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Wikidata weekly summary #563

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

  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • Public Domain Day Belgium 2023
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/14/the-biodiversity-heritage-library-is-round-tripping-persistent-identifiers-with-the-wikidata-query-service/ The Biodiversity Heritage Library is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service]
  • [https://blog.library.wales/named-entity-recognition-for-placenames-in-welsh-language-texts/ Named Entity Recognition for Placenames in Welsh Language Texts]
  • [https://medium.com/european-data-journalism-network/the-messy-data-sources-behind-mapping-diversity-3cc7338b8b84 The messy data sources behind “Mapping diversity]
  • Papers
  • [https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3370.pdf How can the social sciences benefit from knowledge graphs? A case study on using Wikidata and Wikipedia to examine the world’s billionaires]
  • Videos
  • Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl-Ygy7eoao YouTube]
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #107 - [https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YpJkgnkgvrJj Twitter]
  • Podcasts
  • [https://www.wikimedia.de/wikimove-site/podcast/episode-9-abstract-wikipedia/ WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia]. The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.
  • Tool of the week
  • [https://etymology.dsantini.it/#10,45,3,blue,all_db Open Etymology Map] - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. ([https://gisplay.pl/mapy/10578-dzieki-tej-mapie-poznasz-historie-nazw-ulic-i-interesujacych-miejsc.html blogpost] in Polish)
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/6SA$ Notable milkmaids]
  • [https://w.wiki/6RPo Places of birth or death of female painters in Brittany] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1633838740761370626 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/KKU What profession do women in Basque Wikipedia biographies have?] ([https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1633372272328163328 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/6Pnm World map according to shared borders] ([https://twitter.com/EntityExplosion/status/1631094721044172800 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/5Pbw Top album languages found on Wikidata right now] (Week 10, 2023) ([https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110004209285152782 source])
  • Development
  • Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (phab:T328764)
  • EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
  • REST API:
  • We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (phab:T330252)
  • We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #564

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

  • Events
  • Upcoming: WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wikicite-monthly-2023-03 Information and notes]
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • In this week's update by the Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions team, they are asking where the right place to store and maintain Abstract Wikipedia should be. All of the options involve Wikidata to some extent, some more, some less. If the content of Abstract Wikipedia is hosted on Wikidata, that would lead to an increased scope for the Wikidata community (and likely more contributors joining). But that is a decision the Wikidata community needs to be involved in as well. (Also, if you are interested, the Abstract Wikipedia updates might be worth to follow.)
  • Papers
  • [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-023-11664-1 Investigating the potential of the semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform]
  • Videos
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/country-diversity-of-external-links-in-wikipedia-in-fre Country diversity of external links domain names in Wikipedia in French] an analysis of all domain names in Wikipedia in French by country associated to the website.
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/6Tzi Lexeme with a Sense related to a geolocated Item] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1635661616074182658 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/6Tzk Highest TV seasons numbers] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1636152283590275079 source])
  • Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are preparing for adding a new datatype and other changes by improving tests, documentation, etc.
  • Date input: We did a bug triage hour around issues with date parsing and improved it for Japanese dates (phab:T214002)
  • Ontology issues: We started evaluating the survey responses for the survey about different types of ontology issues reusers are facing. More work is needed before we have results.
  • REST API: We finished work on including the URL of an article in sitelink data (phab:T330252) as well as providing all aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #565

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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 Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-March-27_Wikidata_Working_Hour Event page]
  • WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wikicite-monthly-2023-03 Information and notes]
  • Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held [https://meet.jit.si/WDQSOfficeHour on Jitsi] on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC ([https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WDQSOfficeHourMar27 link to the Etherpad]) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC ([https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WDQSOfficeHourMar28 link to the Etherpad])
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=86 Clothes]
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [https://www.bobdc.com/blog/wikidatanormalizing/ Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata] by Bob DuCharme
  • [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=691 Musings on the Wikidata backend] by Magnus Manske
  • [https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Announcing_Our_2023_Wikidata_Fellows Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows] by Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
  • [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=688 Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor] by Magnus Manske
  • [https://the-qa-company.com/blog/blog-extended/72 How linked data can help with anonymization] by Sri Kalidindi
  • Notebooks
  • [https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/SPARQLDatasetv3.ipynb Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata]. See the [https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/large_sparql_queries_dataset.csv csv file] and the [https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/large_sparql_queries_dataset.parquet parquet file].
  • Tool of the week
  • [http://Declarator.org Declarator.org] is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets ([https://twitter.com/open_sanctions/status/1506560708632326148 mentioned by OpenSanctions])
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/6Vv8 Wikidata items which have both a UK Parliament Thesaurus ID and a subreddit] ([https://twitter.com/philbgorman/status/1639430275519094787 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/6Vv6 Number of books written in Basque grouped by the birth place of their authors] ([https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1638517496520097792 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Emoji
  • Development
  • EntitySchemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
  • [https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder Query Builder]: We finished the work on the language selector so you can swithc the interface language of the tool (phab:T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days.
  • Wikibase REST API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (phab:T323173)

