online ID, Indiana Plant Atlas ID, Linked Open Data Comune Firenze ID, Tennessee-Kentucky Plant Atlas ID, Il Sole 24 Ore movie ID, Il Sole 24 Ore person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Official wiki URL (URL to the official wiki for the item)
      • maternal mortality ratio (number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births)
    • External identifiers: Gaming Wiki Network article ID, Playdate community wiki ID, BNE periodical SID, vesti.kz team ID, EIDR parties (Entertainment Identity Registry), Art Gallery of Ontario object ID, GeoLOD ID, Spectrum Computing, Museo Nacional de Arte artist ID, Catalogo Nazionale Dati ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of every recorded battle the past 4,500 years (source)
    • Map of locations of witch memorials and sites of interest in Scotland (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject IDEA - This Wikiproject serves as a working group and process documentation archive for the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA), a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and in development at Bard College and Yale University.
    • WikiProject Interwiki - The goal of this project is linking Wikidata items with wiki articles outside of the Wikimedia ecosystem. Niche wikis frequently offer more in-depth content compared to general online dictionary articles, although their quality can vary significantly.
    • WikiProject SrpKor - The main aim of this project is building Wikidata entities for the novels from SrpKor: Corpus of the contemporary Serbian language.
    • WikiProject Manors - Collecting data about manor house (Q879050) as part of manor (Q2066754) or manor estate (Q2116450) as part of the Research Centre for manors in the baltic sea region (Q117756751).
    • WikiProject Echinodermata - A repository for information pertaining to the NSF Grant Echinoderm Project.

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} (phab:T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} (phab:T342986)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.
  • Language codes: We continued work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (phab:T341409)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat(WMDE) 14:53, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #603

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Congratulations to our new Admin! S8321414 - (See the closed request)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: KormiSKbot - (Task: Linking newly created pages on Slovak Wikipedia to the appropriate Wikidata items)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Data Modelling Days, from November 30th to December 2nd: 3 days of online events to address data modelling challenges, discuss how to improve the way we structure data together, and discover the point of view of external reusers. Feel free to have a look at the program (under construction) and to sign up as a participant.
    • Wikidata Lab XXXIX: Structuring the Wikimedia Ecosystem presented by Wiki Movimento Brasil. November 21 at 2:00 PM CEST. The presentation will be held in English by the wikimedian Mike Peel.
    • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour November 20th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The seventh Wikidata Working Hour will cover the Author Disambiguator tool, which helps users assign authors to articles.During the session we will demonstrate how to use the tool on an author who was created during a previous working hour, and another who doesn't exist in Wikidata yet. After the demonstration, participants are encouraged to try the tool themselves during the rest of the working hour. This session will build on the work done in previous Working Hours by connecting authors to the articles they have written. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page
    • Wikibase for art and cultural data (German) - #9 of kuwiki tips & tools, taking place Thursday, 23 November 2023, 19-20.30
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #118: Diseases (Challenge started on 2023-11-20 12:01:41)
  • Past:
    • ItWikiCon '23 (Italian) was hosted in Bari, Italy between the 17th - 19th November. Check the Programme for details on sessions and check for recordings or slidedecks of presentations.
    • GLAM Wiki 2023 took place in Montevideo, Uruguay. There were several Wikidata-related sessions some of which are linked in the Videos section.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • New study shows how authors’ personal circumstances influence the depiction of nature in their works
  • Papers
    • Can you trust Wikidata? - is a paper exploring Wikidata's veracity and trustability for providing values to Knowledge Graphs. Written by V. Santos et al.
  • Videos
    • Wikidata for Cultural Heritage, available in Spanish, Portugese, English
    • Find-A-Grave of Swedish politicians in Magnus Sälgö's exploration of Wikidata, OpenRefine, SPARQL and Svenskagravar (Swedish).
    • Wikidata Live Editing #111 with the Wikipedia Weekly Network, hosted by Ainali and Abbe98
    • Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments w/ Content Partnerships presented by Hub Wikimedia Sweden & Wikimedia Uganda. Get essential Wikidata-editing skills for Listeria, OpenRefine, run queries and structured data on Commons.
    • How to upload collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine (in Portuguese). Training on uploading collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine.
    • Cohort 2 Graduation: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course. The session includes exciting testimonials from participants and goodwill messages.
    • Enhancing Factuality in Large Language Models with Wikidata's 12B Facts. This HackerNews video discusses a paper that explores the use of Wikidata, which contains over 12 billion facts, to improve the factuality of large language models (LLMs)
    • Back to basics and #SPARQL #Wikidata (in French). Using Wikidata SPARQL query by VIGNERON
    • Wikidata for cultural heritage (ES) - GLAM Wiki Conference
  • Presentations: "Wikidata Lexemes: Introduction to the Possibilities" - workshop on at WikiConference North America, by User:Mahir256
  • Notebooks:
    • The End of an Era - A study on the major deaths that have occurred in our generation and the people that were left behind. (1997-2012)
    • Relationship Between Senators and Political Parties - A sample network graph that depicts the political parties of Senators.
    • Family Network of Female Horse - A sample network graph that depicts the relationships of female horses.
    • Poets and the Monarchs they were appointed by
    • Metro stations of The Metropolitan line (Q19891) of the London Underground Metro System - A sample network graph that depicts the stops and adjacent stops of metro stations of the London Underground's Metropolitan line.

