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Wikidata weekly summary #633

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-06-24. Please help Translate.

Events

Past: The 200th online Wikidata meetup in Swedish was held.
Upcoming: Lexicodays, online event dedicated to Lexemes on Wikidata, will take place on June 28-30. It takes place across time zone and both in English and Indonesian. Check the program and find the access links on the event page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs: [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/06/20/20th-century-press-archives-history-in-newspaper-clippings-made-accessible-by-zbw-and-wikimedia/ 20th Century Press Archives – history in newspaper clippings, made accessible by ZBW and Wikimedia]. The blog discusses how ZBW and Wikimedia collaborated to digitize and make accessible the 20th Century Press Archives, integrating its metadata into Wikidata items and providing fresh access to 3.8 million digitized pages from raw microfilm1.
Notebooks: [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/members-of-european-parliament?term=Q64038205&qualifie=P4100&lang=en Dashboard of European Parliament]

Tool of the week

[https://prometheus-bildarchiv.de/en/blog/wikideta-in-prometheus Wikidata in Prometheus] - Prometheus is a non-commercial image archive for art and cultural studies. It hosts images from a variety of image and media databases and now works can be connected with Wikidata.
New [https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/ Mix'n'match] feature: For lists of (full or auto) matches where both the MnM entry and the Wikidata Item have coordinates, it now shows the distance between them in the description. ([https://wikis.world/@magnusmanske/112654072391619657 source])

Other Noteworthy Stuff

The Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning a brief survey to understand the various ways people contribute to the project and identify user contribution patterns. A request has been made for a CentralNotice banner to deploy the survey to a broad audience. Your feedback, comments, and questions on this request are welcome: m:CentralNotice/Request/Wikidata Community Survey 2024
The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course will begin from July 1 until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), ‎AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, ‎itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, ‎filmas.lv person ID, ‎filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, ‎Burgenwelt ID, Irish-English Dictionary ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, ‎Canadian Great War Project person ID, English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, AviBase person ID

New General datatypes property proposals to review:
Nom dans la langue locale ()
YAMAP mountain ID (YAMAP mountain ID)
coin edge (Coin edges may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a combination of both. They can also include lettering.)
ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, stiga.trefik.cz, European Education Thesaurus ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives Canada) ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Devri ID, OpenCitations Meta Identifier, IGN franchise ID, Plex person key, Overcast episode ID, OBJ ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, UNIBO professor ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, FEI horse ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/AR7a Number of solar eclipses per decades]
[https://w.wiki/AURc Longest gap between original film and remake (without any intermediate remakes)] ([https://x.com/WikidataFacts/status/1802773843297104155 source])
Newest WikiProjects:
Multilingualism - organizes work around achieving 100% Wikidata multilingualism for every language with MediaWiki internationalization support. It is initiated, developed & supported by Wikimedia Language Diversity community volunteers.
NAVISone
Newest database reports: Identical labels and descriptions
Showcase Items: Kofi Annan (Q1254) - 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
Showcase Lexemes: ʒirilana (L719353) - Dagbanli proverb that translates to "liar"

Development

[Breaking Change Announcement] [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/LBEWI6IPD4H3S55KELZUOGFXPFRD5KYD/ Upcoming Changes to Wikibase: EntitySchema data type]
EntitySchemas: We prepared for the release of the new data type to link to EntitySchemas in statements on July 2nd.
Mul language code: We picked up the remaining issues before enabling it by default on Wikidata
Wikibase REST API:
We completed the route to modify the data of an Item (phab:T342993)
We continued improving and reworking errors (phab:T366172, phab:T366175)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

Weekly Tasks

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
Participate in [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php this week's Lexeme challenge]:
Govdirectory weekly focus country: Cameroon
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2024-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361717]
The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366515]

Problems

You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356196]

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-25|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-26|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2024-06-27|en}} (calendar). [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train][https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar]
Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365974]

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Tech News: 2024-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366364]
Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341278]
If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288287][https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:How_to_make_a_MediaWiki_skin#Using_CSS_variables_for_supporting_different_themes_e.g._dark_mode]
Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366458]
Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Mandailing (w:btm:) [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368038]

Problems

Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368119]

Future changes

Please [https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/758713?lang=en help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey]. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 2 weeks. The survey is covered by [https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Tech_News_Survey_2024_Privacy_Statement this privacy statement]. Some translations are available.

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''The Signpost'': 4 July 2024

File:WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates

Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board

In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators

Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna

In the media: War and information in war and politics

Sister projects: On editing Wikisource

Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov and Hyacinth

Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion

Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos

Op-Ed: Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections

Crossword: On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares

Humour: A joke

Cobwebs: Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn

Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps

Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play

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Wikidata weekly summary #635

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-08. Please help Translate.

Events

Upcoming:
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the [https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg 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 Wikimania 2024 is open! In-person participants: please register until 26 July, 11:59 p.m., UTC. Virtual participants can register anytime. If you received a scholarship from the Wikimedia Foundation, you will receive an email with a registration code and instructions.

Tool of the week

User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", checks whether each statement and property conforms to the schema. It then displays a summary at the top of the Item for each property indicating whether they conform or not. It also adds a badge to each statement and each property on the page indicating whether they conform or not.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Wikidata teams' development goals for the third quarter of 2024 have been updated: Wikidata:Development plan

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
coin edge (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
Newest External identifiers: Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia article ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), ‎AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, ‎itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, ‎filmas.lv person ID, ‎filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, ‎Burgenwelt ID, Irish-English Dictionary ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, ‎Canadian Great War Project person ID, English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, Avibase person ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, ‎Cineuropa distributor ID, ‎Cineuropa production company ID, OpenCitations Meta ID, IGN franchise ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID, Devri ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, ‎Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, ‎Star Wars.com ID

New General datatypes property proposals to review:
number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
Tüik mahalle id (Identifier of neighborhoods ({{q|Q17051044}}) in Turkey in TÜİK ({{q|Q1375058}}) database)
myfixguide.com (Photos about how to disassemble hardware)
date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or casted their ballot)
Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
Imperial University of Dorpat student ID (matriculation number of a student of the Imperial University of Dorpat)
indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly. Example: Hazel K. Bell (Q70226489))
WorldCyclingStats ID (identifier on the website WorldCyclingStats (www.worldcyclingstats.com))
New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, FEI horse ID, Standard Ebooks ID, Alle Burgen, FC Krasnodar player id, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, GOArt databas, identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb), identifikátor osoby ve Filmové databázi (FDb), ScienceDirect journal ID, Iraqnla Book ID, islamway authority ID, Hermitage Museum artist ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, autoritateak.eus, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Thinkwiki article

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/AaNJ Cumulative experience of UK MPs on election day (since 1922)] ([https://x.com/generalising/status/1809302517916004518 source])
[https://w.wiki/AbkU Location of GLAMs with open access policies]
[https://w.wiki/4pKw Images of biologists by height]
Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/commonsmerge - Merge candidates based on same commons category
Showcase Items: Ferdinand Magellan (Q1496) - Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
Showcase Lexemes: bergkant (L1083157) - Nynorsk noun, translates to "the top edge of a mountain"

Development

EntitySchemas: The new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements has been released.
mul language code: We are preparing the release.

Weekly Tasks

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
Participate in [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php this week's Lexeme challenge]:
Govdirectory weekly focus country: Armenia
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!

· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (Talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:32, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

Problems

A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

Tech News survey

Please [https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/758713?lang=en help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey]. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 1 more week. The survey is covered by [https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Tech_News_Survey_2024_Privacy_Statement this privacy statement]. Some translations are available.

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Wikidata weekly summary #536

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-15. Please help Translate.

Discussions

New requests for permissions/Bot: SpinachBot - Task/s: AI agent-enabled question answering through the creation and execution of complex SPARQL queries on Wikidata. Users tag the bog with wikidata-related questions, and it tries to come up with an answer by iteratively creating SPARQL queries.

Events

Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-07-10

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
[https://wikiedu.org/blog/2024/07/10/an-intelligent-system-what-i-learned-through-taking-an-introductory-wikidata-course/ An Intelligent System: What I learned through taking an introductory Wikidata course] - The author, Anne-Christine Hoff, dispels misconceptions about Wikidata. She highlights that it is a relational communication system, not solely bot-driven, and allows users worldwide to add localized data in multiple languages, creating a self-structuring repository of information
[http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/731 Merge and diff] - blog post by Magnus about adding new properties (taxon data speficially, NCBI, GBIF, and iINaturalist) to the AC2WD tool. If you have the user script installed on Wikidata (see tool below), AC2WD will automatically show up on relevant taxon items.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2MXK2yWJko Documenting Women Artists Through Wikidata] - this project reveals how works by women artists can be given greater public visibility.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVe2CSWCDZ0 Dagbani Lexemes (how-to-workshop in Dagbanli)] - increase the vocabulary and standardize existing entries.
Papers: [https://acl-bg.org/proceedings/2023/RANLP%202023/pdf/2023.ranlp-1.2.pdf Automatic Generation of Hindi Wikipedia Pages" based on information from Wikidata]
Videos
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRD2XbxQqPQ Online workshop Upskilling in Wikidata for maximum impact IBC 2024] - Recording of the virtual Wikidata workshop given on the 9th of July 2024. An onboarding and introductory event in anticipation of a full in-person workshop to be held at the International Botanical Congress 2024 in Madrid on the 21st of July 2024
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK-qOCk2fUE Connecting University Art Collections Wikidata Demo]
Notebooks
[https://observablehq.com/collection/@pac02/tour-de-france Collection of notebooks about the Tour de France]
[https://observablehq.com/@pac02/computing-jaccard-similarity-between-wikidata-item Computing Jaccard similarity index between Wikidata items based on properties used in statements].

Tool of the week

[https://observablehq.com/@pac02/relationships Relationships between two Wikidata items] a new tool hosted on Observable which looks at all statements involving a pair of Wikidata items.
User:Magnus Manske/ac2wd.js - This script adds an "AC2WD" link in the tools sidebar. When you click on it, it uses the [https://ac2wd.toolforge.org AC2WD] tool to check the item for certain Authority Control IDs (eg VIAF). It then checks these AC datasets for statements (and more AC IDs). It will then add any new information it found as new statements, or add more references to existing statements where possible. A green checkmark will be appended to the link if data was added (reload the page to see), otherwise a "—" if no new data was available.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

[https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/3.8.2 OpenRefine 3.8.2 was released]
[https://github.com/johnsamuelwrites/awesome-wikidata/blob/main/README.md#shape-expressions-entity-schemas Awesome Wikidata: Shape Expressions (Entity Schemas)] - Tools for creating, editing, and generating entity schemas

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
coin edge image (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
myfixguide.com (photos about how to disassemble hardware)
indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
Newest External identifiers: Irish-English Dictionary ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, ‎Canadian Great War Project person ID, English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, Avibase person ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, ‎Cineuropa distributor ID, ‎Cineuropa production company ID, OpenCitations Meta ID, IGN franchise ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID, Devri ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, ‎Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, ‎Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, All castles, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID

New General datatypes property proposals to review:
number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or casted their ballot)
WorldCyclingStats ID (identifier on the website WorldCyclingStats (www.worldcyclingstats.com))
New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, FEI horse ID, Standard Ebooks ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, Hermitage Museum artist ID, Thinkwiki article, Wiley Online Library journal ID, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, Nintendo Life company ID, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, Helveticat ID, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Museums in Russia ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, ARABTERM entry ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Frauen im Widerstand ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/AeWy Arabic periodicals known to Wikidata] ([https://wikis.world/@tillgrallert@digitalcourage.social/112776085963304676 source])
[https://w.wiki/AftC X account of politicians]
[https://w.wiki/AftQ Characters whose actors died recently]
Newest WikiProjects: Human Cells - dedicated to improve our coverage of information about these fundamental entities that compose organisms. The project focuses mainly on two kinds of cell classes: species-agnostic classes, such as neutrophil (Q188417), and human-specific classes, such as human neutrophil (Q101405102).
Newest database reports: Descriptions containing Q-Id
Showcase Items: Lucy (Q13365715): female given name
Showcase Lexemes: Nachbar (L230775): "someone nearby" in German

Development

Wikibase REST API: Continuing to improve error handling and error messages.
EntitySchemas: Fixed issues that popped up after release (phab:T369149, phab:T369155, phab:T368010)
Query Service graph split: Adapting constraints that make use of the Query Service to be able to deal with 2 endpoints (phab:T369079)

Weekly Tasks

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
Govdirectory weekly focus country: Albania
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2024-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News survey

Please [https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/758713?lang=en help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey]. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by [https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Tech_News_Survey_2024_Privacy_Statement this privacy statement]. Some translations are available.