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #566

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

  • Events
  • Past
  • Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings (Etherpads: Meeting #1, Meeting #2)
  • WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata picture (notes, slides)
  • Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge (previous challenge: #84, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=84 Bones])
  • Upcoming
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate in Wikidata. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gxWQP7yrCYAZFnjLdhMPmmVrx2_GPlWcd1rTiqglwA8/edit# Agenda]
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=691 The Whelming - Musings on the backend, by Magnus Manske]
  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12329 Boosting interoperability: towards an increasingly reusable bioinformatics knowledge base]
  • Papers
  • [https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/_la_recherche_des_r_cits_queer_travers_les_si_cles/22357246 In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries] (French), John Samuel, [https://sassqueer.fr/ SASS Queer 2023], INSA Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on documenting queer history on Wikidata
  • [https://itnext.io/extracting-data-from-wikidata-using-sparql-and-python-59e0037996f Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python]
  • [https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3330.pdf A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata]
  • [https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3376.pdf Can you trust Wikidata?]
  • Videos
  • Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj532KOWmIM YouTube]
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QnzIvcJbd0 YouTube]
  • Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1DdmhHfpig YouTube]
  • Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AegX6jcqNE YouTube]
  • Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KonJqKquUSU YouTube]
  • WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and Gilliane Kern (in French) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udq37sRU60c YouTube]
  • A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-1f6CKEgU YouTube]
  • Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdoOiMXOrQ8 YouTube]
  • Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87A7QMbfpI YouTube]
  • Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked Open Data - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKEbxTNFSFM YouTube]
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/154c19f1a036f8d6 Statistics on Wikidata property scopes]
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
  • [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30730373?l=en Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects]
  • [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30596953?l=en Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects]
  • [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30432915?l=en UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects]
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/6WGF Authors from Latin America born today] ([https://twitter.com/espejolento/status/1640790970781540353 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/6VY6 Businesses who's official websites use the ".biz" top-level domain] ([https://twitter.com/philbgorman/status/1639746513919176704 source])
  • Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
  • Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (phab:T321543)
  • REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)

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

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

Wikidata weekly summary #568

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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, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call, Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch and discussion. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Tq523opcZjtXAa6fLvddIJzAepabvGWhLQ1GJGlRno/edit?usp=sharing Agenda].
  • Ongoing
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #88, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=88 Mountain]
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/04/13/first-grants-announced-from-the-wikimedia-endowment/ First grants announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to support technical innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects]
  • Papers
  • Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations Report; [https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/research/indigenous-artists-and-wikidata/ English-language edition], [https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/research/indigenous-artists-and-wikidata/ Édition en langue française]
  • [https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article/41/1%20(154)/21/344220/Wikipedia-s-Race-and-Ethnicity-Gap-and-the Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness], Michael Mandiberg, Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
  • Videos
  • Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Basic Lexeme with Asaf Bartov - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkFLa4m8yis YouTube]
  • "Wikidata as a Seed for Web Extraction"presentation at the WWW 2023 conference - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_Fa0gE-LA YouTube]
  • IFLA SCITECH Webinar: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zgLG8vg0dY YouTube]
  • Wikidata Workshop (adding books) (in Portuguese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-uWOD8w9jc YouTube]
  • Wikidata + Books Workshop (how to add books to Wikidata) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpUg2fSRyXg YouTube]
  • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (Wikidata workshop Day 2 (in Chinese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzW2Ul7t9tk YouTube]
  • Notebook
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/e5b2c559eb80017d Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain]
  • Twitter thread
  • [https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/1644127703715684352 How to reconcile data in another dataset with Wikidata and import additional data from there]
  • Tool of the week
  • [https://query-chest.toolforge.org/ Query Chest] is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for [https://w.wiki w.wiki] to shorten it.
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/Xob ATMs around Munich belonging to the Bankcard-Servicenetz interbank network (federated query)]
  • [https://w.wiki/6bQm Population growth in Ghana from 1960 onward]
  • Newest database reports:
  • Deleted properties - Deleted properties that were used in items.
  • Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on test systems next. (phab:T332139)
  • QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. (phab:T328764)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven language. (phab:T323813)

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

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