Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2024/04

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The time value is malformed

I am getting this error as as of a short time ago, whereas I was not getting the error before. Restarting my computer and refreshing the pages does not seem to help. I am typing 2015 Jul 20, which used to work. I have tried several other formats, but anything beyond just the year is creating an error. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

? This edit seems fine. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:17, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Addendum: If I type "2015-07-20", the date is accepted. But the system is not accepting words or letter months. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:17, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Worked fine for me: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q24790664&diff=2116035548&oldid=2116034263 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:18, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Odd. It is still not working for me. The error seems to be limited to just that data item. I cannot replicate the issue elsewhere. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:21, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Should there be a "refers to different value/object" reason for deprecation?

Should there be something like refers to different subject (Q28091153) but for the value/object instead of the subject? I feel like I've looked for that a few times when deprecating statements.

(The current statement I'd like to use it on is The Survivor (Q20026880)follows (P155)The Last Man (Q2323961) because I think The Survivor follows a different item with the same name.) dseomn (talk) 02:12, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I would create a new item with the same name, but a different description, making clear why it's different. I created in the same way multiple Surinam plantations with the same name, but located at different rivers by adding the name of the river in the description. Nico5038 (talk) 05:35, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Image of a city

Hello, I'm a newbie here and I ended up on Wikidata by contributing to Commons. I have a question about the best way to choose an image linked to a town. Many Wikidata items display the town hall, which I think provides little information. I noticed that in many cases, we could find fairly good images of the whole town or a significant view of it on Commons. Is this choice of displaying the town hall the result of a community consensus or decision ? Is there a page to help us choosing the best image for a town ? I couldn't find any specific instruction apart from the "San Francisco" example on the image help page. Thank you ! Anne Daemon (talk) 10:19, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@Anne Daemon: The consensus would be stated on Wikidata:WikiProject Cities and Towns and the image example there clearly shows a view of the city, not just a town hall. So I'm pretty sure a view of the town would be perfect for image (P18) values on town items. Thanks for working on this! ArthurPSmith (talk) 13:30, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Incorrect Portrait of Jose Aniceto Iznaga

My name is Diana Yznaga Gomez and Jose Aniceto Iznaga/Yznaga is my great, great grandfather. The portrait that is displayed when you do an Internet Search on Jose Aniceto I/Yznaga is not Jose Aniceto Iznaga. I am requesting that it be removed and replaced with the authentic Jose Aniceto Iznaga portrait. Because there are several websites on the Internet purporting this person to be Jose Aniceto I/Yznaga, we decided to send the picture shown on this website to two reputable museums for verification as to the time/era/dress to see if it coincides with the pictures we have of Jose Aniceto I/Yznaga. Here is their response. Hi Diana – This question was a bit out of my scope so I shared it with our Assistant Registrar Liz Paris, who did graduate work with 19th century photography. Liz Paris, has helped with costuming/19th century photography questions before.: Here’s what she wrote (she’s also copied here): I can elaborate more on this if needed, but the clothing looks like 1900-1910s—definitely not 1860s. The collar and tie are the biggest indicators that this is not from the mid-19th century; the comparison is even more clear with the context images we sent the last time, especially the image with one of Iznaga and his son from the 1850s. Hope this helps! Good luck with your research – Heather Heather Lammers Collections Manager & Curator McNay Art Museum P.O. 6069/6000 North New Braunfels San Antonio, Texas 78209 USA From New York City Museum. My brother contacted NYCM asking them about the picture in dispute. Hello Richard, See the e-mail below from our Costume curator regarding your query. Best, Sean -- Sean Corcoran Curator of Prints and Photographs Museum of the City of New York 1220 5thAvenue New York, NY 10029 Tel. (212) 534 1672 x3374 www.mcny.org From: Phyllis Magidson Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 11:42 AM To: Sean Corcoran ; Susan Johnson Subject: RE: Request for Assistance - Mr Yznaga I think that Mr. Yznaga is correct in his doubts: my feeling is 1880s, based on other period images that feature gentlemen with casual center-parted hair, as well as his very relaxed/jaunty demeanor for the photographer (we have comparable neckties documented on an 1894 Boston shot, so we might be safe to date it 1880s-90s). Because two very reputable museums have both said this could not be Jose Aniceto I/Yznaga, we are requesting that this picture be removed. Along with the proof from the museums, I am attaching a link from the Historia de Cuba displaying the authentic picture of my great, great grandfather. https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/cubanphotos/id/3557/ Please see page 23 for the picture of Jose Aniceto Iznaga. Sandyiego23 (discusión) 12:47 21 mar 2024 (UTC) Sandyiego (talk) 14:26, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Cyanobacteria (Q93315)

Hello,

The French page as well as the Spanish one have been recently moved to "Cyanobacteriota". As a result, they are not linked any more to the wiki pages in other languages (and there are many, about 80 of them). The wikilinks for the Spanish and French wikis shoud be changed to Cyanobacteriota, instead of "Cyanobacteria" which is now only a redirect. This is impractical if you want to see the 80 links to other languages since they are on the redirect and not the main page. I tried to correct this but for an unknown reason the same wikilink cannot be used on two pages (already used in Cyanobacteriota (Q25577567)). I don't see solutions other than removing the Spanish and French links from Cyanobacteriota (Q25577567)) so as I can put them in Cyanobacteria (Q93315). I tried this too but got reverted each time.

Any guess of what to do?

Thank you in advance

80.215.169.25 17:40, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Redirects can be linked - see Wikidata:Sitelinks to redirects. You can also add direct links on the relevant language wikipedia pages. ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:10, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@ArthurPSmith: I'm not sure what you are talking about in your second sentence: do you mean that I have to add 80 interwiki links on the Spanish and the French pages? I thought they were discarded a long time ago thanks to Wikidata. Concerning Cyanobacteria (Q93315), the French redirect is this and the Spanish on is this, i.e. a redirect page with about 80 interwiki links that used to be on the main page before it was renamed. This is rather impractical, isn't it? That's why I suggest only changing the links in Cyanobacteria (Q93315) (the main page rather the redirect) so as to correct this messy situation. 80.215.169.25 18:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Removing extra languages

When I look at an item it shows me the description in English as well my two suggested languages: Maori and American English. I don't wish to have this as they never have a description. Looking at my settings they appear to be suggested languages yet I don't see a way to remove them. Traumnovelle (talk) 07:02, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #622

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 2024-03-11. Translations are available.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: MONA.artpublic.bot (Task: The bot's function is to add information about artists specializing in public artwork in Québec, Canada. The bot will initially only add that an artist's genre of work is public art for a set of known public artists in Québec compiled by MONA Montréal from open data sets.)