• Tool of the week
  • User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia - a tool that computes the number of articles created by gender has been repaired after some months of unavailability. It relies on xtools and P21 property.
  • Luthor - tool for finding usage examples from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2024 are now open until December 18th!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Fondazione Fiera ID, EIDR party ID, ‎Gaming Wiki Network article ID, ‎Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) heritage ID, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) institution ID, Playdate community wiki ID, Danacode (short), Danacode (long), archINFORM ID (awards), shukach.com ID, BNE periodical SID, Moviepilot.de person ID, FilmAffinity person ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, BioGRID ID, la Repubblica TV series ID, CECC Political Prisoner ID, One Earth ecoregion ID, ‎Spectrum Computing ID, IDVT, BISAC Subject Heading
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Papers with Code URL (URL for subject in Papers with Code system)
      • PAEnflowered taxon URL (URL for a plant taxon found in Pennsylvania on the PAEnflowered website)
      • BioCyc ID (Pathway/Genome Databases) ()
    • External identifiers: Star Citizen Tools Wiki ID, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame ID, Shanghai Library organization ID, Shanghai Library era ID, Shanghai Library surname ID, Paradox wikis article ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae lemma ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae object ID, Rare Species Guide ID, TLA thesaurus ID, Minnesota Plant List ID, ELMCIP person ID, Flora of the Southeastern United States ID, SWERIK Person ID, Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora ID, Go Botany taxon ID, Team Wales ID, Unified Saudi Occupational Classification, Pinakes work ID, Search System of Japanese Red Data ID, ELMCIP organization ID, Japan Search ID
  • Query examples:
    • Articles on English Wikipedia tagged 'Water pollution' with no equivalent article in Spanish (source)
    • Highest point (in meters) per counties in Finland (source)
    • Week 46, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source) "Basque are back on top for the second time this month"
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Manuscripts - This WikiProject coordinates efforts on Wikidata to gather and curate structured data on manuscripts.
    • WikiProject Grove Hall Black Women Lead - aims to shed light on the lives and stories of Black women leaders who have shaped Boston’s history from the colonial era to the present day.
  • Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/projectmerge/enwiki-svwiki - 3875 merge candidates in English Wikipedia and Swedish Wikipedia based on same sitelink name.
  • Showcase Items: University of Konstanz (Q835440) - University in Konstanz, Germany (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)
  • Showcase Lexemes: rød - Danish word for red with features in many compounds and derivations (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)

• Development
  • We are taking steps towards making many more languages available in Lexemes and monolingual text statement values. (phab:T341409)
  • Nikki fixed a bug where the CSS class for a statement rank wasn't updated after a rank change (phab:T209138)
  • We are continuing the work on improving EntitySchemas by making it possible to link to them in statements.
  • We are migrating several tools from the Wikit design system to the Codex design system to be able to deprecate Wikit in the future.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 14:16, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #604

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Clarify Wikidata: Account creators abilities and where to request from S8321414. (RfC started 23-11-20)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • UNLP: the first Wikiarchivists Day is coming < 04.12.23 at the UNLP Public Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Organised by WM Argentina.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 28, 2023: As a satellite event for Data Modeling Days, we will facilitate community discussion around data modeling in Wikidata for library collections in a variety of formats, including people, books, serials, scholarly articles, rare materials, music, media, and realia. Agenda
    • Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2, online. 3 days of discussions, presentations and workshops to discuss our challenges related to data modelling and improve the structure of Wikidata's data together. Check out the program, add yourself as a participant.
    • Wikidata editathon to add Arabic labels & descriptions to Islamic art objects, hosted by Wikimedians of the Islamic Civilization User Group, 2 December 17:00-19:00 UTC

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • 23 Linked Data Things
    • Querying for labels: The normal way and the wikibase:label service way, by Bob DuCharme.
    • Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is Here: Mark Your Calendar 🎉 for May 3rd – 5th, 2024, and register to attend
    • What is Wikidata? Your Guide to the World’s Largest Free Knowledge Base
  • Papers
    • Using Wikidata to identify the gender gap in Ibero-American public art (Q123470669) - The study, using Wikidata, reveals gender disparities in public art in Madrid and Buenos Aires, emphasizing the need for more works created by women and increased visibility of female artists.
    • Understanding Structured Knowledge Production (Q123561334) - A Case Study of Wikidata’s Representation Injustice. This paper seeks to explore the sources of epistemic injustice and biases from Wikidata's peer-production data model.
    • Paying it forward: Crowdsourcing the harmonisation and linking of taxon names and biodiversity identifiers (Q123561640) - highlights the use of Wikidata as an asset when linking taxa in different databases.
  • Videos: Individual Sessions from Wikimania Singapore 2023
    • Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform < Shani Evenstein Sigalov presents this Wikimania Singapore session on her 5-year PhD journey
    • Data use and reuse: Unlocking Potential of Frictionless Data for Wikidata < Sara Petti, Shashi Gharti & Carol Matos of the Open Knowledge Foundation host this session.
    • Using Wikibase and Wikidata for Community Archives by My Community < a non-profit organisation using Wikibase and Wikidata to digitise and preserve Singaporean cultural artefacts and stories.
    • Wikidata Basics with SPARQL access to analyse data from Wikidata < Asaf Bartov hosts this workshop for Wikidata newbies. Gain some foundational skills and learn how you can contribute to the biggest Knowledge Graph!
    • How to use Wikidata to build web tools for the social good < Csisc & Yamen present Sawtpedia & (github), 2 tools built using Wikidata and will show you how you can build your own.
    • Linked Open Data and Wikidata < Alan Ang (WMDE) talks about the importance of Linked Open Data and forming mutually beneficial partnerships between the Foundation and Institutions.
  • Notebooks
    • Explore new ways of visualising your data with a Circular Dendrogam, illustrated here with Association Football players broken down by Country and Team.