Recent changes

File:Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.

Future changes

File:Octicons-tools.svg Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348895]
Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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''The Signpost'': 22 July 2024

File:WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo

News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter

Essay: Reflections on editing and obsession

In the media: What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?

Obituary: JamesR

Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword

Humour: Joe Biden withdraws RfA, Donald Trump selects co-nom

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Wikidata weekly summary #637

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-22. Please help Translate.

Discussions

New requests for permissions/Bot:
DannyS712 bot - Task/s: I want to get approval for a bot with translation admin rights that will automatically mark pages for translations if and only if the latest version is identical to the version that is already in the translation system, i.e. only pages with no "net" changes in the pending edits.
DerIchBot - Task/s: Adding data about schools provided by the German and Austrian governments to wikidata.
DifoolBot 5 - Task/s: Change reference URLs into the related ID property and merge references with the same ID property.
AroundTheBot - Task/s: Automated import of Albanian nouns with IPA from Wiktionary, with the long-term goal of using this data to do pronunciation-based comparison/word evolution between languages.

Events

Past: Wikimedia Indonesia hosted the 2024 Data Visualization Competition from June 5 to 18. The event featured data visualizations (posters and graphics) and short essays using data from Wikidata. Visit the competition page (in Indonesian) to view the winning entries.
Upcoming: Wikidata's 12th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2024. Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area, get funding, and get in touch with other organizers.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Papers:
Representación de datos abiertos con Wikidata Query Service (Q126917814). This paper details the Wikidata Query Service, for the creation of data visualizations. All visualization options available in the WQS are explored, accompanied by example queries that introduce the implementation of these visualizations. By Ángel Obregón-Sierra and Silvia Cecilia Anselmi.
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.06863 Beyond Aesthetics: Cultural Competence in Text-to-Image Models] - with CUBE, a benchmark built out of Wikidata, to evaluate cultural awareness and cultural diversity of text-to-image models (Kannen et al, 2024)
Videos: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xsCXkOA2Zs OpenRefine import into Wikidata of data from the BnF catalog: books by Marguerite Van de Wiele] (in French)

Tool of the week

[https://paulina.toolforge.org/ Paulina], a new tool for exploring public domain works.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

WMF Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) invites interested volunteers to apply. As part of the movement strategy recommendation for "Coordinating Across Stakeholders," the PTAC will bring technical contributors and the Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
coin edge image (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
Newest External identifiers: English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, Avibase person ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, ‎Cineuropa distributor ID, ‎Cineuropa production company ID, OpenCitations Meta ID, IGN franchise ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID, Devri ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, ‎Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, ‎Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID

New General datatypes property proposals to review:
date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
object of action & object class of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
Public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
Kunstnerforbundet kunstner ID (Identifier for an artist member of Kunstnerforbundet in norway)
New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, Thinkwiki article, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, The New Mithraeum ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (french edition) ID, French Bathing water ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, mandumah ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/Aj37 UEFA teams and the number of players on the team] (source)
[https://w.wiki/AhtV Species of birds and their sounds] ([https://x.com/espejolento/status/1814353851253735846 source])
[https://w.wiki/AhGu Archaeological sites and remains in Malaysia with National Heritage status] ([https://x.com/FarisHzmn/status/1814277712430956614 source])
[https://w.wiki/AgyC Map of Filming Locations, excludes countries] ([https://x.com/jamesinealing/status/1813662266744815705 source])
Newest WikiProjects:
Reference Verification - a research and development project aimed at helping Wikidata editors check the quality of external references based on various types of AI/ML models.
NZWomenPhotographers - aims to improve information about New Zealand women photographers, based on a dataset provided by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Newest database reports: Items with P569=P570 - Items with instance of (P31) --> human (Q5) and the same year in date of birth (P569) and date of death (P570) (2024-07-22)
Showcase Items: Crawford (Q20731004) - family name
Showcase Lexemes: water (L3302) - (S1) common liquid substance (S2) chemical compound of hydrogen and oxygen (H₂O) (S3) a body of water, usually a river, a lake, or an ocean

Development

mul: We fixed the last blocker for the limited MUL rollout to Wikidata on July 29th (phab:T362917)
EntitySchemas:
We fixed a misplaced background color in EntitySchema (phab:T369283)
haswbstatement searches now work for EntitySchema statements (phab:T369495)
We’re investigating how to make EntitySchemas searchable by label (phab:T362005)
Query Service: preparation for the graph split is continuing by the Search Platform Team. We started looking into adapting the constraints checks for it (phab:T369079)

Weekly Tasks

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!

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''The Signpost'': 14 August 2024

File:WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse

Recent research: STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems

Discussion report: Twitter marks the spot

News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded

Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?

Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing

Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird

Humour: I'm proud to be a template

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Tech News: 2022-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73966]

Problems

Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307586]
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307647]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305217#7894966]
Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

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Wikidata weekly summary #519

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

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

Events
Upcoming:
[https://www.twitch.tv/belett Live editing session on Twitch] about International Museum Day 2022, in French, by Vigneron, May 10 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
LIVE Wikidata editing #79 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYjML2j2SJE YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3239886972963124/ Facebook], May 14 at 18:00 UTC
Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #106, May 15 at 12.00 UTC
The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
Ongoing:
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #41, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=41 Music]
[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/International_Museum_Day_2022 International Museum Day Wikidata Competition], 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
Past:
Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh: [https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1478281197 video] (French), slides: French, English

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://wikibase.consulting/automating-values-in-wikibase/ Automating Values in Wikibase (new extension)]
Papers
[https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/papers/WikiWorkshop2022_paper_29.pdf Building a Knowledge Graph of Events and Consequences Using Wikipedia and Wikidata]
Videos
Working with the Automated Values extension in Wikibase - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO58wulCFVU YouTube]
Bringing IIIF Manifests to life in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c358_5IolXw YouTube]
Fun with lexemes. By Mahir256 - [https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1476729630 Twitch]

Tool of the week
[https://mapcomplete.osm.be/artwork.html?z=17&lat=-39.8424&lon=-73.23&language=en#node/9702109212 MapComplete] is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees!
User:Nikki/flag-emoji.css is a userscript that adds emoji flags before items for flags supported by either Noto Color Emoji or BabelStone Flags.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
Job opening: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/18061438?l=en Community Communications Manager - Wikibase] at Wikimedia Deutschland.

Did you know?

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: beteiligte Parteien, ligament insertion, proper motion components, distributed from, IBAN banking code, contains statistical territorial entity
External identifiers: The Israeli Directors Guild id, Twitter moment ID, Muziekweb composition ID, TOBuilt ID, Afisha.ru movie ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Baidu Scholar paper ID, ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, Chocolatey Community Package, IRIS Emilia-Romagna IDs, Kubbealti Lugati term ID, Kinokolo.ua film ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Twitter list ID

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/58H4 List of French public administrations with an open data portal, a siren number (P1616) and a servicepublic id (P6671)] ([https://teamopendata.org/t/identifiant-unique-de-portails-de-donnees/3647/21 source])
[https://w.wiki/58zt Largest cities with a female mayor] ([https://twitter.com/kvistgaard/status/1523523388064604164 source])
[https://w.wiki/597c Reach of Twitter accounts on Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/GereonKalkuhl/status/1523236263662612481 source])
[https://w.wiki/589z Which works published in the 1970s have been most cited from works on archaeology?] ([https://twitter.com/RichardNevell/status/1521862536932597761 source])
Newest WikiProjects:
Wikidata:WikiProject Slovakia

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

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

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (talk • contribs) 16:12, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

+Rollback

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Hi AwfulReader,

After reviewing your request, I have added your account to the rollback group. Keep in mind these things when using rollback:

Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
Users should be informed (or warned) after their edits have been reverted. If warnings repeatedly don't help, WP:ANI is the default place to go. In cases of very clear ongoing intentional damage to the encyclopedia, WP:AIV can be used.
Reverting someone's edits may confuse or upset them. Whenever other users message you on your talk page, please take the time to respond to their concerns; accountability is important. For most users who message you, the tone and quality of your answer will permanently influence their opinion about Wikipedia in general.
Because the plain default rollback link does not provide any explanatory edit summary, it must not be used to revert good faith contributions, even if these contributions are disruptive. Take the time to write a proper summary whenever you're dealing with a lack of neutrality or verifiability; a short explanation like "not neutral" or "Please provide a citation" is helpful.
Rollback may never be used to edit war, which you'll notice to be surprisingly tempting in genuine content disputes. Please especially keep the three-revert rule in mind. If you see others edit warring, please file a report at WP:ANEW. The most helpful essay I've ever seen is WP:DISCFAIL; it is especially important for those who review content regularly.
If you encounter private information or threats of physical harm during your patrols, please quickly use Special:EmailUser/Oversight or Special:EmailUser/Emergency; ideally bookmark these pages now. See WP:OS and WP:EMERGENCY for details. If you're regularly patrolling recent changes, you will need both contacts sooner or later, and you'll be happy about the bookmarks.
Use common sense.

To try rollback for the first time, you may like to make an edit to WP:Sandbox, and another one, and another one, and then revert the row with one click. I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about rollback. Thank you for your time and work in cleaning up Wikipedia. Happy editing!

Best regards,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 14:30, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #520

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

Events
Upcoming:
The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c_6b0IEsCXqh6nMgct4VHsJQFyT_wrb3L1N5cea3J2s/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LO_JwNUZNw YouTube], [https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/3244367102515111/ Facebook], May 21 at 18:00 UTC
Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108, May 22 at 12.00 UTC
1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a [https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2022/session-list/#int19%20the%20role%20of%20the%20wikimedia%20ecosystem%20in%20linking%20biodiversity%20data session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"]
Ongoing:
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=42 Constitution Day, Norway]
[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/International_Museum_Day_2022 International Museum Day Wikidata Competition], 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://datengraben.com/posts/2022-05-05-wikidata-datawrapper-regionalzeitungen/ Regional newspaper map with datawrapper and Wikidata]
Papers
CAS Common Chemistry in 2021: Expanding Access to Trusted Chemical Information for the Scientific Community (Q111987319)
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.01833.pdf OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts] ([https://openalex.org/ tool])
Videos
How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8nh03wu4Cg YouTube]

Tool of the week
[https://guessr.blinry.org/?Q117 Wikidata Guesser] allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items!

Other Noteworthy Stuff
Job opening: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/18061438?l=en Community Communications Manager - Wikibase] at Wikimedia Deutschland.
The [https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/wikidata/wikidata-community Wikidata community onboarding] documentation by [https://wikiedu.org/ Wiki Education].

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: quantile function, mean of a probability distribution, median of a probability distribution, mode of a probability distribution, dance, variance of a probability distribution, skewness, excess kurtosis, information entropy, moment-generating function
External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID, GeolISSTerm ID, TIME.com author ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: Similar web ranking
External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID, TamTam chat ID, PM20 ware ID, ANR project ID, HeHaCham HaYomi id, Delaware Department of State file number, JBIS horse ID, Camp Wild

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/59dS List of oldest cryptocurrencies]
[https://w.wiki/59tq Scottish rivers that merge to make a river with a new name] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1524799946280652800 source])
[https://w.wiki/5ASw List of candidates in the French legislative elections] (source)
[https://w.wiki/5ATF List of people with Elisabeth, Élisabeth or Elizabeth as first name] (source)
[https://w.wiki/5AFE Wikimedians with a Twitch channel] ([https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1525382998006308873 source])

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

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

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Tech News: 2022-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are {{int:project-localized-name-cawiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-hewiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-hiwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-kowiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-nowiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-ptwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-simplewiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-svwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-ukwiki/en}}. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304542]
The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-05-17|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-05-18|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-05-19|en}} (calendar).

Future changes

You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/05/12/mediawiki-1-38-brings-support-for-editing-translatable-pages-with-the-visual-editor/]

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18:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #521

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

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

Events
Upcoming:
6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
29 July 2022: The submission deadline for [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1emcO2v29TmwCFQ_6h9MAwPiKDmq--GZR-ilfwJMEMKo/edit?usp=sharing the Wikidata Workshop 2022] that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
Ongoing:
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #43, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=43 Towel Day]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Videos
Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUoOpeUhRc YouTube]

Tool of the week
[https://lod4culture.gsic.uva.es LOD4Culture] is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
[https://www.wikimedia.de/unlock/application/ UNLOCK], a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
Job opening: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/18061438?l=en Community Communications Manager - Wikibase] at Wikimedia Deutschland.