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 2, 2024: Come join us for fun data modeling discussions! We'll create breakout rooms in Zoom for people to discuss 4 examples of cultural heritage items to contribute to Wikidata. Each group will choose categories, brainstorm properties for basic and enhanced description, and discuss challenges. Then we'll have some quality time at the end to compare notes and discuss our processes! Agenda
  • Wikidata Leveling Up Days, everything you need to know about Wikidata: 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 April. The event is taking place online and the videos are already available on the program page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Galerij der Groten op Wikidata (Dutch) - Wikimedia NL hosted an Edit-A-Thon on the Baroeg project, the task was to document and archive on Wikidata all of the bands that have played at the live music venue, the idea born from a stack of band flyers and posters hung in the bathroom(!) Join the next one Sunday April 14th.
• Papers: Understanding Wikidata - Wikidata is extremely valuable as a data source to supplement, validate and extend existing knowledge bases and applications. To effectively utilize Wikidata in a Semantic Web application, one must understand its design, terminology and correspondence with ontological concepts (especially RDF and OWL). This paper attempts to explain and position this information. (by AWesterinen)
• Videos
  • Wikipedia Weekly: Ep. 255 (Swedish) - Hosted by Jan Ainali and Magnus. This week covers scarcely clicked sources, API uses and wave at beautiful images.
  • Wikimedia Ghana is bringing together Ghanians to enrich and translate content for the Ga Language and Twi Language as part of the Wikidata For Education Project.
  • Mapping Linguistic territories using Wikidata and SPARQL - a topic presented by Camilo Fique, shows how to use Wikidata and the WDQS as tools for mapping linguistics. In this example, Camilo uses toponyms, specifically Human Settlements.
  • Evaluating Named Entity Disambiguation with Wikidata & SpaCy - creating a Named Entity Disambiguation model in SpaCy with the entity linker based on a custom knowledge base derived from Wikidata and Wikipedia, by Matthew Pellegrino.
• Notebooks: Gender differences in the number of sitelinks among members of the European Parliament, a statistical analysis based on Wikidata about the number of sitelinks by gender.

Tool of the week

• Wikidatalite : Search, browse, and navigate Wikidata items with a mobile-friendly, simplified user interface.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• MEPs: Sitelinks and Gender differences - this Notebook by PAC explores the completeness or lack of content differentiated by gender of MEP's in the Wikimedia Projects, helping highlight lack of representation and information.
• Metadata schemas and vocabularies for TU Delft's digitized special collections
• Dashboard of Members of European parlianent - by PAC02
• ORACC & Cuneiform Project - repository of LOD datasets for the FACTGRID Wikibase instance for the Cuneiform project.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • form decomposition (decomposition of a word)
  • nanopublication identifier (RDF-based publication, with references and history)
  • media modality (which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature)
  • height of letters (height of the letters of an inscription)
  • Imagehash difference hash (hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical)
  • image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
• Newest External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, Diccionario de la lengua española entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, ‎Oyez Project ID, ‎Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, ‎Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, ‎Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, ‎Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
  • RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
  • follows spelling paradigm (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
  • intervener ()
  • WEM facility code ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Oxford Reference entry, Peertube Channel Address, istina.msu.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, identifiant Sculpturo, AllSkaters persons ID, BSWW team ID, Algerian National Library ID, museum-digital person ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Supreme Court of Canada case number, Featherbase ID, TMDB award IDs, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Algerian National Assembly ID, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog Author ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, BeSoccer player ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, KupiGolos game ID, ffspb.org player ID, Touhou Wiki id, TUESPWiki id, az.lib.ru author ID, Droitne ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID

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(5000) unconnected television season articles in the english language wikipedia after pages have been moved

Hello,

in the english language wikipedia, thousands of articles for television seasons have been moved to remove brackets:

• en:Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 28

As a result, at the moment about 5.000 articles are now unconnected, which have been connected to wikidata objects before:

• https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=27553093
• https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/duplicity/#/stats/enwiki

Is there a way to reconnect these articles to the already existing wikidata items automatically again after moving the articles in the english language wikipedia?

@Mike Peel: for information.

Thanks a lot! M2k~dewiki (talk) 12:11, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

@M2k~dewiki: The bot should have moved them in a way that updated the sitelinks at the same time, if not then the bot operator should fix it. Pi bot will search for matches and load them into the game, if it can't find them that way then it would create new items for them soon. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:14, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Pinging the bot operator @Qwerfjkl: so they are aware of this and can fix this problem. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:15, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Also see

• en:Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Speedily-approved_page-moving_bot??
• en:Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Implementing_the_outcome_of_Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(television)#Follow-up_RfC_on_TV_season_article_titles

M2k~dewiki (talk) 12:18, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

I have proposed Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard#Proposal_for_admin_bot_to_create_local_accounts_for_users_in_other_wikis.--GZWDer (talk) 14:33, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

For example, en:American Idol (season 1) is now a redirect to en:American Idol season 1. The redirect en:American Idol (season 1) is still connected to d:Q655900, while the actual article en:American Idol season 1 is now unconnected. M2k~dewiki (talk) 17:58, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Also see

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ABots%2FNoticeboard&diff=1216554036&oldid=1216553261

M2k~dewiki (talk) 18:12, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Checking into this more, User:Pi bot has already created a bunch of new items for the affected articles already this morning, see [1]. Those now all need to be merged... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:46, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

I've turned off the Pi bot script to create new items for now, until this is cleaned up. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:11, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Sitelinks have been modified:

• https://quickstatements.toolforge.org/#/batch/227222
• https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Quesotiotyo&target=Quesotiotyo&offset=20240401093332&limit=500

Duplicates haven been merged, e.g.:

• https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q125242499&action=history
• https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q125242773&action=history
• https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q125242753&action=history
• https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q125242479&action=history
• https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&end=&namespace=all&newOnly=1&start=&tagfilter=&target=Pi+bot&offset=&limit=500
• https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&end=&namespace=all&newOnly=1&start=&tagfilter=&target=Pi+bot&offset=20240331085920&limit=500

M2k~dewiki (talk) 14:28, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@M2k~dewiki: Thanks for the update. Can you confirm if I can restart Pi bot's task for creating new items then? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:45, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T143486

Hello Mike, I only have the information above. Is there some test mode or dry-run-mode for Pi bot, in order to simulate what would be done, without committing the changes to the database? What will happen next time, if there is similar action executed by a user without wikidata account? Is there something we could do or improve to avoid this in the future? M2k~dewiki (talk) 18:42, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

E.g. Krdbot moved some of the pages to the new name, while leaving out others. What was the cause for not moving them? M2k~dewiki (talk) 18:47, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

@M2k~dewiki: I've looked through the latest database query results for unmatched articles, and I can only see a few entries mentioning 'season' so I think this is back to normal. Pi bot will work through them again from tomorrow onwards. I don't know what Krdbot does as @Krd: doesn't seem to publish the source code for it. I'm hoping phab:T143486 will help solve the longer term problem. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:01, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

How to handle vandalism

On Wikidata, is there a series of warnings that a user should be given before they can be blocked for vandalism? At what point can they be reported to Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard? Kk.urban (talk) 20:30, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

See Wikidata:Vandalism. TL;DR: If it’s just some childish one-off nonsense edit, just undo (or rollback, in case you have this right) and don’t waste any more time and energy. If it’s more, feel free to report to WD:AN. --Emu (talk) 23:24, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I will report them after only 2 edits. Kk.urban (talk) 23:26, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Misidentification of individual (one individual is actually at least two)

For https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6262795, this is actually at least two individuals. The Canadian photographer John Wallace Jones who is linked to his copyrighted photos in Wikimedia Commons was born around 1854 in Ireland. He started out as a photographer in Manitoba, Canada, then spent the rest of his working career as a photographer in Victoria and Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada. He died in Victoria on 7 Mar 1938. For some details about his career see David Mattison's "Camera Workers" website entry: https://www.cameraworkers.davidmattison.com/getperson.php?personID=I162

The American politician and judge are someone else (or two) entirely.