• Tool of the week
  • Harvest Templates - is a tool that helps transfer data from Wikimedia projects to Wikidata.
  • User:MichaelSchoenitzer/Updown - is a userscript used for faster navigation. If there are a lot of values for one property it will add arrows that allow you to jump to the first/last value.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WMDE is researching ways to improve the editing experience in different languages and would love to hear your feedback. We would like to talk to a few of you in online interviews to learn about your experiences, expectations, and concerns. Please let us know in this sign-up form if you are interested in taking part.
  • The Research team at WMF is running a second labeling campaign to evaluate the Revert Risk model for Wikidata. This is part of ongoing work on creating a new generation of Machine Learning models to support patrolling work on Wikimedia projects. Please help by going to this link, and labeling each revision in one of these three categories: Keep, Not Sure, Revert. Notice that "Not Sure" should be used in all cases where the Keep or Revert labels are not clear to you.
  • Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.40.1 – major release compatible with MediaWiki 1.40, based on MediaWiki 1.40.1
  • Is there a Wikidata item (about you)? Consider providing a voice-clip pronouncing your name in this Voice-intro project

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • Torino scale (the Torino scale level for the astronomical object)
    • External identifiers: ‎Star Citizen Tools Wiki ID, Gale publication ID, Emerald network site ID, Museo Nacional de Arte artist ID, GeoLOD ID, Catalogo Nazionale Dati ID, Klingon Word Wiki ID, Newman Numismatics Portal ID, tribal council number, EDItEUR Thema ID, Propylaeum-VITAE ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • COR SEM (The Danish central word registry identifier)
      • UPOC ({{TranslateThis | de = Ist eine eindeutige id zur Identifizierung von Organisationen/Sendungen/... zu einem Dienstleister. <!-- | xx = Beschreibungen in anderen Sprachen --> }})
      • উইঙ্ক অ্যালবাম আইডি ()
      • Europeana record ID (unique Europeana record identifier for photos, objectes etc.)
      • ISU ranking position (Skater's position in the ranking of the International skating union)
      • old image (image of this thing taken long ago)
      • Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
    • External identifiers: Japan Search ID, NIWA article ID, WikiIndex ID, Wiktionary ID, Moviebuff ID, Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire ID, Flightradar24 ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Baidu Baike page numeric ID, Parliament of Victoria ID, m3db.com lyrics ID, ELMCIP ID, The Plant List ID (Arizona Native Plant Society), TracesOfWar award ID, Babelio serial ID
  • Query examples:
    • Rail link between Narvik and Singapore (source)
    • Week 47, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Gender representation of Scottish witches (source)
    • Most popular names in Ghana among Ghanaians on Wikidata (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Heritage Collections - The aim of the present project is to create the world’s most comprehensive high quality database of archival fonds and heritage collections (including contemporary scientific collections or documentation holdings) and to ensure the interlinking of respective catalogues, finding aids, or collection databases with Wikidata.
    • WikiProject Roman Provinces
    • WikiProject Events and Role Frames - The primary aims of WikiProject Events and Role Frames is to define a set of properties that consistently model event occurrences and their participants; to fill gaps in Wikidata regarding items for events and actions; and to encourage use of the proposed model and newly introduced items across Wikidata.
  • Newest database reports: Wikidata:Database reports/badged items without claims - This is a list of badged items (i.e. items for feature or good articles in somewiki) without claims. Ideally it should be empty.
  • Showcase Items: Nelson Mandela (Q8023) - First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
  • Showcase Lexemes: gepard - Polish noun for cheetah with many forms

• Development
  • We are preparing for the Data Modelling Days happening later this week
  • Language codes:
    • We are making some small remaining changes before the next testing round of the new language code (phab:T345750, phab:T345751, phab:T345083)
    • We continued to make a lot more language codes available (phab:341409)
  • EntitySchemas: We are experimenting with how to work around some technical blockers for the new datatype
  • Wikibase REST API: We've been working on the ability to remove an Item's label in a specific language and modify the descriptions on a Property (phab:T342981, phab:T342981)

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

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

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[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #605

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RudolfoBot - (Task: import lists of drugs with black box Warnings)
    • TiagoLubianaBot 4 - (Task: add drug-drug interactions from (Q123478206) A reference set of clinically relevant adverse drug-drug interactions)
    • LiMrBot - importing and updating information about asteroids and comets.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: Register and Apply for Scholarships until January 5th 2024!
    • WikiMania 2024 Scholarships are open - You can apply now for paid accommodation, travel and registration of the event!
  • Next:
    • Extended Semantic Web Conference 2024 < The deadline to submit your Papers is December 7th (23:59 UTC-12)!
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service team - the 1st Wednesday of every month, bring your questions on Wikimedia Search, Wikidata Query and Wikimedia Commons Query service.
  • Past:
    • Data Modelling Days 2023 - (30 Nov - 2 Dec.) If you missed it, don't worry! We have recordings, slides and notes for each session, available here!
• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Press
    • Around 250 war-threatened architectural monuments documented (German) - Wikidata, Wikibase and Commons are helping preserve and plan the restoration of culturally-significant Monuments damaged or destroyed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
  • Blogs
    • How many properties are created on Wikidata each month?, by Envel Le Hir
  • Videos
    • Connecting Archives Connecting People (CACP) Project A Wikidata Workshop provided by the British Institute at Ankara.
    • Metaphactory's advanced semantic search with Wikidata KG < shows a new way of building queries with Metaphacts visualised UI. Read more with their latest News Posts!
    • Wikibase for GLAM organizations: Collections in the Linked Open Data web by our excellent Partner Manager User:Christos Varvantakis (WMDE)
    • Intro to Wikidata and importing bibliographic elements from Zotero < (Italian) An initiative to expand Greek and Latin antiquities in Wikidata for use in humanistic studies. Read more here > Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche