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: Similarweb ranking
External identifiers: Chocolatey Community package ID, Twitter moment ID, Kino-kolo film ID, netkeiba horse ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: has vector, ECLI court code, Mirror image, Norges Nasjonalmuseum Creator ID
External identifiers: Radio France person ID, ORKG ID, Authority control/Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici id, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, TVG Programme Identifier, CPRF person ID, New Mexico Digital Collections identifier, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, Lithuania Minor encyclopedia ID

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5BLV Relationships of Roman deities] ([https://twitter.com/kvistgaard/status/1527046255326683136 source])
[https://w.wiki/5Asb Ingrediants of dishes on Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/larswillighagen/status/1526290242092814340 source])
[https://w.wiki/5BmR Food names after a place in the UK] ([https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1527781394650476544 source])
[https://w.wiki/5AsG French heads of government classified by tenure] ([https://twitter.com/daieuxdailleurs/status/1526283304479215621 source])
[https://w.wiki/5BhM Places in Antarctica over 3000km away from the South Pole]
[https://w.wiki/5C6b Topics that members of the Swedish Parliament motioned about 2020/21] ([https://twitter.com/Jan_Ainali/status/1528426250737528835 source])
[https://w.wiki/5BvV Albums with more than one language statement where none has preferred rank] ([https://twitter.com/exmusica/status/1528121917802151936 source])

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

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

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Tech News: 2022-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307341]
The [https://www.wiktionary.org/ www.wiktionary.org] portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304629]

Problems

The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287915]
Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308802]

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-05-24|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-05-25|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-05-26|en}} (calendar).

Future changes

File:Octicons-tools.svg Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308686]

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

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''The Signpost'': 29 May 2022

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''The Signpost'': 29 May 2022

File:WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the team: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/From the team

News and notes: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News and notes

Community view: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Community view

Opinion: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Opinion

In the media: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/In the media

Special report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Special report

In focus: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/In focus

Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Discussion report

WikiProject report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/WikiProject report

Technology report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Technology report

Featured content: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Featured content

Interview: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Interview

Serendipity: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Serendipity

Recent research: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Recent research

Tips and tricks: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Tips and tricks

Traffic report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Traffic report

News from Diff: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News from Diff

News from the WMF: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News from the WMF

Video: How the entire country of Qatar was blocked from editing

Gallery: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Gallery

From the archives: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/From the archives

Essay: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Essay

Humour: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Humour

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Wikidata weekly summary #522

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

Events
Upcoming:
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pjuabqUARaxr2kaRodikVx0zBznyZ0kicvcajDPpy98/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #110, June 5 at 12.00 UTC

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://pointstodots.wordpress.com/2022/05/25/the-evolution-of-a-wikidata-sparql-query-for-taxon-names/ The evolution of a Wikidata SPARQL query for taxon names], by Tiago Lubiana
Papers
The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research (Q112143478)
Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles in The Signpost. The article using Wikidata's SPARQL queries to measure gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.
Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles? in The Signpost (February 2022)
Videos
[https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1310601000 Replay of the livestream "Even more fun with Lexemes" by Mahir256]

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff
Want to know more about Abstract Wikipedia & Wikifunctions? You can now subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a friendly reminder every time a new issue is published!
[https://inforapid.org/webapp/webapp.php?shareddb=PulDm8q7r4LSkXKeE0zXR47udr6DrhGY4lHDP22rKccZoupt6mBESe9ZU9qWg6GTtilsS1CS8ri6IT2dTLGYlnSROrukLvuK Radioactivity map]: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: candidate position
External identifiers: Lithuanian company code, Afisha.ru movie ID, art is next artist ID, Gun Violence Archive ID, HeHaCham HaYomi ID, CPNI ID, Collection Hermann Göring DB ID, Radio France person ID, ANR project ID, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Umanity horse ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: number of versions, voting age (reproposed), code dans la Classification centrale des produits, identificador WikiBurgos, orchestrator
External identifiers: HaBama person id, Odnoklassniki album ID, WorldCat Entities ID, BRUZZ topic ID, BRUZZ place ID, CBC Gem ID, MAYA site company id, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Plex GUID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Liquipedia ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID, Ozon person identifier

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5DLD List of candidates for the next French legislative elections] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1530563510840741888?t=l0De456aqy2DLnYnd6c7QA&s=19 source])
[https://w.wiki/5DYV Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Élisabeth or Elisabeth in Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1531140106366623745?t=EnqYfU_9NfSq4zkve5_5tg&s=19 source])
[https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABarChart%0A%23Percentage%20of%20films%20passing%20the%20Bechdel%20test%20by%20genre.%20Including%20films%20that%20pass%20dubiously%2C%20rarely%20or%20contentiously%0A%23Some%20items%20have%20more%20than%20one%20test%20result%20%28e.g.%20in%20contentious%20cases%29%0A%23To%20pass%20the%20Bechdel%20test%20a%20film%20must%20fulfill%20all%20of%20three%20criteria%3A%201%29%20feature%20two%20women%202%29%20who%20talk%20to%20each%20other%203%29%20about%20something%20else%20than%20a%20man%0ASELECT%20%3FgenreLabel%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%2F%20%3Fitem_count%20AS%20%3Fshare%29%20%28xsd%3Astring%28%3Fitem_count%29%20AS%20%3Fnumber_of_films_with_test_data%29%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%3Fitem%20%3Fbechdel_result%20WHERE%7B%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fgenre%20%7Bwd%3AQ1762165%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21802675%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ40831%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5937792%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21010853%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ132311%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ1196408%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ16575965%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ842256%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ6585139%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ19765983%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ24925%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ182015%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ111956902%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21590660%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20ps%3AP5021%20wd%3AQ4165246%3B%20pq%3AP9259%20%3Fbechdel_result.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP5021%20%3Fst%3B%20wdt%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fgenre%3B%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%20AS%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0AWITH%20%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fitem_count%29%20WHERE%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%0A%7D%20AS%20%25item_count_by_genre%0AWHERE%20%7B%0AINCLUDE%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0AINCLUDE%20%25item_count_by_genre%0AFILTER%28%3Fbechdel_result%20IN%20%28wd%3AQ105773168%29%29%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FgenreLabel%20%3Fitem_count%0A Percentage of films passing the Bechdel test by genre] / [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABarChart%0A%23Percentage%20of%20films%20passing%20the%20%22reverse%20Bechdel%20Test%22%20by%20genre.%20Including%20films%20that%20pass%20dubiously%2C%20rarely%20or%20contentiously%0A%23Some%20items%20have%20more%20than%20one%20test%20result%20%28e.g.%20in%20contentious%20cases%29%0A%23To%20pass%20the%20reverse%20Bechdel%20test%20a%20film%20must%20fulfill%20all%20of%20three%20criteria%3A%201%29%20feature%20two%20men%202%29%20who%20talk%20to%20each%20other%203%29%20about%20something%20else%20than%20a%20woman%0ASELECT%20%3FgenreLabel%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%2F%20%3Fitem_count%20AS%20%3Fshare%29%20%28xsd%3Astring%28%3Fitem_count%29%20AS%20%3Fnumber_of_films_with_test_data%29%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%3Fitem%20%3Fr_bechdel_result%20WHERE%7B%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fgenre%20%7Bwd%3AQ1762165%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21802675%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ40831%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5937792%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21010853%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ132311%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ1196408%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ16575965%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ842256%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ6585139%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ19765983%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ24925%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ182015%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ111956902%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21590660%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20ps%3AP5021%20wd%3AQ105776216%3B%20pq%3AP9259%20%3Fr_bechdel_result.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP5021%20%3Fst%3B%20wdt%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fgenre%3B%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%20AS%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0AWITH%20%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fitem_count%29%20WHERE%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%0A%7D%20AS%20%25item_count_by_genre%0AWHERE%20%7B%0AINCLUDE%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0AINCLUDE%20%25item_count_by_genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fr_bechdel_result%20IN%20%28wd%3AQ105773168%29%29%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FgenreLabel%20%3Fitem_count%0A percentage of films passing the reverse Bechdel test by genre]
[https://w.wiki/5Ddo Timeline of the start of pride parades from 1970] ([https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1530480013648199683 source])
[https://w.wiki/5CyT Top 100 genes with most genetic associations on Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1529825153214914564 source])
[https://w.wiki/5Ddr Biennales that aren’t biennial] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1528878945923473409 source])

Development
Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (phab:T307087), all statements of an item (phab:T305988), a single statement for a specific item (phab:T307088))
Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (phab:T307915, [https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/rest_adr_0003.html decision])
Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (phab:T306008)

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!

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Tech News: 2022-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

File:Octicons-tools.svg In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305017]
The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-05-31|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-01|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-02|en}} (calendar).
File:Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on {{#time:j xg|2022-05-31|en}} at 07:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s5.dblist targeted wikis]).
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/New_discussion][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287804]
File:Octicons-tools.svg The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177150]
A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91154]

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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-07|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-08|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-09|en}} (calendar).
File:Octicons-tools.svg A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285468]

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02:44, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #523

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

Events
June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8bDtO4cq8 Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons]
July 8-10: Data Quality Days, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics until June 19th.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://jdr.hypotheses.org/1661 Travailler avec les épigraphes littéraires dans Wikidata]
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yoKhbNM_9yYqni0JAh-3NEKsDjLm5xMn/view Were more plant genera really named for nymphs than women who actually lived?]
Papers
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.08184.pdf "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models"]: Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022)
Videos
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsyPI3ZVwRs Live Wikidata editing #82] by Ainali and Abbe98

Tool of the week
[https://observablehq.com/@pac02/articles-wikilinks-inspector?collection=@pac02/wikipedia-tools Article's wikilinks inspector] takes all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
The May 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update on Monday June 20, 2022 at [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1655751623 19:00 UTC] ([https://meet.jit.si/WDQS-alternative-backends-jun2022 link to the meeting]).
Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss and PangolinMexico, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata, and LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator!
[https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/entries A new Mix'n'match page to query entries] across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: date of incorporation, in operation on service, coordination number
External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, JBIS horse ID, FactGrid property ID, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Macaulay Library taxon ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID, Midi libre journalist ID, Heiligen.net ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1, embargoed until, electric charge capacity, COR form ID, level 1, феноритмотип, type of artefact(s)
External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID, AdoroCinema series ID, FirstCycling (riderID), snookerscores.net player ID, OVO-code, CEU author ID, Chaoxing Journal ID, Springer Nature Person ID, Springer Nature Article ID, Springer Nature Journal ID, MUI Icon, UK Beetles ID

Deleted properties:
Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5E6u Which are the most popular natural products based on the number of statements on their corresponding QID?] (from the Telegram Wikidata group)
[https://w.wiki/5DYV Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Elisabeth or Élisabeth] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1531140106366623745 source])

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

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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #524

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

Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
William Avery Bot 6. Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID
Crystal-bot. Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier.
William Avery Bot 5. References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) that use reference URL (P854) will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109), as requested at d:Wikidata:Bot requests#reference URL (P854) %E2%86%92 Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109) (2021-02-05)
OJSOptimetaCitationsBot. Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in [https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ Open Journal Systems].

Events
Upcoming
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lM5fWZcQpvn4rA_olx4aNIp6DQjX2DV-LLgSY1Qm98A/edit# Agenda]
[https://www.twitch.tv/belett Live editing session on Twitch], in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ongoing
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=46 Cartography]
Past
[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mind-your-manors-medieval-hack-weekend-tickets-293300027277 'Mind Your Manors'] Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval Studies), June 11-12. [https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1536121787263725568 Included some useful Wikidata linkage].