Thanks! 70.66.254.4 20:31, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that error! I moved the photographer to John Wallace Jones (Q125289004): (1854-1938) Canadian photographer --Emu (talk) 23:47, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Way to store inter-station distance, for subway and railway

I am seeking the right qualifier Property used under adjacent station (P197).

Example: Xizhimen station (Q847791)adjacent station (P197)Chegongzhuang station (Q5089563), the distance is 0.909km, stated in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_2_(Beijing_Subway) JuguangXiao (talk) 01:08, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Ni hao! There is a related discussion here: Property_talk:P197#Distance_between_stations. I don't like using "length" as it is ambiguous. Does it mean line-of-sight distance or track length? We don't need to store line-of-sight distance as we can simply calculate the distance based on the coordinates for the two stations. But maybe we need a new property for "length of roadway, railtrack and similar"? Infrastruktur (talk) 12:47, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

linear reference (P6710) seems common in railway terms. You could then calculate the difference between pairs of stations. It has the good feature the operator defines it. Vicarage (talk) 14:51, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Looking good! I just tried, but linear reference (P6710) is not a valid qualifier for adjacent station (P197) . JuguangXiao (talk) 00:49, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

你好 (= Ni Hao) :-) Track length is on my mind. Thank for pointing out old discussion. I am wondering if I move the discussion to Property_talk:P197 , will it be less attention to draw rather than posting in Project chat? JuguangXiao (talk) 00:43, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

David Napier (Q5237922)

The image on this page is incorrect as are the images where it is used on the Wikipedia entries. This is an image of David Napier marine engineer Born.10.11.1790, Died.23.11.1869 and not of David Napier the precision engineer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Napier_(marine_engineer)

I have an image of a portrait of the correct David Napier here https://npht.org/about-napier/napierians/key-napierians/david/ Unfortunately I don't know how to amend this information. Maybe somebody can help? NapierNige (talk) 08:08, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

I suggest you upload your image to Wikimedia Commons, we can't link to images on external sites. Then you can edit the reference here and check that its use on other wikipedias (some will use our value, others will hard-code the image name. Vicarage (talk) 08:30, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

I removed the uses of File:David Napier.jpg and corrected the description; the source filename https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im1870EnV29-p102.jpg refers to an obituary published in 1870 (https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/The_Engineer_1870/02/18) and used in https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/David_Napier_(1790-1869) but it was uploaded to Commons with the date as 1873. Peter James (talk) 14:38, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Many thanks Peter

I added the correct file to Commons. Maybe somebody could kindly add the image

David_Napier_Engineer_1787_-1873

to the correct page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Napier_(precision_engineer) NapierNige (talk) 15:26, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata Leveling Up Days, video contents and live event starting on April 5th

Hello all,

As a reminder, the Wikidata Leveling Up Days are coming up this month!

We prepared for you 14 short videos to cover everything that you need to know to get involved with Wikidata. You can watch them at your own pace on Wikimedia Commons or on Youtube. English captions are available, and you can contribute to translate these captions on Commons.

You can also join us for the live online event taking place during the upcoming week-ends, on April 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14. On each day, you will be able to explore a specific topic, watch or re-watch the videos together, ask questions to the speakers, or attend additional workshops. We will also have sessions dedicated to asking questions (Wikidata Clinic) and to edit Wikidata together (open live editing). You will find the schedule and all the details on the main event page.

For event-related announcements, discussions and questions, we will use the Wikidata Help Telegram channel - feel free to join it ahead of the event, and if you’re an experienced editor, you can join it as well to help answer newcomers' questions.

We’re looking forward to seeing you at the Wikidata Leveling Up Days! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:35, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Which session covers establishing notability for created items? Bovlb (talk) 17:42, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Just a note for the community that my reasonable question remains unanswered. More discussion at Wikidata_talk:Events/Leveling_Up_Days_2024#Notability. Bovlb (talk) 16:03, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Help with query

https://w.wiki/9gnG

Why does deprecated identifiers still show up? It completely defeats the purpose Trade (talk) 22:09, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

@Trade Actually the purpose of your selected syntax IS to show all statements, not just the true ones. If you want to keep this syntax and filter out only non-deprecated statements, you'll have to modify the query: https://w.wiki/9guT Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 06:41, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

{{List of properties/Row}} Update

I have updated {{List of properties/Row}} for clear syntax and clear result when using a property with a qualifier.The previous syntax still for backward compatibly . This is an example of new syntax:

{{List of properties/Header}}
{{List of properties/Row
 | id                = 22
 | qualifier = 143
 | example-subject   = Q9682
 | example-object    = Q280856
 | example-predicate = Q328
}}
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حبيشان (talk) 11:42, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Hyneria

Does anyone know why Hyneria lindae (Q132969) (currently titled Hyneria lindae) has sitelinks to many articles titled Hyneria? Kk.urban (talk) 20:10, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

It was considered a monotypic genus until last year; the corresponding Wikidata items just haven't been updated to account for this. Taxa aren't exactly a high traffic part of the site, it's mostly bots. —Xezbeth (talk) 20:52, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Most active Wikidata WikiProjects?

What are the most active WikiProjects in Wikidata?

"Active" may include number of participants, number of WikiProject talk page posts, size and frequency of contribution to WikiProject campaigns, development of project documentation, or whatever else indicates activity.

Thanks for any suggestions. Bluerasberry (talk) 15:32, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello, during the pandemic it might have been Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19.

Other projects are for example:

• projects by country: Category:Geographical WikiProjects, for example:
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Austria
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Germany
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Switzerland ...
• Cultural heritage / monuments: Wikidata:WikiProject Built heritage
• Wikidata:WikiProject_Taxonomy
• Wikidata:WikiProject Molecular biology
• Wikidata:WikiProject Chemistry
• Wikidata:WikiProject every politician
• Wikidata:WikiProject Music
• Wikidata:WikiProject Movies
• Category:Sports_WikiProjects
• Generic projects:
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Properties
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control

M2k~dewiki (talk) 19:40, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Also, often wikidata projects are discussed in the wikipedia language versions, for example:

• de:Benutzer:M2k~dewiki/FAQ#Infos_zu_Straßen and the following sections on that FAQ page

M2k~dewiki (talk) 19:45, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings - PKM (talk) 22:09, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata:WikiProject Manuscripts - PKM (talk) 22:40, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks both I cross posted this to Wikidata_talk:WikiProjects#Most_active_WikiProjects so that others would find it. I would not have guessed about some of these. Thanks! Bluerasberry (talk) 16:59, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

When should I add wiktionary sitelink?

I tried to add hy:wikt:աստղ to star (Q523) and got a warning about notability. It said that "Wikidata's notability policy does not allow links to Wiktionary entries unless the interlanguage links cannot be automatically provided. By clicking on "save", you confirm that this is the case. In general, connecting Wiktionary words to Wikidata concepts is not correct." is there any policy page where I can read about this? How do I decide if it is or it is not okay to add Wiktionary link? ԱշոտՏՆՂ (talk) 09:22, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello, documentation can be found at Wikidata:Wiktionary/Sitelinks M2k~dewiki (talk) 09:49, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, @M2k~dewiki. ԱշոտՏՆՂ (talk) 23:35, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I’ve now reverted the edit and also posted an edit request that the mentioned documentation page should be linked in the error message you saw. Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 12:10, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #623

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 2024-04-08. Translations are available.