• Tool of the week
  • ZotWb < export records in a Zotero group library to a custom Wikibase, prepare datasets to send to OpenRefine, feed OpenRefine reconciliaton results back to the Wikibase. Wikidata is envolved in the entity reconciliation.
    Here's a short explanation and demo video
    Tool is written and provided by David Lindermann with support from WMF Rapid Grant.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: We're looking for a new Product Manager for Wikibase Cloud. Are you interested or do you happen to know someone who might fit this position?
  • Wikimedia Deutschland will be collaborating with Purdue Students to Find New Mismatches for the Mismatch Finder. We Need Your Help to Suggest External Datasets!
  • Outreachy Round 27 interns selected, including 1 Wikidata related project.
  • A cool new Obsidian plugin for Wikidata is in the works.
  • Fulltext search for folders in an external archive via text in Wikidata items (more).
  • Have you tried EntiTree yet? Explore relationship and connections between Wikidata entities with this new visualisation!
  • Last call for the Wikibase.Cloud 2023 User survey. It only takes 10 minutes and it's fully anonymous so please participate!
  • The StructuredDiscussions extension is being archived but your comments on the Project Chat are wanted.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • PAEnflowered taxon URL (URL for a plant taxon found in Pennsylvania on the PAEnflowered website)
    • External identifiers: Rare Species Guide ID, Minnesota Plant List ID, Flora of the Southeastern United States ID, Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora ID, Go Botany taxon ID, Search System of Japanese Red Data ID, Art Gallery of Ontario object ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae object ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae text ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae thesaurus ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae lemma ID, ‎Paradox Wikis article ID, Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire ID, Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame ID, SWERIK person ID, Team Wales athlete ID, ‎WikiIndex ID, ‎Theapolis person ID, TheTVDB movie ID, Shanghai Library surname ID, Shanghai Library era ID, Shanghai Library organization ID, Pinakes work ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, COR SEM ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
      • event role (item that describes a role in an event class)
      • role in event (event class for which the item describes a role)
      • selectional preference ((to be used only with the subclasses of Q_event_role) an item that plays this role in an event instance should descend from this item via a combination of P31 and P279)
      • event arguments and types (item that plays a role in an event instance; used with a qualifier "argument type")
      • BnF archives and manuscripts ID (identifier for a manuscript in the archives and manuscripts catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Do not include the initial "cc")
      • clerked for (this person has held a clerkship with the judge)
      • battery life (the length of time a device can continue to work before it needs its battery to be recharged)
    • External identifiers: China Animal Scientific Database taxon ID, DIMA ID, CoL Taiwan ID, RFI station ID, BUGZ ID, China Animal Scientific Database dbb ID, turismoroma.it place ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument & street IDs, International Hockey Federation competition ID, Black Games Archive ID, Al-shamila Book ID, Akadem person ID (new format), AustrianGames ID, Atari-8-bit Forever game ID
  • Query examples:
    • People born somewhere named after them (source)
    • Rose cultivars named after screen writers source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Events and Role Frames
  • Newest database reports:
  • Showcase Items: Symphony No.7 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Showcase Lexemes: läsa - 'read' about this Swedish word with many pronounciations and grammatical features.

Feel free to suggest next week's Showcase Item and Lexeme!

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We finished the endpoint for removing an Item's label in a specific language (phab:T335841) and the endpoint for modifying descriptions on a Property (phab:T342981)
    • We are working on the endpoint for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on moving the tool over to the new design system Codex
  • We adjusted the styling for the values of monolingual text statements to make the language easier to distinguish from the value (phab:T280774)
  • mul language code: We made some final adjustments to get it ready for testing.
  • Lexemes: We are adding a license note for anon users when editing a Lexeme’s lemma, a Form or Sense (phab:T343999)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 16:59, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #606

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

• Discussions

• • New requests for permissions/Bot: LccnBot (Task: Adds P244 to bibliographic entities base on library authority records.)
  • New request for comments: Duplicate References Data Model and UI < During Data Modelling Days '23, 2 proposals emerged trying to answer the question of how to handle duplicate References on Wikidata Items.

• Events

• • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 12, 2023: Several members of the Chinese Culture and Heritage Wikidata group will provide an overview of the group's Wikidata projects as well as the challenges they have encountered. Agenda
  • Data-SHS Bordeaux Week: Processing and Analyzing Quantitative Data in Human and Social Sciences 2023. Dec. 11 - 15, Bordeaux, FR.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Agreeing to agree: Roundtripping people identifiers with Wikidata < The Te Papa Museum of New Zealand shows how Wikidata is being used to verify subjects when sharing Collections and data between sources. Here's a video explaining more!
  • Papers / Books
    • 1Lib1Nearby with Wikidata (German) < Queries and edits for the multilingual world knowledge of the nearby environment.
    • Creating a multi-linked dynamic dataset: a case study of plant genera named for women < S. Mering, L. Gardiner, S. Knapp et al.
    • Fine-tuned LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less with Few-Shot Sequence-to-Sequence Semantic Parsing over Wikidata < Presented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference. Authors: S. Xu, S. Liu, T. Culhane et al.
  • Videos
    • BiCIKL to Wikidata: Harmonizing the chaotic universe of natural history collectors < presented by Mathias Dillen at the TDWG 2023 Annual Conference.
    • Modelling Research Expeditions in Wikidata: Best Practice for Standardisation and Contexualisation. Presented by Dag Endresen also at the TDWG Annual Conference.
    • Riksdagen Corpus Wikidata < Magnus Sälgö.
    • Scholia - a profiling tool to explore scholarly knowledge < As part of the national research data infrastructure (NFDI) infratalk, Dr. Daniel Mietchen presents Scholia.
    • Catalogue of Premodern Manuscripts < See a Wikibase instance used for The Digital Scriptorium Catalog. Presented by Lynn Ransom & L. P. Coladangelo.
    • Data Modelling Days 2023 Playlist < The list of recorded Sessions for the DMD '23 Online Conference is available here!
    • Building a semantic knowledge (wiki)base for synthetic phytochemistry < Presented by Dr. Gitanjali Yadav
    • OpenRefine - a open source tool for working with data < This session explores the advantages of using OR to wrangle, clean, transform and standardise data for Wikidata. Presented by Jinoy Tom Jacob at the IndiaFOSS3.0 Conference.
    • Various queries and modeling on Wikidata (French) < User:VIGNERON introduces several SPARQL queries.

• Tool of the week
  • QLever SPARQl Engine < If you attended Data Modeling Days '23, you may have seen an extraordinary Session given by Hannah Bast and Johannes Kalmbach showcasing the power and advantages of the QLever engine. QLever can handle queries that cause the WDQS to timeout or allowing Federated queries and Geospatial!