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2022/06/03/wikibase-cloud-a-new-project-at-wikimedia-deutschland/ Wikibase.cloud: a new project at Wikimedia Deutschland]
[https://commonists.wordpress.com/2022/06/07/50000-video-games-on-wikidata/ 50,000 video games on Wikidata] by Jean-Frédéric
[https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/latest-browser-versions-api.html The Current Version of Popular Browsers API (powered by Wikidata)]
[https://aldizkaria.elhuyar.eus/mundu-digitala/wikidata-ezagutzarako-datu-base-libre-kolaboratibo/ Wikidata, a free collaborative knowledge database] (in Basque)
Papers
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4 A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD]
[https://2022.eswc-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/pd_Guo_et_al_paper_206.pdf WikidataComplete – An easy-to-use method for rapid validation of text-extracted new facts applied to the Wikidata knowledge graph]
Videos
Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in Dagbanli) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWs69F8QWVA YouTube]
LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1MD8scGSS8 YouTube]
Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally developed to run on Wikipedia - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wplqB_DIoL0 YouTube]
Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8bDtO4cq8 YouTube]
Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata - Part 2 (in Portuguese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EOCMj7-PxI YouTube]
A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmGpfuShLrI YouTube]
Demographic profiling in Wikipedia Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF9tb-RWmaM YouTube]
DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLGci9II30 YouTube]
How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbZoYMi3pM YouTube]
Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKA4pVZMOEo En], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc8C77lgrtw De])
FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGhH3ysuzeQ YouTube]
The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v5jgwXlqOM YouTube]
Wikidata Testimonials
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp1kRiRlBgg Giovanna Fontenelle (Wikimedia Foundation)]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PqG9Ul4Zr0&t=3s Frédéric Julien (Director of Research and Development CAPACOA))] (in French)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp1kRiRlBgg Nathalie Thibault (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ))] (in French)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6mOeAAUBA8 Michael Gasser (ETH Bibliothek Zürich)] (in German)

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GMCJQLEBKEURMODIJ7AWD2FJJRLJ3WEO/ New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created!]
[https://qichwa.wikibase.cloud Qichwabase] is a Wikibase instance curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata
[https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wikidata-search-api Using Wikidata search API in Observable] by PAC2
[https://observablehq.com/collection/@pac02/wikidata Explore Wikidata using Observable], a collection of notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2.
[https://observablehq.com/@johnsamuelwrites/programming-languages-on-wikidata Programming languages on Wikidata] in Observable by Jsamwrites, based on examples by PAC2 (see above)
[https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1534102853572341760 New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available]

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: orchestrator
External identifiers: Championat ID, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Twitter list ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: inker, penciller, KFCB classification (Kenya), Miljørapporter File ID, plural forms
External identifiers: ifwizz ID, IRIS Abruzzo IDs, Great Plant Picks ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Kultboy, Atom Package Manager name, ZineWiki ID, Broadway World person ID, Yamaha Artists ID

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5FrF Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings, according to wikidata statements] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1534643745437765636 source])
Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for Commons categories (useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) ([https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1533939286999019521 source])
[https://w.wiki/5GMW items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata], with a sample language and lexeme in that language.
[https://w.wiki/5F$m Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games] ([https://twitter.com/JeanFred/status/1535256175943589889 source])
[https://w.wiki/5Fjy A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1534704886306197507 source])
[https://w.wiki/5Fio Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations] ([https://twitter.com/jmcollado/status/1534654806056488960 source])
[https://w.wiki/5FhN Articles studying chemicals from the oceans] ([https://twitter.com/TheLOTUSInitia1/status/1534579229685436416 source])
[https://w.wiki/5GrL Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude] ([https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1536330112009895937 source])
[https://w.wiki/5GpK In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later)] ([https://twitter.com/perstar/status/1536299902480826368 source])
[https://w.wiki/5GvW Actors who played the same real politician the most times] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1536042914287075328 source])
[https://w.wiki/5GDV Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks)] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1535360235258380288 source])

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

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

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Tech News: 2022-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation#Project_descriptions][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307348]

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-14|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-15|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-16|en}} (calendar).
File:Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on {{#time:j xg|2022-06-14|en}} at 06:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s6.dblist targeted wikis]). [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300471]
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" ({{int:project-localized-name-abwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-acewiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-adywiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-afwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-akwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-alswiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-amwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-anwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-angwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-arcwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-arzwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-astwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-atjwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-avwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-aywiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-azwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-azbwiki/en}}). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304548]
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/New_discussion][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287804]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes

By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425

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

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

Events
Upcoming:
Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. Where: Zoom ([https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcuChrz0pHNGU6VOdDk6MsnxuWtGL0cRN Registration link]). When: 30 June 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US ([https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220630T150000&p1=179&p2=64&p3=75&p4=224&p5=136&p6=tz_cest Time zone converter])
Data Quality Days (July 8-10): you can propose discussion topics or sessions until June 19th.
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/4EE27P2OF7FPXWV4ZWSFZZV2VTH4ALCM/ Small wiki toolkits: Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC] "This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access to Toolforge via ssh, and run bots and scripts on Toolforge and in background mode."
(Tutorial) [https://www.aib.it/struttura/sezioni/lazio/laz-attiv/2022/99658-openrefine/ OpenRefine - A fundamental tool for every librarian's toolbox]. Thursday 23 June - 17: 00-19: 30. Write to laz-corsi{{@}}aib.it to book and receive the link of the event.
Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa 3rd edition - Creating tools on Wikimedia Toolforge using Python and Flask. Friday 24th June and Sunday 26th June 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00 (UTC)
[https://www.dla-marbach.de/kalender/detail/517/ Collect, archive and provide games - a "panel about video game metadata"]. Fri. 24.6.2022 – Sat. June 25, 2022
Ongoing:
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #47, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=47 Numbers (3/n)]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2022/06/working-with-wikidata-and-wikimedia-commons-poetry-pamphlets-and-lotus-sutra-manuscripts.html Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts]
[https://blog.rockarch.org/dimes-agent-pages-enhanced Using Wikidata Identifiers to Enhance Agent Discovery]
Videos
Wikidata editing tools (in Spanish) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCXgQrLFFac YouTube]
Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 6: Creating Wikidata items from scratch (in Dagbani) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tXp1cYMkQc&t=1022s YouTube]
Fun with lexemes in some language! by Mahir256 - [https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1506441428 Twitch]

Tool of the week
[https://cardgame.blinry.org/?Q2223649 Wikidata Card Game Generator]: generate card games from Wikidata!

Other Noteworthy Stuff
Job opening: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/19290694?l=en UX Researcher - Wikidata] at Wikimedia Deutschland
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/7HPE53X6PQXTJ2TEVGT6RBB5HLDOT2VF/ Wikimedia Deutschland welcomes new Wikibase.cloud Product Manager, Evelien Zandbergen]
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/OJNMNBMCMDZKSPBRUJLZZUFF6BNPYWAH/ Developer Portal is launched! Discover Wikimedia’s technical areas and how to contribute]
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/WILSSO5DZCISCQEYURBREJOJVTHT6XZC/ Starting on June 21, all Wikimedia wikis can use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua] (discussions welcome on the project talk page)
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/K3FBNXIRHADOVE2YUQ4G6HZ3TH4RGEJP/Wikimedia Deutschland looking for a partner affiliate to organize the WikidataCon 2023]

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: preceding halt on service, following station on service, number of housing units, last entry, homophone form, fastest laps
External identifiers: HaBama person ID, Shopee shop ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Proza.ru author ID, neftegaz.ru person ID, National Union Catalog ID, MAYA site company ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Ethereum token address, BelTA dossier ID, Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: opus number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, U.S. vaccine status, theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer
External identifiers: Theatrical Index person ID, National Archives of Australia Entity ID, Mozilla Hacks author ID, CVX vaccine code, BVMC Corporate Body, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID, Teresianum authority ID, GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5HDE Islands with at least 1 spring or freshwater body] ([https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/1536633197538197504 source])
[https://w.wiki/5Hkc Notable people who you share a birthday with (find the string "1966-08-25" and replace it with your date of birth)] ([https://twitter.com/wikiprojectnz/status/1536584209581879296 source])
[https://w.wiki/5JYc List of filmmakers with whom Jean-Louis Trintignant has played] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1537873890072043522 source])
[https://w.wiki/5KLN Cemeteries in France near churches] (source)

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

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

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Tech News: 2022-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu File:Ic more vert 36px.svg). [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103622]
File:Octicons-tools.svg Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for site_stats at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
File:Octicons-tools.svg A new user_global_editcount variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130439]

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-21|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-22|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-23|en}} (calendar).
Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306910]

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
File:Octicons-tools.svg Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different typeof attribute values, and instead use mw:File for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: mw:Image, mw:Audio, or mw:Video. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273505]

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20:16, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

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File:WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks

In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down

Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?

Discussion report: MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, BLPPROD drafting bid pulled

Opinion: Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it

Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose

Essay: RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy?

Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed

Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals

Traffic report: Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving

Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter

Humour: Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel

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Wikidata weekly summary #426

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

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

Events
Upcoming:
The [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2022.06.30 next Wikibase live session] is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 30th June 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 28, 2022: Andrew McAllister will introduce us to Scribe, an app that provides keyboards for second-language learners, and its use of Wikidata. This presentation should appeal to anyone who has worked on or is interested in learning more about the applications of lexicographical data in Wikidata as well as anyone who has an interest in language, open information, data and programming. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/13eADptzIpWfiqt_JHWM_staNtKoNaMVILLuNprn-29E/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
[https://www.twitch.tv/belett Live editing session on Twitch], in French, by Vigneron, June 28 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a [https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2022/session-list/#int19%20the%20role%20of%20the%20wikimedia%20ecosystem%20in%20linking%20biodiversity%20data session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"]
July 8-10: Data Quality Days (see the first version of the program and the list of participants)
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/IEB3LHQEPHZJX4BTFQNHXR2JR5N2MVHF/ The Third Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers]. Papers due: Friday, 29 July 2022
Celtic Knot Conference 2022: presentations from 12 projects communities working on minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects - [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL66MRMNlLyR7p9wsYVfuqJOjKZpbuwp8U YouTube]
Past:
21 June: Presentation Wikidata as a data collaboration across multiple boundaries at SciDataCon

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Papers
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.11022.pdf Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata]
[https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6470/2/3/19 Practices of Linked Open Data in Archaeology and Their Realisation in Wikidata]
[http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3124.pdf What Can Tweets and Knowledge Graphs Tell Us About Eating Disorders?]
Videos
Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 7: Adding references and qualifiers to Wikidata items (in Dagbanli) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCUxrDjD44I&t=227s YouTube]
The Joys of Connecting Your Collections to Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zjwkiarfug&t=24s YouTube]
Using Wikidata to Enhance Discovery & Faculty Interest in Rapid Publishing - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWpalbgB5Es YouTube]
Podcasts
[https://anchor.fm/wiki-update/episodes/Data-Quality-Days-Discussion-With-Lydia-Pintscher--La-Lacroix-e1k4l5a Data Quality Days Discussion With Lydia Pintscher & Lèa Lacroix]
Other
Documented queries: a proposal, feedback is welcome here

Tool of the week
[https://data.isiscb.org/ IsisCB Explore] - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.

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

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: inker, penciller
External identifiers: Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID, Great Plant Picks ID, BVMC organization ID, UK Beetles ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer, foliage type
External identifiers: GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID, Copains d'avant ID, P. League+ ID, WO2 Thesaurus ID, Super Basketball League ID, DeSmog ID, Met Constituent ID, IRFA ID, Adequat agency person ID, Israeli Company Registration Number, UKAT term ID, TGbus game ID, TGbus franchise ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, VocaDB Artist ID, VocaDB Album ID, VocaDB Song ID, Moepedia ID

Query examples:
"Queries of the week" archive [https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1541375896791273474 (sources)]
[https://w.wiki/5Khr Graph of fictional wars and their participants] [https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/1539639249678499840 (source)]
[https://w.wiki/5M7x The 100 most common species as subjects of publications known to Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/status/1540927184520503296 source])
[https://w.wiki/5MZE Map of birthplaces of ASM Clermont Auvergne players] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1541347785219493889 source])

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

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

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

Tech News: 2022-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

File:Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots ([https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/docs/ API documentation]). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
File:Octicons-tools.svg All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-28|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-29|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-06-30|en}} (calendar).
File:Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on {{#time:j xg|2022-06-28|en}} at 06:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s7.dblist targeted wikis]). [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311033]
Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on {{#time:j xg|2022-06-30|en}} at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300472]
Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233340]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Citations in infobox

If something in an infobox is cited in the article, as it [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sierra_Hull&type=revision&diff=1088408478&oldid=1084490322 here], a citation is not needed in the infobox. Sundayclose (talk) 03:56, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #522

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

Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26317428] should have a wiki commons link to [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Outhouse_to_Northeast_of_Red_House,_Bexleyheath] since they both refer to [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064204].