Events

• Did you manage to see the first weekend and sessions of the Leveling Up Days 2024, well fret not as there is another weekend of Wikidata-related sessions to come. Day 4 begins Friday April 12, join via Jitsi - see you there!
• Wikidata - collect and use open data (Italian) - April 19 at the University of Catania, Léa Lacroix and Luca Martinelli (WMIT) will give an overview of Wikidata's use for sharing data, querying data and some of its main applications.
• Build Open Data through Wikidata: a database integration model (Taiwanese) - April 9 19:00 - 20:00. Wang Wenyue (WMTW) will lead this discussion on how Wikidata can re-connect and index a topic that may be documented in multiple various places online.
• Wikimania 2024: Submission deadline extended to April 10, 12:00 UTC! Get your Wikidata submissions in.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Told Cities: Unveiling the Heritage and Chronicles of UNESCO World Heritage Cities - initiated by Wiki World Heritage, this project aims to comprehensively document UNESCO World Heritage Cities using Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.
• Videos
  • Wikidata editing #113 (English) at Wikidata Leveling Up Days. Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists.
  • Panel: 10 years of FAIR principle - Lydia Pintscher joins a panel to talk about implementation of FAIR principles and how Wikidata and Wikibase can contribute.

Tool of the week

• Anti-Pattern Analyzer is a static website capable of checking the existence of 'anti-pattern 1' (AP1) occurrences given an entity from Wikidata. It can also check if a new statement would introduce new violations.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Only 13 more days to go! The deadline to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions is coming closer and closer. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • nanopublication identifier (RDF-based publication, with references and history)
  • media modality (which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature)
  • height of letters (height of the letters of an inscription)
  • Imagehash difference hash (hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical)
  • image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
  • base units (property that lists the different units that a unit is derived from, would be useful to add a qualifier for the exponent of each unit)
  • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations)
  • RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
• Newest External identifiers: OSL ID, ‎Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, ‎Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, ‎Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
  • follows spelling paradigm (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
  • WEM facility code ()
  • API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
  • Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''type of representation''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RERO+ ID, Peertube Channel Address, BSWW team ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, ffspb.org player ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Droitne ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Zillow zpid, Cemu Wiki article ID, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, Algerian Government ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, Oxford Reference subject ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, mosff.ru staff ID, Hanslick Online person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Tolkien-style plurals (source)
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
  • Lexemes with a Sense related to a geolocated Item
  • Map of all places related to persons with layers by property of the place (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Hijri Calendar - aims to create and improve Items for Hijri Calendar dates such as 1 Ramadan (Q4886009).
  • MLA Linked Data Working Group - The Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) is a Music Library Association (MLA) working group convened by the MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC). Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
• Newest database reports: birthdays today - People born this day of the year (primarily currently living people)
• Showcase Items: John Cale (Q45909) - Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer
• Showcase Lexemes: armastuskolmnurk (L415173) - Estonian noun, translated "love triangle"

Development

• REST API:
  • We continued the work on the endpoint for creating an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
  • We continued the work on the endpoint for modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (]]phab:T347394]])
• EntitySchemas: Work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements is continuing.
• mul language code: We are fixing remaining issues uncovered during testing. (phab:T355059, phab:T356200, phab:T135871, phab:T356201)

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: Misc
• 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!

· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) · 15:43, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

April 2024 Wikidata content pie chart

April 2024 Wikidata statistics

We have an updated pie 🥧 chart for Wikidata:Statistics! Wow the Wikidata:WikiCite slice sure is large and tasty.

BTW - there is not particular news published for sharing but developers at the Wikimedia Foundation and WikiCite contributors are discussing a split of the Wikidata Query Service Graph. See Wikidata_talk:WikiCite#WikiCite_in_continued_limbo for background, and post to the WikiCite talk page if you want to join discussions and get updates.

Thanks user:VIGNERON for generating this. Bluerasberry (talk) 16:55, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Only one name item per name?

Replies to my question here are very welcome: Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Names#Which_items_should_be_added_as_P735? D3rT!m (talk) 22:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Something has gone wrong with the authors here...

2018 American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Annual Meeting & Exhibition (Q57498725) duplicate entries, duplicate "object named as"... Magnus Manske (talk) 07:42, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

It is a problem at source that was imported in the original edit. If you check the PubMed link, you will see the same author names repeated multiple times. From Hill To Shore (talk) 10:10, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

NOMBRE OFICIAL DEL PUEBLO Y PLAYA

Daimús es el nombre oficial de la población, con lo cual solicito que se sustituya el uso de 'Daimuz' por el oficial, tanto en el pueblo como en la playa. Daimús y Playa de Daimús. Robert Miñana (talk) 09:51, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Adding item for a book that is self-published and has ISBN

About adding Wikidata item for a book that is self-published and has ISBN: is this allowed? I seem to recall Wikisource does not allow self-published works; does Wikidata allow them? If there were no requirement of ISBN, I can see problems (too many Internet pages could lay claim to be self-published works worthy of a Wikidata item), but the item I am considering to add does have an ISBN. (I am not the self-publisher.) Dan Polansky (talk) 08:53, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

It is unlikely for a self-published book to be notable. But most books with a proper publisher are probably ok assuming you add a couple decent references (identifiers count here). ISBN doesn't establish notability by itself. You can find the policy here.

There are some exceptions of course. Andy Weir's “The Martian” is self-published for instance. This was used as a basis for a major movie.

You gave me a good idea by the way. I think I'm going to add a "complex constraint" to check for known self-publishing houses. Infrastruktur (talk) 13:32, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Of course WD has the distinction between the creative work and the published physical book. As more authors start with self-publishing and if successful either stick with the model or get picked up by others, I think its likely we will have notable works with both self-published and publishing house editions, with different ISBNs. And I'd be wary of making judgement calls as to which commercial organisations are 'proper' publishers or are merely assisting with the self-publishing revolution. A work that features in its genre websites, like Internet Speculative Fiction Database (Q2629164) seems a good candidate irrespective of publishing method. Vicarage (talk) 22:45, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

English Wikisource will allow certain kinds of self-published works, provided they meet stringent criteria, and some self-published works have historical, scientific, or cultural notability.

But when you say "book", I assume you mean a specific edition of that work, since there is an ISBN? --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:27, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

I mean ISBN 0954029100, found in Google Books and Amazon. I have only a tentative grasp of the "book" vs. "edition" distinction; my guess--but only a guess--is that I mean an edition.