(QLEver has already featured in Tool of the Week but we wanted to showcase it again after experiencing it at DMD '23)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Healthcare Disparities in the U.S.: Exploring Access to Healthcare in the Immigrant Population < Zoomable Bar Charts and visualisations exploring access to healthcare across the U.S. Prison system, powered by Wikidata and WDQS. Authored by Haryn Shin.
  • DMD23: documentation and outcomes can be viewed on Wikidata project Chat as well as related-topics from the Conference on Qualifiers for fuzzy properties and Should WMF fund QLever?

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • official wiki URL (URL of the official wiki for the item)
      • counterexample (qualifier for deprecated P279 statements; example instance or subclass of the item class for which a "subclass of" statement does not hold)
    • External identifiers: ELMCIP ID, RFI station ID, BnF archives and manuscripts ID, The Plant List ID (Arizona Native Plant Society), DIMA ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Flora of the Hawaiian Islands ID (URL of the entry for a plant species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
      • Hijri Date (Hijri Date of claim)
    • External identifiers: Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, New words in Danish ID, Game Classification game ID, Lobbypedia ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae text witness ID, Game Classification machine ID, Game Classification creation tool ID, a8.fandal.cz ID, Numer KRS, Stadium 64 ID, Sina Chinese Basketball ID, Veterans Legacy Memorial, SixtyFour Originals DataBase game ID, WHDLoad database ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query examples:
    • Geolocalized object that have the same name than something named after some some kind of church building. This includes streets, bus stops, …
    • Video games per Platform. Timeline of video game releases per platform.
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Heritage Collections: database of archival fonds and heritage collections (including contemporary scientific collections or documentation holdings) and to ensure the interlinking of respective catalogues, finding aids, or collection databases with Wikidata.
    • WikiProject Source Reliability: is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources.
  • Newest database reports:
  • Showcase Items: (Q8409) Alexander The Great - Alexander III, King of Macedon.
  • Showcase Lexemes: (L630387) Pri - the meaning of this Breton word is not 'muddy' with VIGNERON's contribution!

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued work on the routes for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
  • Monolingual text values can now use many more languages than before. We’re still working on doing the same for Lexemes. (phab:T341409)

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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 15:40, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #607

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • So9qBot 7. Task: Add not found in (P9660) --> Q123739672 to Danish Lexemes
    • So9qBot 8. Task: Add missing names of European legal documents to labels and aliases of items with a CELEX identifier
    • LccnBot. Task: Adds Library of Congress authority ID (P244) to bibliographic entities base on library authority records.
  • Other discussions: How to handle concepts of trans people on Wikidata? Should {privacy at wikidata.org} be redirected to {privacy at wikimedia.org} or should it be monitored by Wikidata volunteers? Join the discussion!

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour December 18th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to.The ninth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL and Scholia to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #121: Pottery

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs: #LD42023. Part I: The Future of Wikidata + Libraries (A Workshop) - This blog series explores how libraries engage with Wikidata and Linked Data in the face of AI challenges. Led by Silvia Gutiérrez and Giovanna Fontenelle from the Wikimedia Foundation, the series summarizes insights from a collaborative session at the 2023 LD4 Conference, using Design Thinking strategies to connect the Library-Wikidata community with WMF, focusing on Wikidata, Wikibase, and Structured Data on Commons (SDC) in libraries. By Silvia Gutiérrez & Giovanna Fontenelle
  • Papers
    • Wikipedia gender gap: a scoping review - This review analyzes Wikipedia's gender gap from 2007 to 2022, revealing a slight majority of female authors, addressing key themes, and exploring strategies to mitigate the gap, providing valuable insights into the research landscape in this domain. By Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Juan-José Boté-Vericad and Julia Minguillón.
    • Ten years of Wikidata: A bibliometric study - This research delves into scholarly publications about Wikidata from its inception in 2012 to late 2022, revealing 945 relevant papers, primarily from conferences. The analysis highlights a concentration of experts and contributors from the Global North, as well as governmental institutions as predominant funders. The study calls for enhanced networking and outreach to promote diversity and inclusion within the Wikidata research community. Emphasizing computer science perspectives, the research focuses on methods for developing and utilizing open knowledge graphs, notably Wikidata, with a narrower but significant interest in application-oriented studies in digital humanities, biology, and healthcare. (Turki, et al)
  • Videos
    • Duplicating Everywhere All at Once | Cebuano Wikipedia - Five years ago, Lsjbot's Wikipedia articles caused duplicate Wikidata items, notably impacting geographic places on Cebuano Wikipedia. This video by User:Canley at Wikimania 2023 delves into the history, visualizes the issue, and suggests cleanup strategies for Wikidata and Wikipedia, emphasizing Aotearoa New Zealand and parts of Australia, with implications for the global challenge of bot-created duplicates.
    • Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research with Alicia Fagerving - Alicia Fagerving, Wikimedia Sverige, introduces the project "Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research" and Wikidata. The project, spanning 2021-2023, links vocabularies from the databases of Nationalmuseum and Statens historiska museer to Wikidata, exploring it as a platform for semantic interoperability among cultural heritage institutions and providing tools and visualizations for similar projects.
    • 2023: OSM-Wikidata Map Framework. Combining OpenStreetMap and Wikidata allows to leverage the strengths of the two projects to create richer maps. This talk explores how OSM-Wikidata Map Framework simplifies this process. By Daniele Santini
  • Press: Adriano Rutz wins the Swiss National Open Research Data (ORD) Prize for “The LOTUS Initiative” project. LOTUS explores new ways of promoting the re-use of data in the fields of biology and chemistry and thus of sharing knowledge in natural products research. More coverage
  • Notebooks
    • It's not bad! Measuring Gérard Depardieu's mark on French cinema (in French) - The analysis centers on Gérard Depardieu's impact on French cinema amid legal issues and sexual assault allegations. Despite difficulties in addressing these accusations, the author leverages Wikidata to measure Depardieu's influence by querying films from directors born after 1930 to assess his involvement.
    • How to Become a Billionaire: A Billionaire's Occupations Network Analysis - This network analysis investigates billionaires’ primary sources of income with a network graph—based on their occupations—connecting billionaires from all over the world and uncovering some of the biggest industries in the world.
  • Documentation: User:Mahir256 statred Lexemes documentation pages about Lemmata and Lexeme languages. Your contributions are welcome.