Events
Upcoming
[https://www.twitch.tv/belett Live editing session on Twitch], in French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Wikidata Data Quality Days, online, on July 8-10
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/HN45PNQICAMLUR3XDWOSKSPS7RIPR5G3/ Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022]
Ongoing
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=48 Human rights]
Past
Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Videos
Making Wiki work for Wales - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_BxfkX1fCI YouTube]
Session on Wikibase - Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikipedians of Goa User Group (WGUG) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE-ZXnTOG7M YouTube]
Scribe: Wikidata-powered keyboard app for second language learners - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GpFN0gGmy4 YouTube]
Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata A semi automated, user assisted editing tool - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fXeAlvbNgE YouTube]
Wikidata MOOC (in French) by Wikimedia France - [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoCicXrwO5jBxxXXvSpDANw/videos 19 videos on YouTube]
Wikidata Tutorials (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-p5ybeTV84QYvX1B3xxZynfFWboOPDGy 7 videos on YouTube]
Report
User:LennardHofmann/GSoC 2022/Report 2 - rewriting the WikiCommons and Wikidata Infobox in Lua

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/IPRW3TAAZK3DPVGN5JKGVJRVPBUJDQNE/ Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata]. The goal of this collaboration is "to make our software more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and speakers of minority languages".
Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
[https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/19886514?utm_campaign=google_jobs_apply&utm_source=google_jobs_apply&utm_medium=organic&l=en Junior Product Manager Wikidata] - "In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest knowledge base of free and open data in the world."
[https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/19887130/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=50403840&l=de Product Manager Wikibase Suite] - In this role "you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of stakeholders in the Wikibase Ecosystem."

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: none
External identifiers: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, Russia.travel object ID, Yamaha Artists ID, ifwizz ID, IRFA ID, DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: Gitee username, Punjabi tone, spoken by, recordist, part of molecular family, official definition
External identifiers: Anghami artist ID, Boomplay artist ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, MUSE publisher ID, EU Knowledge Graph ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, identifiant organisation Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5Pbw Number of albums in Wikidata by language, in descending order] ([https://twitter.com/exmusica/status/1543663049491578881 source])
[https://w.wiki/5LNG Occupation about musicians in Wales] ([https://twitter.com/MusicNLW/status/1543846567387578369 source])
[https://w.wiki/5NH8 Map of tram depots in France]
[https://w.wiki/5P8C Mountains higher than 2,500 meters in France] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1543124319349477376 source])
[https://w.wiki/5P7u List of all Tour de France's stage winners by nationality from 1903 to 2022] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1543119052951912449 source])
[https://w.wiki/5NvF French rugby teams according to the year of creation] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1542849367660548097 source])
[https://w.wiki/5NKA French members of parliament that were on the same legislature and are or have been married] ([https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/1542173666162647040 source])
[https://w.wiki/5PH4 Number of countries on Wikidata where at least one pride parade has been held] ([https://twitter.com/jsamwrites/status/1543275391028236288 source])
[https://w.wiki/5Ne9 Football players whose birthday is today (different every day)] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1542556581753126913 source])

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

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

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

Tech News: 2022-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-07-05|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-07-06|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-07-07|en}} (calendar).
File:Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on {{#time:j xg|2022-07-05|en}} at 07:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s6.dblist targeted wikis]) and on {{#time:j xg|2022-07-07|en}} at 7:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s4.dblist targeted wikis]).
The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
File:Octicons-tools.svg This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309490]

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19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #528

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

Events
Upcoming:
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the [https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg Wikidata Telegram group]. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on [https://2022ld4conferenceonlinkedda.sched.com/ Sched] at [https://2022ld4conferenceonlinkedda.sched.com/https://docs.google.com/document/d/19fWaod_qy2J5y6Mqjbnccen7nyb4nj6EnudCDouefQU/edit Agenda]
7/30 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata @ COSCUP 2022
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/libraries@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/Z2UL7F4Y76VESAQY6JAXDPXXN7XWHXOP/ 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data]. July 11th through July 15th, 2022
Ongoing
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #49, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=49 Bastille day]
Past:
Presentation [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6807104 Integrating Wikibase into research workflows] at the monthly Wikibase Stakeholders Group meeting on July 7
Data Quality Days 2022 see outcomes. The recorded sessions will be published soon!
Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Geonick/diary/399523 New quality checks in the Osmose QA tool for links from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata]
[https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mind-your-manors-hacking-like-its-1399/ Wikidata used extensively in medieval hack weekend at the University of York] (UK National Archives)
[https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2022/06/working-with-wikidata-and-wikimedia-commons-poetry-pamphlets-and-lotus-sutra-manuscripts.html Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts] (British Library)
[https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/07/07/wikidata-at-the-detroit-institute-of-arts/ Wikidata at the Detroit Institute of Arts]
Papers
[https://peerj.com/articles/13712.pdf Wikidata and the bibliography of life] (Q112959127)
Videos
Live editing: create a Lua template using Lexemes on Wiktionary, with Mahir256 ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9ULQX9b5WI on Youtube])
Adding wikidata to plaques on OpenStreetMap - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL1_47roRcw YouTube]

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

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

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: opus number
External identifiers: DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID, Kultboy platform ID, Kultboy controller ID, Kultboy magazine ID, Kultboy company ID, National Archives of Australia entity ID, snookerscores.net player ID, Truth Social username, Material UI icon, Yarkipedia ID, Springer Nature person ID, Komoot ID, Springer Nature article ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: official definition, ce module ou cette infobox utilise la propriété, release artist, Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail
External identifiers: Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, Match TV people ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID, Applied Ecology Resources Document ID, Prophy author ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Liquipedia ID, Instagram post ID, Mapping Museums ID

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5RNR Current list of French departments] (documentation)
[https://w.wiki/5RAN Prime ministers of Japan whose manner of death is homicide] ([https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1545351731495706626 source])
[https://w.wiki/5PyH 1st level administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants] ([https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1543991969931722756 source])
[https://w.wiki/5RTB List of globes and how many times they've been used]

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

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

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Tech News: 2022-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

In the Vector 2022 skin, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303549]
File:Octicons-tools.svg It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: [https://noc.wikimedia.org/wiki.php?wiki=jawiktionary Japanese Wiktionary settings], or [https://noc.wikimedia.org/wiki.php?wiki=eswiki&compare=eowiki settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias]. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308932]
The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
File:Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on {{#time:j xg|2022-07-12|en}} at 07:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s3.dblist targeted wikis]).

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

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19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #529

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

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

Events
Upcoming
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the [https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg Wikidata Telegram group]. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
Next Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Working Hour July 18, 2022: Working with diverse children's book metadata. The second Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover reconciliation in OpenRefine, so we can identify which authors from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata already exist and/or need to be created in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/Wikidata_Working_Hour_Summer-Fall_Project_2022/2022-July-18_Wikidata_Working_Hour Event page]
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2UVESG4FRYOP5QENHFPA556H2UC5E5VG/ Assessing the Quality of Sources in Wikidata Across Languages] - Wikimedia Research Showcase, Wednesday, July 20, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC
[https://twitter.com/wikimediatech/status/1547256861237268482 Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon!] The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
Ongoing
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #50, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=50 Lexical categories]
Past
2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phyyNRsnU3k&list=PLx2ZluWEZtIAu6Plb-rY2lILjUj6zRa9l replay on YouTube])

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://theconversation.com/the-barassi-line-a-globally-unique-divider-splitting-australias-footy-fans-185132 The Barassi Line: a globally unique divider splitting Australia’s footy fans]
[https://medium.com/metadata-learning-unlearning/words-matter-reconciling-museum-metadata-with-wikidata-61a75898bffb Words Matter: Reconciling museum metadata with Wikidata]
[https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/07/14/leveraging-wikidata-for-wikipedia/ Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia]
[https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/06/30/my-glamorous-introduction-into-the-wikiverse/ My GLAMorous introduction into the Wikiverse]
Papers
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.00143.pdf Enriching Wikidata with Linked Open Data]
Videos
Lexemes in Wikidata structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pgXqRXqaZs YouTube]
Want a not-scary and low-key introduction to some of the more advanced behind-the-scenes topics around Wikidata? Check out the videos from the Wikidata Live Editing sessions by Jan Ainali, Albin Larsson.
The videos of the Data Quality Days 2022 have been published and you can find them [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejOLDumECxmDIKg_rDSe2uy3 in this playlist] or linked from the schedule.
Placing a scientific article on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3WFADJTKJk YouTube]
Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices (in Chinese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91q6aMPqZz4 YouTube]
Threads
OpenSexism has created the [https://twitter.com/OpenSexism/status/1458841564818513926 Wednesday Index]: each wednesday, it show gender diversity in Wikipedia articles. Gender diversity is computed using a SPARQL query.

Tool of the week
[https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/entityschema-generator/ EntitySchema Generator] - is a GUI to help create simple EntitySchemas for Wikidata.
User:Jean-Frédéric/ExLudo.js - is a userscript that adds links expansions and mods on item pages for video games.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
Job openings:
AFLIA: [https://web.aflia.net/job-opening-wikidata-course-manager-facilitator/ Wikidata Course Manager/Facilitator]
WMF: [https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/4388769?gh_src=dcc251241us Senior Program Officer, Libraries at Wikimedia Foundation]
There is a [https://t.me/+Qc23Jlay6f4wOGQ0 new Telegram group for OpenRefine users].

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: none
External identifiers: Springer Nature article ID, Bibale ID, WW2 Thesaurus Camp List ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, MUSE publisher ID, France bleu journalist ID, HATVP organisation ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail, grade separated roadways at junction, Gauss notation, Crossing number, URL for presentation/slide, Dictionnaire Favereau, Depicts lexeme form
External identifiers: Mapping Museums ID, GIE gas storage id, Microsoft KLID, PTS+ season ID, RailScot company ID, RailScot location ID, SABRE wiki ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, PBDB ID, Pad.ma video ID, Pad.ma person ID, Naturbasen species ID, kód dílu části obce, Base Budé person ID, Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5Sws List of recent heatwaves] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1547688117489938435 source])
[https://w.wiki/5S66 Most recent information leaks according to Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1546734310761308160 source])
[https://w.wiki/5RwC Cause] and [https://w.wiki/5RwD mode of death] of ex-prime ministers ([https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1546513798814654464 source])
[https://w.wiki/5TVL Brazilian writers born in a city with less than 20000 inhabitants] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1548309266544570369 source])
[https://w.wiki/5U5B Lexical categories sorted by number of languages using them in Wikidata lexemes] ([https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1549003817383075842 source])
[https://w.wiki/5U5J People playing rugby union by number of Wikipages] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1548979202061471746 source])
Newest database reports:
Albums ranked by number of sitelinks

Development
Lexicographical data:
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/TQTZXSMFRV47GDBKEYPN2PQF45JRJL6W/ The new Lexeme creation page is available for testing]
Fixed an issue where the grammatical form of a Lexeme was rendered as `[object Object]` (phab:T239208) This also solves similar issues in other places.
REST API: Continued working on the API route to replace or remove a statement of an Item
We are making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in a lot more places; notably, this includes the wbsearchentities API. (phab:T312223)
Mismatch Finder: We are discussing options for how to improve its handling of dates, specifically calendar model and precision.
EntitySchemas: We are trying to figure out how to best technically go about implementing some of the most-needed features for version 2.

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

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Tech News: 2022-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312864]

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-07-19|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-07-20|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-07-21|en}} (calendar).

Future changes

The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing TDFSupport@wikimedia.org before 12 August.

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22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #530

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

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

Events
Upcoming:
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the [https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg Wikidata Telegram group]. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
[Small wiki toolkits] [Upcoming bots & scripts workshop. "How to maintain bots" is coming up on [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/BEENRNTJPGHLJ2MXQI6XTQDVEJR7KYHM/ Friday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC]
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 26, 2022: Clair Kronk, Crystal Clements, and Alex Jung will be providing an update to Wikidata/gender discussions from the February 8 call with a focus on pronouns. Clair will introduce us to LGBTdb, a Wikibase instance created for and by LGBTQIA+ people from which we draw insight in Wikidata-related discussions. We also hope to discuss current pain points and share action items for future collaboration. Input from community members who are familiar with lexicographical data would be greatly appreciated. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fHqlQ9l0nriMkrZRFW7Wd1k53DZsvgxstzyxlhgbDq0/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
[https://twitter.com/wikidataid/status/1550011035112710144 Wikimedia Indonesia Wikidata meetup. 1300 WIB, July 30, 2022].
Ongoing:
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #51, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=51 Plants]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Papers
The Lay of the Land: Data Visualizations of the Language Data and Domains of Wikidata (Q113181609)
Videos
Wikibase Ecosystem taking Wikidata further, by Lydia Pintscher - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl83YPGva7s YouTube]
Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices II (in Chinese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh6xXXdq5Uw YouTube]

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the third quarter (Q3).
Fellowship: [https://medium.com/wanadata-africa/wikipedian-in-residence-wir-fellowships-to-help-fight-climate-denialism-in-africa-1380dd849ad7 Wikipedian-in-Residence (WiR) fellowships to improve climate info in African languages on Wikipedia and Wikidata.]
T66503: It is now possible to import dates from templates to Wikidata using Pywikibot's harvest_template.py script.
Number of wikidata-powered infoboxes on Commons now exceeds 4 million
[https://openrefine.org/ OpenRefine 3.6.0] was released. It adds support for editing structured data on Wikimedia Commons, features more configurable statement deduplication during upload, as well as the ability to delete statements. Head to the [https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/3.6.0 release page] for a changelog and download links.