Wikidata:Notability item 2--the one that could theoretically apply--is too generic/vague for me to understand. Thank you all for answers so far. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:21, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Move request

Hello everyone, how do I create a request to rename/move a lexeme? Due to the renaming of a company, I would like to request that OPmobility (Q3391735) be renamed to "OPmobility". See the French WP for sources. Thanks for your answers. --Thingol (talk) 22:13, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

That is an item rather than a lexeme. A move isn't necessary. You just add a new alias with the alternative name. If other editors don't object, you can swap the alias with the main label, but you must keep both. From Hill To Shore (talk) 23:05, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Understood. Thanks for the quick reply. --Thingol (talk) 20:59, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Conflation errors

It looks like a dozen entries from one source have conflation and typographical errors, can someone look at Karel Sicha (Q95151151) and Josef Gerschon (Q61912800) and Václav Mach (Q95138276), which looks like a conflation, while I take care of the typographical errors. RAN (talk) 12:13, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) If you find other conflations, please report them to me. These were manually paired based on suggestions provided by the reconciliation service, but it seems that I mis-clicked in a few out of the 1800 entries. Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 13:27, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

• @Vojtěch Dostál: Do you have a contact at REGO where they can fix their typographical errors, there were maybe 10 where they typed dates that should be 1800s as 1900s. We used to have a contact at VIAF that would fix typographical errors at the source, then we could delete them here. REGO might have someone that can do the same. --RAN (talk) 13:53, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

  I will try to pass the information to them, please compile a list of these and e-mail them to me, if you can. Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 14:11, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

• I will have to do a search for values we deprecated where they are the source. --RAN (talk) 18:19, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

questions go here?

Is this the right place to ask questions? My apologies if not. I would like to ask these questions about best practices and community etiquette:

This newly created record - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125408315 - has at least two problems: the pseudonym and the name. Because the name is wrong, I'm inclined to make a duplicate entry for the person and merge them. Would it be better to attempt to move Q125408315 so I can correct the name?

The pseudonym is incorrect; he did not use that pseudonym. But I know where the misinformation came from; the contributor mistook a generic ironic phrase and applied it specifically. Should I simply delete the bad data? Delete it and leave a note on the discussion for the entity? Delete it and leave a note for the individual contributor of that info? What is the proper way to correct the data? Jerimee (talk) 19:16, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Yes, this is the right place to ask questions. To make an internal link to an item, you can write it like {{Q|125408315}} which produces Henry Fournier (Q125408315). Next, there is no point creating a new entry and then merging it; you may as well edit the existing item. The pseudonym is supported by a reference that seems to be guessing the pseudonym; I'd deprecate the statement (see Help:Deprecation). What change are you wanting to make to the name? From Hill To Shore (talk) 19:33, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks so much! That reference is a single line of text on a blog that reads "nothing is known about him, he might have well as signed his name blotch." It is an easy enough mistake to make; it is like saying "he might as well have signed his name X" or "he might as well have signed his name John Doe."

His name is Henry, not Henri, despite his being French. Source 1: https://www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/ui/notice/147360 Source 2: https://archives.var.fr/ark:/73531/s00512dd01ec64bd/512dd01f10e92 Alt Img for Source 1: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/png/Fournier-3954-1 So Henry Fournier (Q125408315) needs to be moved to label "Henry Fournier."

The pseudonym issue is separate from the label issue. And thanks for letting me know it is better to simply move, than to create new and then merge. Jerimee (talk) 20:08, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

I got confused, and thought for some reason labels could not be edited without doing a move. My apologies. I think I have my answers now. :) Jerimee (talk) 20:17, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Possible merge needed.

1. Q20423164 / 2. Q125491384

These both seem to be the same person. "Muhammad Ali Tamim" is the correct spelling according to various sources. If needed, could they be merged? Thanks, -- Ooligan (talk) 21:31, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Merged. For more information on how you can merge items yourself see Help:Merge. -- William Graham (talk) 21:57, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 19:26, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Please merge

Q2384903 and Q122232511 are identical persons.

Next time I will try it myself. Ronald Weiss (talk) 17:03, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

 Merged, thanks for noting us! For the next time you can find help at Help:Merge. –Samoasambia ✎ 17:19, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 19:26, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Where an item uesed in wikimedia projects

How to check where an item used in wikimedia projects? حبيشان (talk) 18:05, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

@حبيشان: Navigate to the item. Click "Page information." Scroll down to "Wikis subscribed to this entity." Now you can click on each wiki to see which pages on that wiki use the item. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 18:49, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

@Matěj Suchánek Thank you. حبيشان (talk) 12:04, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. --حبيشان (talk) 12:04, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

throughput (P2957)

I am looking for a property to indicate the storage capacity of buildings such as silos or granary. This case (Silo of Allo (Q99790705) has the throughput but it is limited and gives an error. Is there any other property more suitable? Vanbasten 23 (talk) 08:28, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

volume as quantity (P2234) but it looks like it should only be used with units of volume, not units of mass. Peter James (talk) 11:36, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Would it be appropriate for throughput (P2957) to allow tons to be entered? One of its aliases is capacity and in Spanish load capacity, which are measured in kilos or tons. For example, the wheat storage capacity of a building such as a silo or granary. All the best. CC: @Epìdosis: @Multichill: @Madamebiblio: --Vanbasten 23 (talk) 10:02, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

@Abián: wrote to me to tell me the problem that the use of tons can bring. It is not a very reliable measure, therefore we should not use it, so thank you all. --Vanbasten 23 (talk) 13:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Written work

Peek at Rem Cashow (1768-1816) biography (Q125417076) where instance_of=genealogical biography (Q125417108) is not being recognized as a written_work, how can I get rid of the error massages? RAN (talk) 18:23, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

I updated Q125417108 BrokenSegue (talk) 18:43, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

• Thanks! That one had ne stumped for a bit. I never would have come up with "genre" by myself. --RAN (talk) 17:13, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

For written works like that, shouldn't instance of (P31)written work (Q47461344) plus genre (P136)genealogical biography (Q125417108) be used? I think genres aren't usually used as values for P31 statements. --95.90.253.130 17:18, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

yeah that is more appropriate BrokenSegue (talk) 16:39, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Query Count in Table

Hi,

Kindly requesting, How to add an auto-updating 'count' (number of items) in a table on a project page? Wallacegromit1 (talk) 12:33, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

I am trying to add the following query value into a table;

SELECT (COUNT(*) AS ?count)

WHERE {

?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5 .

?item wdt:P27 wd:Q408 .

?item wdt:P106 wd:Q60461966 .

}

Try it!

• @Wallacegromit1: Have you looked into Template:Wikidata list? It's for lists, but maybe could be adapted to get a count also? Not sure. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:10, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

@ArthurPSmith Thanks for the suggestion, but it does not seem to work.

There must be an easier way to just get the count? Wallacegromit1 (talk) 01:24, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Getting a filter error with reference URL entrepreneur.com

"Could not save due to an error. The save has failed. The text you wanted to publish was blocked by the spam filter. This is probably caused by a link to a forbidden external site. The following text is what triggered our spam filter: entrepreneur.com"

Not sure why that website would be blocked on Wikidata: American magazine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur_(magazine) Piecesofuk (talk) 09:14, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

This is the first time I see this kind of error. I had a similar error, if only I had read project chat before posting I would not need to post my issue. Anyway I thought this was so unique of a problem that only I had it. Now I see that you also had an issue with entering references. I guess someone is working hard right now to fix it...I'll actually log out, then I'll log in again in a few hours...perhaps its fixed by then...who knows. Thanks for reporting! TooFewUsernames (talk) 10:02, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

It could be that admins have deemed links to that website mostly unwanted. So even if the site itself is ok, it might feature often as a reference in promotional spam whilst not being useful for establishing notability. But that's speculation of course.