• Tools of the week
  • Drama Corpora Project (DraCor) is a digital database of plays, primarily from Europe. It collects and organizes texts of plays in a way that allows researchers and others to extract and analyze information from those texts. This could include details about the characters, the dialogue, the stage directions, and more. The data is being pulled from Wikidata.
  • Magnus Manske added a new game to the Wikidata game to identify duplicate Items for researchers.
  • Mike Peel set up a new Distributed Game to add links to Wikiquote to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase Cloud has a new website. Check it out: https://www.wikibase.cloud/

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • battery life (length of time after a full charge that a device can continue to work under normal use before it needs its battery to be recharged)
    • External identifiers: ‎Atari-8-bit Forever game ID, Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes object ID, FNAC artwork ID, Akadem person ID, ‎Game Classification game ID, ‎Game Classification machine ID, ‎Game Classification creation tool ID, TaiCOL ID (new version), ‎a8.fandal.cz ID, ‎Stadium 64 ID, Filmweb.no film ID, SixtyFour Originals DataBase game ID, BUGZ ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Substances in the reference (Substances studied in reference works such as papers, reports, etc.)
      • Book format (Page size of a historical book, manuscript, or artwork on paper, based on folding sheets into leaves)
      • beneficial owner ()
    • External identifiers: DraCor ID, PCSX2 Wiki ID, Twitch numeric channel ID, identifiant article ORBi, identifiant auteur ORBi, TheTVDB IDs, RPCS3 Wiki ID, Retskrivningsordbogen ID, Kanjipedia word ID, MAMCS ID, Citra compatibility database ID, IGN wiki article ID, AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, RPGFan game ID, Swissubase ID, goalzz.com team ID, MilliBase taxon ID, Digicarmel ID, Arcade Hub ID, Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century ID, Consortium of Lichen Herbaria taxon ID, Biota of New Zealand ID, NientePopCorn IDs, HistoriaGames game ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of movies directed by French filmmakers born after 1930 with or without Depardieu (source)
    • Czech buildings carved into the rock (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Works created by females, died in 2023
  • Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/Unsupported sitelinks - Found 279 items
  • Showcase Items: lion (Q140) - species of big cat
  • Showcase Lexemes: cevap (L1124154) - Turkish noun for 'answer' derived from the Arabic noun جَواب

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We finished adding the endpoints for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
    • We started working on the endpoint for removing a Property's description in a given language (phab:T342985)
    • We are fixing an issue with incorrect handling of lowercase statement IDs in edit requests (phab:T352644)
  • Special:PrefixIndex now shows label/lemma for Properties and Lexemes (phab:T343115)
  • Language codes: We changed where Wikidata is getting its languages from for Lexemes and Monolingual text statements and thereby resolved many tasks requesting another language being added to them (phab:T341409)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 17:14, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #608

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

• 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
  • Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:

1. 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.)
2. 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.

• 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
  • Query examples:
    • Distribution of the different tram gauges in Germany (source)
    • Scale of stampedes reported on Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
    • Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
  • 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'

• 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #609

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

• 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
  • Query examples:
    • Visual artists whose works will enter the Public Domain in Mexico on January 1, 2024 (source)
    • Top music album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 52, 2023) (source)
    • Western composers until the end of the Renaissance (source)
  • 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.

• 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #610

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

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.

Events

• 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
  • 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #611

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

Discussions

• New request for comments: Community request for the development team to access inverse properties on client wikis. (Summary: We currently cannot access inverse property values on Wikipedia. This can be a data management issue on Wikipedia as we must always ask ourself if we must introduce an inverse property for cases where we need them. So I think it’s useful to gather the usecases community would want and draft a request for an API to the devteam to do that.)

Events

• 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.
• Past
  • Provenance Loves Wiki (PLW24), Jan 12th - 14th, research and data on the origin of artworks and cultural heritage and how Wikibase and Wikidata can support this.
  • WikiLovesWomen #SheSaid campaign wrapped up the 2023 campaign by visiting Kinshasha and Kisangani, where local Wikimedians improved quotes from women on FR Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Building Connected Libraries in Nigeria: --> Reflections from the Wikibase Journey on collaboration and resouce sharing between Nigerian Libraries.
  • Wikidata and ChatGPT integration failure --> read about Finn Årup Nielsen's attempts to integrate LLM's with Wikidata.
  • QLever: a new way to query OpenStreetMap --> Discussion of the new opportunities offered by QLever to query OpenStreetMap and to run federated queries with Wikidata
  • Wikidata for authority control: 3 years of work --> The three-year Wikidata for authority control project, a collaboration between Wikimedia Sverige and Swedish museums, concluded in December 2023. It equipped museum staff with tools and skills to integrate their authority databases with Wikidata, resulting in added identifiers, SPARQL query proficiency, and enhanced knowledge sharing within the GLAM sector.
  • Go-ahead for Wikidata Project of GLAM institutions from Baden-Württemberg --> The GLAM-BW project, under "GLAM goes OpenData," connects major collections in Baden-Württemberg, focusing on the württembergische Kunstkammer. With over 3,000 objects, the project integrates information on collectors, histories, and objects into a knowledge graph for semantic searches, contributing to the broader realm of linked open data, akin to Wikidata.
  • Swiss GLAM Programme --> Wikimedia CH imported the Museum of Natural History of Neuchâtel's urchin fossil casts to Wikimedia Commons, connecting structured data on Wikidata. The project involved data cleaning, adding missing elements, and file imports via OpenRefine, highlighting seamless integration between Wikidata and Commons.
• Papers
  • Reflections on the PCC Wikidata Pilot at UCLA Library: --> Undertaking the PCC Learning Objectives. Discusses the 14-month Pilot programme for cooperative cataloguing of UCLA Library and Museum Collections. By E. Zhang, P. Biswas & I. Dagher.
  • Few-Shot Event Classification in Images using Knowledge Graphs for Prompting --> How can Wikidata and Wikipedia help Vision-Language Models improve their classification of images. Tahmasebzadeh et al., 2024.
• Videos
  • SMWCon 2023: Semantics, Wikis, and AI --> Day 1, Keynote by Prof. Markus Krötzsch who explores origins and principles of semantic wikis and key challenges that lie ahead in managing knowledge.
  • GLAM on Tour 2023 im Museum Barberini (German) --> find out what Museums have got to do with Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. More Info Here.
• Interactive notebooks: GLAM : Geolocated and Labelled Articles Map - explore Featured and Good Wikipedia articles through a map, powered by Wikidata.