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: none
External identifiers: Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, Delaware Division of Corporations file number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5UxU Map of driverless rapid transit railway lines worldwide]
[https://w.wiki/5V7o An example of finding problematic references]
[https://w.wiki/5Vvw Papers by University of Leeds researchers that might have figures suitable for Wikimedia Commons (with a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licence, with full text online)]
[https://w.wiki/5Udf People born on rivers] ([https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1549684778579935235 source])
[https://w.wiki/5VLM Humans with "native language" "German"]

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

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

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Tech News: 2022-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The [https://www.wikibooks.org/ www.wikibooks.org] and [https://www.wikiquote.org/ www.wikiquote.org] portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273179]

Problems

Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s7.dblist targeted wikis]). [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313383]

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-07-26|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-07-27|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-07-28|en}} (calendar).
The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261391]
Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "{{int:changeblockip}}" and "{{int:unblockip}}" instead of just "{{int:blockip}}" if the user is already blocked. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308570]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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19:25, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 1 August 2022

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''The Signpost'': 1 August 2022

File:WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something

News and notes: Information considered harmful

In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap

Op-Ed: The "recession" affair

Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)

Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

Community view: Youth culture and notability

Opinion: Criminals among us

Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement

Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country

Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us

Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July

Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists

Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot

In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool

On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories

Essay: How to research an image

Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed

Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia

Gallery: A backstage pass

From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened

Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road?

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Wikidata weekly summary #531

File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg

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

Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
William Avery Bot 8. Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at d:Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Names#Qualifiers_for_given_names_and_surnames_-_establish_a_guideline, and requested at Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17).
EnvlhBot 4. Task/s: import forms for French verbs on lexemes.

Events
Upcoming:
[https://twitter.com/wikimediatech/status/1547256861237268482 Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon!] The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/4Q3W3SH23QKWMLLATPEIKYLOGEYZE2KU/ Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team. Date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST]
Wikidata Birthday is taking place in October 2022, and together we are celebrating 10 amazing years of Wikidata with decentralized community events! Discover more Wikidata:Tenth Birthday -- organize an event and get funding
Ongoing
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #52, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=52 Software]
Past:
Wikidata/Wikibase office hours logs (2022-07-27)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://observablehq.com/@pac02/good-articles-in-wikipedia-in-french Insights about good articles in Wikipedia in French] This Observable's notebook uses SPARQL queries to get insights about good articles.
[https://observablehq.com/@pac02/tour-de-france-femmes Tour de France Femmes] : Notebook exploring data from Tour de France Femmes using Wikidata.
[https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2022/07/28/smithsonian-libraries-and-archives-wikidata-smithsonian-research-online/#.YuacmXVByV5 Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Smithsonian Research Online]
[https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Populating_Wikipedia:_New_tool_integrating_Australian_Census_data Populating Wikipedia: New tool integrating Australian Census data]
[http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=668 Quickstatements User Evaluation of Statements and Terms, or QUEST]
[https://w.wiki/5WmF Place of birth and death of people with Peruvian citizenship] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataPeru/status/1552925098067329025 source])
[https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/29/23283701/wikipediate-notable-people-ranking-map-search-scroll-zoom This interactive map highlights the most notable person from your hometown]
[https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people Map of notable people] based on [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4 A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD] which is based on Wikidata. Made by [https://mobile.twitter.com/tjukanov Topi Tjukanov]
Wikidata insights from a handy little tool in The Signpost
Videos
The process of standardizing OpenStreetMap and Wikidata data - an example in the village of Xiliu (in Chinese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhVqRIp3gDY YouTube]
Wikidata – An attempt to analyse Wikidata Query - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDBoHoKgsEE YouTube]
Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata: why and how? - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw1QEXUa370 YouTube]
WikiProject Scholia - Brazilian Bioinformatics (in Portuguese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsboib8fmaA YouTube]
Connecting an academic organization to Wikidata (Python script) (in Portuguese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvEs0IsKSKg YouTube]
SPARQL queries on trains (stations and lines), cartography (in French) by VIGNERON and Auregann - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezr2aJtKC-w YouTube]

Tool of the week
[https://observablehq.com/@pac02/gender-diversity-inspector?collection=@pac02/wikipedia-tools Gender diversity inspector] is a new tool to inspect gender diversity in Wikipedia articles based on SPARQL and Wikidata.

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

Did you know?

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5XCk Grammatical features used on forms of French lexemes] ([https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1553668952399675392 source])
[https://w.wiki/5WpF Most notable people] (by sitelinks) ([https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1553020452469104640 source])
[https://w.wiki/5WWp List of draughts] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1552542642684190720 source)]
[https://w.wiki/5Gfa Map of NZ graduates based on coordinates of employer] ([https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1552477015852617728 source])

Development
[Significant change] [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/IN7FPRLU2QA2MVXUEEQ2WTILR4GIOPM3/ New search profile parameter in Wikidata’s wbsearchentities API module]
REST API:
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/26Q4RUTPFN2SWZWOEA3TXBH5MCPHLEBU/ You can now check out the current development state of the upcoming REST API]
We are continuing work on the API route to remove and replace statements, focusing on error handling and corner cases.
Lexicographical data: We are addressing the feedback from the first release of the new Special:NewLexeme page.
Continuing work on allowing redirects and the target article as independent sitelinks if a redirect badge is used (phab:T313896)

Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
Contribute to a Showcase item.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Remove the {{Q|Q1062083}} value for property {{P|31}}. See the [https://w.wiki/5WWb list] and the discussion in the project chat Should billionaire (Q1062083) be used as a value of instance of (P31)?
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Tech News: 2022-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting Phantom tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-08-02|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-08-03|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-08-04|en}} (calendar).
The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in [https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists%2Fgroup0.dblist Group 0]. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

Future meetings

This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.

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21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #532

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

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

Events
Upcoming
Wikimania 2022, August 11 to 14, online event. The Hackathon will take place August 12-14. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image data from Wikidata. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LK33z_L6ARux-jzRXIVPlF4yApsFxx7INpKaaZ2MUIg/edit?usp=sharing Agenda].
The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 16-22! There are still lots of spots in the schedule to add your Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
Ongoing
Wikimedia Indonesia's Wikidata edit-a-thon (datathon) for the 77th anniversary of the Indnesian Independence Day started on 5th August and will be held until 12th August. Participants are instructed to edit items containing the statement country of origin (P495): Indonesia (Q252).
Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
Ongoing
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #53, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=53 Sheep]
Past
First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited items on Indonesian ethnic groups.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Books
[https://iu.pressbooks.pub/wikidatascholcomm/ Wikidata for Scholarly Communication Librarianship]
Blogs
[https://flowingdata.com/2022/08/02/most-notable-person-everywhere-in-the-world/ Most notable person, everywhere in the world]
[https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2022/08/wikidata-now-escapes-smiles-and-cxsmiles.html Wikidata now escapes SMILES and CXSMILES!]
[https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Bringing_the_whole_zoo_to_Wikidata Bringing the whole zoo to Wikidata] - User:MargaretRDonald
[https://www.lehir.net/using-tfsl-to-clean-grammatical-features-on-wikidata-lexemes/ Using tfsl to clean grammatical features on Wikidata lexemes]
[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/using-machine-learning-iiif-wikidata-find-female-scientists-jones/ Using Machine Learning, IIIF and Wikidata to find female scientists in historical Newspaper and Journals]
Papers
[https://digitalartsnation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Embracing-Wikidata-Guide-2022.pdf Embracing Wikidata: How to Increase Discoverability for Musicians Online] - [https://twitter.com/ipetri/status/1554631438187827201 Tweet]
Videos
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii2esyEaPjI New Zealand Thesis Project July 2022] - User:DrThneed
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj_lxwFS98I Wikidata academic bibliographic data and Scholia] (in French) by VIGNERON and Jsamwrites
Wikidata: Just Three Steps to Turn Books into Data Collections (in Chinese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatu9UjI0VQ YouTube]
Presentations:
KB Wikibase.cloud Unboxing Experience, Netherlands Wikibase Knowlegde Group

Tool of the week
[https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/wikipedia_and_wikidata_tools/595109124715?pann=cwsdp&hl=en Wiki tools] - adds dozens of Wikipedia and Wikidata functions to your Google sheets.

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

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: recordist, spoken by, foliage type
External identifiers: Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID, Super Basketball League ID, Sport24.ru team ID, P. League+ ID, Paleobiology Database ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Theatrical Index person ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5XZ4 Most recent date not used as a date of birth (P569) or date of death (P570)]
[https://w.wiki/5YAx Map of war memorials, showing EN Wikipedia article if it exists] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1555288388235821058 source])
[https://w.wiki/5XY7 Most frequent occupations of people born in Épinal] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1554207788687138820 source])
[https://w.wiki/5XY2 Species named after places in the state of Espírito Santo] ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1554202922132860928 source])
[https://w.wiki/5YKw Places named after Lenin] ([https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1555613271679537153 source])

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help out, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer].

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

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Tech News: 2022-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

GUS2Wiki copies the information from {{#special:GadgetUsage}} to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121049]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
File:Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on {{#time:j xg|2022-08-09|en}} at 07:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s5.dblist targeted wikis]) and on {{#time:j xg|2022-08-11|en}} at 7:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s2.dblist targeted wikis]).

Future meetings

The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!

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19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #533

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

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

Events
Upcoming:
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour August 15, 2022: Fourth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be covering manually creating publisher items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/Wikidata_Working_Hour_Summer-Fall_Project_2022/2022-August-15_Wikidata_Working_Hour Event page]
Ongoing:
Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, August 18th at 15:00 UTC
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #54, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=54 Fire]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/globe-of-notability/ Turns out most famous people aren’t that famous at all]
[https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/an-introduction-to-wikidata-how-worlds-of-wikimedia-link An introduction to Wikidata: How worlds of Wikimedia link]
Papers
[https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/177669024/An_Analysis_of_Content_Gaps_versus_User_Needs_in_the_Wikidata_Knowledge_Graph_1_.pdf An Analysis of Content Gaps versus User Needs in the Wikidata Knowledge Graph]
[https://ezrakarger.com/karger_highschool_draft_mostrecent.pdf The Democratization of Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement]
Videos
Wikimania 2022 happened. Highlights around Wikidata and Wikibase:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grqN2GZNvX4 Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hewPZFCDSZM&t=1528s Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata - Overtime Discussion]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZCBV0R3ZEE Wikimania Hackathon: Let us play with PubMed to enrich Wikidata with medical information]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntdOuh5-ZAY When Quechua meets Wikibase - QICHWABASE]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xgwzH9Q7Eg Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCBcK3YFV8 Power BI project - Create image grids - Images from Wikidata brought in using a simple R script]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB7ZxpaWnzI Some reflections on wikidata and color biology]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtpyPruId7I Uploading bibliographical items using Quickstatements]
Wikidata tutorials:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXSWgQrhD4c Add the official street address of an institution]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFV4ly-T54I Add visitor numbers to an institution]
Wikidata tutorials (in French):
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lZeQxFcyUo Adding an institution's official website]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_uaBZlb0I Create a Wikimedia Account]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI4Q6cyk4cs Adding a webpage]

Tool of the week
[https://ringgaard.com/c/ KnolCase] is a case-based knowledge management tool for gathering information about subjects of interest and organizing these into case files.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
[https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Project_chat&oldid=1704549920#Wikidata_integration_in_OpenRefine:_could_this_be_your_project? Wikidata integration in OpenRefine: could this be your project?] OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/EEIKHJZW7AMSIYGW7RURB5FG7ISZSW52/ Wikimedia integration in OpenRefine: looking for developers]