I have no idea if admins are exempt from the blacklist, but bots are, so I guess. What claim were you trying to add? I'll try adding it for you. Infrastruktur (talk) 16:55, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia has it as "No Consensus" in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources so it shouldn't be blacklisted here. Anything listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=insource%3A%22entrepreneur.com%22&title=Special:Search&ns0=1 should be allowed as a valid reference on Wikidata Piecesofuk (talk) 18:07, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

I would like to point out that this is an invalid argument. Wikidata is not English Wikipedia (as the majority of English Wikipedians are eager to point out whenever there is an opportunity to work with Wikidata). The issues that Wikidata faces are not the same as English Wikipedia. An argument that something is okay "here" because English Wikipedia says it is okay "there" holds little weight.

On the other hand, if you would like to bring up similar points to those discussed at Wikipedia, you may gain a separate consensus here that goes the same way. From Hill To Shore (talk) 19:46, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Have I misunderstood the purpose of Wikidata? (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:About_data) Shouldn't it store all the structured data within all Wikipedias including references? Piecesofuk (talk) 20:01, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Two key principles of the Wikimedia movement are that (with the exception of breaches of law) decisions are made by consensus and that a consensus on one project can't dictate how another project operates. Wikidata can't dictate how things operate on English Wikipedia and English Wikipedia can't dictate how things operate on Wikidata. You have to reach a separate consensus in both projects.

I have no knowledge of this blocked source other than the Wikipedia article you linked. My issue is solely that you can't point us to a consensus on another project and expect changes to be implemented without discussion. The consensus must be formed here too. From Hill To Shore (talk) 20:41, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

As stated below the change was implemented here without discussion. Piecesofuk (talk) 06:49, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Has been blacklisted locally since January 2021 by @Lymantria for long term abuse, see here. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 18:20, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Long term abuse? It's a legitimate magazine published since 1977. Can it be removed from the blacklist? Piecesofuk (talk) 18:44, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

You make a good argument, but let's hear from Lymantria first. Infrastruktur (talk) 18:50, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

It may be a legitimate magazine, it's been the base to a lot of spam as well. The latter has been the reason for blacklisting it. Feel free to debate that decision here, I will be out of office from tomorrow onwards for a few weeks. If it is decided that this blacklisting is to be removed, I will accept so. --Lymantria (talk) 19:10, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Could you provide a link to the discussion which alleged that the magazine was used as a base for spam, I can't find any evidence of that.

Wikidata editors should be able to copy any and all references that are stored in Wikipedia into Wikidata. Isn't that what Wikidata is for, to store all the structureed data in Wikipedia? Piecesofuk (talk) 19:36, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

There has not been such a discussion as far as I remember, which is not uncommon @Wikidata. Your statement on what Wikidata editors should be able to, may be a bit too general. --Lymantria (talk) 20:05, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

This is my understanding of "Instead of supporting the structure and common elements of a web page, Wikidata provides structure for all the information stored in Wikipedia, and on the other Wikimedia projects. " https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:About_data Piecesofuk (talk) 06:56, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

This is WD:UCS territory. Wikidata does not exist in a vacuum, it needs to consider the needs of the wiki-sphere, but ultimately local concerns take precedence. If you've seen how much promotional spam there is, I think you just might change your mind. What's even worse is when people decide to abuse the appeal system even if they have no case at all, wasting the time of others. Some admins (and since I can only speak for one that kind of narrows it down) have even stopped deleting promotional items because of this, instead focusing on other types of deletions. If this does not sound sustainable, it is because it is not. Infrastruktur (talk) 19:15, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

It would be helpful if someone would provide a single example of spam abuse from entrepreneur.com Piecesofuk (talk) 07:01, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

From a quick look at Entrepreneur's marketing materials on their "Entrepreneur Partner Studio", it appears that sponsored content and paid placement contributor networks are some part of their business model. Contributor network content being larger on their international franchises.

Whether it's to a level that is so pervasive that it overwhelms the value of their reported editorial content is beyond me. I contrast them with Insider/BusinessInsider who is not on the blocklist, but has a well known and significant level of sponsored content/paid placement contributor networks. --William Graham (talk) 18:32, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

main_subject/major_subject versus secondary_subject/minor_subject in Wikidata entries

How can we provide secondary_subject search terms in a Wikidata entry for an obituary? I may be looking through Wikidata for an obituary of someone associated with a particular Olympics or associated with a particular company, but it appears main_subject can only be used for the name of the deceased person. Is there any way to include search terms other than the deceased person's name? For instance at Commons in structured_data you include all search terms and mark the deceased person's name as "prominent" and leave the other search terms unmarked. How would we do this here at Wikidata? Can I include all useful search terms and mark the deceased person's name with "preferred rank" and leave the other search terms as "normal rank"? I can understand not including every name in the index at an entry for a book, but an obituary may only have 5 or 6 secondary_subject search terms. What is the best way to include useful search terms without violating the rigid definition of main_subject? RAN (talk) 18:05, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

I don't believe main subject (P921) has a rigid definition at all - see for example the (long) discussion on Wikidata:Property proposal/subject facet. I believe it can and should be used for any sort of useful keyword on an item for a work. Did somebody revert you for using main subject (P921) for another term on an obituary? ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:58, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

• The change was made at this entry: David Emanuel Wahlberg (1882-1949) obituary (Q105337575) to remove all the search terms but the name of the decedent. I am not against making the decedent's name "preferred rank". I do that when the obituary is also at Wikisource, since changes at Wikisource now cause links to form for all the terms at Wikidata, if they have Wikipedia entries, and I only want them for the decedent. --RAN (talk) 22:16, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

When you say "this entry," were you intending to link to a specific item? From Hill To Shore (talk) 22:27, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

• Ha! I went back and added it, sorry for the confusion, I went to cut and paste it in as David Emanuel Wahlberg (1882-1949) obituary (Q105337575), but it looks like I just cut and pasted an empty space. I do not think that the number of search terms that I had added were unreasonable. The text is in Swedish so having the links to Wikidata entries for the people/places/things mentioned are very useful. As in most news articles abbreviations are used to save space, and linking to the actual term is very useful. For USA news articles, I know what NY and NJ mean but I cannot expect someone from another country to know what they mean. --RAN (talk) 22:59, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

I can see your point but these types of discussions are never resolved unless we allow the other party to provide their perspective. @Quesotiotyo: would you like to comment here as the one who reverted the edit? Would you be willing to let the information be restored either under main subject (P921) or another property? From Hill To Shore (talk) 23:34, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

I dont read Swedish but it sound that any decent obituary if the man would cover his Alma mater and his sporting prowess, so adding the terms is superfluous. If I wanted obituaries of 1912 olympians I'd ask for the people, and then obituaries, and not go through main_subject, and get a thin set of results Vicarage (talk) 00:43, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Not every obituary has an entry for the decedent. There is a current project to load all the obituaries from the New York Times. And we should have a standard rule, not ad hoc deletion. We also should not restrict how someone may search for an obituary they are looking for, because that is not the way any other individual would search for it. I prefer to use Google to search through Wikidata, and the more relevant search terms, the more precise a Google search becomes. As I said before, we do not need to include every term listed in an index if we have an entry for a book. --RAN (talk) 01:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Why would you accept an obituary without a decedent? If the obituary is worth recording it should be able to populate a person entry. I think this is a clear case of using WDs structure to remove duplicate information. Vicarage (talk) 06:38, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Because an obituary comes from "serious and publicly available" resource. An entry for the decedent, that does not have a Wikidata entry can have one created at any time. The same argument could be used to not host scientific articles because we do not have an entry for the author, yet we have over 10,000 scientific articles with no link to an author or a topic. We host scientific articles because they are a "serious and publicly available" resource. --RAN (talk) 19:33, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

You have it slightly wrong. Wikidata:Notability allows for entities described by serious and publicly available references. The vast majority of articles that we have are not being used as a reference source.

