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Wikidata weekly summary #563
- 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:
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #84, Carnival
- Past
- Open Data Day 2023 edit-a-thon by Wikidata:WikiProject Kerala - March 10-11th 2023
- Ongoing
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- 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:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #564
- 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
- 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.
- Blogs
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #565
- 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
- Upcoming:
- 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.
- Blogs
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Emoji
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #566
- 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))
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 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
- Past
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 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
- Tool of the week
- User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 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
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, IRIS private universities (3) IDs
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #567
- 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)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 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
- Upcoming
- 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
- 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
- Blogs
- 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
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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).
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #568
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 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
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 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
- Twitter thread
- 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:
- Newest database reports:
- Deleted properties - Deleted properties that were used in items.
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #569
- 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:
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 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
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 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
- Twitter thread
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #570
- 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))
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 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)
- Upcoming events
- 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
- 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
- Blogs
- 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:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Piano Rolls
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #571
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #572
- 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)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 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
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #573
- 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)
- Papers
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query example: Scottish waterbodies & how they're linked (source)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #578
- 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
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #579
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Aikido
- Newest database reports:
- External identifier completeness - External identifier property use completeness.
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #580
- 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
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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.
- Wikibase REST API:
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #581
- 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)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- 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
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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?
- Newest properties:
- 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)
- REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #582
- 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)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 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
- Notebooks
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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 Cộng hòa Dân chủ Đức (Q16957) and Tây Đức (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.
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #583
- 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)
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
- Notebooks
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- 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).
- Newest properties:
- 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.
- Wikibase REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #584
- 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
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #584
- 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
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #585
- 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)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- 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
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- 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.
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #587
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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)
- We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
- 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)
- Wikibase REST API:
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #588
- 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
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Deleted properties:
- Query example: Entry dates and discovery dates of the objects of the museum of Brittany (source)
- Newest properties:
- 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)
- EntitySchemas:
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #589
- 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 )
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 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
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- 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
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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).
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #590
- 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
- Blogs
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #591
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Research expeditions - documents the activities of an international working group on Research expeditions.
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #592
- 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)
- Upcoming:
- 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
- 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)
- Blogs
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #593
- 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
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- 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.
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #594
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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #595
- 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)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- 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.
- Newest properties:
- 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!