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5Zj9 Most common numbers of statements per item] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1557908289958170624 source])
[https://commons-query.wikimedia.org/#%23%20defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Ffile%20%3Ftitle%20%3Fimage%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fd%29%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%27%20%2F%20%27%29%20AS%20%3Fdepicts_list%29%20%3Fcoords%20%3Flayer%0AWITH%0A%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Ffile%20%3Ftitle%0A%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Amwapi%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aapi%20%22Generator%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aendpoint%20%22commons.wikimedia.org%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Agcmtitle%20%22Category%3AMosques%20in%20Dubai%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Agenerator%20%22categorymembers%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Agcmtype%20%22file%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20mwapi%3Agcmlimit%20%22max%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ftitle%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20mwapi%3Atitle%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fpageid%20wikibase%3AapiOutput%20%22%40pageid%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%27https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fentity%2FM%27%2C%20%3Fpageid%29%29%20AS%20%3Ffile%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25get_files%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ffile%20%3Flayer%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25get_files%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ32815%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%27M%27%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25layer%0A%20%20%20%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25get_files%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdepicts%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fdepicts_label%20.%20FILTER%20%28lang%28%3Fdepicts_label%29%20%3D%20%27en%27%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28COALESCE%28%3Fdepicts_label%2C%20%3Fdepicts%29%20AS%20%3Fd%29%20.%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25layer%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP1259%20%3Fcoords%7D%20.%20%20%23%20coords%20of%20POV%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Ffile%20wdt%3AP9149%20%3Fcoords%7D%20.%20%20%23%20fallback%3A%20coords%20of%20depicted%20place%0A%20%20%3Ffile%20schema%3Aurl%20%3Fimage.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20%20FILTER%28bound%28%3Fcoords%29%29%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7BBIND%28%27-%27%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%7D%20.%0A%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Ffile%20%3Ftitle%20%3Fimage%20%3Fcoords%20%3Flayer%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Ftitle Locations and depicts statements for images in Commons category] Mosques in Dubai (source)
[https://w.wiki/4mVT Art people who died in Nazi camps] ([https://twitter.com/OpenLinkArtData/status/1558637943304110080 source])
[https://w.wiki/5ZZp Count of items in Wikidata by number of statements in the item] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1557908289958170624 source])
[https://w.wiki/5Z2J Fungi with image, ordered by number of languages it has an article] ([https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1556951821377310721 source])
[https://w.wiki/5YyK Longest natural watercourses in France] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataThreads/status/1556879308311986176 source])
[https://w.wiki/5Zjv Multiple forms of a Lexeme with the same grammatical features and where no of these forms have any other statement]
[https://w.wiki/5Y2h Bengali Lexemes all of whose parts are derived from Sanskrit words, but which themselves aren't derived from Sanskrit words yet]

Development
Took part in Wikimania and the Wikimania hackathon
Continuing work on making it possible to add sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)
Lexicographical data: continuing to address the feedback from testing
REST API:
Finished off validation in the endpoint for replacing a statement on an Item (phab:T314790)
Doing research around [https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5789 PATCH] and [https://jsonpatch.com JSON Patch]

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

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

Tech News: 2022-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-08-16|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-08-17|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-08-18|en}} (calendar).
File:Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on {{#time:j xg|2022-08-16|en}} at 07:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s1.dblist targeted wikis]) and on {{#time:j xg|2022-08-18|en}} at 7:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s8.dblist targeted wikis]).
The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in [https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists%2Fgroup1.dblist Group 1]. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Usability#4_August_2022][https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Usability#Phase_1:_Topic_containers][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312672]

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21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #534

File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg

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

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://towardsdatascience.com/automatic-word-relatedness-evaluation-wordnet-spacy-wikidata-api-9fd1c72ac73c Automatic word relatedness evaluation]
Videos
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umj5ceTfJhs Datavisualisation in Wikidata] (in French)
Highlights from Wikimania 2022
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCaLrTlEk0M Ninai-Udiron: Using Wikidata Items and Lexemes for Abstract Wikipedia-Like Text Generation] By Mahir Morshed
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BFBmy86TF0 Partner Up for Wikidata!]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BFBmy86TF0 Wikidata for everyone: a methodology to teach different communities]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQPSoYpjrNc Wikifunctions: A new Wikimedia project]
Tutorial
Wikimania 2022 UK Festival: [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XtPn2G8zDIDGReCDm0csbOgSrCmcacco/edit#slide=id.p1 SPARQL tutorial (Wikidata for Wizards)] & [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GaA0Lw3J_3F_N14KP7p5m8kTAaUs7QwAavIbZqBfmQI/edit#slide=id.g18e33c9ee6_2_0 Wikidata SPARQL Tips and Tricks]

Tool of the week
[https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wikidatas-list-of-created-items List of created Wikidata items] - a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AKMHGVJGK6R2ASUSKK6B64A2SPTXTIBQ/ Outreachy Round 25–call for projects and mentors now open!]
Template:Documented queries skeleton
Wikidata's tenth birthday: you can organize a distributed event and get funding, create your own swag, attend the next organizers call on August 23, and participate in the collaborative video until September 18th.
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/EEIKHJZW7AMSIYGW7RURB5FG7ISZSW52/ OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support].

Did you know?

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes: fog signal characteristic, Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL
External identifiers: Planeta Belarus sigh ID, Flemish Heritage designation object ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID

Query examples:
[https://query.wikidata.org/#%23title%3A%20Map%20of%20Coast%20Tram%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoords%22%2C%20%22%3Fline%22%2C%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3FsubwayLine%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fline%20%3Fline_number%20%3Flayer%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fsearch%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ1510414%20%20%20%20%20%20%23light%20rail%20system%20search%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fsearch%20wdt%3AP527%7Cwdt%3AP121%20%3Flignes.%23what%20are%20the%20lines%20of%20that%20light%20rail%3F%0A%20%20%3Flignes%20wdt%3AP559%20%3Ftermini.%23what%20are%20the%20termini%20of%20the%20lines%20of%20that%20light%20rail%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ548662%3B%20%20%23any%20type%20of%20service%20station%20%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238%3B%23That%20are%20running%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP16%20%3Fsearch%3B%23That%20are%20part%20of%20the%20searched%20light%20rail%20network%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%3B%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP81%7Cwdt%3AP1192%20%3FsubwayLine%3B%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP197%20%3Fpred.%0A%20%20%3Fpred%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords_pred%3Bwdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238%3B%23Neighbours%20that%20are%20running%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP81%7Cwdt%3AP1192%20%3FsubwayLine_pred.%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20p%3AP197%20_%3Ab1.%0A%20%20_%3Ab1%20ps%3AP197%20%3Fpred%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP5051%20%3Ftowards%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP81%7Cpq%3AP1192%20%3Fline_pq.%0A%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238.%23Lines%20that%20are%20running%0Aoptional%7B%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP1671%20%3Fline_number.%7D%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine_pred%20%3D%20%3Flignes%29%23take%20only%20the%20lines%20if%20correspondance%20on%20the%20same%20line%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine%20%3D%20%3Flignes%29%20%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine%20%3D%20%3Fline_pq%29%23Take%20only%20the%20lines%20if%20next%20station%20on%20the%20same%20line%0AFILTER%28%3Ftowards%20%3D%20%3Ftermini%29%20%0A%20%3Fpred%20%20p%3AP625%20%3Fnode_pred%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode_pred%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat1%20%3Bpsv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon1%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode_pred%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank.%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20p%3AP625%20%3Fnode_station.%0A%20%3Fnode_station%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat2%20%3Bpsv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon2.%0A%20%3Fnode_station%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank.%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22LINESTRING%28%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flon1%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flat1%29%2C%20%20%22%2C%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flon2%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flat2%29%2C%20%22%29%22%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%0A%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%0A%20%20%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FsubwayLine%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flayer.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpred%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpredLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FstationLabel%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3FsubwayLine%20%3Frgb%20%3FpredLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fline%20%3Fline_number%0AORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%3Fline_number%29%20%3Fline_number%20%3FsubwayLine Longest tram line in the world with 68 stops] [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23title%3A%20Map%20of%20Coast%20Tram%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoords%22%2C%20%22%3Fline%22%2C%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3FsubwayLine%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fline%20%3Fline_number%20%3Flayer%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fsearch%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ1510414%20%20%20%20%20%20%23light%20rail%20system%20search%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fsearch%20wdt%3AP527%7Cwdt%3AP121%20%3Flignes.%23what%20are%20the%20lines%20of%20that%20light%20rail%3F%0A%20%20%3Flignes%20wdt%3AP559%20%3Ftermini.%23what%20are%20the%20termini%20of%20the%20lines%20of%20that%20light%20rail%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2A%20wd%3AQ548662%3B%20%20%23any%20type%20of%20service%20station%20%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238%3B%23That%20are%20running%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP16%20%3Fsearch%3B%23That%20are%20part%20of%20the%20searched%20light%20rail%20network%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%3B%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP81%7Cwdt%3AP1192%20%3FsubwayLine%3B%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP197%20%3Fpred.%0A%20%20%3Fpred%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords_pred%3Bwdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238%3B%23Neighbours%20that%20are%20running%0A%20%20%20wdt%3AP81%7Cwdt%3AP1192%20%3FsubwayLine_pred.%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20p%3AP197%20_%3Ab1.%0A%20%20_%3Ab1%20ps%3AP197%20%3Fpred%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP5051%20%3Ftowards%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP81%7Cpq%3AP1192%20%3Fline_pq.%0A%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP5817%20wd%3AQ55654238.%23Lines%20that%20are%20running%0Aoptional%7B%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP1671%20%3Fline_number.%7D%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine_pred%20%3D%20%3Flignes%29%23take%20only%20the%20lines%20if%20correspondance%20on%20the%20same%20line%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine%20%3D%20%3Flignes%29%20%0AFILTER%28%3FsubwayLine%20%3D%20%3Fline_pq%29%23Take%20only%20the%20lines%20if%20next%20station%20on%20the%20same%20line%0AFILTER%28%3Ftowards%20%3D%20%3Ftermini%29%20%0A%20%3Fpred%20%20p%3AP625%20%3Fnode_pred%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode_pred%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat1%20%3Bpsv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon1%20.%0A%20%20%3Fnode_pred%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank.%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20p%3AP625%20%3Fnode_station.%0A%20%3Fnode_station%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat2%20%3Bpsv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon2.%0A%20%3Fnode_station%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank.%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22LINESTRING%28%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flon1%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flat1%29%2C%20%20%22%2C%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flon2%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20STR%28%3Flat2%29%2C%20%22%29%22%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%0A%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%0A%20%20%3FsubwayLine%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FsubwayLine%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flayer.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpred%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpredLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FstationLabel%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3FsubwayLine%20%3Frgb%20%3FpredLabel%20%3Flayer%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fline%20%3Fline_number%0AORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%3Fline_number%29%20%3Fline_number%20%3FsubwayLine Map of Coast Tram (Q1510414)][https://www.dekusttram.be/nl/ ¹]
[https://w.wiki/5aZR Most frequent .uk domains for P973 "described at URL"] ([https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1559500586684497926 source])
[https://w.wiki/5aoe Online accounts used by people that were born in People's Republic of China] (Source)
[https://w.wiki/5aVe Journals with the most retractions] ([https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/1559462776128544770 source])

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

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

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Tech News: 2022-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292613][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308560]

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-08-23|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-08-24|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-08-25|en}} (calendar).
File:Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on {{#time:j xg|2022-08-25|en}} at 7:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s4.dblist targeted wikis]).
The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213778]

Future changes

The new [{{int:discussiontools-topicsubscription-button-subscribe}}] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284489]

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00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #535

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

Events
Upcoming:
Small wiki toolkits/Workshops#Writing Wikidata queries using the WDQS tool
Ongoing:
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #56, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=56 Mystery theme (guess the theme)]
Past:
Weekly Lexemes Challenge #55, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=55 Wiki Loves Monuments]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://pointstodots.wordpress.com/2022/08/23/172/ Interoperable USP Bioinformatics Theses Catalog with Wikidata] ([https://pointstodots.wordpress.com/2022/08/19/catalogo-interoperavel-de-teses-de-bioinformatica-da-usp-com-wikidata/ in Portuguese])
[https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Growing_the_representation_of_Australian_Women_in_Religion_through_Wikidata Growing the representation of Australian Women in Religion through Wikidata]
[https://blog.library.tc.columbia.edu/b/24738-Working-with-Wikidata-1-Introduction-and-Terminology Working with Wikidata: (1) Introduction and Terminology]
[https://pointstodots.wordpress.com/2022/08/23/mapping-the-brazilian-association-for-computational-biology-and-bioinformatics-to-wikidata/ Mapping the Brazilian Association for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to Wikidata]
Papers
[https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pdig.0000086 DrNote: An open medical annotation service]
Videos
[Wiki Mentor Africa] Introduction to using OpenRefine for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons Editing (part 1, part 2)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYV95Zv_m3I Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences] (in Spanish)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrkiXRW8mfY Relations on wikidata and color biology] (in Spanish)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXhXZDtNvW0 Wikidata Tutorial: Different ways to display SPARQL queries] (in German)

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff
[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/XPCTYYTN67FVFKN6XOHULJVGUO44J662/ Upgrade of the Search clusters to Elasticsearch 7.10.2 will start on August 29 2022 for 3-weeks].
The latest round of Outreachy internships wrapped up on 26 August. Two interns worked on improving author-name data; their bots have made over 340,000 edits. Their project description, documentation, blog posts and code are available.
The August 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
Open vacancy:
[https://twitter.com/wikimediaid/status/1562323251648335872 Wikimedia Indonesia - Technology internships in the GLAM and Wikidata fields]

Did you know?