--Quesotiotyo (talk) 19:46, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

It may not be clear what property (educated at, affiliation, qualifier on degree) you would find an "alma mater" under in Wikidata - if it was even listed on the person's item? I don't see how adding it to the obituary item hurts anything here - it's redundant only in a very indirect sense. But maybe @Quesotiotyo: can clarify. If it was on a "keyword" property instead of "main subject" would it be acceptable, or also "redundant" and to be deleted? ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:35, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

By all means, include this information using an appropriate property. I wasn't suggesting that any of it was redundant, just that it in no way fit the description of P921 ("primary topic of a work").

--Quesotiotyo (talk) 19:37, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

@Quesotiotyo: despite the description text, main subject (P921) also has aliases that indicate it is (and has been widely) used for "non-primary" topics. Are you familiar with previous discussion regarding alternate property proposals for non-primary topics (such as Wikidata:Property proposal/subject facet)? Would you strongly support such an alternative? We don't seem to have had a consensus on this up to now. ArthurPSmith (talk) 23:49, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

See, I would view those aliases and uses that you refer to as point-blank wrong since they do not fit the definition of this property, and in my opinion they should be removed without question. If any users really want this information to persist, it should be up to them to request a property specifically for such a purpose (and then add the statements in the correct manner). As you have noted, this has been attempted several times before and there has never been clear support to have one. I must say that I find that very telling. I would be in favor of having such an alternative though if it means a reduction in the number of P915 misuses and the time needed to fix them (and transferring the statements to a new property using something like the moveClaim gadget would be an ideal way of doing so).

--Quesotiotyo (talk) 04:09, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

• I am reversing the deletion, I am looking at instance_of=obituary and over 100 entries have more than one main_subject. We should not have ad hoc changes, the rule should apply to all Wikidata entries. If a hard rule is made that there can only be one main_subject, we can delete all others. Or if we create secondary_subject, they can be migrated there. As a compromise I have up-ranked the name of the decedent, which appears to be the only way to add in search terms unless we create secondary_subject. --RAN (talk) 19:39, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

 Note The above user created many of those 100+ obituary items and is the reason that they have multiple main subjects. --Quesotiotyo (talk) 20:03, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Add corresponding depicts (P180) statements if depicts Iconclass notation (P1257) is present

There is a rather big number of depicts Iconclass notation (P1257) statements (~47k) on items with no depicts (P180) statement, cf.:

SELECT ?obj ?objLabel ?IC ?motiv ?motivLabel Where {
  ?obj wdt:P1257 ?IC .
  MINUS { ?obj wdt:P180 ?x . }
  ?motiv wdt:P1256 ?IC .
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en".}
}

Try it!

I think it might be useful to additionally convert the depicts-statement that is implicit in depicts Iconclass notation (P1257) into an explicit depicts (P180) which is definitely easier to work with. Do you see any problems here?

21:52, 12 April 2024 (UTC) Awinkler3 (talk) 21:52, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

I probably added the majority of these two years ago based on the iconclass data I got. I did look at adding more depicts (P180), but didn't do it at a large scale. I would probably do it semi-automatic. Some things to be aware of:

• Quite a few iconclass topics don't match with items here. Too specific or just a bit different
• Some iconclass topics are better as main subject (P921) (or genre (P136)) than depicts (P180)
• In some cases you can only add a couple of depicts, but not all. If you do that, you'll remove the item from the list and no easy way to come back to it
• If you're doing this, would probably be useful to add something like inferred from (P3452) to keep track of it. This might also a way to solve the previous point. So if you can make a query of items that don't have depicts (P180) or only have depicts (P180) inferred from (P3452) iconclass, than you can just work your way don't the topics

I hope you can do something nice with this data. Multichill (talk) 14:06, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Russian labels

Currently, there are two types of Russian labels for persons. Some labels start with the surname separated from the rest of the name with a comma, while other labels keep the usual order starting with the first name. Is there a consensus on what should be used as label? D3rT!m (talk) 23:01, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

@D3rT!m: There seems to have been a long-running discussion about this with no clear consensus. You might want to "ping" the people who have raised this before to see if you can come together on a rule. ArthurPSmith (talk) 14:24, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Former kind is seems to be imported from article names. Infoboxes use later kind and it should be used for labels EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:26, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Portuguese vs. Brazilian Portuguese vs. (non-existent) European Portuguese

Hello,

For a long time, I have had doubts about the use of label in the Portuguese language. We are well aware that there are considerable differences between the Portuguese spoken on both sides of the Atlantic; Brazilian Portuguese is somewhat different from European Portuguese, especially concerning the spelling of words, as well as vocabulary to refer to certain concepts. I notice that alongside the language Portuguese, there is Brazilian Portuguese, but there is not European Portuguese. That being said, my main question is which variant should be given priority in labeling the language Portuguese in Wikidata items. Should it be the Portuguese spoken by 200 million people, or the one spoken by the rest of the Lusophone world, which does not even reach half of its total? The same happens with description. Should priority be given to the first term used? Portuguese is a term that generically refers to various variants of the same language, whether it is the Portuguese of 19th-century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, the Portuguese of 16th-century poet Luís de Camões, the Portuguese spoken by millions of Brazilians today, or the Portuguese of 13th-century troubadours. Pinging Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton in case he has something to add.

Thanks,

RodRabelo7 (talk) 13:13, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

I don’t speak Portuguese, but if the only distinction provided by Wikidata is “Portuguese” vs. “Brazilian Portuguese” and there is no “Standard” Portuguese, I feel inclined to understand “Portuguese” as “European Portuguese” (i.e. the language spoken in Portugal). Whether consistent usage following this distinction can be achieved is another issue though… --Data Consolidation Officer (talk) 15:52, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Lisa Sotilis (Q17101800)

Lisa Sotilis (Q17101800) is getting some vandalism (being labelled a 'scam professional'). Can an admin protect the page? Malcolmxl5 (talk) 21:19, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Please see the text box at the top of the page. Requests for page protection should be made at Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard. Are there more than just the two new accounts that have vandalised the page today? If not, it may be better to just report the two accounts for vandalism and request protection only if further vandalism occurs. From Hill To Shore (talk) 21:32, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Seems like an incorrect editing is not recurring. --Wolverène (talk) 12:24, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Wolverène (talk) 12:24, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Lexeme reference failure

Have been trying to add this reference URL as a source/reference for ages but it fails every time: https://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/lexica/triantafyllides/search.html?page=1&lq=γουδί

I am using Lexeme:L944697 as a template for my contribution to Lexeme:L1319516 which I recently created.

On Lexeme:L944697 the reference URL is https://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/lexica/triantafyllides/search.html?page=1&lq=τραγούδι but I can't add the url for https://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/lexica/triantafyllides/search.html?page=1&lq=γουδί, fails every time.