Tool of the week

• Brian M Sperlongano released US boundary QA checker, a quality assurance tool for finding issues with boundary data in the United States by using Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, and US Census Bureau data.
• The Surrounding Ocean (available at vrandezo.github.io/TheSurroundingOcean) - is a tool that allows you to browse lexicographical data. You can use the tool to explore words and their meanings, translations, and synonyms. The tool is currently under development, and the developer, Danny, would appreciate feedback to fix any issues with the tool. More info: Wikidata:The Surrounding Ocean.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• OS-Wikidata Map Framework List of tools and maps which combines OSM and Wikidata.
• Call for Projects and Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2024 and Outreachy Round 28 is OPEN!
• Got an idea for a project to reclaim the public nature of the internet? With Wikidata? NLNet has a new fund you could apply to.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: none
• Newest External identifiers: Walk Score ID, HistoriaGames game ID, ‎Deutsche Bahn station number, Legends Tour player ID, Moscow Cultural Heritage ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, Cathopedia article ID, ‎TouchArcade game ID, ‎DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, ‎Adventure-Treff game ID, Biota of New Zealand ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Consortium of Lichen Herbaria taxon ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, SERNEC taxon ID, TORCH taxon ID, Penstemon Database ID, Digicarmel ID, ‎Retskrivningsordbogen ID, MAMCS artwork ID, Sofascore player ID, ‎Mod.io game ID, Sina Chinese Basketball player ID, turismo.marche.it place ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • describes (Data objects that are described by this entity (e.g. an encyclopedia or topic-related book; intended for input of several data objects.))
  • memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
  • filial church (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish)
  • TOPO id (unique code to identify topographical features of France (department, city, thoroughfare...))
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Bluesky handle, Merkur author ID, Bavarian school ID, Rugby Database ID, Playstation Store Concept ID, ArchDaily Architecture Office ID, Il Nuovo De Mauro ID, Bluesky DID

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Historical events by a city sorted by importance (source)
  • Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013 (source)
  • Timeline of writing systems and alphabets (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Decolonise Wiki --> intends to focus on decolonising text, depictions and media within all relevant Wikipedia articles.
• WikiProject Highlights: Ontology Cleaning Task Force: A group of people have started a task force to discuss problems with the Wikidata ontology and how to clean them up. Anyone interested in participating is welcome. The task force maintains Wikidata:WikiProject Ontology/Cleaning Task Force as a record of its activities. You can add yourself to the participants list there and find out how to join group meetings or otherwise participate in the group. (Got something noteworthy happening in your WikiProject? Share it in the upcoming issue!)
• Newest database reports: Lexicographical data/Reports/Empty lexemes - Lexemes with no statements, no forms and no senses. (Do you see Lexemes from your language in the list that you can fix?)
• Showcase Items: January 15, 2018 (Q45919591) - Monday in January 2018
• Showcase Lexemes: در جنگ حلوا بخش نمی‌کنند (L1081423) - Persian with a meaning similar to "all's fair in love and war"

Development

• IP masking: We are working on adjusting Wikibase to handle the upcoming introduction of IP masking, which will give editors who are not logged in a temporary account name instead of using their IP to attribute edits to (phab:T351968)
• Lexicographical data: We are changing how empty Senses and Forms are represented in the dumps (phab:T305660)
• mul language code: We are doing user testing for the current implementation to see if it is understandable for people.
• Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on migrating it to the Codex design system.
• REST API:
  • We improved the handling of lower-case statement IDs (phab:T354262)
  • 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: Pigs
• 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #612

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

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.)

Events

• 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:
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects

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:
  • Distance between the birthplace of UK ministers and London (source)
  • Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
  • People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap
• 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #613

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

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: ROBERTSHST requested adminship to be able to link protected Wikipedia pages to Wikidata. The request has been denied and closed.
• New request for comments: Frettiebot block? - Bovlb has requested community input about the edit behaviour of this bot, with more discussion found on the Frettiebot Discussion page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Books: Banned books, Wikipedia and Wikidata - Volume 54, Number 2, 2023 of the focus on International Library and Information Work. Professor Núria Ferran of Women and Wikipedia.
• Papers
  • Assisted Knowledge Graph Authoring: Human-Supervised Knowledge Graph Construction from Natural Language - a Web app allowing domain experts to create natural language Wikidata-based knowledge graphs. By Gohsen & Stein (2024).
  • Large Language Models are Superpositions of All Characters: Attaining Arbitrary Role-play via Self-Alignment - Lu, K., Yu, B., Zhou, C. & Zhou, J., (2024),. This paper explores using Knowledge Graph data silos to enrich interactions and dialogues with AI NPC's in roleplay videogames.
  • Narrowing the Knowledge Evaluation Gap: Open-Domain Question Answering with Multi-Granularity Answers - evaluating predicted answers against a set of multi-granularity answers based on Wikidata. By Yona et al, (2024).
• Videos
  • Introduction to Wikidata Query Tool - Learn A Wiki Skill (LAWS). If you are a Wikidata beginner, enjoy this video provided by Open Foundation West Africa.
  • Wikibase Cloud For Cultural Heritage Data Online and the SNARC Hub for Name Authority Records relating to Wales and the Welsh Language, with Jason J. Evans.
  • How to use Wikidata in research: good practices for using and sharing open data (Portugese). A training session by Rute Correia of Wikimedia Portugal.
• WikidataCon 2023 - (English Audio)
  • Wikifunctions: fulfilling one of Wikidata's missing promises? - with Denny Vrandečić
  • Structured data and collaborative curation: WikiProjects and Wikidata - with Daniel Mietchen.
  • Spreading our Data further with Wikibase REST API by L. Pintscher.
• Presentations:
  • Wikibase for a Research Project - A slidedeck provided by Ruth v.d. Bussche presented at Provenance Loves Wiki '24
  • Provenance Loves Wiki 2024 slides on Linking Boetticher and 19th Century Paintings through Wikidata and Wikisource
• Notebooks: GLAM2: Geolocated and Labeled Articles Map - much like the previously shared GLAM1 visually representing distribution of Good & Featured Articles but in a different visualisation.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata's insights for featured and good Wikipedia articles, a new Observable's notebook which helps exploring good articles or featured articles in any Wikipedia using Wikidata properties such as P31, P21, P106, P17, P27, etc.
• SpeedPatrolling - This tool helps Wikidata editors to patrol recent changes.
• metaphacts and Ontotext launch a new end-user interface on top of the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: try it here!