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/5dSW Occupations as classified by ISCO/ESCO] (source)
[https://w.wiki/5d5F Occupation of people in the] New Zealand Thesis Project ([https://twitter.com/KnitMeAThneed/status/1563306878272413696 source])
[https://w.wiki/5bvc Average weights and heights of sportsmen] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1562008782015795200 source])
[https://w.wiki/5bnQ Letters by numbers of alphabet where they are found] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1561742955060273153 source])

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

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

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Tech News: 2022-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in [https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists%2Fgroup2.dblist Group 2]. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.

Problems

In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various {{#special:statistics}} at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315693]

Changes later this week

File:Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from {{#time:j xg|2022-08-30|en}}. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from {{#time:j xg|2022-08-31|en}}. It will be on all wikis from {{#time:j xg|2022-09-01|en}} (calendar).
File:Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on {{#time:j xg|2022-08-30|en}} at 07:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s6.dblist targeted wikis]) and on {{#time:j xg|2022-09-01|en}} at 7:00 UTC ([https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s7.dblist targeted wikis]).

Future changes

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23:02, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

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''The Signpost'': 31 August 2022

File:WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere

Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?

In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth

Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees

News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me

In focus: Thinking inside the box

Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations

Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now

Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth

Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.

Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links

Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come

Essay: Delete the junk!

Gallery: A Fringe Affair (but not the show by Edward W. Feery that was on this year)

Humour: CommonsComix No. 1

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Wikidata weekly summary #608

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

Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here: What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"

Discussions
Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:

Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template :w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.

Events
Upcoming: [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/11/introducing-wishathon-for-wikimedias-community-wishlist/ Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist!] "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122: [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=122 Rock-forming minerals]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
[https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/16/african-librarians-empowered-to-share-knowledge-and-enhance-information-visibility-through-aflia-wikidata-online-course/ African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course] --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
Papers: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.15781.pdf Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs] by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
Videos
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl4Fyj1AKJM Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023)] --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx5K_FRQ2eg Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph] --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i3cDbaTu7k Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata] --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYFlyRGdTwU No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler] --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iVS7jH2kS0 Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing] (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
Notebooks
[https://observablehq.com/d/1eb32f4d48923527 Map of K-Pop Idols] --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
[https://observablehq.com/d/9854465d757e06d2 Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today] --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
[https://observablehq.com/d/19a785a23f70e0c0 The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards] --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
[https://observablehq.com/d/57b012869d43405a Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree] --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
[https://observablehq.com/d/4b6319c68bd8b6f6 State of statues in the US] --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
[https://observablehq.com/d/63061b940d31fbb3 An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame] --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.

Tool of the week
Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff =
Job opening: [https://careers.iscb.org/jobs/view/8682 Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer] to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded [https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23571/nsf23571.htm Prototype Open Knowledge Network].

Did you know?

Newest properties:
General datatypes: none
External identifiers: ‎WHDLoad database ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, ‎PCSX2 Wiki ID, KRS number, ‎Twitch numeric channel ID, ‎RPCS3 Wiki ID, ‎Black Games Archive ID, ‎Citra compatibility database ID, ‎DraCor ID, ORBi article ID, ‎IGN wiki article ID, ‎AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, ‎RPGFan game ID, ‎Arcade Hub ID

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes:
Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, GamesMeter ID, Walk Score ID, Malaysia company new number, Am Faclair Beag ID, xemu compatibility database ID, Sofascore player ID, GameGear.jp ID, RPGWatch IDs, Team England ID, TORCH taxon ID, ScummVM ID, Abandonware France IDs

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/8agU Distribution of the different tram gauges in Germany] ([https://twitter.com/pepicek/status/1737949826623430718 source])
[https://w.wiki/7Q6B Scale of stampedes reported on Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/capucine_marin/status/1737814911550448023 source])
[https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0ASELECT%20%3Ffilm%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3Fdate%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ28026639.%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D Timeline of the Christmas movies] ([https://twitter.com/Dorialexander/status/810189413980508160 source])
[https://w.wiki/4bmy Christmas traditions around the world] (with pictures) ([https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1474772209482842116 source])
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
Newest database reports: children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
Showcase Items: Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
Showcase Lexemes: L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #609

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

Discussions
Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.

Events
Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the [https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg Wikidata Telegram group]. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=123 Ologist]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Papers: [https://iswc2023.semanticweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ISWC2023_paper_379.pdf Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs]. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
Videos: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZP4Q1zkINw WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata]. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.

Tool of the week
[https://observablehq.com/@pac02/look-at-your-list-of-created-articles-through-wikidata WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles] is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.

Did you know?

New property proposals to review:
General datatypes:
Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ({{Q|2976602}} for {{Q|163740}} created by the {{Q|193727}} and adapted by the {{Q|1065}}.)
creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
television judge ()
External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, nebula channel id, Deutsche Bahn station number, ISzDb series ID, BG localisation unit ID, Cathopedia article ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, Penstemon Database ID, Wikisage ID

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/8hPM Visual artists whose works will enter the Public Domain in Mexico on January 1, 2024] ([https://twitter.com/salvador_alc/status/1741963028977881122 source])
[https://w.wiki/6TNS Top music album languages found on Wikidata right now] (Week 52, 2023) ([https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/111669113852952139 source])
[https://w.wiki/8hif Western composers until the end of the Renaissance] ([https://wikis.world/@zerology@bayes.club/111654741799219949 source])
Newest database reports: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates
Showcase Items: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
Showcase Lexemes: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.

Development
The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #610

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

Discussions

Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

Events

Upcoming:
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the [https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg Wikidata Telegram group]. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024
[https://www.kim.uni-konstanz.de/en/kim-news/news-detail-page/forschungsdateninfo-live-wikidata-als-kollaborative-informationsressource-zum-fdm/ Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management] (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs: [https://pointstodots.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/pubchem-on-wikidata-what-is-the-state-of-coverage/ PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage?] by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
Papers
Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) "scientific article published in 2023" [https://digitalia.cultura.gov.it/article/view/3035 (paper in Italian)] - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.
[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-023-09702-y Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata] by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model
[https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/article/view/247 LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation] by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08944393231220165?journalCode=ssce Quantifying Americanization:] Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
Videos
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVP9vGw5xtg Map Kerala Initiative] is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
This video on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1DLleOWvR4 Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions] shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.
Notebooks: [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/waaat Wikipedia article as a timeline] - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.

Tool of the week

[https://observablehq.com/@pac02/map-your-created-articles Map your list of created articles] - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata Software Collaboration for Wikidata] prematurely. Read their joint statement [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Activities here].

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
(Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
‎plate(s) (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID, ‎MilliBase taxon ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, ‎The Criterion Collection spine number

New General datatypes property proposals to review:
Water bottle volume (Volume of the water bottle)
Is it metric? (To check if it's a metric.)
Anti-Cheat software used (anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game)
New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Team Scotland ID, Globoplay ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, TouchArcade game ID, Mod.io ID, The Models Resource game ID, The Models Resource entity ID, tourist information point number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID, Bandcamp track ID

Did you know?

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/8hxE Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu] according to Appel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture ([https://wikis.world/@pac2/111683066147340243 source])
[https://w.wiki/8jVE Map of running/out of service railway stations in France]
[https://w.wiki/8mLv Bridges in the UK with photos] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1744035707813785997 source])
[https://w.wiki/8nBH Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly)] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1742655469284409451 source])
Newest WikiProject: Podcast Episodes 2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.
Newest database report: children of unborn parents
Showcase Item: Helsinki (Q1757) - capital and most populous city of Finland
Showcase Lexeme: Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish for 'God forbid'

Development

IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
Wikibase REST API:
We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

Weekly Tasks

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=124 Ologies]
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #612

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

Discussions

New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

Events

Past
Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-01-17
PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
Next: [https://twitter.com/UM_Library/status/1747257408328802651/photo/1 Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop] > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, [https://maastrichtuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5cDQAbfOkEYdZoW register] for the Workshop.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
[http://simia.net/wiki/Languages_with_the_best_lexicographic_data_coverage_in_Wikidata_2023 Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023]
[https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/2024/01/17/working-with-catalogues-a-wikidata-volunteers-perspective/ Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective] --> interview with Epìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.
Papers
The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023)) [https://jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/573 (paper in Italian)] - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata
The evolution of authority work in SBN. From origins to Alphabetica and future prospects (Q124289388) (Italian title: L’evoluzione dell’authority work in SBN. Dalle origini ad Alphabetica e prospettive future) [https://jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/572 (paper in Italian)] - deals with the evolution of the authority work in the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN), with many references to Wikidata
[https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20240116aw Biological Pathway Abstractions: From 2D drawings to Multidimensional Linked Data] > this thesis by Andra Sachinder Waagmeester discusses the utility of using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for Life Sciences.
Videos
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWqZ814E8YU "From Wiki to Digital Humanities - Establishing a Literature Index Network" Symposium](Taiwanese) from Wang Shiqing. A scholar of Taiwanese history, this symposium explores linking their historical and academic research with Wikidata.
Semantic MediaWiki Con 2023
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STG7VhdiyZw AskWikidata]: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. [https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1yRZshpNj0kXwY0XuUYw5ziqjw_RffxH- Want to try? (Google Colab)]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VyTkg3J8Sc Fixing Wikidata: by viewing it as a series of tables] by Yaron Koren, who challenges that Wikidata can become more useful with more structured editing and querying practices.

Tool of the week

Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:
[https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/40651559/Software-Engineer-Wikidata-m-f-d-/?jobDbPVId=110100750&l=en Software Engineer, Wikidata]
[https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/40775956/Software-Engineer-Wikidata-for-Wikimedia-Projects-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=110472737&l=en Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects]
[https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/40776229/Senior-Software-Engineer-Wikidata-for-Wikimedia-Projects-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=110473871&l=en Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects]

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
simulate (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
Newest External identifiers: ‎ISzDb series ID, IFTTT service ID, National-Football-Teams.com team ID, Moviefone person ID, Commonwealth Games Australia athlete ID, Team Scotland athlete ID, Kicker team ID, goalzz.com team ID, vesti.kz team ID, ‎Am Faclair Beag ID, tourist information point number, Alexandria.dk person ID, Babelio serial ID, Moviebuff ID, RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju Word ID, Stage, Qué series ver ID

New General datatypes property proposals to review:
If non-metric ()
civil rank (non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire)
New External identifier property proposals to review: PhoneScoop phone ID, TopKar ID, IFOPT stop identifier, Flashback lexicon ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, HbVar ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, HistoryMakers Digital Archive Maker ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, Code de la collectivité territoriale ayant les compétences départementales, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
[https://w.wiki/8pEM Distance between the birthplace of UK ministers and London] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1745582716936946078 source])
[https://w.wiki/Pra Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize]
[https://w.wiki/XoZ People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap]
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Media art - to work together with initiatives archiving media art and find common best practices.
Newest database reports: Count of Senseless Lexemes per language
Showcase Items: Mona Lisa (Q12418) - oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
Showcase Lexemes: grilldress (L1131949) - track suit for grilling in Bokmål

Development

IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807, phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
Wikibase REST API:
We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release

Weekly Tasks

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
Participate in [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php this week's Lexeme challenge]: Cinematography
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!

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