Do I need to be more trusted in Wikidata for me to add references or is the problem that its in Greek? I also tried adding the URL https://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/lexica/triantafyllides/search.html?lq=%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B4%CE%AF and it also failed(no Greek characters visible)

Also why isn't {{L:944697}} not working? It does for Q items, so if anyone got the time to fix it, please help. TooFewUsernames (talk) 09:57, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

@TooFewUsernames: I had no problem adding the reference. I cannot find any evidence why it should have worked for you (e.g., spam blacklist).

Also why isn't {{L:944697}} not working? {{L|L944697}} (τραγούδι (L944697)) is. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:42, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #622

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 2024-04-15.
Translations are available.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • AzBot - Task: adding a space in over 7k malformed Dutch descriptions per this request.
  • DifoolBot 3 - Task: fill in empty English/French/German labels and basic statements for persons with VIAF ID (P214) and a VIAF authority source GND ID (P227), IdRef ID (P269), Bibliothèque nationale de France ID (P268) or Library of Congress authority ID (P244)

Events

• The next Wikidata Bug triage hour is happening on April 15th at 16UTC. It will focus on mobile editing of statements.
• Telegram Office Hour - 04-10-2024 log - if you missed all the exciting updates, you can see them all here on the Archived log.
• The Leveling Up Days 2024 was concluded, you can watch the videos available on the program page and contribute to the captions on Wikimedia Commons.
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 16, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 16 April, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is, amazingly, 5 years old this month, and we are planning a very Zoomy celebration befitting our virtual community. We are hoping you can join and share some reflections. Feel free to sign our anniversary card and update your Zoom background to something festive! Agenda
• Documenting Nigeria's Supreme Court Cases - this online event is a contest to enrich and connect the verdicts and sitting Judges of Nigerian Supreme Court cases. Points will be awarded for contributions. Event ends: 28 April 00:00 UTC.
• Edit-A-Thon of the LOD user group: Midwest Collaborative Library Services - registration is now open for this online event, taking place 22 - 26 April.
• II International Convention on GLAM Wikiverse and Gender - June 5, Aula Rubió, Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, University of Barcelona (UB), 9:30-1:30 p.m.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Working towards a Brazilian History Knowledge Graph - Mike Young describes the progress towards building a KG on Brazilian history and how Wikidata supported this endeavour, especially for linking poiticians, movements, constitutions, laws and events that may not be notable for individual Wikipedia articles.
  • Reimagining cultural heritage data - this article by Jason Evans documents the efforts of the Llyfgrell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales) to open their archives and datasets to Wikidata and the creation of their Wikibase-powered SNARC Tool (Semantic Name Authority Repository Cymru).
  • Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata how to remove the mismatches between Wikidata and Openstreetmap for villages of a district in Andhra Pradesh (India)
  • Andhra Pradesh/Notes/Arjunaraoc/Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata
• Presentations
  • Wikidata: your friendly (University's) knowledge graph - Christian Erlinger on behalf of the University of Innsbruck has produced this slidedeck showing how Wikidata can be used for science and research communication.
  • Workshop: Making the Colombian public domain visible on Wikidata (in Spanish) - Fundación Conector with the support of Wikimedia Colombia presented this workshop to create items in Wikidata about Colombian authors. This is part of the directory of Colombian authors in Public domain
• Papers: Assessing knowledge organization systems from a gender perspective: Wikipedia taxonomy and Wikidata ontologies - analyze the ontologies of Wikidata and the taxonomy of Wikipedia. Centelles, M. and Ferran-Ferrer, N. (2024)
• Videos
  • Wikidata per la ricerca (Wikidata for research): online conference, organized on 9 April 2024 by Wikimedia Italia, by Epìdosis (in Italian: slides and video)
  • Demonstration of the XML-TEI Wikidata Geocoder Tool (French) - This tool from PhilippGam will showcase how the Wikidata Geocoder tool can extract information such as PersName, PlaceName, geographic coordinates and images from XML-TEI files. Try it here.
  • Live Wikidata Editing #113 with User:Abbe98 and User:Ainali explain the thought process behind how they edit whilst looking at biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists, during the Leveling Up Days 2024 event.
  • WikiConference NA 2023
    • Open scholarly communication with Wikidata - Daniel Mietchen talks about the benefits of Wikidata and the Wikimedia platforms to enhance researcher and collaborative workflows.
    • Wikidata for open museum data sharing - Rhonda Yearwood explains how Wikidata can facilitate and provide a platform for the open sharing of Museum and Gallery datasets.
    • Wikidata's usefulness for university knowledge sharing- Will (Wiki Ed) hosts workshops on Wikidata and advocates Wikidata as a way for Universities to share general reference knowledge.
  • FOSSGIS 2024 Modelling with 'Fuzziness' / 'Wobbliness' in Geodata (German) - Florian Thiery presents a paper on data-driven use cases for modeling vague or uncertain georeference data, to adhere to FAIR principles as closely as possible.
• Notebooks: Medias by country

Tool of the week

• Missing biographies, a companion tool which helps identifies people without a biography in a given Wikipedia using Wikidata
• It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.

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Newest properties and property proposals to review

• General datatypes:
  • nanopublication identifier (RDF-based publication, with references and history)
  • media modality (which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature)
  • height of letters (height of the letters of an inscription)
  • Imagehash difference hash (hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical)
  • image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
  • derived from base unit (the base unit(s) that this derived unit is derived from)
  • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations)
  • RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
  • ‎API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, ‎Instagram account numeric ID, ‎‎Doom Wiki ID, ‎DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ‎ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, ‎Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
  • follows spelling paradigm (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
  • WEM facility code ()
  • Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''representation type''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
  • EBITDA ()
  • Authorised capital ()
  • is fake of (the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for)
  • image decay (image decay suffered by an old photograph)
  • number of submissions (number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference)
  • number of accepted contributions (number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference)
  • risk group (Risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification {{Q|125449255}})
  • electoral symbol (symbol allocated to a political party / candidate for use on ballots)
  • tartan image (image of the item's tartan)
  • tartan (subject's tartan)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RERO+ ID, Peertube Channel Address, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, az.lib.ru author ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Zillow zpid, Cemu Wiki article ID, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, Algerian Government ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, mosff.ru staff ID, Hanslick Online person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, HCERES organisation ID, CPV profile ID, SPV profile ID, Duden Sense ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, Algerian trademark number, YList ID, WDF players ID, GovTrack person, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, pressball.by football manager ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, Delisted Games ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, Kritikanstvo IDs, case number (mainland China), myabandonware.com game id, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID, English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, NICE Paintings ID, AccessAble venue ID

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• Query examples: Map of river names in german coloured by gender
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • MLA Linked Data Working Group - The Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) is a Music Library Association (MLA) working group convened by the MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC). Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
  • Albums - A WikiProject about music album releases
  • Algeria - Aims to collaborate on Algeria-related topics
• Showcase Items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062) - Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
• Showcase Lexemes: kone (L6888) - Finish noun, translate to "machine"

Development

• mul langauge code: We are finishing the polishing for the first proper release coming soon.
• EntitySchema: We are continuing the work on the new datatype that will make it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
• REST API:
  • We continued work on creating an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
  • We continued work on modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)

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: Misc (2/n)
• 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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