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A job opening for a Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an NSF-funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.
• The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback! We are currently evaluating a new feature for the Wikidata Query Service. Fancy sharing your thoughts? We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete this survey on Lamapoll. It should take you around 10–15 minutes. Your input means a lot to us. Thank you!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • underlying structure(s) (mathematical structure(s) obtained by deleting some data of the subject)
  • 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)
  • simulates (item simulated, imitated, or made to appear real by this item)
  • Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
  • combines media (media files that composes this media file)
  • clerked for (this person has held a clerkship with the judge)
• Newest External identifiers: RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju word ID, Stage username, Qué series ver series ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, ‎Playstation Store concept ID, Pallaalcentro player ID, Rowing Canada ID, Rugby Database ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, Nebula channel ID, fiba.basketball player ID, Académie de Stanislas member ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Bandcamp track ID, NientePopCorn movie ID, NientePopCorn series ID, NientePopCorn person ID, Bavarian school ID, BookBrainz edition ID, British Pathé asset ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century ID, Merkur author page, ‎Globoplay ID, BindingDB ID, FFTT player ID, Czech geological location ID, etymologiebank.nl ID, Bluesky handle, ‎Parliament of Victoria ID, ArchDaily architecture office ID, HistoryMakers Maker Directory ID, OKRB 011-2022 code, Plant Illustrations taxon ID, Plant Illustrations species ID, Bantumen Powerlist 100, International Hockey Federation competition ID, IndExs Exsiccata editor ID, COSL profile ID, ‎The Models Resource entity ID, HbVar ID, TracesOfWar award ID, Latindex 2022 ID, Flashback lexicon ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Number of delegates ()
  • afd-verbot.de person id ()
  • date of application (date of a application/request that lead to a membership in an organisation, an employment or issuance of an identifier)
  • authorized image (Proposing to distinguish images with reliable source from GLAM partners or cultural institutions)
  • Dejure.org-Schlagwort (de) (searchword in Dejure.org)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:: VD 17 ID, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID, MobiTUKI English-Swahili Dictionary entry, Singerman Identifier, X place ID, PteridoPortal taxon ID, Plants of Hawaiʻi ID, Kalliope.org author ID, The StoryGraph Author ID, EDIT16 title & place IDs, Myths on Maps Identifier, Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry, Archives départementales du Vaucluse Fonds ID, ru.hayazg.info ID, Sundance Institute Archive ID, Mindat taxon ID, notify.moe ID, nimi.li id, Nintendo eShop (UK) ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • The 100 smallest mountains in France (source)
  • French Prime ministers ordered by age when they start in office (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024 - The International Botanical Congress (IBC) takes place once every six years. The organisers of this WikiProject see this conference as an ideal opportunity to engage with the wider botanical community, educate them about the potential of Wikidata and to train them in its use. We will also use this opportunity to improve the data held in Wikidata about the participants, presenters and their contributions to botany.
  • WikiProject Health Data Space - This project is about organising data related to health data spaces, in particular the efforts to create a European Health Data Space. Initially it will focus on Sweden.
• Newest database reports: Differences in birth and death dates - This is list of reports when birth date or death date in Wikidata differs from other sources:
• Showcase Items: Hubble Space Telescope (Q2513) - NASA and ESA space telescope (launched 1990)
• Showcase Lexemes: šťastný (L204262) (Czech) - having luck, fortune, happy. This is our first Czech showcase lexeme and it just so happens to be the largest Lexeme on Wikidata!

Development

• [Breaking Change] We are changing how empty Sense and Form lists are represented in dumps
• Fixed the order of item/property suggestions on several occasions, primarily sex or gender (P21) (phab:T355697)
• mul lanuage code: We are wrapping up the usability testing.
• IP Masking: We continued the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to not show IP addresses for non-logged in users anymore.
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We added the ability to add a sitelink to an Item or edit an existing one (phab:T342987)
  • We are fixing a bug where badges were missing in the API reponse for sitelinks (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: Diplomacy
• 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #614

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

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

Events

• 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
  • Diff Blog: #LD42023 II: Getting to Know Each Other, Librarians in the Wikidata World by SEgt-WMF
  • 20th Century Press Archives: access extension and full-text search via Wikidata
• 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:
  • Projects with which New Zealand Thesis people overlap (source)
  • Most articles about films in each Wikipedia
  • Largest companies by revenue in USD
• 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #615

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

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.

Events

• 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
• 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:
  • Map of items next to the Seine (source)
  • 300 most followed Mastodon accounts (source)
  • Hospitals across Scotland (source)
  • People educated at the University of Leeds with a Wikipedia article (source)
  • Compare lat/long of UK Parliament and Wikidata constituency records [federated query] (source)
• 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #617

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

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!

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)

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.

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').

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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

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)

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: #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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · -Mohammed Abdulai · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:46, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #618

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

• 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.

• 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
• 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
• 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.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 16:23, 4 March 2024 (UTC)